I remember one case on the tv show “Wife Swap” where this pompous British guy Stephen Fowler, living in San Fransisco made fun of Americans and called them all fat, stupid, and the like. LINK
One claim was pointing out how few Americans have passports or have visited other countries. Well dumbass, its much easier for Europeans to travel to other countries since its just a short drive. Whereas we Americans have to go on a plane.
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British biscuits are the best in the world, there simply isn’t any doubt about that. The variety is astonishing. I believe some other countries have paler versions of one or two types but no, nothing of any real interest.
Cookies? pfft.
I think his point is that America is so large that it’s possible to travel very far from home, to a completely different environment and culture, and still remain in the country. Travelling to a different part of the U.S. is no lesser matter than travelling to a different part of the European continent.
In fact, I’d like to see a comparison between the rate of Americans travelling abroad and the rate of European travelling outside of Europe. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were somewhat similar.
And of course someone from Britain would learn French because taking a weekend in Paris would be as simple as an American doing a weekend in Vegas.
I seem to have started this whole amusing mess.
Sorry, the English are often smug. Americans are rarely smug, often assholes, but rarely smug.
As for how little Americans travel outside the US, why should we? What can I not get in the US that I need to travel? Las Vegas?, check. Rocky Mountains?, check. California beaches? check. Foreign travel? Mexico and Canada, check? Southern culture? Loosiana, check. Northern culture? NY or Boston, check. Football without silly ass nil nil games? Check. Why the fuck would I want to go to Europe? It is full of snotty French and redneck Germans. I can get that here without that whole language crap.
Oh and we did save your damned asses in WW2. Doenitz needed what, maybe 30 U Boats to sink all those supplies coming from WHERE? Subtract the US and you guys are eating grass inside of 3 months. Maybe someday you can save the ass of the US, but until then, suck it up and admit that the ‘punishment’ you gave the Germans in 41 and 42 amounts to a porn spanking.
I do like your flag and you guys are okay even if you can’t speak English for shit.
This may be because you fail to worship at the altar of the fry-up. Seriously, say what you will of English cuisine, they do breakfast right. I’m happy to eat a full English breakfast three meals a day and die of cholesterol poisoning and joy.
Check that: cholesterol poisoning, joy, and cirrhosis. Still dying a very happy camper, me.
Not everybody lives an easy drive from Canada or Mexico. From here, it would take me 5 hours more-or-less to drive just to the Canadian border. Without somebody to share the driving, it would take me a couple of days to drive to the Mexican border, and those would be long days of nothing but driving. So, yeah, for many Americans visiting our bordering nations is best done by plane.
Hey, why knock the happy consensus that we managed to stumble across in WW2? As it stands, we smug Brits get to live longer, happier lives with better public services and America gets to indulge in their gun fetish writ large, investing in muh military! at the expense of everything else. Further, should Putin and co try any further funny business on the edges of Europe, I’m sure we’ll valiantly fight to the very last American, just like in WW2! 
Try eating one with gravy.
You forgot the part where you, as a nation, get to preen and posture and pretend to be a major power and the various real major powers tolerate it because you are our sidekick. You really manhandled the Argies more or less by your ownselves, though! Can’t take that away from you.
Best of both world’s 'innit? 3 years longer life expectancy + NHS + half the world convinced we’re still punching above our weight by giving the Argies a Bay-of-Pigs-style-stomping (or was it Eagle Claw? Can’t remember) in the Falklands. What’s not to like?
Plus you can’t ever be further than 70-ish miles from the sea … BOOM!
It just gets better and better!
Correct, because they don’t know what the hell they are talking about.
Can’t tell if that’s meant to be a bad thing.
The sea is awesome.
Completely agree. Somewhere down the line, when the US has gone bankrupt and fragmented into smaller nations, I hope the fragment in which I live has a similar relationship with a superpower of that era. Maybe we’ll even get to prosecute a similar war and curbstomp (is that spelled kerbstomp in the UK?) …I don’t know…Trinidad or somebody.
Duuude, America big! and muh military! were just jokes, not meant to be adopted as real arguments.
Simply acknowledging that the US won’t stay a great nation forever. No nation does. When we inevitably slide into has-been status, I just want us to find a sweet sidekick gig like you guys did. The curbstomping of a never-was nation for purposes of national self-esteem would be nice, but isn’t a must have.
Oh NOW you tell me.