Oh, and BTW, if anyone's interested:
Posted on 12/13/2004 5:39:51 AM PST by Le Bouledogue Britannique
It has been noted that there has been a grievous and unprovoked attack on Great Britain on these pages
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1295524/posts
which THE MANAGEMENT, in their wisdom, have seen fit to leave in situ.
Therefore, here is the British response.
[Note to Mr Moderator, please feel free to remove this thread (I'm sure you will anyway) and indeed ban me from these boards (once again) However, if you do choose you that path, please display your lack of bias and sense of fair play by removing the "40 Reasons why the US is Better than Britain (humor)" thread which I have linked to above at the same time. Thank you.]
70 Reasons why GREAT Britain is miles & miles better than the USA (humour)
1. Michael Moore
2. You don't have any custard
3. You invented McDonalds
4, Our military are peacemakers.
5. We know a few things about the U.S., whereas you know next to nothing about the UK.
6. We have a sense of humour (and we even know how to spell it)
7. We don't rely on therapy or Prozac to lead a "normal" life
8. We understand irony.
9. We can watch TV for ten full minutes without a 15 minute commercial break
10. We are 6 times less likely to be murdered in the UK than you are in the US
11. We are 60 times less likely to be shot in the UK than you are in the US
12. We don't feel that we have to own firearms to protect ourselves from our own government.
13. We aren't xenophobic
14. Did I mention Michael Moore?
15. We don't expect people to like us or respect us, but some of them do. The U.S. seems to have got that back to front.
16. British beer doesn't taste like diluted gnats urine.
17. We don't have rednecks (at least, if we do, they don't actually have red necks)
18. We can drive around corners and most of our cars can manage more than 10 miles to the gallon.
19. We are intelligent enough to use a manual gearbox
20. We are not all obese.
21. Yorkshire pudding.
22. We are a net exporter of oil
23. We can sometimes see the other guys point of view.
24. Our accents don't sound vulgar.
25. We don't hate people just because they are different to us.
26. We have a prettier flag than you.
27. We invented modern democracy, you just pay lip service to it.
28. We have more attractive women here per head of population than you have.
29. We don't have the left wing stink hole that is Hollywood.
30. We are capable of enjoying a film (translation: "movie") in which nobody gets killed every 3 minutes.
31. We don't eat raw corn.
32. We don't have to buy our drinking water from other countries
33. Most of our population realise that there is a world beyond our borders.
34. I live here.
35. Our armed forces are capable of mounting an operation without playing rock music at 120 decibels, shouting "YEAH RIGHT!", or "OH DUDE!" every ten seconds and putting panties on the heads of captives.
36. We enjoy steak & kidney pie. You are too pernickety to even try it and therefore don't know what you're missing.
37. Our students study geography
38. We don't let our armed forces recruit in our schools.
39. We don't let our homosexuals recruit in our schools either.
40. We do let the boy scouts recruit in our schools.
41. We are able to settle minor disputes without filling each other with lead.
42. We don't deny healthcare to a large proportion of our population because they can't pay.
43. We don't react to any perceived minor critism or a question of our opinions by accusing the other party of being a "pinko-commie", a "faggot" or a "reee-tord"
44. Our teachers are able to deal with difficult young children without calling the police.
45. Our police (even if they were called to a school) wouldn't dream of tazaring a six year old boy or handcuffing a 10 year old girl (for bringing scissors to school - what's that about then?), nor of locking them up in a cell.
46. Our teachers are able to deal with parents visiting their classrooms without kicking seven shades of excrement out of them.
47. Michael Moore anybody?
48. We play proper football, you....well, I needn't say any more on that subject.
49. We don't have crooks calling themselves TV evangelists, because we are not dumb enough to send them any money.
50. We stopped having mullet haircuts in the 80's
51. We don't marry our cousins & call the offspring Billy-Bob or Mary-Lou
52. We have toilet blocks older than your most historical sites
53. We have a pot plant at Kew Gardens which is older than the USA
54. While we don't have the first amendment, we do seem to respect it more than you do.
55. Michael Jackson.
56. We don't exaggerate our achievements in the 2nd World War.
57. You elected Bill Clinton.
58 You elected Bill Clinton, TWICE! (I mean, come on Yanks! Once is a mistake, twice was just stupid!)
59. We are capable of winning a sports event (oh yes we are!) without chanting "UK! UK! UK! UK! UK! UK! UK!" ceaselessly and intensely irritatingly over and over and over again.
