Thanks Mano for McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, KFC, Subway and million heart attacks in the future.
Along with homosexuality, American culture is the leading movement in solving the future population crisis.
The two are not mutually exclusive. I think you'll find that American culture is tightly coupled (oh-er!) with homosexuality. Will and Grace, anyone? ... Anyone?
Well I was in England in 2006, and didn't get any stick from anyone about being American. Seemed you guys hates Tony Blair just as much as we hated Bush! When I went to Italy, it was a bit embarrassing as we kept running into the stereotypical Americans yelling at the security staff at the Coliseum for not speaking English, and that stuff. My mom kept apologizing in her poor Italian, saying we're not all like that. Only place out of the country I've been since then is Mexico, and they love American currency. Plus half their population lives in the United States
I lived with two male American exchange students from the Maryland University, for a year when I was first at Uni and we had a laugh. We taught them English deadpan sarcasm and they had a lot of fun with it. They ripped into their fellow Americans all night after we'd taught them it and none of the others noticed. We were p*ssing ourselves laughing! Most got sarcasm after a year of it, some quicker than others. When we first met them, their first question was where the nearest church was and whether we were going (it was Sunday, around midday)? We said we weren't and we were going to the pub for a Sunday lunch and a few jars. They looked at us like we were Satan and then asked if we were alcoholics. We said we were just typical English people ... so, maybe! Very funny they ended up coming with us and getting hammered off one pint of Stella Artois.
My family is pretty sarcastic, so this "English" humor was never lost on me, although it has got me into trouble a few times. Did you ever tell them where the church was? Or did they just do their worshiping in the pub?
I never told them, because I didn't know. I'd only been there just over a year. I explained to them that a lot of English people are raised Church of England. And this instils in us that the only occasions we go to church for are: Christenings, Weddings, Funerals, X-mas and Easter. So never needed to know where the church was when at Uni. I've never known many people who go every Sunday, and those who do are considered 'odd'. Quite the reverse of what I experienced when visiting America and Canada. Interesting cultural difference.
Not to start this kind of debate ( not my kippa) but isn't that how we formed really? Puritans that came over to seperate themselves from COE? then those split again and voila.... merica.
I thought 'murica came to be because people over their believed they shouldn't be charged more tax and they weren't represented in Parliment.
You're both right. PS Sporting come-backs: Istanbul! The mack daddy of comebacks. I said I'd stop watching it if it went to 2-0, my brother agreed. I then said I'd stop watching it if it got to 3-0. My younger brother gave in and stopped watching it before the end of the 1st half. He came back up to watch it after my screaming reached fever pitch at 3-3. Awesome stuff. I'll never forget it!
The last time I was at church I got in trouble with the police. I have a few friends who go to church quite a bit, one just got involved in the youth groups and I think he stayed because it's an easy way to meet girls when you're a teenager. My other friend got involved initially because he was obsessed with this girl that was involved at her church, but after his drug problems he started going more often to help stay sober. There's a big mega church I've been thinking about going to because they have an indoor soccer court. As long as I don't have to participate in any church stuff I'll be ok!
Michelson is a gentleman, which is why he loathes Woods. Spitting and throwing his clubs around when he's not suited. Anyway, great win. Yes, 1999 was just luck.............................................
A bit like the 90% scum fans who travel up to old trafford every other week from London. All wearing yellow and green scarves, thinking it shows a protest of some sort to the owners, forgetting they all paid £50 upwards to those same owners.
I thought this thread was about great sporting comebacks. There's a thread for this other fu.king yank sh1te
Anybody mentioned the time we were 1-0 down at Old Trafford and won 1-4 yet? I'll add that to the list, not as great as the others, but it made me happy.
