Hello, on Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008, Druid wrote:

I was in the #opensuse-project channel and I have seen something very shocking happening: < suseROCKs> Beineri: No I'm an American. We kicked Brit ass 232 years ago and we're still gloating about it.

This text doesn't sound nice [1] - but nobody can tell from this single statement what it really was about.

That's wrong, in my opinion. What should we do about it?

We should first find out the backgrounds (larger portion of the IRC log, reason for the kick) - before we start a long thread and/or flamewar about it! Regards, Christian Boltz [1] (intentionally avoiding harder wording here) -- Und da ich falsch geschrieben habe, was ja flasch ist, da faslch richtig geschrieben ja richtig und nicht falcsh ist, hab ich durch das richtige schreiben einen Fehler gemacht und damit das Wort flasch richtig ver- wendet, da es ja flashc ist, was hier nicht richtig, aber passend ist. [Till Potinius] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org

Druid wrote:

I was in the #opensuse-project channel and I have seen something very shocking happening: < suseROCKs> Beineri: No I'm an American. We kicked Brit ass 232 years ago and we're still gloating about it.

Well, I ask you all, should we put that kind of push on british opensuse users? I kid you not, what should we do? Push them to other distributions more friendly to british linux users?

That's wrong, in my opinion. What should we do about it?

Are you sure it wasn't Brit humor? They are known for being a bit dry in their humor (i.e. could have been a brit imitating a yank)...could have been humor... certainly seems humorous given the mis-steps we yanks have made in the world recently...sorta like the "bull in a china shop" effect? You can be sure that Bush didn't have that attitude with Blair -- I doubt "homey would have played that tune"... Seriously...at worst looks like a troll or teenager spouting off their mindless testosterone. Unless it becomes pervasive, I'd ignore it or take the devil's advocate. The brits may have gotten ass-kicked, but given the religious-nuts taking over america -- who got the better deal? Just let it roll-off onto the demented-humor side -- don't let it get under your skin. Alot of trolls love nothing more than to stir-the-pot. I think it is generally thought that the brits and yanks are close allies -- sorta like boys who used to fight -- but are now best friends who knock heads every once in a while just to both prove their both still 'tough' and independent. But that's my uninformed yank opinion -- but from my view, the French are are best friends/roll models -- even though some conservative freaks don't like what the French say because they know the French are right, and the french are born with more class than most americans can ever hope to aspire to. Yee Hah, parlayvooo fransays... I have to think that brits and french are the strongest cultural and historical influences on America....but sometimes like many "relatives", we argue and posture and carry on -- even though when push comes to shove, -- if a real threat came along, I think all three would be on the same side.... just my uninformed two or three cents (and I have had the fortune of visiting both england (briefly), and france a few times -- have to say -- the french were a tad (ok more than a tad) warmer, though the brits were hell-a-easier to understand! :-) Brits were more like americans -- french were more like I wish america would be. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org