abuse you say? ah yes...
I think some of the phrases from your original post steered it all in that direction, wouldn't you agree? Stuff like
"an obese American white male, who puts in a straight six hours a day on the board, shovelling junk food and beer in one end while expelling Bronx cheers out the other, occasionally breaking to surf some porn and maybe jerk off, who thinks Kerry is some sort of radical, and all the while imagines, Walter Mitty-like, that he's an influential and respected arbiter of taste at the centre of the jazz world."
isn't exactly scoring many points in the white glove department, nor does it really scream out to have an honest, friendly discussion, does it? Maybe you would like to start over and use some of those smileys or equivalent explanatory remarks.
You put a big foot in your mouth, the board collectively pointed that out in all its diverse manners, and now you return to whine about THAT? Don't, it looks too sad.
Before you can turn to business as usual and start any adult discussion about this topic, you really need to polish up your act. Your last post is just as condescending as the first one, so please once more, try again, this time wiv FEEWING!
huh?
Now, wasn't the abuse part (and the reason why John and me had so much fun here ) that while we might be white, we're (well, at least not 100%) not Americans... now: you abuse this thread to excluse us White Male Europeans from this discussion! (We're even worse, in several aspects, by the way: In adopting the US white male trash behaviour, we do even better: 10 hours on the web (9 1/2 of them in porn sites, obviously), two kgs of cheap meat a day, pop corn, diet coke all the time, dirty t-shirts, fat bellies hanging out, smelling out of our mouths, not shaving except maybe on sundays... in fact, you could say: we jerked our brains off attempting to be the better white male americans than white male americans ever could be.)
ubu