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- From: skaamjm@ucl.ac.uk (Matthew Moore)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: Robertson's Golly Badges.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.172505.4689@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:25:05 GMT
- References: <TsP=tC_@engin.umich.edu> <Bz3G2H.5Lp@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk> <casseres-181292111938@missmolly.apple.com> <BzpnpK.99M@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk>
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- ccsdhd@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Dennis Davis) writes:
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- >In the referenced article, casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
- >>I didn't know you had whining and wanking about "political correctness" in
- >>the U.K. too. Pity.
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- >No, I'm not sure that we have these precious commodities. But we do
- >have derogatory sarcasm, which often appears in this Newsgroup. It
- >always saddens me slightly when things are suddenly declared anathema.
- >Especially when the supposed reasons were totally invisible to me when
- >I was a child. I get the feeling that something has been lost, but I
- >can't quite decide exactly what that something is.
- >--
- >Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
- >D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk
-
- innocence, or ignorance perhaps.
-
- Ever been called a wog?
-