# The Brits are OK and America should lighten up **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 26, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581 "2003-05-26T15:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/41 "2003-05-27T09:28:46Z")
Interestingly, Canada have just reported their first mad cow disease case, whilst British livestock is now wholly clean… pan ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/42 "2003-05-27T09:51:15Z")
“The Brits are OK and America should lighten up” Well some the Yanks\* in this thread should lighten up. Take a slagging for fuck sake. It’s like a reflex action for some of you. My great country was mildly ribbed by somebody now I must get stroppy. Since I’ve grown up (intellectually) and got over the whole Brits are bastards thing that us Irish hold dear I’ve realised that the British people are very very cool on average in fact some of my best friends are British 😉 - Yes I know 😉 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/43 "2003-05-27T10:15:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > **Since I’ve grown up (intellectually) and got over the whole Brits are bastards thing that us Irish hold dear I’ve realised that the British people are very very cool on average in fact some of my best friends are British 😉** _raises hand_ I’m a bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/44 "2003-05-27T10:35:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > **Since I’ve grown up (intellectually) and got over the whole Brits are bastards thing that us Irish hold dear I’ve realised that the British people are very very cool on average in fact some of my best friends are British 😉** Nah, the correct sentiment is “the English are bastards”, and it’s shared by the Scottish. Why do I just know someone will take that seriously? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/45 "2003-05-27T10:36:23Z")
Brits are pompous gits, Yanks are opiniated wankers, and don’t even _think_ of getting me started on the drunken habits of the Irish. You should _all_ lighten up and accept your shortcomings and foibles. Geez, what are stereotypes _for_ if you can’t use 'em to hang shit and slag-off your mates? 😃 😃 😃 PS…our cows have been given a clean psychiatric bill-of-health, but I’m not sure about the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/46 "2003-05-27T10:49:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > **Since I’ve grown up (intellectually) and got over the whole Brits are bastards thing that us Irish hold dear I’ve realised that the British people are very very cool on average in fact some of my best friends are British 😉** Well I haven’t grown up, intellectually or otherwise. They’re all a shower of queue-lovin’, sundried tomato-eatin’, Henman-supportin’ imperialist bastards. Just look at **jjimm** ); On preview, **kambuckta** , you need to get a culture before you’re entitled to an opinion. Fucking convict;). ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/47 "2003-05-27T10:52:35Z")
**jjimm** , that was meant to be a wink, you fucking refugee from the septic isle. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/48 "2003-05-27T10:53:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > \*\* > > On preview, **kambuckta** , you need to get a culture before you’re entitled to an opinion. Fucking convict;). \*\* Well, you can’t even spell properly…it’s **culcha** dontcha know!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/49 "2003-05-27T11:04:59Z")
Do the Merkins know what ‘slagging-off’ even means? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/50 "2003-05-27T11:15:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sailor \* > **America could learn a lot from the Brits. The Brits lost their empire and sank into insignificance and yet look at them: they still put on that fake English accent, have tea and enjoy a good laugh when a guy runs around naked in public.** Hey! We didn’t _lose_ it, we,… um,… gave it back out of the goodness of our hearts. You’re right about us all fake accent though – it’s the only amusement we get\* in our dreary insignificance. \*That, and naked people. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/51 "2003-05-27T11:18:00Z")
“You’re right about us all fake accent though…” This is perfectly good English where I come from, honest. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/52 "2003-05-27T11:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kambuckta \* > \*\*Well I haven’t grown up, intellectually or otherwise. They’re all a shower of queue-lovin’, sundried tomato-eatin’, Henman-supportin’ imperialist bastards. Just look at jjimm); > \*\* As already pointed out, that’s the FUCKING ENGLISH. It clearly doesn’t apply to the scots, as we hate to queue, don’t hold with that mucky foreign food, can’t stand Henman and have never had an empire. Now if you’d spoken of a bunch of drunken, deep-fried mars bar eating, ginger-haired wankers, that’s another story. Typical bloody ignorant sheep-shagging convict bastard! ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/53 "2003-05-27T11:23:24Z")
Is anyone up for a fight? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/54 "2003-05-27T11:27:46Z")
Hey Hamish that was a cabbage ear mick who said that. Ya mutton head. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/55 "2003-05-27T11:33:43Z")
**Gary** still has a lot of anger left over from the time an Australian killed his pet haggis. Wasn’t the Australian’s fault, he just mistook it for a backpacker. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/56 "2003-05-27T11:34:32Z")
Excuse me chaps, shall I queue here to watch the fight? I’d be awfully obliged if someone would volunteer to hold my sundried tomatoes when I applaud the streaker. Thanks awfully ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/57 "2003-05-27T11:44:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by curly chick \* > \*\*I’d be awfully obliged if someone would volunteer to hold my sundried tomatoes \*\* I’m sure there will be no shortage of volunteers but there’s a problem with the marketing. Can I interest you in some cantaloupes? And **Gary** , proud wearer of the tartan of the fuckwit clan, while you happen to be largely correct in your assertions of bestiality and criminality, you’ve got your stereotypes mixed up. We’re actually potato-munchin’, welly-sportin’, priest-worshippin’ alcoholics.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/58 "2003-05-27T11:52:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manwithaplan \* > \*\*And **Gary** , proud wearer of the tartan of the fuckwit clan, while you happen to be largely correct in your assertions of bestiality and criminality, you’ve got your stereotypes mixed up. We’re actually potato-munchin’, welly-sportin’, priest-worshippin’ alcoholics.😉 \*\* My dear pototo-munching chap, please note my above comments were addressed to Kambucta, who’s Australian. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/59 "2003-05-27T12:03:35Z")
Ah yes but t’was said Paddy bogtrotter that that you incorrectly quoted 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19b73/32.png) [@elfje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfje)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581/60 "2003-05-27T12:15:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by curly chick \* > \*\*Excuse me chaps, shall I queue here to watch the fight? > I’d be awfully obliged if someone would volunteer to hold my sundried tomatoes when I applaud the streaker. > > Thanks awfully \*\* sure, I’ll hold them for you. I’ll be bringin some ritten ones, in case there “needed” by the supporters of the fight. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-brits-are-ok-and-america-should-lighten-up/177581.md?page=4)