British People

[guedita]

Read my post again, at which point did I say America was discovered by Europeans?
Stop fullfilling the bad stereotypes about your country #nationalembarrassment

Pray tell, drop some knowledge on who "discovered" America, and when. Certainly, you know the timeline.

[Josef]

Pray tell, drop some knowledge on who "discovered" America, and when. Certainly, you know the timeline.

No thanks...
You'll only misread it, jump to an incorrect conclusion and then reply starting with "pray tell" to make yourself feel like you have the higher ground.

[TomAz]

[Josef]

[maniroses]

Hahaha

[TomAz]

[maniroses]

http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/att...-america_2.jpg

[darklands]

i am from england and i am going to coachella in 2013 and i will be going strictly for the music.having been to florida and new york(there were some cool new yorkers) i have met enough irritating americans to last me a lifetime

[guedita]

No thanks...
You'll only misread it, jump to an incorrect conclusion and then reply starting with "pray tell" to make yourself feel like you have the higher ground.

Quick lesson in the "discovery" of America, then, wanker. The mere use of the term "discovered" in regards to America, by anyone of Euro-origins, whether or not they are designating who discovered America, is fraught with Eurocentric positioning. It suggests that America wasn't a land with self governing peoples and cultures and communities until it was "discovered" by a group or person representative of another "civilized" land. The native people of America have never claimed to have "discovered" this land.

[KyleStPhilip]

Dude it's not really that big a deal. I don't think it was said to provoke such a reaction.

[guedita]

Dude.

[greghead]

Quick lesson in the "discovery" of America, then, wanker. The mere use of the term "discovered" in regards to America, by anyone of Euro-origins, whether or not they are designating who discovered America, is fraught with Eurocentric positioning. It suggests that America wasn't a land with self governing peoples and cultures and communities until it was "discovered" by a group or person representative of another "civilized" land. The native people of America have never claimed to have "discovered" this land.

We have a winner.

[JennyGrez]

From personal experiance Americans definately have trouble understanding scousers! People kept asking me if I was from either Scotland or Ireland last time I was in the States?!
Hoping not to have as many issues at Coachella!

[TomAz]

I was riding on the Mayflower
When I thought I spied some land
I yelled for Captain Arab
I have yuh understand
Who came running to the deck
Said, “Boys, forget the whale
Look on over yonder
Cut the engines
Change the sail
Haul on the bowline”
We sang that melody
Like all tough sailors do
When they are far away at sea

“I think I’ll call it America”
I said as we hit land
I took a deep breath
I fell down, I could not stand
Captain Arab he started
Writing up some deeds
He said, “Let’s set up a fort
And start buying the place with beads”
Just then this cop comes down the street
Crazy as a loon
He throw us all in jail
For carryin’ harpoons

Ah me I busted out
Don’t even ask me how
I went to get some help
I walked by a Guernsey cow
Who directed me down
To the Bowery slums
Where people carried signs around
Saying, “Ban the bums”
I jumped right into line
Sayin’, “I hope that I’m not late”
When I realized I hadn’t eaten
For five days straight

I went into a restaurant
Lookin’ for the cook
I told them I was the editor
Of a famous etiquette book
The waitress he was handsome
He wore a powder blue cape
I ordered some suzette, I said
“Could you please make that crepe”
Just then the whole kitchen exploded
From boilin’ fat
Food was flying everywhere
And I left without my hat

Now, I didn’t mean to be nosy
But I went into a bank
To get some bail for Arab
And all the boys back in the tank
They asked me for some collateral
And I pulled down my pants
They threw me in the alley
When up comes this girl from France
Who invited me to her house
I went, but she had a friend
Who knocked me out
And robbed my boots
And I was on the street again

Well, I rapped upon a house
With the U.S. flag upon display
I said, “Could you help me out
I got some friends down the way”
The man says, “Get out of here
I’ll tear you limb from limb”
I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too”
He said, “You’re not Him
Get out of here before I break your bones
I ain’t your pop”
I decided to have him arrested
And I went looking for a cop

I ran right outside
And I hopped inside a cab
I went out the other door
This Englishman said, “Fab”
As he saw me leap a hot dog stand
And a chariot that stood
Parked across from a building
Advertising brotherhood
I ran right through the front door
Like a hobo sailor does
But it was just a funeral parlor
And the man asked me who I was

