[Uglybob]

HIGHLIFE19 : is it hard to live there
keightley1980 : no
keightley1980 : very eay
keightley1980 : easy
keightley1980 : quiet
HIGHLIFE19 : were u born there
keightley1980 : yep
keightley1980 : the whole things on the news is just like over emphasised
keightley1980 : lets say there are 5000 roads
HIGHLIFE19 : do u like how they treat the women there?
keightley1980 : on 4 of these roads in July there is trouble
HIGHLIFE19 : do u like how they treat the women there?
keightley1980 : the women are a bit mingy
keightley1980 : and a bit money hungry
HIGHLIFE19 : what do u mean about that?
keightley1980 : well 70 per cent of them
keightley1980 : the rest are fine
HIGHLIFE19 : well of course i would be money hungry if i lived there to
keightley1980 : they seem to be happy with getting pregnant and staying at home letting the man go out and work
HIGHLIFE19 : well of course i would be money hungry if i lived there to
keightley1980 : and then taking the most of his money
keightley1980 : whats the point in living if you all you do is stay at home
HIGHLIFE19 : that can't even show their face thats how rude the men are over there thats really messed up,where would all the man be at if we wrent here?
keightley1980 : ahh
keightley1980 : it not that
keightley1980 : for many its their goal in life
keightley1980 : get a man with money and suck him dry (so to speak)
HIGHLIFE19 : yeah and u made it their goal
keightley1980 : no
keightley1980 : i personally didnt
HIGHLIFE19 : well the guy in charge sure did
keightley1980 : women have a voice in them, so they speak up
keightley1980 : are you talking about God now
HIGHLIFE19 : no
keightley1980 : what guy is this then
HIGHLIFE19 : who do u think the guy thats bombed are awsome free country
keightley1980 : im getting confused here
keightley1980 : are you talking about Osama Bin Laden in the context of Northern Ireland
HIGHLIFE19 : sure
keightley1980 : he in a cave
keightley1980 : nowhere near here
HIGHLIFE19 : is Northern Ireland anything like where u live
keightley1980 : eh
keightley1980 : I live in Northern Ireland
HIGHLIFE19 : ok
HIGHLIFE19 : so is he your president
keightley1980 : no he isnt
HIGHLIFE19 : what is he?
keightley1980 : he is the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan
keightley1980 : about 4000 miles away
HIGHLIFE19 : have u been there
keightley1980 : ever
keightley1980 : never
HIGHLIFE19 : will u answer me this why would he attack and hide like a little * pussy
keightley1980 : how the hell should i know.
keightley1980 : presumably cos he doesnt want caught and killed
HIGHLIFE19 has left the conversation.

[Sidders]

It's ironic how all Americans associate all terrorism with northern ireland.

[David]

and he doesn't know who Osama Bin Laden is?

David

[Uglybob]

it was a she

[David]

i'm guessing shes blonde....

[Lawrie]

Moby: "I would like to send my condoences to the British football side"

even the guy who thinks hes smart is as dumb as jade

some Americans think that their country is the behold of the world....when in fact..it isnt..well done Kendra for using your brains to come and discover British culture i applaud you.....

Kendra hows the Sausages and british cooking going?

[kendra k]

bob- osama bin laden was not the head of the taliban, he supported them though. he's a rogue.

that american girl is an idiot as are most americans. especially about northern ireland. every single st. patrick's day in high school, i came to school in an orange shirt with some unionist slogan on it just to be obnoxious. only two people in my entire 4 year stint there got it- 1 called be an obnoxious little b*tch and found it mildly amusing, the other sent me out of his class because he said it was offensive to his irish herritage. that was fine, i hated his class.

the point is that most americans really don't think there is much of anything beyond our borders, or if there is it's just an immitation of american culture. i see this as hubris. most of american culture is an amalgam of others. it's why the average american doesn't know who jaques chirac is, or that there was an assasination attempt on him this weekend, nor would they care about general musharif.

sometimes i feel sorta cowardly for how i act with british culture. am i that ashamed of american culture? is british culture any better? i don't know. there are tons of little anglophiles like myself out there, but most of them go insofar as to like britpop, drink tea, and eat fish-n-chips once in a while. i'm slightly more pretentious than that i worry as i listen to radio1 and radio4, read the times and guardian online, drink lucozade, and frequent message boards like this. it's stupid really, but it does make me more globally conscience. i mean, the foriegn news in british news papers is loads better than that in american papers. it just shows how isolated america likes to think of itself- as if it leagues above any other nation.

i cooked a sausage dinner for my exboyfriend and roommate sunday- he liked them. my new roommate said "typical british crap." i thought they were really good myself. she's just a minging francophile who's stinking up the room. i might see if i can cook my parents bangers and mash this weekend. i think i've got it down to an art.

