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32Bravo

12-19-2007, 01:57 PM

Just to even things up a little and add a little fair play. :)

Drake

12-19-2007, 05:12 PM

I only hate the french, it comes naturally ;)
To quote my most favorite Al Bundy: It's wrong to be french ! :lol:
For those interested, it's the second commandment of No Ma'am! :mrgreen:

Panzerknacker

12-19-2007, 07:38 PM

Why so many hate topics? who hate this and who hate the other ?

all we need is love :D

RifleMan20

12-19-2007, 11:31 PM

Thats right PK all we need is love................hmmmmm that really never works man

Chevan

12-20-2007, 12:28 AM

I never heared that somebody in russia hates the British:)
Usially the someone critics the British policy of supportion all sort of separatists or for the blind pro-american behaviour outside ( kinda Iraqi advevture).
But it rather far from the hate.
Well except may be the crazy Islamist in the Europe who hate everyone who do not look like they.

Rising Sun*

12-20-2007, 04:34 AM

I only hate the french, it comes naturally ;)
To quote my most favorite Al Bundy: It's wrong to be french ! :lol:
For those interested, it's the second commandment of No Ma'am! :mrgreen:

Here's 50 reasons to support your view. http://www.50reasonstohatethefrench.com/home.php :D

http://www.fmft.net/archives/frogs/hate%20to%20french.jpg

Rising Sun*

12-20-2007, 04:46 AM

They all hate us. So where do I go on holiday?

Tuesday January 7, 2003
The Guardian
Rob Liddle

This week the glossy holiday brochures dropped on the doormat, along with strangely polite letters from several bailiffs and a Christmas card from an uncle I thought had died in 1962. This is a depressing time of year.

My yearly choice of holiday destination is governed by a very simple principle: I will not go to any country where, as an Englishman, I will be loathed, despised or resented by a majority of the populace. Obviously, instead, I would very much like to be loved. But if that's not possible, a sort of amicable tolerance on behalf of the locals will suffice.

What I can't stomach is the look of contempt or disgust on the immigration man's face when he sees the colour of my passport or hears, from a distance, our strange guttural language expressing impatience at the length of the queue to get in when, only a few years ago, we owned the bloody country, ha ha.

It's the horrible suspicion that creeps up, as you sit in the cab from the airport watching the coconut palms and the water buffalo drift by, that, at the bottom of his heart, the driver would really like to run you through with a kukri.

Or the disquieting notion that in the trattoria, out of sight, the chef, having been apprised of your nationality, is enjoying a more directly intimate relationship with your lasagne than you might perhaps have wished for or expected.

Am I thin-skinned or paranoid about foreigners? Sure; almost certainly. But that doesn't mean that, really, they like us, does it?

Anyway; this dogged principle of mine means, in the first case, avoiding all former British colonies plus any countries in the developing world where our big businesses have poisoned, maimed or exploited most of the locals. That removes two thirds of the world.

We must then strike out any countries where drunken, stoat-faced, tattooed British Untermensch spend their summers - such as Mykonos where, a few years ago, the Greek island's mascot, a friendly and inquisitive pelican, was buggered to death by some inebriated English tourist. Oh, they really don't like us there any more. "Why you keel our pelican?" they ask, and you sort of shake your head sadly and get on the boat for Turkey, where the locals hate us even more than the Greeks do for other, more involved and consuming reasons.

Worse still than the benighted, prole-infested maritime breeze-block scumholes of Spain and Greece and the Canaries are those places annexed for a suffocating eternity, such as Provence and Umbria, by our loaded, whinnying middle classes. It is a thoroughly justifiable scorn and resentment, rather than outright hatred, that one meets here - and which is, in a way, even more painful to behold.

In fact, if we're honest, the whole of Europe west of the Oder-Neisse line is pretty much out of the question.

Then there are the countries that hate us for a splendid agglomeration of convictions associated with politics, religion, culture or football. This has always precluded visiting South America (apart from Chile), the entire Arab world, the Maghreb, Asia Minor, Java, Sarawak and Kalimantan.

So where can one go? Apart from good old Israel?

Well, it used to be quite fun to spend some down-time in the disintegrating former colonies of our European allies. The fouler and more repressive the deposed imperialistic regime, the greater the cachet, locally, in not being a living representative of the formerly occupying nation. I've had some very happy, sun-drenched moments obtained simply through the status of being Not Portuguese. Trouble here is that Macao and Angola lose their allure after a while. As does, for that matter, Zaire. I will suffer many things in lieu of being hated, but not the Ebola virus or bilharziasis.

So it was always a depressing and restricted activity, choosing a summer holiday. But not half as much as it is now. Things have changed. Everybody in the world, it seems, hates us these days because of our two-step alongside George Bush. We are no longer merely pissed-up, licentious, arrogant, ignorant, exploitative Brits. Now we're warmongering, supplicant, pissed-up, licentious, arrogant, ignorant, exploitative Brits. Even countries where we were once tolerated or even admired now recoil from us with expressions of extreme distaste.

I realise, of course, that this is not the most convincing moral argument for opposing the war with Iraq. It is not intended to be. I'm just telling you about my holiday problems, really.

I wonder sometimes if I should apply for citizenship of a country everybody likes, such as Ireland. The Irish are adored everywhere - not least, I suspect, because they are perceived to loathe the British with a ferocity unmatched anywhere else on the globe. I could quite happily join in the world sport of hating the Brits for a couple of weeks each year and greeting the locals with a vigorous top-o'-the-mornin'-to-yers.

