Operation clark County - Brit Newspaper wankery

Exmoor Cat · Post by **Exmoor Cat** » 2004-10-18 10:20am

Everyone here knows one of the worst things Americans hate is being patronised by Brits -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections20 ... 58,00.html

Am yet to hear what the local Democrats think.....

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-10-18 10:30am

Oh me oh my, that was amusing

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-10-18 11:40am

I liked the one that said he forwarded the letter to the CIA and FBI. Wonder what they did?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-10-18 11:42am

Haha, gold! I love the Yanks; an endless source of comedy for my amusment.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-10-18 11:54am

hehe, some of those responses are sheer genius. I mean wow... some of them really hate us.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-10-18 12:00pm

So set me straight - do you Brits really brush your teeth?

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-10-18 12:06pm

Joe wrote:So set me straight - do you Brits really brush your teeth?

daily.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-10-18 12:11pm

Joe wrote:So set me straight - do you Brits really brush your teeth?

Br... ush?

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2004-10-18 02:52pm

Bwahaha! Hilarious. I love it.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-10-18 08:38pm

I went and read some of the letters from the Brits and am kind of weirded out by some of the stuff I found in them. From Richard Dawkins (a man I respect for his work):

Now that all other justifications for the war are known to be lies, the warmongers are thrown back on one, endlessly repeated: the world is a better place without Saddam. No doubt it is. But that's the Tony Martin school of foreign policy [Martin was a householder who shot dead a burglar who had broken into his house in 1999]. It's not how civilised countries, who follow the rule of law, behave. The world would be a better place without George Bush, but that doesn't justify an assassination attempt. The proper way to get rid of that smirking gunslinger is to vote him out.

Good God, what was this man smoking? This is middle-America we're talking about here; does Dawkins think the best way to do voter outreach with these folks is to bash a guy for exercising what most Americans (including much of the Democratic base, as well) would regard as a fundamental human right? I've read some of Dawkins' political columns before and was never particularly impressed by them, but he just totally missed the mark here in a spectacular fashion.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2004-10-18 08:53pm

KEEP YOUR FUCKIN' LIMEY HANDS OFF OUR ELECTION. HEY, SHITHEADS, REMEMBER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR? REMEMBER THE WAR OF 1812? WE DIDN'T WANT YOU, OR YOUR POLITICS HERE, THAT'S WHY WE KICKED YOUR ASSES OUT. FOR THE 47% OF YOU WHO DON'T WANT PRESIDENT BUSH, I SAY THIS ... TOUGH SHIT!
PROUD AMERICAN VOTING FOR BUSH!

You know, I'm pretty sure we lost the War of 1812... I can't help but wonder if that response is satire or not. 47%? Can we say tyranny of the majority...

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-10-18 08:58pm

Exonerate wrote:You know, I'm pretty sure we lost the War of 1812...

Neither side can really claim victory for the war of 1812...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-10-18 09:00pm

I suppose we lost the war of 1812, but we lost well. We came out of it more respected on the international stage than we had been previously.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-10-18 09:08pm

Joe wrote:I suppose we lost the war of 1812, but we lost well. We came out of it more respected on the international stage than we had been previously.

Not only that, but we made Britain cough up territory they'd conquered from us in the war. Britain had never done that before.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2004-10-18 09:33pm

Plus we won some really bitchin' naval battles. Without our Great Lakes fleet, the Napoelonic veterans would have flooded N. America and turned us into fine red mist.

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-10-18 09:37pm

Joe wrote:I suppose we lost the war of 1812, but we lost well. We came out of it more respected on the international stage than we had been previously.

Funny thing about that, would you say that we would have won the War of 1812 if the battle of New Orleans had never happened?

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2004-10-19 04:40am

[quote]Consider this: stay out of American electoral politics. Unless you would like a company of US Navy Seals - Republican to a man - to descend upon the offices of the Guardian, bag the lot of you, and transport you to Guantanamo Bay, where you can share quarters with some lonely Taliban shepherd boys[/quote

Comedy gold

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-10-19 08:20am

My dear, beloved Brits,
I understand the Guardian is sponsoring a service where British citizens write to Americans to advise them on how to vote. Thank heavens! I was adrift in a sea of confusion and you are my beacon of hope!

Feel free to respond to this email with your advice. Please keep in mind that I am something of an anglophile, so this is not confrontational. Please remember, too, that I am merely an American. That means I am not very bright. It means I have no culture or sense of history. It also means that I am barely literate, so please don't use big, fancy words.

Set me straight, folks!
Dayton, Ohio

Bwahahahaha!

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-10-19 12:27pm

Joe wrote:Good God, what was this man smoking? This is middle-America we're talking about here; does Dawkins think the best way to do voter outreach with these folks is to bash a guy for exercising what most Americans (including much of the Democratic base, as well) would regard as a fundamental human right? I've read some of Dawkins' political columns before and was never particularly impressed by them, but he just totally missed the mark here in a spectacular fashion.

Us silly brits and our problems with shooting someone in the back as they run the fuck away...*sigh*

CJvR · Post by **CJvR** » 2004-10-19 12:46pm

Having some outsider sticking their nose in your election is more likely to trigger a reaction opposite to what was intended. Perhaps the Guardian should start mailing pro-Bush propaganda instead.

CJvR · Post by **CJvR** » 2004-10-19 12:52pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:Us silly brits and our problems with shooting someone in the back as they run the fuck away...*sigh*

Well it is the safest way...
The British sence of fair play is legendary, rifles and heavy artillery against natives with sharpened sticks

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2004-10-19 12:54pm

If you want to have a meaningful election in your crappy little island full of shitty food and yellow teeth, then maybe you should try not to sell your sovereignty out to Brussels and Berlin, dipshit.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-10-19 04:28pm

SHIT HITS FAN

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-10-19 04:32pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:SHIT HITS FAN

Oh, you can't make this shit up! T3H WiN!!1!!

Augustus · Post by **Augustus** » 2004-10-19 05:04pm

Keevan_Colton wrote: Us silly brits and our problems with shooting someone in the back as they run the fuck away...*sigh*

Well not everybody can get a Silver Star for it afterall ...