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Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by Thydney
(Post 6075843)
The French
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Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
(Post 6075083)
I guess you don't have a thick skin. BTW, some of what you wrote could equally apply to the UK so it's not like the US is unique.
Thats not to say a kick up the arse isn't warranted sometimes - like when you have gone off the deep end into the land of 24hr pity-parties. That place is nothing but bad news. Your second point is prob very true. But she's a Brit, this is America and the reverse (as true as it is) just doesn't apply or help. Unfortunately. |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by Emma M
(Post 6071385)
Fakeness, selfishness, narrow mindedness and intolerance!!!
I swear, I'm going to SCREAM!!! :curse: The next time I hear someone say "This is a Christian country..." The next time someone singles me out for being different with their fake "oooh, I just lurve your accent!" The next time I see some who's - yer - mate on TV with fake white veneer teeth The next time I read that size zero is attractive The next time I hear a sexist remark... and it is ACCEPTABLE!!! The next time I see a religiously intolerant or racist bumper sticker The next time I have to throw the trash out... and KNOW I could recycle most of it if the facilities were available! The next time someone gives me a weird look for CHOOSING to walk down the street! The next time I hear about another shooting The next time I hear about "those ragheads" The next time some butthead tries to tell me about Christianity as if I never heard of Jesus before I'm not going to be responsible for my bloody actions!!! Have a nice day. Reg. Frank R. |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 6074219)
So despite all your ranting, you're beginning to think like a Yank...
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Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by BritishGuy36
(Post 6071530)
A lot of americans are tossers, granted.
They are totally ignorant that there is a whole world outside their borders, which is why Sept 11 was a shock to them. They are intolerant of new ideas, anything different to the established way of things is criticised and dismissed. Of course not all yanks are like that, but each time I visit, I see it everywhere. Why do I want to move to the US, you ask? :rofl: Well, the missus is ready to go back there. Her work is tailing off here, and financially, it just makes sense for us to make the move now. I'm hoping 'll just get used to the idiocy and learn to live with it. |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
On the coast.
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Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by BritishGuy36
(Post 6071530)
A lot of americans are tossers, granted.
They are totally ignorant that there is a whole world outside their borders, which is why Sept 11 was a shock to them. They are intolerant of new ideas, anything different to the established way of things is criticised and dismissed. Of course not all yanks are like that, but each time I visit, I see it everywhere. Why do I want to move to the US, you ask? :rofl: Well, the missus is ready to go back there. Her work is tailing off here, and financially, it just makes sense for us to make the move now. I'm hoping 'll just get used to the idiocy and learn to live with it. I can't speak for all Yanks, but as an American, Sept 11 was a shock to me because somebody flew big ****ing airplanes into the Twin ****ing Towers and the ****ing Pentagon and nearly succeeded in doing the same to the White ****ing House! And that kind of thing just doesn't happen every day.:) And I think you're lying about there being a so-called "world" outside our borders, we were always told that there was nothing worthwhile out there.;) |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 6083943)
I can't speak for all Yanks, but as an American, Sept 11 was a shock to me because somebody flew big ****ing airplanes into the Twin ****ing Towers and the ****ing Pentagon and nearly succeeded in doing the same to the White ****ing House!
And that kind of thing just doesn't happen every day.:) And I think you're lying about there being a so-called "world" outside our borders, we were always told that there was nothing worthwhile out there.;) |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 6083943)
I can't speak for all Yanks, but as an American, Sept 11 was a shock to me because somebody flew big ****ing airplanes into the Twin ****ing Towers and the ****ing Pentagon and nearly succeeded in doing the same to the White ****ing House!
And that kind of thing just doesn't happen every day.:) And I think you're lying about there being a so-called "world" outside our borders, we were always told that there was nothing worthwhile out there.;) .......and as a Brit I was in shock too and as we all were when the terrorists hit the UK on 7/7. ABY..........what can I say. The poster that made those remarks is making himself look totally ignorant and idiotic, and he obviously knows nothing......... wow....why are people so thoughtless and self absorbed:o:confused::mad: |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
(Post 6084039)
.......and as a Brit I was in shock too and as we all were when the terrorists hit the UK on 7/7.
ABY..........what can I say. The poster that made those remarks is making himself look totally ignorant and idiotic, and he obviously knows nothing......... wow....why are people so thoughtless and self absorbed:o:confused::mad: |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by Sugarmooma
(Post 6084039)
ABY..........what can I say. The poster that made those remarks is making himself look totally ignorant and idiotic, and he obviously knows nothing......... wow....why are people so thoughtless and self absorbed:o:confused::mad:
British Guy 36, you've got a lot to learn. |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 6084075)
I do see his point.
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Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by Hiro11
(Post 6084085)
I don't.
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Re: I'm getting fed up with...
There is an thin film of resentment abroad, a sense that when much of the rest of the world was experiencing terrorism, it was ignored by Americans, they were OK, they, on the mainland, had only once been attacked where they lived. In fact both the government and some groups of citizens, had in the past, supported the terrorism in other countries.
Suddenly we were attacked at home and the rest of the world was required to take notice. The act was perhaps the biggest single act of non-state terrorism ever, and the most of the world cried with us voluntarily. The US reaction, treating every foreigner and foreign country with suspicion, disrupting international commerce, requiring data on all travelers seems to be overkill, kidnapping and extraordinary renditions of the nationals of other countries, far, far above anything the USA had been prepared to do for other countries prior to 9/11. I don't want to overstate this sense, it is a gossamer thin cloud over the thick layer of sympathy, a mere mist, but making foreigners and foreign countries who have no connection to the USA, to jump through hoops for no apparent purpose except to be seen doing something, seems to be increasing the density of the mist. |
Re: I'm getting fed up with...
Originally Posted by another bloody yank
(Post 6084115)
If his point was that a lot of Americans aren't as knowledgeable as they could be in the areas of world geography and foreign affairs than I agree.
I don't agree with the way he said it, and why the guy that grades my road in Frankford, Missouri should know that the PM of Australia apologized to the Aborigines is debatable. Also, I don't think that this is a trait monopolized by Yanks... |
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