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Australians (Was Re: Online eProxy services?)
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:40:06 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote in message <38DF861E.6F0DDEDE@umich.edu>...
> >
> > Ah, just like just TLC takes advantage of the greed and stupidity of • AFOLs
> > who aren't wise enough to manage with less Lego ;-)
> >
> > Seriously though, taking advantage of greed and stupidity doesn't exactly
> > sound virtuous to me. But then I'm an Australian and therefore a
> > frothing-at-the-mouth left-wing radical socialist :-)
[...]
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> Paul, do I detect a slippery slope argument here (or is that a weak • analogy)?
>
Too subtle an analogy for my puny brain :-)
> Just because you are Australian, doesn't mean that you are a leftist. The • two
> can be mutually exclusive.
Ah, I was just joking, provocatively. There are plenty of Australian
right-wing conservatives. We whinge about them all the time here in Oz :-)
> You Australians have to stop having an inferiority complex. Some of the • best
> on TV (the Science Fiction Channel) is now from Australia and New Zealand
> ("Zena", "Hercules" and above all "Farscape") and then there are those
> interesting Australian "Travels with Alby Mangels" on the Travel Channel.
Technically it's not exactly an inferiority complex, so much as something
far more insidious - it's called "tall-poppy syndrome". If you're not
familiar with the term, it refers to the tendency for some people to try and
"cut-down" others' greatness or success (the "tall poppies") by criticising
or even ridiculing them. Australians display this tendency in spades; we're
generally quite resentful of anyone who stands out from the crowd. That, and
we're so rude on the Internet. Playing online games, I have met no group of
people so monumentally rude as my fellow countrymen. Sad things to say about
one's own country, but there you go.
> On the otherhand, LEGO is real expensive there, and LEGO Australia did • destroy
> those dumpsters full of old classic LEGO spare parts...... communists! • :-)
>
Hehehe..... here's my chance to stay on-topic. Yeah, actually that's just
what LEGO Australia told you all..... in reality it has been spirited away
into a secret warehouse where it will be kept away from greedy collectors
who keep buying up all of Australia's Lego and selling it to Americans,
thereby depriving Australian children of classic sets, for personal monetary
profit..... CAPITALISTS!!! ;-)
Cheers,
Paul
LUGNET member 164
http://www.geocities.com/doctorshnub/
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| (...) Paul, do I detect a slippery slope argument here (or is that a weak analogy)? Just because you are Australian, doesn't mean that you are a leftist. The two can be mutually exclusive. You Australians have to stop having an inferiority complex. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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