Because it's either that or a chalet somewhere on the Aleutian Islands and a toe dipped gingerly in the bracing currents of the Bering Sea.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,869840,00.html

32Bravo

12-20-2007, 07:32 AM

There's always Barbados. :)

Gen. Sandworm

12-20-2007, 09:07 AM

I would say most in the US are fans! Although I cant say the Irish share the same views.

One of my favorite jokes of my Irish friend (might add im completely neutral on the N. Ireland thing):

A Scotsman, Englishman and an Irishman get a visit from God. He says he will grant them all a wish.

Scotsman: I want all the Scots back in Scotland and I want it to be a free independent country.

God: Done!

Englishman: Im tired of all the foreign people. I want all the English people back in England and I want a huge wall so high no one can get in or out.

God: Done!

Irishman: Let me get this right! All the Scots are in Scotland and the English in England?

God: Correct!

Irishman: And around England is this wall in which no one can get in or out?

God: Correct!

Irishman: Right! Fill that f**ker with water!!!

:D

Just a joke! Thought it is was funny. Best of luck to our cousins across the pond.

32Bravo

12-20-2007, 10:23 AM

If you can't take a joke you shouldn't have joined - as they say.

Tex is on vacation in Dublin to see the land of his Irish ancestors.
As he walks along he spots Paddy digging his garden:

Tex “What are you digging, Paddy?”

Paddy “Potatoes”

Tex “In Texas we grow potatoes as big as footballs!”

“Yes!” agrees Paddy “But we only grow them to fit our own mouths!”

Chevan

12-20-2007, 10:48 AM

:D

Just a joke! Thought it is was funny.

Really funny joke if keep in mind that IRA killed a lot of innocent peoples using this way of thinking.

Chevan

12-20-2007, 10:49 AM

32Bravo

12-20-2007, 02:04 PM

And, there's more:

The very next day, Paddy is back at work, laying fagstones on the pavement of O'Connell Street, for Dublin City Council, and just as he gets down to check the level of the flags, along comes Brendan, yet another Irish-American, from Maine.

"Good day to you sir. What is it that you are doing there?"

"Flagging!" responds Paddy, still concentrating on the bubble in the spirit level.

"Well!" says Brendan "Back home in the States, I'm a technical engineer with NASA, and when we assemble things, we must be accurate to within a thousandth of a millimeter of true!"

"Ah, that's not bad...to be sure!" says Paddy, as he rises from the ground "But we professionals like to get it dead on!"

pdf27

12-20-2007, 05:13 PM

I would say most in the US are fans! Although I cant say the Irish share the same views.
All the Irish people I know have no trouble with the English. Which, being as I'm related to quite a few of them, is a good thing.
Those who do are mostly either rabid nationalist nutcases busy trying to re-fight a 300 or so year old war, or Americans who think that because they once had Irish ancestors this entitles them to be professional Irishmen. And I have VERY little time for either type...

Rising Sun*

12-22-2007, 12:14 AM

Although they drive on the wrong side of the road,they make fairly good muffins.

I don't like the idea of muffins made out of Poms. Too meaty. :D

32Bravo

12-22-2007, 04:18 AM

English muffins are a produce of America. :)

Good one, RS! :)

DavidW

12-22-2007, 05:25 PM

English muffins are very different from their American cousins.

And I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but it is we Brits that drive on the corrrect side of the road, whilst you Yanks drive on the right side of the road!;):)

32Bravo

12-25-2007, 08:56 AM

Der...........That was a joke, I knew I would draw someone in with that... :)

Yes! Of course you did! ;)

But..I didn't say "English Muffins" Are you saying you guys don't make muffins on that side of the pond? :)

Of course we have 'muffins', but they in no way resemble those imposters of which you seem so proud. :)

Digger

12-25-2007, 05:11 PM

LOL...You guys just don't get it...Where in MY post did I say ENGLISH MUFFINS? Nowhere, I didn't say it..you guys said it....Duh!!! I said muffins and on top of that I said Fairly good, not great..not bad but okay. Admit it..you read my post and jumped to your own conclusion..LOL On the other hand our English muffins taste great!

Muffins are ok, but crumpets are better!;)

Digger

Nickdfresh

12-25-2007, 05:29 PM

Really funny joke if keep in mind that IRA killed a lot of innocent peoples using this way of thinking.

Having a sense of humor was hardly in the IRA's "thinking"...

Rising Sun*

12-25-2007, 06:03 PM

Muffins are ok, but crumpets are better!;)

Digger

I'm so tempted to make a comment about crumpet and muff, but I won't. :D

Digger

12-25-2007, 06:10 PM

I'm so tempted to make a comment about crumpet and muff, but I won't. :D

Yes at your age it might not be a good idea!:roll:

Digger

Nickdfresh

12-25-2007, 08:04 PM

I'm so tempted to make a comment about crumpet and muff, but I won't. :D

I think you just did. :D

12-27-2007, 05:26 AM

I do not hate the British now but earlier in the 20th century and late 19th century and a few years after that I think the South Africans hated the British and the english speaking people here because of the Boer war, but it mostly came to the British Government being the assholes and not really the British public.

I just think that the UK government should get their own opinion and must stop doing almost everything the US Government is doing if it comes to who is the biggest enemy for the western world, and it will get more shiny up there.

