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Thread #120107   Message #2826333
Posted By: mandotim
31-Jan-10 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
Culturally, WAV, you ARE Australian. Your language repeatedly shows this to be true (anyone use the words 'chooks' or 'Kooris' in England?) Why are you so ashamed of that?
Your travels merely show that it is possible to cover great distances, see lots of things and learn absolutely nothing at all. Difficult for most people, but a breeze for someone as self-absorbed as you.
You don't understand English culture in the slightest; I don't blame you for that, you weren't brought up here after all, but what really irks me (and most people on this board) is your constant ill-informed blethering about what English culture ought to be. You are talking (mostly) to people who understand their own culture as part of their life and soul, not some superficial pastiche as seen by some immigrant with delusions of omnipotence. Can't you see the monumental and misplaced arrogance of your position? Would you (for example) seek to explain to Roger Federer how to play tennis? Seek to educate Pele in the finer points of football? Point out to Einstein the inconsistencies in his theories? I hope not; and yet you seem to think it's ok to tell English people how to experience their own culture. It's not, and the sooner you leave this board and go and irritate some other poor souls the better. Spaw has it right;
--Your "poetry" sucks.
--It has been posted repeatedly before.
--It is full of bigoted and racist statements.
--That which isn't racist is often incredibly juvenile.
--It is obvious to most that you have limited knowledge of the world, especially considering your supposed travels.