QuietCharm, yesterday night on TV, they showed round numbers of divorce rates in this country. First time divorce = 50%, second time divorce = 75%. So, there's your data. You stated your opinion and you were attacked by the club, that's not news.
wtrav02. Indeed. It will be news when I'm not. Pretty high failure rate. One of the reasons why the number of marriages in the UK is down by 50% since the 70's... Oh, damn... better go look for corroboration.
shaggy. You'll notice in many Hollywood movies, the 'bad guys' are Brits (know the feeling). To be supplanted by the French?
QuetCharm. I met my boyfriend through www.udate.com. Hes former military (RAF)and works now for one international organization in Europe. I was looking more in Scandinavia, but I understood that British men are the best, fantastic sense of humour, they like to do everything in the house own hands and so on.
I joined that site because I like to read about different cultures and real stories.
Whoa QC your way out of line with this
"The system is unfairly biased toward the women… another export to the 'ungrateful' colonies from America, along with political correctness, junk food and bad manners, which some of you so readily display."
Manners *cough* You are joking right? British, Most of them I have met in many different enviroments have been anything but polite (normally drunk.. try finding A sober one ) ... Do you pretend that british treat women better then American men? Um, you do realize some of us have not been locked in A closet our whole lives right? Just because you sugarcoat your poisen makes you no less rude sir...... Who pretends that british are kind and polite and cavalier.... Riiiiiiiight!
America is a great country... everyone knows this.. its not because of our resources or our wealth... its the men. They will die to support an ideal. American men are on the other end of the spectrum... not as severe as FSU ladies but still.... we have A supply of good women problem... FSU women have A supply of good men problem..... We have to be nicer, kinder and more attentive.. its called competition.
Go ahead make up whatever you need too, I mean you seem to have A way of completely ignoring reality.
QC loves to bash Americans because it is fashionable and popular to do so and he thinks its cool. America isn't perfect by any means - but we're not as bad as those who take potshots at us.
Oh and pardon me for actually asking you to back up what you say, to corrobroate. Feel free to continue to make up your own pop psychology - and to quote Mr. Salem's material as your own. We have no accountability here at all.
(Nice job at backtracking by the way when Salem called you on it..)
QC - Hollywoods' bad-guys are Brits? Is your paranoia showing through again?
For every notable bad-guy Hollywood gives a British accent to - there is at least two good-guys.
The most famous reoccuring good-guy character in Hollywood who has spanned years and the acting careers of several notable players - James Bond - good old 007. By having a British accent was he actually a villain?
the rest of us Brits are shaken but not stirred by the thought jet.......good ole James Bond a villain??????? thats like saying Stallone is playing the RSC!!!!........lol.
Jet
It’s a bit rich starting an anti-American women thread and then complaining about someone else being anti-American. Paranoia? Yours or mine?
Most English actors in Hollywood invariably get parts playing the bad guys. Usually deceitful and always cowardly. It has been said that the Germans, the English and the Arabs are the only national groups which Hollywood feels able to cast as the perennial bad guys. Since we are the least likely to sue!
Anyway, since your ph is becoming more acid. Here's a little more for you to chew on...
freebird
I see you pecked at the bait. ;-) Didn't you notice that rudeness was a virtue here?
Happy to have you tell me why that statement was out of line...? Political correctness HAS come out of America and we Brits, like the great administrators we are, fell over ourselves to embrace and apply it. Err.. what is MacDonald's, Burger King, KFC and so on.. junk food I believe? Is this a controversial statement in the US? I don't think so. Manners? No I'm not joking and you are making my point.. There has been a celebration of bad and selfish behaviour for many years, most of which has come from across the pond.
Who invented the 'soap opera'? Who created dastardly characters and celebrated their badness? Where are the conviction politicians, great leaders who showed integrity? Replaced by professional mud-slingers and self-promoters, feasting on the gravy train. Then there is the birth of the 'teenager' created by marketeers. 'Dumbing down', ‘Gangster rap’, TV shows in which religion, good behaviour, everything that was once considered good is ridiculed. Why? ‘It’s the economy, stupid’. Strong united communities who support each other don’t spend as much money as selfish individuals. It’s that simple. Yes, you are seeing bad manners but those bad manners have been cultivated and as a concerned parent trying to counter these influences on a daily basis, you will have to work hard to convince me how great America is. And when you go to the FSU and see how well behaved most of the children are there, you might be a tad less defensive.
