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ArnoldLayne wrote: So what is it Brits love/hate about Americans and what is it Americans and Canadians and those from the Southern hemisphere love/hate about us. (Forget about the hate bit )


hey you lumped me with the americans bahhhh ahahaha only kidding, what do I dislike about you brits? You use to many words to name a place, Tyne and Ware lordy just Tyne would work wouldn't it ahahahahah

as well you use too many letters to make a word

nieghbor, harbor, thru, color, these get the message out well enuff. Oh did I make ya cringe there hehehehe

ArnoldLayne wrote: So what is it Brits love/hate about Americans and what is it Americans and Canadians and those from the Southern hemisphere love/hate about us. (Forget about the hate bit )


Personally, I don't have a problem with any of y'all - some of my bestest friends are Canadian or Brits

I don't dislike anything about the Brits except their choice in breakfast and a certain drink :wah: Canada is just a colder version of the US.

ArnoldLayne wrote: Ha , where's your sense of adventure . T'would be too easy then


ok Arnie from Lord of Knobby Hill, we just like to keep it simple hehehehe

You all go to bed when I get up, thats what I don't like, :-1 I think you should all stay up during the night and sleep during the day, I have to get up at 6 am to chat with you all and stay up till 12am:mad:

minks wrote: hey you lumped me with the americans bahhhh ahahaha only kidding, what do I dislike about you brits? You use to many words to name a place, Tyne and Ware lordy just Tyne would work wouldn't it ahahahahah

as well you use too many letters to make a word

nieghbor, harbor, thru, color, these get the message out well enuff. Oh did I make ya cringe there heheheheGMC & Bothwell are gonna love that one! :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

I love my two step-sisters, who are in Great Britain.

Brits have trouble with the English language. We Americans perfected the language..now it should be good enough for everybody.

Clint wrote: Brits have trouble with the English language. We Americans perfected the language..now it should be good enough for everybody.


Come on, Clint, what's all this semi business? It's semee

And fewtle instead of fewtile (futile)?

And really, you just can't miss out letters in words (humor, color, etc.) whatever your reasoning may be, it's just not cricket :wah: :wah:

The level of service in the USA, ok they may not mean it when they say "Have a good day" but I would rather have a waiter take my money with a smile on their face than hand it over to some grumpy teenager who could care less.

Ther are one or two other things I like about the US;)

brittish people spell funny-- and so do canadians-- my friend fraiser is from canadia and he always has to go out of his way to mispronounce perfectly good words like conex and battery(its not bat-tree its battery!) thats all really, but the same can be said about us americans LOL cuts both ways:driving:

Hey Canadia, what's "aboot" about? :p



I was in England, trying to go to the men's room, what they've named Lou. Anyway, when I hit the door some guy on the other side of the door, I assume it was Lou, yells "MIND!" Well, I thought he was yelling at his kid for not doing as he was told - none of my business, right? Well the door was heavier than I expected so I shoved ... and dang near knocked a guy off his ladder just inside the door! Somebody should have warned me. I could've hurt Lou.





;)

ArnoldLayne wrote: LOL What do we smell like ?:wah:


iunno never gotten up close and personal with one of you LOL

ArnoldLayne wrote: I'll have you know we are worth getting up close and personal to . I have a masculine but fragrant aroma
Um, Arnold? If you can smell yourself ... um ... you're a bit beyond "fragrant."

mmmmmm nothing like the smell of bo in the mornin huh arnold

ArnoldLayne wrote: So what is it Brits love/hate about Americans and what is it Americans and Canadians and those from the Southern hemisphere love/hate about us. (Forget about the hate bit )


There are good Brits, & bad Brits, good Americans & bad Americans, good Canadians & bad Canadians, but only the the GOOD ones are in here!

There's really no loving or hating each others ways, we all just have some differences between pronounciations, spellings, mannerisums, customs, & foods, etcetera, that may seem odd to the others. Suprisingly, when we all venture into each others ways they are quite pleasant.

I swear, though, nothing's funnier than watching Brits from different areas taking the **** out of each other. (I'm pretty sure that's the idiom, right?)

ArnoldLayne wrote: Thats our national sport. It has to be said we dont mind taking the **** out of ourselves, we are very self deprecating
It's a lost art in the US.

nvalleyvee wrote: I don't dislike anything about the Brits except their choice in breakfast and a certain drink :wah: Canada is just a colder version of the US.
colder, quiter, calmer version.

