Re: Bob, you said way too much shit, so I'm gonna have to drop bombs
If you think I'm going to bother to read all of this you're more stupid than most Americans, which is very stupid. I have skimmed through your bizarre rant though.
I am the first to admit you have produced some good things. Woody Allen, The Simpsons, Jazz music, hip hop up until 2001 and err various East and West cost 60s bands such as Love and The Velvet Underground to name but too. Oh yes and William Burroughs. Most of these are only good though because they're critical of your caveman-mentality country.
We all know some americans are intelligent but in the main you're a bunch of fast-food-eating, SUV-driving, illiterate, absurdly patriotic arseholes who value the dollar above everything else. Your country has no soul, is jealous of the rest of world and that's why it seeks to control the world through cultural imperialism: the result being a bland, environmentally destroyed world where everything is branded and if something can't make money it's cast asside like a half-eaten Big Mac.
English cuisine is a contradiction in terms as well, like american culture or german humour. Cliche, but true.
I was just striking back after it was proclaimed we were a bunch of rotten-toothed limeys, if you remember. I wouldn't normally launch an attack unless provoked, UNLIKE the USA- hahaha a bit of satire for you- another great English tradition.
> You Brits think it very clever to incessantly bash Americans via this
> website, a site run by an American, living in the same city as our
> favorite Mancunian.
> You think very poorly of us and of our nation. Could it be that you are
> simply jealous that the UK has been relegated to near 3rd world status,
> that you have almost no influence and no power? Could it be that you are
> jealous of our influence in technology, science, medicine, politics, world
> affairs, pop culture, etc.? Could it be that you have an inferiority
> complex that you mask in the form of all manner of put downs, low blows,
> and gross insults (i.e. acting superior), to simply mask the inferiority
> you feel inside?
> OK, the UK is not a 3rd world country, but your quality of life is lower
> than ours, your trains are shit, your flats and homes, smaller. In
> addition, while a dollar is worth nearly half of one Pound Sterling, I've
> always found that the cost of things in the UK is the same in Pounds as it
> is in the USA in dollars, so your buying power is much less. The man who
> earns 50,000 pounds a year has the same buying power in the UK as the man
> who earns 50,000 dollars a year in the USA. I find that disgusting and
> sad. You are getting ripped off every time you make a bloody purchase.
> And, it is criminal. As zealously capitalistic as you see us, at least
> there is a reward for working hard in America. There is not a proper
> reward system for working hard in England. Perhaps, this is why so many
> people in the UK are on the Dole, a notion, I took from you.
> While your latest rant has focused on many of the things you loathe about
> America, nothing new for you, why do you waste your time musing about a
> nation that you think is so terrible? The question is: Why are you
> obsessed with America? Why are the people of the U.K. obsessed with
> America? I am not obsessed with England, though I like the UK in general,
> very much. I have been to England several times, and once spent a month
> backpacking through the UK. By contrast, I am certain that despite all
> your lies that will come after this post, you have never set foot in
> America, or if you have, you were here once for a week. As a result, you
> have no idea what you are talking about and therefore you cannot speak
> intelligently about America, because you are only regurgitating that which
> you have read and been told by a particular segment of the English masses.
> Before I begin dissect your latest rant, and all the arguments that you
> will make after (since I've heard it all before), let me say this. I could
> also rant on incessantly about your colonial ways, particularly your
> nation's raping of the Indian Sub-Contintent. I too could talk of your
> nation, a nation without any cuisine to speak of, where the tourist finds
> himself/herself eating the most greasy fish and chips and surviving on
> dairy milk Cadbury chocolate, as all you have to offer is things made with
> kidneys, livers, and all other internal organs of animals, including the
> intestines of a sheep, though of course you blame that entirely on the
> Scots. My point is that there are plenty of bad things to say about the UK
> and the United States. However, there are more negative things to say
> about the cold and dreary island with God awful weather that you live on,
> simply because your history is longer, as you so rightly point out. From
> the tyranny of kings & queens long gone to present day, there is
> enough to bludgeon you with dear friend. Oh yes, there is plenty, for your
> history may be no more sordid than our history, but it is longer, hence I
> reiterate, there is more to find fault with.
> Anticpating your dial-a-cliche arguments then, let me say this:
> 1) Culture - we have one, but it is not as long as yours.
> 2) Grotesquely obese bodies - many Americans are fat it is true, and many
> more are not, but at least unlike your poverty stricken nation, we have
> enough to eat, while you are starving.
> 3) IQ's & Nobel Prizes - our IQ's are no less than yours and we have
> won many Nobel prizes. Take a look at this year's winners, for example.
> How many Americans do you see? How many Brits. do you see?
> 4) A mentally handicapped illiterate President - yes this is true.
> 5) All we have is lame Tony Blair.. the most defiant thing he did was
> merely go against the opinions of the British people.
> You are wrong about Mr. Blair. He is a warmonger.
> 6) Corporate capitalism - your nation is no less interested in making
> money than my nation. Moreover, being wealthy or striving for it, is no
> sin.
