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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: beet1e on January 04, 2003, 01:19:46 PM
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Yep, old friends over here on a social visit. Neither is a gun owner - LOL! :p We had lunch at a place in Chelsea, not far from where one of them is staying, and then sort of split into two groups. It was shortly after that that one Yank told me how the other Yank had been whining about this and that... can't buy this in England, can't do that, can't find the other, waah-waah-waah...
OK, as friends are fond of reminding us - the USA has everything, but...
...when I go to a poor country like Indonesia, for example, it does not occur to me to say something daft like "I can't buy a pint of London Pride out here", or "why are there no black cabs out here", or "why can't I get breakfast 24/7?".
And that's because we are more culturally aware. :D We know that different countries have different strengths and weaknesses. If I'm in Indonesia, I might eat Nasi Goreng. If in Germany, make it bratwurst/wienerschnitzel. In Spain, paella is a must. In Italy, just say "feed me" - it WILL be good!
But pry a Yank from his/her homeland, and he/she will be wondering why he can't find a Dunkin Donuts on the same city block. Oh yeah, that's another thing - we have to translate all distances into "blocks" -lol. Smokers gripe because they have to PAY for matches!
Going to keep this short. I'll let StSanta, Curval, Dowding and the rest of the gang add the necessary embellishments.
Oh and Lazs - the one thing the yanks love are the London black cabs. Best in the world. I always wondered why the most common given name for a NYC cabby was Muhammad - lol!
Toodle-Pip ;)
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Beet1e wrote:
In Britain we've never had more than 100 gun murders in any year
why ban guns then?
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Guns are neat, Guns are sweet
Guns the tool, that makes ya cool.
Guns are fine, Guns are mine
Guns are things, that Jesus brings.
Guns for loonies, Guns for cons
Guns for Moonies, Guns for moms.
Guns are fun for everyone, buy them up by the ton.
Guns for me, Guns for you, Guns for nuts and children too!
Guns at home, Guns at work, Guns at play, Guns berserk!
Tons and tons of great big Guns
Are tons and tons of great big fun!
I've got Guns up my nose tween my ears and by my toes.
I'm no fool I'm so cool I take Guns to my school.
I take Guns in my car, to the store and to the bar.
I got Guns in a drawer in my pocket and on the floor.
I got Guns on the wall, in my bed and in the hall.
Get a Gun and get it fast, shoot someone, it's a blast!
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Beet1e wrote:
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In Britain we've never had more than 100 gun murders in any year
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why ban guns then?
I ask again, why ban guns in UK?
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Isn't it obvious? If they didn't own guns, they weren't Americans. You've been duped. :D
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Originally posted by NUKE
Beet1e wrote:
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In Britain we've never had more than 100 gun murders in any year
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why ban guns then?
I ask again, why ban guns in UK?
If people with guns never murdered more than 100 a year in UK, why ban guns?
People that used alcohol killed or murdered many times more.....
Alcohol use influences humans phsyically, guns are just inanimate objects. Let's ban alcohol in the UK.
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You know, I read that post twice and I've still yet to find the point. Seems to just be an excuse to stereotype and bash Americans. Typical stupid Brit for you.
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why is it important to note that these two weren't gun owners?
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I had lunch with two Yanks today
I was hoping you were going to add "and one of them kicked my ass".
dago
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Translation:
Originally posted by beet1e
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But pry a Yank from his/her homeland, and he/she will be wondering why he can't find a Dunkin Donuts on the same city block.
Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla BlaBla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla Bla bla bla
Toodle-Pip ;)
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So I think that Beetle is trying to say that England totaly sucks because they don't have a DD on every block.
I don't know what "Toodle-Pip" means, however...
I guess I could go find a "Gay to Americanized English" dictionary if I really wanted to know... But I don't.
eskimo
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Originally posted by Kieran
Isn't it obvious? If they didn't own guns, they weren't Americans. You've been duped. :D
Now this is funny. :)
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I'll bet they squeaked about the food, too.
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weazel is really a englishman , go home weazel, they need you over there.
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i feel entitled to squeak about breakfast in europe- it's always like 3 pieces of thick toast, some musli or a pastry of some sort. it's barely worth getting up for save for the coffee.
in america they have the 24 hour shovel it on, damn i'm a fat ass, 12-egg-bacon-swiss-o-rama bucket.
you can't beat american breakfasts.
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Originally posted by beet1e
And that's because we are more culturally aware
No, your friends are just whiners.
Anyone else find it Ironic that the guy who spends the most time of anyone I've ever seen (anywhere in the world) talking about the inferiority of American everything would actually say this?
:D
-Sik <----grabs hook and tugs with all his might
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Beetle, I could throw a stupid comment in a daily or weekly thread like you, or I could just come up with a bunch and throw them in all at once. So, here goes the all at once method.
Its amazing the Germans didnt win the war, what with Montgomery trying to screw it up so bad.
Plus, England was being lead by a drunk at the time.
If Diana hadn't been such a tramp, she'd be alive today.
Of course the English are skinny, their food sucks and their teeth probably hurt so much they have a hard time eating.
The British drink their beer warm, what do they care, they are probably too drunk to notice its warm, and they are too impatient to get more to let it cool.
Monty Python and Benny Hill both confirmed that British men actually love to dress in drag. If they think that is humor, they were probably drunk too.
British men call cigarettes "studmuffins", and everyone knows they love to suck on studmuffins.
The British think a badass cycle is made by Vespa, and to make it really look awesome they bolt on a dozen rear view mirrors.
Enough stupid stuff, and still hoping a yank with access to him will kick Beetles bellybutton just for sport.
dago
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Relax, gys. Beetle lives in his version of paraidise and ours... well, our paradise doesn't have Beetle.
Everyone is overjoyed on all sides. What could be better?
And, hey, he did talk to a representative sample of the entire US population. Two guys, after all; not like it was a limited sample or anything.
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Or are you just humor impaired?
Since you didn't get the joke.....I was making fun of beetle.
I'm an American...too bad you don't fit the criteria to be one too.
Originally posted by john9001
weazel is really a englishman , go home weazel, they need you over there.
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LOL! So many lines of response. :D I'm touched :)
Mr. Toad! I worry about you. You assume so much...Two guys, after all; not like it was a limited sample or anything.
The two Yanks were both women. :p
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Beet1e wrote:
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In Britain we've never had more than 100 gun murders in any year
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Beet1e, are you going to give us your reason for the need for the UK gun ban?
You said yourself that Britain never had more than 100 gun murders in any year, so why the need for a gun ban?
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Originally posted by beet1e
The two Yanks were both women. :p
Well, so no WONDER they were whining! ALL women whine! If there's one thing that transcends race, politics or country of origin it is gender. If you had told us two women were whining you wouldn't have gotten a response. Sheeesh, Beatle. Waste our friggin time.
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Beetle your green eyes are as embarrasing to your countrymen as they are conspicious .
