A question about stereotypes.

[Cowtipper]

I'm from the States and I was wondering about American stereotypes in media in the UK.
Like:
Are there many?
Are they generally accepted as true?
Does it color(colour) your impressions when you meet somebody from the US?

[snags]

Cowboys... Tom Cruise... any one over 300lbs... Rednecks...

[snags]

Don't all Americans fall in to one of those groups?

[Mick-Talbot]

Sugar at geography.

[Cowtipper]

What does "Sugar at geography." mean?

[Mick-Talbot]

sh it


actually, my neighbour is american , nice chap, sends his old clothes to africa.
don't know why.

[Cowtipper]

Haha, nevermind, I looked it up in the slang dictionary. And yes, that's mostly true.

[Mick-Talbot]

yes he says he like to do his bit to help, i say how many feckn africans have a 63 inch waist....?

[samak]

Hi Cowtipper,
I suspect most stereotypes come from watching the TV, whether it's comedies, movies or politicians. Certainly the stereotype of southerners is that they are all rednecks - Dubya didn't do anything to dispel that one ! Nor did all the people from Texas and Oklahoma that I worked with for 7 years when I worked for Halliburton - they were unfailingly rednecks. Most were nice people though as long as you avoided politics...

[samak]

Which state are you from Cowtipper?

[Cowtipper]

The reason I ask is I worked with a guy from Britain that said we had a very bad reputation there. We don't get anything but old sit-coms and BBC World News, and America isn't a big topic in "Are You Being Served?". I was wondering if television stereotyping had anything to do with what he was talking about. Mostly he said "loud, rude, and pushy".

[Mick-Talbot]

what pisses me off is , when me and Clint go out for the night, i sometimes get refused my favourite tipple , lager ..because i'm drunk. Yet Clint never gets refused his quadruple burger and 4 portions of fries for being fat when we go in mcdonalds... it's just not fair :0(.

[Cowtipper]

Illinois, about halfway between Chicago and St. Louis, Missouri.

[Mick-Talbot]

trigger is John Ingman btw Cowtipper.

[Mick-Talbot]

and pinki will show you her pussy.