Quote from Nobo :

hehe, and the most prestigous german news show just granted you a new flag (in a report about the embassy in berlin)
...but that didnt had anything to do with anti-americanism...2 weeks ago they showed a wrong german flag
so they are just plain stupid...

have a nice 4th of july over there!

That's OK. Our guys gave your guys a new flag a long time ago. (im Scherz!)

I think is is baseball stuff.

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Quote from Doorman :

And you an Oxford man!

I hate when people assume I'm smart because I come from Oxford

and I know perfectly well what happened on 4th of July, its just very hard to convey sarcasm over the internet!

Quote from Becky Rose :

Come to Mount Snowdown, we put a pub at the top

Officially my favorite place on Earth. I'm leaving work now, packing my bags, and flying to the nearest airport.

This thread needs more Americana.

That guy looks like Canada to me.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

That guy looks like Canada to me.

America welcomes Canada into North Americaness.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

That guy looks like Canada to me.

I can honestly say I have never seen a Canadian with a mullet, even the most hick-ish of Canadians.

Can't say the same about the U.S... thought...

Quote from wark :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6dCYl-kJDhk

I like Loudon Wainwright, but I hate the way Americans suffix country names onto city names.

I mean, "Paris, France" - surely you're shitting us? If there are other towns called Paris, they rank second to Paris, that's just basic ****ing logic. Say "Paris, Texas", by all means, but "Paris" is Paris, for ****'s sake. You don't need to specify "France", we all know Paris is in France, it's a pretty world-famous place.

It's the little things like this that piss off foreigners.

Quote from MAGGOT :

I can honestly say I have never seen a Canadian with a mullet, even the most hick-ish of Canadians.

Can't say the same about the U.S... thought...

I guess he just reminds me of that one guy from Trailer Park Boys.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I like Loudon Wainwright, but I hate the way Americans suffix country names onto city names.

I mean, "Paris, France" - surely you're shitting us? If there are other towns called Paris, they rank second to Paris, that's just basic ****ing logic. Say "Paris, Texas", by all means, but "Paris" is Paris, for ****'s sake. You don't need to specify "France", we all know Paris is in France, it's a pretty world-famous place.

It's the little things like this that piss off foreigners.

lol?

Happy Birth Day America! Thank You to the soldiers for serving our country. Happy 4th everyone!

Ah, Statler and Waldorf save the show.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I like Loudon Wainwright, but I hate the way Americans suffix country names onto city names.

I mean, "Paris, France" - surely you're shitting us? If there are other towns called Paris, they rank second to Paris, that's just basic ****ing logic. Say "Paris, Texas", by all means, but "Paris" is Paris, for ****'s sake. You don't need to specify "France", we all know Paris is in France, it's a pretty world-famous place.

It's the little things like this that piss off foreigners.

Is he supposed to be a comedian or a musician? Because I didn't find either of them any good.

What is funny about saying Glasgow is 800 years old?

As for the rest of the rant, although very true, most Americans don't know their towns and cities are named after existing towns, cities and countries, so if you say you flew to London and got in a fight with an Englishman because he boiled a squirrel, they will say "there are English people in Texas?"

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

As for the rest of the rant, although very true, most Americans don't know their towns and cities are named after existing towns, cities and countries, so if you say you flew to London and got in a fight with an Englishman because he boiled a squirrel, they will say "there are English people in Texas?"

I'd have no problem whatsoever if Athens, GA was the only one on the planet.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I like Loudon Wainwright, but I hate the way Americans suffix country names onto city names.

I mean, "Paris, France" - surely you're shitting us? If there are other towns called Paris, they rank second to Paris, that's just basic ****ing logic. Say "Paris, Texas", by all means, but "Paris" is Paris, for ****'s sake. You don't need to specify "France", we all know Paris is in France, it's a pretty world-famous place.

It's the little things like this that piss off foreigners.

Agreed. But it's chiefly southern (suthun) to say something like that. Just like you guys have your own dialects, the slow (drawl) speaking southern ones tend to use a lot of redundant and unnecessary words.

e.g...

Quote from Southern Man :

Lester Aloysius Cornelius Ichabod Billy Joe Ray the third, you get together and round up all of your friend acquaintences, and after all of yall put the oil, I say after you put the oil in the pick-'em-up truck, all yall had best be taking yourselves out together for a most pleasurable joy ride through the city of our [city], [state] in our most beloved United States of the American Continent on our good planet Earth, some miles from God's great sun--and I do in very deed declare that it is quickly becoming a powerfully hot afternoon, and if I am in the slightest way correct in stating that notion--I say, I have perceived a powerful temperature.

Anyway, if you just said "I was in Paris the other day" people would think you meant Paris Hilton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgYwt8Cat7s&NR=1

Just about the best thing to come from the States

Quote from wark :

Agreed. But it's chiefly southern (suthun) to say something like that. Just like you guys have your own dialects, the slow (drawl) speaking southern ones tend to use a lot of redundant and unnecessary words.

From what I've heard it can also work the other way around:

Quote from Southern Man :

Y'all git 'fore noon.

Quote from xaotik :

From what I've heard it can also work the other way around:

Difference between a "southern gentleman" and Bubba, his second cousin, twice inbred.

Ah, there you go - that makes sense. One of these days I should get in touch with my southern relatives and see which way they swing just for statistics' sake. Although since they're from germanic stock they're probably the types that just sit on a porch with a straw in their mouth and observe The World stoically and hence don't get quoted.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZM26Zs_tASM&feature=related

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Quote from rc10racer :

mmmmmmmmmmmm America stole the idea of the tail wing off the British so Screw America with a passion plus there fat, dum, and kill friendly soldiers