Stupid French troublemaker

[Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)]

Gilles Gravier schreef:
> Karl,
> 
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:klarsen1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>        There is a child that lives in France that is capable of doing
>     things that irritate people. The guys email address is
>     vincent.perie at myoffice.mobistar.be
>     <mailto:vincent.perie at myoffice.mobistar.be> and every time I send a
>     message to
>     this list he sends this French cuss phrase to me:
>     Je suis actuellement absent du bureau aussi !!!!<br><br>TEST !!!!!
> 
>     I often wonder what rock these kind of people were born under. I recall
>     that last Century the USA with British support saved France from
>     becoming a German state twice.
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Don't think that one person defines a country. By behaving like that
> you are not doing yourself a favor.
> 2) Learn your ISO domain names properly, it's like geography... .BE
> isn't French, it's Belgium.
> 3) You are calling him a child without knowing his age. He is mostlikely
> NOT a child given the "myoffice" part of the address. If I were to make
> an assumption from that part of the address, he's an adult using office
> services of the Belgium Mobistar operator.
> 4) It's not a cuss phrase (just because you don't understand something
> doesn't mean it's aggressive)... it's a vacation message which states "I
> am currently absent from the office as well"... Which confirms point
> 3... not a child, but an adult.
> 
> So you think the guy is a French child. You make a fool of yourself by
> insulting a whole nation... and double that foolishness by insulting the
> wrong nation... and tripple it by making unjustified assumptions on the
> man's age. Finally, you fail to recognize a vacation message.
> 
> Methinks you deserve the stupidity award for the day.
> 
> Gilles (and yes, *I* am French, but you can't figure that out from my
> domain name).

For the record: I am from Belgium. From the northern, Dutch speaking
part, Flanders. But you don't see me ranting about my French speaking
compatriots from Wallonia or Brussels, do you?
Lets keep politics outside this list. It's already bad enough with the
European and the regional elections coming up...

-- 
Amedee

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