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.
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.
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!”
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.
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
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?
