OK, the US has given us some good things: Root beer, KFC, Buffy, Rich Hall, the money to make Lord of the Rings, and so on. On the other hand, there are many reasons why the country as a whole should bow its head in shame and mumble humble apologies and accept chastisement. This list contains a few of those. Feel free to email/comment and add more!
- Laugh tracks on M*A*S*H episodes – I mean, really. You have to be told when something’s funny?
- Allowing Bush Jr to become president – OK, so he cheated. But you should have cheated more to stop the psychopathic halfwit
- Being unable to pronounce “Leicester” or – heaven forbid – “Gloucestershire”
- Releasing films in the US anything up to months before we get them
- Shitting over my memories of The Avengers with that god-awful film version
- Putting dates in month/date order instead of date/month – WHY?!
- Making handguns “cool”
- Re-inventing English and making their version the default on every software install. “Colour” has a “u” in it, you *******. So does “neighbour”. And pants are worn under your trousers
- Getting so into re-enactment and trying to like English history. You’re the lot who wanted independence. You got it. Deal with it. Stop trying to take our country over again by brainwashing our stupid prime minister
- Thinking you’re so bloody wonderful and all-powerful you can fly in the face of NATO and company, and just invade countries for the hell of it. Then dragging us in along with you
- Jerry Springer
- Doughnuts (that’s with a “ugh”, you illiterate freaks) as a breakfast food
- Ronald McDonald – the food is passable compared to other fast food, but a psycho clown as a company mascot? Three words: John. Wayne. Gacy
- Barney the ******* purple dinosaur
- Lawyers. OK, I admit they’re not a US invention, but let’s face it, it’s the US ones who’ve really taken things to the ludicrous extremes that other countries now think they can get away with
- Rewriting history all the bloody time
Cheers, Chris. Added that. And JC – bagels are Jewish, not American! At least I think so anyway đŸ™‚
Don’t forget bagels. They’re just donuts that have gone bad.
I have. I actually had an American stop me on the tube and ask how to get to “Lie-Sester Square”.
I really want one to ask me how to get to Leeds Castle. I’ll pack them off to Kings Cross to buy a ticket for Leeds…
I was listening to a bus driver when I used to do the London – Bradford thing every other weekend and he said he lost count of the number of Americans who asked him for directions to Leeds Castle as they were stepping off the bus. He said some of the confused expressions were classic. đŸ™‚
Much as I like/love American people and hate American “government” (for want of a better phrase, although you won’t be seeing me head off to Montana any time soon), we (the Brits) only have ourselves to blame. Instead of sending the Puritans off to a whole new continent we should have sent a bunch of Liberal Democrats.
btw, I’ve never heard an American, stupid or otherwise, pronounce Leicester as Lai cester.
Ok, well the ones in the shops that say “New York” on them then đŸ˜›
There are also “New York” pizzas… đŸ™‚
Hmmm… actually, there is another thing to add to the list. The way they claim they invented everything. Although I suppose that falls under the “rewriting history” bit.
This American society is horrible, even if I do live in America I still think it is the worst country ever, where there is so many freaking idiots that are trying to rule this country and don’t know what they are doing, and they are hurting this economy.
You missed off “Hollywood re-writing history”
Follow the link
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13055400,00.html
In real life the man in this film was shot down and killed before ever shooting anyone down himself. I wonder how true to life the file will be???
Need I say more?
That’s such bullshit. You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. Im American and live in Leicester and yeah, I called it LIE-SES-TER because thats how its spelled. Funny you should talk about people mispronouncing things isnt it. Everywhere I go I hear common things pronounced improperly. Let’s review shall we?
Fillet is pronounced Fill-ay
Leisure is Lee-szure
jalapeno is hala-pain-yo not JA-LA-PEN-Yo you ******* idiots.
what else is there, hmm. There’s just a nmber of foolish things you people do so don’t even begin on America. Such as:
Telling the bus-driver where you’re going and paying accordingly, rather than paying a flat fee and just going where the bus goes.
The rude ignorant staff people that work in litteraly every shop, bar, restaurant or company in England.
The fact that pounds are worth alot more than everything else because you’re economy is in the ****-hole.
Calling college- Uni
The word ‘****’ is the most offensive word here.
Jeremy Kyle
Kate Moss
The fact that good (AMERICAN) movies are released months later or not at all in the UK. The Messengers was released in january 07 and its just now getting here.
Bank Holiday-whatever the flying **** that is, just an excuse to do nothing.
Ginger haired children originated here.
Calling fries chips
Having direct contact with France.
Knowing not a ******* thing about American government yet judging it anyway. Especially when England has a parlimentary system with no checks and balances.
