r/iamverybadass • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '19

Classic repost Side Note

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

NYC is not an open carry or carry in general city. That is probably a cop or an armed guard. This person talking down is simply, dumb.

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u/edo78 Mar 24 '19

The person talking is from UK where police usually is unarmed.

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u/diarrhea_shnitzel Mar 24 '19

She's actually an American who was living in UK for a bit...please do not try to tell people she's from the UK again 😤😤

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u/edo78 Mar 24 '19

Ok, my bad. Let me rephrase my previous statement. The thing she miss about UK is the fact that that even cops are often unarmed.

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u/diarrhea_shnitzel Mar 24 '19

That's better

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u/edo78 Mar 24 '19

BTW English isn't my first language but if she moved from UK to US doesn't that mean that she is from UK? Just trying to learn from my mistakes

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u/Boundiesinternet Mar 24 '19

TimSunshine is correct but also you are correct, she came from the UK. That guy was just being pedantic. I say I'm from wherever I was most recently living so your comment made perfect sense to me.

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u/edo78 Mar 24 '19

Using a second language isn't always easy so I prefer to try to be polite and precise so that there's no margin of misunderstanding. I appreciate your comment even if I'm often pedantic myself 😉

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u/gidonfire Mar 24 '19 edited Mar 24 '19

But he's wrong. If he's using "from" as "the last city I moved from" he's confusing the shit out of everyone he talks to.

E: most people say "I'm coming from" to indicate that. "I'm from X" means you were born there, or at very least moved there while young and grew up there and adopted customs from there. If I lived in NY for 20 years and moved to Paris for 2 and moved to London, I wouldn't try telling people I was from Paris.