Tuesday 1st May 2001
Americans
Xenophobic? No! Fan of PT Cruisers? Not exactly
Discussion
I''m quite offended by this article. Not because of the comments about the PT Cruiser or Neon, but because you generalized all Americans. Let''s get something strait, only soccer moms like these things, and they''re the bane of American society. I also hate Neons, they''re way to small to do anything useful with, in all respects. My one fantasy is to take a tank to the factory that produces those hideous van/whale hybrids. Oh, and for the record, my favorite cars happen to be TVRs.
"I''m quite offended by this article."
good. Let's DO generalise here and say that with a few exceptions Americans are the most insular bunch of t***rs on the planet. After all who else but the Yanks could have a "world series" in not one ,but two sports that only THEY play???
Cause they are s**te at everything everyone else plays. And why oh why do they all pretend to be Irish?
PT Cruiser? It's just short for PRATT.
Edited by flasher on Saturday 8th September 20:35
Edited by Factory Hound on Sunday 9th September 21:24 
oh, and Ted..the reason is that the UK market, depending on industry sector admittedly, generally counts for about 4% of world sales...bet Chrysler really care whether the UK buy its products!! Great stuff. I relish every opportunity to bash the yanks. You just have to say "those moon landings, I heard they were faked..." and take it from there. You can get on to the British chap who flew a powered aeroplane FIFTY YEARS before the Wright brothers and (continuing the aero theme) remind them that British technology allowed them to break the sound barrier.
And Thrust SSC. Why are all their Champ Cars made here? We need Lola to make a NASCAR with a Rover 75 body and we'll have American Motorsport taped...
"well done for commenting on 600 million people in such a balanced manner"
Sorry, 600 million tossers. 600 million insular "no -one else exists" tossers.
I was in Florida just before the 1994 World Cup ( and I mean "world" not just America) and the Hotelier I was drinking with said " Yeah , I'm really looking forward to it, but tell me, what exactly is soccer?
The case for the defence rests.
Edited by flasher on Sunday 9th September 23:12
I was in Disney world LA and one of the amusements was KITT, you know that black car that speaks. People (grown ups) were queueing to sit in it and talk to the damned thing....they really fell for it, I could just imagine the guy on a mike looking thro binoculars having a whale of a time chatting to these dimbo's
And this is is true, I promise you...
A mate of mine studied for a while in the States. He and few other Scots hired a car and basically drove down the West Coast. Anyway, they ended up driving across some wind blasted bit of Texas, and pull over at a gas station to fill up. Attendant geezer recognises foreign accents:-
"You´re not from around these here parts" (well, maybe)
"No, we're from Edinburgh ... in Scotland ... in Europe".
"Jeez ... how far is that?"
"About 6000 miles"
"You boys must have been on the road a long, long time."
I can accept he might not have known where Edinburgh was ... but you might have thought he'd have known the Atlantic Ocean separated the US from europe.
(PS I am dual national UK/USA and if anyone wants to know which half is from the US, I'll forward you a picture.)
quote:Exactly who are the ignorant t*ssers round here? Since when has America had 600 million people in it? How about 260million? And I'm sorry to say chaps that these folks are starting to play "soccer" with a vengance, and they are already ranked next to England in the FIFA world rankings. Once we've remembered that we are cr*p and start losing again, they will be better than us. And another thing, ask your average brit about the precise whereabouts of major cities in Germany or France - they'd reach for their AA European roadmap faster than you can say "ignorant t*ssers" God bless america, land of the free, and home of decent weather.
[quote]600 million insular "no -one else exists" tossers.
Dear oh dear...
1.The six hundred million figure came from a guy defending them!!!
2. They are not any good at football and never will be. We haven't been good for years, we know it, but when we do well we celebrate, what's wrong with that????( football-not soccer,as you will find we invented football while you were fighting with Injuns) As for "world rankings" they mean nothing. Where was Ivanisevic ranked at Wimbledon??
3. As for it being "the land of the free" Yeah right!!
Bill Clinton was "free" to lie to congress
OJ was "free" to get away with murder
All citizens are "free" to buy guns and kill each other
Worst murder rates on earth.
As for the weather being nice-only in part of it. Try Chicago in February.
Glad there is only 260 million of you that's only half the to**ers I thought there was.
My apologies GasBlaster ... let me clarify ... they hired a car in Seattle (Washington state, top left .... cold, wet, Microsoft) then drove down through Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico and into Texas (dusty, guns, oil, more guns). Their route was in effect the western most border of the United States ... not including Alaska or Hawaii.
p.s. I am not Scottish, even though I have a stupid name 
and don't think much of football. Real sportsmen don't advertise shampoo.
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