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> Pier Danone wrote:
> > "slas" <blundersaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Pier Danone wrote:
> > > "Leopold Stotch" <butters@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > | "Jay Furr" <jfurr-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > | > Why I feel sorry for the French:
> > > |
> > > | One of my favorite all-time Letterman Top 10 lists is:
> > > |
> > > | TOP TEN WAYS LAS VEGAS IS BETTER THAN PARIS
> > > |
> > > | 10. Vegas not crawling with Frenchmen
> > > | 9. Impossible to get "I Crapped Out In Paris" T-****rts
> > > | 8. Hard to get change in Louvre at 4 A.M.
> > > | 7. Paris inconveniently located thousands of miles from nuclear
tes=
t sites
> > > | 6. Sorbonne basketball team is five tiny white guys [ed. note:
th=
is list
> > > | was broadcast way back when UNLV was good..]
> > > | 5. Paris: men in berets on bicycles. Las Vegas: orangutans in
cowb=
oy hats
> > > | on unicycles.
> > > | 4. Vegas didn't lose a single inch of ground to Nazi war machine
> > > | 3. Palace of Versailles does not offer double jackpot time every
15
> > > minutes
> > > | 2. Ten dollars won't buy you *** act in desert outside Paris
> > > | 1. Las Vegans: hardworking, patriotic citizens. Parisians: lazy,
> > > | wine-swilling cheeseheads.
> > > |
> > >
> > > But what is the difference between Las Vegas and a youghurt?
> > >
> > > You'll find a culture in the youghurt.
> > >
> > > The one thing all of the USA lacks (not just vegas) is any heritage
or
> > > culture.
> > > Of course, that is not to mention that it also lacks any friends
anyw=
here
> > > else
> > > in the world. Even most of the British now hate yanks. Whilst Prime
M=
inister
> > > Blair may baiser de derri=E8re de Bush, the 'allies' really don't
car=
e for
> > > Americans, or their most common ex****t - Obesity.
> >
> > Most people I talked to over there said they just hated our leaders -
> > other than the blanket "all Americans".
> >
> > Not at all, most of the English blanket hate Americans for a number of
=
reasons
> > (and not 'the leaders')
>
> " Gee, the ones I've met must've been lying. They seemed to despise
> the French."
>
> Probably didn't want to hurt your feelings. The French and English tend
t=
o take
> the piss out of one another but the English people wish they had the
ball=
s of
> the French at times to stand up to things.
French balls? Yeah, tell me another. The only "balls" the french
have is standing up to the US...when they know we won't really do
anything to you. That's not balls....that's PR.
>
> > For such a 'mighty' land, you did **** all to help Europe until the
last
> > minute
> > of the 2nd world war,
>
> " We weren't very mighty at the time. We didn't start building up
> until 1940....after y'all showed (again) that you weren't able to
> police your own backyard."
>
> With the exception of the IRA (largely funded by Americans) we seem to
ha=
ve done
> pretty well for the last 60 or so years.
On the back of US troops. Or are you one of those who thinks the
Soviets were all "live and let live" after 1945?
> If only the same could be said for the wars the Americans have started
in=
the
> same period and been unable to resolve.
> It's the laughing stock of the world.
Yep, all of the screwed-up third world post colonial "nations" say
hi. Europe really did a bang-up job there.
>
>
> "The truth is, without the US, the Brits would be staring across the
> channel at a German or Soviet dominated continent."
> And had you have joined in the rest of the world some years earlier 6
mil=
lion
> jews may still be alive.
>
> You dumped nuclear weapons at our air
> > bases during the 80's
>
> " Those were "our" airbases....by treaty."
> Were they also your surround towns, schools and villages?
You said "our airbases".
>
> , and in general, you are an obnoxious race. It's like all
> > the bad parts of a persons character multiplied and made into a whole
n=
ew race
> > 'the american'.
>
> "You sound bitter. Are you bitter? Did some lonely GI knock up your
> mother and then go home?"
>
> Not at all, I just hate Americans, blanket. Every time I hear that one
is=
killed
> I don't blink, in fact I often laugh.
> That's as an English guy with a French wife.
I don't laugh when I hear of anyone being killed. I guess I'm just a
bit more civilized than you are. You are definitely a bitter little
man.
>
> Word on UK street is that Americans are the most hated race in
> > the world. And thats an individual thing person on person. The problem
=
is,
> > until
> > 9/11 the Americans believed the rest of the world respected them and
the
> > notion
> > that ordinary people all accross the world had no respect for them,
and
> > basically hated them, comes as a shock to most normal americans. I sat
=
in an
> > ordinary country English pub watching 9/11 on TV and people were
cracki=
ng
> > jokes
> > like 'Who ordered the jumbo' and saying 'After all the **** they have
d=
one in
> > the world they do deserve it'.
>
> "I hope they were riding the subway last year."
> And I am sure they wish you and your family were in WTC on sept 11th
2001.
Do you also laugh at the Brits, etc who died on 9/11?
>
> >
> > """I think Bush's people have something on Blair."""
> >
> > Perhaps it methods of mass oil production - ooops I mean weapons of
mass
> > destruction. After all, Bush's people's inteligence is all American
(ie
> > missing)
> > and legendary throughout the world.
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