I'm sorry that you met some rude and unpleasant British people, but we aren't all like that.
It's as if they know deep down that they have sold their birthright as being on the vanguard of Western Civilization to try to get the continental Europeans to like and accept them. Instead, the French and Germans still look down on them. In their anger, they lash out at us, because lashing out at the continentals would be both shameful and pointless. To the continentals they pretend camaraderie, with the cooperation of the contintentals, as long as they walk two steps behind the French of course. To us they are intentionally rude, superior, accusatory, and shrill.
They sound like Labour or Liberal Democrat voters to me, since no British Conservative cares whether or not the continental Europeans like us!
By the way, I should tell you that the person who posted this thread has a long history of Brit bashing and posting untrue and misleading articles about the UK in order to cause friction between British and US freepers. He has also confessed to another British freeper that he does this to get revenge on British people in general for a disagreement he had with some Brits on another forum.
At one time, I intended to take a trip through Britain as a vacation. No more.
Now I don't know where in Britain you went, but I can assure you that the attitudes of Britons towards Americans varies from place to place. For example, if you were to visit York (Northern England), where I live, you would find that the vast majority of people are friendly and pleasant to Americans. US visitors often tell me how much they enjoyed visiting this city, and the beer is good too!
All the best,
How would the reception be in London, or the Isle of Man? We're planning to visit some day, as somewhat of a personal thank you to your nation.
That's a shame. I've noticed great posts of his many times here on FR. His is one of the FReeper names I always recognize. I hadn't noticed any anti-Brit sentiment though. Too bad.
"By the way, I should tell you that the person who posted this thread has a long history of Brit bashing and posting untrue and misleading articles about the UK in order to cause friction between British and US freepers."
What tripe.
So Marc Steyn and Melanie Phillips are "untrue and misleading?" Why, because you don't like what they say about UK? And Quid has to have an agenda to post them? I find them and Quid's posts disturbingly accurate.
There is tremendous anti-US garbage coming out of UK fomented by your press especially the supposedly neutral BBC. The Conservative Party did sell out the US.
Instead of denying the obvious, since you post here and thus must feel differently, why don't you just disagree with the Conservative/Howard party line of US bashing instead of revising the truth?
What I am seeing on this and other threads is a UK contingent attempting to stifle the posting by Quid of legitimate authors who are critical of the UK. It is the UK contingent, like yourself, who are personally attacking the poster with comments on his motivations for posting. One does not need to justify the posting of news from the WSJ or from Mark Steyn, et al. Stick with the article and leave hypothetical and irrelevant motivations out of it.
Your gripe is with your own countryman who document the anti-US bias growing in the UK.
It has hurt to see the anti-Americanism grow in England.