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You have been getting mighty personal with someone you don't know and obviously feel is way too sensitive. Didn't you quit this site for awhile because we were being too mean to the Brits?

I took a lot more abuse than some billboards; which is partially why I have absolutely no sympathy for your point of view. As for getting personal, if the fault lies with your perception of the situation, then where else should I look?

If you want to jump and down about billboards, that's your right. It's my right to fire right back at you - and point out the blatant truth - you're being pretty ridiculous. If indeed those billboards are the basis for you extrapolating the entire attitude of a nation, and have obscured the ways in which Britain helps the United States every single day, you've lost all perspective.

Ivan

Ivan,

First of all, I'm happy to have you here. The more conservative Brits we can get here as Freepers the better!

My husband is English. We visited my mum in law back in May. Trust me, in all of my visits to your country (which I do love a lot) I came across a lot of anti-Americanism. Starting with the cab driver from Gatwick Airport railing on about how he disliked Americans (he had only spoke to my husband at that point, who has not lost his accent. ;) )

We encountered it in restaurants as well, with our friends over there ending their business relationship with one of the restaurants because of their rudeness towards our party. (It had never happened to them or any of their other guests before.) And of course, all of the anti-Bush jibes we had to listen to. Which is rude where I come from, btw.

Miss M does have a point. Your tourism depends a lot on our American dollars, and any uneducated person seeing that billboard may make the assumption and say "never again". Which I think is a reasonable assumption.

I'll not go back there again myself, and that makes me sad. My mum in law complains about all of the anti-Americanism as well.

We count you all as friends, and Brits are treated over here very warmly as close friends. Even when they come over and criticize the way we do things (What cheek!, lol)

And both of our countries need to come together, because we need each other to win the war against Islamofascism.

What is happening, is exactly what al-Qaida wants. And we're falling for it, hook, line, and sinker.

Regards,

VRCWAgent

miss marmelstein had written:
"You have been getting mighty personal with someone you don't know and obviously feel is way too sensitive. Didn't you quit this site for awhile because we were being too mean to the Brits?"

MadIvan replied in the stereotypically condescending manner:
"I took a lot more abuse than some billboards; which is partially why I have absolutely no sympathy for your point of view. As for getting personal, if the fault lies with your perception of the situation, then where else should I look?"

Are you referring to the following from an old comment of mine (to which you called "the mods" attention while engaging in more namecalling) as abuse? You even complained about it on your FR page. Here, I'll say it again.

Yes. I have the agenda of an American. For example, I don't appreciate seeing a St. George's Cross flying alone in a yard in my area any more than I would appreciate seeing a Mexican flag flying by itself in my country.

Contrary to Deputy Secretary-General Brown's desire that our government censor opinions disagreeing with the UN from being published in our country, we will publish information as we wish. That includes public information about Brown, his comments and his country of origin.

This is the USA. The USA is not part of any empire. We loathe "empire" as much as we loathe communism or any other centralized form of government. You continue to put your trademark condescending rhetoric on display, and you have a small cheering section of Americans of European loyalty against their own. But you will not dictate as to what we will do here.