Oh come on

Oh come on

Posted Mar 10, 2005 18:57 UTC (Thu) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469)
In reply to: Oh come on by corbet
Parent article: A big setback on software patents

Sorry if that line upset you.

Down here we have a saying, "A hit hound hollers ever' time." Means people get upset when you call them on something they know is true.

there is a certain smugness that Europeans (lots of them, anyway) adopt when discussing the peculiarities of the U.S.

You're dead on here. It's not the fact that Europeans have that smugness that bothers them. Rather it's the fact that you called them on it that has a few of 'em riled up. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it if I was you. The Europeans have their smug attitude and we have our "my way or the highway" attitude (yes, I'm an American and I'm likely more stereotypical American than anyone else these people know). I think anyone looking at the story understands that the line was a humorous statement of a stereotypical fact, and isn't anything to get all bent out of shape about really.

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