I don’t question Americans willingness to die for what they believe in. So what? Doesn’t that apply in every country? I will die for an ideal too. To protect my family. I fought in wars and I did not feel pride that my leaders took us to war so that they could win the next election or make a tidy profit for some multinational or prise open new markets or gratify some bellicose, power hungry half-wit, draping himself in the flag. How stupid are the masses for swallowing that BS.
This thread, seems to have been created for the sole purpose of knocking American Women. But that’s okay, I take it… only American Men have the right to comment? Baloney! Many of the women in the west are now ‘American Women’, which is why you have Brits, Aussies, Dutch and so forth in here with you.
Tell you what. How about I won’t sugar coat my poison, if you don't shoot the messenger because you don't like the message. Agreed?
Actually Sean Connery has a Scottish Accent. I never thought I would like anyone else besides him as Bond, but Pierce Bronson is pretty damn good, especially when he busted the cap on the woman, I don't think good ol Sean would have done that.
It is a little over 1200 mile ride for me to Sturgis. I may bypass going this year, and hopefully go next year with this beautiful Ukrainian Angel. I'm not sure she would be ready for that.
As for the Venture, Mine is a first generation and the Plastics will fit up to 1988, the problem being is everyone is looking for the Front fairing which seemed to suffer from stress fractures and the wrecked bikes the fairings are junk. If you find one for a Venture or Venture Royale email me, I'm a buyer now.
Dont like the messenger? Well how can I when he is completely ignoring things about his own country and culture and blaming all his societies problems on America.
I was at the CAT ( canadian army trophy) in germany and A unit of british soldiers tore everyone elses flags down and started A brawl. Now that is class.
How about Prince charles and Diana... I suppose thats our fault too?
How about when the British divided up the Ottoman Empire... The Americans Made you do it?
How about the massacre of pacifist in India? Let me guess, American Advisors?
One who lives in A glass house should not throw stones.
You sure your not french QC? Its funny how short your memory is and how in favor of making you look good it is as well. I was not even talking about our leaders or political reasons we go to war, I said American is great because of the people... Not the liberal media and big buisiness.
Your society has its opiates too.. Look how you guys get absolutely retarded over soccer... What about alcohol.... I aint saying were perfect but we are great, and I dont dislike Brits in fact they have been steadfast allies and supporters of our country, But you have just as many flaws and alot more negative history.
To Quote one of my favorite movies "go sell crazy somewhere else, were all stocked up here"
Guys I understand the agenda that has presented itself here but for us to attack a country for an individuals bad judgement is not what we are about. Let him vent his steam and be done. His attempts to blame what the left has caused in our society is very transparent and we understand there is so much more as we live here and have a better understanding. He can only base his judgements on what the liberal news feeds him. As he has said he wants the world to model itself after France. Where the government tells you what is correct and takes care of you as you obviously cannot think for your self and need their brand of government. People do not understand our systems or values because the simply do not have them. I will stand with the brits anyday of the week but again not all great people come out to the potential that we all have inside.
As far as his wish list we have those things and yes we made most of them out of our own creations like we have almost everything else that the world craves. But the funniest thing is we have one of the most value contious Presidents ever and the very thing he says we need are the very things he bashes Bush for having. Irony! And please how can you dumb down gangster Rap. Its barely above the animal food chain as it is...lol.
Ol'Slim Shady's lyrics have nothing on you fellows. See how the subject of "American Women" gets you guys worked up!
QC- The term "Soap Opera" was panned from commercials from a company here in Cincinnati called "Procter& Gamble". Makers of Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste, Pampers(disposable diapers) ,which many people here should be wearing, plus a million other household products. P&G sponsored the first daytime drama series in either the 40's or 50's and the only commercials used were for "Ivory Soap". Hence the name "Soap Opera" FYI LOL!!!
Reality is only relative to revisionists like yourself. Taking a page out of Josef Goebbels play book? The bigger the lie the more people will believe it? I myself don't believe in dying for an ideal, you make the other poor dumb bastard die for not liking your ideals.
It is easy to hammer the US because we won't follow the new world order. So go ahead and give up your sovereignty for a world court and give up your freedoms to get along with other nations. I myself prefer the stance of rugged individualism, we may not be right, but at least we have the balls to take the lead to do something.