I wish canadians would pronounce their "u"s about, not Aboot

Don'cha no dare, eh?

theia wrote: it's just not cricket :wah: :wah:
cricket??? You got that cricket in yur pocket? :wah:

Well americans talk funny and can't spell-mind you there are 50 million english people with a major speech defect (they can't pronounce words with r in them properly) and who talk funny as well. But you've got to like a nation that makes a hero out of someone in a blue bodysuit with his underpants on the outside, another that thinks he's a bat and from there it just gets really silly.

They call chips french fries and crisps chips, build cars that don't go round corners and to ride a harley you have to dress like one of the village people.



As to the canadians

In the beginning, God created the earth. On the second day, while he was making his countries, God discovered a country in the north of a great continent he'd decided to christen "america"

“I know,” thought God, “I shall make this land an area of outstanding natural beauty. I shall bless it with lochs and glens, crystal-clear waters and rivers teeming with wild salmon. I will name this country ‘Canada’ and shall those who live there to know the secret of my favourite drink ‘whisky’, the water of life. I shall bequeath major reserves of gas and oil to bring its people great wealth and fertile land so that they need never go hungry.”

When he’d finished his work, one of the angels turned to God and said,

“Hang on a minute. Why should Canada be blessed with all these natural treasures? Aren’t we making life too easy for its people; shouldn’t they have something to test them?”

And God replied, “You haven’t seen who their neighbours are yet.”

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

Clint wrote: cricket??? You got that cricket in yur pocket? :wah:


Dang! (Don't know what it means, don't know if it fits in this context but I learnt it on here and I like it :wah: )

gmc wrote: Well americans talk funny and can't spell-mind you there are 50 million english people with a major speech defect (they can't pronounce words with r in them properly) and who talk funny as well. But you've got to like a nation that makes a hero out of someone in a blue bodysuit with his underpants on the outside, another that thinks he's a bat and from there it just gets really silly.



They call chips french fries and crisps chips, build cars that don't go round corners and to ride a harley you have to dress like one of the village people.





As to the canadians



In the beginning, God created the earth. On the second day, while he was making his countries, God discovered a country in the north of a great continent he'd decided to christen "america"



“I know,” thought God, “I shall make this land an area of outstanding natural beauty. I shall bless it with lochs and glens, crystal-clear waters and rivers teeming with wild salmon. I will name this country ‘Canada’ and shall those who live there to know the secret of my favourite drink ‘whisky’, the water of life. I shall bequeath major reserves of gas and oil to bring its people great wealth and fertile land so that they need never go hungry.”

When he’d finished his work, one of the angels turned to God and said,

“Hang on a minute. Why should Canada be blessed with all these natural treasures? Aren’t we making life too easy for its people; shouldn’t they have something to test them?”



And God replied, “You haven’t seen who their neighbours are yet.”



:yh_rotfl :yh_rotflTold you:wah: :wah:

I have no problems with the Brits or Canadians except when I go to a movie that stars a British actor or actress and I can not understand but half of what they say. You all talk tooooo fast and mumble.

skittles2004 wrote: Hi. I am ashamed to say that i could care less for anyone else but ME!!!. kidding. seriously though i know nothing of other countrys!
watch the Discovery Channel or read a National Goegraphic. might help.:wah:

skittles2004 wrote: Hi. I am ashamed to say that i could care less for anyone else but ME!!!. kidding. seriously though i know nothing of other countrys!


You been to Canada.....

she propbaly hasn't been out of her county. would hurt too much to climb down out of her Cactus.:wah:

Came across these.

http://www.geocities.com/~druidprincess/usa.html



http://www.geocities.com/~druidprincess/usa3.html?

:yh_laugh

gmc wrote: Came across this one.

http://www.geocities.com/~druidprincess/usa.html



http://www.geocities.com/~druidprincess/usa3.html?


ooo that looks like good reading, just read the first bit and that is way funny, again if you think it is confusing between brits and americans, imagine us Canucks, we are in the middle with heavy influence from you both. ahahahahaha

My sister has lived in the US (Sandiago) since 1966 and her 4 kids were born there. I have never met the kids personally, but I correspond with them via e-mail on a regular basis....they're smashing kids. My boss is American. Since I've been coming to FG, I've realised that actually, our cultures are really quite similar, and as human beings we are exctly the same....I think Canadians share even more similarities.

