From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Sun 23 Jan 2000 - 22:39:35 EET
Erik Sieurin partially JeSevens me ('Alex McFergus'), then writes:
> ROTFL! SHALL (Smacking Head Against Laptop Laughing)!
Owch, doesn't that hurt? That laptop, that is...
> It might be stereotypical, but what the heck. I've resigned that the
> only vestiges of the culture of _my_ country (Sweden) are guys with
> horned helmets
OK, so we made that part up. Nasty, but you can't touch us for it...
Still, where would we be without a model for Uroxi, eh?
(*loud exuberantly-shouted suggestions at this point*)
> who drink a lot of beer
To be fair, that's not stereotyping, just __observation of you Nordic types.
> [...] the tyrannical, bureaucratic Swedish empire [...]
Hrm, I thought that was just the P. J. O'Rourke stereotype, instead...
;-) Though in Glasgow the main culprits were the Norwegian students,
so you can resort to blaming them... Next you'll be claiming that
you're not as a people in any way over-taxed, broad-minded, suicidal,
and blond. ;-)
> Both alternate versions of late 20th-century countries are refreshingly
> free from stereotypes
(OK, hardly an empire, I admit, though what with Eriksson and Microsoft
in bed together...)
Cheers,
Alex.
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