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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]ecchaniz0r
2007-01-23 01:00 pm UTC (link)
I'm now intrigued to know what Canadians are called XD

(I just remembered this as the caffeine hit my brain.

These are the Three Top British pastimes according to a very British former prof of mine who...claims he gave up his right to Britishness by hating tea:
1) Razzing the shit out of the guy who supports the other football team. Facepalming at Lager Louts and mocking them alongside that other guy optional.
2) Hiding as many bodies in a house as humanly possible (I think the record is like, 43?).
3) Endeavouring to perfect sarcasm, which was initially invented by the Russians, and adopted by the only other country in the world whose weather is as bad.)

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[info]morganya
2007-01-23 01:06 pm UTC (link)
#2 made me think of an old, awful joke:

Fred West walks into a pub. The barman says, "You look thirsty, what can I bring you?"

Fred says, "I could murder some Tennants."

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2007-01-23 01:24 pm UTC (link)
*thud*

XD

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[info]phosfate
2007-01-23 03:32 pm UTC (link)
*coffee spew*

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[info]yattara
2007-01-23 04:04 pm UTC (link)
That is just so bad.

*guffaws.*

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-23 06:38 pm UTC (link)
Having finally sampled Tennants allow me now to twitch.

(Now my mind is crossing over into some DW/DT references to boot...ACK!)

--cygnia @ lj

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[info]suziecroft
2007-01-23 07:47 pm UTC (link)
I lol'd.

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[info]papervolcano
2007-01-23 08:07 pm UTC (link)
Oh, that is AWFUL

Hee!

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[info]hallidae
2007-01-23 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Hofuck, I just inhaled ginger beer.

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-23 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Harold and Fred - They Make Ladies Dead

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[info]herdivineshadow
2007-01-23 10:12 pm UTC (link)
For a moment, I forgot who Fred West was and could only think "There's David Tennant and Neil Tennant... but who else is there?"

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[info]catremistrae
2007-01-26 09:13 am UTC (link)
Your mind and mine seem to be working in tandem.

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(no subject) - [info]herdivineshadow, 2007-01-27 12:04 am UTC
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[info]singe
2007-01-23 02:10 pm UTC (link)
I'm now intrigued to know what Canadians are called XD

My Wolverine comics claim that they're called 'Canucks.'

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[info]ashenmote
2007-01-23 02:55 pm UTC (link)
Mine claim they're called 'Bub'.

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[info]mindset
2007-01-23 09:11 pm UTC (link)
snikt bub

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[info]singe
2007-01-24 02:17 am UTC (link)
Mine claim they're called 'Bub'

I thought everyone else was called 'Bub.'

Shit, now I'm confused.

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[info]sepiamagpie
2007-01-23 06:58 pm UTC (link)
I once had this girl go into a gigantic hissyfit because I used the term canuck.

I was using it on myself, so I suppose I never did quite get her point.

Canuck: It makes us sound kinda cute.

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[info]singe
2007-01-24 02:07 am UTC (link)
Wha? We should be able to call ourselves anything we want.

Signed, Empress Elspeth the Excellent

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[info]caoilte
2007-01-23 09:26 pm UTC (link)
But we are Canucks. o.O

Someone called me a Canuckian once. Not quite sure why but it made me laugh.

I like being a Canuck.

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[info]heddychaa
2007-01-25 08:24 pm UTC (link)
Wolverine comics are pretty much the most accurate representation of Canada EVER. ::gets unwittingly stabbed in the chest::

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[info]tunxeh
2007-01-23 05:22 pm UTC (link)
I'm now intrigued to know what Canadians are called XD

I believe they're usually called Americans, because nobody but other Canadians and a few Americans can tell the difference in their accents. And then they get dreadfully offended about it all.

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[info]grand_sealink
2007-01-23 08:26 pm UTC (link)
Speaking as an American, if I was a Canadian and I got called an American, I'd be offended too. D:

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[info]brown_betty
2007-01-23 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Win!

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-24 04:44 pm UTC (link)
No one calls us anything because we don't register on the International Radar. As in, quick, what do you call someone from the Republic of Seychelles? Yeah, see?
-flemming on lj

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-23 05:40 pm UTC (link)
I'm in Ireland - we have one at work we call the 'Canidiot'.

This is more to do with him being an idiot than with him being Canadian, however.

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