Eskimo

or an American Female

Just Jenney

It's funny that you mention that, because I think that Americans are TOO "patriotic". So much so it almost makes me want to gag. And I'M American!

Everywhere you look there's an American flag -- on flagpoles outside shopping malls and car dealerships, printed on bumper stickers, bandanas, calendars, t-shirts, baseball caps, can coolers (those foam thingies that keep your drinks cold), tv adverts for trucks and cars, pencils, magnets, etc., etc., etc. It's as if the DC street vendors have proliferated every urban, suburban and rural area throughout the country with their American touristy crap. It's like Americans are parading around like tourists in their own country!

Now, don't get me wrong. I have a 5x7 magnet of the American flag on the bumper of my car. I placed it there on Sept 13, 2001 and haven't moved it since. I always look forward to hearing the national anthem performed at athletic events, and even have a CD copy of Whitney Houston's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner". My father was a 21-year career Army officer, so I grew up in a military household. I am very patriotic, and very American.

But it's got to stop somewhere, this excessive patriotism. I don't know how many of you were here right after 9/11, but it's almost like our flag went from being a symbol of national strength to being just another marketing product overnight. It wasn't like this before 9/11, at least not on the scale that it is now. If anything it just makes our patriotism -- which I believe, for Americans, is very sincere and deep -- look superficial and showy.

I have never lived in the UK so I don't know how nationalistic the British people are. But I doubt you are "less patriotic" than Americans are. The fact that you don't display your flag on everything that moves -- or doesn't -- is sort of refreshing, if you'd ask me.

~ Jenney

ps. Just thought of another thing to add to this thread that Mark's mentioned to me before that he wishes was exported to Britain: Not having to bag your own groceries at the supermarket. He thought it was weird at first, felt awkward just standing there while the person put everything in the bags for him... Now he likes it, makes him feel "pampered"!

elfman

I agree up to a point - the trouble is I usually feel I could do it more efficiently than the baggers in our local A&P and elsewhere: They always seem to only put about three items in each bag, and then they often put each "filled" bag inside another before handing it over. The result is a really low grocery items/bags ratio which means more plastic bags to dispose of when you get home and ultimately must cost the supermarkets more in the long run.
Not saying I don't like having my groceries bagged, just that I think they could do it more efficiently.

delphiman

i thought they just bagged the stuff for you to make sure you dont "pre-bag it" i.e nick it.

Got to admint I dont like the bag overload you end up with.

As for massive flag overdose. try visiting England when the next world cup is on (assuming we are in it )...St George Crosses plastered everywhere...Ive still got mine from last year

Yosser

alright....calm down, no offence neighbor. Never had a cockroach in my food, but if a food item was missing or not the right food, I just ask politely if they would kindly change it for me, no big deal.

Also eating out was a occasional thing for me living in the U.K, but every weekend I eat out here in the U.S, chances are because I am frequenting an eatery on a regualr basis, one would come across unsatisfactory service from time to time......only because the "Hooters" girl took too damn long to get me some swill

Yosser

I live in Rowlett on the outskirts of Dallas.

Please go ahead with remarks about British men, we really don't care what you think of us, but atleast with have a sense of humor.

And a women that actually takes care of her self, goes to the gym etc is not a physical fault, it bloody right fantastic.

Steff

Hehe, so thats how they get those big "bappers!"

Lothianlad

Don't need them...there are no flies here.

berni

most of the people. then the british would rule the world again hazaa. ok but seriously, the price of just about everything, and the ability to have a conversation with a stranger.

Perfumdiva1

Oh my God no, I cant stand it..

My kids are not small babies, and they know how to deal with cutlery properly.

It just makes my skin crawl when I see grown adult attacking their food with a fork in the totally upright position :scared:

Sorry, it is just the way I am, and most of my Brit friends

No offence here peeps, just one of my personal Cant Stand It things ...


PD

anotherlimey

My feminist alarm is going off; either that or my no-sense-of-humour alarm is interferring with it.

Yosser

Its funny out of my list of 10 things to import back to Blighty...my mention of TITS gets everyone all fired up...lets look at it this way, if there are 350 odd million yanks in the U.S, there would be a larger percentage of well groomed females. I am not being sexiest, just observing.

dbark

Actually, exercise has no effect on breast size per se. It can firm the underlying muscles, but can actually cause the loss of fatty tissue from the area, making the breasts smaller but firmer. Maybe quality rather than quantity? I notice 'tit' is only in the word 'quantity' not 'quality', but that's another story.....

Perfumdiva1

Now that is funny

I think the exercise at the gym is called, pick up phone, dial 10 digits, holding stomach and chest in whilst doing this

Request appointment with cosmetic surgeon, call to be repeated 10 times, or should be, to make sure you make a good choice of surgeon

Appointment made, hand over many dollars, at least in $1000 increments, repeat 3 times more, making sure right hand has had as much excercise as the right

And go for it

All in all, I think the American woman look so much better than their British counterparts with the same disposal income

You go girls..

snowbunny

I think it's cos Wonderbras are less expensive here. There ya go, guys: export some Wonderbras.