I repeated that my friends
Were all in jail, with a sigh
He gave me his card
He said, “Call me if they die”
I shook his hand and said goodbye
Ran out to the street
When a bowling ball came down the road
And knocked me off my feet
A pay phone was ringing
It just about blew my mind
When I picked it up and said hello
This foot came through the line

Well, by this time I was fed up
At tryin’ to make a stab
At bringin’ back any help
For my friends and Captain Arab
I decided to flip a coin
Like either heads or tails
Would let me know if I should go
Back to ship or back to jail
So I hocked my sailor suit
And I got a coin to flip
It came up tails
It rhymed with sails
So I made it back to the ship

Well, I got back and took
The parkin’ ticket off the mast
I was ripping it to shreds
When this coastguard boat went past
They asked me my name
And I said, “Captain Kidd”
They believed me but
They wanted to know
What exactly that I did
I said for the Pope of Eruke
I was employed
They let me go right away
They were very paranoid

Well, the last I heard of Arab
He was stuck on a whale
That was married to the deputy
Sheriff of the jail
But the funniest thing was
When I was leavin’ the bay
I saw three ships a-sailin’
They were all heading my way
I asked the captain what his name was
And how come he didn’t drive a truck
He said his name was Columbus
I just said, “Good luck”

[darklands]

why are americans so obsessed with accents anyway?

i know americans are known for their ignorance of the rest of the world but are they so much so that they fail to understand basic english from other parts of the world? get a grip

[TomAz]

Speaking of failing to understand.

[Theijuiel]

why are americans so obsessed with accents anyway?

i know americans are known for their ignorance of the rest of the world but are they so much so that they fail to understand basic english from other parts of the world? get a grip

[wakeupmandy]

why are americans so obsessed with accents anyway?

i know americans are known for their ignorance of the rest of the world but are they so much so that they fail to understand basic english from other parts of the world? get a grip

First off, Americans are not "obsessed" with accents. Some of us think they are charming. If you weren't so ignorant to the rest of the world, you might understand that. And, I have no problem understanding basic English from "other parts of the world". I do however, refuse to learn the language of arsehole in which it seems that you have mastered that one!

[darklands]

First off, Americans are not "obsessed" with accents. Some of us think they are charming. If you weren't so ignorant to the rest of the world, you might understand that. And, I have no problem understanding basic English from "other parts of the world". I do however, refuse to learn the language of arsehole in which it seems that you have mastered that one!

i sound quite charming, thanks. maybe we could meet at coachella 2013

[daneskiiiz]

Why is liking foreign accents such a crime? I'm mostly intrigued by how much other people butcher the English language... but all in good fun. I'm so ig'nant!

[greghead]

I was riding on the Mayflower
When I thought I spied some land
I yelled for Captain Arab
I have yuh understand
Who came running to the deck
Said, “Boys, forget the whale
Look on over yonder
Cut the engines
Change the sail
Haul on the bowline”
We sang that melody
Like all tough sailors do
When they are far away at sea

“I think I’ll call it America”
I said as we hit land
I took a deep breath
I fell down, I could not stand
Captain Arab he started
Writing up some deeds
He said, “Let’s set up a fort
And start buying the place with beads”
Just then this cop comes down the street
Crazy as a loon
He throw us all in jail
For carryin’ harpoons

Ah me I busted out
Don’t even ask me how
I went to get some help
I walked by a Guernsey cow
Who directed me down
To the Bowery slums
Where people carried signs around
Saying, “Ban the bums”
I jumped right into line
Sayin’, “I hope that I’m not late”
When I realized I hadn’t eaten
For five days straight

I went into a restaurant
Lookin’ for the cook
I told them I was the editor
Of a famous etiquette book
The waitress he was handsome
He wore a powder blue cape
I ordered some suzette, I said
“Could you please make that crepe”
Just then the whole kitchen exploded
From boilin’ fat
Food was flying everywhere
And I left without my hat

Now, I didn’t mean to be nosy
But I went into a bank
To get some bail for Arab
And all the boys back in the tank
They asked me for some collateral
And I pulled down my pants
They threw me in the alley
When up comes this girl from France
Who invited me to her house
I went, but she had a friend
Who knocked me out
And robbed my boots
And I was on the street again

