Jeeps! (OK, that’s not true, but it should be.)
I bow to your fraggin’ hilarity. It has to be good to get me to laugh out loud. And that was good.
Astronauts? Presidents? Blandness?*
*Native Ohioan, I’m allowed…
How do you justify your assumption that the policies of our government accurately predict the opinions and values of any individual American who happens to be visiting your country? In a two-party system we vote for the candidate who more nearly reflects our own values, rather than a potential third party candidate who would even more nearly agree with them. If Ralph Nader had stayed out of the 2000 election, Shrub would have likely lost, and that demonstrates the dreadful cost of wasting one’s vote.
If you were living in 1934 and you met a German (assuming you aren’t actually from Germany), would you have asked him, “Why are you harrassing the Jews”?
And hundreds of millions who have to stay where we are. Even for those who strongly abhor the present incursion in Iraq, where would they go? Whatever political problems we may have, have to be solved here.
You do understand the concept of “tax”, don’t you? You don’t get to pay taxes only to support programs you agree with.
Why? Is warm beer deadly?
I’m not sure if you realize but you are engaging (and reporting) a poster who was warned for his actions in this thread and subsequently suspended for having repeated warnings. That’s what the suspended tag under his name means. Not only is it counter productive to engage with someone who can’t answer back, you are continuing the threadshit he started. I strongly suggest you drop it.
I’m a conservative Republican from Texas, and I had a great time in London. Maybe the city WAS filled with people who are just itching for a chance to insult me or condemn me or argue politics, but I never met any.
Dimitte me, moderātor, quia peccavi.
I shouldn’t have jumped in this thread after not even being on the message board for nearly a week. I didn’t realize you had already taken multiple actions to moderate this thread. I apologize.
Pfft. I lived in Ealing in the late 90s and used to occasionally borrow the pool car (driving to the other office in Bristol the next day) and just take it for a spin around central London. It was fun to see it from a different point of view. I’d spend a couple of hours just going where looked interesting and when it got to time to go home I knew I lived in West London, not far from the M4, so I’d head West until I saw signs for the M4. It all worked itself out in the end.
People get far too stressed out driving.
We can safely ignore people that rudely trash America directly to Americans. It’s usually because they’re pissed that THEY’RE not Americans. . .
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I must say I have to stick up for my Brit mates. As the ‘token Yank’ on many Hydrographic crews during a 6 year period in the 80’s, i always felt well received by my shipmates (possibly because I could name some of the Man. U. players and could also do the ‘Times’ and ‘Guardian’ Sunday crosswords with relative ease).
There was always a load of piss-taking to be endured, but most was just give and take for the amusement of all. The two exceptions who were definitely nasty about Americans in general (and me in particular) were universally disliked (and one downright hated) by their own countrymen. As my mate Yorkshireman Ollie Holgate (RIP) would say, “Those two, right C***ts they are”.