# If you only want to talk about America, fuck off elsewhere, brickbacon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2005, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130 "2005-04-26T06:23:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![guinnog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@guinnog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guinnog)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/21 "2005-04-26T22:30:12Z")
> [@brickbacon](#): > > First off, you fucked up the link in the other thread. Second, you are really an overly sensitive pussy. If you expect me to qualify every statement with “in America”, then you can kiss my ass. That isn’ t what he said. > [@brickbacon](#): > > This is an American board, the vast majority of people here are American, and most of the threads I’ve seen are America-centric. If you don’t like it, too fucking bad. Your three statements are meaningless. Your third one is meaningless but reveals a lot about you and your shallowness. I have read the column for years and lurked in the board for over a year. I am not American. I do not find this place particularly ‘America-centric’. What does that mean, anyway? > [@brickbacon](#): > > I never refused to talk about any other place, I usually don’t because I know far less about general policy and the social climate in the rest of the world than the people who live in the country in question. You can talk about whatever you want, just don’t try to tell me what to do. I am so tempted to make a cheap comment here about you being a stupid American hick who is proud of not knowing anything about the world beyond his country. But I’m in a good mood, so I won’t. But it was you who seemed to be telling the OP what do do. Any time you do that you invite criticism. Have some more. > [@brickbacon](#): > > On a related note, please go outside and get some fresh air. I roll my eyes every time one of you pussies really let’s something said on the internet affect them to the point they feel they need to make a pit thread about it. GET OVER IT! Hey, from the shouting, I’d say it’s you who need to get over it. You were silly, you got criticised. Move on. Rolling the eyes is probably good exercise for you. Just as long as you can roll them back. John ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/22 "2005-04-26T23:00:10Z")
> [@guinnog](#): > > I am not American. I do not find this place particularly ‘America-centric’. What does that mean, anyway? Centered in America? Can’t be that, the internet is the internet no matter where your computer is geographically located. Overweight, undereducated and as you said earlier, proud of its own ignorance? I would say that only goes to show someone is not paying attention… ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/23 "2005-04-26T23:09:01Z")
> [@brickbacon](#): > > This is an American board, the vast majority of people here are American, and most of the threads I’ve seen are America-centric. If you don’t like it, too fucking bad. Well, since the Internet was invented in America, why not tell everyone else outside of America to disconnect as well. Hell, it was Al Gore who invented the Internet so I guess everyone outside of Tennesse should disconnect, too. Then again, the World Wide Web was invented in Europe so I guess you ought to disconnect from the web yourself. Go mess around with Gopher, Archie and Veronica. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/24 "2005-04-26T23:32:51Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > I’ve gotta say it…cite? (And what’s ‘mostly’, anyway? 90%? 51%?) Are you a fucking nitwit? Marc ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/25 "2005-04-26T23:34:06Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Me!, me!, eh… uhhh… if there weren´t non-American members at all? > :rolleyes: Good answer. Is New York City less American because there are plenty of foreigners living there? Marc ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/26 "2005-04-26T23:39:27Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > Are you a fucking nitwit? Nope. I asked what would make the board ‘mostly American’, and for some evidence that this is in fact the case. What’s wrong with that? Or do you assume that every poster is American, unless they identify themselves otherwise? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/27 "2005-04-26T23:53:42Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Nope. I asked what would make the board ‘mostly American’, and for some evidence that this is in fact the case. What’s wrong with that? Or do you assume that every poster is American, unless they identify themselves otherwise? [Here’s my numbers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269991&page=3&highlight=american+posters) based on an outdated sample. Post #114. > [@](#): > > USA — 76% > Canada — 8% > UK — 4.4% > Australia — 3 % > Ireland — 1.5% ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/28 "2005-04-26T23:54:13Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Because it’s the fucking pit, so I fucking can… > > And yes, it is big, and it is clever. Your parents lied to you. 😛 just because you can doesn’t mean you have to. Unless of course you really want to sound like a piece of low brow street trash… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/29 "2005-04-26T23:55:39Z")