[Morals]

Some Americans are very strange though, and harbour desires to build shrines to David Frost....

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

i think its great that people can still be that thick. time and again america produces people that prove the human race has developed a way of overcoming darwins natural selection. when a complete moron can be in charge of the most powerful country in the world i say its what we fought the nazis for.

[M+L Fan]

I would just like to point out that although Americans tend to be very insular, examples of American stupidity tends to be limited to the trailer trash; after all, some of the worlds most emminent professors are American, and Harvard and Yale are amongst the most respected universities in the world. I often feel that all Americans are tarred with the same brush, just because of stupid trailer trash.
After all, the lower classes in the UK don't know much about other countries either. To the working classes, going abroad isn't about enjoying another countries culure and lifestyle, but to go somewhere that's hot and where there's an easy shag.
I used to have a friend who was from New Zealand, and when he went to school in the UK - admittedly it was a comprehensive - people were intrigued by the fact he came from New Zealand; whilst a lot of the people got New Zealand and the Netherlands mixed up, others asked such intelligent questions as 'What language do they speak in New Zealand?' and 'When you go home, do you speak to your family in New Zealandish?'.

[Morals]

I saw an American girl interviewed on telly a few years back and she thought that the English language was invented by the Americans and that the English learnt it after that. Hmmmm, says it all really.

[gem]

That's mostly to do with the way American kids are taught, that their country is always right, and invented everything. Okay that may be a slight exaggeration however...

if you read an American history textbook it is incredibly biased in their dealings with such country's as Korea or Vietnam. An example a my history lecturer gave us ages ago was an account on World War Two and Americas involvement. It was exaggerated beyond belief.

Also, see such films as 'Black Hawk Down'.

[Gordon_the_Cromag]

thats exactly what i hate americans, the " Yeah,Woo USA" attitude.
they think their morally correct and nothing and ne one can touch them.
also most americans think all english people are posh,id love to take an american to benwell or scotchie.

[Morals]

Show them a couple of episodes of Eastenders (past & present). What with Beeanka shouting Rickaaaaay and the Slater sisters shouting "just stay aat of it will ya!" the septics will soon realise some of us are, in fact, proles.

[kendra k]

americans can watch eastenders, but it's mostly the posh americans (ha!) as it's on public televion- home of all the dull programmes on free tv.

as an american this is what i've learned about our involvement in the world- we are always the protector. the monroe doctrine was written to keep the british from opressing people in the western hemisphere (and allowing americans to do so for them), without us "the allies" would have lost both ww1 and ww2, we are not imperial scum but the brits (and for the more enlightened, the french as well) are, we lost vietnam because of interference from the chinese and russians, we never speak of korea (honestly, in my entire career in the us school system it was only mentioned a handfull of times in both us and world history classes), the gulf war was a success, we are heroes, we are the best nation of the planet due to all of our 'civil liberties', and i could go on.

the best is what was going on in 1776. you say "war for independence" we say "revolutionary war", but i think we missed the revolution. i can't wait to argue this point next semester when i take a class on the american colonies- independence.

[Jonny Hoare]

The imbecile count in thstates is higher than the former WTC. Kendra ia refreshing change from an american voice- she is considered and does not believe in riduliculous disney esque steroetypes. the rest of the american are just drones to the capitalists that are ruining it.

Stereotypes annoy the hell out of people

[Morals]

I was just thinking about US culture in general, and it struck me that the Americans have a perpensity for making everything larger than life: cars, stores, burgers etc.

This got me thinking: is this some sort of unconscious effort to try and make themselves feel that they are, indeed, the greatest? Is it actually a conscious effort to try andprove to the rest of the world that they are the most powerful nation on earth?

I think too much.

[Gordon_the_Cromag]

america refuses to cut its emision of pollution and american produces the most pollution in the world.
If america is the biggest,most powerful and mighty nation then it must be their responsabilty? but of course they would loose money so they dont want that do they.

Kendra aint the american stereotype,id say shes open minded

[Uglybob]

there was a fella on the local radio today who was talking to an american and he was a farmer and the american asked "Do you have 80 tractors in the whole of Ireland?". He thought that the farmer lived in a "hut".

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

haha yes we like kendra because she slags off her own country sometimes and likes ours. i dont think our country is much better (have you watched Trisha?) than america its just america allows its thick people into government and on tv more.

Gaspode the "unemployed so i watch the losers on daytime tv" Wonder Dog

[kendra k]

you mean people in ireland don't live in huts and caves? i thought all of your houses were made of stone with thatched roofs.

[Funky Drummer]

That's a very valid point GTWD has made there. Take BB's Jade for example. In America, she'd probably be in the house of senate or something. Here, she only gets on a reality TV show, and that's probably just through some flawy in the system.