The problem is
the ubiquity of the American 'cultural' (ahem!) influence. Much of the crap on TV is American, large purveyors of poor quality food and drinks such as McDonalds and Starbucks litter our streets. When kids are playing their charming little role play games, pretending to be explorers or soldiers or something, they invariably talk in an American accent!
Plus the ignorant American majority has been actively indoctrinated as kids to believe that any aspect of any country other than the US of fuckin' A is inherently inferior. For example if there is a report of a record breakingly big uh, let's say moth found in wales, some American dickhole is guaranteed to say "Big deal! we have moths twice that size here. Also they eat people."
Considering America and the UK are supposed to have a 'special relationship' they seem to have a low opinion of us. Apparently we all have about three teeth, all of which are black, all our food has no taste and is boiled, we live in the 'nanny state' or Orwells 1984 (they love that book, I didn't know they made a pop-up version with three words to a page) and our women are hideous mutants. They seem to think the NHS is inferior to their quite frankly scary medical system of insurance. (Can't afford it? Crawl off and die now would you? There's a pet.)
Also they remake our TV programs. Badly. (Red dwarf, the Office, Life on Mars) usually missing the point of the series entirely. Often they proudly put 'American' in the title. I saw the other day a dragons den ripoff called "American inventor" also see American idol, America's got talent (OK, i'll concede that one.) etc.
Don't get me started on their irrational flag worship and bible bashing lunacy. That is a different rant entirely.

I feel much better for that.
(Prof. Moriarty put his foot in it on, Fri 10 Oct 2008, 20:00, Reply)