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"It's not going to be a good week for you, my friend" is definitely threatening, at least to the ear of someone who has watched crime and gangster movies. While
by qq66 13y ago
"It's not going to be a good week for you, my friend" is definitely threatening, at least to the ear of someone who has watched crime and gangster movies. While these kinds of communciations shouldn't be on Twitter in the first place, HTC would have been far more professional to say "This is a violation of our IP rights and we are commencing aggressive legal action."
- true_religion 13y agoThe whole point of being a gangster is saying things that are not threatening verbatim in a way that is threatening only in context. Example: "I'm going to give you an offer you can't refuse". It has a very different implication when given by your banker versus given by your loan shark.
- nly 13y agoActually, these days I think it means the same thing from your banker and your loan shark...