(With apologies to our many esteemed British posters; you know who you are.)
It’s been noticed that English idiots have nothing better to do that tap at their computers with one hand while attempting to pull their peters with the other. (With limited success due to small cranial capacities: No darling, that’s the leg of your chair and it doesn’t care if you rub it or not.) Why aren’t they grown-up enough to attempt comments with actual defensible points instead of just farting into the wind? This attitude sums up the problem with Brits who give their fellow countrymen a bad name by depositing their turd-balls all over.
Oh, and doesn’t it bother you that you’re taking your problem-solving cues from the French? What a recipe for success that is! But I should not be surprised, seeing as how you take your cues on national defense from the Italians, who as we all know could not successfully hold off the invasion of the back yard.
So in between bashing us Americans, take a moment to bend your effete self over and kiss my rosy red-white-and-blue ass in gratitude, because without us you’d all be speaking German and your pathetic little island would have fallen into the sea fifty years ago.
Think so, but the guidelines here state either ignore it or one simple refutation and leave it, so here goes.
You implore people to “attempt comments with actual defensible points instead of just farting into the wind” and then go onto make a few statements that really are quite high on the flatulence in force nine stakes (italian war record, french problem solving cues, america won ww2 single handed) All of these are cliched jibes, that feature as highly as stereotypes of rednecked texans, inbred arkansans, etc.
I notice though that you quote a british comedy series, so can but assume you’re not actually that zenophobic, and are just feeling a bit heated about some comments made about the US. On behalf of the rest of the world I apologise for these comments. Is that okay now?
GARY, if you are on the level, your timing is atrocious, because you have wandered in with a crowd of trolls and now expect us to be able to differentiate among the lot of you. Sorry; we don’t know any of you at all. And we have had long said experience with assorted psychos, dickheads, and sock-puppets, and have been burned so many times that many of us are no longer adept at giving the benefit of the doubt to people who walk in apparently covered with grotty little trolls.
Oh, and don’t bother apologizing for the entire world; you can hardly make that sincere, can you? If you’ve done something meriting an apology, feel free to offer it, but don’t bother apologizing for comment you didn’t make, because that will manifestly not make it “okay now.”
And, of course, if you’re a sock-puppet, or merely the rational face of some demented Sybil, then kindly sod off.
No one claimed that the US won WWII singled-handedly. However, Britain was on its last legs when the US joined in. Also, the first Ailled forces to reach Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest were the 101st Airborne - who happened to be Americans. These also happen to be the guys who were sent to hold the line during the Battle of the Bulge when Hitler broke through. I’m not saying the Germans would have won had we not entered the war, but we did play a major role in fighting back and aiding the Brits. BTW, how many other countries during WWII were fighting on two fronts besides Germany and the US?
Sorry x/zenophobic was a type - these happen, for example missing the space between words “spelled” and “xenophobic”.
I’d suggest that if we want to actually discuss the merit of the contributions the various sides played in world war 2, we move to a proper forum as it would be rather a long debate which I’d imagine that a lot of people could contribute to.
Howz about the British, what with fighting Germany in North Africa while fighting Japan in India, Burma, etc.? Not a good analogy for the situation. Sorry.
Gary- again, I’ll emphasize Jodi’s statement. You wandered in during a bad time, and have been pasted with attacks meant for someone whose general description you meet (i.e.- British and recently registered). Again, I apologize if I’ve tarred you with the same brush I tarred those dumbasses trying to avenge CD Milk, but until you’ve proven that you have more to offer (say, discussion in MSPIMS or Great Debates or IMHO that rises above the desultory insults that are the norm in the Pit), you’re not going to be able to seperate yourself from that crowd in the eyes of most.
Well I can say without any fear of contradiction that I did not exactly cover myself with glory at first(no need to agree too strongly) but hey, I learned better and fairly quickly and only have minor abberations now and then.
What Americans don’t understand(and why the hell should they?) is that the way they are portrayed in British media.Thus many Brits come to the board with an attitude.
It is not until they actually start discussing things and getting their information free of all the media shite that they begin to realise the Americans are not what they thought(well-not all of them anyway)
Anyway dickheads have no nationality, they are all dickheads wether British or otherwise - every nation has them.I have no obejction to you taking the individuals concerned to task, indeed if you put up a link and named them I would probably kick their arses myself
Try not to criticise our war record, we lost nearly 2 million out of a population of less than 30 millions in 2 world wars, we never recovered.(think Vietnam muliplied by 20 or more)
You guys will believe anything. What if these morons said they were from Mars? Would you buy that too?
This is probably all Concrete anyway… we stopped feeding him at fathom, no doubt he came over here for a meal, try not feeding him so much - he is getting fat!
I figure he is responsible for the website about the new baby too - the one Euty closed.
Not being of a pitworthy disposition I had not seen that anti-Beer thread and I hadn’t seen any of the other activity of the CDM bum-face either.Locked threads I avoid as there is generally a good reason for them being so.
I wonder if there’s any way to get two of these Pit threads closed? Then we could post all our vitriolic/apologetic/natinality-bashing thoughts to one thread. Sure would be easier.
CASDAVE, please do not make the mistake of imagining I underestimate the many achievements and hardships of the Brits. As I would have hoped would be clear from the indenticality of the language to that used in the OP in “The Land Of The Free,” this thread was merely an attempt to fight fire with fire. But I think Kelli is right; these lamers could be from Mongolia for all we know – or from Ohio.
Anyhoo, if anyone seriously wants to talk about the relative contributions of various parties during World War II, fine with me. But this is not the forum, and this thread in particular was never an attempt to try to do that (as, frankly, I would have thought was obvious).
Now, don’t get me wrong. I like Britain and all that. It rains a lot, but the people are mostly decent and they even make some effort to speak American, although they usually get it wrong:
Brit: “Fancy some tea?”
American: “No thanks, I hate tea.”
Brit: “Oh, I know you do. But by ‘tea,’ I meant Indian takeaway. That’s what it always means in this country. Well, sometimes anyway.”
A likely story. This isn’t Looking-Glass Land, folks. You can’t just make up new meanings for words whenever you feel like it … even if you did invent the language and write mindboggling numbers of literary masterpieces in it. But this brings me to my main complaint against the British. THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE PAPER PRODUCTS! And it’s not like the island is running short of paper – or if it is, it’s because they have to reprint the works of Charles Dickens in five hundred different editions. You can get Nicholas Nickleby anywhere you like, but try finding a bathroom … excuse me, WC … with a real paper towel dispenser. They don’t exist. Half the time you don’t even get paper napkins with your takeaway – I mean, tea.
What else? Oh yes, they’re even worse at using punctuation than Americans are. Comma splices everywhere you look. And don’t get me started on what they do to the poor, put-upon apostrophe:
“BACKPACKERS HOSTEL. SPECIAL RATE’S FOR LONG STAY GUEST’S.”
And then there are the outdoor markets (which are an insane idea anyway given the climate, but you have to admire them for trying). “STRAWBERRIE’S. FRESH EVERY TUE’SDAY.” Eek.
Oh, and by the way, they can’t make coffee. (The Brits, I mean. I wouldn’t expect it of the strawberrie’s.)
I can’t think of anything else to complain about, so please feel free to return to your regularly scheduled flame war.