Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
 

Oh do please untwist your knickers. If anybody fought for anything it was our grandfathers in the second world war and they didn't run around expecting everyone to kiss their arses - they just did what they did and got on with it. This is as bad as that bloke in the other thread claiming he's single handedly protecting us from terrorists. Well, no.

Nobody made a personal attack, they just pointed out that it was presumptuous of you to speak on behalf of an entire board of people about whom you know little, if anything. I don't see you thanking any firefighters, EMTs or policemen - all of whom put themselves in some degree of risk to help others and they don't have to fly halfway around the world to poke their noses into international affairs to achieve it either ...

(I attack the organisations BTW, not the people. I'm sure many soldiers are very nice blokes but I'm sick and tired of the arselicking.)

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Which is fine, but you did it on behalf of everyone else which those people have issues with.

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I think everybody is taking things too seriously. I took the original responses as light hearted and not demeaning. Will who ever made the original responses please indicate if it was meant to be banter before this thread gets out of control.

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Nothing's out of control, mate - I'm just pointing out that nobody speaks for me, but me.

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I don't care either way, just pointing out why some people thought it was presumptuous to be thankful for everyone on the forum, when a personal thanks alone would have conveyed their message just fine :)

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My comment was not lighthearted, though not demeaning. Somebody projecting their emotional response onto thousands of others, regardless of their own views and feelings, is presumptuous. I say this regardless of the fact that I very much admire what individual service men and women put themselves through. If the poster wishes to thank somebody on behalf of his family and friends, whose views he does know, then that's fine.

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I guess we all perceive things differently. I originally took his "thank you from everybody" as just trying to be funny since I didn't think anybody would thank someone for someone else (except maybe their mother) and didn't think he really was thanking him for everybody on BE. So I guess I was the one that took his post the wrong way.

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I'm usually pretty good at recognising sycophants.

Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
 

or an attempt at a passive-aggressive bullying technique.

Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
 

So you have been watching the republican primaries?

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At least nobody can ever accuse me of that, eh?

Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
 

never. (probably the only thing that you can not be accused of, mind)

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One of the very few things I haven't been accused of ... :D

Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
 

Until today, I'd never actually heard (or technically, read the words of) a talking arsehole (...or several)!

Re: Off to the states... am i mad?
 

How'd you manage that without being a hermit?

If you think we're the worst example of such a phenomenon then you're rather lucky ...