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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Thrawn on November 30, 2002, 12:00:17 PM
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"According to a MORI poll published in the past week, Americans are now liked by more people in Britain than at any time in the past three decades. Four Britons out of five - a whopping 81 per cent of us - agree with the statement "I like Americans as people". This is a big jump from the 69 per cent who agreed with those views in 1989 and 1991 and the mere 66 per cent back in 1986, when the Cold War was in its dying stages and Ronald Reagan was still president. Today, only 11 per cent of us admit to disliking Americans as people. "
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/opinion.cfm?id=1327822002
Ebony and Ivory.... :p
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Thrawn walks past the O'Club door, tosses in a grenade...and keeps walking.:p
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Nah, I'm all about peace and healing the rift between our British and Yankish brothers on this bbs. :)
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"Today, only 11 per cent of us admit to disliking Americans as people. "
lol - the rest lie about it...
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just because you english almost speak our language dosn't mean we like you.
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I have always, generally speaking, liked Brits. The ones I met at the con last summer were very cool and tolerant of our ice cube predilictions.
And as a guy I can say that any woman with an accent from GB (England, Scotland, Ireland, Welsh) has an automatic 2 points on the attractiveness scale.
-sudz
PS Please make more episodes of "Coupling"
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Hey sudz - Coupling is cool. But check out The Office or I'm Alan Partridge for what's hot at the minute. Do you have an American BBC channel over there?
All the Americans I've got to know personally have been good people. But every country has its nobheads, Britain included.
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I'd echo what Dowding said. I've never met a Brit I didn't like.
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Well, appart from "Gary Glitter", I'd have to agree too :D
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Ohohh we got nobheads here in the UK, oh yes. But they mainly stick to politics and bulletin boards (ahem)
nice to see peace and love breaking out for once, more of this please. (but not in MA)
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I'm with you there for the most part or at least it's all charming in passing.
Originally posted by -sudz-
I have always, generally speaking, liked Brits. The ones I met at the con last summer were very cool and tolerant of our ice cube predilictions.
And as a guy I can say that any woman with an accent from GB (England, Scotland, Ireland, Welsh) has an automatic 2 points on the attractiveness scale.
-sudz
PS Please make more episodes of "Coupling"
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I would say that young people (like myself) probably travel more than 10 years ago, goin off to Oz, asia or america.
when I was travelling there was a sense of community because everyone is in the same boat, no matter where your from and you realise that everyone is just a normal human being like yourself, but maybe just talks funny :)
same thing happens here in Aces high, except you dont see the person.
and i think its because of this travelling/internet that alot more people can say 'I have an american friend' so they have a side to vote for where as before they didn't care either way.
the only people that are unpopular are politicians and they can be from anywhere :)
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I've worked with many Brits in the past and the only thing I can say regarding them for certain is that Americans GROSSLY misunderstand their humor.
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what rift? you know how you can treat your brother like crap but if anyone else did you'd box them? that's how i feel about brits.;)
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Last year Lazs and I went on a goodwill tour of Britain and Scotland. Clearly it had results.
Hooligan
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that would explain the 11 percent.
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Bravo, Kanth.
Perfect. All it needed was the drum roll at the end. :D
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I have nothing aginst the americans, I think everyone should have one! :D
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Yeah, nuthin wrong with Yanks.....it's these damn Cloggies I cant stand. :D
(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)
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I like brits.. I like their women... I don't want their women running our country too tho. I don't like brit politics and I certainly would never want a brit to be allowed to vote in the U.S. Other than that... we get along fine.
lazs
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Lazs - I have not been coupled with an English woman since the 1970s.
Am I invited to participate in this thread?
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English women are ok, I just hate it when I get my lips stuck in those tooth gaps though.
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well I hate the way, in IL, that my lips freeze to the woman's lips.
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sure beetle join in... allways like a good gun thread.
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms each year... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something
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Last year Lazs and I went on a goodwill tour of Britain and Scotland.
Scotland is part of Britain. Last year, I went to the United States and Arizona. :p
Lazs - thanks for the invitation, but this thread isn't doing much.
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this isn't one of your better anti gun threads beetle.
lazs
"Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Friday February 23, 2001
The Guardian
England and Wales have one of the worst crime records in the industrialised world - even worse than America - according to the findings of an official survey published yesterday which compares the experience of victims across 17 countries.
The study, coordinated by the Dutch ministry of justice, shows England and Wales at the top of the world league with Australia as the countries where you are most likely to become a victim of crime. These countries face an annual rate of 58 crimes for every 100 inhabitants.
The findings, based on interviews with 35,000 people about their experience of crime across the 17 countries, were carried out last year. They are a blow to Labour's record and underline the challenge facing Tony Blair when he marks the launch of Labour's 10-year anti-crime plan next Monday by becoming the first serving prime minister to visit a prison.
The 2000 International Crime Victimisation survey shows that the falls in crime recorded since the mid-1990s in England and Wales are part of a general pattern of falling crime across the industrialised world but, unlike America, crime levels in England and Wales are still higher than they were at the end of the 1980s. When the survey was last carried out in 1996, England and Wales also topped the league table with 61 offences per 100 inhabitants.
The survey does show, however, that Britain has the best services when it comes to looking after the victims of crime, but it also shows we have a tougher approach to punishing criminals. Asked what should be done with a burglar convicted of stealing a colour television for a second time, more than 50% in England and Wales said he or she should be sent to prison for two years. Only 7% in Spain and 12% in France thought he or she should be jailed at all.
People were asked whether they had been victims of a range of 11 different offences in the previous 12 months, including violent and sexual assault, car crime, burglary and consumer fraud.
The survey also shows that Scotland, with 43 offences per 100 inhabitants, ranks joint fifth alongside America in the international crime league behind England, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. Northern Ireland has the second best crime record of the countries surveyed, with 24 offences per 100 inhabitants - the same rate as Switzerland and only just above Japan where the biggest crime problem is bicycle thefts. The detailed findings of the ICVS survey showthat England and Wales are top of the international league for car thefts with 2.6% of all car owners suffering the loss of their vehicle in the previous 12 months. In other sorts of car crime, England was second only to Poland.
Australia and then England and Wales had the highest burglary rates and rates for violent crimes such as robbery, assault and sexual assault "
the result of the backward thinking of the home office is the brutalizing of its helpless citizens... helpless to defend themselves against the strong and the vicious... a trajic example of "form over substance"... "let them eat cake" The lawless run england... In America... 3,000,000 such crimes are prevented by firearms each year... citizens have freedom and dignity one good thing about englands crime rate.... they have, obviously by necessity, learned to care for the traumatized, humiliated and injured victims...guess that's something
Don't like my sig? so shoot me... oh wait... you don't own a gun..well...point your finger and go BANG that may work.
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...just once I'd like to see what they teach in England's School of Dentistry... :D
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LOL Lazs!
well...point your finger and go BANG that may work.
That would be just as effective, on a BBS. :D
LePaul - score zero for originality. :( Wearing a bit thin. Surely you can do better? BTW The last time I had to have a tooth drilled was 1988.
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Ah, I apologize then and do better....I'll confine myself to my room and watch hours upon hours of Benny Hill shows then! ;)
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That's more like it! ROFL