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Say Beetle, you aren't by any chance SittingDuckFlyingSwan, are you?
Next thing you know you'll be telling retarded cow jokes...
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Was at a brtish Pub last night having a few pints with a retired
Royal airforce intelligence officer...We had a hoot!!!
Country bashing never even came up once in the 5 hour drink fest lol... We agreed on one thing in particular... No matter what country your from, sitting at a pub flirting with split tail is a great way to spend friday night!!
Cheers T0J0
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You had lunch with two yanks today? That's nothing, I had sex with two yanks today.
Or maybe it only took two yanks. It's been awhile...
Sorry.
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Hey, if you're going to bash Britain, at least pick a better target than 'British food'. For one thing, there's no such thing. You see, when we owned a quarter of the globe, we brought back to England the best foods we could find. And no food beats a good curry. India had a huge influence on England. Second only to the French, probably.
As for American food - what exactly is that? As far as I can see all the major American food types were brought there by immigrants. So really, belittling English food from an American viewpoint is really quite ironic. America did exactly the same thing as Britain only a little later in history.
As for quality - are you saying American food is uniformly excellent? Can be regarded as peerless? If McDonalds and Burger King are anything to go by, I'd say you're on very shaky ground in the culinery department.
Now I'll let you get back to circling the maggot-ridden carcass that is another Beetle-Bait. Bon appetite. :D
BTW - nice one wil. :) Long time, no see.
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Originally posted by Dowding
Hey, if you're going to bash Britain, at least pick a better target than 'British food'. For one thing, there's no such thing. You see, when we owned a quarter of the globe, we brought back to England the best foods we could find. And no food beats a good curry. India had a huge influence on England. Second only to the French, probably.
As for American food - what exactly is that? As far as I can see all the major American food types were brought there by immigrants. So really, belittling English food from an American viewpoint is really quite ironic. America did exactly the same thing as Britain only a little later in history.
As for quality - are you saying American food is uniformly excellent? Can be regarded as peerless? If McDonalds and Burger King are anything to go by, I'd say you're on very shaky ground in the culinery department.
Now I'll let you get back to circling the maggot-ridden carcass that is another Beetle-Bait. Bon appetite. :D
BTW - nice one wil. :) Long time, no see.
Itallian Food is most popular food in the world.
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ok I've read soo many of these threads now, lets get one thing straight:
WE HAVE GUNS IN ENGLAND, LOTS OF THEM, in my parents house there are 6 Guns (2 hunting rifles and 4 shot guns).
My mum is a granny with a GUN!
IT IS JUST 'HAND GUNS ' THAT ARE ILLEGAL.
thank you just wanted to clear that up :)
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When I was in the service had a port of call in England. Went out to a bar just to have some fun. There I was, minding my own business when these British guys found out our group were Americans and confronts us.
Well one guy (with his buddies) comes up and explaines he is all pissed off because the British pound was losing its value to the American dollar and he could not afford to go on his yearly vacation to Boston. I didnt pay attention to exchange rates, no did I care as long as I can afford to have a few pints.
Well it seemed to me that if he was upset at the present exchange rate, I should be happy due to the fact that my American dollar is worth more. So I told him that. Well he gets all pissy and wants to make an attempt to kick my ass. I calmed him down alittle just when one of the guys with me loudly says, "Ya know, the people in Scotland are much nicer!"
Well you could of heard a pin drop. Now I will be the first to admit that people are much nicer in Scotland but I would not announce it in an English pub.
In my experience, I never felt liked when I was in England. It seemed like the places I went did not even want Americans around. People were sorta stuffy. Always refered to as a Yank as it was some sort of insult.
Just my experience. Hopefully others had better luck!
:)
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Swag,
Every society has its bungholes.
My last visit to England was great. Took the family and explored London. We all had a great time.
The evening before we left we dined in a nice tavern out by Gatwick. ONE table near us just had to start running down "yanks" in clear, loud tones. Their neighbors frowned at them in a proper English way and on the way out, two tables apologized for the behavior of the one mouthy table.
That kind of stuff can happen anywhere. Don't let it sour you. The "average joe" just about anywhere is, indeed, pretty much like the "average joe" here.
Still like England. Going back this month.
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London does seem to attract the worst of the American tourists, like Ibeza seems to attract the worst of the European tourists.
I often wonder if the travel agencies have them fill out some kind of IQ test and will limit their choices depending on the result.
Breakfast in Europe depends on the place you are staying...better places (not necesarrily more expensive) will have the full breakfast, with various types of bread, cheeses, ham and salami..and you can't beat the coffee!.
Here in the UK, most people still prefer instant coffee to the real stuff! Heretics!.
Daff
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Originally posted by Dowding
As for American food - what exactly is that?
Tex-mex. Now STFU. :p
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Sounds like the English (with Beet1e leading the way) have a huge inferiority complex in regards to Americans. One more 'Brits vs Americans' post from this guy and I'm gonna live up to my callsign.
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ROFL! One of my more successful threads. :D
Well, so no WONDER they were whining! ALL women whine! If there's one thing that transcends race, politics or country of origin it is gender. If you had told us two women were whining you wouldn't have gotten a response. Sheeesh, Beatle. Waste our friggin time.
Only one was whining - is that what you meant?
NUKE! You're in the wrong thread, mate. And I'm not a politician.
Mr. Toad - what night was that? Trying to work out if I was at Gatwick when that Yank-bash thing happened. Hehe, you should have heard us at Cosford the other week. :D just kidding ;)
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I've never met a bad American. I studied in Durham, in the North East of England (it has one of the biggest Cathedrals in Europe and a large castle, which you stay in as a student if you happen to go to that college). We got plenty of American tourists, and they were always polite. Whenever I was asked for directions, I always took time to have a chat with them.
I was there 4 years, and never met an annoying one, like you might find in London or other 'well-trodden' areas for American tourists.
Puke - if Americans are so secure, why do they continue to post in reply to Beetle's trawling inanities?
lol Sancho :)
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Country bashing of third world countries like england and indonessia is bad form even for women.... even for women who don't own guns. That is one reason that I want to end womens sufferage. If you listened to women... you deserve to live in england.
And cabs... rode in a sum total of about 4 cabs in my entire life... hate the things.
lazs
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Originally posted by Sancho
Tex-mex. Now STFU. :p
Tex-Mex...basically Mexican food. The Tex part means there is just more of it.:p
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Originally posted by beet1e
If in Germany, make it bratwurst/wienerschnitzel.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH, ever heard of Gulasch, Hühnerfrikassee,
Königsberger Klöpse, Sauerbraten, Eisbein mit Sauerkraut, Grünkohl mit Pinkel, Forelle Müllerin Art, Karpfen blau, Zander mit Specksauce?
At least we're able to cook, moron!
