Which attribute don't you like about your own country?

[MissHoneychurch]

I don't mean the politics.

Like for example what I don't like about the Germans is their negativism. Everything is bad and all. That can get on one nerves I tell ya.

So what is it about your fellow countrymen in general you don't like?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Excessive consumerism

[MissHoneychurch]

4. Oh yes

are the competion of the little men. "My neighbors drives a Mercedes so I have to drive one too". No matter if you can afford it or not.

[Broken_Hero]

9. yes...

My wife and I call that the "Joneses"...as in one upping the Jones's, or whomever the person is trying to impress...

[Heidi]

2. Fondue in Switzerland.

It gives me a cheese headache. :scared:

Competitiveness and over-the-top consumerism in the US. :(

[MissHoneychurch]

5. well you can eat a chocolate fondue

[Heidi]

7. I don't do chocolate

except on rare occasion to avoid being rude. :shrug:

But the strawberry looks yummy. :thumbsup:

[MissHoneychurch]

8. Oh ok, I didn't know that

then how about a meat fondue? :)

Not a big fan of chocolate myself. I eat it but it also can lay around my apt without me eating it for years.

[Heidi]

10. Fondue Chinoise?

I eat it occasionally because Call Me Wesley loves it, but I really, really don't like the idea of raw meat at the dinner table. (I promise, I'm not a picky eater, but something just make me :scared: :puke: )

[MissHoneychurch]

17. That is OK

the lamb tonight will be well done I am sure. To my b-day when we went to the Persian restaurant I had lamb chops. I tell ya, they melted on the tongue :9

[Heidi]

18. Ooooooooooooo, I lovelovelove lambchops!

YUM! :thumbsup:

My mother-in-law just called to say that if I bring her the leg of lamb, she'll cook it! :woohoo: One less thing I have to do today! :thumbsup:

[MissHoneychurch]

19. That is great

only the carrot cake to make. Good for you.

How will she cook the leg of lamb?

[Heidi]

20. She'll just roast it in the oven.

I've already made a Mediterranean marinade for it with garlic, spices, and a bit of honey. :thumbsup:

[MissHoneychurch]

21. OK; now I get hungry

if I would jump into the car now do you think i could make it to dinner time?

[Heidi]

22. Ha!

You'd _love_ my goddaughters. They're two of the naughtiest naughty-girls I know. :rofl:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. The value of money over the character of a person.

[MissHoneychurch]

6. yes that is bad

scares me.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Their sense of superiority

and entitlement.

[MissHoneychurch]

23. "We are the world police"

you will do what we say or ..... :eyes:

[Omphaloskepsis]

12. I love everyone..

EVERYONE.not really.

[Heidi]

14. How'd your weekend fight go?

Last I heard, you were heading off on your bike to take care of business. :hi: (I hope it didn't come to actual fighting. :hug:)

[Omphaloskepsis]

25. I have a broken rib right now. And my nose is floating.

It's a long story. My sister (thank god) sent her friends (without my knowledge) to save my ass.

So much shit over a girl I didn't like.

[Heidi]

26. _No_ woman is worth fighting over.

Really. And the same applies to men.

I'm sorry you have a broken rib. :hug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

28. I got stuck fighting because I didn't like her.

Her brother got pissed. I just can't be with a girl that sucks at math.

The rib is sore.sore.sore. Nose hurts too.

[Robeson]

13. The arrogance and self-centeredness...

...gets my blood pressue up!

[MissHoneychurch]

24. This is what surprises me everytime again as well

that you barely gat world news in the U.S.

[NMMNG]

15. Their outrageous, blatant ethnocentrism.

It is utterly vile. :eyes: :puke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. Willful ignorance.

For example, people who don't vote, who don't keep up on current events at all and those without at least a small dose of cynicism.

[tjwmason]

27. The excessive humility.

Because apart from that we English are perfect. :P

More seriously, the ingrained philistinism - as has been said "the English don't like music, but they do like the noise it makes".

[MissHoneychurch]

29. You ain't perfect

you can't cook :P

[tjwmason]

32. This from the land of sauer-kraut???

I can understand the French of Italians criticising our food (though it's horrifically outdated as a stereotype), but the Americans or Germans???

[MissHoneychurch]

33. Hey!!! I love Sauerkraut

and we have Spätzle and real bread and and and .... Yes I would say the Germans cook better than the British (and I lived in British families so I know how they "cook") :P

[tjwmason]

34. Weren't you in Scotland?

Deep-fried Mars bars - need one say more?