> 7) Racist, bigoted, and prejudiced political figures that tell asylum
> seekers to go f*** off - And yet the fact remains that it is harder to get
> British citizenship and be a subject of the Queen than it is to get
> American citizenship. Just ask Mr. Mohammed Al Fayed. We, in America, have
> our fair share of Pakistanis, Indians, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese,
> Chinese, Mexican, South American, Central American, Thai, Philippino, such
> that unlike your racist arse, we don't lump & clump all
> "Asians" or all Latinos together. We are THE MOST diverse nation
> on Earth. Whites are no longer the majority in America. Statistics show
> that the USA is 51% people of color, 49% Caucasian.
> 8] No history to speak of - that's an outright lie. And yes, as you so
> rightly point out, we did kick your ass in the Revolutionary War, and
> saved you again in WWI, and again in WWII. Have you heard of the Marshall
> plan? As a result, you owe us a debt that can never be repaid, so when you
> tell us to think of your nation helping to create our nation, hence that
> we should be grateful, also think about how we helped you and reciprocate
> that gratitude.
> 9) Tax systems that f*** the poor and give to the rich - Right, and it is
> not so different in England. Moreover, having more than 1/2 your wages
> garnished by taxes is both criminal & egregious. As for your comments
> about discrimination, you live in the most discriminatory nation on the
> face of the earth. In the Oxford English Dictionary, alongside the
> definition for discrimination, there should be an imprint of the Union
> Jack.
> 10) Fascism going on rampantly - ditto for the UK. Just ask the Pakistanis
> in Salford.
> 11) While many Americans, do not think for themselves, I do, to the extent
> that I can. Nobody fully thinks for himself when bombarded by media,
> magazines, newspapers, office chatter, the internet, family, friends,
> every single day. Other people help to shape our views, and we to shape
> their views. I do not simply regurgitate what this corporate media and
> f***wit president want me to believe. I don't believe so much as a word he
> says.
> 12) Amazing that you are our biggest ally. I would think it was Israel.
> Nation full of ungrateful limey wankers that you are who do nothing but
> belittle us.
> 13) You are vegetarian or vegan, hence you don't support the meat
> industry, correct? Good. If everyone lived as I do, nobody in America
> would purchase albums by Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, 50 Cent or
> Eminmem, or anything on the Top 40 charts. They would never watch
> television at all, because I don't own one. I read, I go on the internet,
> or take a walk. If I feel the need to see something on a screen, I go to
> the movies. They would never buy 99.9% of the American newspapers &
> magazines out there, for I don't. They would never watch American
> football, American baseball, or drink American beer, for I do none of
> these things. They would never watch the Superbowl, because I don't. I'd
> rather watch an Arsenal match on Sky Sports, if I had a TV, and a satelite
> dish. The point is not to each his own, but rather that you do what you
> can do in the way that you live. And in living with some integrity, you go
> to bed, or wake up, knowing that you don't support XYZ things, and that
> your life reflects that. And that's the best you can do. Knowing what is
> going on is all well and good, changing it is futile, mate. The
> corporations who run our governments and our news media have nearly all
> the power. Check back in with me when you are older, wiser, and more
> jaded.
> 14) But the difference between America and the UK, you see, is that most
> of us did not BELIEVE these lies, whereas the American people willingly
> believed it, assuming wrongly that anyone in power would be telling the
> truth. The Americans need to learn to question their government, as does
> their media, which is what WE do and what our MEDIA does.
> More lies. Nearly 50% of Americans were against the war before it started.
> Get off your high horse and your superiority complex. Your people and
> media are no more informed than ours. In fact, you are worse, as the BBC
> is government run and government owned, and our television stations and
> newspapers are not. American approval for the war only went up when it
> looked like we were winning, after the air strike campaign began. Now,
> that Americans are dying every day, Bush's approval ratings have never
> been lower.
> 15) There is NO COUNTRY in this world more interested in making money,
> ripping people off, capitalising globally, forcing people in undeveloped
> countries to work slave labour for virtually nothing (in their effort to
> save money), than America. The American source of joy and pride is
> wealth.. whereas other countries pride themselves more on other things..
> intelligence, for example.
> More lies & rhetoric. No nation on this Earth prides themselves on
> intelligence. As if the UK, does not force people in 3rd world nations
> into slave labor. Give me a break, you mastered it and taught us by your
> colonial, imperial, ways. This is the epitome of the Pot calling the
> kettle Black.
> 16) Our comedians are much more funny than yours, for our comedians humor
> is universal, whereas your comedians are only understood by people on your
> island, which is why your situation comedies are not translated into 157
> different languages, and wanted in 157 nations. When you produce a show
> like Seinfeld, give me a ring, ok. By contrast, Monty Python and Fawlty
> towers were crap.
> 17) The average English family is nor more or less enlightened that the
> average American one, which is to say almost completely unenlightened.
> In conclusion, it is too bad that you are incapable of going so much as
> day, let alone a fortnight without demeaning us, because then you would
> have nothing to talk about other than how the British Secret Services
> & The Royal Family actually conspired to, and then eventually
> murdered, Princess Diana.