US Self Defence nut gets banned from the UK

[Audley Strange]

It's deflation of braggarts that I'm involved in here. The Yerpeein' braggadocio of being so much more calm, thoughtful, and enlightened. Everything about Yerup is better - haven't you seen the threads? Your food. Your people - they're smarter, better educated, more responsible citizens, etc. Your manner of living, all that sort of thing. Yerpeeins excel in pomposity.

Sure I get that, but surely you realise that if someone thinks your nation is inferior, they're not likely to be bothered by your attempts to puncture their pomposity? Thus you just sound like a crank?

I do see your point, European contempt and pomposity against American exceptionalism and arrogance. Sure that's a good discussion to have, it'll end well.

I'll stop, when the neverending mantra of "All things Yerpein are better" and "Merka sucks" stops. Until then, as long as Yerpeeins are going to be jerking off to their own image, I'll keep pointing it out that their doing it.

Sure. But there is no ever ending mantra, there are at best two or three people who have semi-regularly made anti-american comments on at best a handful of threads (as far as I can see) and you loudly echoing the same defense of the stars and stripes even when it is not relevant. You know like the difference between finding the phrase "pre-born" stupid and you going on and on about how the U.K.'s abortion position isn't any better. It's become a knee jerk reaction with you and genuinely it's exposing something more about you that it is about your target or those you defend.

Still by all means keep it up, you have every right to do so and I have every right to tell you I think you're over-reacting and deluding yourself.

No, you're indignant that I'm pointing out that you lot complain about things that the US does, even when your own countries do the same things or even worse things.

I'm really not. For what it is worth (and I'm guessing zero) I actually have more contempt for the U.K. citizenry and it's government than almost any other people and state in the world. If anything the only reason I'm responding is because normally I like your posts, even if I disagree with them, but this has become a bit of a fixed idea of yours recently and as I said I feel it is an exercise in futility that is going to end up embarrassing you rather than anyone else.

[Coito ergo sum]

Well, I bring up the UK's abortion position when someone from the UK chooses to lambaste the US's position on abortion, yes. But, it's not the mere fact of lambasting the US position that gets my dander up. What gets my dander up is the smug sanctimony accompanying the comment. The pre-born discussion is a perfect example. The posts from Yerpeeins were full of scathing rebukes about how stupid and awful the US, similar to the "so 19th century..." line we hear from time to time. So, when I see that the UK law is more or less the same and in many respects MORE RESTRICTIVE than the American law, it is fair to point that out - because why would someone from the UK be smugly sanctimonious and contemptuous about US law, when their law is certainly no better and in many ways worse. I am left wondering why they didn't start a thread smugly critiquing the idiocy of UK law. No, they don't do that. They bash the US law, and then proceed to find some reason to more or less defend the UK law.

Why do they focus on the US law and not the Brit law? I think I know why. In my view it's because anti-American threads get lots of participation, with people reveling in yet another time we can call Americans stupid, and ignorant and ill informed and unenlightened. If you started a thread about UK abortion law, Yerpeins would first defend it as being a non-absolutist reasonable accommodation between the rights of the mother and the need to protect the fetus, etc. I've seen that happen to. I was chastized by a Brit - can't find the posts ATM - for pointing out that abortion is, in fact, restricted after X number of weeks, and requires doctor's sign-offs at other times (not required in the US), and then I got yet another America-bashing comment about how in the UK they're not all "absolutist" about things and they make reasonable compromises, whereas in the US, it's always all or nothing (argument to that effect).

Anyway - I think this horse has been beaten. I bear no ill-will toward the UK or Brits, quite the opposite. I like the UK, and I find all the Brits around here, well most of them, anyway, to be quite nice and friendly. Banter on these boards is fun for me, and I like a good rant, and I especially like a good "Battle of the ______" fill in the blank. It's an opportunity for humor, for good hard-fought rhetorical combat, and just general banter. That's my attitude about it.

[Clinton Huxley]

CES - "Anyway - I think this horse has been beaten".

CES, you cut the horse into 1cm cubes and then flailed away at each piece individually, whilst everone else wandered off and had a cup of tea and some cucumber sandwiches (UK) or some revolting corn-dog and sausage gravy thing (USA)

And you love it, so stop complaining.

[Coito ergo sum]

CES - "Anyway - I think this horse has been beaten".

CES, you cut the horse into 1cm cubes and then flailed away at each piece individually, whilst everone else wandered off and had a cup of tea and some cucumber sandwiches (UK) or some revolting corn-dog and sausage gravy thing (USA)

And you love it, so stop complaining.

Damn your black heart, Huxley!!!!!!!

[Audley Strange]

Banter on these boards is fun for me, and I like a good rant, and I especially like a good "Battle of the ______" fill in the blank. It's an opportunity for humor, for good hard-fought rhetorical combat, and just general banter. That's my attitude about it.

Ahah! That's all you had to say. Cool.