American and British Stereotypes :scratch:

Americans:

• All Americans are psycho-Christians (I'm an apatheist!)

• All Americans watch American football

• Americans don't travel anywhere outside of their own borders

• Americans eat nothing but T-bone steaks and baked potatoes (I wish)

• Americans only listen to American music

English:

• British 'cuisine' is hideous

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

• British have less rhythm than Americans (Massive Attack)

• British women are partially-shaved sasquatches

• British wear monocles

One thing i've found interesting while travelling is comparing which minority each industrialized First Worlder has a unsavory-labor symbiotic relationship with: U.S.: Mexicans, Latinos UK: Pakistani, Indians Germany: Poles, East Germans, Japan: Thai, Filipino, misc. Malays.

I guess there are no negative stereotypes of us Americans. We must be perfect in every way Everyone loves Americans!

... spoke too soon.

Too hilarious Hannett!

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

English:

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

the scots are british!

AgentWood wrote:

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

English:

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

the scots are british!

Act of Union, 1707 notwithstanding.

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

From Hannett to Eternity wrote:

English:

• All British like to beat up on the Irish and the Scots (actually, this might be true)

the scots are british!

Act of Union, 1707 notwithstanding.

when i lived in scotland the vast majority of scots i met defined themselves as both scottish and british.

just don't call all british 'english' or they'll give you a nice glasgow kiss!

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

it may be true for the women (wouldn't know), but certainly not for the men!

Not true. A nooler called Moz is also a snob and he's not even British.

Well Maya, you know what I would say to you right now... and how much...?

. .. .... ... ....!!!

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

Aaaaah the ignorance....Not that Brit girls need sticking up for But this one is ridiculous I find them to be the most passionate lovers I've known and i've known,er, only British girls intimatly...But seriously, its like saying "The French show a clear lack of interest in garlic"British girls may well have invented intimacy,Who knows? They are certainly well versed in it.Who ever said they ar'nt Knows nish....

michael brown wrote:

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

I find them to be the most passionate lovers I've known and i've known,er, only British girls intimatly.

reminds me of those americans who say that america is the best country in the world--but who have never ventured outside her borders!

Spotnick wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

michael brown wrote:

LE Roberts wrote:

Hands up all yanks who would love to be British.

Not if it's true what they say about your women and their lack of interest in ... er ... "intimacy".

I find them to be the most passionate lovers I've known and i've known,er, only British girls intimatly.

reminds me of those americans who say that america is the best country in the world--but who have never ventured outside her borders!

That's because they are told so Christy...!

Sure, there is usually no place like home, and I don't feel I'd adapt easily anywhere else, but it's common sense to think you live in the best country on earth when you live in any country of the G7 (don't count Russia there!)... not sure about people from outside those countries though, let's ask them ;)

I know I love my country, but I could easily trade our winters to another country :p and we're the most taxed people in North America!

On the other hand, I don't have access to medical or dental care.

And because I'm out of student loan money (yeah, in the "greatest country on earth," you have to borrow money to go to uni), and can't find a job in this b.s. Republican "jobless recovery," I have SERIOUS doubts about being able to have a home long enough to write the one paper I need to finish to get my degree.

While only about 10% of the American population is gay, the British population has more than double that (22.5%).

Perhaps its in their water...

Hey, can an American please tell me if you know that Brits and Australians spell some words differently? We are very aware of the US spelling for things, because we have to be (eg default spellchecker is US English etc), but you guys don't, so I wondered if it's something you ever notice...

t

I'm very happy today for no reason!

American: color English: colour

Right?

US: glamor UK: glamour (although many americans spell it with a 'u')

US; flavor UK: flavour

what's even more confusing are the different words:

US: french fries UK: chips

US: chips UK: crisps

US: hood (of car) UK: bonnet

US: truck UK: lorry

US: trunk (of car) UK: boot

and on and on and on....

ALSO: when i lived in the UK, one of the first things i noticed was that speakers of the queen's english don't use the collective singular. for example:

US: the government IS passing a new bill today. UK: the government ARE passing a new bill today.

there are many other grammatical differences, as well. when i was writing my masters' thesis (in the UK) i had a terrible time with that damn grammar check on microsoft word. by the time i came back to the US i had the same problem--going the other direction!

Tinny wrote: I'm very happy today for no reason!

:D

US: Poser UK: Chav

Getting kicked in the fanny is a probably more painful in the UK.

Rian wrote: American: color English: colour

Right?

Yeah, there's also the American "Favorite" and the English "Favourite" though whenever I used the English spelling of words like that at school, I was never penalized for doing so, which is nice.

Seeing that photo of that skank Thatcher on the Who do you hate thread reminded me of another one: whore, and whoure.

James Thomas wrote: Getting kicked in the fanny is a probably more painful in the UK.

You would think so

some other words that caouse cofusion are fag, and pissed.

Ah didvided by a common language.

Spotnick wrote:

AgentWood wrote: US: french fries UK: chips

US: chips UK: crisps

You just solved 4 years of mystery...

Of course, in french, there is no "french" in fries, but still.. I wasn't aware the brits were calling them chips, hence why fish'n'chip is titled that way ;)

pommes frites, oui?

'french' is actually a verb, having to do with how the potatoes are cut--in thin strips.

this fact was lost on the idiotic right-wing congressmen who proposed changing 'french fries' to 'freedom fries' after the french refused to back the iraq war.

rooting

Oh and me last summer going on about how hot it was and that we should be allowed go to work in thongs!

t

I'm a supporter of thongs for the ladies