snubis

10) TV.

American TV is 99% trash, plain and simple. The licensing system over
here has it's flaws but at least it keeps the BBC as the highest
quality and most respected broadcaster on the planet. American TV has
been ruined by commercialism, and the "entertainment" it provides is
merely low quality "chewing gum for the brain" from the idiot's
lantern. All those channels are no good if the best you can do is
Friends.

9) Walt Disney

The archetypal American Dream. Shamelessly capitalist creator of
America's childhood, twisting fairy tales and European myths into his
own Americanised fantasies while growing fat and rich from the
allowances of the innocent. Also a deviant pervert, despite his
outward family image. The perfect metaphor for American society.

8) Snacks

Sorry guys, but when it comes to food of the sweet variety you're all
****ing clueless. Chocolate in the US ****s, you wouldn't know a
decent cake if it bit you on the ass, and donuts ain't all that.

7) The Klan.

I don't think I need to say much more than it's a pretty ****ed up
country where so many fervent "christians" feel the need to murder
those that look different to them just to prove their love of God.

6) Sports.

Baseball? Rounders, more like. The single dullest sport on the planet,
even duller than cricket. Basketball? Girls play that over here until
they hit their ****s, when they find better things to do. The fact
that you have to score 100 points to make it interesting says a lot.
American Football? ***** rugby, more like. Ditch the pads, keep the
same 15 guys out there for the full 80 minutes and keep the play going
until someone gets killed and you've got yourselves a proper sport.
And stop paying them $30 million to sit on a bench for four months of
the year.

5) The Constitution.

The single most annoying thing about American politics, and the cause
of more left wing whining than any other sheet of paper in history.
The First Amendment is a good idea in theory, admittedly, but the
right to bear arms? See #1 for my opinions on that one.

4) Education

The US High School diploma is all but worthless. In my final year of
high school we had a mass induction of about 25 kids of various ages
from Seattle, who all had to join classes with kids at least one,
usually two years younger than them because the American school system
is so far behind European standards. I've heard stories about UK high
school graduates doing the reverse at US colleges - getting bumped
ahead because the American kids are being tought things we learned at
16.

3) Obesity

Linked with your obsession with junk food. Life is too cheap in the
States, and when you mix in arrogance, greed and stupidity you get fat
people. Hundreds of thousands of fat people. The last figures that the
British media were having a good laugh at suggested that around 40% of
all Americans have weight problems... that's about 150 *million*
people. And if you do lose weight that you should never have had in
the first place, you go on TV and cry with Sally Jesse Raphael about
your miserable childhood...

2) Therapy

...which brings me nicely to my second point. Shut the **** up about
your horrible childhoods and just get on with it. All the bullshit
psychiatry that goes on in America is the biggest joke in the western
hemisphere right now. Self help books, anger therapy, $300 an hour
sessions with some quack who just listens to your problems and then
sends you a bill for advice you could have asked your mother for (if
you know who she is), and because they have a certificate you think
it's all going to be okay. Anywhere else we'd just forget about it,
let the past go and get on with our lives.

1) Crime

Pete may have gone on and on about three little kids dying in the UK
and how the whole country had come to a standstill, but here's
something he didn't consider: that sort of thing is *rare* over here,
and that's why it makes headline news nationwide. You know how many
people were shot and killed in the UK last year? Around 500. Crime in
Britain is nothing, small change. There are more murders in LA and New
York than there are in Britain. And we can walk to the grocery store
without fear of having our shoes stolen at gunpoint to feed some
****ager's crack habit. Over here, that kid is drug free, and either
working or finishing school. Recently two of our people experienced
what life in the US is like as they were held at gunpoint in their
Kissimee hotel room and forced to perform *** acts, then the man was
locked in the bathroom while the gunman ****d his wife. America the
beautiful? Don't make me laugh.

wally

Why post in Calgary General(Canada) Newsgroup?

black jacques shellaque

Meanwhile 99% of Canadians watch such programs as Survivor and pretty
much anything on Fox. Let's not forget those who have grey market and
illegal satellite dishes that bring in HBO and other strictly American
stations. Really, if it is such trash, then why are Canadians so
entralled by it?


Where do you find that Walt Disney was some kind of pervert? He
created a cartoon mouse that struck a chord with the public. How is
that a sign of a pervert?


