Top 3 List - Like Least about the U.S.
 

Since you started a whinge on Great Britain figured I'd give you guys a go at America. Note that it is ONLY a top 3 list. Please no jokes about "just 3" etc.:D .

Once you get the negatives out, I'll start a Top 3 (yes only 3) like best of U.S., but that will be later.

I shall start:

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. . . . . . . . actually better let you guys start. Don't want to sway anybody and NO I didn't even think of noting :D Steeljack or Billcat!:D

Brian

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1. The stupid accent
2. The language
3. The pathetic way fat people try to sue fast food companies. Get on a diet or go and die quietly in a corner

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1. The food .. never been a country for haute cuisine, particularly lack of dairy products.

2. Clothes ... old fashioned and frumpy and if you don't wear the t-shirt and denims, forget it.

3. Cigarettes ... even though where you live LancsYorkee grow the stuff.. just don't know how to put a decent fag together.

Not getting into the politics, just the material things.

Will go onto the things I liked now, which outweigh the above. x

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can only think of 1 thing i hate not dislike, thats the horrible/ignorant customs officials at differant airports, by the way they were of cuban/latin american origin in miami.

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The only thing I dislike about the USA is the time it takes to get there, does that qualify me for a week on 'grandmas' farm Brian.

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1. George Bush.

2. The tipping culture and the fact that many waiters/bar people can get quite stroppy if they feel you haven't tipped them enough.

3. American football - incomprehensible and boring.

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1) Stupid drawn out Accent....

2) OTT' ishness about everything......

3) Stupid Accent........( I know I said that already!!! but it does annoy me):) Oh no!! I will actually pick as NO 3 - the need to say GIRLFRIEND after everything.

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Dislikes-

1/ Although most people are genuinely friendly, it does grate when you've had your tenth 'have a nice day' before noon, when you know they are just saying it because they have too.

2/ Politicans who were/are B-list actors, or ex-Mr Universes. At least Glenda Jackson MP has a couple of Oscars under her belt.:D

3/ Modern day Hollywood films.

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sorry i like america...

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1. I'm not to keen when they strap on a A10.

2. Over the top Politics.

3. Their s****y attitude to anything not American.

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I'm curious Slinky, which accent annoys you most? We've got quite a few fairly strong ones.

Also, what is OTT'ishness?

Ianto, I'm sure the grandma next door could put you up in her basement. They just finished there house over there.

Brian

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Where is buseyebarb? her threads used to annoy yours truly, getting to the 'nitty gritty' of what she asked was a rare feat indeed, so come on bullsyebarb where are you?, liven the 'joint' up.

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1 Goerge W
2 that cheesey "Have a nice day"
american sit coms

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1.....Right to carry arms.2.......Cowboys(in 2006!!!).3....Too big

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I'm with Granny here. There are far more things I dislike about Britain in 2006 than America and, to be honest, being British (well, English) I'm not really qualified to judge America anyway.

I'll tell you 3 things I like about America. Very little snobishness; Spaciousness; Hotels that charge by the room and not by the head-count. Oh, and I like American accents too (and there are lots of different ones).

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There is nothing quite as insincere as a New York shop assistant asking you to "have a nice day".

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1 - Fat people who were more than happy to eat the cheapo burgers but then decide time to call mr lawyer

2 - their ignorance/lack of knowledge as to what happens outside the usa

3 - their love for guns

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The way the majority think they own the world yet as mani says, they know very little of what is outside their own borders

The bastardisation of the one true language (You speak ENGLISH yet you feel you have to change the spelling of perfectly good words and whatever happened in the deep south????)

How and why so many people can vote such that a complete imbecile is in charge of the country, come on, are you all blind??

I'm sorry LYY, I have this weird inbuilt dislike of America, I'm sure its not absolutely every American but up to now all those I have met have been ignorant, arrogant and so 'false' (PS, I have met quite a few in many locations around the world, ask me about bateaux mouche some day)

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Just trying to remember if you were at the July meet at the Shoulder of Mutton, the same one Billcat came to?


