Thursday, April 21, 2005
IT'S TIME TO PUT OUR CARDS ON THE TABLE
I am publishing this, my note to Chellybelly, to show why Americans are so unpopular with many British people. Limey. (letter) You’ve got to the heart of the problem, Chelly. By your own admission, you’re determined to continue in your old, harmful ways, while ignoring the wishes of others. Yes,...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
WHAT SAY YOU - PUSHY, RUDE, IGNORANT?
As part of a recent research project* the following (clumsy) question was asked of Americans in Europe: What negative stereotypes/prejudices about people from the US have you heard? This was their response: • ugly • loud • impolite • impatient • pushy/rude • bossy • ignorant (of world events) •...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
amfish
Thank you for your long, considered and well-written comment: I agree with virtually everything you say. However, you must surely recognise there are national traits? And Americans tend to be loud and arrogant - which is perhaps a main reason the US has Middle-East problems today. You say you’re not...
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Monday, April 18, 2005
For McDonald's
A British court has ruled that McDonald’s exploited children with its advertising, falsely claimed its food was nutritious, risked the health of long-term customers, organised against unions, engineered low wages and perpetrated cruelty to animals. Now David Morris and Helen Steel, the two Britons...
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Saturday, April 16, 2005
For Stealing British Thunder
The entertainment conglomerate Twentieth Century Fucks has been absorbed by Metro-Goldwyn-Major, the movies-to-casinos outfit part-owned by former British premier John Major. In a move seen as an attempt to ease America’s stranglehold on international film production, the new London studios will...
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Friday, April 15, 2005
I Apologise
Chellybelly. How very kind of you to invite me for dinner. If only it could be so. But sadly I cannot possibly accept. As you may have read, I feel we should first be introduced. In any case, I would need to know you better before joining you at home. Oh yes, the photograph. Please don’t think it...
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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Imagine - These Idiots Let In Bush
Stand by for real trouble. More wars – possibly in Iran and elsewhere; irreversible climate change; sensitive natural environments destroyed; unwanted, unsafe GM crops and food foisted on every nation; continuing oil dependency; huge debt; rocketing inflation; reduced support for the sick and poor –...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005
This Is Why You're Loathed Worldwide
Most Americans profess not to know why the world dislikes them. So I’ll spell it out using their vernacular: it’s meddling in other countries’ affairs, stupid. Worse, having meddled – and the United States assumes it has a God-given right to interfere in virtually any country’s affairs – so many...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Yes, The Women Are Frightful
As I was saying, American women are quite dreadful – everything we British have come to loathe. Loud and bossy, they treat their men as mere appendages while bringing up their offspring as rude, precocious brats. (Remember John Mcenroe?). They are also remarkably nosey and can very quickly become...
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Sunday, April 10, 2005
... especially those awful Yankee women
I know it’s the Sabbath, but I feel I must briefly break my no-work rule to say how wonderful I thought Camilla looked on her wedding day - so radiant, so elegant, so terribly, terribly English. Which, of course, is in direct contrast to the way all those incredibly tasteless American women appear....
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