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[highlander]

Erm, Joe, I don't know if you noticed the dripping sarcasm or complete lack of touch with reality in my post... or the winking smiley... but I was joking!

Additionally, if it's the whole thread you're annoyed at, and not my post in itself, then remember the original poster was saying he was lazy (it even
says so in his signature too ) so it's not anti-Americanism, just in-keeping with the posters' original self-depreciative joke.

I know, I've read so many things about lazy Americans I could cite the same list of responses you could (even though I'm not American). I know you
guys aren't all lazy!

In keeping, the comment about lazy Mexicans is garbage also (though it was also probably meant as a friendly jibe rather than a racist remark).
Siestas are not laziness, it's just common sense. Why perform back-breaking work in fields and on building sites in the heat of the noon-day sun?
You'll get sunstroke! That's why siestas were invented. Those of the opinion Mexicans are lazy should note that they work longer hours (when its'
cooler) to make up for the time they spend not working.

I'm dead-set against racism, but people have been making jokes about their peers for a very long time (ever heard those "Scottishman, Irishman,
Englishman" jokes? The "blonde" jokes? The jokes about Polish people? Aussies and Kiwis?) There's no malice or hostility in these jokes at all.

I've heard a bunch of Scottish jokes too (I'm Scottish) - you know, things like "The copper wire was invented by two Scots fighting over a penny", etc
etc. It's an amusing mental image, even though I'm not tight-fisted.

In the context of this thread, these remarks are used humorously, and it shows. If there was any offense meant (or offense taken), all it takes is
for a moderator to close the thread and life will continue as happily as normal.

Please, people, don't be so touchy!