Based on your own contributions so far, I’m quite glad you feel that way. Had we struck up a rapport I’d be a little concerned.
Oooh, things just got nasty…can you even say that in the Pit anymore?
Hey, you were the one who made the ridiculous assertion, not me - you back it up, princess.
Failing an adequate explanation, I’ll take your knee-jerk nationalism as a given. You can take that American flag and shove it up your ass.
Thought this would be interesting…it’s the top 25 drunkest countries (America is so lame we didn’t even make the top 50). Your point about deaths related to alcohol verse deaths related to guns are valid when we look at the stats for deaths per 100k. The wild US wrt guns is around 5 deaths per 100k for murders by firearms (it’s higher if you count suicides). But the deaths per 100k for alcohol in the UK are, um, a bit higher than that (15.9…higher than if you count all forms of gun deaths in the US)…so, something they can be proud of, though most Western European nations are right there with them if you look at the first link. 
They try and deny it, but I have it reliably that they are, indeed Europeans. 
I too am married to an immigrant. It took me a while, but I finally got her to understand that the use of the word “American” as a pejorative (like, “that’s so *Ameeerican. . . *”), when actually in the United States, among Americans, was pretty much a conversation-ender. No Americans present would be interested in anything else she had to say after that.
She said, in her defense, that she picked up the habit at Harvard, where she went for her undergrad and graduate degrees. Apparently it’s common at Harvard for students there, American and otherwise, to kind of look down on America a bit.
How about the time period when the Brits were still running the colonies and the Natives still had the run of most of the continent?
How about the state India’s in now - think “our” Indians would rather they’d been “your” Indians?
My guess is they would rather have never been anybody’s Indians but their own.
I think it’s safe to say ‘our’ Indians would have preferred that you European types stayed home and kept your diseases to yourself. As to your point, it’s not really valid…by the time the US came into being most of the native American population was dead from European diseases, while India never had the same issue.
Neither episode was a shining example of greatness by either the US or the UK wrt our treatment of native populations, but one key difference is we lived here to by that time, while you know you never did in India…it was just a source of exploitable resources to you guys.
The best way to deal with the insufferable smug English is by invade, rape and pillage. Talking from experience here. And if they’re really insufferable smug you should also burn down and loot some of their monesteries.
So, we shouldn’t complain about US gun laws because there are lots of people who like them… but we can bitch all we want about our healthcare system even though there are lots of people who like it?
You can complain all you like about either one. Your opinion matters to me, though, only if you are American. Further, why you like or dislike either one is something I would consider important.
I think I’m particularly smug vis-a-vis the Americans because they don’t speak proper English, like what I do.
I agree us Brits can be smug when it comes to America and American culture. Indeed all Europeans can. I blame it mostly on political correctness. There was a time when we could be condescending, smug and downright nasty to Germans, Italians, Spaniards, the French(especially the French) and a whole variety of colourful ethnics. Nowadays we are only allowed to pick on the Americans. This means all our built up hatred of foreigners is almost exclusively directed at Americans. It’s all a rather sad state of affairs a pro American Brit myself.
Note; we have recently had a rise in support for UKIP. I welcome the day when we can once again proudly and with dignity call the French, frogs!
No, I haven’t.
You have my permission to smack anyone in the mouth who next mentions how superior British humour is.
How about “Britannia Rules the Waves”? Or “The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire?”
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-leftist living in Pittsburgh, PA, which isn’t exactly bastion of Bible-belt gun nuts. (Most of the gun owners around here are hunting enthusiasts) And yes, we know our healthcare sucks. It’s not like people aren’t trying to change that.
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Our healthcare doesn’t actually suck though…it’s quite good, in fact. The problem with it is how we pay for it and who receives it (and who doesn’t)…THAT part certainly is less than optimal. But the actual healthcare that the majority of our citizens gets? It’s at least as good if not better than what the Brits or our other European brethren and sistren get.
You are right though…it’s flawed and needs to be fixed so that pretty much everyone gets the benefits of it, and so that the price if fairly distributed. And people ARE trying to change it. I wish we could all just agree on what needs to be changed and how.
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Although that arguably was included in boerwaretc. There is also the lamentable lack of ice for drinks, but that would be piling on.
Great OP/username combo.
The English can, indeed, be insufferably smug, but not for the reasons given there.