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Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 4:39 am
by planeterotica
Keith Rasputin wrote:
> Yes, that's a good way of putting it. It took over three years
> for the American public to stop endorsing that prick in the
> White House and realise in any great numbers that as a nation
> they had been conned,
planeterotica wrote:
So they are not as stupid as us here in the U.K. then as it taken us ten years to realise what a cunt we have at number 10 Downining Street!thumbsdown!
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 7:12 am
by Sam Slater
[quote]So they are not as stupid as us here in the U.K. then as it taken us ten years to realise what a cunt we have at number 10 Downining Street!thumbsdown![/quote]
Stupid? No. We just have to better alternative.
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 7:29 am
by chatterji
I think you could easily pull this off on the streets of London. Most of the people on 'reality' TV shows over here make a good case for compulsory sterilisation. I think the UK is slowly becoming permeated with the 'innit' culture.
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:08 am
by Sam Slater
edit: 'no better alternative.'
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:34 am
by one eyed jack
America being the huge place that it is shouldnt be compared in relative terms to this country where ignorance is universal world wide and not indigenous to one nation. They just have more of them.
Don't forget like a lot of people in this country, a lot of americans are insular and dont believe the world exists outside of their own state let alone the rest of the world.
It seems for americans to make programmes showing their fellow peoples ignorance is also making a point that not everyone is the same way.
To be honest ignorance and stupidity can also be found within these forums...and you all know what I 'm talking about.
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:41 am
by isabel ice
I won't go as far to say Americans are stupid, but there are some unbelieveably ignorant people there... on more than one occasion I have been asked...
Where are you from?, and as Wales in California is near enough unheard of, I grit my teeth and say...
"I'm from England."
Only to be questioned...
"Wow, what language do you guys speak over there?"
Clearly I speak American...
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:30 pm
by mike johnson
But with a charming accent I am sure.....lol.
Re: Are americans really this stupid
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:53 pm
by Sam Slater
[quote]Surely it's bad enough their sons have had to die in European wars (WW1, WW2) which the USA had little responsibility for starting but a lot of responsibility for ending.[/quote]
Bah, the USA only came into the European war 'after' Britain had won air superiority, invented decent radar, and found out we were intercepting German plans etc with enigma...............and we shared our new technology with them.
Yes, they provided resources before that, but Eisenhower was clever enough to realise that the USA couldn't fight a war on 2 fronts, alone. If the nazis had invaded Britain then they could have concentrated more men on Russia. Conquering Russia would have been the final nail in a very big coffin. It would have left America surrounded & alone.
So what did America get from the 2nd World War? The best technology, the worlds best scientists, and billions upon billions of pounds from us to say 'thank you'. I never got that. They always are of the opinion they entered the war to save the British, but we were never invaded. Save the Polish or French I can understand, but saving us? No nazi tanks ever wheeled down Whitehall as far as I can make out, but the Americans made sure it just about bankrupted this nation. They helped free the world of an evil, powerful machine........which benefited themselves since they live on the planet. Since Britain softened up the nazi machine by winning the air war, and since ridding the world of the nazis benefited the USA as well as Europe, does that mean the USA owe us compensation for our input?
I'd go as far as to say that the 2nd World War made the USA.
Looking back, they helped us enough to keep the nazis at bay. They watched thousands upon thousands of British & European people die at the hands of probably the best equipped war machine in modern history, that was out to dominate the planet with it's own race.
Plea upon plea was ignored until they got the promise of technology, money, and an enemy that was running out of steam. They came over for the killer blow, then sent us the bill, with interest over 60 years.
America should have shrines of Hitler, because his retarded views made America into the super rich superpower it is today.