English soccer fans demonstrating subtlety and refinement for the benefit of us crude Yanks.
Yeah well, it'll be a long time before the Queen gets MY vote!;)
I can't speak for other Americans but THIS American won't lose 1 seconds sleep worrying about what Briton's think.
Bump.
Badly led? Yeah lets get more socialists in power so we can be like Europe.
Ignorant? How's this big picture? With the exception of US,Isreal and possibly Australia, secular socialists run the parts of the world that Muslim's don't, and that of course recognizes the wholesale surrendering that the secularists are currently undertaking.
"doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks" (83 per cent)
At least they got something right.
Almost everybody calls us an empire. Then by God let's be one. Take over the Middle East, Canada, and Mexico. Slam their dix in the dirt. Then when we get settled with that take over another country.
F*CK 'EM. A PzLdr poll finds that if the U.S hadn't intervened in two World Wars, the House of Windsor would still be known by its German name. Brits have a short memory, and apparently project their imperial guilt on us. Tough. And as I've posted before [for all the posturing pipsqueaks of Europe}, ROME DOES NOT ASK GAUL [or Brittania] FOR PERMISSION TO MAKE WAR ON PARTHIA.
And as you will have to agree with me as that goes for all countries and definitely includes America.
As a user of Freerepublic for many years, I know the same negative feelings for other countries is very strong in America as well.
LOL read some of the replies on here it doesn't take much to wind people up and get a good old anti everyone except me attitude going.
Most of those polled have probably never been to America and get all there negative views from the media, just as many on this very site I have debated with have never been to Britain or Europe and get all there negative views from the media.
The media both right and left have done more to divide us than anything the Muslims can do.
Mark Steyn is a good example of this.
I have nothing but respect and admiration for the democrat state of the United Kingdom, and consider Briton's our friends (even if some may not few it's mutual) but I believe the proof is in the pudding, i.e. the numbers of immigrants or foreign workers.
Actually, to be honest, I believe this article is more a "slam" or insult to Briton's that Americans.
SFS
English soccer fans demonstrating subtlety and refinement for the benefit of us crude Yanks.
"One in three people in the UK regularly suffers paranoid or suspicious fears, clinical psychologists have found."
(from: Paranoia 'a widespread problem')
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659925/posts
Nothing's changed. Brits didn't think much of the colonists three hundred years ago, either. What they wanted was America's wealth...lumber, furs, etc., and they considered the colonists vulgar, crass, arrogant, and stupid. The UK (and the EU), still wants to use the US as a mule. Happy Independence Day! Today is a really big poke in the eye to the UK!
[Britian falls out of love with America]
America got a divorce from Britian over two hundred years ago and they just now fell out of love with us? Boy, talk about holding a flame.
Happy Declaration of Divorce, everybody.
This is the funniest thread I've read in ages!
I can't believe how delicate freepers sensibilities are - you guys really care what us Brits think don't you? :D
You'll notice the article says Brits tend to think highly of Americans, but not of the American govt and it's policies. If Clinton was still in power you'd be agreeing with them too!
Us British have had to learn over the years that being the worlds policeman doesn't make you popular. Now you need to learn it rather than getting all schoolyard angry every time a poll of 1/30,000th of another countries population doesn't fall at your feet in adoration! :D
I know one thing - we have done nothing to deserve anyone's contempt, especially any of the failed socialist nations of Europe, and so the only explanation for the dislike that I can see is simple jealousy.
Europeans have, since WWII and their embrace of socialism, been on a steady decline while America, notwithstanding a few bumps in the road and one or two felonious and cowardly presidents, has thrived. The very existence of America is a slap in the face to the Europeans who have stupidly chosen, and continue to cling to, a form of government that, everytime it has been tried, has proven to be a dismal failure.
So, we'll go on our merry way with our less than five percent unemployment rate, our booming economy, our courageous president whose decision to go to war and fight Islamic psychopaths on their own territory have kept us safe on our own soil since 911, and our general well-being while Europeans boil and seethe with hatred and envy at our successes.
I really could not care less about the fact that Europeans, including some British, don't like us. I really, really don't care.
Consider the source :)
As far as colonialism goes, the US has "returned" the only country we've ever taken (The Philippines).
As to our crassness, maybe the Brits are watching too many of our television shows!
Unfortunately Anti-Americanism has gone from being a cult to a fully-fledged industry, with the even the Telegraph wanting their piece of the pie.
I'm sure those FReepers who have travelled to the UK will make up their own minds based on their own experiences, and those that haven't are just as suspicious of our MSM as they are of their own.
Still, Happy Divorce Day cousins! Remember that it turned out as good for us as it did for you - you were far too lively for us to hang on to!
So what's the problem? Those figures don't look so bad. We're not gonna marry them.
"America appears to be a class-divided mnd racially divided society"
ROFLOL Obviously they can't see class divisions even when they are staring them in the face. as for race, I've heard the English moning about the Indians, the Hong King citizens, the Moslems, etc. so give me a break.
as for the rest of it, given england's empty churches, high unemployment, high out of wedlock birth and all the rest including bonnie Proince Charlie, I'll take what we have here.