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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 4:35:54 PM

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Thanks. Nice icon.

I'm pretty fond of it.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 4:41:00 PM

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It's nice too know that the British Isles has their share of armchair quarterbacks.

I personally don't think President Bush has done a very good job, and also feel we need serious reform in the voting process, here in America.

None of that changes the fact that before they are in power, it's very difficult to know what sort of job a President will do ... or a Prime Minister, King or Emperor.

When Marcus Aurelius died, the people in Rome cheared the new young Emperor, Commodus, who turned out to be a monster. Neville Chamberlain was quite popular for bringing "peace in our time", and a young Winston Churchill was once run out of public office in discrace.

We will probably do better in our next election ... or at least we can hope. Either way, we are pretty strong right now, so the rest of the over critical western world can be assured of the gravy train they are currently riding.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 5:05:10 PM

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there was a great deal of a-rustlin' and horses shuffled uneasily.

Was that Big Ron, a-comin' over the hill?

I can't stop editing this, it's become a hobby!!

Look. The best country on Earth is England. It always has been. It always will be. You speak (and ruin) our language. Your number one ideal is to be as refined as us. We invented your country. You're our little redheaded Yankee nephews that need their bottoms smacked. Just because you're off the leash doesn't mean we can't reel you back in and enforce a tax on tea. That bill now stands at 400 godzillion quid.

Now shoo, I'm eating tea and crumpets and saluting Her Maj.

And would you PLEASE stop wearing all that padding and crash helmets when playing Rugby, the Welsh think you're a bit girly.

Ta-ta.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 5:39:04 PM

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Needtouseyou, very good post. I agree with you.
That whole "foreign aid" thing has gotten totally out of control!
Egypt is getting a couple $B in "Military Assistance!"
What the hell is that all about? I mean for what?
We have a bunch of idiots in the U.S. State Dept who are incapable of sitting down and cutting a deal without cutting a check!
I mean we can hire Winos off the street to do that!

Philosophy, (Sorry for calling you "Psychology")just because someone "can" do something doesn't mean they "should" do it.
Besides that the U.S. is no longer and hasn't for some time now been a "rich" country. We are a "Debtor" country and WAY deep in debt!
All this "Global" stuff just doesn't work . Just look at the "U.N." or NAFTA if you need an example.
I won't even comment on that "KYOTO" pos.
And in case anyone thinks I'm an "Arm Chair Quarterback" I've been to about 60 different countries on my own and whilst in the U.S. Military
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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 5:53:57 PM

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there was a great deal of a-rustlin' and horses shuffled uneasily.

Was that Big Ron, a-comin' over the hill?

I can't stop editing this, it's become a hobby!!

Look. The best country on Earth is England. It always has been. It always will be. You speak (and ruin) our language. Your number one ideal is to be as refined as us. We invented your country. You're our little redheaded Yankee nephews that need their bottoms smacked. Just because you're off the leash doesn't mean we can't reel you back in and enforce a tax on tea. That bill now stands at 400 godzillion quid.

Now shoo, I'm eating tea and crumpets and saluting Her Maj.

And would you PLEASE stop wearing all that padding and crash helmets when playing Rugby, the Welsh think you're a bit girly.

Ta-ta.

You should have left off with the belching, it was more believable.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 6:05:05 PM

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I was almost visualising you with the tea and crumpet and a cuddly fox terrier until I saw you were from the NW......then it changed to a picture of vomit flowing through the streets at chucking out time in Preston............... lol. Of course in all English humour there are grains of truth.......

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 6:40:14 PM

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Level, you're never going to forgive me for laughing at your Stars and Stripes underpants are you.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 6:41:58 PM

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I can't disagree about Preston although it's South to me and the World Capital of Chavs. And my football team just had their manager poached by their club.

Still, better than anywhere in New Jersey. Or Ohio. In Ohio it's illegal to be attractive.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 6:46:03 PM

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Level, you're never going to forgive me for laughing at your Stars and Stripes underpants are you.

Ohhh, nothing to forgive, I'm a big boy. I do hope you don't confuse love of country with braindead jingoism, though.

Tell Queenie-poo Level said "hey", will you?

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 7:04:54 PM

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I get all this from a chat room I used to go to called Yanks vs Brits where we used to have a slanging match attacking each other's countries, it's not really serious.

I will cease from posting again on here otherwise some hyper sensitive Texan girl will point out I've used these lines already on a long distant thread.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 7:13:06 PM

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Ah hell, I'd keep posting lol, if we can't survive a little good natured jabbing, we're really in big doo-doo .

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 7:56:44 PM

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I actually agree with your opinion about the United Kingdom. I had a wonderful time while visiting and would love to live there some day. About the only bad things I have to say was that my hotel room was roughly the size of a walk in closet, and someone needs to give about half the people in London, a valium (I feel the same way about Dallas, by the way).

Now the rural areas in England and Scotland, are beyond beautiful and the people were extremely friendly. That's perhaps why we decided to keep the Soviets from popping it like a zit. We certainly didn't do it expecting anyone to be grateful.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/8/2006 7:59:55 PM

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i don't watch the news, read the paper, subscripe to any online news or listen to the news on the radio. if it happens in my front yard...then i'll know something's wrong.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 1:42:15 AM

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michael that is brilliant

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 3:12:41 AM

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"OK ... Iraq was a mistake ... we got that already. Can you please change the channel to the show where we figure out how to get out of this mess?"

........did i miss a news conference? Where GWB et al admitted they were wrong and crucially promised never to do it again? Apologies Caitlyn, but america (or at least your government) doesn't seem to realise Iraq was a mistake and is likely therefore to repeat the error. As to getting out of the mess i'd recommend voting in someone who has actually left the country at one point and thus has some perspective on how other people think and maybe, just maybe, some respect for the ways they want to live. You lot voted GWB in twice, so you have to bear some responsibility for him..........

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 3:49:15 AM

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Most people envy our lifestyle. They also seem to think we are arrogant for believing that our country is the best.
It doesn't matter whether we are liked by the rest of the world because we are the best.

The above attitude is the general reason we Brits dislike Americans. Personally i have found good and bad people wherever i go but do tend to find in general that Americans can be arrogant.

Actually America IS the best. you can find prety much any life style here. the only country that can compare is Canada, [with possibly Autralia]

even those of us who voted for Kerry, are nobodies whipping boy.
never. you wont find that.

as for foriegn aid, the USA is stingy. properly executed- it can be money well spent.

signed- nobodies whipping boy

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 4:13:36 AM

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With all the respect in the world, I'm not sure claiming you're nobody's whipping boy on a site where you list yourself as a submissive that likes being whipped is the wisest move to make.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 4:32:47 AM

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Let me re-word it.

I could easily live in Canada and enjoy the same quality of life.

There is plenty of room for improvement of the USA.

UK and EU has a mariad of laws. IMO- the US is the best.
the UK/EU, does consider quality of life issues sooner then the corporate take over of America. i admire that.

rather then turn this into "my dad is bigger then your dad" rant, how would you effect change for the better in the US? [which tends to trickle down/up/sideways]

if you have some constructive comments please tell me. i DO see a need for improvement here.
[my profile is heavy on bj.... i probaly should edit any whipping out..]

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 4:56:51 AM

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ok suggestions for America. Very little. I've lived in the U.S. and it's a perfectly fine place. I happen to prefer England (I'm not sure what laws here you're referring to) but I was born here so that's natural.

I feel that England has a much, much higher emphasis on the importance of people over money. In America, it seems (seems) like everyone is so obsessed with the dollar that people come second to that.

This might just be my assessment but suppose you owned a large company in America and happened to totally oppose some important global aspect of what America is doing at the time. Making that opposition public could financially ruin you with the kind of jingoistic hysteria of threatened boycotts, so everyone just nods and agrees with whatever is going on because it's risky to do otherwise.

It's also true that almost 8 out of 10 Americans never leave America their whole lives. That means that a whopping 80% of Americans are relying on the other 20% to give them real life, hands-on experience of what other nations are really like and not what another untravelled American tells them they're like.

I would say that foreign policy is really most people's problem with the US. Even a lot of Americans are wary of it.
Find out how many political assassinations that take place throughout the world are U.S. (I can't think of a more suitable word) "sponsored". I'm not convinced that American involvement in other nations elections will win many friends when your own election was, at best, a little dubiously carried out.

The only thing I can think of that you can do in America that you can't do here is carry a gun and most people here are opposed to gun ownership anyway, so even if it was offered, it wouldn't get through Parliament. If you can think of anything else I'd love to hear it.

My take on America is that it's a good place to live. There are millions of people on this planet that would give internal organs to be lucky enough to live there. But I have still to see or hear how that's any different for Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Italy and many other countries.

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RE: What influences world opinion on the US...does it m... - 7/9/2006 5:51:41 AM

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Actually America IS the best.
Fact??????????????

IMO- the US is the best.
No longer fact?????????
Make your mind up.

you can find prety much any life style here
Funnily enough you can in the UK too.

I must point out here i have a disliking for my own country and am certainly not patriotic - i despise the monarchy.
However i again point out that arrogance is not a well liked characteristic and twice of what i have read in here i have seen pure arrogance from citizens of the US.
For someone who is so naive as you are pahunkboy i would think you'd led a very sheltered life and seen very little of anything.

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