Say something horrible about Americans...

[untethered]

note how we endured decades of bombing and terrorism without crying and producing commemorative ornaments

Sadly our "special relationship" means we've started to import some of the worst kinds of American sentimentalism.

For example, there is now an "Elizabeth Cross" medal given to spouses of soldiers killed in action. What next, vicarious Purple Hearts?

 

[untethered]

Uh huh.

Franklin Mint is an American company.

 

[twistedAM]

Uh huh.

That's brilliant. The collage makes it look like she's wearing swimsuit in the left hand pic.

Anyway I was working in the carolinas when that happened and you fuckers were all over it. Book of condolences in the capitol building in Raleigh etc

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Franklin Mint is an American company.

Yeah but that ho in the picture is straight up british!

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Anyway I was working in the carolinas when that happened and you fuckers were all over it. Book of condolences in the capitol building in Raleigh etc

Now you're crossing lines.


Don't be draggin' my home place into it. That's not part of America!!

 

[untethered]

Yeah but that h- in the picture is straight up british!

They don't have any royalty of their own so they sentimentalise ours.

It's incredibly tacky.

 

[twistedAM]

Now you're crossing lines.


Don't be draggin' my home place into it. That's not part of America!!

You turnin' Confederate all of a sudden?

 

[MightyAphrodite]

You turnin' Confederate all of a sudden?

Heh nah.


Threads like this used to wind me the fuck up.


Now they just make me laugh.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Saying that....never mistake that I am originally from the south and abhor the term yank applied to all Americans.

I really dislike that.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Bloody yanks. Etc.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Ah, here's a good one. It's priced in funny money so it must be British:

 

[Vintage Paw]

My nana collected plates with royal stuff on 'em. Got a lovely one of the queen mum in the hallway.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Saying that....never mistake that I am originally from the south and abhor the term yank applied to all Americans.

I really dislike that.

I have to admit that I take some exception to it too. A "yankee" is someone from the north-east coast. However, you can't really expect a bunch of carpet baggers to know better.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Uh huh.

Americowned

 

[twistedAM]

I have to admit that I take some exception to it too. A "yankee" is someone from the north-east coast. However, you can't really expect a bunch of carpet baggers to know better.

When the term yankee was coined the only things dumb enough to live where you do were buffalo

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

When the term yankee was coined the only things dumb enough to live where you do were buffalo

Well, them and about half my ancestors. The other half were inbred, draft-dodging Krauts.

<edited to add>
... and not an Irishman in the bunch.

 

[dat brown skin]

... and here I thought he was just taking the piss.

Where you?

 

[twistedAM]

Well, them and about half my ancestors. The other half were inbred, draft-dodging Krauts.

<edited to add>
... and not an Irishman in the bunch.

Yeah, as I was saying, they never got past Omaha

 

[Thora]

They're rubbish.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

pfft, thats Diana.

Nothing to do with 9/11 lighters and keyrings .

No, but judging by the size of the crowds at her funeral etc, you'd think her death was an event of 9/11 proportions.

 

[dat brown skin]

As much as it was a terrible tragedy and I have the deepest sympathy for those directly affected, Americans have rather milked 9/11 to the point of absurdity.

Just like the Brits and Diana? Bless her heart she was a fine mother, but still a bit loppy loo and a raging bwanny boiler.

 

[DotCommunist]

No, but judging by the size of the crowds at her funeral etc, you'd think her death was an event of 9/11 proportions.

I was there when her cortege came down the Harlestone Road at speed.

Didn't give a shit, I was no more than a pup but I followed the crowds.

Weird grief spasm that. Not like the English at all.

I've seen nothing since to rival it. Possibly cos she was the spurned Princess, and a doer of good deeds. We like an aristocracy AND an underdog. Combine the two plus tragic death and you have a massive emotive spasm. From some.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

They have the young-empire arrogance we disdained in favour of smug patrician high-handedness.

You had to 'disdain' your young-empire arrogance involuntarily, when most of your colonies told you to go get stuffed.

Patrician high-handedness is for old has-beens.

 

[DotCommunist]

You had to 'disdain' your young-empire arrogance involuntarily, when most of your colonies told you to go get stuffed.

Patrician high-handedness is for old has-beens.

The map was once pink. We ruled the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Your country is only on loan. Don't make me take it back!


*National Anthem*

Gawd bless the sun that never sets...

 

[weltweit]

When you meet americans for the first time, they are always friendly (in my experience) and seem hospitable but when they say "hey if you are ever in NJ you must come visit with us" it is imposible to tell if they really mean it!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Also some of them are quite fake. I mean Americans on the whole are friendly open people. Brits tend to be more reserved. But when a British person is your friend, you know they really are, for the most part. But I feel like some Americans just behave fakely and use people because they want to go out and do something and don't want to be alone, not because they genuinely like you or consider you to be a friend. BTW it's not just me who thinks like this.

I hate to say it, but as a Canadian, I can relate to this a little. I've always found in the States, that people are invariably friendly, but almost not because they actually mean it, but because that's just how you are supposed to act.

I had the feeling that the friendliness was right on the very surface, and if anything happened that might required anything further, you'd be out of luck.

This is a gross generalization, and I've met strangers there that did go out of their way: also, once you got to know them, the friendliness became genuine quickly.

Maybe all it is is civility. Acting friendly beats a lot of the alternatives, even if it is only a coat of paint.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Maybe all it is is civility. Acting friendly beats a lot of the alternatives, even if it is only a coat of paint.

My take on it is that I have to know you a little bit to find out you're a cunt. I assume that people are ok until proven otherwise.

 

[Clair De Lune]

No, but judging by the size of the crowds at her funeral etc, you'd think her death was an event of 9/11 proportions.

We have our fair share of idiots yep

 

[dilute micro]

Some Americans are cunts yes. Hardly unusual a country of 200million plus having a few cunts amongst their populace.

Well there's only 3 kinds of people anyway. dicks, pussies and assholes. I find it surprising that you think Americans are cunts.

Oh wait you said some americans.

 

[camouflage]

Bast'ds to a man, damn their eyes!