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1 posted on 11/12/2004 6:34:36 PM PST by quidnunc
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I'll trade you your Telegraph for my Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel . . .


34 posted on 11/12/2004 6:56:00 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: quidnunc
Someone hears my accent and challenges me to a debate,

Just tell them you have the clap...it's less embarrassing than admitting you are an American, isn't it?

35 posted on 11/12/2004 6:56:03 PM PST by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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Is the Telegraph trying to cause a rift between America and Briton?


37 posted on 11/12/2004 6:59:06 PM PST by philetus (Zell Miller - One of the few)
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Over the years, I have noticed that the loud Americans one encounters in Britain behave differently on their home turf. This includes me, I'm afraid. I will wage war on any rogue service suppliers in Britain, argue with the airline agent in public, speak my mind when my husband would rather I didn't, but when back in America, I'm all stiff upper lip. Why? Because the British assume that we are loud and demanding and consequently, we get our way. Unfortunately, acting American in America gets you absolutely nowhere.

Funny.

40 posted on 11/12/2004 7:01:45 PM PST by spodefly (I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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awwhh boo hoo... some more liberal jiberish! do us a favor and stay in England or migrate to Canada and make it a reality.


41 posted on 11/12/2004 7:02:32 PM PST by arly
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In this case, she deserves to be labelled as a Canadian. She is nothing but a coward. I live in a very liberal country too, and I work in a even more liberal place, a university. But every time when questioned, I gave these people the proud anwer:"I am an American, and a very proud one". When questioned if I voted, the answer is:"Yes, I did, I voted for George W Bush." And I just love the sight of their disbelief, priceless.


42 posted on 11/12/2004 7:03:26 PM PST by loyalfandownunder
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These poor libs, they have nowhere to go! They think about secession, but that's not really an option. If they go to Europe or Canada, they don't like them because they're American. Caught between a rock and a hard place.


43 posted on 11/12/2004 7:03:55 PM PST by Rummyfan
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Oh, PL-L-E-E-Z-E!


44 posted on 11/12/2004 7:04:18 PM PST by Another Thought
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"To pretend there's a war when there isn't is really terrifying," says American architect Alfred Munkenbeck. "One terrorist incident doesn't mean you go to war with every small country. I think we overreacted hopelessly."

Alfred, who is proud to sport the very same hairstyle he has been wearing since he was ten, is an ungrateful and self-deluding homosexual. As evidence I point to his fundamental silliness, his lack of reality contact, and his use of the word "hopelessly" in this context.

"I was at a dinner recently. The host became increasingly rude about Americans, even though he happened to be married to one," says Diane Kordas, a jewellery designer married to a banker. "I confronted him and he became even more unpleasant. He said: 'Don't you know that everyone hates America?' " She shrugged it off.

She shrugged it off? She was invited to this man's house to endure gratuitous insults, and she just bore them? To anyone who was so clumsy and arrogant as to speak this way to me, I would have spoken coldly, in the manner the British understand: "I beg your pardon. I was under a misconception: I thought you had extended hospitality to me and did not realise that it was the custom in this house to insult and deride invited guests. Good evening to you." And I would have thrown down my napkin and left, never to return.

It is always so satisfying to make a great scene like that and make one's attacker look like the vulgar fool he is.

45 posted on 11/12/2004 7:06:31 PM PST by Capriole
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Sneering, insults, condescension – it's not so much fun being an American in London since the election

From what I hear, there's not too many Brits left in London.

46 posted on 11/12/2004 7:07:19 PM PST by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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We are a few people, and nobody loves us.

Screw Europe. We should have stayed out of WW2 and left them to the tender mercies of Hitler and Stalin, for all the good it's done us in the long run.

We stand alone. Suits me.

48 posted on 11/12/2004 7:08:31 PM PST by FierceDraka ("Megatons Make It Fun!")
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I will wage war on any rogue service suppliers in Britain, argue with the airline agent in public, speak my mind when my husband would rather I didn't, but when back in America, I'm all stiff upper lip. Why? Because the British assume that we are loud and demanding and consequently, we get our way. Unfortunately, acting American in America gets you absolutely nowhere.

So true.

51 posted on 11/12/2004 7:10:00 PM PST by NeonKnight
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"Americans have an uncanny way of getting where they want to be in Britain, be that into the best clubs, schools, social circles or jobs. Even the BBC's director of television, Jana Bennett, is an American. The City is dominated by America; many of my friends work for American banks, law firms, magazine publishers and advertising agencies. I call my neighbourhood, Notting Hill, a suburb of New York because, effectively, it is. One American writer calls London a blue state, that's how close it is to liberal East Coast America. But the fact that we wholeheartedly embrace Britain and British ways probably makes Britain wholeheartedly not want to embrace us."


Hehehehe!


