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Originally Posted by Spartan01
Why are you so butt hurt?
His country lost a war to us. Just smile, laugh, and then throw a lime at him if you ever see him.
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Not just one war.
But while many Brits cling to the idea that they are impartial, I find that some resent Americans with very little humor attached to it when they can get a chance. I worked for one once, and here's an example:
We did some work for Dassault. I mentioned something about a region in France while talking to him about the project. I said it in the American way, so it rhymed with "pants" more or less.
He immediately corrected me by mimicking my voice, and then pronouncing it twice, in the French pronunciation: "Fronce".
I said "I studied the French language for eight years and I know how they say it. But I ain't French and neither are you so let's not play pretend."
I also used to like mentioned to him that I had no English ancestry, just Scottish, up with the Saltire. He was a tough bird, I saw him with an injury that was breathtaking one day, he didn't make a peep about it, just asked me to dig around in his palm and try to remove the object, and then he took it.
Worked himself to death, died waiting for a plane at Heathrow. Heart attack.