Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15

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Subject: [Leica] Cloud Cuckoo Land & Yankee Bashing
From: buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Oct 15 09:04:15 2004

Then let both sides SHUT UP, Wade!  I am not defending the U.S., I am simply 
saying that everybody, including you, Wade, who feels the need to cast 
aspersions on anyone's national character, even their own national 
character, should JUST SHUT UP!

Buzz Hausner

> 
> From: Wade Heninger <lists@heninger.org>
> Date: 2004/10/15 Fri AM 11:58:25 EDT
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: RE: [Leica] Cloud Cuckoo Land & Yankee Bashing
> 
> 
> > I appreciate your efforts to lighten things up, Neil, but I am just sick
> > and tired of this crap on the LUG.  I only wish that everybody feeling 
> > the
> > urge to comment on the history, behaviour, or values of someone else's
> > nation would just SHUT THE F*** UP!
> 
> It goes for both sides.
> 
> I'm sick of hearing people from the US always talk about how F**king great
> everything is here and I'm sick of people from the US demonstrating
> amazingly thin skin when someone disagrees or criticizes something.  And I
> say that as an American citizen who was lucky enough to grow up elsewhere
> (Canada) and get a bit of perspective.
> 
> Of course, none of this crap belongs here, but a little tolerance on both
> sides will go along ways.>