He'll be over for the Christmas meet, and I'm sure he'd like to discuss your point with you.:D

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I don't think we can critize the Yanks too much about the English language. The simple truth is that English spelling and even the alphabet itself was not standardised in the UK until the late 18th and early 19th centuries; witness the small s in texts, which resembles an f. The Americans simply broke away in 1776 and continued to use the language as they had done; it was we who changed.

An example are the words 'Scots' and 'Scotch'; the latter, in British english, applies to those people from the skirt wearing nation to the north; the latter is the drink produced there. Language purists from both sides of the border get most upset when the adjective is wrongly applied. Yet Johnson, Boswell and Pepys wrote of the Scotch people; the Americans still do. We don't.

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Hey entwisi, I certainly understand your feelings:( . I guess every country has that 10 - 20% of the population that give them a bad reputation. Trust me I've met, and probably been, many of the above.

Heck, I hate to think Accywebbers would think of me as the normal American, I really don't think there is one. (Although I may be the nicest one hahahahaha:rolleyes: ) I find the more different people I meet from different cultures/countries the more I can understand and accept the good and the bad character traits.

By the same token, would if I chose the "average" Brit. by using Accywebbers? Care to pick which one of my new found family is the most normal one? Actually, that may be a bit of fun eh?:D

Brian

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[quote=Tealeaf;342724An example are the words 'Scots' and 'Scotch'; the latter, in British english, applies to those people from the skirt wearing nation to the north; the latter is the drink produced there.[/quote]

It is not a skirt any more than a smoking jacket is a raincoat. :p

There are so many other languages that have contributed to our language that its got more variety than Heinz ever had or will have. Everything pinches bits to suit and makes others up and in the end a lot end up in the dictionary. Mind you as for the American language I still cant get my napper around "do the math" it just does not sound right.

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Missing me, are you? How sweet. My posts "used" to annoy you? Not now? Please, say it ain't so!

Since I've been having a love affair with America since I first arrived here more than four decades ago, I don't have a Top 3 List of dislikes.

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silver - i didnt really like american football either until i bought madden 06 a few months ago and understood how they play the game. its quite interesting how theyt have "plays" eg set pieces i'm surprised this hasnt really took off in football - having certain plays from certain positions...

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1......So what's your beef? 2......Yes, we still have them. 3.....As opposed to too small?

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Who loves ya baby, accyweb would be a very boring place to be if 'we' all agreed with each other, your views although sometimes a little 'obscure' in my opinion, are a welcome diversion from the mundane chat that exists on the forum after midnight. Regards Ian.;)

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Why my fellow Americans would choose to vore for G.W. Bush is a mystery to many of us over here as well. Please do not forget that there are huge numbers of Americans who did not vote for him - in fact, in 2000, there were more who voted for Mr. Gore!

Perhaps even more of a mystery is how Yale, which ususally produces some very bright grads, managed to give W a degree. :confused:

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Only if entwisi wishes to discuss the point. Funny, thought I was in agreement with entwisi on any number of points. Not this time, apparently. Oh, well, can't please everyone!

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As you well know, we have a little something called the electoral college. There have been 4 presidents who were elected without a plurality of popular votes, (including John Quincy Adams and Geoge W. Bush). Eleven have been elected without a majority of popular votes - including Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, (twice), Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton, (twice). So what's your point?

President Bush earned a BA degree from Yale in 1968 and an MBA from Harvard in 1975, (the only U.S. president to have one of those, by the way). Neither institution is known for giving out degrees as if they were candy.

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1......So what's your beef? Blue Sirlion with pepper sauce. :D

2......Yes, we still have them. We have plenty in the public sector claiming to be tradesmen. :eek:

3.....As opposed to too small? Depends on what is being sized ;)