# Dumb Americans **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664 "2000-03-26T14:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brit)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/1 "2000-03-26T14:26:00Z")
Why do you people persist in living up to your international stereotype as a bunch of inwardly looking, ignorant, obnoxious inbred fools that the rest of the world takes you for ? ---
**Author:** ![Phil\_Saoud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@Phil\_Saoud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phil_Saoud)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/2 "2000-03-26T14:30:00Z")
I can’t speak for the rest of the Americans but personally, I like to do just to piss off people who make sweeping generalizations. ---
**Author:** ![brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brit)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/3 "2000-03-26T14:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Phil Saoud: > \*\*I can’t speak for the rest of the Americans but personally, I like to do just to piss off people who make sweeping generalizations. > \*\* There’s no smoke without fire ! ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/4 "2000-03-26T14:36:00Z")
Basically we just do it to keep other people from wanting to move to America to live. Gives us more room and more time to enjoy our way of life. It’s not working. People are still pouring into the country. Got any new suggestions for us? * * * _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/5 "2000-03-26T14:44:00Z")
This has been covered already. [http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001001.html](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001001.html) * * * “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/6 "2000-03-26T15:19:00Z")
Probably because we got this far by basically not giving one flying rat-fuck about what the world thinks. 😃 * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/7 "2000-03-26T15:31:00Z")
I do it for the sole purpose of causing ill-bred, self-righteous, immature cretins to post sweeping generalizations. And it would appear as if I am very good at it, too. * * * Crystalguy ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/8 "2000-03-26T16:03:00Z")
Now, this obviously will need to be moved to the Pit. Of course, if **brit** had actually availed itself of any reading comprehension, it would have known that this was not a General Question. Given that **brit** ’s sole posts to this board have been to make obnoxious, too-broad generalizations without supporting documentation, in the wrong Forum, when there was already a perfectly usable thread on the same subject I call Coventry. * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/9 "2000-03-26T16:03:00Z")
I’m guessing it’s because most of us are desended from immigrants from the British Isles. It appears it may take a few more generations to breed all that Anglo/Scot ignorance out of us. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/10 "2000-03-26T16:05:00Z")
Brit, could you change your name, it’s hideously embarassing for those of us who hail from the British Isles and aren’t cretins. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/11 "2000-03-26T16:20:00Z")
I remember Thor, a guy from iceland talked like this too. But the consensus was the US could blow Iceland to smithscreens. Which is true. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/12 "2000-03-26T16:36:00Z")
BRIT , go climb a mountain-and fall off! ---
**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/13 "2000-03-26T16:44:00Z")
Off to the pit, where we dumb Americans may indulge our stereotypical penchant for arguing with idiotic foreigners who have the audacity to criticise our end-all, be-all God’s gift to the world culture. ---
**Author:** ![Steve-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecc23a/32.png) [@Steve-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve-o)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/14 "2000-03-26T16:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by brit: > **Why do you people persist in living up to your international stereotype as a bunch of inwardly looking, ignorant, obnoxious inbred fools that the rest of the world takes you for ?** YO BRIT. WHY DONT U BUZ OFF DUDE K? HAY UR POST MADE ME FEEL BAD I HAD TO GO GET HUGS FROM MY SIS AND MOM (SAME PERSON BY THE WAY) ANYWAY I’VE DECIDED TO DRIVE OFER THEIR TO SCOTLAND AND WHUP UR BUTT. NO DAM FORENER IS GUNNA TALK TRASH ABOUT AMERICA LIKE THAT ---
**Author:** ![WallyM7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5e925/32.png) [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/15 "2000-03-26T17:24:00Z")
People, this is obviously another troll. If you refrain from feeding the asshole, he will go away. * * * ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/16 "2000-03-26T19:22:00Z")
Wally: I’m sorry, but I gotta break the DDNFT rule just this once. Saw a great stand up comedian last night (Ron Shock, A.K.A. The Storyteller), and he has a line that I think covers this perfectly: If it wasn’t for us Americans, you’d have to bitch at us in German. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/17 "2000-03-26T19:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by brit: > **Why do you people persist in living up to your international stereotype as a bunch of inwardly looking, ignorant, obnoxious inbred fools that the rest of the world takes you for ?** The rest of Europe _has_ been known to say the exact same things about the British. ## Fifty thousand Frenchmen can’t be wrong… 🙂 You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment."-Bill Hicks “You should tell the lies, live the truth and expose yourself.” - Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/18 "2000-03-26T19:51:00Z")
I should have added, the English also have a reputation for being sexually, ah, _limited_. Nobody ever said **that** about **us**! 😛 * * * You should tell the truth, expose the lies and live in the moment."-Bill Hicks “You should tell the lies, live the truth and expose yourself.” - Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/19 "2000-03-26T20:13:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor: > > The rest of Europe _has_ been known to say the exact same things about the British. > > Fifty thousand Frenchmen can’t be wrong… 🙂 > > \*\* If only they’d let us continue with our navel gazing, everyone, them and us, would be a lot happier. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/20 "2000-03-26T20:15:00Z")
Well what a waste of my 500th huh? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664.md?page=2)