The smug English

Difference between Britain in the Falklands and the US in the Bay of Pigs?

Britain won :wink:

Well, technically the Bay of Pigs invaders were Cuban exiles. They were CIA tools, but not US military, even indirectly.

In 1990, Britain premiered the most tasteless concept for a sitcom: Heil Honey, I’m Home.

The facts as far as should concern us non-Brits: they green-lit it, then they killed it after a singe execrable episode. Fine, all that’s their business.

However, for whatever reason, in the intro they blame it on the Americans:

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it supposedly comprises the rediscovered “lost tapes” of an abandoned, never-aired American sitcom created by "Brandon Thalburg Jnr
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(for those who like to keep score on these sorts of things, both Brandon Tartikoff and Irving Thalberg were Jewish as well as American, dusting off the old blood libel that Jews will do anything for a fast buck).

Again: the Brits created it, then quickly killed it. You think they could at least own it too.

You posted about a one-episode sitcom from 25 years ago?

That really came into your head?

Waitwaitwait, if y’all fought to the very last American, how come there are so many left? You fuckers left whole piles in the corners!

You have to kill the queen in the nest or we just come back.

Need I remind you guys of your own European History?

You may recall that the ancient Romans traveled all the way up to your neck of the woods many years ago. They made this trip with a spirit of great benevolence, with the lofty goal of trying to domesticate you all. Back then your people were known as homo neanderthalensis. Indeed, your homo orientation didn’t matter one iota to the Romans then (nor does it matter to us “live and let live” Americans now), but let’s face it, you weren’t exactly into show tunes and interior decorating back in those days. No, you were quite the uncouth band of ruffians. The exasperated Romans tried for years to tame you and make you their side-kick, but to no avail. They simply could not house-break you guys and they say you smelled like hogs rolling in fecal slop on a hot day (their words, not mine). So, they packed their bags and retreated to Persia (at least the Persians used soap and made nice rugs).

So, you Europeans were left to your own devices for the next thousand or so years. Not much of interest happened during that millennium. I think the highlight was some guy named Fawkes who blew something up. But, to your credit, you did harness fire and learn to use rudimentary tools, like sticks. You hit your neighbors on the head with sticks a lot. And, later, when you learned that wood floats, you began floating to other countries and hitting foreigners on the head with sticks. Your chests puffed with pride in those days.

Years later, in the same spirit of benevolence that motivated the ancient Romans, we Americans crossed the pond (actually, the Atlantic Ocean, not a pond) and took a crack at domesticating you sorry lot. We fought and won your battles, we gave you pop culture, we gave you a perfectly refined language and we gave Jerry Lewis to France. What’d we get in return? Arthur Treachers Fish & Chips, that’s what. The ledger looks a little unbalanced to me. Heck, you even mangled the language we gave you…putting “u’s” in words willy-nilly where “u’s” have no right being. You pronounce the fine American word “aluminum”, “alumininuniminumin”…what’s up with that!

We gave the world NASA. We put men on the moon. We put a golf cart on Mars. We put animals into orbit. In 1961, we launched Ham, the Astrochimp into suborbital flight (his co-pilot Cheese couldn’t make the mission). But, here’s the happy part; we brought ol’ Ham back to Earth, safe and sound to live another 17 years eating bananas on the beach in Palm Beach. Yeah, sure, the Soviets put a muttnick into orbit, named Laika. But, here’s the sad part; they let the hapless canine burn up during re-entry! No more dog biscuits for that poor pup. You may have seen the movie about it, “Laika Come Home—NYET!”

What’d you guys ever accomplish in space? You spent billions of dollars (what you English call lbs.) shooting a probe at an asteroid. Who the hell cares about asteroids? You want to live on an asteroid someday, Percival? And you even messed up that little mission. After 10 years to reach the asteroid, you guys landed your precious probe in a hole and let the EverReady batteries run down after a few hours. Heck, even my dear nana, with cataracts and Parkinson’s disease, is a good enough navigator to avoid potholes on the way to the senior center. Leave space to the space cadets, the Americans!

Basic lesson we learnt in 1770s when we sent Hessians to fight the insurrection in the North American Colonies: if you want a job doing well do it yourself. Naturally, we came back forty years later to rampage across the country setting fire to anything and everything, to show the Germans how it’s done. Seems they took the lessons to heart.

Bit of an oversight there…you left out the part where Andrew"Old Hickory" Jackson whipped Edward “Pwned” Pakenham’s fanny whilst simultaneously receiving mouth whoopie from Admiral Alexander “Poopdeck” Cochrane. This side of the Atlantic, we just refer to the incident as “The Battle of New Orleans” for short.

Yeah, military defeats are generally swept under the rug. Makes sense you’d want to ignore the foreign military shipped in from Europe rampaging all over your country burning the capital city to the ground and causing the President and Congress to flee, and focus on a single battle you managed to win after the war had officially ended.

It say’s no where, that consumption or as you claimed production of hardcore porn is illegal in Germany … whatsoever… Only thing illegal to produce or poses is Child pornography.
The only restriction of buying +18 Year porn is the minimum age of 18 years. Magazines & Soft-porn is freely available.

Soft porn is being aired on public TV in Germany for the past 30+ years.

You can see tits everywhere… not an issue

Also while your rubbing one out, you can consume & purchase alcohol legally from the age of 16 … of cos you can consume from the age of 14 in Germany, but you might not want to rub one out at the same time :slight_smile: … whats that in the land of the free again? 21? Dry State anyone?

You keep living the illusion of freedom… I rather have it here for real.

To be fair (and per your own link), there have been no dry states in the US since 1966.

What now? We have the Germans jumping in? Really, you guys are 0-2 in the really big games. Not smug like the British, though.

Quit your whining. The Empire’s done. Just accept it and move on. :slight_smile:

Your welcome for the satellite intelligence. :wink:

The Jerries are still trying to cadge drinks off stories of the shellacking they gave the Froggies back in 1870.

At least the Brits have a sense of humor; I have never detected such a thing from the Germans. If your last win was 1870, it is best to sit quietly in the corner. If Mr Putin keeps going, the Germans may yet get another shot at it.

I think it was making fun of Yanks rather than Jews as such. The actors did (surprisingly good, for British telly) US accents.

In any case, “Junior” is not typically used as an element in Ashkenazic Jewish names, for the simple reason that Ashkenazim don’t name their children after living relatives. I suppose the fictitious Brandon Thalburg Jnr. could have been named for a father who died while he was in the womb, but he could as easily have been a Gentile.

Jesus Christ, and you thought Hogan’s Heros was in bad taste! :eek:

A fact for which we are eternally thankful! Administering the entire world is just a little tiring. Now, we just get to sit back and bask in the knowledge that we came, we saw, we dominated and we made the modern world in our image.

As a parting joke on the rest of the world we spread Common Law, an inscrutable series of ancient proscriptions that makes sense to absolutely nobody, even those comedians that claim to be well-versed in it, and made everybody speak our mess of a language, so that even when they are trying to insult us they have to do it on our terms.