I apologize. I thought you were referring to the hunting aspect of the ad (which many meat eaters - curiously - seem to object to), I didn't realize you were lightheartedly calling everyone in my country batshit because of some who own a tool you disapprove of.
1. I did not call "everyone in [your] country" anything.
2. I have no expressed no disapproval about guns thus far.
3. Please gain a little perspective and a sense of humour, or at the bare minimum, learn to pick your fights a little better. I was quite clearly not out to vilify or offend anyone, I was simply making a snarky response to a bizarre advertisment in a community designed expressly for that purpose. Regardless of my opinion on gun ownership, any ad that talks about a boy's innate hankering to shoot stuff as part of his heritage is ripe for poking fun at. I gather that you support gun ownership or shooting, which is fine, but I see no reason for you to attack me as a means to expressing this viewpoint. At no point was my tone towards you hostile or critical; it's a shame you couldn't have extended me the same courtesy.
"I did not call "everyone in [your] country" anything."
Oh, I don't know. "Oh America, you're so batshit" seems pretty inclusive to me.
You're correct that I over-reacted, though, and for that I apologize. It just seems that nothing can get posted here without someone finding it a reason to announce how stupid, ignorant, prejudiced, greedy or gun crazy they feel Americans are. It gets wearing after a while, and you start to get - you should pardon the phrase - gun shy about it.
Oh, I don't know. "Oh America, you're so batshit" seems pretty inclusive to me.
Well, if you want to get down to the semantics of it, America refers more to the nation itself as an abstract concept - its values, its ethics, etc. If I'd said "Americans," you would certainly have had valid grounds to call me up on making sweeping statements about a vast number of people.
You're correct that I over-reacted, though, and for that I apologize. It just seems that nothing can get posted here without someone finding it a reason to announce how stupid, ignorant, prejudiced, greedy or gun crazy they feel Americans are. It gets wearing after a while, and you start to get - you should pardon the phrase - gun shy about it.
I completely understand your perspective on that, but my comment was really a response to the idea of America evoked by that ad (which, by my reckoning, is somewhat removed from the genuine article), rather than any sort of genuine commentary on contemporary America. So do please forgive what may have seemed a glib generalisation and I'll forget my buttsoreness :)
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I apologize. I thought you were referring to the hunting aspect of the ad (which many meat eaters - curiously - seem to object to), I didn't realize you were lightheartedly calling everyone in my country batshit because of some who own a tool you disapprove of.
My mistake.
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2. I have no expressed no disapproval about guns thus far.
3. Please gain a little perspective and a sense of humour, or at the bare minimum, learn to pick your fights a little better. I was quite clearly not out to vilify or offend anyone, I was simply making a snarky response to a bizarre advertisment in a community designed expressly for that purpose. Regardless of my opinion on gun ownership, any ad that talks about a boy's innate hankering to shoot stuff as part of his heritage is ripe for poking fun at. I gather that you support gun ownership or shooting, which is fine, but I see no reason for you to attack me as a means to expressing this viewpoint. At no point was my tone towards you hostile or critical; it's a shame you couldn't have extended me the same courtesy.
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"I did not call "everyone in [your] country" anything."
Oh, I don't know. "Oh America, you're so batshit" seems pretty inclusive to me.
You're correct that I over-reacted, though, and for that I apologize. It just seems that nothing can get posted here without someone finding it a reason to announce how stupid, ignorant, prejudiced, greedy or gun crazy they feel Americans are. It gets wearing after a while, and you start to get - you should pardon the phrase - gun shy about it.
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Well, if you want to get down to the semantics of it, America refers more to the nation itself as an abstract concept - its values, its ethics, etc. If I'd said "Americans," you would certainly have had valid grounds to call me up on making sweeping statements about a vast number of people.
You're correct that I over-reacted, though, and for that I apologize. It just seems that nothing can get posted here without someone finding it a reason to announce how stupid, ignorant, prejudiced, greedy or gun crazy they feel Americans are. It gets wearing after a while, and you start to get - you should pardon the phrase - gun shy about it.
I completely understand your perspective on that, but my comment was really a response to the idea of America evoked by that ad (which, by my reckoning, is somewhat removed from the genuine article), rather than any sort of genuine commentary on contemporary America. So do please forgive what may have seemed a glib generalisation and I'll forget my buttsoreness :)
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"... which, by my reckoning, is somewhat removed from the genuine article..."
Kind of like the difference between the idea of England, and the reality of the United Kingdom?
"So do please forgive what may have seemed a glib generalisation and I'll forget my buttsoreness :)"
I can absolutely agree on that, and thanks for understanding. As a side note, I like the word "buttsoreness". I may have to steal it :)
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I'm not absolutely certain that the words 'spread' and 'butt' belong in the same sentence...
I see "buttsoreness" as belonging to the same category as the Americanism "soggy and hard to light", by the way :)