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Post by Doomy on Feb 18, 2010 3:28:36 GMT -5
Assuming that all UK schools are boarding schools is not dissimilar to assuming that all Americans wear stetsons and live on cattle ranches. I personally consider the fedora to be more "American" than the stetson, Ive got a fedora myself. The fedora was made popular in this country by a great American actor, Harrison Ford. Indiana Jones may have worn a fedora, but I don't really think you can say he popularised it considering it was near-ubiquitous in the 1930s.
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Post by eviltb on Feb 18, 2010 3:32:26 GMT -5
ok ok.. thats enough now. Stopping this before it gets too out-of-hand. Chris, while we appreciate your particular take on life, please do some research before asking such questions to avoid pointless stereotpying.
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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 18, 2010 4:10:26 GMT -5
That's just so like a Bedfordshirite to say.
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Post by zipp on Feb 18, 2010 5:52:47 GMT -5
For the record, I'm not sure that anyone meant offense here to Chris or truly took offense about the boarding school miscalculation. I think it was an honest question looking for an honest answer that maybe got at the heart of some very honest feelings from overseas about how little Americans (which means me, too) know about other cultures.
After all, if you can't ask your British friends about British school systems, who can you ask? But it is best to probably nip stuff like this in the bud before it gets vicious, for whatever the reason.
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