Blitz
PS j/k ;-D Maybe we'll have Rolladen together some day:D
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Puke - if Americans are so secure, why do they continue to post in reply to Beetle's trawling inanities? - Sancho
I don't really know. I've seen Beet1e post similar things before and I've always refrained from comment, but after seeing the same type of thing over and over and over again, I begain to think the guy has some sort of problem. I would suspect there aren't any more polite or mean or rude people per capita in England than in the USA. People are just people.
After his billionth UKvsUSA thread, I no longer think the guy is trolling or making jokes but has a real problem..but hides behind a veil of a troll.
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Yes, Beetle does have a problem. He also isn't too worried about letting truth get in the way of a good argument.
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I have travelled the world extensively and have the following observation to make.
Yes I have met the typical stupid American tourist many times. They are a minority but numerous enough that if you travel you will meet them almost every day. He is the type of person who when in Germany will get all excited and order an American Beer if it is available "because it is the best in the world" and would eat at McDonalds over anywhere else.
My take on these guys is that they are idiots because they just don't get what travel is all about. You travel to see new things and experience new things. You don't go halfway around the world to experience life exactly as it is in whatever city or town you grew up in.
For example if you travel all throught Europe and insist on drinking nothing but Coke, and eating hamburgers you have just thrown away a fantastic chance to learn all about European beer and food.
The stupid American type doesn't get it but I think the reason they do not is because they have a cultural inferority complex. It is easier to order American beer and food and then cut up any local fare than it is to take the time to find the best local food and drink and where to find it. That way they can loudly brag about how great everything they know about (American food, drink etc) is and how crap everything else is.
In my experience this is strictly a blue collar attitude. Poor college students, low ranking military types, oil field workers etc exhibit it.
The same Americans who get rich by owning their own businesses, getting a meds degree, working on wall street etc are generally much more intelligent and do not behave this way.
So in fact it is quite an easy way to find out when in a foreign country just how successful or educated an American is. Just look at what they eat and how they behave. Loud voice and intolerence = blue collar / high school grad.
I am sure the same holds true for this thread. Intelligent well travelled Americans read it and laugh because they know all to well the exact type of person being talked about. Ones who are most likely to act this way get all angry and flame because it strikes a little to close to home.
It is kind of like smoking. The bottom line is if you are under 30 and smoke you are an idiot. You may not think so and may have a dozen reasons to justify your habit but to the rest of us you are just an idiot. And once we know you smoke you will always be thought of that way, because it is true.
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Here's a thought for you, Habu... there's more than one way to eat a Reese's.
If I traveled (major "if") I would do it on my terms. If I wanted to visit place A, I would. If I found a restaurant that served the type of food I liked, even if that was McDonald's, I would eat there. If I found the American beer I liked, I would be happy. In short, as eating and drinking are completely unimportant to me, it would be a nonissue. More than that... I might be counting my pennies and simply be eating as cheaply as I could.
I'll confess to being provincial, and I don't apologize a bit for it. But if I did travel, it wouldn't be so I could find out how your country takes care of business, or to find out how ignorant your people are. I would be going to see your countryside, architecture, and perhaps museums. That is what interests *me*.
One thing does amaze me though... how Beetle found two Americans, especially women, that could stand to be in a room with him and still have their appetite.
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Habu,
I am not rich, monetarialy that is, I also have just a little more than a high school education. I am a "blue-collar" worker in a large facility.
You would not recognize me for what I am because I do enjoy experiencing new things, new foods, different cultures.
If you base your knowledge about someone only on a select few person's habits then you will probably be wrong most of the time.
Now perhaps the fact that I did grow up in a culture other than Texan may have broadened my appreciation for other peoples, but one common vein I have seen in people from other countries is thier seeming readiness to try to demean Americans.
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Kieran if you travel and live overseas you will quickly find out that the one biggest thing you will start to look forward to are the meals.
After you have been to art gallery after art gallery and castle after castle, museum after museum and beach after beach they are all lose some of their allure. After all they are just buildings and places. A beach in Florida is not that different than one in Hawaii or Australia. Art can be experienced by a book or on TV and be just as compelling as seeing it in a museum unless you are a real student of what you are seeing.
What you begin to realize after traveling awhile it is the interaction with other travelers and locals and the sharing of their food in a different culture that is probably the most fufiling aspect of the experience.
BTW the best local food and drink should not be confused with the most expensive local food and drink. As travelers to Italy know that is also most likely just for stupid tourists.
It is over meals and drink that friendships are made.
I hardly remember the Louve or the British Museum and I have been to both a few times. The Eiffel tower is really just a bunch of stairs to a drafty observation platform. But I still remember fondly the time I was lost in Belgium and found a small pub to escape the rain and had a great lunch while sampling about a dozen types of local beer. The owner would let me try a quarter pint at a time so I was not completely pissed afterwards. He told me about each one and what made it special. I remember the time in Japan I met a couple of local business men and they took me to a sushi place and introduced me to all the different types. The were pleased to educate me in their local culture and to this day I love sushi and order whenever I can.
If you forgo these experiences then you are just missing out on the most enriching part of the journey.
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Originally posted by Mark Luper
Habu,
I am not rich, monetarialy that is, I also have just a little more than a high school education. I am a "blue-collar" worker in a large facility.
You would not recognize me for what I am because I do enjoy experiencing new things, new foods, different cultures.
If you base your knowledge about someone only on a select few person's habits then you will probably be wrong most of the time.
Now perhaps the fact that I did grow up in a culture other than Texan may have broadened my appreciation for other peoples, but one common vein I have seen in people from other countries is thier seeming readiness to try to demean Americans.
Mark not all blue collar types are ignorant and not all educated types are smart.
I also had the pleasure to live and work in Texas a few years ago (Midland and Odessa and Alice). I loved Texas, loved the food and loved the beer. I also loved the people (literally I had a girlfriend while in Odessa). The type of people I met there are not the types I am talking about. I am talking about the type who comes into a store in Canada and complains out loud to the staff that the items should be priced in American dollars because Canadian dollars are monopoly money (true story). Or the guy who goes to a pub in Scotland and refuses to taste any of the single malts there but orders a bottle of Jack Daniels and tells the locals "Now this is real booze". My test works with both of them.
These guys exist. And they are idiots. And unfortunately they give Americans a bad name.
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Hi,
Habu, did the guy ordering Jack Daniels survive?
:D
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Habu! Thank for joining this discussion. I read what you said twice, and you are quite right - I agree 100% with what you say. There are some smart Americans who are keen to discover new cultures. I know a guy from the Denver area who I used to work with, and he came over to Britain to work at the UK office. I organised a couple of foreign trips with him - to Antwerp, and to Amsterdam. He couldn't get enough of those places, and wanted to explore different kinds of food in different restaurants. He was also keen to visit various museums, including Amsterdam's famed Rijks Museum. (http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/) On food, this was the guy who introduced ME to Lebanese Shoarmas!
