They put up with the leprechauns because the leprechauns frighten away the snakes.
OP has an outstandingly apposite user name.
Hey, did anybody realise America is big? Really big? Like so big that every American social problem can be inexplicably explained away by reference to the size of America? Terrible mental health care? America big! Massive inequality? America big! Police pulling drive-by shootings of 12 year old children and putting asthmatics in choke-holds? America big!
But it doesn’t end with America’s size. There’s Blacks and Hispanics there too! And immigration, lots and lots and lots of immigration. And America is super diverse, too. It has at least three different types of pizza, which is two more than the entirety of Europe, and some people don’t even speak English! But most of all, America big!
I will defend to the death the superiority of the United States when it comes to pizza. New York style, of course. Chicago style is an abomination and should be placed forthwith on the boat back to whence it came. England, probably.
The ugly (insert cultural group) syndrome is equal opportunity. It’s no less ugly when it’s based on nationality than another social grouping. America does not have a monopoly on it. The side pointing the fingers with a condescending tone rarely sees why someone from the group they are singling out might not like being lectured like a 5 year old. It rarely helps promote change. It can promote pointing fingers back… like this thread. It can promote the target being as much of a condescending twat about a different issue.
LOL.
Hey, England would fit within the borders of Oregon. Oregon!!! /seeOP
I miss the days when the sun never set on the Oregon Empire. 
Over, say, Italy :dubious:
Yeah Americans are stupid about guns and health care, it’s not just Brits who know this. I’m an American and I know this and I’ve met people from all over the world who know this. The proper response is a sad sigh when people point out how stupid Americans are about guns and health care.
Thank you for that insight, Captain Obvious. 
I love this type of, “America! Love it or leave it!” attitude.
Duuuuude. Everyone knows Chicago-style pizza comes from Portugal.
I’ve had pizza in Italy. (Well, Sicily, and according to the truckdriver who picked me hitch-hiking from Catania to Messina, “Quella Italia; questa Sicilia!”) While good, it was no New York style.
Take a quick look at the overlay map I linked above. Size matters because it is unfair to judge all of Europe byt he actions of rural Bulgaria or Romania. While some of the claims here are true of our “Bible Belt” they are not true of the majority of Americans. If you judged your best against our best, and your worst against our worst, I think you’d find that we come out ahead overall.
A more accurate statement might be that ignorant points of view get entirely too much attention due to the nature of our electoral process. It is very difficult to find intelligent, educated people of integrity who are interested in politics as a career. It is even harder to get such people elected, as a charming show-boater will always succeed in moving a crowd.
But there are a few beacons of hope like Elizabeth Warren who relentlessly push for positive change. Unfortunately the ridiculous rantings of Ted Cruz and his ilk will always make better press.
You expressed yourself poorly. Use of words like “friends” to describe international relations is something I associate with political speechwriters and the tragically naive. For whom do you write?
I would suggest that a resident of England who wished to own firearms relatively freely would be better served to move to the US than to try to force wholesale changes to the laws in England. Throughout human history, people have always taken advantage, when they could, of moving to parts where they believed they could have greater freedom or safety or happiness. Or even just wealth. That has nothing to do with “love it or leave it,” as convenient as it was for you to ascribe that attitude to me.
Then you haven’t had Italian pizza. If it’s not Neapolitan, it’s not pizza
…is the slogan I’m copyrighting to sell off to the Naples City Council…
Yes. Pizza might have been invented in Italy; but it was perfected in the US, largely by Italian immigrants and their descendants. It reaches its highest flowering in NYC.
As an American they are pretty much right. And it’s not that we can’t do much better solving those problems if we didn’t like ripping into each other more.
But it’s not like England doesn’t have problems either. They are plagued by Viking invasions, tv taxes and blood pudding.
Neapolitan pizza is a tall glass of “Nope” for this pizza eater. The chocolate and vanilla stripes I can just manage to choke back, but that strawberry part just isn’t going anywhere.
Does that one come with trash on top, or just with all the toppings?
I think it’s churlish to make repeated jokes about your host.
However I don’t see a problem with making an accurate comment in a thread here.
I don’t see the relevance of comparing geographical sizes.
It is sad that the US (a great nation in many ways) has such an expensive health system.
Whenever I travel to the US, I take out health insurance for $1,000,000. (This is recommended by the UK Government.) My insurance company advises that, unless it’s ‘life-or-death’, I phone them before asking for medical assistance.
I’ve only had one injury in the US (a small cut on my toe.) The cost of treatment came to £350 ($548.) :eek: This was covered by insurance.
When an American friend visited me, they got a medical consultation for free and just paid for the medicine.
Over here you can get a shotgun licence to kill vermin on your countryside farm. However I don’t see how the threat of bears etc. explains the tragedy of school shootings.
If other countries had larger representation on these boards you’d see smugness from them, too.
But don’t worry - if the Tories in the UK keep on selling off bits of our public sector to their mates, we might join you in the ranks of developed countries who can’t look after their population.