***Yes us americans have made some mistakes but the worst mistakes involved teaming up with you guys***
Let's bring in a little bit of a Language theme to this seemingly hateful Transatlantic shit slinging......just be grateful, Brad, that you guys over there (on the assumption that you really are American) "teamed up" with us Brits sufficiently enough to adopt ENGLISH (your own version of it) as your main means of communication in the USA, even though, strange as it seems, English is not the official Language of America. Correct me if I'm off beam here.
Even though I am a Scot I have to dismiss your assertion that "all Scots hate the English". You are totally wrong there - it's not the case at all, in spite of what you may read or hear to the contrary. Sure, we slag each other off big time (I've done my share of Sassenach bashing in this forum and that's for certain but no way has any of it been hateful) but if you are not British then you don't understand the British mentality and our way of dealing with things. You really, really ought to do a bit of research on the issue of British banter linked with a type of humour, and then you will realise that you just don't know what makes us tick, or, more likely, choose not to. You people are constantly misunderstanding us in so many ways.........ok we have a sort of common Language but the cultural divide is as wide as the ocean that separates us.
I live in a city which sees so many American tourists all the year round that sometimes we "natives" think that Americans must be pretty thin on the ground "back home". I know that this isn't England, but you'd be gobsmacked if you were to hear so many Americans who actually believe that Scotland is part of England! Honestly it happens!
Go to London or Stratford-upon-Avon or any high profile tourist spot anywhere in England and you will see half of America there. If England is a country populated by obnoxious denizens (as you maintain) then why do you guys come over here in such numbers. That goes for people from the rest of Europe or anywhere else in the world. Something must attract them to the UK - maybe it's the wonderful climate!!! :-) Right now we have half of Eastern Europe flooding in to the UK en masse, liking what they see and what they can earn and then staying put, while regularly sending dosh back to their own half empty countries.
There are obnoxious Brits, of course, and we do have social problems, but the difference between us and many other countries (including your own) is that we freely and openly (perhaps too openly) admit it and highlight the issues in our media, while elsewhere the facts are suppressed and given little publicity compared with here.
History is now history. You dwell on the past and seem to be far more wound up by the historical and undeniable facts shown in "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" than the vast majority of the people of Ireland itself. There are loads of Irish people resident in the UK. It was all so long, long ago, and slagging off the Brits for past history is pointless. Would you dare to throw history into the faces of the Germans? Or much more recently certain elements in the Balkan states?
You're entitled to your opinions, but I just respectfully request that you never, ever include England (or indeed the UK itself) on any future trip out of your homeland or set foot on its green and pleasant land - ever.
The same applies to any other Anglophobe or Britannophobe, of course. Most of us Brits don't give a toss either way - as I say, everyone is entitled to their attitudes and viewpoints and if you don't like us then that's cool - it's water and ducks' backs. But judging by all the foreigners coming to these islands there can't be many such phobics or they wouldn't come here in such numbers. Those that aren't blinded by prejudice or simply don't dislike the English (or Brits in general) then the welcome mat is very prominent at all points of entry.
I'm off down to England - Milton Keynes ;-) - for the next Bank Holiday weekend at the end of this month - I can hardly wait.
Cheers!
Let's bring in a little bit of a Language theme to this seemingly hateful Transatlantic shit slinging......just be grateful, Brad, that you guys over there (on the assumption that you really are American) "teamed up" with us Brits sufficiently enough to adopt ENGLISH (your own version of it) as your main means of communication in the USA, even though, strange as it seems, English is not the official Language of America. Correct me if I'm off beam here.
Even though I am a Scot I have to dismiss your assertion that "all Scots hate the English". You are totally wrong there - it's not the case at all, in spite of what you may read or hear to the contrary. Sure, we slag each other off big time (I've done my share of Sassenach bashing in this forum and that's for certain but no way has any of it been hateful) but if you are not British then you don't understand the British mentality and our way of dealing with things. You really, really ought to do a bit of research on the issue of British banter linked with a type of humour, and then you will realise that you just don't know what makes us tick, or, more likely, choose not to. You people are constantly misunderstanding us in so many ways.........ok we have a sort of common Language but the cultural divide is as wide as the ocean that separates us.
I live in a city which sees so many American tourists all the year round that sometimes we "natives" think that Americans must be pretty thin on the ground "back home". I know that this isn't England, but you'd be gobsmacked if you were to hear so many Americans who actually believe that Scotland is part of England! Honestly it happens!
Go to London or Stratford-upon-Avon or any high profile tourist spot anywhere in England and you will see half of America there. If England is a country populated by obnoxious denizens (as you maintain) then why do you guys come over here in such numbers. That goes for people from the rest of Europe or anywhere else in the world. Something must attract them to the UK - maybe it's the wonderful climate!!! :-) Right now we have half of Eastern Europe flooding in to the UK en masse, liking what they see and what they can earn and then staying put, while regularly sending dosh back to their own half empty countries.
There are obnoxious Brits, of course, and we do have social problems, but the difference between us and many other countries (including your own) is that we freely and openly (perhaps too openly) admit it and highlight the issues in our media, while elsewhere the facts are suppressed and given little publicity compared with here.
History is now history. You dwell on the past and seem to be far more wound up by the historical and undeniable facts shown in "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" than the vast majority of the people of Ireland itself. There are loads of Irish people resident in the UK. It was all so long, long ago, and slagging off the Brits for past history is pointless. Would you dare to throw history into the faces of the Germans? Or much more recently certain elements in the Balkan states?
You're entitled to your opinions, but I just respectfully request that you never, ever include England (or indeed the UK itself) on any future trip out of your homeland or set foot on its green and pleasant land - ever.
The same applies to any other Anglophobe or Britannophobe, of course. Most of us Brits don't give a toss either way - as I say, everyone is entitled to their attitudes and viewpoints and if you don't like us then that's cool - it's water and ducks' backs. But judging by all the foreigners coming to these islands there can't be many such phobics or they wouldn't come here in such numbers. Those that aren't blinded by prejudice or simply don't dislike the English (or Brits in general) then the welcome mat is very prominent at all points of entry.
I'm off down to England - Milton Keynes ;-) - for the next Bank Holiday weekend at the end of this month - I can hardly wait.
Cheers!