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No, we're not all tactful.....its just that some of our put downs are so obscure that no one understands them well enough to take offence.
Interestingly although I'm also on the Thunderbird 1600 forum, I've not been tempted to post...don't know why, that's just the way it is.
Al



HEY now! Don't sell yourselves short there, Limey! 'Cause from what I've ever noticed, in general you guys over there on that little island situated off the coast of continental Europe DO tend to be more tactful than we Yanks are, and it ISN'T just 'cause you're better at that whole "obscure put-down" stuff, and whether or NOT you guys use that dumb superfluous letter 'u' while texting those "obscure put-downs"!

I mean, haven't you ever heard the expression "American Exceptionalism", and a concept with the underlying thought that we Yanks are better than anyone else in the world, and thus have some god-given right to be as cocksure about our opinions and about such things as how the rest of the world should be more than anyone else on this planet???

And I don't know about YOU, but I sure as hell have never heard of anything such as "BRITISH Exceptionalism"!

(...well, okay, at least not since you guys lost that there Empire of yours anyway!!!)


Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)