Happy Fourth! And now....a question...

[tabaqui]

Hello. Yes, another ficless update! Aren't i cool.

Anyway - Cat and i were talking and Cat was wondering something and now i'm wondering it so...

If you are from the UK, is there some lingering...national sentiment that sure, they've got James Marsters and Supernatural and 31 Flavors but...that should all be *ours! ours!!* those rat bastards?

I personally cannot conceive of such a thing but...does such a sentiment exist anywhere? When Bollywood tosses out hottie singing guys in eyeliner and chicks who are just so curvey and perfect is there a smoldering *grrrrr* anywhere?

Idle curiousity, folks. I think the answers are gonna be fun. If i get any.

And hey - now's your chance to tell me *every tiny thing* about America that bugs the crap out of you!

*just for the record, i despise The Shrub*
*so you'll be preachin' to the choir on *that* subject*

In other news? Deadwood!!!
OMFGILUFFIT!!!
*smoooches killerweasel*

Comments

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Sorry, you'll have to keep The Shrub, our lot are bad enough(across all the Parties) without putting Dubyah into the mix (shudders at the thought!)

And I did mean the US Religious Right(sorry for not being clear) The doc I saw was called God's New Army and profiled Patrick Henry College which is about an hour outside Washington DC. They're aiming to create their own religion based Ivy League and are attracting students from strong Christian right backgrounds with the aim of grooming them for government service as a way of setting the future political agenda. Some of these kids were just scary to listen to, but it was also really sad in a way to see them being so blinkered to everything outside of what they were being told to think
In the UK the church doesn't have the same level of influence, and the more evangelical groups are more into saving souls than saving tax dollars.

And yep, I figured that American TV (reality or otherwise) doesn't really represent the nation as a whole, but it's comforting to get the reassurance. And of course you're a very special example of the wonderous people I've met on LJ (I hope the cheque is in the post!)

I think the problem I have with the US base in our area is that they don't seem to give anything back to the community. Everything is provided "in house" or shipped in and there's no feed into the local economy, so it sits there taking up acres of ground, but not really giving anything back out - it's like somehow our products, services etc ae somehow inferior or maybe because they're different they seem to be greeted with suspicion. Hell we may not sell Hershey bars in the local shop, but I'm sure if someone tried a Kit Kat they wouldn't die of food poisoning!

Anyway I'll stop rambling now. I think both the US and the UK have got huge political and cultural challenges to face up to - immigration, environmental,relations with the Middle East, the need to be more open and less isolationist and the need to take a rational diplomatic stance on issues of global concern instead of immediately calling in the cavalry the minute someone does a bit of posturing. Well we can dream, but that would involve our governments being rational and listening to their consituents and how radical would that be!

Gosh, this was meant to be a light hearted little reply to your comment and I've finished up being all serious and philosophical - sorry about that! Anyway, back to the porn...

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The doc I saw was called God's New Army and profiled Patrick Henry College which is about an hour outside Washington DC. They're aiming to create their own religion based Ivy League and are attracting students from strong Christian right backgrounds with the aim of grooming them for government service as a way of setting the future political agenda.

Hearing stuff like that makes me think: get rid of PHC. The Right of any religion is like a cancer, and there's only one way to get rid of a cancer. Remove it completely.

Of course that sort of thinking leads to schools like PHC.
*sighs*

The world is a strange, and often sad place.

I think the problem I have with the US base in our area is that they don't seem to give anything back to the community. Everything is provided "in house" or shipped in and there's no feed into the local economy,

That sounds both expensive and unnecessary. This is England, not Tikrit. And host communities like "tourists" who spend money. It helps grease the wheels of friendship, so to speak. But then, the Army's not the smartest branch of our military, anyway. They let any idiots in.

so it sits there taking up acres of ground, but not really giving anything back out - it's like somehow our products, services etc ae somehow inferior or maybe because they're different they seem to be greeted with suspicion.

Well, sometimes, trying foreign food is an adventure . . . and I've heard some stories about British food. But there's this pub-style restuarant in Brookyn that I at at a couple of times and the food was awesome. Also, I've heard only good things about British candy and beer.

I'd figure, if nothing else, soldier's would be up for junk food and beer.

Hell we may not sell Hershey bars in the local shop, but I'm sure if someone tried a Kit Kat they wouldn't die of food poisoning!

Dude, Kit Kat is the shit. I'd pick Kit Kat over Hershey's any day of the week. It's the Rice Crispy things that make it so special and delicious. . . .

Um--I mean, I dunno what their problem is. If it was just a matter of strange British candy (like Turkish Delight, I mean, what the hell is that? It sounds like something you'd get in a bordello!) I'd say it was a bit of Xenophobia. But we've got KitKat over here. And some of our decent candy is really your decent candy, ie, Cadbury's and Toblerome.

Anyway I'll stop rambling now.

I must say, I like the way you ramble =D

I think both the US and the UK have got huge political and cultural challenges to face up to - immigration, environmental,relations with the Middle East, the need to be more open and less isolationist and the need to take a rational diplomatic stance on issues of global concern instead of immediately calling in the cavalry the minute someone does a bit of posturing.

There could be a meningitis outbreak in Prague, and the US'd think it was a threat to truth, justice and the American way. Our nation is paranoid. We think the whole world is out to get us, and, if our foreign policy doesn't straighten up and fly right, it may very well come to that.

As for the environment . . . America still thinks we're living one hundred and fifty years ago, when expansion and consumption could continue unchecked, unregulated. But there aren't thousands of square miles of forests, anymore, nor inexhaustible reserves of oil, water, coal, whatever. We're like three year old that wastes his dinner because he doesn't understand there may not be more where that came from.

And immigration--where to begin? It's so hard to find a reasonable middle ground even on the smallest sticking point.

I dunno much about British politics--and, sadly, never really tried to find out. I can barely keep up with US politics--but I hope that even though your government apparently has a lion's share of chowderheads, that at least the environmental stuff isn't so bad. . . ?

Well we can dream, but that would involve our governments being rational and listening to their consituents and how radical would that be!

It'd be unheard of, heh.

Now . . . did you mention pr0n?
*perks up*