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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^wow, what an amazing essay![/quote]

I know I'm supposed to admire the author based on this essay, but I don't. She sounds acid and nasty and looking for a fight everywhere she goes. I think she could have accomplished her same goals by confronting the schoolgirl without yanking her ponytail, and by politely requesting a pleasant seat by the window instead of demeaning the waiter and treating him like a servant when he was surely just following management's orders to hide the old ladies in the back. Not impressed. [/quote]

You've got to be kidding. Just accept it? Surely you jest. And yanking the ponytail? Priceless.[/quote]

Accept what? Please re-read.

Yanking someone's ponytail is assault and could get you arrested, 70 years old or not.

Being 70 isn't a license to shred everyone around you.[/quote]

I'm pretty sure she could say she could say she was defending the people that the girl was assaulting. Defense of others is not actionable. And the humor in this essay is British and very, very dry. Some of you calling her rude are completely missing the hyperbole of British phrasing. Dave Barry is probably more your style.[/quote]

Well, the author is Australian. And funny thing - I'm English.

As I said...reading comprehension is a good thing.

Also: hyperbole does not mean what you think it means, nor is it remotely related to "dry humor." British humor is famous for its understatement, not for its exaggerated overstatement (that would be "hyperbole"). This may be the saddest attempt at condescension I've ever read.[/quote]

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