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Originally Posted by HarryT

to you, too. Please don't imply that people are idiots before checking your facts: there is no way to set the default on the Amazon UK site. Just because something is available to people in one country, doesn't mean it's available to everyone.

I did not mean to imply you are an idiot.

I did mean to imply that perhaps yo overlooked the rest of what I said, and misread the tone of my post.

Perhaps next time you should say straight out, that that option is unavailable in the UK, rather than "They go to wherever you tell them to go. When I buy books, for example, I get them sent to Kindle for PC. Nothing is ever sent to my Kindle."

And then I would have been appropriately apologetic about not being multiculturally aware and everything etc. rather than persisting in my uninformed beliefs.

Instead, you fed my belief and still managed to come out with an awkward response to my post:

Originally Posted by HarryT

They go to wherever you tell them to go. When I buy books, for example, I get them sent to Kindle for PC. Nothing is ever sent to my Kindle.

Regardless of how my premise may have been and was in fact wrong, you certainly didn't answer to that.

Originally Posted by mgmueller

Maybe it's a cultural thing.
But in Germany and most other countries I know is the non-verbal equivalent of calling someone an idiot.
In my book, that's an absolute no-go and I certainly wouldn't thank someone for being out of line.

Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks

Around here, it usually means smacking oneself in the head for missing something obvious. It's most often directed at the person posting, not directed at others.

Correct.

Originally Posted by mgmueller

Can be the same in Germany.
But in the context of eschwartz it's clearly directed towards others.
Mostly me, but in the meantime some others as well.

You could say that smacking oneself in the head for missing something obvious is acceptable, but suggesting others do the same is a bit rude... I don't think though, that it necessarily follows I am implying they are an idiot.

Idiots do not have an exclusivity on making leaps of illogic, we all have our off days.

What if I do so to myself? Am I calling myself an idiot? Not usually.

I prefer keeping one uniform meaning to things.