UN-American

site update

I notcied that so much of my site was dedicated to observing, and then taking the piss out of America that it deserved its own dedicated page I give you....

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UN-American

Argh!! (more yank bashing)

Would you adam and eve it. Good old war "hero" Jessica Lynch. She has returned to her home town to the ususal ticker tape parde normaly reserved for Astronoughts, she is getting her own comemortive post mark. One may think that the people of this town had forgotten that the whole thig was a complete sham. Apparently not:

They care little that Private Lynch's story has had to be rewritten, that the initial tales of her capture and rescue turned out to have been exaggerated.

"She still served her country, she was injured and it makes no difference how it happened," said Melvin Egbert.
(from BBC news story)

They dont even care, how is the world supposed to deal with these people, they will just belive what ever they want to beleve.

Scarry stuff

I know I am doing a log of yank bashing at the moment but when you read this it is not hard to see why. It is a post on the BBC talking point about the death of Samdams two sons:

Getting Saddam's sons is a very significant victory. Saddam is like the big demon with three heads. To finish him US has to cut all of them off or else the terror will keep going on. Americans should not start celebrating just because two heads are gone and one more is left. Things could get very ugly if Saddam feels he has nothing to lose any more and decides to do the worse act of leashing out chemical weapons in a suicide act to inflict maximum damage.
A.Chandra, USA

On the subject of patriatism

Phillosiphy on a Friday afternoon.

I have been musing on what it is to be "Patrotic" or "un-patriotic". Due to the war there is an whole lot of stuff on the subject on the web, and lots of it even makes sense. This passage I partuclary liked.

America would do better to pledge allegiance to her Constitution, a set of fairly universal ideals - rather than to a flag which, like a pagan idol, can bear any message a propagandist or dictator loads it with.

Kind of sums the whole thing up for the yanks, they would do well to pay attention to it.

I think the important thig about patriotisam is to remeber what the word means, I belive it is to be insupport of your father land. Not the government or there policies. Basicy the common good of where you come from. Works for me.

If you are ever board at work try searching in google for the word "unpatriotic", fasinating stuff.

as a side note, I also belive that you can be patriotic without thinking where you come from is the best place there is to be.

More stuff on America and war

Have a read of this letter

"How terrible that many of today's young people are as self-centered, unpatriotic, undisciplined and disrespectful. Our great country has been through war many times, and of course, there are always dissents, slackers if you will, but never in my 70 odd years has there been such a blatant group. Rights -- who paid for them? Our fighters' patriots!"

This was sent to some website or other in the states. I realy liked the way that this person was saying "Its our soilders that gave you the right to free speak, now we are at war you shouldnot use it".

Support the Troops

A fraze that was used a lot duing the last war, but what does it acutaly mean? Here is an exelent passage about it.

More on fredom of speech
in the land of the "free"

clipping fron a letter you can read here

CNN is an American TV network. It is not chartered by the U.N. or internationally. Its loyalty is to the United States. If it is not loyal to the United States, its charter should immediately be canceled.

More Shevaun stuff

I found this paragraph on a discussion forum. Yet another example of the odd view of the world the old Septics have.

I have a question, maybe some UK members or well-traveled members can answer this one for me... Is it standard practice for a 12-year-old to have a passport in England? And is it also standard practice for them to need it to buy a bus pass? Her mother seemed to think nothing was out of the ordinary, is why I ask. Around here, that'd send MAJOR red flags up. But then the only country I live close enough to that I'd visit with any regularity other than my own is Canada, whereas I know countries are much closer together in Europe.

BLERG

Need an excuse to get out of work, this is garenteed to make you puke.

big country, small minds

BBC talking point on the "sodomy" laws in the states.

cringe

Cross the pond

English to American dictionary, containing such gems as...

berk n. Another friendly UK "idiot" word and one which implies a degree of clumsiness. I always think (no doubt mistakenly) that these are best explained by example - "Look, you berk, I said to bend it, not bust it". In one of the most enlightening emails I've had since starting the dictionary, I am told that the word originally derives from the rhyming slang "Berkely Hunt" - let's just say that, in the words of my contributor, "it doesn't mean punt".

whip round n. A whip round is a collection of money - usually a somewhat impromptu and informal one. You might have a whip round for Big Mike's bus-fare home but you probably wouldn't have one for his triple heart bypass.

see for yourself

The English-to-American Dictionary

Somthing to send a shiver down your spine

Another example of Americans destroying a British Comedy, On the Rocks wait for it....

A yank version of Poridge, makes you wonder...

Only when it suits them

Page from a disscution board for Jessica Lynch (the woman who was captured by Iraq and freed during the war). The stuff on this page shows the briliant double standard. They are not too keen of free speech when you are saying somting they dont like.

Jessica Lynch Forums

For the other side of the story, check out this news story

BBC news story

Americans, I ask you

Further proof that Americans all live in Disney land and think
that the world is black an white and whatever america do is the
right thing.

Jessica Lynch Forums

how cool is this guy

Well worth a look, anyone with a mullet and a tash has got to be cool.
Kind of like a happy shopper Danial O'Donnel.

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