Diets are actually rather different north and south of the border.

[MissHoneychurch]

35. Yes I was in Scotland

but I also was twice in Bournemouth for language holidays years before I went to Glasgow. Do I have to say more? :)

[tjwmason]

37. All you have to say is

That you're wrong, and the English are the best in the universe at absolutely everything.

Shouldn't be too hard, because it's true. :P

[MissHoneychurch]

38. ...

:rofl:



excuse me, I can't breath anymore :rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

30. The utter arrogance, spearheaded by George the Dubya

:puke:

On edit: Makes us look so damned bad in the world, and makes me feel ashamed.

[donheld]

31. The United States love of Ignorance.

[Spider Jerusalem]

36. Xenophobia, narrowly parochial worldview, anti-intellectualism...

flag-waving nationalism, the idea that selfishness and greed are virtues to be celebrated rather than grave character flaws, pervasive ignorance, misguided sense of moral righteousness...and those are only the first things to come to mind.

[TheBaldyMan]

45. I hate to say it SJ but that sums up most countries, including mine :(

you get knuckle-dragging half-wits everywhere. On the plus side, no matter where you go there are an awful lot of decent folk too. Before you knock the US remember that you didn't vote W in twice.

[Spider Jerusalem]

47. Yeah, people aren't THAT much different wherever you go.

There are maybe subtle variations, but (at least in industrialised democracies with consumer economies) there are more similarities than differences (with the possible exception that patriotism is held to be less a virtue on the Continent than in most Anglo-Saxon countries, thanks to more first-hand experience of its dark side). And I know not everyone is a bastard, and that there are plenty of good people to balance out the swine who are fucking things up for everyone else...but sometimes it can be hard NOT to be a bit of a pessimist.

[TheBaldyMan]

50. remember that you and people like you are the MAJORITY

the republican controlled voting machinery doesn't change that, they just lie about the true figures.

The only experience of a mandate Bush has is Jeff Gannon.

Don't get depressed get active.

[billyskank]

39. Our press

We have the worst print press in the world. They just have this idea that everything is shit, and everything should be attacked, and destroyed. It's so corrosive. :(

[MissHoneychurch]

40. Tell me one thing

why does a certain "news"paper in Britain has to bring up the Third Reich and Sauerkraut every time the British paly soccer against the Germans? :shrug:

[billyskank]

42. You mean The Sun

Because it's written by middle-class jingoistic shitheads for working-class jingoistic shitheads. That newspaper is only fit for a thinking person to wipe their arse with. :grr:

It's because patriotism is the first refuge of the shithead (to paraphrase), and patriotism to these particular shitheads means British victories. The only recent ones that they really care about happened in 1945 and 1966, and for most of these shitheads international football is simply war by other means. Ergo any football match against Germany instantly becomes D-Day.

I'm sorry. :(

[tjwmason]

46. You mean you're not a fan of Mr. Murdoch's rag?

I'm shocked billy - I'd have thought you'd spend your whole time drooling over page 3, then nodding in vigourous agreement at the support for our proud boys on the football field. Before grabbing The Mail to find out how we're about to get taken over by illegal immigrants, gypsies.......

[billyskank]

48. Would you believe it?

I am a muesli-munching vegetarian Grauniad reader. Don't own any sandals though...

[tjwmason]

49. You shock me.

Can't claim to be a vegetarian here until Wednesday - but the other parts sound good.

But I don't own sandals either, nor do I have a beard. :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. I don't like the lack of responsibility. My country has become a society

of blamers. A society of parents unwilling to parent...I could go on, but it's early. :hi:

[entanglement]

43. Why do you hate America?

:spank: :evilgrin:

[Heidi]

52. They hate us for our freedoms.

The one or two we have left, anyway. ;)

[WritingIsMyReligion]

44. The asinine behavior of an asinine administration.

(U.S., of course)

That, and their incredible need to be the world police..... Which I guess falls under asinine behavior.

:eyes:

[Orsino]

51. The creeping fascism, the corruption, the glorification of...

...rampant consumerism, the militant mindset.

[In_The_Wind]

53. Lots of people are slobs!

Somehow they view an open car window as one large garbage can.

Hey you done with that? Just go right on ahead and toss the soda cup out the window