Re: my numbers. I think Australia is severely underrepresented with that data. It’s possible they just make up a small percentage of posters, but based on the post count of our Aussie friends, I would guess their contribution to the board is more than 3%. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/30 "2005-04-27T00:24:46Z")
> [@brickbacon](#): > > On a related note, please go outside and get some fresh air. I roll my eyes every time one of you pussies really let’s something said on the internet affect them to the point they feel they need to make a pit thread about it. GET OVER IT! See, this illustrates the central issue, which is that brickbacon is retarded. Seriously. Just search for his thread promoting cheating in school. The dude’s just a moron. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/31 "2005-04-27T01:44:35Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You think so, huh? We’re just biding our time, waiting for a clean shot … And like Bob de Fucking Nero in _The Deer Hunter_ I hope you realise the senselessness of it all, and the sanctity of all human and cervine\* life. And like Bob, I hope you wouldn’t lend your spare pair of boots to some fucking loser who looks like The Penguin and waves his little revolver around contrary to all gun-safe precepts. - Okay, I’ll fess up here. I had to google “adjective for deer” cos I had no fucking clue. You get two choices apparently. More details [here](http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=adjective+for+deer&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images). (The link’s fucked, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/32 "2005-04-27T03:57:12Z")
5 quid he doesn’t have a passport… ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/33 "2005-04-27T04:48:40Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > Good answer. Is New York City less American because there are plenty of foreigners living there? > > Marc Actually yes it does according to most Americans and most New Yorkers. At least prior to some jackasses flying some planes into our buildings and getting the rest of the country to pretend they actually give a fuck about NY. I don’t know what’s worse, the loss of a section of downtown, or the pretense we now live under that NY and the rest of the country are united. Erek P.S. California that means you too. A New York Democrat is a San Francisco Republican. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/34 "2005-04-27T05:08:10Z")
“Second, you are really an overly sensitive pussy” :rolleys: **brickbacon** you’re a feckless wanker. This is an _international_ can you say … in - ter -nash - unal, message board. And **GorrillaMan** is fifteen times the man you are. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/35 "2005-04-27T05:09:21Z")
And one of my favourite dopers (fellow brit or no fellow brit) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/36 "2005-04-27T05:20:35Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > “Second, you are really an overly sensitive pussy” > > :rolleys: **brickbacon** you’re a feckless wanker. This is an _international_ can you say … in - ter -nash - unal, message board. And **GorrillaMan** is fifteen times the man you are. I bet he can’t wait til you’re 50 and all your bad british teeth have fallen out so you can polish his knob 100X more effectively. We didn’t defeat you limey buggers in two wars to get made fun of on internet message boards! No brit is even 1/15th the least American…NO ONE!!! England is just the beta test version, America is retail baby! Go Brickbacon keep getting pitted for pointing out simple demographics! Erek ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/37 "2005-04-27T05:24:02Z")
I’ll be dead before I’m 50. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/38 "2005-04-27T05:26:07Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I’ll be dead before I’m 50. It’s the salad creme isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/39 "2005-04-27T06:14:42Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I bet he can’t wait til you’re 50 and all your bad british teeth have fallen out so you can polish his knob 100X more effectively. Oh, yummy! Except that if we don’t lose most of our teeth by our 21st birthday, we’re a social outcast. [QUOTE=Excalibre] See, this illustrates the central issue, which is that brickbacon is retarded. > [@](#): > > Seriously. Just search for his thread promoting cheating in school. The dude’s just a moron. I hadn’t seen that before…wow… ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130/40 "2005-04-27T07:11:09Z")
> [@brickbacon](#): > > I never refused to talk about any other place, I usually don’t because I know far less about general policy and the social climate in the rest of the world than the people who live in the country in question. You can talk about whatever you want, just don’t try to tell me what to do. The foreigners can help fight your self-confessed ignorance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-only-want-to-talk-about-america-fuck-off-elsewhere-brickbacon/301130.md?page=3)