Surprising though it may seem to kieran, I have many American friends, and that's because Habu is right - there really is a class of intelligent Americans. Well of course there is! It's unfortunate that some of the others are so insular. I used to know an American Air Force man (he was actually from Guam) who was stationed at USAF Upper Heyford near Oxford before it closed (peace dividend). And he knew guys (low ranking military types?) who served there for three years, and never set foot off that base. :eek: I was incredulous about that. All the food was flown in, and everything was sold priced in US$. Some servicemen probably didn't even know that Britain had its own currency. :rolleyes:
All of my American friends fall into the intelligent variety, and that's probably why none of the Americans I know owns a gun. I do not rub shoulders with blue collar workers and low ranking military types, so I can't comment on why they are so insular and uninterested/unaware of the world around them. Or the guy who goes to a pub in Scotland and refuses to taste any of the single malts there but orders a bottle of Jack Daniels and tells the locals "Now this is real booze".
Classic example, Habu - exactly the kind of thing I had in mind.
As to the whining Yank from yesterday, she is highly intelligent and was educated at an English school in Oxford. I think she had been tired (west to east jetlag) and was having a bad hair day.
Will the low ranking military/blue collar types ever discover the world? Maybe they are too busy cleaning their collection of guns...
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Gotta love the inflammatory jabs he slips in, don't ya?
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Oh, Beeeeeeeeeeeetle..... you are so VERY clever!
Best read today, for sure.
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I'm not impressed.
While you two are busy swooning over, and tinkling on each other, you forget the things that are really important about America. Shame on you.
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Yup, he sure does, Toad.
He also turned "I don't like to travel" into "I am not intelligent". He turned "I am not interested in your country's politics" into "I don't care about your pissant country". He is equating a desire to travel with intelligence. It's a very narrow-minded definition of culture, wouldn't you say?
As to Habu's point on traveling and eating, I can understand and respect that point of view. However I differ in a couple of ways:
1. I am unlikely to ever travel to Europe, and if ever only once. I would likely pick a few places to visit, and that's it. Germany and Italy have always interested me (more Germany than Italy). UK doesn't make the list, no offense intended.
2. I enjoy exactly the kind of experiences he speaks of here in America. No need to travel to Europe to get the same.
3. Food really isn't a big issue with me. I eat to live, period.
All that said, I wouldn't deprive anyone of enjoying their leisure time as they see fit.
Beetle, you have a seriously big chip on your shoulder, and you keep putting it back up there for people to knock off. Wonder why that is?
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That's it Beatle!!!! I've had quite a bit of you putting down American culture and American people!!
You have called me a fat assed ignorant redneck for the very last time!! I'd fly to London right now and kick your bellybutton but the airlines make me buy two seats... so I'm driving over instead! C'mon Lazs, we'll take your Elky and blow the doors off a few Brit taxis!
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Whoever mentioned it before, he does remind me more and more of the old Flying Duck Sitting Swan persona.
Yeah, Kieran... I sorta got that "the only reason to travel is to eat different food" feeling out of Habu's post too. To each their own eh?
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tex-mex is texas mexican food. really texan food.
completley different than mexican food. in existance before we joined the union so ,no not american food.
and Yankee is a insult here also. ( texas)
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in our defense if you grew up on our burbon scotch ( what we call all other whiskey) tastes like a cold dog turd mixed up in a glass. upper class wannabes drink it here pretty much only. its fun watching um make faces drinking the stuff.
i tried and tried and it still tastes like utter crap. i mean indescribably bad. ill go aginst americans on many subjects but european whisky is CEEEEEERRAAAAAAPPP.
go get some Makers Mark (jack is for emergencys and export) you will be much happyer.
still shuddering to think of scotch.
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beetle,
Being a blue collar worker myself I find your views quite snobish, but that is certainly your perogative.
Actually what people do for a living never enters my mind until I find out if they are interesting enough to talk to anyway. Then I may take the step of trying to find out more about them. I don't really think I want to know anymore about you though...at least not at this time.
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@Kieran : food is a part of the culture of a country.
German don't eat/drink like French ,Italian and so on ...
Why would you ignore this part of their culture it's a part of the experience when you are travelling (sometime an hard part ... especially in China :))
It's not likely that you will eat/drink like them in your own country (and local food is in general less expensive than exotic one ;))
About the American in foreign country there is 2 styles :
uber-amazinhunk with Hawaian short + loud voices
and fine peoples but when you are a native you will often spot the bellybutton hole first ...
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Straffo, Habu, et al-
I think you guys are getting the completely wrong point out of what I am saying. I think it is silly to judge someone on the food they eat, the beer they drink, or the amount they travel. I might eat some Brats in Germany, I might not. In the end does it really matter?
I have this "friend" that does everything he can to live up to the personna of your typical wine commercial. You know, the elegant sophisitication of upper-class success, lying around in designer clothing with beautiful friends, taking token sips from half-filled wine glasses. Trouble is, he really isn't a very pleasant person at all, and tends to be harshly critical of everyone around him. He isn't any more sophisticated than those he holds in lower esteem. He's just another attention-seeking wannabe social climber. I finally had to can my friendship with this fellow, his utterly boorish behavior was beyond my ability to ignore. I feel the same way about anyone that drops names or otherwise displays contempt for others based on an elitist mentality.
Totally with you on loud tourists, but... I avoid loud people in general. I don't really care what country you are from. I'm with Mark. I look at the individual, not what class they are in.
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Kieran I can totally relate to that. I have known a lot of Eurosnob type people (Americans) who go blah blah blah about how this and that and the other is superior in Europe. They idealize the culture over there to the point that it is ridiculous. And sure enough I have found that most of them are the same kind of people who think all blue collar workers are stupid, all southerners are stupid, etc. Basically I have found a high correlation between Eurosnob Americans and amazinhunks/squeakes. I realized that if somebody like those (superficial, arrogant) people thinks it's so great over there, it's probably not so great at all.
Hence my travels have been limited to the US and Canada. Maybe if I run out things to do here I'll start blowing tons of change flying all over the world. But for now there's plenty of fun to be had over here.
I have met some great people from other countries online, and in my work and school, and I will travel to visit them. But to spend thousands of bucks just to go drink pretentious beers or eat raw fish and feel elite, no thanks.
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Originally posted by funkedup
They idealize the culture over there to the point that it is ridiculous. And sure enough I have found that most of them are the same kind of people who think all blue collar workers are stupid, all southerners are stupid, etc. Basically I have found a high correlation between Eurosnob Americans and amazinhunks/squeakes. I realized that if somebody like those (superficial, arrogant) people thinks it's so great over there, it's probably not so great at all.
Hence my travels have been limited to the US and Canada. Maybe if I run out things to do here I'll start blowing tons of change flying all over the world. But for now there's plenty of fun to be had over here.
I have met some great people from other countries online, and in my work and school, and I will travel to visit them. But to spend thousands of bucks just to go drink pretentious beers or eat raw fish and feel elite, no thanks.