Maybe you should try something other than a Hershey bar.

Uh huh, and Canada has no racists. Take off your rose colored glasses,
bud. Ernst Zundel ring a bell to you?


I would disagree with that.

Basketball? Girls play that

Basketball was invented by a Canadian, James Naismith. Maybe that says
a lot regarding the creativity of Canadians?

American Football? ***** rugby, more like.

Hmm...kind of like a hockey player who comes from Canada.


Very well then, name one country with a more ideal constitution.


Kind of like a Canadian highschool diploma. No, Canada does not fare any better.


Good grief, grow up. Take a walk through any Canadian city and tell me
that the people you see are not obese. We are no better than the
Americans or indeed Europeans in this regard. Why do you only single
out the Americans? Just a bit bigoted, aren't you?


And none of that exists in Canada or anywhere else in the
world...right. Grow up, moron.

YOU make me laugh. You accuse the US of everything under the sun but
pay no attention to the despicable acts that take place in Canada.
Does the name Holly Jones ring a bell to you? How about Tania Murrell?
How about Corrine "Punky" Gustavson? No? What about Michael Dunahee?
Canada has its share of sick bastards; yet you say nothing about the
sick ****s that perpetrate these crimes. Try paying attention to what
is going on around the world before you start pointing fingers, dumb
ass.


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* I've decided that to raise my grades I must lower my standards. --
Houghton Library restroom wall, Harvard University. Cambridge,
Massachusetts.

mad amoeba

European TV is much worse. I know I've seen plenty of it. Most other areas
of the world don't even have televisions. Just look at north korea. Less
then 1 TV set per 1000 people.


WD is stupid but remember that it is targeted at children. At least in
America we don't teach them to
strap bombs on themselves and kill innocent people. Why dont you go to Saudi
Arabia and start your work over there first.


Same as 10. American snacks are much better than anything Europe has ever
produced. Other third world countries' idea of snack is
still roasted pig with onions.


First I thought you were talking about germany's brown shirsts and SS...but
OK.


Agree with this point. Baseball IS the dullest game on earth. But don't
frorget that we also given the world American Footbal


Then why do so many countries keep immitating American Constitution. Just
look at russian constitution.


Agreed. Much work to be done.


Better than being emmaciated third world cretin such as yourself.


we can afford to go to therapist. Jealous of our success?


40 muslimes killed each other off today and you dot seem to care about that.
I would imagine this would be the first on your agenda.

rfischer

Jerkey. Corn chips. Salsa.


As opposed to killing each other because of the sports team that they support?

Nothing is duller than cricket, except for perhaps soccer.
Run back and forth a bloody hour and the score is just 1 to
0?!? When do they stop screwing around and start playing whatever
game it is they're supposed to be playing???


****s. Almost as idiotic as football.

"Human rights? Screw 'em!"


The universities of the US are the best in the world. The vast
majority of the students graduated from US high schools.

Of course, if you simply expel any sub-par student then you can make
any school _look_ good by just keeping all the best students.


Quite whining about your job and how your employer won't give you
five months of vaction each year and get back to work.

--
Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net

omphalos

On Sat 05 Jul 2003 10:41:34a, Don Swayser <swayser@optonline.net>


The United States has had several of its Presidents assissinated.

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don swayser

No, you misunderstand, the British Government axed Charles I and Oliver
Cromwell then dismissed the parliament and took the title of Lord
Protector and remained a dictator until his death. It's a bit more
complicated than that, but that's the basics.

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equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
Carl Schurz (1829-1906)

omphalos

The U.S. has had four presidents assassinated. Abraham Lincoln, James
Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy.


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junegill

Top ten reasons why the US is great (and please note that I am English):

10 The people - I've been astounded at their generosity and kindness on my
visits there.

9 Spectacular scenery on a huge scale.

8 Sport? Outstanding tennis players and Olympic athletes.

7 The people.

6 Food? Admittedly their desserts aren't as good as ours, but the variety
and imaginative combinations of American food is great.

5 Did I mention the people?

4 The movie industry.

3 The space programmes.

2 The music industry.

1 Yes, you've guessed it ... the people.

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allan lindsay-oneal

What's the matter, son? Got turned down for your student visa?