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thekiwiwhoflew ([info]thekiwiwhoflew) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-01-23 04:52:00


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Oh, Britania.
Okay, does this really bear explaining?

So some English punk posts about how inferior Americans are and doesn't even have the drive to be funny about it.

But ofcourse, someone finds it funny and feels that it has to be shared with the world, forgetting that Americans are part of said world.

And it is on! People are, ofcourse, unimpressed by failed sense of humor and not even thinly veiled condescension.

Americans blatantly prove him wrong by going on about Mets, Yankees and the scientific definition of a Californian rather than giving him the attention he craves.

Apiphile quirks on the real reason behind teh hatredz.

But let this be a lesson to this new crowd of so called 'anglophiles' who think the U.K. is a bunch of lovely victorian like people sitting around eating krumpets and drinking tea.

(outside of MQ, a reply to his journal- if this is not allowed, please let me know and I will remove it immediately)Speaking of Anglophiles, cue obligatory "ooh mr brittish man, its true, its true! Were all just like that! Oh please excuse us, mr brittish man, were the enlightened americans who see the error of our people's ways! please take pity on us and take us to your land of tea and krumpets and that weird sport with that black and white ball and spice girls!!111'


For all he talks about Americans, he's pretty big on the stereotyping- Not only on the American stereotypes, but English too with this 'yankee' buisness. In growing up in London, I've heard many ways to refer to Americans; 'Americans', 'People from America', 'those people' and 'Yeah, Good Ol' We'll Wait Until The Last Minute To Join The War When London Has Already Been Leveled And Blitzed Half Way To Hell'.. Maybe it's used in places like Manchester which are decidedly bitter because they spent most of the nineties getting their asses handed to them by Liverpool-*shotshotshot* but I never heard the term Yankee being used for an American by an English person in modern times outside of television or American-written books.

And on the "Disproportionate Levels of Enthusiasm" Uh.. Is he for real? I mean, really? Come on, now. Has this man ever been near a pub? Think Englishman Drinking Prowess + Subconscious awareness that nearby police aren't really armed.

Wanky but small. Just like the English. OH. I JUST WENT THERE. IF YOU'RE OFFENDED YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND MY SENSE OF SARCASM AND YOU'RE A YANK. HAH HAH.


Oh, English wank. Perfect timing after a lot of Dr. Who and Eddie Izzard icons.

EDIT:After repeatedly eating my foot in the comments below, I'd like to go on to make a big apology that I let my own wankiness get in the way of the funnez and that this post came off as bad as it did. I was hasty and to say this was unbiased would be an obvious lie- No, I am not American, but living here I was quick to get my underwear in a knot. In my own self righteous indignity, I forgot that the intrenets iz not serious buisness. Please accept my apologies and crumpets with a K. I'd also offer you my left foot, but I already promised it away to someone else.)


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[info]electric_sheep
2007-01-23 12:40 pm UTC (link)
Dear yanqui pigdog,

Perhaps your unfunny, inaccurate stereotyping is a clever commentary upon the wank itself? Or perhaps you just fancied tossing off in public.

I know what I'm putting my money on.

Love and towels,
A Briton.

PS. What is up with thinking the Scousers were any good in the 90s? You know, the decade where (the rightfully hated) Man U did the double twice and then won the treble?

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[info]verpon
2007-01-23 01:21 pm UTC (link)
I also remember the nineties as being pretty bleak for Liverpool (as in F.C.) whereas it Man Utd had all the glory. In fact the nineties were a pretty good time to be in Manchester.

< /nostalgia>

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[info]freezer
2007-01-23 04:34 pm UTC (link)
This close to the Super Bowl, I find myself violently allergic to soccer talk...

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[info]smo
2007-01-23 07:38 pm UTC (link)
You mean football. ;)

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[info]freezer
2007-01-23 08:06 pm UTC (link)
That's what I mean: Why all the soccer talk when football's biggest game is nigh? :)

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[info]papervolcano
2007-01-23 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Wait, what - there are Man U fans in Manchester?

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[info]mouseybrown
2007-01-23 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Yeah. They're all illegal immigrants though.

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[info]tez
2007-01-23 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Grah, Man U. *waves Tottenham flag wut*

Not that I cheer for them so much since Keller jumped ship but still.

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[info]thekiwiwhoflew
2007-01-23 08:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm sorry if I offended you, and that in the end my commentary was just as wanky as the post in question. It would also be unfair to me to say that this post was unbiased, and I was very hasty and very wrong to get my underwear in a knot like this simply because of personal reasons.

PS. What is up with thinking the Scousers were any good in the 90s? You know, the decade where (the rightfully hated) Man U did the double twice and then won the treble? It's more a nonstalgia thing. I can also wave my liverpool flag all I want but that doesn't mean they got their asses handed to them several times in that time frame.

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[info]thekiwiwhoflew
2007-01-23 08:33 pm UTC (link)
yanqui pigdog


Also. Not an American.

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[info]livii
2007-01-24 05:03 am UTC (link)
Psst - another situation where the Internets are not serious bizniz, yo.

(ignore the icon. or don't! and wank away, as you prefer, heh).

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[info]electric_sheep
2007-01-24 11:21 am UTC (link)
Neither are you a half pig, half dog chimera. Which is a shame because I'm sure there's money to be made out of that :(

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[info]big_bad_wolf
2007-01-23 11:19 pm UTC (link)
C'mon, you knew this was going to end up here the minute it was posted. Scarletdemon's ICON causes wank.

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-25 03:42 am UTC (link)
My icon causes orgasms.

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