Tony,
Ah! ...a breath of fresh air!
Regards
George
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All fair comment.
Now, has anyone done any scanning lately? :-)
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Tony Sleep
http://tonysleep.co.uk
Just to be clear, I did not apply a stereotype to a nation, or 'all' of
anyone, anywhere. I did apply a theory of cultural bent toward some,
based upon my experience to date. I did not say "all brits I have dealt
with did... something". I did say that almost exclusively the people
who have been
Well said: spot-on.
John
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> I will say but one thing one this. For context, I am an American who
> lived in London for 5 years.
>
> I think it is a mistake, and quite unfair, to apply a behavioural
> stereotype to everyone of a particular Nation. All the British are not
On 17/02/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think we are much to quick to assign negative behaviours
> that we experience as being characteristic or a particular nationality
> or ethnicity. Rather than trying to couch this in National or
> cultural
> terms, we should be counseling the offending pos
I will say but one thing one this. For context, I am an American who
lived in London for 5 years.
I think it is a mistake, and quite unfair, to apply a behavioural
stereotype to everyone of a particular Nation. All the British are not
one way, and all the Americans are not another way. There is
Before moving on, and to further belabour this point (note both the "u"
in belabour and in my earlier posting with the word behaviour - I don't
use those spellings, but I figured George Harrison might) I do believe
Tony has hit the nail on the head, in terms of this being a cultural
issue, but it i
On 16/02/2008 John Sykes wrote:
> We generally prefer a stab at humour to make a point and avoid
> direct insults.
Agreed, but did you see GH's comment as offensive? If I'd been on the
receiving end I'd have taken it as a reference to the scads of
inadvertently quoted text. PgDn to see just how mu
On 16/02/2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In
> the current case, the reminder reached me after I had sent the
> offending
> post which appeared later than the message from you.
I thought that may well be the case. No problem. Most email clients don't
handle trimming all that well anyway. The ideal
On 16/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote:
> I won't quote it, but George's comment was as clear as the nose on my
> face. It was hostile, very directed, and IMHO, very inappropriate.
On a hunch, I just checked, and George is a Brit, posting from a
BTinternet address. There is actually a cultural collis
Tony Sleep wrote:
> Please everybody DO TAKE CARE TO TRIM POSTS. Art has a point that members
> of the list can skip messages, but that is not true for 568 members of
> this list who are on a daily digest and receive the preceding 24hrs
> traffic concatenated into one large message. That becomes qu
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> Personally I read George's complaint as being
On 16/02/2008 Arthur Entlich wrote:
> Those are all things you
> have control over, rather than asking people to change their behaviour
> on your behalf.
Personally I read George's complaint as being about untrimmed posting, not
on Laurie's writing style as such.
Please everybody DO TAKE CARE TO
Although I agree posts should be trimmed, for people who regularly
answer queries, sometime it is just forgotten by the time we hit
'send'. I certainly have been guilty of it.
What is really inexcusable, however, is your tone and the personal
attack. This list has been basically inactive for mo
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