God I love quizzes...
America got to be strong by taking the best of all the world's cultures and
blending them into one "melting pot". Sure we were influenced by Britain, but
also by people from the European mainland and the people and cultures of five
other continents. If America's overriding influence were British, it would be
impossible to find a decent meal in this country and we'd be overrun with
chip stands.
Thank god American education is better than British education:
- The largest countries in the world are:
(by area) 1. Russia, 2. Canada, 3. USA, 4. China, 5. Brazil.
(by population) 1. China, 2. India, 3. USA, 4. Indonesia, 5. Brazil.
- The very first computer was the abacus, invented by some ancient Chinaman
(nope not British). The first computer was the ENIAC 1, invented by in 1946
John Mauchly and John Eckert who were working for the United States Army
(nope not the British Army). The first personal computer was the Altair
8800 invented in 1974 by Californian (nope not Londoner) Ed Roberts.
- That Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell had the common sense to leave your
stifling little island and made his way to America where he not only
patented the telephone, but started one of the largest companies in the
world (AT&T).
- The internet was started in 1969 by the U.S. military and was know as the
ARPAnet. The HTTP protocol which is the basis of the web was created at the
Swiss CERN labratory in 1993. HTTP was made usable by an American, Netscape
founder Marc Andreesen in 1994.
- America finally joined World War II when our country was actually attacked
by Japan (remember Pearl Harbor). Of course America didn't save Britain
from the Nazis (the Hitler was too incompetent to actually take your
island), but we did save the French, the Dutch, and the Germans themselves.
- The Marshall Plan was a US$13.3bn *GIFT* to Europe, it was not a loan. But
John, it was your grandparents' and great-grandparents' taxes that rebuilt
London and the rest of Europe.
- Taxes do not build cities, they maintain them.
- London is a fine place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. America
has many far better cities with far better opportunities than London. If
London were so great, America's best and brightest would emigrate there.
Instead America's best and brightest stay here, Britain's best and
brightest immigrate here, and our dimwits emigrate to London.
- And on average, Americans work more hours per week than Britons. So we all
can't be lazy bloodsucking shits like the French. What was your point?
- What fat bastard ate all the good pie shops?
- Thank god for curry! You need something edible to eat on your lil' island.
BTW ;^)
Enjoy,
John M. Stafford
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> 1. We're in a no-win situation here - if you're (and if you're going to
> generalise then so will I) feeling persecuted over errors of your past you
> blame us for the way 'we' treated the Native Americans (for example) but then
> when you want to crow about something then it's all thanks to 'your'
> structures which you see as not at all influenced by factors such as British
> traditions of parliamentary democracy or that pesky capitalist system we
> started. Still...even that's coupled with factors like density of population
> and natural resources that have more to do with luck than with merit. ('the
> largest country in the world'???? Is that a real boast? I thought that was
> Canada anyway).
>
> 2. And where did that computer start? In the UK. Telephone invented by a Scot
> you claim as your own of course... I'm told we took our own part in building
> the user interface of the World Wide Web though. Still - thanks for making us
> all feel a bit humble. Whenever I type a domain name (or use a zip or eat
> cornflakes) I will issue thanks and ask God to bless your great country.
>
> 4. Please spare us that 'to save your island from invasion' shite please,
> it's vastly insulting and we don't really want to ask you what you were doing
> three years prior to actually getting off your arses. So why exactly did you
> get involved in World War II? Absolutely nothing to do with self-interest I'm
> sure. I was under the impression that Britain and the U.S. were only two of
> the nations that paid a huge price in saving THE WORLD from Nazism. Who
> exactly feeds you this preposterous crap that you were the bleeding hearts of
> the world somehow doing us a huge favour? Is it a superior educational
> system? You are only talking about our grandparents' generation and this is
> still really, really offensive. Wash your mouth out young man.
>
> 5. We did. Thanks for lending us that money, though, which we're still paying
> you back today (with interest). Did your taxes build all your own cities? If
> so, why haven't you got one as good as London?
>
> By the way, WE work longer hours than everyone in Europe as well. I'm an
> adopted Londoner (of two years). There are only two things worth moaning
> about - the amount of calcium carbonate in the water and the dearth of decent
> pie shops.* I am constantly impressed by its beauty and even aspects of its
> ugliness (which seems to prove that it isn't a dead theme park city like
> er...Venice, for example). Still - I'd be pissed off if I didn't live here
> too (I was for twenty-five years).
>
> Agh and to the bloke who made the lunatic statement about curry - talk about
> missing the point! The curry doesn't represent us 'losing our own culture',
> it's a great British dish! The Asian people in this country are British too -
> what is different about so many Americanisms is that they haven't been
> brought in by immigrants but by a distant popular culture. I find that's a
> really bland and tedious process as it seems to involve the wholescale
> imposition of crass cultural trends, whereas immigrants contribute to the
> environment whilst being influenced by it (that's what makes the English
> language so special). Why can't people get their heads around this
> distinction?
>
> Natalie
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> Gosh how the hell did American Culture build the largest and
> strongest economy and country in the world? Where did that Internet
> start? How many musical acts have we given you.. Wait, what war did
> thousands of Americans die in just to save your Island from invasion.
> Who rebuilt London? (Cough ack cough.. thats a hard one to swallow I
> know.. but come on.. our taxes in someway rebuilt your damn city.)
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