Rising Sun*

12-27-2007, 05:36 AM

I think you just did. :D

This is why you're a mod and I'm not, because your incisive perceptiveness outwits my clumsy cunning, about crumpet, muff, and other stuff. :D

Rising Sun*

12-27-2007, 05:44 AM

I do not hate the British now but earlier in the 20th century and late 19th century and a few years after that I think the South Africans hated the British and the english speaking people here because of the Boer war, but it mostly came to the British Government being the assholes and not really the British public.

What's your definition of South Africans?

South Africa became a British dominion in 1910, and remained so for decades after that.

Do you mean that Boers, as distinct from South Africans, hated the British, while living in a British dominion protected by British military and political power, including sending forces to fight for Britain in WWII?

Rising Sun*

12-27-2007, 06:31 AM

Just on the anti-British sentiment by South Africans, where does Sailor Malan fit into this as a Battle of Britain leader and post war as the Torch Commando leader, where he opposed the dominant narrow minded Boers?

Panzerknacker

12-27-2007, 09:06 AM

Here I found the ultimate Britain hater ...and is not even a foreigner :shock:

Proud to be British?

If you are, you shouldn't be.

For all the British people on here, I have to ask if you are proud of this **** HOLE , why !? Sure, the history of this nation is rich and full of victory ... we were the most powerful nation on the planet... but look at us now.

There's scum filling the streets, and there's going to be more foreigners than freakin' British soon. But that doesn't matter because 90% of the British are scumbags anyway living off yours, or your parents tax money. The "Chav" bastards that roam around my town are growing ever larger in number, and this country just accepts it like it's freakin' normal! Yet they cause grief for anyone that doesn't look like a complete ****in' moron, like they do. In five days I've had two incidents of these ****ing idiots starting fights on me ... because I'm a "sweaty" (That's **** FACE slang for a rocker) . Yet nothing gets done, the number grows ... the number grows and my patience slips away. How I would love to see those bastards slaughtered by the hundreds.

What does this country do that should make any Brit proud !? We ****in' sit here like a bunch of pompous twats insulting and abusing every nation on the planet. Well look at yourselves ! Your military is a ****in' shambles. Your government is a crooked piece of ****. Your money goes to waste on all sorts of bollocks. You appease every other ****er in the world. The country doesn't look after you, but it charges you for living here with some of the highest tax rates on the planet.

What makes America so bad!? All the British assholes abusing America just piss me off. "They're loud mouth" - Yeah, like most ****in' British **** faces ... shouting down the shits about "Eng-a-land" ENG-A-LAND !? Where the **** does the second A come from !? Britain has no right to call anyone loud mouth.

America gets involved in everything - No they ****ing don't, and when they do at least they have the guts. All Britain does is shout about football ... and abuse America ... ranting on about how we didn't need America to win the war. Yah, we ****in' did. I get told all the time about how people hate the Yanks ... well NEWS - ****ING - FLASH BRITAIN , they're much better people than you are ! Just like most of the ****ing world are much better than you are. Tell me America thinks it's so big ... well, that's because they ARE. Much bigger than Britain ... ! I'm pissed off with people saying "I'd like to see an American fight in Britain, we'd just smash them with our keys ..." It's not something to be proud of that you'd use any weapon to injure this person. And talking about fighting doesn't make you hard ! It makes you a ****in' idiot.

Where's ****in' God when you need him !? We all know the story of Noah's Ark , well do it to Britain. Wash the scum into the North Sea - and watch 'em ****ing drown. Or America - just nuke Britain into ash.

The whole ****ing nation is one big **** hole. Every Brit should be ASHAMED of being British ! THe few decent people in this country know full well it's a **** hole , and probably wish they were somewhere else.

I'm ****ing ashamed to British. I hate this place more than I hate anywhere else. Everyone on this forum from any other country has no clue about how crap this place is. All that stereotype of pompous upper-class totty is bollocks. The British are a bunch of low-grade, up their own arses, monkey faced jackasses with nothing better to do with their time than add syllables to words and drink piss water as beer, get drunk and shout about football and fight. It's a ****ING **** HOLE !

I am pretty sure many people in here would like to add some comments to this guy so you better go at its original topic:

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/off-topic-misc/proud-british-4010.html

Rising Sun*

12-27-2007, 09:16 AM

What are Chavs?

pdf27

12-27-2007, 10:24 AM

Chav = Council House And Violent, where a council house is low cost housing subsidised by the state (rented from and owned by the local council).

32Bravo

12-27-2007, 04:17 PM

Chavs are also big on Bling, and are particularly prone ot using the 'F' word as a substitute for an exclamation mark. :)

Nickdfresh

12-27-2007, 04:22 PM

Is Ali-G a Chav?

12-27-2007, 04:46 PM

What's your definition of South Africans?

South Africa became a British dominion in 1910, and remained so for decades after that.

Do you mean that Boers, as distinct from South Africans, hated the British, while living in a British dominion protected by British military and political power, including sending forces to fight for Britain in WWII?

Ok first of founded by the Dutch in 1652 and then Britain cam along and took if for them and then the Boer people had the great trek (move) where they moved to the north of South Africa and created their own to Republics named Vrystaat and Transvaal. The British then started a war wish lasted from 1899 till 1902 where the Boer army fought the British forces like nothing seen before from such a small nation and then after the war in 1910 we became a dominion like yourself and thus remained for that until 1961 when we became a Republic.

