# You people in the UK can stop looking down on us Americans **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460 "2005-08-10T16:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460/21 "2005-08-11T15:44:03Z")
Hey, I’m from Canada, do I get to look down on anybody? 🙂 (I think we’re getting ready in the back of our shop for Hallowe’en, I’m not sure if that counts…) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460/22 "2005-08-11T16:03:48Z")
Lenox has been trying to sell me Christmas ornaments and the World Wildlife Fund has been sending me their Christmas card samples since the end of June. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460/23 "2005-08-11T17:57:49Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Hey, I’m from Canada, do I get to look down on anybody? 🙂 . . . Geographically speaking, you look down on about three-fourths of the world. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460/24 "2005-08-11T20:12:31Z")
> [@Ponder Stibbons](#): > > Oh, and if you want, you may continue to look down on me. I mean, what’re friends for? 😉 It’s no fun unless you at least _pretend_ to be offended. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460/25 "2005-08-11T20:33:43Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > Can I mock the Southerners instead? Crazy Londoners. This would never happen in Yorkshire! 😉 Ah but they don’t have Christmas in Yorkshire. Any idea 'ow much coal costs to put in t’kid’s stokin’s? and that white beard get’s inway of t’dour expression. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460/26 "2005-08-12T23:21:45Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > Can I mock the Southerners instead? Crazy Londoners. This would never happen in Yorkshire! 😉 Hey!!! If I wanted to mock Lancastrians, I wouldn’t call them ‘Northerners’!!! 😛 Don’t overlook the fact that this is about Harrods…run by a guy who thinks Princess Diana was killed in some top-secret James Bond-style assassination. He has no sense of reality whatsoever, but knows that this will make him more money. That’s all he cares about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-people-in-the-uk-can-stop-looking-down-on-us-americans/316460.md?page=1)