[Colonol Dekker]

The only smart idiots are the ones who know they're idiots

Acceptance is the first step,....
Who watches the today show with John Stewart, That epitomises American attitude for me. For any yanks wanting a dig at the UK, The friday night project catches street-idiots out all the time, And the 11 o'clock (featuring daisy donovan) was the best at making UK politicians look stupid....

[Unknown Target]

Please don't take my comments as American bashing either (I'm not sure if you did or not) because that wasn't my intention.

Of course he did. Say anything that puts America in a negative light, and it is automatically called America bashing by Americans. Too many people in America believe their country does everything right, that is the problem.

I sincerely hope that's a joke.

Otherwise, you basically proved my point for me. You're generalizing well over - what is it, over 5 million people? And you're playing the typical "foreigner who hates America because it's America." Do you have any proof for the clame you just made? I don't think America does everything right, and I'm American. In your world and view of America, how can someone like that possibly exist?

[Blaise Russel]

America, thanks to its cultural insularity and self-absorption, in addition to its focus on individualism, free market economics and mass consumerism, simply has a tendency to produce more idiots than other countries.

[Colonol Dekker]

Apart from france...............

[Unknown Target]

All countries have stupid people and try to serve their own interests.
Every one.


There, I said it. Witness and grovel before my revelation.

[Colonol Dekker]

France moreso..........

[Ford Prefect]

As a music student I must disagree.

[karajorma]

Still, it both makes me laugh and makes me angry when people bash on the US film companies for making films about American heros, or US politicians for servering US interests. Your country does the same thing, but America-bashing is the fad, so let's hate America and be hypocritical. Do you really expect America to make a WWII movie about some Norwegian hero that most Americans would know nothing about? No, because you target your home audience; Americans. Americans love to see heroic Americans, so stop *****ing when your country doesn't get featured. If you want your heroes put on the silver screen, make your own goddamn movie.

See this is where you start to lose the plot.

No one has said that you can't make movies about American heroes but when Hollywood makes a film about the D-Day landings and America is the only country involved or when they make a movie where the American are singlehandedly responsible for the capture of the Enigma code then something needs to be said about Hollywood rewriting history.

[Kosh]

I sincerely hope that's a joke.

Otherwise, you basically proved my point for me. You're generalizing well over - what is it, over 5 million people? And you're playing the typical "foreigner who hates America because it's America." Do you have any proof for the clame you just made? I don't think America does everything right, and I'm American. In your world and view of America, how can someone like that possibly exist?

Granted it was an overgeneralization, but there is still some elements of truth, more so than you realize. Have you ever had an American tell you to stop saying bad things about America? No? Well I have (even though I was simply pointing out things that they did, it obviously didn't matter those assholes)

Aldo summed it up quite well, but I am not so sure you understood.


And find it very interesting that you would call me a foreigner.........

[Turey]

Just some friendly reminders:

1. is american.
2. You're on a forum dedicated to a game made by said americans.


you're allowed to make all sorts of comments about the stupidity of America, you can call most americans stupid (and I'm likely to agree with you.)

but if you call ALL americans stupid, you just reveal yourself as an idiot because you happen to adore a game made by those stupid americans.

[Kosh]

but if you call ALL americans stupid, you just reveal yourself as an idiot because you happen to adore a game made by those stupid americans

Of course not all Americans are stupid, only the majority are. Of course there are a few 's, but there are a lot more Interplays out there.

[Prophet]

Of course not all Americans are stupid, only the majority are.

I think it's more like minority of them are crazy. But the still make three times more noise than the sane decent folk. That is however debatable since most of the time it's hard to tell what the hell is going on in there...

[BlackDove]

The majority of EVERY country are imbeciles.

America is just simply a big country, so you notice it more.

[Unknown Target]

I'm going to agree with BlackDove on that one.

[Shade]

Much of the percieved hatred of America is likely just hatred of the american government and not of the country as such. At least that's how I feel (though hate is a bit too strong a word in my case), I think America is a great country, it's just that you happen to have picked the worst possible guy to run the place. Stuff like Abu Ghraib and the like does not make me hate America, it just makes me want to see Bush and his gang locked up in a small dirty cell and the key thrown away. But at least he'll be gone after this term.

[Unknown Target]

I honestly think that's the problem too - people hate America's government, not really Americans so much (or the country). The problem is that Bush represents the country, which makes people hate the country by proxy.

[Shade]

Well, as long as he isn't representative of the country, there's still hope. The best part of US law is the part where presidents can only serve two terms. So even the biggest dimwit only has at most 8 years to mess things up.

The worst part is probably the ridiculous censorship on TV and radio - If a more or less standard TV show from around here was aired in the US, angry mobs of conservatives and religious zealots would raze the offending station to the ground But that's a different story.

[Kosh]

Much of the percieved hatred of America is likely just hatred of the american government and not of the country as such.

Perhaps, but then again who elected the government? Who is ultimately responsible for putting those people in power?

[NGTM-1R]

A relative minority, actually.

[karajorma]

Irrelevent. There are enough Americans eligable to vote to have not elected him even if we discard the 55m who did vote for him.

As I've said previously anyone who doesn't vote in an election as important as the last one automatically gets lumped into the stupid category.