Are Americans the new Germans?
23 July 2007, 08:03 PM
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Are Americans the new Germans?
Spent the last fortnight in Sorrento, Italy. Having been there previously I cannot remember there being so many Americans.
By god what a raquet these people make. Just generalising here as I'm sure there's plenty of reserved folk in USA but I heard so many with big gobs yapping in restaurants, taking over buses shouting over to each other..
The worst was a large group of late-teen/early 20s girls who constantly ran up and down near the main square 2 nights in a row carrying a large blow-up heineken bottle
and yelling at the top of their voices. Couldn't make out what they were trying to achieve but I thought they were in the wrong place for that. "Try a Greek island ya tarts!"
I guess it's a current hot-spot for them.
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By god what a raquet these people make. Just generalising here as I'm sure there's plenty of reserved folk in USA but I heard so many with big gobs yapping in restaurants, taking over buses shouting over to each other..
The worst was a large group of late-teen/early 20s girls who constantly ran up and down near the main square 2 nights in a row carrying a large blow-up heineken bottle
and yelling at the top of their voices. Couldn't make out what they were trying to achieve but I thought they were in the wrong place for that. "Try a Greek island ya tarts!"I guess it's a current hot-spot for them.
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23 July 2007, 08:19 PM
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Have you experienced them on xbox live yet ???
one of a group of them told me
"listen English piggy, we are bigger and better then you, and we dam well know it"
i then told him some nasty stuff and he got upset
one of a group of them told me
"listen English piggy, we are bigger and better then you, and we dam well know it"
i then told him some nasty stuff and he got upset
23 July 2007, 08:36 PM
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they dont like it when you kick their **** on gears of war.just tell them to speak English
gets them going a treat
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23 July 2007, 08:42 PM
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i think they were plucking at straws after the trade centre comment, and i had killed them all 
it was comical as the game finished and i hung about in the lobby, and i heard them say they were starting another game, so i searched the other games and found them
i hung about until the last few mins and then joined the yanks team, ohhh they hated that, i was running about, getting the sniper rifle so they couldnt have it and helping the other team win PMSL
it was comical as the game finished and i hung about in the lobby, and i heard them say they were starting another game, so i searched the other games and found them
i hung about until the last few mins and then joined the yanks team, ohhh they hated that, i was running about, getting the sniper rifle so they couldnt have it and helping the other team win PMSL
23 July 2007, 08:57 PM
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i think they were plucking at straws after the trade centre comment, and i had killed them all
it was comical as the game finished and i hung about in the lobby, and i heard them say they were starting another game, so i searched the other games and found them
i hung about until the last few mins and then joined the yanks team, ohhh they hated that, i was running about, getting the sniper rifle so they couldnt have it and helping the other team win PMSL
it was comical as the game finished and i hung about in the lobby, and i heard them say they were starting another game, so i searched the other games and found them
i hung about until the last few mins and then joined the yanks team, ohhh they hated that, i was running about, getting the sniper rifle so they couldnt have it and helping the other team win PMSL
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23 July 2007, 09:19 PM
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The fact they said something like that speaks volumes about the national psyche.
Lets not forget, there are many decent Americans, the ones who gave us the Simpsons, the ones that apologize for their countries behavior and attitude to the rest of the world.
23 July 2007, 09:34 PM
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Are Americans the new Germans?
Spent a lot of time there over the last few years and I wondered this myself. Just going by the surnames of some of the people I met there, e.g. Snyder. dumbed down from Schneider. Leffler from Loeffler, Ehritz, Frymoyer, and i`m sure there are more. Maybe thats where the unfounded arrogance comes from.
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24 July 2007, 02:19 PM
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When we get a bunch of German visitors here who start whingeing over something or other in very loud voices as they do, I find that if you talk back at them with an even louder voice, a bit like that German army woman in "Hallo Hallo" when she is announcing someone, that they soon back off and shut up complaining. I think it must be the element of surprise I suppose!
It also works with someone who persists in shouting unnecessarily into a mobile phone!
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It also works with someone who persists in shouting unnecessarily into a mobile phone!
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24 July 2007, 02:38 PM
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A lot of the American "way" is bravado...... they shout and scream but then leave it at that.... whereas in the UK, people tend to smack you first and then ask questions later.....
So, next time a yank is mouthing it simply **** the arsehole and they will soon shut up
HTH
So, next time a yank is mouthing it simply **** the arsehole and they will soon shut up
HTH
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A lot of the American "way" is bravado...... they shout and scream but then leave it at that.... whereas in the UK, people tend to smack you first and then ask questions later.....
So, next time a yank is mouthing it simply **** the arsehole and they will soon shut up
HTH
So, next time a yank is mouthing it simply **** the arsehole and they will soon shut up
HTH
24 July 2007, 10:51 PM
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Ain't that the truth. I had some pissed Amercan muscle man shouting "I'm gonna beat you up man, your goin down buddy" on a night out in Austin, Texas some years ago. I put on my best Vinnie Jones/Eastend hardman accent and growled "Come on ven if yer fink yer can". He ran a mile (to my relief).
24 July 2007, 11:08 PM
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I was in Hiroshima a few years ago and we went to the peace memorial museum in which there are two models of the city centre before (a 5km circle from the museum) and after the bomb, one a nice town centre and the other a charred black mess. Inside the museum is deadly silent, I mean a pin drop would deafen you, when in walks the American family.
Mr American Dad walks over to the two models and after a brief look at them shouts out "God will you look at this, we really bombed the **** out of this place, look at the damage on this"
What an a-hole. As was his wife and their a-hole kids who all where equally as loud as their father.
Mr American Dad walks over to the two models and after a brief look at them shouts out "God will you look at this, we really bombed the **** out of this place, look at the damage on this"
What an a-hole. As was his wife and their a-hole kids who all where equally as loud as their father.
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