# 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:** 2
**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, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/21 "2000-03-26T21:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by android209: > **Well what a waste of my 500th huh?** In all fairness, Android, I never had a better overseas tour than the 3 years I spent in the UK with the Air Force. I know most Brits don’t echo the sentiments of the OP. I left England in 1990, and I still correspond with a lot of my RAF friends and some other Brits I had the fortunate privelege to meet in my travels around your country. I was also lucky to travel to Scotland and Wales during my time there, and enjoyed every bit of it. I still miss some of the TV shows there like _Black Adder_ and _Eastenders_, fortunately we’ve got BBC America on our new cable package here. ## There’s idiots of every color and nationality, and we’ve got our fair share here. Like I said, I don’t judge a country or its people by the rantings of a few morons. _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/22 "2000-03-26T21:47:00Z")
Thank you, Wally, for posting what I was thinking real loud (do you have ESP or something?) Also, I would like to thank everyone else participating in this thread (particularly Brit) for providing this particular wide-eyed newbie with a perfect example of how the “DNFTT” guidelines work. Now I know what ya’ll are talking about. It’s especially interesting to note for future reference that evidently if you feel you simply must feed it, the best thing to give it is something indigestible like humor. Since trolls have no sense of humor, of course, they quickly go off their feed, and go looking for greener pastures elsewhere. Neat! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/23 "2000-03-26T23:01:00Z")
For Wally’s sake, I will not direct this to the OP, but make a general statement nonetheless. _I, Coldfire, am the only non-Canadian poster on these boards who gets away with America-bashing._ Why don’t these fucking newbies **remember** that?? 😉 * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/24 "2000-03-27T01:56:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Coldfire: > \*\*For Wally’s sake, I will not direct this to the OP, but make a general statement nonetheless. > > _I, Coldfire, am the only non-Canadian poster on these boards who gets away with America-bashing._ > > Why don’t these fucking newbies **remember** that?? > > 😉 > > \*\* (sigh) Looks like I’m gonna have to blow up a few more windmills again. Clog Boy’s getting a little frisky. 😃 * * * _…send lawyers, guns, and money…_ ``` Warren Zevon ``` ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/25 "2000-03-27T17:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor: > \*\* I should have added, the English also have a reputation for being sexually, ah, _limited_. > Nobody ever said **that** about **us**! > \*\* Uh. I guess you’re ignoring the fact that an immense portion of North American pop culture is based on sexual insecurity and (ironically) societal sexual prohibition. Just look at any three ads in a magazine and two of them will scream, “Is this a culture which is happy with its sex life? I think not!” ---
**Author:** ![danielnsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c89c15/32.png) [@danielnsmith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danielnsmith)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/26 "2000-03-27T20:10:00Z")
Inbred? The British royal family is really American? ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/27 "2000-03-27T20:10:00Z")
A troll with a British accent. Cool! * * * “Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known” - Michel Gyquem de Montaigne ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/28 "2000-03-27T20:44:00Z")
Hmmm…You know, I could have sworn that yesterday that topic line read a little saltier. Have the Shoemaker’s Editing Elves been hard at work all night, or was it just my paranoid-looking-for-cuss-words-everywhere subconscious? Just wondering. (shrug) Personally, I think a British accent is truly cool only if it’s a regional one, not that plummy BBC/David Attenborough stiff-upper-lip thing. And, not to promote a discussion of sex or anything, but I had always understood that, once you get them out of their tweeds and wellies, the British as a race are just as randy as the rest of the world. You say, “Look at the British royal family.” I say, “Absolutely!” Any dog breeder will tell you that inbreeding has absolutely no effect on the sex drive. Even after 50 generations of inbreeding, that AKC Shar-pei next door is just as anxious to hump your leg as his great-great-times-48 grandfather was. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/29 "2000-03-27T20:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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 ?** Ok, I’ll bite… This coming from a limey bastard that is probably looking for a way to stretch his paycheck in a country that forces its citizens with any success in life to move to the USA because it stays in such deep economical straits that the government has to take 60% of their salary off the top. A country that has lots of neat Castles and royalty kept together by the sweat off the backs of the working poor. A country pasted together by alcoholism, tourism and high taxes. A country that sniffs at the pant legs of the US like checkers the dog because it knows that we got the military might to keep their little powdered asses from being overrun by any third rate banana republic that gets the urge. A country inhabited for the most part by pompous self inflated red nosed drunks that had the mental capacity to wear redcoats in a green forest when invading the United States and who subsequently got their asses roundly thumped by a bunch of dirty volunteers. ## However I have been to England and let me say I enjoyed the climate very much 🙂 Yours truly, aha ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/30 "2000-03-27T20:55:00Z")
**Bluepony** , did you know that you can get the _Black Adder_ on video? ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/31 "2000-03-27T21:09:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by aha: > \*\* Ok, I’ll bite…\*\* Yes, you sure do. > [@](#): > > A country that sniffs at the pant legs of the US like checkers the dog because it knows that we got the military might to keep their little powdered asses from being overrun by any third rate banana republic that gets the urge. I don’t know where these people get the idea (I’ve seen it a few times here) that everyone kisses ass to the states because they are afraid of being invaded by some nebulous warmongering nation of maniacs. Can you come up with any evidence, heresay, or even pseudo-logic to base this statement on? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/32 "2000-03-27T22:15:00Z")
Brit says he climbs mountains-In Scotland? HA! ---
**Author:** ![okatym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/76d3ee/32.png) [@okatym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okatym)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/33 "2000-03-28T00:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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 ? As a brit, I wouldn’t be calling other people “inbred” if I were you. Anyway, you’re just jealous of our superior dental hygiene. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/34 "2000-03-28T01:53:00Z")
I’m just wondering about the “inwardly looking” part. Hell, we probably give away more money than the entire GNP of Great Britain. As far as the rest of the OP goes, I’d just say go pick on someone your own size. The Argentine navy, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/35 "2000-03-28T03:31:00Z")
_snort_ Bwaaaahaaahaaahaaa…that was very funny, Rysdad. ---
**Author:** ![Lexicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lexicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lexicon)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/36 "2000-03-28T07:08:00Z")
Yeah, we Americans suck. We’re dumb and stuff, and we’re running the global show. What does that say about all the followers? ---
**Author:** ![royalbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@royalbill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/royalbill)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/37 "2000-03-28T07:14:00Z")
Wow, you all had a lot of response for a nothing of a post. Details, Brit, Details. What do you mean be your statments? * * * Heaven…One to beam up! ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/38 "2000-03-28T11:26:00Z")
I am so, so, so fucking embarassed about this thread. Please let it die. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/39 "2000-03-28T13:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Rysdad: > As far as the rest of the OP goes, I’d just say go pick on someone your own size. The Argentine navy, maybe. Now I know what it feels like to be offended by what appears to everybody else to be innocuous :(. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664/40 "2000-03-28T13:41:00Z")
And will avoid metioning that minor skirmish in SE Asia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumb-americans/5664.md?page=3)