Americans are very outspoken, particularly about religion...we Brits are more restrained in giving our opinions...more introverted I guess.

All in all I'm very comfortable around anyone and I'm happy to laugh at the differences and even be the butt of a bit of p**s taking. :-4

It's quite interesting that even though I have lived in OZ for 30 years, I spent a lot of time overseas working and whenever I met Brits I felt a common bond with them imediatly. I was born and lived in England till I was 14, yet still bonded more with Brits overseas than Ozzies.

ArnoldLayne wrote: So what is it Brits love/hate about Americans and what is it Americans and Canadians and those from the Southern hemisphere love/hate about us. (Forget about the hate bit )


Dislike: Please note I didn't say "hate"

The funny foods you eat like french fries with vinegar. (Eeeewww)

Your "holier than thou" attitude about history. (Sure you've got it and we don't, but don't forget, "Americans invented everything," and if we didn't... we'll rewrite the history books, and teach the children otherwise.)

Your lax immigration laws.

Your "Americans are idiots" attitudes about guns.



Love:

Your accents - they are too cool.

Your beautiful women. Hands down British girls are the cutest around.

Your fun names for things like trunks (boots) and elevators (lifts).

Your sense of style.

Your amazing history - I'm jealous, we are still an infant country compared to the long and rich British history.

Your music. Psychodelic furs, Beatles, the list goes on forever.

Your royalty - All we have to read about in the tabloids is stupid Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise, and whether or not Elizabeth Taylor is still alive. (or worse yet... stupid Michael "now I'm black, now I'm white" Jackson.)

Your wild and dry sense of humor. (Monty Python is your country's greatest export.)

Your courageous military. The Battle of Britain was awesome, as was your effort at Dunkirk and in North Africa. Can we forget the Charge of the Light Brigade? When will their glory fade? Honor the charge they made, honor the light brigade, noble six hundred!

Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes.

Princess Diana - was there ever a more cool princess? I think not. She was the very definition of grace, beauty, and charity. You go Britain.

The Victorian Era - Nice decorating, dudes!

Your steadfast friendship after all the years and all the problems.

Things I feel sorry about:

Iraq - seriously, I know you are all mad at your leader for following our guy, but wow...That meant a lot to me and most of the Americans I know. It shows you guys have integrity. You back your friends up, even when the going gets tough. Give some lessons to the French, would ya?

The Revolutionary War - I can't help but think if King George hadn't gone off the wall, we'd still be a part of your Empire and we'd get to sing "Hail Britannia" when we were drunk.

Princess Diana - I don't want to talk about it. It makes me too sad.

Your immigration problems. So that's what you get for being so nice. We'll be in your shoes shortly. Help us out and solve it first so we can copy you again.

The sun set on the British empire. Honestly, the world was a nicer place under yor flag. Any chance of you guys going on a "conquest" spree again? We have some unruly south American countires you can take over. They need the direction. Heck, you can even have Canada if you want it, they're all too stoned to fight back. (Heehee just kidding Minx!)

I resent that you made us sail across the ocean then you chased us down trying to get all in our business. You couldnt just let it go could ya ? You had to jump in your boats and come for trouble sheesh.



Cereally from what Ive seen you guys are great ! Great wit, charm, culture and an all around hoot. Were the same, were brothers and sisters through and through !

skittles2004 wrote: Hi. I am ashamed to say that i could care less for anyone else but ME!!!. kidding. seriously though i know nothing of other countrys!
I blame Jives. :wah:

Bez wrote: [...]

Americans are very outspoken, particularly about religion...we Brits are more restrained in giving our opinions...more introverted I guess.

[...]
Dang! If GMC's introverted.... :-2

I like Scots. The only country that makes cross-dressing cool.

I like Irish ..... whiskey.

I like Guiness, whoever makes it.

And I Canadians too, I guess. I mean, they were the ones that originated the "light" craze that has given us light beer, low-fat everything, etc. It started with Canadian whiskey, bacon, and .... I'm sorry I've lost interest.

Accountable wrote: Dang! If GMC's introverted.... :-2


Bring 'em on, Acc...still haven't a clue what it means but it sounds good...