On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Philip Hart wrote: >> You'll want to adjust your irony detector - all the points were intended >> to advocate for that position... >My goodness. Is there a chance he was actually serious? You mean Steve in his original post about "traits of a backward nation"? A little tongue-in-cheek, maybe, but given what I know of his political leanings I'd asume he's serious. It wasn't Steve's post that surprised me, it was the number of respondents who appeared to completely miss the implication and instead used it to try and prove their own ideas about what other countries ought to be considered "backward". /shrug I know a number of people that would agree with him. You're surely not going to start ridiculing anyone because their viewpoints don't coincide with yours? Probably best to let this this thread die a second death. (It must not have had it's spine severed the first time.)