The reason I brought up the "alpha male flex" is that this is what Arthur assumes the other man is doing He can't conceive of any reason someone would just take something that belongs to him right in front of him, with no indication of any hostility beforehand
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He specifies that the man looks like an ordinary respectable businessman and "not the kind of fellow who would just take one's biscuits" The reason he has so much pent-up moral indignation is he assumes the other man is fucking with him just to be an asshole
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That's the point of the example Arthur thinks he's standing up to an asshole who is fucking with him for no reason, because he, inadvertently, *actually is* an asshole fucking with someone for no reason
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He is aware that it is a very petty thing to get upset about because it's an item he paid for from pocket change but he IS upset and he DOES feel like he's won some kind of moral victory by neither backing down nor getting provoked into yelling at the guy
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Hence the reversal - he's the asshole and the other guy is the one showing backbone/courage/restraint/maturity etc by not blowing up at him
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I am harping on this because you and your ilk are, broadly speaking, so fundamentally immune to ever seeing yourself as the asshole and so absolutely convinced that you just being a prick on the Internet all the time is some kind of badge of courage
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As an English person, I'm very happy to say that your reading of this very simple, easily comprehended, anecdote, is not somehow being totally deformed by you being an American.
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Despite what many other English people in this thread (and many, many, insufferable people here generally) like to think, there is no such thing as a "uniquely English" sense of irony that's untranslatable.
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For some reason, whenever someone gets weirdly aggressively provincial at me, like actually angry that I'm an American and saying that means I don't understand British stuff, they are a TERF One click to their timeline and there's always a transphobic tweet right up top
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None of the people above you in this thread that I was arguing with appear to be women
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