Ok the UK did not actually do much here except for taking out all the diamonds and gold and steel for their country and everything else they wanted. The military power, I think the South African army got a phew equipment from them yes. There were not a lot of the real Boer people that went to fight in WW1 and 2 because of the hatred of what happened during the Anglo Boer war, but yes there were some that did go.

Just on the anti-British sentiment by South Africans, where does Sailor Malan fit into this as a Battle of Britain leader and post war as the Torch Commando leader, where he opposed the narrow minded Boers?

Do you maybe mean Jan Smuts?

Do you smoke something funny or do you just not know what you are talking about? He was for the Boer Culture and for the Boer nation and did a lot of stuff for the Boer people like the National flag, the Voortreker Monument for the Great Trek and a lot of other stuff that brought back the culture of the people who thought everything was lost after the Anglo Boer war where they lost their houses, wifes, men and children.

Do your self a favore mate and read up more about the Anglo Boer war and you would see that the Boers were not so "narrow minded" as you might think.

32Bravo

12-27-2007, 05:10 PM

Is Ali-G a Chav?

A borderline case - but I can't say for certain as I've never watched his show. As I understand it, his humour his directed towards young, Black-British males.

32Bravo

12-27-2007, 05:15 PM

[QUOTE=Panzerknacker;114532]Here I found the ultimate Britain hater ...and is not even a foreigner :shock:

I am pretty sure many people in here would like to add some comments to this guy so you better go at its original topic:
[\QUOTE]

Priceless, P.K. It sounds to me as if he didn't reach the bar in time for 'Last-orders'! :)

12-27-2007, 05:15 PM

No he is not, he is a actor acting like one!

12-27-2007, 05:19 PM

Priceless, P.K. It sounds to me as if he didn't reach the bar in time for 'Last-orders'! :)

Yup I think so too.

Panzerknacker

12-27-2007, 05:21 PM

Priceless, P.K. It sounds to me as if he didn't reach the bar in time for 'Last-orders'!

Well, since I never lived in UK I dont know if this guy is just ranting or really make a point. some of the comments are simply too hilarious like...

The British are a bunch of low-grade, up their own arses, monkey faced jackasses

I must confess the fist time I read this I laugh really hard :)

32Bravo

12-27-2007, 05:26 PM

[QUOTE] "They're loud mouth" - Yeah, like most ****in' British **** faces ... shouting down the shits about "Eng-a-land" ENG-A-LAND !? Where the **** does the second A come from !? Britain has no right to call anyone loud mouth. [\QUOTE]

I find this very funny. :) The reason being: when my daughter was very young, England were playing in one of the international tournaments - I forget now whether it was World Cup or European Cup - anyway, she became so accustomed to hearing the England fans chanting 'Eng-a-land!' that she began pronouncing it the same way. It was a few years before she broke the habit. She's twenty two, now, and we are still abe to smile about it when we hear the chanting.

By the way, she lives in off-campus accommodation, surrounded by Chavs, who hate students, and she, also, gets pissed-off about them.

12-27-2007, 05:26 PM

Well guys I must agree with some of the stuff the guy said in the sense that it is so in some parts though. My aunt lived there now for 6 years and my mom was there as well and some of the stuff sounds the same as what my mom and aunt told me.

You guys should come and live here in South Africa and then you will learn what is cursing the other races that live with you. What you see is nothing to how it really is, you must live here a while and now they want to hold the 2010 Fifa world cup here, please they must get back to reality.

32Bravo

12-27-2007, 05:28 PM

I must confess the fist time I read this I laugh really hard :)

Me too! :)

32Bravo

12-27-2007, 05:30 PM

12-27-2007, 05:34 PM

No smoke without fire - now if you'll exuse me, I must stick my head back up my arse! :)

What?

Panzerknacker

12-27-2007, 05:35 PM

By the way, she lives in off-campus accommodation, surrounded by Chavs, who hate students, and she, also, gets pissed-off about them.

Can I suggest strong pepper spray ?

Quite surprising to me this "chav" thing, in here the morons come from every social status and city location, quite democratic.;)

12-27-2007, 05:42 PM

Glad to know that Panzerknacker.

Clave

01-01-2008, 04:17 PM

Every country in the world has a segment of the population that they could do without... :neutral:

Drake

01-01-2008, 04:46 PM

You guys should come and live here in South Africa and then you will learn what is cursing the other races that live with you. What you see is nothing to how it really is, you must live here a while and now they want to hold the 2010 Fifa world cup here, please they must get back to reality.

I expect a disaster since the austrian footballer got murdered on the golf course and the fifa reacted with "he didn't directly belong to the fifa entourage". Blatter is the epitome of stupidity.

redcoat

01-04-2008, 09:53 PM

A borderline case - but I can't say for certain as I've never watched his show. As I understand it, his humour his directed towards young, Black-British males.
Ali-G mocks those chavish white British males who mimic black 'gangsta' culture.
That's why his punch-line "Is it cause I'm Black" is funny, because he isn't black ;)

32Bravo

01-05-2008, 07:57 AM

Ali-G mocks those chavish white British males who mimic black 'gangsta' culture.
That's why his punch-line "Is it cause I'm Black" is funny, because he isn't black ;)

Thanks for that, I hadn't heard his punch-line.