60. We (with a little minor assistance from our Froggy neighbours) conceived, planned, built and financed the Concorde, the finest, fastest & most beautiful airliner the world has ever seen.
61. You, in a typical fit of petty jealousy and America-firstism, strangled commercial supersonic flight at birth by banning Concorde from your airports (and thus markets) on ridiculous environmental grounds (possibly the only time the US has objected to anything for that reason), then announced your own supersonic airline project (which never got built - while even the USSR managed to produce a Concorde rip-off)
62. We do not regard war as a spectator sport.
63. We, a small nation, in the space of a few generations, built the largest Empire the world has ever seen, and then gave it all back. Just for laughs. You, a very large nation, have attempted to dominate the world for the last 50 years and have failed, miserably.
64. We, while still retaining our patriotism, are able to appreciate and applaud the achievements of sportsmen, politicians, scientists and businessmen from other countries.
65. We have our own language that we ourselves invented. You have pinched ours and devalued it appallingly
66. We have given the world, modern democracy, law & order, the English language, the industrial revolution, the world wide web, penicillin, the jet engine and a host of other social and technological breakthroughs too numerous to mention. You have given the world....Mickey Mouse.
67. Is there a Michael Moore in the house?
68. We play cricket, perhaps not the most exciting sport out there I grant you but nonetheless a gentlemanly pursuit. You have baseball. Nuff said.
69. You, often claim, in your brusque, bombastic manner to be "the greatest nation on Earth". We smile silently but say nothing because we KNOW that we are.
70. No British Prime Minister has ever been caught with his pants down in 10 Downing Street.
& one for the pot...
71. We are British. Don-cha-know!
Toodle Pip Chaps.
Umm dude you spelled humor wrong :-)
You Wuss how the heck are you suppose to know who won the argument if there isnt a bloody bullet ridden corpse being hauled away from the scene by the coroner at the end of it?Geez you limeys are just wimpy as hell :-P
That's only because they don't know what tazaring is.
Not a chance!!
Oh, and BTW, if anyone's interested:
HUH? GAVE it ALL back? Lessee, we kicked your butts out, the Indians kicked your butts out, I know I am missing some but you get my drift.
And one wonders if we should say something about the naked colonialism that is STILL today being exhibited in Ireland. Hrmmm? Didja forget that one?
Otherwise, some of them thar wert purdy gud! Albeit a bit subjective.
Where does one go to verify this statement? I've been to the U.K. a few times and haven't seen anything that backs this up. Now if the U.K. had provinces in Iceland and Spain you might have something to gloat about.
(sigh) Iceland...
-VM
p.s. I would suggest you go to Tempe, AZ or Laguna Beach, CA to see what the good ol' U.S. of A. has to offer. Those "birds" are amazing.
Of course, the Brits were sent to Basra because it would be politically difficult for the the British to actually take casualties. That's okay, that's what the Americans are for. But don't brag about the British being peace makers, when they are only peace keeprs, because of the assignment they drew, not because of some superior ability.
As far as Shite resentment, maybe so, but to say they are more anti-American than the Sunnis reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about the situation in Iraq.
Of course, the Brits were sent to Basra because it would be politically difficult for the the British to actually take casualties. That's okay, that's what the Americans are for. But don't brag about the British being peace makers, when they are only peace keeprs, because of the assignment they drew, not because of some superior ability.
As far as Shite resentment, maybe so, but to say they are more anti-American than the Sunnis reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about the situation in Iraq.
At least a school child can tell (without being taught) when ours is upside down.
NOT the uk.
They did, actually! G'day.
ping
Just what is it that we are doing to get a handle on ours?
Mine drives over corners and gets 15.
Yeah? Well, you leave a film every time you get out of the bathtub. We, on the other hand, take showers. Enjoy your film.
This is a huge misconception. We don't deny anyone health care in the U.S. Anyone can get healthcare (often for free) just by going to the nearest hospital emergency room and waiting. By law, they cannot turn anyone away. What we don't have is health insurance for everyone. Big difference. Only ignorant Brits would not understand this.
The Romans, the Angles, the Saxons, the Vikings, and the French would dispute that claim.
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