If America cut England off you guys would be back to eatting sticks and sand with tea (which is ******* disgusting here by the way) like you were before we extended the hand of help to you.
using aerosol deoderant instead of a stick.
Not using wash clothes, instead just rubbing the bar of soap all over your body though it was probably up someone elses ass before it got to you, full of purbic hair and everyone knows its hard to get a hair off a wet bar of soap.
Pushing in to go into shop rather than pulling out. That’s a fire hazzard you fools.
The Council
You people are outrageous and you dare speak against the almost god-like dominance and splendor that is THE UNITED STATES!
There are too many so-called goth kids here and they’re such pussies. PATHETIC#
Not to mention no one knows what a tooth brush or a dentist is. It looks like fire-crackers have gone off in some English peoples mouths. even famous and rich people don’t know what a dentist is. You’ve all seen that gap-ed tooth bitch with no talent Amy Winehouse haven’t you? She’s got nothing on Kristeen Young who’d wipe the floor with her coked (and probably cocked)-out ass.
England sucks ass compared to America.
Its vacuum cleaner, not hoover.
Aaaaand, I rest my case. If you’re going to rail off at the UK try doing your own research, you prick.
To randomly pick a couple:
Hoover is a brand name made famous for the vacuum cleaners they sell and thus used interchangeably. You know those “moving stairways” you have? Which are commonly called Escalators? Yes, capital “E”. That’s the same thing.
“hazard” has a single “z”. The one with two “z”s is the fictional county filled full of inbred rednecks. You’d fit right in.
The only person I ever met who pronounce jalapeno incorrectly was an American.
We’ll call chipped potato chips, thanks very much. We invented the ******* things, we’ll decide what to call them.
You complain that we have “direct communication with France” and then whinge that “fillet” should correctly be pronounced “fill-ay”… which is the French pronunciation from $which you should br trying to distance yourself. Maybe you should try calling it a “freedom slice o’ fish”, you fucknut.
You can hardly go on about an economy being shithouse. Your dollar isn’t worth wiping your arse on because *your* economy’s in the dumps. And you’re the nation of ******* who voted that little troll in for a second term, allowing him to destroy the economy you had left to the point where *several major nations started selling their dollar reserves and replacing them with pounds sterling*. That’s what’s responsible for the dip in the dollar and the rise in the pound, not our so-called shithole economy. Try reading the international newspapers instead of just believing everything Fox News tells you.
Oh, wild guess from the wording used – you’re in the UK? If you don’t like it… **** off. It’s not difficult. Just save up a large pile of those shitty tissue-paper dollars and buy a ******* plane ticket.
Well said, Mosh!
Thanks, John. Maybe we should all club together, sell some of our dodgy teeth, collect our worthless sterling and buy the **** a ticket the **** out of here.
Things I have discovered today:
1) Americans can’t spell
2) Americans have no sense of humour (that’s humoUr)
ROFL
“The fact that pounds are worth a lot more than everything else because you’re economy is in the ****-hole.”
Pounds are worth a lot more because our economy is NOT in the ****-hole. Your (not “you are” you idiot) money is worth half as much as ours because *YOUR* economy was so far in the **** that you had to devalue the dollar.
Hold on, I’ll scroll up and look for another one…..
“Ginger haired children originated here.”
Your post refers to England. Ginger haired people originate from the Celtic nations.
Let me look for another………
“You people are outrageous and you dare speak against the almost god-like dominance and splendor that is THE UNITED STATES!”
I think this comment proves our point.
Iain’s original post was made in 2004. Let’s (that means “let us”) move it right up to 2007:
Your little folly into Iraq (why can no American pronounce that correctly?) has made the world a much more dangerous place. Don’t say we went in with you as Bush’s lap dog didn’t have public support.
Your country speaks against state terrorism, but won’t pull up Israel (if there is a single country on the planet that should know better it is that one).
The “I don’t care what just about every scientist in the world says, I’ve found one that PROVES global warming is a load of crap” attitude! I only wish that Iran would turn off the oil to teach you idiots a lesson. I’m sure every other country on earth would deal with it better than you. Then again I hope they don’t as you lot would probably use it as an excuse to start world war 3.
Actually, to be fair I know and like a lot of Americans.
It’s the ones like Bush and our friend above that I can’t stand.
I’ve met a few Americans while I’ve been travelling and not one of them’s anywhere near being a jerk like this arsehole. Actually, they’ve all been pretty cool.
Oh, and every one of them has shuddered and apologised about Bush being voted back in.
Maybe that is a lesson to learn about voter apathy.
Maybe that’s a lesson to learn about how you can screw the electoral system in your country if you have enough money to do it. Even if said money is the ****-awful dollar.