Actually the food and drink I am talking about it whatever the locals make and is good. Nothing snobby about it. In Indonesia I learned to like fresh seafood and spicy relishs (sambal) rice and tempe. Steaks in Indonesia are crap unless they are imported and then they are expensive. Thus I tended to avoid red meat. (Although the steak on the stone at the Hyatt Adriaduta in Jakarta was some of the best I have ever had and the Top Gun in Blok M had a pretty decent hamburger). In Texas I liked tex mex and Texas barbeque and Denny's and buritos for breakfast with 24 ounce coffees.
Imagine how much I would have impressed everyone in Texas when they picked me up for work early in the morning and we stopped at a truckstop type diner and I told my local friend "Eating beans for breakfast is something poor people do in where I am from" and "this Coffee tastes like toejam" (actually the local water tasted like toejam and once you learned who used bottled water to make coffee you made sure you went there).
It is all about realizing your culture and food and drink is different but not necessarly better or worse. You make enemies and piss them off when you start to tell them how your's is better, and the stupid American traveller does not realize this. He takes it as them being anti American when if fact they probably just hate him.
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Originally posted by lord dolf vader
in our defense if you grew up on our burbon scotch
Just for the sake of nitpicking and trivia.
Bourbon may be whisky,
"According to the United States Federal Law, Bourbon must be distilled from a mash at least 51 percent of corn, at between 80 to 160 proof. Barley, wheat, rye may be used for blending. Bourbon's sweetness and softness comes from corn. Bourbon is distilled in a continuous still first and then transferred to oak casks for aging. Bourbon must be aged for a minimum of 2 years in oak casks based on US regulation. "
Hmm, I thought that Bourbon had to be made in Kentucky, but apparently it can be made anywhere in the US. However foreign Bourbons are not allowed to be sold in the US.
but it cannot be Scotch.
"What is Scotch Whisky?
Whisky is a matured, distilled alcoholic liquor made from the fermented mash of grain. The word comes from the Gaelic uisge beatha meaning "water of life." To be called Scotch, it must be aged in oak barrels, in Scotland, for at least three years."
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It all tastes like lighter fluid to me.
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i would mostly agree, but you can aquire a taste for well aged lighter fluid. and no other lighter fluid will do. :)
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Habu I wasn't tryin to say you are one of those Eurosnobs. I don't hardly know you. But I have known a lot of people like the ones Kieran and I described, and they have reduced my interest in traveling abroad.
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Beetard (http://www.tqc39.com/tard.wav)
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I took a long time to develop this opinion. I could not figure out why some Americans were so disliked and it only seemed to be Americans who had this happen to them. I finally figured it out after I had lived overseas for 2 or 3 years.
And it is not about food and drink. Food and drink are just very visible indicators of a whole attitude. When you accept local culture for what it is and indulge you will find you make friends overseas rather easily because you are in fact trying to blend in. When you never try them you probably never try to fit in in any other way either like learning a few words of local language or learning to have fun like the locals do.
My first time overseas I lived in a dormitory for single men at a mine in South Africa. There were some British guys, some local guys and two Americans called Wayne and Dwane living there. We were all just out of school. In addition there were some pretty old and tough Afrikaner guys who lived there permanantly. If you know anything about South Africans they are probably some of the most hospitipal people in the world.
After about a month there Wayne ran into my room one day and told me a bunch of local Afrikaner miners who lived in the dorm were going to beat him up. I went upstairs and stopped the fight but the next day the locals were fired once the mine manager heard about it. I still feel bad those guys lost their jobs over such a dickhead as Wayne. He never tried to fit in and always wanted to tell South Africans what was wrong with their politics. I may not have supported aparthide but I had enough sense to keep my opinion on that subject to myself.
That is the attitude I was talking about. I later worked with tons of Americans in Indonesia. Older and wiser they may have been but they were liked and liked being there. And that was a Muslim country as well. They showed me the best places to eat locally when I arrived. We used to get the occasional guy like Wayne transferring in but they never lasted long.
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Originally posted by beet1e
I do not rub shoulders with blue collar workers and low ranking military types, so I can't comment on why they are so insular and uninterested/unaware of the world around them. Classic example, Habu - exactly the kind of thing I had in mind.
Will the low ranking military/blue collar types ever discover the world? Maybe they are too busy cleaning their collection of guns...
I'll make sure to give you a wide berth if I ever see you at a Con since you don't want to associate with the low ranking military types.
You ignorant amazinhunk, I went to Germany as a PFC when I was 18 years old and managed to spend 95% of my free time discovering the country's culture. I also managed to find space in my limited cranial capacity to visit Paris over Christmas (attended Christmas Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral), made several trips to Holland with no tour group/guide of any sort, and made numerous trips to northern Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic, etc. The only thing unpleasant about Europe were those fools who immediately stereotyped you when they found out you were American. I found most of these folks in France. Of the other countries I visited, I have nothing but good things to say about their hospitality. I always regretted not making it to the UK, but I see I really didn't miss anything. Now piss off and stfu. I'm going to go clean my guns now.
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You hit it right on the head, Habu. Trying to meddle in another person's country's politics is just asking for it. I mean, there is certainly room to discuss, but there comes a point where it becomes obsession.
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LOL Creamo! Who did the recording for you? What language was that? What was the GNP of the country in 1988? Where do they stand on cloning?
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Wives with a sense of humor are kinda fun. The pigtails and cheerleader outfits Thursday nights are just icing on the cake.
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Originally posted by beet1e
All of my American friends fall into the intelligent variety, and that's probably why none of the Americans I know owns a gun
Heheh, so if we own a gun we are unintelligent. Beetle you are the type person who deserves to be tripped in the hallway.
I tried to overlook you but if I meet you I may show you how a rooster looks over a log :D
I think I dislike you lots.
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Originally posted by Kieran
Say Beetle, you aren't by any chance SittingDuckFlyingSwan, are you?
He's Staga
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I think Beatle is Elfenwolf, only more effiminate.
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More effiminate than elfenwolf or his other personas? Not likely
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I stand corrected, the real name was "FlyingDuckSittingSwan". Still... I do think of him when I read a Beetle post...
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
He's Staga
I'm too lazy to make aliases.
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Sorry staga.. you slipped with that "you didn't even apologize about the audis" comment.
Was a nice run though.
AKDejaVu
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Give it Deja!
What do you have?
THIS is at least interesting. :D
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Originally posted by Creamo
Wives with a sense of humor are kinda fun. The pigtails and cheerleader outfits Thursday nights are just icing on the cake.
Sheeesh, I envy you Creamo. The last time my wife caught me in pigtails and a cheerleader outfit she didn't think it was funny at all.
