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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9640229" data-attributes="member: 6799660">The point was that, in fairness to Payn, his comment was not utter US cluelessness, cultural chauvinism, or assuming that everyone knew how things work in Eagle-land. They had every reason to believe their comment was close to universal in broad strokes, that people would catch the relevant universal theme (large metal box=hard to move) and had even included a helpful reference point.I have no idea how you decided this was x-splaining to you. I would think the inclusion of the metric conversion* would be an indicator that it was never about you**, but about their post, which was literally the only thing I covered in my response.*clearly not for Canadians, which I assure you I did not know about you, as this was never about you.**'for anyone,' as I included in my post. Edit: big long rest of post cross-posted with mod-text.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9640229, member: 6799660"] The point was that, [U][I]in fairness to Payn[/I][/U], his comment was not utter US cluelessness, cultural chauvinism, or assuming that everyone knew how things work in Eagle-land. They had every reason to believe their comment was close to universal in broad strokes, that people would catch the relevant universal theme (large metal box=hard to move) and had even included a helpful reference point. I have no idea how you decided this was x-splaining to you. I would think the inclusion of the metric conversion* would be an indicator that it was never about you**, but about their post, which was literally the only thing I covered in my response. [SIZE=2]*clearly not for Canadians, which I assure you I did not know about you, as this was never about you. **'for anyone,' as I included in my post. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Edit: big long rest of post cross-posted with mod-text.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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