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Right. I appear to have posted something above that was not only rather (read very) badly-thought out, but has also offended various people and made me look extremely stupid. This post is an attempt to salvage the situation.
Rereading my original statement, it does indeed come over as at least misguided, at worst unpleasantly bigoted. I'd like to think I'm not like that: for example, my use of the words "self-consciously kooky" were not intended to be an attack on members of this board - in my head, at least, the reason I used the word "kooky" was to create a tone of sarcastic disdain in reference to the sort of people who would spend ages, for example, thinking up the astonishingly unconventional gambit of wearing odd! socks!
"aren't you conflating two types of person - to wit, the Lambrini girl and the self-consciously kooky girl?"
Now I come to think of it, yes, although the addition of the word "girl" to those types makes me rather uncomfortable.
"I think you might be deluding yourself about how wise you are to other people."
Now I think about it, so do I. The point of the original post, rather than a self-aggrandising attempt at a damning critique of social types, was actually my trying to get a load of frustration off my chest about someone who's been driving me insane lately, but "cunningly disguised" as the former. Which succeeded only in offending people and making me look like a prat.
In conclusion, I'm not going to continue to defend my original post, as it was, with hindsight, badly conceived and ill-advised. I'd like to apologise for any offence caused, and I hope that, given time, this rather embarrassing incident might be forgotten about.
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