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[Sniddle]

American here. I dislike the French more so.  As a boy(I think I was 12) I visited Paris, and I got a lot of attitude from vendors when I tried to order a "baguette" in french.  I mean, if you can't be nice to a well meaning kid, who's giving you business, well then you're just a douche.  I like the English better, because I can understand what they're saying, so it's less likely they'll outright insult me.

[big al]

Sorry I refuse to vote, can't say I'm very fused at all on hating either of these nations, although if that plunker Platini keeps coming up with the daftest suggestions then I may start swinging towards disliking the French.  I don't think anyone deep down really dislikes any of these countries in terms of people.  Sport however is a different subject.  What winds eveybody up is the English media who talk a good game they have a unrealistic attitude when it comes to winning international games.  England win one world cup in 1966 and we have heard about it ever since. 

The most disliked sports country however is USA.  God loves only them so thats why they win so much at swimming, athletics and golf these are the games that god loves. Fact is they are at everything else, Oh of course they are world champions at Baseball & American Football but even at baseball the Cubians and Japanese are running them close.  i think they'll always be World Champions at American football, lets face no other countries got the time, 4 hrs to play a one hour game is slightly excessive in terms of eating in to quality drinking time.  They were once good a ice hockey and Netball but sadly whilst they still have the best league and best all round players their team are full of individuals with huge egos who think that instead of having God on their side they are Gods gioft and deserve to beat everybody !!!!!!!! sh1t hold on there that sounds very familar! hey maybe I do hate the Englsh after all:D

[JoeTerp]

As an American, I have to say the French.  Although we would not be a country without them


Also in marketing class today we were learning about what other cultures put on their pizza, and my teacher told me that the English put Tuna and Corn on their pizza.  Is this true?

Americans like the English, who used to colonise them, and hate the French, who helped free them, The English like the Americans who defeated them in war and hate the French who they beat at war, The French hate both the americans and English who both recently saved them from being occupied by the Germans - who they now like!

Simple, eh

Although America was a British colony, it was not like we were "colonized" by them.  The country was mostly English people who colonized themselves to escape religious persecution (maybe this is why we have so many crazy Christians today).  The only thing that makes me mad at the English was the War of 1812 (not sure what you guys call it, maybe the Second American War of Independence?)  The Brits burnt down a lot of buildings where I live (including the White House), in fact the capitol had to be moved to the very small town next to mine for a couple of days.

[big al]

As a matter of historical interest the 1812 war was necessary for the British in order to stop colonalists expansion into Canada.  I am very disappointed in the fact that you blame the English and ignore the Scottish, Welsh and Irish along with French Canadians and native Americans who were also intend on stopping those christian colonalist who had turned there greedy eyes north, that is after they had butchered and masacred thousands and thousands of native Americans.  Such Great men as that one time stalwart and supporter of the Bristish crown George Washington.  Funny how American colonalists tend to want to expand everywhere and inhibit the red coats.

[big al]

Joeterp One other thing the majority of colonalists were not English they were in fact Scots- Irish presbyterians who were persecuted by the Angligan church.  If you trace the roots of the majority of your Presidents you will see this.  Between 1720 and 1790 over 100,000 presbyterians of Scots-Irish descent left Ireland for the colonys.  The vast majority of them and their off spring are founders and signatures of the declaration of independence.  They were persecuted by the English and crried that dislike with them to the America's even so they only rebelled against the Crown when they were refused crown forces to expand west into Native American Lands Which the British ahd promised the Indian nation would be protected from The colonalists and the French.

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big al is that you

[Sabre]

American here. I dislike the French more so.  As a boy(I think I was 12) I visited Paris, and I got a lot of attitude from vendors when I tried to order a "baguette" in french.  I mean, if you can't be nice to a well meaning kid, who's giving you business, well then you're just a douche.  I like the English better, because I can understand what they're saying, so it's less likely they'll outright insult me.

That's what I meant when I said I live in a frontier town -- I know the french. We have them 30Km away.

And yes, they are protective with their language.

When I go there I try Spanish (basque aswell), my few phrases in French, and English if everything fails . Then you can find the 70% of french who are nice and realise you're making your best to communicate and as you say, you are trying to do business.

And then there's the old french chauvinist you describe.

When you find one of those don't put your head down in shame, that's what they want. Start talking loudly and slowly in your idiom, pointing him with the finger and gesticulate as he was an idiot, that's the medicine it's useful with them 

[Bad Bob]

As a matter of historical interest the 1812 war was necessary for the British in order to stop colonalists expansion into Canada.  I am very disappointed in the fact that you blame the English and ignore the Scottish, Welsh and Irish along with French Canadians and native Americans who were also intend on stopping those christian colonalist who had turned there greedy eyes north, that is after they had butchered and masacred thousands and thousands of native Americans.  Such Great men as that one time stalwart and supporter of the Bristish crown George Washington.  Funny how American colonalists tend to want to expand everywhere and inhibit the red coats.

Hear, hear! 

Joe, you reap what you sow, my friend, and you deserved to have the White House burned down after your ill-advised attempts to assimilate Canada.  Payback's a bitch!