Well, I rapped upon a house
With the U.S. flag upon display
I said, “Could you help me out
I got some friends down the way”
The man says, “Get out of here
I’ll tear you limb from limb”
I said, “You know they refused Jesus, too”
He said, “You’re not Him
Get out of here before I break your bones
I ain’t your pop”
I decided to have him arrested
And I went looking for a cop

I ran right outside
And I hopped inside a cab
I went out the other door
This Englishman said, “Fab”
As he saw me leap a hot dog stand
And a chariot that stood
Parked across from a building
Advertising brotherhood
I ran right through the front door
Like a hobo sailor does
But it was just a funeral parlor
And the man asked me who I was

I repeated that my friends
Were all in jail, with a sigh
He gave me his card
He said, “Call me if they die”
I shook his hand and said goodbye
Ran out to the street
When a bowling ball came down the road
And knocked me off my feet
A pay phone was ringing
It just about blew my mind
When I picked it up and said hello
This foot came through the line

Well, by this time I was fed up
At tryin’ to make a stab
At bringin’ back any help
For my friends and Captain Arab
I decided to flip a coin
Like either heads or tails
Would let me know if I should go
Back to ship or back to jail
So I hocked my sailor suit
And I got a coin to flip
It came up tails
It rhymed with sails
So I made it back to the ship

Well, I got back and took
The parkin’ ticket off the mast
I was ripping it to shreds
When this coastguard boat went past
They asked me my name
And I said, “Captain Kidd”
They believed me but
They wanted to know
What exactly that I did
I said for the Pope of Eruke
I was employed
They let me go right away
They were very paranoid

Well, the last I heard of Arab
He was stuck on a whale
That was married to the deputy
Sheriff of the jail
But the funniest thing was
When I was leavin’ the bay
I saw three ships a-sailin’
They were all heading my way
I asked the captain what his name was
And how come he didn’t drive a truck
He said his name was Columbus
I just said, “Good luck”

Ha. +115

[Josef]

This thread has taken a turn for the worst.
I feel the only way to correct it is with a relevant British proverb....

"A sad barnyard where the hen crows louder than the cock."

Now let the us recommence the jubilant appreciation of our fine British, Irish and Scottish Isles.

[Josef]

Quick lesson in the "discovery" of America, then, wanker. The mere use of the term "discovered" in regards to America, by anyone of Euro-origins, whether or not they are designating who discovered America, is fraught with Eurocentric positioning. It suggests that America wasn't a land with self governing peoples and cultures and communities until it was "discovered" by a group or person representative of another "civilized" land. The native people of America have never claimed to have "discovered" this land.

Point taken, discovered was the wrong word...
After The Europeans we're pushed out and defeated by colonies, didn't they then turned onto the natives in one way or the other?
Fact is America was "re-discovered" (for want of a better word) by a more advanced/civilized land, can you speak the language of the natives?

[billtino]

I have noticed a small contingent of Aussie & Kiwi Ex-pats who now live & work in the UK that make the trip to Coachella every year too.

[guedita]

Point taken, discovered was the wrong word...
After The Europeans we're pushed out and defeated by colonies, didn't they then turned onto the natives in one way or the other?
Fact is America was "re-discovered" (for want of a better word) by a more advanced/civilized land, can you speak the language of the natives?

Just the one language of the natives, right? The one group of natives -- the one big group that they all fit into?

Advanced is synonymous with civilized, is it? "More civilized?" Civilized is civilized if you're civilized and claim that you're civilized. Advanced is advanced if you declare you're advanced and define the term.

Go on, really.

[greghead]

No, it's best that he doesn't continue. I don't think I can handle this level of brilliance.

[spadge]

Anyone know who discovered America?!!!


I couldn't give a monkeys where anyone is from, even the Jocks, or how they speak as long as they are friendly and up for a laugh they'll meet a bunch of like-minded Brits at Coachella. 77 days and counting.

Is anyone going to Vegas afterwards?

[KyleStPhilip]

Yep Spadge, my friends and I shall be driving to Vegas on the Monday!

[spadge]

We are heading there on Wednesday after a couple of days chilling out at the coast. How long you spending in Vegas?

[sonofhal]

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - apart from the STDs. They come back with you.