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Originally posted by Kieran
Straffo, Habu, et al-
I think you guys are getting the completely wrong point out of what I am saying. I think it is silly to judge someone on the food they eat, the beer they drink, or the amount they travel. I might eat some Brats in Germany, I might not. In the end does it really matter?
Yes it don't really matter I agree ,it's just a part of the experience :)
I have this "friend" that does everything he can to live up to the personna of your typical wine commercial. You know, the elegant sophisitication of upper-class success, lying around in designer clothing with beautiful friends, taking token sips from half-filled wine glasses. Trouble is, he really isn't a very pleasant person at all, and tends to be harshly critical of everyone around him. He isn't any more sophisticated than those he holds in lower esteem. He's just another attention-seeking wannabe social climber. I finally had to can my friendship with this fellow, his utterly boorish behavior was beyond my ability to ignore. I feel the same way about anyone that drops names or otherwise displays contempt for others based on an elitist mentality.
You described an perfect idiot :p
Totally with you on loud tourists, but... I avoid loud people in general. I don't really care what country you are from. I'm with Mark. I look at the individual, not what class they are in.
Again I agree with you
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Oh! what fun. ;)
I've had a good time with this thread. There's a couple of new names who deserve a personal mention...
...Raubvogel and MarkLuper! Sorry guys, no offence intended. I'm not trying to transfer blame to Habu for the fact that you got upset, even though it was he who mentioned the blue collar/low military rank stereotype. The problem with boards like this, and threads like mine, is that you need to have skin like an orange peel to be able to participate. Because the broad brush is pretty prolific in here. Brits like me have had to grin and bear it when we hear ignorant Yanks tarring all of us with the same brush as regards teeth/oral hygiene, and alcohol abuse - despite the fact that there are many more alcohol related deaths on American roads than here.
The difference is that Yanks think they can insult us about teeth/alcohol, and get away with it because there are relatively few Brits on this BBS prepared to retaliate. And if only ONE (or two) Brits take offence at what is said, then said ignorant Yanks can all have a good laugh, and it somehow "doesn't matter". Same goes for those of you who have insulted people in other parts of the world. In a post addressed to Boroda about Russia, the people of Russia were referred to by the collective "you red bastards". I don't have to look very far to find threads in which the same ignorant Yanks have insulted Canada, France (and the French military, under the guise of "humour"), and I'm sure I could trawl and locate other instances in which whole cultures have been insulted by a small minority of ignorant Americans.
So to those Yanks who have insulted us, and are now getting bent out of shape at my castigation of certain ignorant Yank minorities, I do believe you have a Mr. Pot in your midst. Would you be so kind as to inform him that I have a telephone call for him - a Mr. Kettle on the line. :D
PS Habu - I've been to Top Gun! ;)
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So, staga, does this mean the end of your "beetle" alter ego on the BBS?
AKDejaVu
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Ugh. I've been bludgeoned into apathy.
Go on living your wine commercial existance alone.
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I think Beetle may actually have a point with that last post. Incredible.
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No way am I as stupid as beetle... guns or not.
airhead... we can either drive over there (is it farther than say Florida?) or...
wait for him to come over here and kick the crap outta him. Bet we could beat him in an I.Q test and beat the crap outta him afterwards and then... outdrive, outshoot, and outdiddly him. I don't drink so you can out drink him for good measure. Bet I could even out eat the fat blowhard. For one sitting at least.
Bet I can converse with more people in any room he cares to name than he can too. One reason... I don't think I asked anyone at the con if they were worthy of talking to me... you know.... economicly and education wise... I use the same rules when I travel or even go to the gas station.
lazs
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Originally posted by Dowding (Work)
I think Beetle may actually have a point with that last post. Incredible.
Almost scary isn't it.
Imagine how much I would have impressed everyone in Texas when they picked me up for work early in the morning and we stopped at a truckstop type diner and I told my local friend "Eating beans for breakfast is something poor people do in where I am from" and "this Coffee tastes like toejam" (actually the local water tasted like toejam and once you learned who used bottled water to make coffee you made sure you went there).
It is all about realizing your culture and food and drink is different but not necessarly better or worse. You make enemies and piss them off when you start to tell them how your's is better, and the stupid American traveller does not realize this. He takes it as them being anti American when if fact they probably just hate him.
Good point
Actually I liked the coffee the times I was in the states. Especially in Seattle where I picked up a real taste for morning coffee and bagels....Mind you it was also because it was snowing and I'd just come from a nice australian summer.
I didn't like the local beer though...nothing better than aussie beer :D
(except for this japanese beer I had when I was in Osaka)
Tronsky
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Originally posted by Dowding (Work)
I think Beetle may actually have a point with that last post. Incredible.
He would have a point if he hadn't missed his target so badly.
Americans who are calling out the British, the Russians, and French or whomever seem to be the people that Beetle is trying to send a message to, and yet, the people he's pissed off are the very Americans who actually like foreign cultures. Meanwhile those who are already set against him are likely thinking "There goes Beetle, proving everything I've thought about those people all along.
Either way, beetle's just beetle (or staga if you believe the hype) and not representative of anything except beetle, so it really should be water off a ducks back.
-Sik
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Originally posted by Habu
I have travelled the world extensively and have the following observation to make.
The stupid American type doesn't get it but I think the reason they do not is because they have a cultural inferority complex. It is easier to order American beer and food and then cut up any local fare than it is to take the time to find the best local food and drink and where to find it. That way they can loudly brag about how great everything they know about (American food, drink etc) is and how crap everything else is.
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thats your opinion......my opinion is you suck cause you have an opinion:eek:
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In my experience this is strictly a blue collar attitude. Poor college students, low ranking military types, oil field workers etc exhibit it.
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Yup the people WHO built that country....so your opinion is that the people who built that country are what.....stupid you say.....is that really your experience.....or just your stupid opinion again.
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The same Americans who get rich by owning their own businesses, getting a meds degree, working on wall street etc are generally much more intelligent and do not behave this way.
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2 words......ENRON.....WORLDCOM .....oh ya the 3rd......MORONS.....you seem to fit right in with the third.
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So in fact it is quite an easy way to find out when in a foreign country just how successful or educated an American is. Just look at what they eat and how they behave. Loud voice and intolerence = blue collar / high school grad.
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So if i BURP!!...means i have no education....but I'm willing to test your theory....maybe my education will disappear when I fart in your face cause of your STUPID opinions.
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speaking of Yanks....
how many of us actually are ?
and does beetle know the difference?
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Hey slow
Maybe in Afganistan you can build a country with an uneducated workforce but then again look at the country you get.
I am sure you have used your education to advance rapidly in life and are now gainfully employed near the top of your profession and make at least $150,000 a year. Right?
Any idiot can go to school and drink and waste his life. Then graduate and waste his life. That does not make you educated.
Then again this is not about being educated or not. It is about people who are hicks and louts and proud of it.
Sorry if my comments in my original post offended you. But then again the truth hurts, especially when it strikes so close to home.