[big al]

hey joe you there

[JoeTerp]

On June 1, America declared war on Britain for a number of reasons: outrage at the impressment (seizure) of thousands of American sailors, frustration at British restrictions on neutral trade while Britain warred with France, and anger at British military support for tribes in the Ohio-Indiana-Michigan area. One faction in Congress desired the conquest of Canada while the British were occupied in their war with France, in the belief that if they were sufficiently weakened, Canada would be easily overcome.[5] This group was a minority, but another faction opposing impressment of seamen contributed sufficient votes to pass a bill declaring war by the smallest margin that had ever been recorded on a war vote in the United States Congress.[6] On May 11, Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by an assassin resulting in a change of the UK government putting Lord Liverpool in power. Liverpool was for a more practical relation with the United States. A repeal of the impressment orders were issued but the US was unaware as it took three weeks for the news to cross the Atlantic.[6] After war was declared, Britain offered to rescind the trade restrictions, but it was too late to appease the American "War Hawks", who portrayed the conflict as a "second war for independence."[citation needed] In addition to the stated reasons for going to war, a major goal of the War Hawks in the western and southern states was aggressive territorial expansion. The intent was to drive the British out of North America, and the Spanish out of Florida.

[big al]

Yeah Joe and the ship carrying the declaration of war past the ship from Lord Liverpool in mid Atlantic the war was over before it began.  The fact is that the colonalists were greedy they wanted land which had been protected and granted to the indian nation under the leadership of Tecumseh this was before the first war of independence.  The colonalists butchered thousands of peace loving indians and you can talk about war with France (which in fact was a vain attempt to distract the British Navy from there eventual destruction of the French and therefore the foundation for the birth of Queen Victoria's vast empire.) you can talk about American sailors or mercenary pirates who sold themselves to the French lieutenant with the bad arm. Best depicted and charicatured by Orwell in Animal Farm.  But the fact is the greedy colonalists wanted more and they still do. America has continued to extend it empire right across this planet and it not the America of Twain, Poe, Hemingway, Lincoln, Kennedy or Luther King.  Little white children and little black Children don't play togather in the streets or Alabama.  America is has some of the brightest most brilliant people in its short history, people, genius, artists, thinkers and peacemakers.  However there still prevails the values of the colonalists who had a chip on the shoulder regarding religious persecution in Scotland and Ireland.  There is no such thing as Neo Con Joe, it is ahs been a constant state of mind for those who subjugate the masses in the great US of A.  There conservatism exists here in The North Of Ireland where even the Irish Republicans are starting to sound like George W Bush.  We live in a world were greed and avarice prevail. For goodness sake even the so called Liberals such as Michael Moore only wriets his books and makes films for the money.  I suppose the thing in the end is that at least we still have our football as long as Mr Hicks and Mr Gillett Dont screw it up.

[Sniddle]

Yeah Joe and the ship carrying the declaration of war past the ship from Lord Liverpool in mid Atlantic the war was over before it began.  The fact is that the colonalists were greedy they wanted land which had been protected and granted to the indian nation under the leadership of Tecumseh this was before the first war of independence.  The colonalists butchered thousands of peace loving indians and you can talk about war with France (which in fact was a vain attempt to distract the British Navy from there eventual destruction of the French and therefore the foundation for the birth of Queen Victoria's vast empire.) you can talk about American sailors or mercenary pirates who sold themselves to the French lieutenant with the bad arm. Best depicted and charicatured by Orwell in Animal Farm.  But the fact is the greedy colonalists wanted more and they still do. America has continued to extend it empire right across this planet and it not the America of Twain, Poe, Hemingway, Lincoln, Kennedy or Luther King.  Little white children and little black Children don't play togather in the streets or Alabama.  America is has some of the brightest most brilliant people in its short history, people, genius, artists, thinkers and peacemakers.  However there still prevails the values of the colonalists who had a chip on the shoulder regarding religious persecution in Scotland and Ireland.  There is no such thing as Neo Con Joe, it is ahs been a constant state of mind for those who subjugate the masses in the great US of A.  There conservatism exists here in The North Of Ireland where even the Irish Republicans are starting to sound like George W Bush.  We live in a world were greed and avarice prevail. For goodness sake even the so called Liberals such as Michael Moore only wriets his books and makes films for the money.  I suppose the thing in the end is that at least we still have our football as long as Mr Hicks and Mr Gillett Dont screw it up.

If you wish me to take this post seriously, might I suggest becoming slightly more objective in your language and tone.  This sounds like propaganda.

This thread is going WAY off topic BTW.

[Sniddle]

That's what I meant when I said I live in a frontier town -- I know the french. We have them 30Km away.

And yes, they are protective with their language.

When I go there I try Spanish (basque aswell), my few phrases in French, and English if everything fails . Then you can find the 70% of french who are nice and realise you're making your best to communicate and as you say, you are trying to do business.

And then there's the old french chauvinist you describe.

When you find one of those don't put your head down in shame, that's what they want. Start talking loudly and slowly in your idiom, pointing him with the finger and gesticulate as he was an idiot, that's the medicine it's useful with them 

Certainly I encountered the minority of people in that circumstance, I wouldn't dare to judge the entire french people on the whole from one two week experience 9 years ago.

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Shut it.

[big al]

Funny Sniddle I dont think I have ever been accused of propoganda before I don't know if I should be offended or honoured.  Here wait a moment though! is'nt asking questions about likes or dislikes of peoples national identies the type of propoganda that the infamous Dr Joseph Goebels used against everyone hated by the Nazi's.  A but this is different of course just a bit of harmless fun and the word hate is such a bland inoffensive word is'nt.  And asking only foreigners to give their opinion is nothing like a rag like the Shun would print  Johnny foreigner hates you English even more than the damn Frogs.  Oh I feel a verse of Elgar coming on " land of hope and glory" he sings in his propoganda voice, no wait surely a true englishman will sing out Jerusalem oh hold on though Im Irish I should sit in the corner crying over a drunken effort at Danny Boy.  Oh its all too much, too much propoganda for one night.