Given some of the cretins I encounter on this side of the pond on a regular basis I am increasingly finding myself on thin ice with the whole 'relative intelligence' thing...
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Tue 12 Jul 2011, 10:18,
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I reached and breached that point years ago.
The absolutely casual, socially-acceptable xenophobia I've encountered with a Sherman friend of mine has been really quite vile, dinner-party stuff "Oh you're American you wouldn't understand! Hahahahahaha" "Yes we have that here, along with irony! Hahahahahaha" "Bloody Americans!" &c.
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Tue 12 Jul 2011, 10:29,
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