While living in Den Haag in 1988, I had someone walk up to me and ask, “Are you American? I HATE America!”
I pressed for a why and was surprised to learn the answer.
Because… “In America, you can buy a car in a supermarket.”
Um? Nope. Can’t. But where’d you get this information?
“I saw it on Dallas!”
Then it must be true. Hate away, dude!
:rolleyes:
Pretty stupid reason to hate a country, I’d say.
Well, we all know southern accent speakers are ill-bred ignorant hicks.
“Ah sure loves me that NASCAR!”
It’d almost have to, wouldn’t it?
This New Yorker says, “Fuck you, you fuckin’ guy!”
Why, bless your little ole heart!
Seriously, what are these people’s problems with the U.S.?
It’s the ass-kicking isn’t it. Everybody hates us 'cause we kick so much ass.
Well, I never! And people say New Yorkers aren’t civilized.
Boy, I’m glad I don’t have an accent of any kind.
No, it’s because our FREEDOM allows us to kick so much ass! They hate our freedom to kick ass! And our freedom from Poutaine (President of France or something?)
We’re not crazy…
But our prices are!
Actually you can buy a car in Sam’s club now. 
That’s because you’re not from anywhere. If you were from somewhere, you’d have an accent. And you’d list it in your “location,” naturally.
Nigel Powers: “There’s only two things I hate in this world: those who are intolerant of other peoples’ cultures…and the Dutch.”
I just alienated my brother in Canada (again). After not speaking to me for months over some perceived injustice I’ve committed, I e-mailed him happy birthday wishes. He wrote back, asking about our experience with Katrina. I wrote a short synopsis. He replied, saying how I ought to be ashamed of my government. They’re a bunch of racists and liars and they hate black people so much that they didn’t respond to the hurricane disaster as fast as if it had been all white people who were down there.
I wrote back that he sounded exactly like another yokel, looking for another reason to hate Americans. #1: I do not do politics. #2: It’s not my government. I am still Canadian. I have no say in what they do or don’t do, but it certainly has nothing to do with racism. #3: I do not do reactionary, xenophobic, uneducated, armchair criticism of situations I don’t know anything about. That said, nobody cares to hear my opinion, no matter how educated or informed it may be. If it was anything less, they’d want me to shut the fuck up until I knew what I was talking about (not aboot).
He’ll probably not speak to me for years. Happy fuckin’ birthday, ya fuckin’ moron.
Well, there’s that. They also can’t stand the fact that the only reason they even have the freedom to hate us today is because we bailed them out in Dubya Dubya Two. That’s why they all have the freedom to hate us in English, rather than being compelled to hate us in German and Japanese.
Silentgoldfish,
There is one true indication that Americans (and Canadians for that matter) are superior to Austrailians. Vegemite. That’s right, Vegemite. If you wish to sample all the flavor of Satan’s ballsack, and don’t want to make that special trip to Hell, Vegemite is the snack-spread for you.
Philistine! It’s French Canadian cuisine. :mad:
This from a country that coined the term “freedom fries”! :rolleyes:
Hey, it could be poon-tang, which is an entirely different thing.
An ex of mine from near Seattle used to say this - and believed it! His reasoning?
“Everyone on TV talks like us. That means we have no accent. Ain’t nobody gonna tell me no different.” (and he wasn’t kidding!)
Cripes, I don’t think the guy’s ever left Federal Way. Maybe he only watches local “accentless” telelvision, too.
However, this is also the same guy that asked me, after saying I’d like to visit England one day: “Do they speak English in England?” Dude, the answer’s in the question. :smack:
(Where I’m from, some say poo-teen, others say poo-tin. But we’re Acadienne, a mutt mix if I ever saw one.)