Keith wrote:
This is only as problem if you're in the US. The rest of the world that speaks English won't have this problem
True. It strikes me as a particularly American phenomenon. I've never come across it over here.
Plus, it's incredibly juvenile, and I wouldn't be able to take anyone who made such a joke seriously. I would write them off mentally as someone not worth my time.
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