Fig Newton

Well, if you were fair and impartial, which you are not, you would see quite clearly where the nastiness came from, and were it is still coming from.

From a business point of view I can understand why you would be reluctant to alienate a group of your members over one but that doesn't change the obviousness of what goes on here.

Interesting how you are so concerned about people being dismissed after they are obviously rude and vile to other members. Shall I include some of their most lovely comments for you to try and explain?

Well, as I've said before, you people are no longer in the UK, you are in America now. You are in a country with a different culture that many here do not want to respect and that many here are openly hostile to. If you don't consider yourself to be in that category then feel free to exclude yourself.

As an immigrant you can't expect to come into a country and demand that its culture change and accomodate to the one you are used to. That doesn't mean you are not allowed to hold dissenting views, especially after you get citizenship, but you and others here need to face the reality that since you have grown up in another culture you will never have that way of life again. It is arrogant and insulting to your new culture, and its citizens, to make such demands while constantly trying to tear it down. If you or others find it disturbing to hear an American pointing that out and/or you look down upon respecting and assimilating into a new culture then maybe emigrating is not for you, or them.

Once again, if those words don't apply to you, or anyone else here, then feel free to exclude yourselves.


Right, and will that be a business decision or a moral one?

Duncan Roberts

Still don't want to answer my original question which I made quite clear so you wouldn't misunderstand and answer something else? So by your own admission earlier in this thread, the only reason you posted was because people called you names. Good reason, if you're 5!

Fig Newton

Ask it again as it is so easy to get lost in all the nonsense people post.

Wrong, try reading again.

ladyofthelake

Maybe Fig, if you tried to share your thoughts in a more friendly 'down to earth' manner things would have worked out better for you.
From my interpretation of your posts, you have been very patronizing and condescending. No wonder people have become defensive.

I live in North Florida and do not have any British friends in this area. All my friends are American and I know that sarcasm and irony is not used in humour by them, so I don't use it either when I'm with them. Why oh why though, is not not OK to use sarcasm, irony or cynicism amongst other Brits on a forum, when cleary the majority of us get it?

Jan Alaska

waitttttt ... I swore to myself I wouldnt get involved with this fig newton person ... on account of figs not agreeing with me (if you get my meaning)

Fig .. you said you were in the Airforce .. worked on F-16's and you seriously were never ever ever ever stationed in the UK ? Even my neighbour who was a lowly bolt ... or is that nut ? ehem ... was stationed at Upper Heyford.


*sigh* see now I've gotten involved with another cyber-argument

Jan

MiniBrit

Well I have only been living in the US for 3 months so I suppose I can be excused, but I honestly didn't know what Fig Newtons where. I was watching the TV last night and a comedian was doing his routine and mentioned 'Fig Newton' and just for a second I thought that OUR Fig Newton had become so famous (or infamous) he was being discussed on the TV..... silly me.

Lion in Winter

Never mind him, go and talk to Yorkie (new poster). He's planning on moving to Houghton Lake.

krizzy

Fig Newtons were created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Works in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. They had named many of their other cookies for nearby towns, and almost called it the "Fig Shrewsbury" before Newton won out.

The following alternate story is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times, 1998: "The man who originated the Fig Newton, Charles Roser put his cookie recipe to work in his factory in Kenton, Ohio, and sold out to Nabisco in 1910, says Ray Arsenault, in ‘St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream.’�

According to Nabisco: Fig Newtons were named after either Sir Isaac Newton or the town of Newton, Massachussettes

Fig Newtons were one of the first commercially baked products in America.


This cookie is the 3rd most popular cookie in the U.S., over 1 billion are consumed each year.

Duncan Roberts

My post.

And the only answer you gave to the question in the original post
...and people calling me an aryan and a twat and other vile names...
You gave no other explanation after asking the question twice so I had to go by what you had written.

Lion in Winter

Let's do a Biscuit History thread. It would have about as much point as this one - probably more. Can you do Hob Nobs?

Jan Alaska

I already did ... .sent him a pm

Jan

Lion in Winter

Cool. Better tell him where to buy snow plows, too.

Duncan Roberts

One other thing. You do realize that a high proportion of people on the USA forum are married to Americans and that is the reason they are here? I think that being involved in an American family will give you the a pretty good view into how Americans think, something you say we can't know because we are immigrants.

krizzy

No it only does triva on American food......

I found this.....

“Hob-nob� is a term that was made popular in the United States during the 1920’s. It means to associate on very friendly terms, to drink and chat together. The term was frequently followed by the word “with�, as in “She hob-nobs with royalty�.

Fig Newton

Maybe you should really read the posts or stop trying to not offend your group members.

Once again, try really reading the threads.

Good for you for not being sarcastic to your American friends but if you truely don't think there is anything wrong with being sarcastic in everyday life then go right ahead and use it on them. Then try and explain you were simply being humorous. Good luck if you do, but don't be surprised if you lose many, if not most, of your American friends.