Well, most of my favorite musicians/bands come from Britain, and my favorite comedy shows and actors come from Britain as well. So, I have nothing but respect for the place.
lol, I moved here on work related things... and I'm from skye luve, as far as were concerned nessy is just something we made up to rob the british, yanks and germans out of their money and beef up the tourismantiwheat said:Yes, abandoning the best country in the world makes your opinion invalid. What other country has a real monster?Matronadena said:egh, I'm from Scotland, and live in the states now....soooooo technically my viewpoint wont count.....
Well Obama did his during the recession so he has to be seen to be doing something, and a trillion dollars is such a massive amount, so hard to comprehend that it probably didn't mean that much to most people or it has an almost divine quality to the sheer amount of money. Although as you say it doesn't appear to have worked pretty well. In regards to banks the same thing happened in England as wellJWAN said:GW did a 320 billion dollar stimulus plan and the Democrats got all pissy over it because it was too much money. Obama did a TRILLION dollar bailout and everyone went wild in the streets and were praising his heavenly glow, the funny thing is it was so ineffective they are already planning a second multi-trillion dollar bailout.messy said:SNIPJWAN said:I like Britain, and that's not how most Of America thinks of you guys. See during the election liberals like Obama had to put all of the evils on G.W Bush and he cant do that if he plays you guys up as our allies.messy said:SNIP.
What Im saying is he has his head so far up his ass (and the media is helping it stick)that he has no idea how much you guys helped us out in recent past as well as before this war in other wars.
He's pissing on it for political gain
The first bailout delayed the inevitable and now the government owns the banks AND the major automakers GM= Government Motors
Hehe, much like those other groups that go door to door.. You know who I mean. But on the bright side they always give me a chance to practice my Sam Fisher stealth skills. I'll peek through the peep hole on the door and soon as I see it's them I'll snap over to the side and get flat up against the wall and door so they can't see me from the living room window. Yes.. No one is home.. Nothing to see here, move along.bob-2000 said:I'm from America, and I like Britain alright. Probably because America's 'Hardcore Christian-Republican' crowd is really starting to scare me, and i'd go pretty much anywhere to get away from them.
Irridium said:Our armed forces have sen better days- in the early part of the Iraq war British land rovers or "snatches" (i think) offerd poor protection agaisnt road side bombs. There is still contraversy about the more advanced Viking amoured vechles, following the death of a senior commander in Afganistan traveling in one. That, and army equipment was of low quality- boots had a habit of melting, SA-80's jammed (hence the SAS never used them) radio sets where dodgy-but i think most of them problems have been fixed now.Sarukin said:huh, didn't know that. I know that leadership in the U.K. at the moment isn't the best, but I had no idea about its armed forces.
The biggest problem is that Britains army is that it is too small, and overstretched- this means that the British forces get bogged down in areas like Basra and Helmend and can not commit large numbers of troops like the USA can- so what happens is America bails out British forces- as is what is happening in Helmand province at the moment.
Heard sketchy news about what Britains special forces are up too, altougth 10 years later everyone will know as soon as Britains book shops are filled with autobiographies written by ex-SAS men.- From what i know the SAS and SBS are working with American special forces in the Afgan-Pakistan border area locating Taliban leaders to kill.
*cough*hellsing*cough*Turtleboy1017 said:All I can say is that London is totally fucking awesome. Queen, fish and chips, Judas Priest, Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, awesome subways, Lucy Pinder, need I say more?
Fondant said:America: You guys rock.
that's a british guy who said that. so it's not all British who hate us. just like all americans don't hate british people.Xanadeas said:Being an American it's obvious that I don't care about your tiny, rancid, little country. Haha, see what I did thar?
But really, I still can't get over my view that Britain believes itself to be better than the US in some fundamental way. Not that I'm saying the US is better than it either. What I mean to say is Britain and the British in general have always come off as just as arrogant as they claim Americans are. If not more so.
Other than that I think Britain is a very important ally. In times of war I trust the British to be there by our side trying to put a stop to tyranny or whatever it is we happen to be trying to blow up that week.
Israel's quite important too,but i assume you know that.Skizle said:personally, the U.K. is our biggest ally to the US
true, but this thread is aimed at Britainlwm3398 said:Israel's quite important too,but i assume you know that.Skizle said:personally, the U.K. is our biggest ally to the US