A resounding OH FOR GOODNESS' SAKE to all of this. You would not believe how long I spent crafting a comment to 3 that conveyed 'X has enough in the way of ChosenCountry idiots making her uncomfortable with their stereotypes about Birth Country, please to not be clobbering X from the other side' without setting off a flamewar. Or maybe you would.
I have been read Lynne Murphy's book on US v. UK English and it occurs to me in that context that while UK English speakers annoy their transatlantic cousins by outright insulting their language choices (which is, obviously, very rude) US English speakers most often cause annoyance by obliviously assuming speakers of other Englishes are trying to speak US English but getting it wrong. I think something similar was going on here except X is familiar with both and does not need correcting so WTF.
(Also I wish people realised that if someone else, or three someone elses, have already made the same feeble joke it is not incumbent on you to make it again, unless you are cosplaying as a Twitter bot for some reason)
As far as 2 goes, I hang out intermittently on a forum for people with long hair, and the Locks of Love proselytisers show up there regularly and are an enormous nuisance. (Actually slightly *more* of a nuisance than creepy hair fetishists, because the mods have a zero tolerance policy on hair fetishists. No insult meant to fetish people who are not creeps) A frequent suggested response is 'Why don't you donate part of your liver? It'll grow back'. In any case perenialanna is right that they don't take dyed hair.
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Date: 2018-08-06 11:12 am (UTC)I have been read Lynne Murphy's book on US v. UK English and it occurs to me in that context that while UK English speakers annoy their transatlantic cousins by outright insulting their language choices (which is, obviously, very rude) US English speakers most often cause annoyance by obliviously assuming speakers of other Englishes are trying to speak US English but getting it wrong. I think something similar was going on here except X is familiar with both and does not need correcting so WTF.
(Also I wish people realised that if someone else, or three someone elses, have already made the same feeble joke it is not incumbent on you to make it again, unless you are cosplaying as a Twitter bot for some reason)
As far as 2 goes, I hang out intermittently on a forum for people with long hair, and the Locks of Love proselytisers show up there regularly and are an enormous nuisance. (Actually slightly *more* of a nuisance than creepy hair fetishists, because the mods have a zero tolerance policy on hair fetishists. No insult meant to fetish people who are not creeps) A frequent suggested response is 'Why don't you donate part of your liver? It'll grow back'. In any case