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"All of my American friends fall into the intelligent variety, and that's probably why none of the Americans I know owns a gun. I do not rub shoulders with blue collar workers and low ranking military types, so I can't comment on why they are so insular and uninterested/unaware of the world around them."
I haven't read most of the posts here. But this comment sort of struck me as something that I should address. I will not deny that there is a certain common mentality among folks of lesser education. That is prevalent in every culture. Something I should point out though is the vast majority of Americans as you put it, are not Americans at all. They are Europeans born, or immigrated to the United States. I spent 8 years in Europe on 2 different occasions as an enlisted member of the U.S. Army. Most of that time was in Germany, but I was able to travel a great deal. You will find that the mentality mentioned in the lead post is not exclusive to "Americans” This little custom is very common among the Folks that exported England across the Globe. Not to mention that a great deal of the "Highly intellectual" folks posting on these threads that love to proclaim their Highly moral, and righteous views are from British ancestry. Sort of Ironic isn't it?
Sort of like the Pot calling the kettle black. (in both directions)
I have made many friends across world from many cultures. All I can say is that there are closed minded fools in every society and at every education level.
Not that I am pointing figures here. I just think that folks should take care before posting on such subjects. We are one specie whether we like it or not, we are all subject to the same social flaws.
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beatle has a point? yeah.. right.
Americans start off with.... yeah right.
The bantering has always gone back and forth between all of the countries. Long before AH, long before the internet and damn sure long before beetle took his pseudonym.
Every once in a while, someone pops up and thinks its only the "other guys" that are prejudiced. So, he sets out on a mission to just prove it. He does this by hiding behind lies and trying to incite people. Somehow, the person always perceives himself as clever when doing this. The classic troll except with a goal in mind.
This troll can post a thread and judge American response to it, completely overlooking any other response. Then he's proven his point.
I got news for everyone... that worked both ways... even in beetle's post. There were just as many Brits reacting as Americans. To not be able to see that is to fall into the same trap as staga.
AKDejaVu
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doesn't hurt me at all.....I'm not American:D ....truth or no truth....it's your opinion...not the truth.
putting certain folks in certain categories....bad mate bad....and its far from the truth.
your limited observations of some folks does not give you the TRUTH....do not generalize.....its those educated folks that diddlyED with peoples pensions....4 every observation you can put forth...I can observe the opposite.....most educated folks have oversized egos....are you 1 of them?
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Two quotes from Lazs -
- or... wait for him to come over here and kick the crap outta him. Bet we could beat him in an I.Q test and beat the crap outta him afterwards and then... outdrive, outshoot, and outdiddly him.
- airhead... we can either drive over there (is it farther than say Florida?)
If you can drive over here, I'll submit to your claim that you can outdrive me. But I think you'll find that there's an ocean in the way. And I know how you hate commercial flying, but with your abilities you could fly yourself...
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It's not ego, it's an inferiority complex. Those with high egos just celebrate themselves whereas those who feel inferior try to bring everyone else down so that they may rise higher...relatively.
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Wow "beetle"... one thing you drove home with that last post...
You have zero understand of what lazs said... and I must assume... Americans in general.
AKDejaVu
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that can't be Lasz.. it's not a V-8 and the picture is of some guy wearing a helmet.. c'mon beetle
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The title of this thread really should be:
"Everything I ever needed to know about Americans I learned by poking them with a stick."
That's basically the "tactic" that a few are celebrating as proving a point. It does... just not the one you think.
AKDejaVu
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Originally posted by beet1e
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Oh! what fun. ;)
So to those Yanks who have insulted us, and are now getting bent out of shape at my castigation of certain ignorant Yank minorities, I do believe you have a Mr. Pot in your midst. Would you be so kind as to inform him that I have a telephone call for him - a Mr. Kettle on the line. :D
PS Habu - I've been to Top Gun! ;)
Why is it that Beet1e ( in the minority as he says) Starts the majority of these threads which put down people from other countries ( Yanks mostly) in his never very clever stories?
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ban him for mis-using the word Yank, like so many other brits...
HB.. are you a yank ? :)
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Hey Lazs, I looked on a map and there's an ocean in the way. No biggie cause I have a boat that holds 50 gallons of gas and has an emergency oar so we should be alright. Maybe we could stop in Bermuda, wear Speedos and burn Curval's corneas out on the way to England.
It shouldn't be hard to find Beatle, though- it looks like England is a tiny little island about the size of Oregon.
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Hey Lazs, I looked on a map and there's an ocean in the way. No biggie cause I have a boat that holds 50 gallons of gas and has an emergency oar so we should be alright. Maybe we could stop in Bermuda, wear Speedos and burn Curval's corneas out on the way to England.
A Bass boat I'm guessing, with a big assed engine and fish coolers filled with PBR.
Charon
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wear Speedos and burn Curval's corneas out on the way to England.
gross abuse of human rights
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Hey beetle did you forget it was us stupid yanks that saved your tulips in ww2!!
Or did you forget that part?
Look hes just pissed cause all english women crave American men.
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Its amazing the Germans didnt win the war, what with MontgomeIf Diana hadn't been such a tramp, she'd be alive today.
Of course the English are skinny, their food sucks and their teeth probably hurt so much they have a hard time eating.
The British drink their beer warm, what do they care, they are probably too drunk to notice its warm, and they are too impatient to get more to let it cool.
Monty Python and Benny Hill both confirmed that British men actually love to dress in drag. If they think that is humor, they were probably drunk too.
British men call cigarettes "studmuffins", and everyone knows they love to suck on studmuffins.
The British think a badass cycle is made by Vespa, and to make it really look awesome they bolt on a dozen rear view mirrors.
ry trying to screw it up so bad. dago that was some funny watermelon man LOL
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Originally posted by Airhead
Hey Lazs, I looked on a map and there's an ocean in the way. No biggie cause I have a boat that holds 50 gallons of gas and has an emergency oar so we should be alright. Maybe we could stop in Bermuda, wear Speedos and burn Curval's corneas out on the way to England.
It shouldn't be hard to find Beatle, though- it looks like England is a tiny little island about the size of Oregon.
ROTFLMAO!!!
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both great posts:D
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Gentlemen, gentlemen! No need to get all bent out of shape...
Wlfgang - u are right! The autogyro probably has an aircooled "Limbach" engine, which is based on the VW beet1e car engine - LOL! Lazs would not be seen dead in it!
RC51 - "Look hes just pissed" - yes, well I did drink two large cups of tea...
AKDejaVu.... no need to get willied. :)
Airhead! OK, Bring your boat. But if you've only got 50 gallons of gas, I'd come the shortest distance possible if I were you! Suggest you drive through Canada in Lazs's Elky, towing your boat behind, then when you reach the Atlantic coastline, sell Lazs's Elky and use the proceeds to buy that 50 gallons of gas. You'll have a few $ in change so buy some winter woollies. The shortest route from Lazsland to Limeyland is a little chilly at this time of year, and dark too. Even in the summertime, it looks like this....
