Much of that is currency effect, but if think if I wanted to fight every weeb at once I could defend the position "not only is Japan quite poor, but a lot of the things people admire about it are actually poverty indi…
For someone who constantly brags about his negotiation skills, he's quite poor at getting a good price on anything.
In classic British understatement, quite poor doesn't mean mediocre — it means absolutely terrible. This is meiosis at its most English: the politer the language, the worse the thing being described. Quite poor is the phrase a British person uses when they'd rather die than say something was genuinely awful. Context and tone do all the heavy lifting.
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The referee's decisions were, to put it charitably, quite poor — the home team was robbed.
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(UK, meiotic) Terrible.
“Much of that is currency effect, but if think if I wanted to fight every weeb at once I could defend the position "not only is Japan quite poor, but a lot of the things people admire about it are actually poverty indicators". Starting with the tiny apartments”
“For someone who constantly brags about his negotiation skills, he's quite poor at getting a good price on anything.”
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