Perhaps I'll get around to watching his show sometime, then I might have a clue about that which I'm talking. :D

32Bravo

01-05-2008, 07:59 AM

Every country in the world has a segment of the population that they could do without... :neutral:

No! It's about balance. We need the bad in order to appreciate the good.

Rising Sun*

01-05-2008, 09:12 AM

Perhaps I'll get around to watching his show sometime, then I might have a clue about that which I'm talking. :D

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!

You need to get onto Ali.

He is the world champion piss taker, and challenger of political correctness.

He's actually a pommie jew (Sacha Baron Cohen) who presents himself in different guises, notably d'Ali G, a black pom of Jamaican descent who's sucked in any number of prominent people around the world.

Here he is as Borat, a Kazakhstan innocent adrift in a big world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQScRuZj9s

Posh Spice taking it up the arse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P842Tmi6lrc&NR=1

Watch this for how he's managed to set up someone who's serious when he's not. Takes a while, but it's there

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HqZKW1WEVlM

Feminism

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oftOCN1jkNo

32Bravo

01-05-2008, 09:21 AM

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaate!

You need to get onto Ali.

He is the world champion piss taker, and challenger of political correctness.

He's actually a pommie jew (Sacha Baron Cohen) who presents himself in different guises, notably d'Ali G, a black pom of Jamaican descent who's sucked in any number of prominent people around the world.

Here he is as Borat, a Kazakhstan innocent adrift in a big world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQScRuZj9s

Posh Spice taking it up the arse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P842Tmi6lrc&NR=1

Watch this for how he's managed to set up someone who's serious when he's not. Takes a while, but it's there

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HqZKW1WEVlM

Feminism

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oftOCN1jkNo

Chears. I've seen the ads for his show but haven't gotten around to it. I'll take a peek. :)

Rising Sun*

01-05-2008, 09:26 AM

In case the references to a camel toe are lost on you, it's groin cleavage.

http://www.bofunk.com/video/320/camel_toe.html

32Bravo

01-05-2008, 10:02 AM

32Bravo

01-05-2008, 10:05 AM

In case the references to a camel toe are lost on you, it's groin cleavage.

http://www.bofunk.com/video/320/camel_toe.html

Yes, got tha one - does that mean that I'm not a total Phillistine? :)

redcoat

01-05-2008, 10:48 PM

He's actually a pommie jew (Sacha Baron Cohen) who presents himself in different guises, notably d'Ali G, a black pom of Jamaican descent who's sucked in any number of prominent people around the world.

Ali-G is not a piss-take of a black person, its a piss-take of a white person mimicing black culture.
The joke about him coming from the English town of Staines, is the fact that this town is about as white middle class as you can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_G

Drake

01-06-2008, 07:16 AM

Boojacasha :P

Nickdfresh

01-06-2008, 10:24 AM

Ali-G is not a piss-take of a black person, its a piss-take of a white person mimicing black culture.
The joke about him coming from the English town of Staines, is the fact that this town is about as white middle class as you can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_G

Sasha Cohen is a bit brilliant, definitely an Andy Kaufman streak in him. He's also married to the beautiful Sheila-actress Isla Fisher (the crazy girl in "The Wedding Crashers")...

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/model/isla-fisher/pictures/isla-fisher-picture-6.jpg

32Bravo

01-07-2008, 08:31 AM

Limies.

As we all know, Limies was a nickname given to English on account of the Royal Navy issuing its sailors with limes for their vitamin C content which prevents scurvy. However, lemons are better source of vitamin C and it was only due to nepotism (corruption) that the RN did not receive a lemon ration. Thus, they might have become known as Lemonies.

Limies Have Guts!

We drove into the tiny town of La Detinais, a sweet old stone village. . . . As we stood there talking in the lonely field a soldier in coveralls ran up breathlessly and almost shouted:

"Hey, there's a man alive in one of those planes across the road! He's been trapped there for days! . . ."

We ran to the wrecked British plane, lying there upside down, and dropped on our hands and knees and peeked through a tiny hole in the side.

A man lay on his back in the small space of the upside-down cockpit. His feet disappeared somewhere in the jumble of dials and rubber pedals above him. His shirt was open and his chest was bare to the waist. He was smoking a cigaret.

"Oh, Hello." He turned his eyes toward me when I peeked in, and he said in a typical British manner of offhand friendliness, "Oh, hello."

"Are you all right?" I asked, stupidly.

He answered, "Yes, quite. Now that you chaps are here."

I asked him how long he had been trapped in the wrecked plane. He said he didn't know for sure as he had got mixed up about the passage of time. But he did know the date of the month he was shot down. He told me the date. And I said out loud, "Good God!"

For, wounded and trapped, he had been lying there for eight days!

Cockpit to Prison. His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack-ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder bar.

His space was so small he couldn't squirm around. He couldn't see out of his little prison. He had not had a bite to eat or a drop of water. . . .

Yet when we found him his physical condition was strong, and his mind as calm and rational as though he were sitting in a London club. He was in agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even apologized for taking up our time to get him out.

The American soldiers of our rescue party cussed . . . with open admiration. . . . One of them said, "God, but.these Limies have got guts!"

It took us almost an hour to get him out. We don't know whether he will live or not, but he has a chance. . . .

He was an R.A.F. flight lieutenant [Robert Gordon Lee] piloting a night fighter. Over a certain area the Germans began letting him have it from the ground with machine-gun fire. . . .

The plane's belly hit the ground. . . . Then it flopped tail over nose, onto its back. The pilot was absolutely sealed into the upside-down cockpit. . . .

