..in American Bashing
Everyone here seems pretty cool in that the BNP are twats, the Daily Mail is a hate sheet and that racism is just shit. Yet, having a go at the Americans is somehow acceptable. They're often portrayed as loud, arrogant, fat and stupid. It's a big generalisation for 300m+ people, on an opinion, shaped for the majority, by the media. If other nations just saw our telly, in particularly our reality tv, we'd look, well, American. [sic]

Age old argument but if you substituted Paki in for Yank and it sounds a bit yikey, you've probably overstepped the mark.
(Hansdown, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 1:06, 10 replies)

How does this relate to geese.

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 1:49, closed)

well, D'oh.
if you substitute Paki for Yank you have completely overstepped the mark. Because while both are words "allegedly" used to describe the peoples of a country (see: the idiotic and infantile argument that "Paki" is an acceptable word to use as the natives of Uzbekistan are Uzbekis, etc etc) only one of them has been used for decades as an vitriolic term of bitter racist abuse. And I'll give you a clue. It's not Yank.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 8:23, closed)

I'd have to agree
Most of the ones I've had the fortune to speak to have all been charming, funny and rather clever. The only stupid ones I've met have to be, sadly, the tourists. You get it everywhere though. We have enough in this country. Imagine if they all believed we were chavs - it's an equivelent comparison.
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 8:35, closed)

They voted in George W Bush as President.
And London voted Boris in as Mayor.

The Italians keep voting for Berlusconi.

The merkins don't have the monopoly on stupid.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 14:10, closed)