Inferiority complex, much?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Letter to the Editor in my local paper today (subject is recent banning of French movie Baise-Moi):

“IT IS not so much the assumption that adult Australians are most generally congenital idiots who are so abysmally incompetent as to be behaviourally moronised and inevitably barbaritised after viewing Baise-Moi, it is the rationalising unction, the “reasoning” that the presumption of the censors’ specially beatified personal judgment is so unchallengeably superior for the protection of the otherwise compelled-to-vote unexceptional imbeciles who comprise Australian adulthood.

Censorious moralists are not de facto parental guardians of everybody else.”

Someone has a dictionary and a great whacking fear of appearing stupid.

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And people think my vocabulary is too big for them! :eek:

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:smiley: Nice irony. They were trying so hard to be impressive, weren’t they?

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Are “moronised” and “barbaritised” even actual words?

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You’re a Sandgroper, Scorpio? Welcome to the SDMB from another West Aussie! :cool:

I saw that letter in The West myself a few hours ago. I’m been thinking for a while of starting a Pit thread on some of the lovely letters that are published in our charming local rag.

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I don’t know, but they’re making me laugh, so it’s good enough.

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I thought the proper word for “moronised” was “moronificated.”

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(laughs)

(stops, with dumbfounded expression on face)

Oh, they’re serious?

(awkward pause)

(resumes laughing)

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Um, er I always thought we WERE congenital idiots me’self. Letters like that just confirm it. :stuck_out_tongue:

Welcome to the boards Scorpio!