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Indeed: there exist quite some very vocal people who deeply abhor being patronised (e.g. by the EU).
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
Indeed: there exist quite some very vocal people who deeply abhor being patronised (e.g. by the EU).
- ben_w 2y agoPatronised? I could see why people might feel that way about seatbelts (e.g. people feeling "don't tell me I'm a bad driver!"), but I don't see how that feeling could attach to environmental issues like the aggregate emissions from (reducing from 100W to 10W * 2.5h/day * about 1 bulb/person * 400 million people =) 3.75 GW over the continent?
- rsynnott 2y agoWell, I think to some extent, the eurosceptic UK tendency, encouraged by the tabloids, was to seek out things to be offended by (sometimes simply making them up; see bendy bananas.) Never really heard of this anywhere in Europe _outside_ the UK, tho.