Posted by Bob Wombat at myoon0.connect.com.au on November 18, 2001 at 17:32:47:
In Reply to: I think the reason for his comment was... posted by arabelle on November 18, 2001 at 13:52:48:
: he's merely gettin tired of people coming to the wwwboard and complaining about the release being pushed back... People from another country whine about this so much that its getting irritating,
. . . do you know what was also irritating? The rampant homophobia we had to put up with on this board a few months ago. Remember that? I sure as hell do. Being gay and having to wade through that crap was infinitely more irritating than -- oh, deary bloody me! -- having to put up with the odd Aussie expressing annoyance at having a film they very much want to see pushed back four months.
If you don't want to read these posts, skip them, just as I had to do over every post containing the hateful, near-incoherent, bullshit ramblings of sexually-repressed 14-year-olds inflicted with a nasty case of denial and self-loathing.
: and the fact that they don't see how minor this is compared to what we, the residents of the USA, are experiencing at the moment... Hence, the validity of his comment...
And it's this attitude that I find patronising and offensive, because in addition to the fact that yours was certainly not the only country affected by the attacks -- there were many people from other countries in the towers and in the Pentagon at the time; and we also have soldiers in Afghanistan -- it seems perfectly okay for everybody else on this board to post trivial bullshit.
But should an Aussie, not yet aware of the release date to a Kevin Smith film, dare to ask when it's coming out on a Kevin Smith webboard . . . and another Aussie caution to provide him with the information he's looking for . . . Heaven Forfend!