If you are so mistreated by Americans you have the perfect option to leave. What are you waiting for? The EU will welcome you with open arms and treat you in a manner that you deserve. Go already, I hate long goodbyes.
You are assuming that all Americans were happy to have you “at our side,” however those of us who pay attention to what happens in Britain were anything but thrilled. Perhaps you will remember how the “master” rolled over for the “poodle” spending endless months at the UN accomplishing nothing other than to allow the opposition time to galvanize while we did the poodle’s bidding.
Anyone paying attention would know that the worse thing that we did was have you “by our side.” By having you “by our side,” we laid ourselves open to never ending carping, whinging, and whining. However, don’t take it personally, those who pay attention didn’t want anyone from Europe involved either. You damned hypocrites when has NATO ever come together to defend America? When has Europe ever shed blood to “help” America. The only time you know what NATO is for is when you are demanding help for Europe. American help and American blood. When it counts, Europe is totally useless.
Sarcasm and mockery? Why is when the people of your country savage us we are expected to understand that that is how you show your “affection” and demand that we accept it in the spirit of “friendship?” What an absolute joke. We have nothing in common least of all our sense of humor. I have no idea why there are so many people who work so hard to keep together something that died and should have been buried 200 years ago.
I have no blind spot and wouldn’t sell you a ticket if I had one. Americans have always been fond of, and respectful to Europe and especially Britain. If in recent years you have are seeing a change in attitude by Americans towards Britain take pride knowing that you started it. What I have always thought is that America needs a taxpayer funded, government backed media outlet that runs around the world attacking Britain and slandering your people like the BBC does to us. Then we should ask our dear, dear British cousins, well, how do you like it? How long did you think you would party on our backs without paying a price?
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“Not only is that drivel,but if any nation has had its ww2 history progressively sidelined, ignored and even ridiculed, its us.
And if any nation has distorted the history of both world wars, its you. The American sacrifices in both world wars ARE appreciated. However, the modern American ‘we saved your ass’ type nonsense is not.”
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Well excuse me, I guess the British teachers who I speak to are lying to me. I guess compared to how Winston Churchill is being overlooked, the Holocaust being eliminated so as not to offend, and the old Soviet Union being lionized, we should be glad to rate one sentence as the “North American allies” in your textbooks.
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“If you chuck s**t in someone’s direction for so long, dont be surprised if sadly some of it starts to come back...”
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Thank you for finally seeing things my way, although, I find nothing sad about it. Sh!t is what’s landing in your lap right now, and after decades of you dishing it out, I am delighted to see you get some of it back. I hope you can handle it as well as you expected us to handle and accept it for the last 60 years.
1—CremeSaver, I do not for one second and have not denied that there is an appalling level of vitriol directed at America by some in Britain. If you and I seemingly agree on little,we can agree that is nothing but hateful drivel.
2—As usual, you either misrepresent history or you misunderstand what people say to you. The ww2 comments directed at American GI’s are completely different to the comments aimed at Americans today.
The former was in general a sarcastic and mocking type, but for the most part aimed not in hate at a group of young men whom the British public knew were going to fight and die for their freedom. It was done in a spirit by and large of mutual antagonism, because the GI’s themselves (barring a few Irish-American GI’s) gave as good as they got with some famous ‘anti-British’ comments...
In short,the British and Americans might have slagged each other off, but by and large there was no real hate behind it, merely a sense of mocking each other in a relatively friendly way, as they faced the TRUE enemy...
2—’We have nothing in common least of all our sense of humor. I have no idea why there are so many people who work so hard to keep together something that died and should have been buried 200 years ago.’
I disagree and so do most Americans and British. We may bicker at times but....
3—Holocaust being eliminated from being taught?.
Utter nonsense, Creme, and a smart guy like you, I am amazed you have fallen for it.
Dear God man, I myself posted the thread last week where the British Govt has announced that they were making a public international statement to combat the story that Holocaust teachings were being curtailed.
Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964937/posts
4—Churchill is not being overlooked, although there was controversy last year after a report said he should have less focus time on him, which started a backlash.
And any textbook I have seen clearly mentions America as an ally.In detail, from Pearl Harbour to the atomic bombs.If any textbook doesnt, then I agree it is a bloody disgrace.
5—Sorry mate.
By and large, America’s sacrifices HAVE been realised and respected in Britain since 1945. If not, then they are so by a small minority of leftist anti-american idiots.
And whilst most Americans do the same with us, there HAS been and IS a minority who believe ‘we saved your ass’,disrespects and is delberatly ignorant of Britain’s immense sacrifices and contribution and they have existed for 60 years.