56 posted on 11/12/2004 7:14:19 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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There's quite a few British immigrants around my area and some of them fly the Union Jack and proudly talk about home. There's enormous tolerance for that here yet Americans are constantly called xenophobic and racist towards foreigners. Actually when I see how other countries act against outsiders we are probably one of the most tolerant societies in the world.


57 posted on 11/12/2004 7:15:10 PM PST by Reaganwuzthebest
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"She shrugged it off. "Deep down, I think the British admire us and we all get along really well. We've brought a lot of positive things with us. When I first moved here, nine years ago, London was a drab place. To get anyone to do anything took for ever. Now - thanks to us - Britain has power showers, concierge services and restaurants like Nobu."


58 posted on 11/12/2004 7:15:13 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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"By being hostile, the British are trying to say that we are not like you [Republicans]: we believe in fair play, in integrity, in doing the right thing," says Mark McDermott, a reader in psychology at the University of East London.“

Why, you sanctimonious lime-sucking poofter. You wouldn’t know integrity if the next pickle you smooch were marinated in it.

“Even the BBC's director of television, Jana Bennett, is an American.”

Well, that explains a lot.

"I felt my patriotism come to the fore when the American system was attacked, as foolish as that may be."

Patriotism is foolish, is it? Perhaps some of the hatred the pommy b@stards have for America is caused by the heavy blue-state representation there.

"I don't know what I'm talking about half the time, do you?" says Lauren Crowe, a magazine editor. "

Finally, a media slug admits it.

"To pretend there's a war when there isn't is really terrifying," says American architect Alfred Munkenbeck. "One terrorist incident doesn't mean you go to war with every small country. I think we overreacted hopelessly.”

I wonder if this ignorant POS also realizes that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

“There is huge pressure to conform in America, which is scary."

You need to see somebody for help with those delusions, spanky.

“Don't you know that everyone hates America?"

Well, then, I guess there’s no reason for us to come to your rescue the next time you get your tit caught in the wringer, eh?

"Because the British assume that we are loud and demanding “

So, when faced with insulting stereotypes, your response is to change to match them?

Good thinking, chump.


59 posted on 11/12/2004 7:16:58 PM PST by dsc (LIBERALS: If we weren't so darned civilized, there'd be a bounty on them.)
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enlightened Europe... they still have hate?? and I thought they were suopposed to be Soooo enlightened


60 posted on 11/12/2004 7:23:03 PM PST by GeronL (http://images7.fotki.com/v125/photos/2/215708/780411/reow-vi.jpg?1100155138)
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I;'ve got relatives who don;t like Bush, but in spite of the fact that I don;t want to hurt my realtionship with them, when the subject is brought up I don't back down. I would like to see all of us do that. Be respectful but put our point of view out there. Whether in England or anywhere else we shouldn;t be intimidated into silence.


62 posted on 11/12/2004 7:23:13 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Liberals have the inverse midas touch, everything they get a hold of turns to S&*%)
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I was in Australia a while back and there are plenty of commies and socialists there. Just about every function I went to the greeting would go like this.

My reply in parenthesis.

So where are you from (DC), what do you do (engineering), why do the Americans have so many nuclear weapons blah blah blah.

I decided that the best defense was an offense. The conversation turned into this.

So where are from (DC), what do you do (I design weapons of mass destructions for a company called TRW), well how about that America's Cup?

Problem solved. See, you when ram it right down their throats libs always back off.
65 posted on 11/12/2004 7:25:38 PM PST by Boiler Plate
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Wow! The depth of ignorance presumed upon the Right by their political/media 'betters'is astounding. And yet we conservatives still chuckle as we read their post-mortems. Why they lost is in plain sight. Because they don't or won't be grateful for what they have. And to be so ignorant of history and human nature. That the United States is the default Bad Guy. The left is supposed to be the sophisticated, the educated. They're not so much stupid, do not misunderestimate the opposition, but they are profoundly ignorant of history and street smarts. The left does reveal its sinister side when they hawk fraudulent Air Nat'l Guard documents during a hotly contested presidential campaign, when they say that the president addressed a crowd of the GOP faithful in West Allis, WI., to wish former president Bill Clinton well and a speedy recovery from heart surgery, and the AP reporter lied, saying the GOP partisans booed Bush! Despite the lies of the fraudcasters and their cheating, they've been dealt a soul searching blow. When they're done examining why they lost AGAIN, the SeeBS worms will still be trying to rehabilitate the image of Arafat... when is SeeBS going to do a non-fawning story on Kim Jong-Il and Jimmy Carter? For all of these reasons and more the Left lost big in '04! Thanks to the Internet their fraudmemes are being deconstructed as they spin 'em...


68 posted on 11/12/2004 7:31:26 PM PST by BloodScarletMinnesota (MPLS Star-Tribune;America's Most Ridiculed Newspaper(NYT,1995))
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