Taking sides: UK vs US

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Yeah, well...i just found out from my mother that one of my cats was ripped apart by a mountain lion or something. Tore its head clean off. Great news to start a day off with.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

Americans: talk too loud, invade countries, don't let you smoke in restaurants, don't know much about other cultures, have crap coffee

"Talk too loud": That's because we have to shout over all the progress that's happening herein. Continually. (Or we could all have mothers like mine, who constantly prod us to "speak up" or "speak louder".)

"Invade countries": No we don't. We liberate them. Difference! :)

"Don't let you smoke in restaurants": Dependent on the location, this one is. My city just recently enacted new ordinances that would make restaurants have to meet stringent guidelines in order to have a "smoking" section. But by default, most restaurants locally are "smoke-free". Thank God! (Though there is some kind of insanity behind banning smoking in bars, IMHO.)

"Don't know much about other cultures": I don't know about that. We're all so many different cultures and peoples that we're all too keenly aware of differing cultures. If you were to run into me on the street, you'd probably think I wasn't American. But *surprise*, I am!

"Have crap coffee": I've had excellent coffee. I've had bad coffee. This happens. Good coffee can be found herein, again IMHO. But I end up relying on soft drinks for most of my caffeine intake. Robert D. Kaplan put it best when he said that coffee has a destabilizing effect on one's stomach in a hot climate. This is true. I live in a climate that could accurately be described as "hot" 75% of the year or so. Yay for sodas!

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

Sorry to hear that, Spinktor the Unmerciful. Where in America did your cat live?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link

Greenville, SC. Parents moved there about 2 years ago or so.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

:-( I lived there for a year.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:54 (twenty years ago) link

Is it me, or didn't the British WIN the American War Of Independance?

It's just that some of them were called 'Americans' afterwards.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

Regardless, we have stars on our flag now.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link

The Canadians stayed loyal to Us, after all!

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

Canadians and their war-mongering.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

We mean, what about the War of 1812?

― Her Royal Highness Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

You didnt fare so well agains the Mongolians though.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

We have craps that are bigger than the UK.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

I just had to explain to my instructor why i had just bursted into laughter...now im the asshole. Great.

We have craps that are bigger than the UK

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:15 (twenty years ago) link

...why i had just bursted...

Wow. I dont know what happened there. Sorry. Re-reading that line makes my head hurt.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:16 (twenty years ago) link

let us not forget the war of 1812-1815, when the british basically urinated all over american soil and burnt most of the public building in washington DC. a bit more effort from us and you guys would all be drinking bovril for breakfast

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

Num num!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

"I'll have a pint of the black stuff"
"You can't drink a pint of Bovril!"

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

Euw bovril!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

slackers! finish the job you lazy gits!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link

The answer is Germany you fuckfaces.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:30 (twenty years ago) link

No one asked for your opinion, Ally. Go back to work.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:31 (twenty years ago) link

America does have the kraft-genius that is Taco John's though. well at least in the North West. So i'm willing to put history aside for that.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

"Our tax dollars at work"

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:32 (twenty years ago) link

Um, Momus lives in Germany now

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link

I am not letting one man ruin my opinion of an entire race! He's not even actually German.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

TOMBOT makes me hate Alabama. And that seems fair.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:35 (twenty years ago) link

I am not letting one man ruin my opinion of an entire race!

Said in re: Germany -- has a kind of icky feel, no?

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

Momus is all things to all men. I'd like to think that theres a small part of him inside all of us. Including the Germans

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, if you're totally lame, Enrique.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:37 (twenty years ago) link

Enrique's no? was entirely too latin.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

ANYWAY, Germans.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

I'm German, Ally. Perhaps you should reconsider your Deutschlove.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, if you're totally lame, Enrique.

Oh, okay. Germans != race anyways. < /feverish efforts to repress inner Burchill>

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:04 (twenty years ago) link

oops, trust me, you are such a nonissue in my mind that your statement doesn't really affect me at all.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, snap!

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

Hey! This is my thread. Behave yourselves and be nice to each other. Discuss the relative merits of America and Britain. Discuss shower water pressure and Spanish bars in Clapham. Discuss how the major problem of Clapham is the lack of 137 buses. Now I'm going to bed, goodnight.

― An Australian, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

What is bovril?

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

Now I'm going to bed, goodnight

That made absolutely no sense to me until i read his/her handle...

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

'beef tea'

bet that sounds like fun out in california or wherever.
not a universally adored dish.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

Is that just like drinking beef soup broth?

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

Dunno. It's rank, whatever (if healthy). cf Marmite.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

How does it differ from bouillion?

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

Dunno, you can't say 'bouillion' in a thick Glaswegian accent with quite the same effect.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

Aye.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

It has the texture of honey and the appearance of v. dark chocolate spread. You put a spoonful of it in a mug of hot water and stir. It helps you survive a winter afternoon of deadly non-league nil-nil draw. This is Bovril.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

"Snap" is the funniest response to anything ever.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Both countries have fine people in them and reasons to be there. Simple!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link

Peace monger.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

:-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

THE UK IS SHIT, BRING ON IT FUCKFACES.

Except they stole my Tracer Hand? What is that about? That's really sad and disheartening.

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

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