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On 6/25/2024 10:57 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2024 22:46:32 GMT, vallor wrote:
> 
>> Instead of handing you a fish, I'm teaching you to fish.
> 
> When I used a similar phrase in a reply on another group, this person said
> “something about the way you went about that rubbed me the wrong way”.


That's because it's an extremely smug, obnoxious, arrogant thing to say, 
and in most cases whoever says it is full of shit.