This is a great forum.

[MadMag]

real name,

Come visit Kentucky. They think anyone that can speak real English is some kind of celebrity. Of course you won't understand when they talk back to you, but just put on your shooting ear protection and say you are on the way to Knob Creek Range....no time to answer.

BTW. My Daughter-in-law lives in Cambridge. We visited last December and made short trip to Edinburgh. Went into a crowded pub and had to rub past a guy in kilts…true story. My wife said this guy had a smile after I passed. I am not sure because I was afraid to look back. Anyway, great trip.

 

[real_name]

Whenever people ask me where I'm from (which is every single day) I say Kentucky, it gets a laugh every time.

 

[Kim]

Real Name-----I one time went to the discussion boards of the Guardian. The replies there to any US citizen that disagreed with that left wing paper is worse than most of what I see at the DU web site here in the USA. There is no way to have any reasonable discussion with those people. I felt like I was really a dirty,stupid, ignorant subject of England or at least they said I was but in more modern elitist left wing looking down their nose know it all language. Mention firearms and all heck would break loose.

 

[MadMag]

Yes, I can understand. In England when I was asked I told them I was from South of Whales....way south.

 

[Iain]

I felt like I was really a dirty,stupid, ignorant subject of England or at least they said I was but in more modern elitist left wing looking down their nose know it all language.

You did go to the Guardian's forum. That's sort of like putting your head in a beehive. They will also be the minority. In my early days on this forum one person told me that my nationality was a cause of offense to him because he believed that his nationality was a cause of offense to me.

There is a strange relationship between Brits and Americans, if I could characterise it in one piece of writing I wouldn't be posting it here, I'd be writing a book. There seems to be a two way superiority/inferiority complex, not present in all the individual interactions that I've experienced, but often immediately obvious to me when some citizens of either country start to speak more generally.

I guess the thing that bugs me most on THR, and in conversations that I may have here in general terms about the US, is the apparent temporary blindness that sometimes occurs. As soon as [UK] appears in a thread title, or 'Yanks' crops up in conversation, for some suddenly all the ills of the other country are laid bare, and the blinkers also go on.

Many of you are to be commended for your awareness of what is going on in your own country, but some of you criticise the UK for those same things as though they aren't happening in the US. Brits do the same. 'Police State' is an epithet thrown by both sides of the Atlantic at the other. I had to resist mentioning Mr Padilla in the 'detained for his choice of music' thread because it wouldn't have added to the conversation, and because in doing so I'd have opened myself up to what I charge here.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Brits and yanks

We are divided by a big pond and a common language, you know.

 

[AndyC]

I've never felt any animosity from Americans since I moved here - must be due to the OIF t-shirt I earned

 

[Don't Tread On Me]

I disagree. The behavior and discussion on this forum, even in off-topic (see non-gun) threads is quite behaved, humane, respectful and not very radical. The worst dissagreements are civil by internet standards.


If you think this forum is bad, then you haven't been around the internet. I can name (but won't due to potential forum wars) a few gun forums that are the gutter.

 

[fallingblock]

Don't take any of it personally, real_name.....

My experience of folks who 'name-call' entire nations has been that they simply lack experience of a sufficient number of individuals from the nation in question.

In other words, perhaps they are unable to squint around their blindfold of prejudice.

"Septic-tank" is rhyming slang for "Yank", you know!

Anyway, welcome to what is very likely the most liberty-loving nation remaining.

As to how long it remains so, I wouldn't hazzard a guess...

Certainly, at the very least, slightly longer than Britain. And Australia.

 

[c_yeager]

You do your entire heritage a disservice by believing that your opinions are universally theirs, and a further disservice by the belief that people's opinions of you are equally universal to your culture. A little humility might bring things into a better perspective for you.

 

[TheEgg]

Unfortunately when the subject gets onto other matters the opinions shared are invariably poor to bad.

Consider the following please:

Matthew 7:3-5

3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

 

[Otherguy Overby]

Put off by comments on THR, are ye?

Tried usenet?

I know it's but a shadow of it's former self, but for a while it was a glorious flamefest. Geeky didn't take any prisoners....