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lazs you may have to put ice-skates on your elky...
and maybe a floation device...
may I suggest using a beetle... they're supposed to float
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Originally posted by Airhead
Maybe we could stop in Bermuda, wear Speedos and burn Curval's corneas out on the way to England.
Lazs in speedos?
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well.... I gotta admit... I did fly ultralights for a time and even owned one. they have little 50 horsepower rotax 2 cycle engineskinda cool tho to lookdown between your knees at the countryside 300 feet or so below ya.
I never claimed to be very bright but I at least can follow what is being said.
lazs
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Originally posted by Curval
Lazs in speedos?
...with Curval blinded...groping his way around the boat, THAT would be an interesting Boat log.
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Wouldn't want to touch the wrong thing......like...
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airhead... I looked at a map and even if all that blue stuff is water... it isn't but 4 or five inches across. even if it isn't to scale.... how far could it be? 50 gallons should be more than enough but we might wanna bring some 'merican food case we get distracted or something... One thing for sure... we don't wanna buy any gas over there... It's like about 4-5 bucks a gallon! I know... sounds like I'm toejamtin ya but it's true.... good thing you can walk across the whole little island in a day or so or it would be a squeak to live there.
lazs
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curval.... do you like gladiator movies?
lazs
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Is that what is showing on the boat ride over?
I suggest you guys take British Airways across "the pond". The economy class in a BA777 is better than First Class on all of the American carriers I've been on. ;)
Beet1e...they are apparently heading here before venturing over to Britain, so they will need to go on a more southerly course than if they went direct.
Of course if they do wear speedos our morality cops will head them off about 5 miles out so they may never make landfall here.
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Beetle. One question...would I fit in if I didn't come over to England without my tooth brush and tooth paste?
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Someone once told me that the men in England are prettier than the women.
I'm here to set the record straight. Been there. It isn't so.
But it's a close contest. ;)
Shuckins
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Ripsnort! You'll be fine. I'll see to it. :D BTW, I'm seeing my dental hygienist this week. :( It will be the usual prod-poke-scrape-scrape-ow-sorry-prod... repeated every 10 seconds for 20 minutes, then... whizzzzzzz... the orange flavoured tickling brush. :(
Shuckins! wouldn't know about English women. I never had an English girlfriend since 1976. Long story. Right now, I have the lovely Tomato, and she's not English - but no-one can guess where she's from... :)
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Originally posted by beet1e
Ripsnort! You'll be fine. I'll see to it. :D BTW, I'm seeing my dental hygienist this week. :( It will be the usual prod-poke-scrape-scrape-ow-sorry-prod... repeated every 10 seconds for 20 minutes, then... whizzzzzzz... the orange flavoured tickling brush. :(
We stopped doing that type of dental procedure years ago! Now its all done with hyper-sonic thingies.....no more prodding and scrapping (unless you've really let your teeth go!). Tell your Dental hygenist to "catch up with America" ;)
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well.. if you have plaque built up under your gums you're gonna get the 'scrape' treatment...
after I quit smoking I had one of those 'treatments'...
better known as midevial torture
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Ripsnort - I know! Many years ago when I was still at school, I had my teeth descaled by one of those 30,000Hz sonic dental probes, and I always wondered why other dentists don't use them. It's not new technology...
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I know where you got your woman from.
Right here (http://www.bride.ru/)
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LOL GTO!
Nope - wrong continent
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lol almost as good as the one from prision..
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Originally posted by beet1e
Shuckins! wouldn't know about English women. I never had an English girlfriend since 1976. Long story. Right now, I have the lovely Tomato, and she's not English - but no-one can guess where she's from... :)
Is she Chinese? Cause that's where most inflatable dolls are made:)
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This one beetle
Tomato (http://www.realdoll.com)
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Chinese all right. Name: Sum Yung Gy
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Nope - you're all wrong. I had already said she was not from Russia (wrong continent), and then you yank handsomehunkes suggest China! Still, I wouldn't expect the culturally unaware to realise that Russia and China occupy the SAME continent. :rolleyes:
GTO - I already withdrew my request for pics of Kieran's daughter(s), so that was very naughty of you to post them.
Talk amongst yourselves.
Toodle-Pip.
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Well beetle,
I suppose if your intent was to needle someone you were right on target. You did needle me.
BTW, I like guns too and own them. I find them facinating and enjoy shooting them at paper, clay pigeons, and iron targets. I also find it enjoyable to reload my own shells. Not much of a hunter, can't find it in myslelf to pull the trigger on a deer. Tried three different times, just couldn't do it. I wouldn't hesitate though if me and my family's ability to survive were at stake.
Discussions like this one serve no real purpose in my humble opinion. I have met some Brits I really liked, meet very few people I don't care for regardless of national origin.
Everyone I have met has a personal story, some history, something to ponder over. I agree with Habu, the cuisine in each culture tells you something about that culture, it broadens one's insight into that culture. It can also prove delightlfull to the palate.
That there are ignoramuses in this world is a given. If you don't beleive that you are living in a fantasy world. They are of all nationalities, and since we are focusing on "Americans" I will admit to having met more than my fair share of them right here at home.
This is my last post in this thread, take it for what you may think it's worth.
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Keep reading until you get it.
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GTO - I already withdrew my request for pics of Kieran's daughter(s),
Once a pedophile, always a pedophile. ;)
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Originally posted by beet1e
Nope - you're all wrong. I had already said she was not from Russia (wrong continent), and then you yank handsomehunkes suggest China! Still, I wouldn't expect the culturally unaware to realise that Russia and China occupy the SAME continent. :rolleyes:
GTO - I already withdrew my request for pics of Kieran's daughter(s), so that was very naughty of you to post them.
Talk amongst yourselves.
Toodle-Pip.
She's probably from the Philippines...... a lot of old white guys find companions there.
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
This one beetle
Tomato (http://www.realdoll.com)
Oh GREAT!! Thanks alot GTO!! My wife saw your link and ordered the "Charlie" doll so now I'm out seven grand! Oh well, at least the anal cavity on Chuck is a free option, so it's not a total loss.
BTW, the way the European economy is going Beatle couldn't afford a love doll, inflatable or not. He'd be lucky to afford an inflatable fist.
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S'ok, Thrawn. Don't get too hot about it.
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She's probably from the Philippines...... a lot of old white guys find companions there.
Nope. I've already said (twice) that Asia is the wrong continent. I was about to rail at NUKE, and then realised his knowledge of world geography does not extend beyond N. America.
Mark Luper - what's the special fascination of reloading your own shells? Is that some special privilege? I recall Lazs asking someone if they could reload their own shells, as if it was something not everyone is allowed to do. Hell, even I have reloaded a .357 Magnum...
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A snob is a snob no matter what country they are from.:rolleyes: