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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Yank on June 17, 2003, 02:18:00 pm

Title: Oh Brother!
Post by: Yank on June 17, 2003, 02:18:00 pm: I'm going down to Booze Buster and pick up a six-pack of Bud, then stop for a pizza, come home and get ready for this eye-opening program on BBC2 tonight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20030617/20030617_2100_4224_42448_90 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20030617/20030617_2100_4224_42448_90)
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: mankie on June 17, 2003, 02:23:00 pm: You live in Europe and still drink that rats piss they call Bud....no wonder we hate Americans!
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: ggw on June 17, 2003, 02:25:00 pm: Sounds just like this Pew report.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=185 (http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=185)
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Bags on June 17, 2003, 02:29:00 pm: From the article:

"Hosted from London, the programme boasts a panel of quality thinkers, movers and shakers - a seldom-convened brains trust of world views on America pre-eminence. "

If that's the case, why don't they tell us who any of them are? It's going to be a bloodbath, and all about G.W., the f@&#er.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: ggw on June 17, 2003, 02:36:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by bags:
From the article:

"Hosted from London, the programme boasts a panel of quality thinkers, movers and shakers - a seldom-convened brains trust of world views on America pre-eminence. "

If that's the case, why don't they tell us who any of them are? It's going to be a bloodbath, and all about G.W., the f@&#er.
including former cabinet minister Clare Short, US journalist Joe Klein and former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto

Others: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/default.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/default.stm)

Take the America Quiz:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/2962622.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/wtwta/2962622.stm)
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: thirsty moore on June 17, 2003, 02:40:00 pm: Cripes, I only got 7 right. I should have been homeschooled.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: ggw on June 17, 2003, 02:41:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by thirsty moore:
Cripes, I only got 7 right. I should have been homeschooled.
I got 8. I didn't know about the hamburger or the latest revisionist theory on the Siberians.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: markie on June 17, 2003, 02:43:00 pm: I only got five, I should obviously go home....

in addition to those two, I got population, internet usage and the dollar question wrong......
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: vansmack on June 17, 2003, 02:45:00 pm: 9 out of 10. The only one I missed was the dollar question, which seems to have more to do with Germany than America, but that's just me.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Bags on June 17, 2003, 02:47:00 pm: I got six, missing pretty much the same questions most missed (because they're a bit of bullshit). The revised discovery of America, populations and internet usage and the dollar crap. Don't think I'm a bad American for not knowing all that, but damn, still stung a little....
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Bags on June 17, 2003, 02:49:00 pm: PS, I only got hamburger because when they mentioned adding bread to the meat to stretch it, I thought, "Dude, that's not hamburger, that's meatloaf!"
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: mankie on June 17, 2003, 02:51:00 pm: 8/10

Got the hamburger one wrong and the "who discovered the place" wrong.

Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: markie on June 17, 2003, 02:52:00 pm: mankie is smarter than me.....

please kill me.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: ggw on June 17, 2003, 02:53:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mankie:
Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
You're Hispanic?
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: thirsty moore on June 17, 2003, 02:53:00 pm: Your from the UK, not Mexico.

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Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: mankie on June 17, 2003, 02:54:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ggw:

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Originally posted by mankie:
Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
You're Hispanic? [/b]
Why do you ask...need some yardwork done?
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Bags on June 17, 2003, 02:55:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ggw:

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Originally posted by mankie:
Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
You're Hispanic? [/b]
Hey, all this time I thought Mankie was a Limey?!?
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: mankie on June 17, 2003, 02:57:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by bags:

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Originally posted by mankie:
Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
You're Hispanic? [/b]
Hey, all this time I thought Mankie was a Limey?!? [/b]
Actually I'm a pommie, and don't our backs get wet when we're swimming across the Atlantic?
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: ggw on June 17, 2003, 02:59:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mankie:

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Originally posted by bags:

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Originally posted by mankie:
Not bad for an ignorant wetback eh?
You're Hispanic? [/b]
Hey, all this time I thought Mankie was a Limey?!? [/b]
Actually I'm a pommie, and don't our backs get wet when we're swimming across the Atlantic? [/b]
What's a pommie? Markie told me you were a ponce.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: thirsty moore on June 17, 2003, 03:01:00 pm: Are you sure it wasn't nancy boy?

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What's a pommie? Markie told me you were a ponce.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: mankie on June 17, 2003, 03:06:00 pm: For those that don't know "Pommie" is what Australians call the British. It comes from POHM, which means "Prisoner Of Her Majesty". When we shipped out all the rapists, theives and vagabonds to Australia, some escaped by jumping overboard and settled in America, but the ones that ended up there called us POHM's because they said they were the free ones while we were the real prisoners of the monarchy. In reality, Australia is nothing more than Britains largest open prison.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: markie on June 17, 2003, 03:07:00 pm: Well all the nice boys love a sailor....

thats why I learnt the sailor dance shimmy.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: thirsty moore on June 17, 2003, 03:08:00 pm: So that makes us your largest church retreat?

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In reality, Australia is nothing more than Britains largest open prison.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Bags on June 17, 2003, 03:14:00 pm: A pommy, eh? Well, they may call you that down under, but I think Limey is the slur of choice on this continent....

Do you know where pommy comes from? My Ozzie friends said it's short for Prisoner of Her Majesty..... Actually, since it's about prisoners, isn't it more appropriate for Ozzies??

:p
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Bags on June 17, 2003, 03:17:00 pm: Oops, inevitably Mankie gave a better explanation than I while I was typing. Damn you're a fast limey/pommy!
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: mankie on June 17, 2003, 03:19:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by bags:
A pommy, eh? Well, they may call you that down under, but I think Limey is the slur of choice on this continent....

Do you know where pommy comes from? My Ozzie friends said it's short for Prisoner of Her Majesty..... Actually, since it's about prisoners, isn't it more appropriate for Ozzies??

:p
I already answered the pommie thing...do you know were "limey" comes from? Again, for those who don't....Limey comes from the Royal Navy many year ago. Scurvy was a terrible skin condition that sailors got on a regular basis. The Royal Navy made their sailors eat a lime every day to fight off the scurvy. So Navy's of other countries would call the Brits "Limeys"
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: ggw on June 17, 2003, 03:21:00 pm: Ozzie means Australian, but Ozzy is is a Brummie, which is English....

This is all so confusing....
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Jaguär on June 17, 2003, 03:48:00 pm: Back to the quiz, I got all the number ones wrong except the date and the average income questions. I did, however, get the hamburger question right. I knew it was German but that's about all I knew about it. Got the 'who founded America' right too.
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: jadetree on June 17, 2003, 03:56:00 pm: only got 5, I have always hated studying American history
Title: Re: Oh Brother!
Post by: Yank on June 18, 2003, 02:01:00 am: Quote
Originally posted by mankie:
You live in Europe and still drink that rats piss they call Bud....no wonder we hate Americans!
I was being sarcastic! I should have went for cheeseburgers and not the pizza.

The show was as expected. Of the countries taking part in the polls, Jordan hates America the most, with France and Brazil not too far behind. Canada had some opinions but I didn't take any notice of them. Fifty six percent of the people in the UK have a favorable opinion of the US, except for Manchester, where 98% of the people have no opinions at all.