JC Denton wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2024 at 8:13pm:
Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2024 at 5:20pm:
Sprintcyclist wrote on Feb 2
nd, 2024 at 4:30pm:
americans are belligerent, self centered, tribal, narrow minded and aggressive.
They are also warm hearted, honest, hospitable, loyal, patriotic and faithful friends; their country is also a repository of English language as is much of their spelling.
move there then
The old boy tried that, did you know?
He set sail for Calcutta if you please. Ended up in the doledrums and washed up in the New World, poor thing.
All good, he saw all these backward, tribal
tinted races and thought they were Injuns, the silly old fool.
How, they said.
And how, he said.
You had to be there. The old boy learned his English watching Bob Hope in those God-awful
On the Road matinees.
Anyway, he didn't like the culture over in America and settled on jolly old Oz. More British, he thought. He later found out we'd overturned the White Australia Policy 30 years before he got here, can you believe? Missed it by that much.
And he had no idea about our Boongs. He thought we were like Rhodesia or South Africa without the natives, just lots of soaked old fools in pith helmets and Bombay bloomers.
Too late now, of course. We're stuck with him. Now he pretends he's a passport-carrying Britisher, when he's really just a sunburnt old half-Kraut with sclerosis of the liver. Now you have to point Australia out on the globe and remind him we're not in England. He's always forgetting.
To his credit, I think he's slowly starting to dawn, but one needs to take time when dealing with the NESBers. Short words, lots of gestures and an abundance of patience.
He still thinks he's got a passport. No no, we say, Denmark - Australia. There - here. You get a vote in your Reichstag, old boy, you don't get a say down here.
He still doesn't get it.
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