On Nov 23, 2009, at 3:02 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> Hey, I'm English. That Americans are lard-arses is one of our
> fundamental beliefs...
>
> ...along with the belief that you are all slave-owning Baptists,
> with sun-glasses, cameras and white podgy legs sticking out of your
> shorts, that your cars are too big, and you don't believe in
> anything, except free market economics and hanging people,
> especially ay-rabs.
>
> Subbing to LBO I always hope that I will meet Americans I can
> admire, to dislodge my prejudices- which indeed I do - except that
> these same admirably urbane and sharp Americans then go to to tell
> such terrible stories about their countrymen that all my English
> snootiness is wholly reinforced.
We're not all slave-owning Baptists, or fat, or any of the other bad things you Brits think we are. Just half, give or take a few million.
Doug