In article <btv96k$for$1@nn-tk103.ocn.ad.jp>, Dick Muhfukkin Bagswing
<laugh@my.nuts.wouldja?> wrote:

> > "You know, before Americans are allowed to travel overseas, they
> > should first visit Canada.  If they do OK here, then maybe let them
> > travel to, say, England." -- Stand-up comic at the Just for Laughs
> > Festival
> >
> Y'know,I could give a fuck about the original poster but shit like
> the above has been getting on my goddamned nerves lately.

Fuckin' shit like that? Goddam!

Cultural/national stereo-types irk you?  I hope you get all hot and
bothered when you see them directed at other nations, then.

> If anyone truly believes that we americans have the market cornered
> on being bad tourists, travelers or just plain being uncouth in
> foreign countries then please haul off and kiss my fucking ass.

Well, certainly when the image of your ass appears, it changes the
character of the debate rapidly. Not to mention, the fuck, the shit,
the goddam and the ever-looming banner of scrotum obsession you march
under.

But I don't think that's what the gag above said at all: that only
Unitedstatesians are swine overseas.  Hardly.  I live in a high volume
tourist area in the US and can say you for sure that tourists as
jack-asses come from all nations.  Now as I think about it though, I
guess it's much easier to encounter more local assholes than I do even
arrogant and demanding tourists from everywhere else doubled.

But why not have pride in the arroganct fuck-and-shit type
Unitedstatesian "spirit" rather than get defensive about it.  By
fuckin' shit--Unitedstatesians are the biggest nuisances from the halls
of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli! And we're mighty proud of it! 
And if you don't like it, etc. etc, testicles.

Relative to Canadian assholes, don't be silly; quite clearly there
aren't any.  English and Aussies have another of the same difficulties
Unitedstatesians have; an inability to learn simple phrases in a
foreign language. That always makes the approach of an English speaker
a looming burden.  Again.

But how's this: in Alan Booth's Road to Sato, no matter *WHAT* in the
hell he does, no matter how often he says he's from England, speaking
good Japanese in the process, they nod and continue to ask him
questions about life in the US.  An English speaker seems to only come
from the USA.  So maybe all those Brits and Aussies further our bad
standing.  But again, if you'll be proud of it, it can only help.

-- 
First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only
care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.
 -- Gail Collins