Posted by Will Turner, Karaoke King at nat0.ucc.ac.uk on September 24, 2003 at 07:00:53:
In Reply to: The British People are fucking Morons... posted by -AL- on September 24, 2003 at 06:22:32:
Yes, there is a culture of pessimism in the UK. But Eddie makes just as many jokes about that, and has long campaigned for us to be a bigger part of Europe and to be more tolerant (Do you know anyone else who'd perform a routine in French).
But there is currently a culture of denial in America. What saddens me is that they had to realised "There are people out there that don't like us." Now, the Bush administration didn't try to understand why the world's poorest/repressed countries are annoyed, he decided that they were "evil".
Now I know not all Americans see in this blinkered black and white view of the world. Hell, I know enough Englishmen do. I won't resort to racial taunts, and I was hoping you'd have the maturity not to.
Like what happened to the Dixie Chicks. They burnt their CDs! Public burnings! And you're the country that's espousing free speech and individualism to the world?
I know Britain has a fairly shitty past, but that's no reason for the cycle of abuse to continue.
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: ...when it comes to the bitter hatred rooted in jealousy they so obvisouly harbour for the Yanks. "Oh, the Yanks are stupid", "Oh, the Yanks don't get our jokes", "Oh, The Yanks make shit TV, cinema,music; in fact art in general": FUCK OFF, YOU IDIOSYNCRATICALLY HATEFUL, XENOPHOBIC CUNTS!
: As you can see,oneof my pet peeves is the cynical, sardonic British outlook to life that is actually based on nothing but racism, sexism, homophobia and a very unhealthy desire to go back to the glory days when Britannia ruled the waves.
: Fucking annoying!
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