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My ancestors trump all others, as we are named for slavery (being slaves) and that's why we are called Slavs/Slova (YugoSLAVian, czechoSLOVAkian, SLOVAkian...ect.)
If I were intending to call you a liar, there would be no sneaking up on it and you would not need to clarify the issue either.
I think you give your television offerings far too much credibility to attribute them to the cultural development of foreign countries.
I'm simply saying your friends do NOT represent the average Brit if as late as 1970 they were characterizing you in any authentic manner as a "cowboy". You might not be sophisticated enough to plumb the Brit humour to ascertain they were taking the mickey out of you and will KEEP that going for as long as you'll continue buying it. That little facet is very characteristic of the Brit humour, especially with foreigners and even more apropos towards Yanks er, Americans.
Your television may be very popular over there but I can assure you no one takes it any more seriously than you folks take Coronation Street or the Vicar of Dibley.
I wonder if you could possibly be more condescending?
I lived there for a couple of years, went to college and was married to a Brit. I always knew when my friends were taking the mickey.
oh yeah, i was having beers with a danish stranger in copenhagen once
i asked him what he thought about south carolina, if he had any concept of it whatsoever.
he made pistols with his hands and said, "Bang bang? Cowboys and indians?"
No no, Le Roi, BruSan assures us this does not happen, at least not when you're talking to the super-intelligent, erudite foreigners that only he associates with!
As long as the rest of the world envies our form of government, and the results that used be far more apparent such as freedom of speech, of the press, and a strong Constitution; then I could care less what they believe. We are the most successful country in human history, yet a large segment of the population want to change it for the worse. We can either keep it, or lose it to failed European style socialist models.
I'd rather keep it.
Haar; your country has existed for not even two hundred years before going into steep decline. You do realize the British empire easily existed for a few hundred years longer than that and then we can discuss the Roman empire and it's longevity, moving on to various Chinese dynasties before that, making your country seem like a pimple on a gnats azz using any relevant yardstick for comparison.
You've patterned everything you attribute to your constitution from success's observed in other countries. You think your slave owning forefathers were all models of moral superiority? Really?
You are sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door and it has absolutely nothing to do with adopting "failed European style socialist models". LOL! You have only but to look inward to find your Achilles heel.
Where do you people get this superiority stuff from?
Haar; your country has existed for not even two hundred years before going into steep decline. You do realize the British empire easily existed for a few hundred years longer than that and then we can discuss the Roman empire and it's longevity, moving on to various Chinese dynasties before that, making your country seem like a pimple on a gnats azz using any relevant yardstick for comparison.
You've patterned everything you attribute to your constitution from success's observed in other countries. You think your slave owning forefathers were all models of moral superiority? Really?
You are sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door and it has absolutely nothing to do with adopting "failed European style socialist models". LOL! You have only but to look inward to find your Achilles heel.
Where do you people get this superiority stuff from?
No no, Le Roi, BruSan assures us this does not happen, at least not when you're talking to the super-intelligent, erudite foreigners that only he associates with!
well i mean i can't expect a dane to know anything about south carolina.
that's like him traveling to south carolina and asking a total stranger if he/she knows anything about North Jutland.
i was surprised he even knew what the words signified.
well i mean i can't expect a dane to know anything about south carolina.
that's like him traveling to south carolina and asking a total stranger if he/she knows anything about North Jutland.
i was surprised he even knew what the words signified.
Oh, I know. I can just hear that little exchange happening, because I've been involved in some funny convos like that myself. The cowboy idea of Americans was also prevalent when I lived in the Netherlands.
I was just making a funny at BruSan who tells us these things don't happen because Europeans are way smarter than we are and are all making fun of us.
I wonder if you could possibly be more condescending?
I lived there for a couple of years, went to college and was married to a Brit. I always knew when my friends were taking the mickey.
But you're clearly the expert here, not me.
Haar! Condescending is what you're referring to me? Really? You characterize your friends and a whole country as not having the brains to determine fact from the fiction of you all riding around on horses carrying pistols on your hips yet I'm the condescending one?
They've been having you on and the fact you do not see that is very telling.
I'm no expert but then one need not be to ascertain the obvious.
I lived there also in the late sixties and unless you've had the misfortune to have met only those who were recently released from Brixton after a fifty year sentence, I can assure you the average Brit has known for far longer than that you were merely cowboys in your own minds.
When I went to the UK on business, many moons ago, I think it was around 2000 or 2001 or so, I had to do an inspection/meet and greet with the engineers there doing their portion of the test network and the regression testing they were performing. One particular day, they took me to a local pub for lunch. It was fantastic. They were having Thanksgiving dinner for lunch on Wednesday. It was quite delicious. Of course, having a real, live American in their midst, they began to ply me with questions. What was of interest, is what they were inquiring about.
It's was crime. And guns. They had the distinct impression that all Americans had guns. You know, like some people have plates and saucers in their homes. They were of the same notion about guns. They thought everyone had one. From the conversation, it was like they thought America was still like the wild west. Kind of like a semi-controlled anarchy, with bullets.
I wonder if the whole world sees us like that. I wonder if that protects us, or makes us look like morons with guns. I wonder.
Your post reminds me of why would anybody believes any poll.
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