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Originally Posted by MoriartyL
Wow. Just wow.
Didn't have a clue what was going on in the last twenty minutes, but still-
Wow.
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Indeed, WOW
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Originally Posted by Gordon Bennett
What I mean by good neatured xenophobia is joking at another people's expense, but clearly in a manner that is not malicious, and certainly with th implicit understanding that there is no real intolerance or prejudice behind the joke. Instead, the target of the joke is the prejudice itself, or individuals who believe that stereotypes are real.
The best-known example I can think of was the episode of Fawlty Towers in which Basil suffers a head injury from a falling moose head and quite badly mistreats a group of German tourists.
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I know what you meant, I was just commenting on the phrase
"Don't mention the war", yeah, that's brilliant
