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To: basil

It truly is remarkable the way he manages to look like a prick even when he is pretending to be humble.


4 posted on 05/25/2011 8:18:30 PM PDT by mylife
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5 posted on 05/25/2011 8:22:14 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: mylife
It truly is remarkable the way he manages to look like a prick even when he is pretending to be humble.

It isn't pretending to be humble -- it's trying to be cool and suave by pretending to know the host country's social customs, and looking like a dork because of having no clue about how the subtleties of precedence work.

If you watch Americans interact socially in places with a bowing tradition, you see them committing these sorts of gaffes routinely -- men bowing to women, or to someone junior to them, that sort of thing.

0's just proving he's a clueless poseur who's too lazy or thinks he's too smart to do his homework.

16 posted on 05/26/2011 2:41:11 AM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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