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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
You know what I found really amazing about the media in the UK? They spent (and I am talking telly and radio and tabloids) an alarming amount of time bashing America and making "only in America" statements that had no basis in fact. Is America wonderful - not always, but then neither is the UK. Like the US has the patent on stupidity. I once had a British woman that wore a UK size 22 tell me that all Americans were fat. I told her to oder anthoer fish and chips.

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Yes hypocrisy is everywhere. Though let us not forget which nation is number one in the obesity league before we ramp up the righteous indignation too much.

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It is all just stupid. Neither country is better than the other. There are wonderful things about the UK just as there are wonderful things about the US. And if it makes you feel any better. I have never heard anyone, either in our media or in conversation say that "they are just jealous because they aren't Americans".

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And for your next trick you can tell me where I said the UK is better than the US.

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Citizen - the US is 50 times LARGER than the UK. Quite frankly, many Americans have what to them are more important things to worry about than some country they will never see and know little about.

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The UK is ranked by most sources as the second most powerful military on Earth, behind the US, and has the fourth largest economy. The UK is the USA's closest military and political ally on the world stage. Whatever way you cut it the UK is extremely important to American interests.

If the UK isn't important enough to know anything about or care about, who is outside of the US?

I really think you need to rethink what you just said. I never said that I thought "to Americans there is AMERICA and some other, things, some stuff that you know, isn't American, not really important" was representative, but you have, just now. I'm curious as to why Chris is agreeing with a sentiment that he crawled all over me about when I didn't even make it.

It seems you just made the case I was being grilled over for making when I wasn't.

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First off, when one is 50 times larger than OF COURSE one is going to have more obese people. To be perfectly honest, the last studies I looked at showed that the UK was about on par with the US in obese people when you look at it from just a percentage of each population.

I didn't say that the UK wasn't important. What I was saying is that Americans as a general rule do not sit around and contemplate all things British. Because there are more pressing things like hurricanes, tornados, fires, cities destroyed by bad governing, etc....






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Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:
Again, read my first response to you. I outright told you what I meant. If telling you outright doesn't work, then I'm at a loss as to what else to do.

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Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
First off, when one is 50 times larger than OF COURSE one is going to have more obese people. To be perfectly honest, the last studies I looked at showed that the UK was about on par with the US in obese people when you look at it from just a percentage of each population.

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I didn't say that the UK wasn't important. What I was saying is that Americans as a general rule do not sit around and contemplate all things British. Because there are more pressing things like hurricanes, tornados, fires, cities destroyed by bad governing, etc....

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Oh baloney.

Walk down the high street and ask some of those people questions about other countries. Walk down any street in Europe or any nation.

Ignorance and lack of perspective is not an American monopoly.

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