- Joined
- Nov 16, 2010
- Messages
- 29,305
- Reaction score
- 11,912
@Zer is asian broThe only cool euros are Brits and Irishmen IMO. And Zer.
@Zer is asian broThe only cool euros are Brits and Irishmen IMO. And Zer.
I don't really blame the Germans for being buttmad. We kicked their asses so hard in Dubya-Dubya-Two that's bound to take a century or so to get over. They'll tell you that's not why they're mad, of course, but deep down we know it is. It's a pride thing. We won, they lost, they relied on our largess and patronage during the rebuilding process...that's really gotta eat at you.
I don't trust any nation that puts mayo on their fries.
To be fair most of the American tourists that come to Europe are the most annoying people in the world, despite being very polite.
Firstly Americans are extremely loud, and most of the time it is easy to tell when you are in their vicinity because it's impossible to ignore them. It's like they yell to speak.
Secondly everyone here understands English so we can understand the shit they are saying. Lots of really lame jokes are common.
"Oh my God, imagine if you were the guy who blew up the Parthenon? Whooops!"
Or talk about how America is a really weird emotional way for no reason, for example this year at the Temple of Hephaestus:
" you know I really believe America was founded with the best intentions to give everyone an oppurtunity and that is why it's the best country in the world!" (apart from black slaves, obviously)
Now why is this annoying? Well why are they getting emotional
About Americas greatness when looking at an ancient Athenian temple? Why does everyone in the vicinity have to know this?
Another point is that they are horrible linguists and have a very hard time learning local words, unlike other English speakers. The Greek word for thank you, I admit, is complicated for English speakers because of the χ and rolled ρ. In English I would write it efharisto. Americans always pronounce it ekarystow. Very strange how they fit a k into it, but it's common. Again its just annoying.
Another problem is their ignorance to world events, for example thinking they are risk takers coming to Greece because it's close to Turkey and thus Syria. Literally acting as if they are in a war zone. I've met no other culture who has had this impression. I was speaking to my friend who's one of the words biggest cruise ship owners. He was complaining that the cruise ship market is mainly made up of American tourists, and it is frustrating because their stupidities and ignorance towards world events and geography has a significant impact on the trade. For example Amercians being scared to have a Mediterranean cruise that goes from France to Greece, because Greece is closer to the ME (despite the only risk of terrorist attacks coming from their time in France!).
This is the stereotypical American tourist, and they are very polite, but annoying.
I'm not saying they are bad people or anything, Ofcourse they are not, but it makes you never want to have to visit the states and deal with that shit 100% of the time. I have other examples and stories, even from Greek-Amercians who many Greeks here find annoying, but I think you get the point.
Those quotes are from the last month by the way.
I think it's more that you sided with the Soviets, who could have been beaten had you sided with the Germans. I doubt they were all that bitter over the few skirmishes that American troops were involved in.
It wasn't the soldier to soldier combat I was thinking of.
Lol, been a long time since one of these threads. Always a great way to rally the troops.
It's pretty funny how seriously people treat these kind of videos. I guess this kind of theme started with the "americans are stupid" video, now it's used for pretty much all subjects, in particular making specific voters look dumb. Even The Daily Show used this format on Trump supporters, pretty sad. You can obviously make any point you want, with selective editing, questioning and of finding the right people to ask.
Anyway, Gallup recently did a poll on view of U.S leadership around the world, if anyone's interested:
I worked with cruise ship passengers for a couple of years. Trust me when I say that it's not only american cruise ship passengers who are retarded. For some reason cruise ships attract the absolute dumbest and most obnoxious people on earth.
In some aspects the american tourists did stand out though. They were the fattest (by a huge margin, I have never seen people this fat elsewhere in my life, it was truly horrifying), they brought along the most medicine (seriously, like everyone had a bag full of pills, no idea what that is about, I guess that comes corrupt doctors and their prescription drug industry), and they were the most paranoid by far (for the things you mention, but also from other stuff like people stealing from them.).
Otherwise I actually found them to be the most polite, though I found it a bit annoying with the constant "how do you do?", like could we please not pretend any of us gives a shit about how we do here, and move along.
That's interesting you mention the pills, I've also found that they also travel with lots of prescription drugs. It's weird how they see that as normal whereas if someone in my family did that I would fear for their health (both mentally and physically). Perhaps it's a quick fix sort of culture? "Can't sleep - no worries, just take some drugs to fix that Problem".
This lady was telling me about how she had to put her mother on all these drugs, and she was naming them as if I'd know what they were (I had no idea). She the. Said she had brought a lot of pills over "just in case". Like wtf. Also everyone in the room could hear her. But other than that she was extremely polite.
That being said I'd still love to walk around Amsterdam someday.
I don't really blame the Germans for being buttmad. We kicked their asses so hard in Dubya-Dubya-Two that's bound to take a century or so to get over. They'll tell you that's not why they're mad, of course, but deep down we know it is. It's a pride thing. We won, they lost, they relied on our largess and patronage during the rebuilding process...that's really gotta eat at you.