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01 Oct 2011, 6:14 pm
MakaylaTheAspie
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01 Oct 2011, 6:32 pm
I'm really glad that Americans aren't like that. Anyway, I thought the US was full of fat people who eat ten Maccy D's a day?
More like anorexic, self-consious idiots. (at least that's the way it is where I live)
I also have one of those overeaters in my home.
01 Oct 2011, 6:37 pm
01 Oct 2011, 6:45 pm
From my observation (being someone that never visited) the UK is far more polite than America. We're all a bunch of rude a**holes. 
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01 Oct 2011, 6:46 pm
Tragically, this is true.
01 Oct 2011, 7:22 pm
Dear Makayla, please forgive the correction, but I believe the phrase should be: "..rude,self-absorbed, whiney um,rectums"....Sylkat 
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01 Oct 2011, 7:23 pm
It's all good.
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01 Oct 2011, 7:36 pm
01 Oct 2011, 8:19 pm
There are different ways of showing politeness across the country. If you were looking for directions to the hospital, for example:
In London, the person would say 'I'm sorry, I don't have time to tell you' - they wouldn't help but at least they'd be sorry about it.
In Manchester, they'd give you full directions but swear after every second word and spit on the floor a lot.
In Yorkshire, they'd give you directions after a long self-righteous rant about how our health service used to be the best in the world, but now it's going to the dogs thanks to those southern idiots in Whitehall blah blah blah.
In Newcastle, or anywhere in Scotland, they'd give you directions but you wouldn't understand them.
01 Oct 2011, 8:21 pm
There are different ways of showing politeness across the country. If you were looking for directions to the hospital, for example:
In London, the person would say 'I'm sorry, I don't have time to tell you' - they wouldn't help but at least they'd be sorry about it.
In Manchester, they'd give you full directions but swear after every second word and spit on the floor a lot.
In Yorkshire, they'd give you directions after a long self-righteous rant about how our health service used to be the best in the world, but now it's going to the dogs thanks to those southern idiots in Whitehall blah blah blah.
In Newcastle, or anywhere in Scotland, they'd give you directions but you wouldn't understand them.
02 Oct 2011, 3:57 am
Dear Puddingmouse, if you were asking directions in the American South, you'd be told "Well, y'all cain't git there fum here". If you were to ask directions in Southern California, you would be told"Um, like, you go over where they used to have that place, you know, but it's gone now, but you like turn by um, you know, what's it's name, and I think it's on the left somewhere. Or the right. You know?" Sylkat 
