Maggie’s How the UK views the US- a British thread

[hermosabeach]

America - its all a bit odd...

I am currently on my 25th visit (work and holiday) to the USA. While I have had a lot of great memories, it is still a deeply weird country with a lot of things that I just dont get. I thought I would capture a few to see of any ARRSERS could make sense of it all. Very public toilets... There...

www.arrse.co.uk

 

[Mike Casselton]

The entire article shows that the author is a city dweller and has no understanding of life outside the city. Miami, NYC, Seattle, etc all used as examples of life in the US.
Like most Brits, he's snooty and unwilling to look at things from a different perspective. And really, he's focusing on places to take a shit? Maybe he likes a more private glory hole...

 

[wh20crazy]

 

[Frank Warren]

We are America not like the rest of the “sophisticated world “ and I am grateful every day to be here a proud patriotic citizen despite what the assorted commie shits are trying to do

 

[Skunk]

 

[M8541Reaper]

I can’t wait to get back to the US. This continent acts like it has its shit together but yet has barely progressed from the Stone Age.

 

[ZiaHunter]

I had a cousin from Liverpool who survived the Blitz as a young boy. After retiring as a teacher he would come to the US every year and would stay for as long as his visa would allow. He absolutely loved everything about the US especially the desert southwest. I took him pheasant hunting and fly fishing and he enjoyed every minute of it and commented that a commoner such as himself would never have been able to do that in England. He was forever grateful for the US coming to Europe's aid in WWII. Unfortunately he had a heart condition and died while awaiting treatment under their socialized medicine.

 

[hermosabeach]

It’s an interesting thread on the ArSE forum

 

[theLBC]

when i lived in the UK (90s) they all watched Rosanne and assumed every american bowled every week.

 

[BullGear]

His views are nothing more than an alien talking about a country he has visited 25 times. Must not be too bad.

 

[Mike Casselton]

His views are nothing more than an alien talking about a country he has visited 25 times. Must not be too bad.

He hasn't visited the US. He's visited our liberal shit hole cities. He's probably afraid of grass, trees and anything not black top and concrete.

 

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Dude went to NYC, not America....no wonder he hates it.

and to be fair, hes not wrong about Bathrooms, Public Transport, and TV commercials.

 

[buffalowinter]

And then there is TEXAS!

 

[Major Wader]

I am an American by birth, and Southern by the grace of God. When I am east of the Mississippi River, I try to stay south of I-64. West of that, no real borders, but attempt to avoid the libtardia.

I have had a number of European friends, but none who had a negative opinion of our great country.

I've been to NYC also, same as this dude. Always looked around good before I left, cause I don't need a reason to go back.

 

[Carlos Danger]

 

[BullGear]

I am an American by birth, and Southern by the grace of God. When I am east of the Mississippi River, I try to stay south of I-64. West of that, no real borders, but attempt to avoid the libtardia.

I have had a number of European friends, but none who had a negative opinion of our great country.

I've been to NYC also, same as this dude. Always looked around good before I left, cause I don't need a reason to go back.

I had to spend 2 days a week in NYC and surrounding areas while working. That's one place I don't miss since my retirement. Good riddance.

 

[Alpine 338]

I was stationed in the UK for 5-1/2 years, two different tours. Lived off base, and traveled quite a bit... London, Rock Concerts, Pubs, Nightclubs, Bed and Breakfasts, etc. Also did Track and Field, so our base team competed against other bases including British Military team's. Also took a lot of ski trips to Austria and Switzerland through British travel agencies, which booked us with other British travelers. Funny thing is they always assumed we were Canadian for some reason, until we told them we were Americans stationed in the UK. In all my travels throughout England, Scotland, Wales, I was always treated well, and there was always a good respect for Americans and our partnership militarily. That was the 80's and 90's, so hopefully that hasn't changed any. Honestly, all my travels throughout the world, I was always treated well and respected, and the only two times I can remember someone saying something negative in reference to the USA was by some Australians talking politics (while in Scotland), and in Greece, by a stupid young girl who thought the USA should go to war against Turkey over the situation in Cyprus.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Ask an Englishman if he speaks German. If he responds “no,” you say “You are welcome.”

cheers, Sirhr

 

[theLBC]

I was stationed in the UK for 5-1/2 years, two different tours. Lived off base, and traveled quite a bit... London, Rock Concerts, Pubs, Nightclubs, Bed and Breakfasts, etc. Also did Track and Field, so our base team competed against other bases including British Military team's. Also took a lot of ski trips to Austria and Switzerland through British travel agencies, which booked us with other British travelers. Funny thing is they always assumed we were Canadian for some reason, until we told them we were Americans stationed in the UK. In all my travels throughout England, Scotland, Wales, I was always treated well, and there was always a good respect for Americans and our partnership militarily. That was the 80's and 90's, so hopefully that hasn't changed any. Honestly, all my travels throughout the world, I was always treated well and respected, and the only two times I can remember someone saying something negative in reference to the USA was by some Australians talking politics (while in Scotland), and in Greece, by a stupid young girl who thought the USA should go to war against Turkey over the situation in Cyprus.

same for me mostly, except for being accosted once by an old war war ii vet that had lost his hand in fighting the japanese in china.
By that time he had become the town drunk.
one night at one of the local pubs, i was having a quiet drink with some mates and he walks over to our booth, stares at me with spittle dripping from his lips and points at me.
"Where are you from?" he demands.
i replied politely that i am from the US, and thanked him for his service. (i already knew who he was).
"You know what I mean...where were you born?!!"
i was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in the City of Orange, in Orange County, California, i answered, smiling.
"Where was your father born?!!!" he is almost screaming now.
he was born in Santa Maria, California, good ole USA, my smile even bigger.
"Fook you! Where was your grandfather born?!!!!!!"
San Franscisco, California, United States of America, i was laughing by then.
old guy stormed off and that was it.
too bad too.
if he had pressed me, i was ready to inform him that 2 of my uncles fought the nazis to save this glorious island, while the rest of my family were locked up in a prison camp in the middle of the california desert. my father was too young to go, but later volunteered to go fight in korea.