Come on guys. Lets bring it back to the question that was asked. No more silliness.
British or American?

How come you never see Welsh vs Canadian threads?

Rotten Tanx wrote:How come you never see Welsh vs Canadian threads?

hmmm... I wonder why.
I have to say America because who else would have the nerve to, while technically still British citizens i.e. their protection, services, goods, etc..., decide that they don't have to pay taxes like the other citizens. I mean c'mon, all because Britain probably spent more money on America than they did on their own citizens doesn't mean that we should have given them money that they actually deserved. We birthed the punk attitude. We said fuck you to the queen way before Johnny Rotten. What a poseur?

I like the way that a general national trait of Americans is friendliness.

But then, I like how British people are rude in a way.

"loud" isn't the same as "friendly"






see what i did there? a stupid generalisation. stupid threads like this seem to breed them!

i vote scottish! yay!

Come on guys. Lets bring it back to the question that was asked. No more silliness.
British or American?

haha!

norman is a funny motherfucker

greg, i'd say american, but i've felt like moving to the netherlands for the last couple years, so i have to abstain. unless 'dutch' is a vote. i think the dutch are pretty cool. they're such bastards half the time. they know they are better than all of the rest of us, and they look at us with such an exquisite blend of loathing and pity.

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I do laugh a hearty Englishman's laugh when I am, say, playing online poker with the same name and location as it says on the left here, and people from major US cities ask "so is that London, Ontario?". As if! Such tiny incidents remind me just how effortlessly superior in every way we British are to all Americans.

Well, perhaps if you had looked past the tip of your ethnocentric nose and opened up a map, you would have learned that London, Ontario actually exists. There are towns named London in 17 U.S. cities and 6 different countries, for your information.

It isn't *their* fault if they happen to have a better grasp of geography than you do, but don't feel too ashamed of yourself for your ignorance. After all, North America is a pretty big place.

i voted british because of it's geographical proximity to the european continent, and i enjoy that link we have. i could've voted american because of britain's increasing proximity to american culture.

didn't some educated man once refer to our two countries as "divided by the same language" (winston churchill? george bernard shaw? help me out here? anybody? anybody?)

i think: we (british) envy your (american) self-belief in achievement and success. you (americans) envy our (british) snobbery because it's a foul obnoxious attitude that obliterates any sense of achievment or success and leaves you feeling superior anyway.

being british means i can sound cool when i say wanker and tosser

there's a symbiotic relationship whether we like it or not - neither of us could do without the other.

I think it was old Winnie. Who was, of course, half Yank.

We can also say "buggeration" without it sounding any more stupid than it actually does

It's safe to say that "Fanny Pack" carries different connotations on respective sides of the pond. In this case, I vote "British."

On a related note: A young Frenchman was led to the airport in Minneapolis. On parting, he asked his American hostess an innocent question, but his garbled idiom and pronunciation made for a classic remark.

Fearing he had left an item in the trunk of her car, he asked -- within earshot of her roommates -- "Did I leave something in your butt?"