When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief.

And that was the one sound of human weakness uttered by that man of great courage in his hour of liberation.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885683,00.html

Could someone please explain 'Poms' ?

Nickdfresh

01-07-2008, 04:06 PM

Limes go much better with the gin and tonics...

01-07-2008, 06:39 PM

Ali G thread?

Major Walter Schmidt

01-09-2008, 01:22 AM

I like fish and chips.
I like french fries.

boxerrick41

08-21-2008, 10:10 AM

i like the british, i served in egypt and iraq with some brit boys that were very cool, i couldnt stop them from laughing every time i said " Howdy, Y'all "

Churchill

08-21-2008, 11:33 AM

Yup. Now, who wants chips and/or crisps?

08-22-2008, 03:31 AM

You guys made me hungry!

herman2

08-22-2008, 01:21 PM

I luv the British. Without them there would be no Canada!. Unfortunately there is so little respect for the Queen. I mean, I am not fancied to her but I think we owe her some respect as the head of the empire. Long Live the Queen!

RifleMan20

08-22-2008, 03:05 PM

I like British people but on xbox live they piss me off most of the time :(, there always like Americans cant play xbox and then when we beat them they just call us a "hacker" and a "wanker" anyway most Americans make fun of British, i guess what goes around comes around right, i don't because i like Brits.

herman2

08-22-2008, 03:52 PM

The Brits also make the best comedy shows.i.e. Mr.Bean, Trading Places, Benny Hill,and otheres I can't remember...it's different type of humour than American. I luv it!

aly j

09-21-2008, 02:02 AM

i hate the american goverment more than the brits goverment,
and they always been govy and funnier than any other
and herman2 is right about there comedy, very funny

aly j

09-21-2008, 02:22 AM

Sasha Cohen is a bit brilliant, definitely an Andy Kaufman streak in him. He's also married to the beautiful Sheila-actress Isla Fisher (the crazy girl in "The Wedding Crashers")...

http://images.askmen.com/galleries/model/isla-fisher/pictures/isla-fisher-picture-6.jpg

whats wrong with this pic
why is her head too big for her body
correct me if im wrong

pdf27

09-21-2008, 07:02 AM

Big hair, head looking straight at the camera but body at an angle = optical illusion.

kamehouse

09-21-2008, 07:17 AM

32Bravo

09-21-2008, 07:49 AM

As a French citizen living in London for the past 11 years, I must say there are no reasons to hate the Brits.Although most have veered away from their capital,I have met some really nice people in proper England.As much as I am proud to be French,I would understand any citizen of the United Kingdom to be as proud if not more of being British.
I don't like the NHS and the public transport though.Not enough to hate the country or its inhabitants.Wouldn't stay in one foreign country if I hated it,now would I?
One thing I have noticed though despite our long history filled with wars,most Frenchmen do like the English and even more the Scots.But I did encounter some moronic comments about frogs from time to time from Englishmen.Not to worry ,due to level of intelligence of these people,I just ask when did England won the last Football(a subject they can understand) world cup and ask them when did my country did.That shut them up for a while.;)

The Auld Alliance, was an alliance between the Scots and French against the English, so one can appreciate your liking the Scots.

When France wins the Cricket World Cup, that will cause me to become really concerned :(

When did France last win the Rugby World Cup? ;)

England in the Rugby World Cup Final – and France hung out to dry

I should have had a good brag about this well before now, but at least the delay has given the Guardian the time to translate the comments in the French and Australian sporting press about it all – it all being the fact that, last Sunday morning London time, England beat France 24-7 in the second semi-final of the Rugby World Cup, in Sydney, and are through to next Saturday's Final against Australia.

This was something of a surprise to some, and some included me. France had looked terrific all through the early rounds, while England had stuttered against lowlier opposition. But when it came to le crunch England were up for it and France crumpled.

The twin nemeses of France were the two Ws, the Weather, and Wilkinson.

After a warm and sunny week during which the French practised their fluent running and passing game, the actual game was played at a far lower temperature and in drenching rain and horribly gusting wind. As Le Parisien put it (translated for the Guardian):

Repeated errors, lack of control, appaling place kicking - on D Day, les Bleus blew it. We will no doubt be speaking for years to come of the dreadful weather that accompanied this match but it alone cannot exonerate the French team. In the pouring rain, the wretched English hung us out to dry.

France found themselves relying far more than they would have wanted on the kicking, in open play and at goal, of their young fly half Frédéric Michalak, who until Sunday could do no wrong. But on Sunday, he managed just two points, when he converted an early French try, and he then went on to miss four kicks at goal. His tactical kicking in open play was, if anything, ever more disappointing. Often French kicks that were supposed to be straight ahead, instead went straight up in the air...

Frog is a term of endearment we English use for French people. When in Folkstone, as a teenager, I had French girlfriend whom I used to call Frog. She said I was silly and should say Crappo...anything to further improve cross-channel relations. :)

aly j

09-21-2008, 08:51 AM

You guys made me hungry!

go and get some thing too eat:D

kamehouse

09-21-2008, 11:52 AM

When did France last win the Rugby World Cup? ;)
Funny this one ,most of the guys throwing jokes about froggies never reply that.Probably because they don't know England is playing Rugby as well?Or are just not interested.
I think we proved many times during the five and six nations that France was a team worthy enough?
Would you care to remind me the last time England won with a Grand Slam?
And it could go on and on and on......:mrgreen:
To end with a positive note,I thought England's perfomance during the Olympic games was nothing short of extraordinary,truly amazing.

pdf27

09-21-2008, 12:05 PM

Well, the England Women's team won the Grand Slam this year... The Men's team last did it in 2003, only a year before the French last did it :p

mike M.

