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I can't pinpoint the exact the origins of this perniciously infectious means of agreeing with someone else's post and - as you know - I'm not one to wilfully put my head above the parapet, but I'd just like to suggest that it carries with it all the style of catching sight of your uncle dancing at a wedding (with a tie on his head) just at the moment that he raises his eyebrows as far up as they go, puts two thumbs up (at 45 degree angles) and says 'skill' with a gormless expression on his face.


Please make it stop. You know who you are.

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I think you'll find* that I identified 'The Keef Convention: saying "What X said" in agreement to a previous post' in my very brilliant but under-responded-to thread Conventions of the EDF in About This Forum.


So ner, it's official, and I'm going to keep doing it. And just look at these super-spiffing persons all upping their thumbs, what a marvellously positive and cheering activity it is! Many of them seem as though they could be uncles, and hurrah for them.


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*Isn't 'I think you'll find' an incredibly aggressive and unpleasant way to say a perfectly ordinary thing? It should never be used by persons of taste.

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Moos Wrote:

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> I think you'll find* that I identified 'The Keef

> Convention: saying "What X said" in agreement to a

> previous post' in my very brilliant but

> under-responded-to thread Conventions of the EDF

> in About This Forum.

>

> So ner, it's official, and I'm going to keep doing

> it. And just look at these super-spiffing persons

> all upping their thumbs, what a marvellously

> positive and cheering activity it is! Many of

> them seem as though they could be uncles, and

> hurrah for them.

>

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?2

> 0,file=4103

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?2

> 0,file=4104

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/file.php?2

> 0,file=4105

>

> *Isn't 'I think you'll find' an incredibly

> aggressive and unpleasant way to say a perfectly

> ordinary thing? It should never be used by

> persons of taste.



This speaks for the rest of us.


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