Mere Curiosity.

[xyzzyplugh]

How many on this site will own up to being American?

[xyzzyplugh]

Also do you live there currently or have you moved to UK? If the latter, which do you prefer and why?

[flirty41]

Hi xyzzy! Why do they have to 'own up'? You make it sound like a crime to be American!!! :-)

[xyzzyplugh]

Well an American would say 'fess up anyway. Hi Flirty41 but no offence intended goddammit, just trying to acquaint myself with our 'children'. What's it like to only have 200 years of history? Jeez, if I've made this whole Q. sound rude and flippant due to my crass sense of humour it may fail in its intent in which case I'll try again later. But I think our American friends have thicker skin than that. Hope so or I'm liable to get my fool head blown off!

[flirty41]

I know you meant no offence xyzzy, it just seemed a curious way to put it! And, hopefully, our American friends will know that too. Hope you get the answers you're looking for. (Didn't mean to sound as though I was criticizing, by the way.)

[sethjnr]

Guess I've already 'come out' here before. Why the interest? Just watched the news showing images of the shuttle breaking up. Feels real sad here right now. I just don't get the fascination (some) of you guys have in stereotyping Americans. This is the first site I've ever experienced this. Why?

[xyzzyplugh]

I guess Brits have a habit of stereotyping peoples, usually for fun; Scots are mean, Irish are stupid, English are inhibited Welsh are strange, French are feeble, Germans are latent gays, Americans are loud, etc, We don't miss any out so no prejudice there. I married an American is why I have an interest in UsA but I'm beginning to wish I hadn't started this thread as I'm digging myself deeper.. Later in Australia... "G'day Bruce... No Pufftas"
I'll get me coat..

[sethjnr]

OK...so,if he's from the US-what would be his response? I'm insecure about other stuff, but not my history! I've been here all my life xyzzyplugh. I love my family,what I do for a living, my daughter, my girlfriend and yes, my Country. I hear and see all kinds of stuff about Britain. And if all of this is right then you folks would be sad, smoggy, small, snobs. My own experience (I get to see some of you guys as tourists) would be very inquisative, small(er), smart(but not always!), and very,very sexy(uh, the females I mean). Guess we're also a little more raw after 9/11, huh?

[brawburd]

Guess that's one of the stereotypes we Scots/ Brits have about Americans - that is, it's about time Americans were raw and got some grief, and now they are going Ricki Lake it about it?! None of that is meant to sound contrite! Britain has lived with the reality of terrorism for many years, and much seems to have been financially supported by Americans with some geneologically emotive links to Ireland. Or maybe Americans have got it right and as a culture are just better at expressing it all?! Well, that never answered the question and it took quite a detour, but only cos the Americans interfered! Only kidding Mrs XyzzyPlugh, that drole humour again!

[brawburd]

I take it Xyzzyplugh that you were actually just trying to get a feel of who was using the site, cos like me you are basically dead nosey?!

[andjac]

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[brawburd]

andjac - you need to keep eye contact with who u r talking to! otherwise you appear to be simply raving! name who u r responding to?

[sethjnr]

Can't believe you mean that 3,0000+ dead = grief going 'Ricki Lake'. You're a jerk brawburd.

[j2buttonsw]

I'm pulling up a chair: this is getting interesting...

[mykola]

I, once got more or less banned from an ami site (photo.net) i still d'no y. Either coz i'm english or coz i live in austria or my photos were too much 4 them. I'm probably gonna get killed now but it seems that some PEOPLE find shooting innocent people in the head or sinless killing normaller than a penis or vagina,or nipple bla bla bla. this gives me an idea 4 a new question.. groovy. Gbaa yowl.

[brawburd]

sethjnr, can we clarify here? Firstly, I said I was referring to a stereotype and I was hoping to explore through this constructive discussion ("you are a jerk" seems to miss the point!). I did mean to say I wasn't meaning to be trite, rather than contrite (maybe that will explain why you picked up so wrongly on the tone). What are you referring to with 30 thousand? If you mean 9/11, I would say that every single one of the people who died should be mourned and respected. Perhaps the British have become somewhat dulled to the outcome of terrorist acts - although the hard reality of grief remains the same for each individual affected as it is for those involved in 9/11. My final point was that Irish terrorist organisations have been firmly supported from America, and I think this may alter now that Americans know the reality of terrorism on their doorstep? My overall point was one about American mourning culture, how it compares to what has been felt by British people throughout generations of terrorism, and I asked who had got it right?

[brawburd]

xyzzyplugh, the skins ain't as thick as you hoped! You've got me into trouble now!

[sethjnr]

Ok I was wrong, so you're a BORING jerk.

[brawburd]

sorry sethjnr, you are so totally right. I got mixed up thinking this was a forum for debate, clearly I missed the point and it won't happen again.

[sethjnr]

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