09-21-2008, 01:42 PM

i hate the american goverment more than the brits goverment,

Just like I feel about Stevie, Ironman and others, I back your right to you having your opinion even though I may not agree with it. Now if you just didn't sound so ignorant doing it. :)

Rising Sun*

09-21-2008, 01:58 PM

Just like I feel about Stevie, Ironman and others, I back your right to you having your opinion even though I may not agree with it. Now if you just didn't sound so ignorant doing it. :)

She's an Australian, so it's hardly her fault. ;)

We always impose the highest standards for living here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PfDro1UGUo :o

Rising Sun*

09-21-2008, 01:59 PM

whats wrong with this pic

I can't see her nipples.

Apart from that, she looks just fine.

mike M.

09-21-2008, 02:12 PM

We always impose the highest standards for living here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PfDro1UGUo :o

what took him so long???..That was an easy question. :)

Nickdfresh

09-21-2008, 05:10 PM

whats wrong with this pic
why is her head too big for her body
correct me if im wrong

I don't care!

I can't see her nipples.

Apart from that, she looks just fine.

:lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLNXIC1auPk&feature=related

navyson

09-21-2008, 05:12 PM

whats wrong with this pic
why is her head too big for her body
correct me if im wrong
As usual with us men, who's looking at her head:D!

flamethrowerguy

09-21-2008, 05:31 PM

As usual with us men, who's looking at her head:D!

Isn't the oversized head on a skinny woman a sure sign of bulimia?

Churchill

09-21-2008, 05:33 PM

Most definitly... ;)

aly j

09-21-2008, 11:54 PM

:I can't see her nipples.

Apart from that, she looks just fine.

hahahahahahahahahaha:mrgreen:

32Bravo

09-22-2008, 03:28 AM

I think we proved many times during the five and six nations that France was a team worthy enough?

Where would the competition be without you..we'd probably have to argue with the Italians. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE97xAAfeko&feature=related

To end with a positive note,I thought England's perfomance during the Olympic games was nothing short of extraordinary,truly amazing.

Sucking up spoils the fun. :)

We were okay at the sitting down events. ;)

Indeed we could go on and on, but you did say something about shutting us up. :)

aly j

09-22-2008, 05:20 AM

Just like I feel about Stevie, Ironman and others, I back your right to you having your opinion even though I may not agree with it. Now if you just didn't sound so ignorant doing it. :)

Sorry i didt mean 2 sound ignorant,I dislike youre govenment more than the britons govenment.
Im not good at wording things

32Bravo

09-22-2008, 07:37 AM

Funny this one ,most of the guys throwing jokes about froggies never reply that.

Yes, sorry about the crappo, English spelling I'm afraid. it should be Crapaeu.

pdf27

09-22-2008, 08:08 AM

Yes, sorry about the crappo, English spelling I'm afraid. it should be Crapaeu.
Or even Crapaud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Crapaud)?

32Bravo

09-22-2008, 09:25 AM

Or even Crapaud (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Crapaud)?

Thank you...my Crapaud is crap! :)

Rising Sun*

09-22-2008, 10:08 AM

To end with a positive note,I thought England's perfomance during the Olympic games was nothing short of extraordinary,truly amazing.

As an Australian used to mediocre performances by our mother country which has three times our population and which for a couple of decades hasn't managed to achieve a medal tally equalling ours, I am not sure whether to be amazed that the Poms finally got a few more medals than us or that they foolishly think they're as good as us despite still being way, way behind on a per capita basis.

Still, as the resident of a nation founded by the refuse of Britain, I congratulate Britain on finally managing to show, in a commendably environmentally conscious way, that it's beginning to catch up with its refuse. :mrgreen:

32Bravo

09-22-2008, 10:50 AM

Still, as the resident of a nation founded by the refuse of Britain, I congratulate Britain on finally managing to show, in a commendably environmentally conscious way, that it's beginning to catch up with its refuse. :mrgreen:

We didn't mean to win medals, we were happy to take part. The medals are merely bling. If your ancestors had stuck around until this became embedded in our psyche you would understand.

Meanwhile, we had an empire to take care of. :mrgreen:

Rising Sun*

09-22-2008, 11:13 AM

If your ancestors had stuck around until this became embedded in our psyche you would understand.

My ancestors from your part of the world were Irish.

Proper Irish, not those bastard Scottish lowland no-hopers and the like imported into Northern Ireland to support British rule. ;)

Then again, although it's a bit embarrassing, one of my ancestors down here was an Irish sergeant in the British army in Tasmania. :(

For a more impressive heritage, I'd be happier if he'd been a convict. :(

Which, according to family legend, he very nearly became after objecting to an officer's anti-Pope comment. :mrgreen:

Meanwhile, we had an empire to take care of. :mrgreen:

And take care of it you did very well, to the extent that you have what left?

The Falklands, with their vast oil and gas reserves channelling endless energy into Britain from capturing sheep farts? ;) :D

32Bravo

09-22-2008, 02:46 PM

My ancestors from your part of the world were Irish.

