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wear the blonde on his wrist?
I should think, on his arm.
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Tell me, does wear the blonde on his wrist? or some where else?
I thought I'd leave that open...
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*Note: I gather that we always have to give warning when irony is used. I don’t know why.
I get it! That's an ironic comment, right?
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I gather that we always have to give warning when irony is used.
I tried *that and it doesn't werk, either...
...as the Asp just *explained why.
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Is it an ironic comment if you say it's an ironic comment when it isn't?
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Am I getting the true sense of the word, poser, here, or am I missin' something?
Think a combination of:
one who poses, ie gives the impression of being something they're not, and
one who imposes, ie tries to fit in somewhere they don't belong.
As mentioned above, it often implies impurity of motive. Think Robbie Williams as the "bad boy of rock" - he acts bad on occasion because he is the "bad boy of rock", and not vice versa.
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But he's too successful at it to be a poser. Now if he were to pretend to a deep knowledge of Russian ballet schools, then he would (I suspect) be a poseur. I guess, to me, a poser is a poseur with lower pretensions and therefor easier to detect. Robbie Williams 'lives up to his image' at times and that's subtly different. I think too that a poser is trying to impress people with whom he is *not trying to fit in - he is either trying to give them the impression that no way could they fit in with him anymore, he has left them far behind, or he is trying to convince the uninitiated that he is a part of some scene to which, in fact, neither he nor they have the entrée. I dunno, these are fine distinctions. Maybe they are only in my mind  . Maybe the real difference lies between the people who use the word poser and the poseurs who use the word poseur.
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