On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:51:58PM +0100, Erik Moeller
wrote:
*sigh* Clutch is a vandal, there's no doubt
about it. Even when Lir was
still unbanned, he kept changing her page, linking to articles about
"good taste"
to help her develop "the good taste she lacks", kept reverting her
attempts
to restore the page and threatened to do so until Lir would "call him
uncle"
(and not in the uncle Ed sense, I presume). Now that Lir is banned,
he is,
This is possibly a cultural difference. Your address and name indicates
you are German. In English, when you make someone "holler uncle!" it
means "do you give up now?" It is specifically used when someone is
being an unbearable annoyance, so you sit on them, and you don't let
them up until they indicate they recognize they have been an annoyance
and are prepared to change, by hollering "uncle!" It's a fine old
tradition, rarely used by people who are older than school age.
Rarely used by them because it's the tactic of a schoolyard bully. A
lot of effort has been put by British Columbia schools in recent years
to prevent this kind of bullying that amounts to lynch mob justice.
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