Proper Irish, not those bastard Scottish lowland no-hopers and the like imported into Northern Ireland to support British rule. ;)

Then again, although it's a bit embarrassing, one of my ancestors down here was an Irish sergeant in the British army in Tasmania. :(

For a more impressive heritage, I'd be happier if he'd been a convict. :(

Which, according to family legend, he very nearly became after objecting to an officer's anti-Pope comment. :mrgreen:

And take care of it you did very well, to the extent that you have what left?

The Falklands, with their vast oil and gas reserves channelling endless energy into Britain from capturing sheep farts? ;) :D

Arh, the grape be sour...Ooh-aarh! :)

Envy sits ugly on the fatal shore - I thought you bigger than that - or is it merely a lawyers spin?

Speaking of the Olympics, try this:

Welcome to Much Wenlock, the home of the modern Olympics - no! We're not kidding!

In 1850 Local G.P. Dr William Penny-Brookes (1809 - 1895), who introduced physical education into British schools, inspired the fore-runner of the modern Olympic Games for the
"promotion of moral, physical and intellectual improvement" (no mention of bling) and although the Game's venue is now decided by international committee rather than by by the parish council, we still hold our own Olympics here in protest every July - the other Olympics are also doing quite well too!

William Penny Brookes vision for the Olympic Games is hailed as one of modern sports greatest achievements. Of course, Baron de Coubertain was inspired to create the global event after a visit to the games in Much Wenlock.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2006/01/31/william_penny_brookes_feature.shtml

32Bravo

09-23-2008, 03:54 AM

Then again, although it's a bit embarrassing, one of my ancestors down here was an Irish sergeant in the British army in Tasmania. :(

Abercrombie took Trinidad from the Spanish and left Lt Col Picton as the island's Commandant (the same Picton who later met his end at Waterloo).

Picton took a fancy to a mulatto girl who was shacked up with an Irish sergeant in the British Army. In order to get the girl, Picton bribed her to accuse said sergeant of rape. This she did, and Picton hanged the sergeant and got the girl...the sun never sets on the Empire!! :) http://www.friesian.com/british.htm

Rising Sun*

09-23-2008, 08:07 AM

Arh, the grape be sour...Ooh-aarh! :)

What is a grape? :confused: Is that like when you - okay, maybe not you, but like a friend of mine who sometimes has been unfairly accused of this sort of thing - puts his hand on a lady's nice bits and gives them a friendly squeeze, which invariably is misunderstood by the time it gets to the anti-discrimination tribunal? :confused:

Envy sits ugly on the fatal shore -

Yeah, well, envy ain't the only ugly thing you'll encounter that sits ugly on this shore. ;) :D

I thought you bigger than that - or is it merely a lawyers spin?

Spin is beneath a lawyer's art. We leave that to third rate arts and economics graduates revelling in the cold and empty joy of being political party hacks and ministerial advisers who lack the nous to realise that they are what Orwell foresaw, and of even less value and a greater threat to society.

Speaking of the Olympics, try this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/content/articles/2006/01/31/william_penny_brookes_feature.shtml

Much Wenlock?

Sounds like a town full of bastards who couldn't be born in Much Wedlock. :D

32Bravo

09-23-2008, 08:41 AM

what is a grape? :confused: Is that like when you - okay, maybe not you, but like a friend of mine who sometimes has been unfairly accused of this sort of thing - puts his hand on a lady's nice bits and gives them a friendly squeeze, which invariably is misunderstood by the time it gets to the anti-discrimination tribunal? :confused:

Yeah, well, envy ain't the only ugly thing you'll encounter that sits ugly on this shore. ;) :d

spin is beneath a lawyer's art. We leave that to third rate arts and economics graduates revelling in the cold and empty joy of being political party hacks and ministerial advisers who lack the nous to realise that they are what orwell foresaw, and of even less value and a greater threat to society.

Much wenlock?

Sounds like a town full of bastards who couldn't be born in much wedlock. :d

lol :)

You appreciate, of course, that for the most part I'm at work and have not the time to give your comments the treatment they implore? :)

Rising Sun*

09-23-2008, 09:12 AM

lol :)

You appreciate, of course, that for the most part I'm at work and have not the time to give your comments the treatment they implore? :)

Yeah, you're probably flat out on the grape.

Or grope. :D

32Bravo

09-23-2008, 09:59 AM

Yeah, you're probably flat out on the grape.

Or grope. :DWell, as Alij was questioning my sexuality, I did have one or standing to for a grope before setting off home, but said Alij assures me I’m a chap, and so, much to there disappointment, I’ve asked them to stand down. :D

Rising Sun*

09-23-2008, 10:08 AM

Well, as Alij was questioning my sexuality, I did have one or standing to for a grope before setting off home, but said Alij assures me I’m a chap, and so, much to there disappointment, I’ve asked them to stand down. :D

Well, and I say this as a mate without casting any aspersions on your sexuality, I think a proper chap would stand up. ;) :D

32Bravo

09-25-2008, 03:52 AM

Let the beast sleep lest we arouse a rampant giant! ;)

Adrian Wainer

09-25-2008, 04:35 AM

32Bravo

09-25-2008, 04:41 AM

Who hates Britain and the British? Just about everybody including the British but especially the Nazis, imagine the Third Reich being beaten by a bunch of bloody amateurs! Oh the shame, the shame!

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

People tend to dislike that which they cannot do, or, are afraid of. So, imagine how much fear produces hatred! ;)