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exindguy on 17 January 2009
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Chrizum said:
exindguy said:
Chrizum said:
I understand why it's not coming to the West (you Americans think the world revolves around America, there's also a thing called Europe you know).

Did you also know that there are places outside of Europe and America! I know, I just found out last week myself and, boy, is my mind blown!

(note: though being reflexively anti-American is fashionable in a large faction of European society, could you please at least be marginally reasonable and vent it somewhere else? Thanks.)

Wow, talking about a short temper. You Americans take things way too seriously.

Short temper? Eh? I made a sarcastic response to your rather silly comment and I have a short temper? You have a very broad definition of what qualifies as "temper", eh?

"Short temper" would be more like:

"You ignorant Eurotwat, why is it that you have such a tremendous inferiority complex that you have to bitch, whine, moan and generally carry on about ignorant Americans at every turn (I'm sure this isn't the first time you've made a snide remark along these lines, right?), then turn around and accuse the person playfully mocking your over-seriousness as the one with the Norwegian-sized chip on his shoulder?"

But, no, I just poked fun at your silly 'America is dumb' super-generalization that does, indeed, plague a great deal of the European cognicenti/chattering class that should know better. My guess is I called you out, struck a nerve, and now you want to re-characterize my comment as intemperate when it was anything but.

As for blaming this mindset on the American government, uh, no, Europeans have long  gone on about the lazy, fat, dumb American which has absolutely nothing at all to do with who's in office over here. Hell, I've heard my Euro (and Canadian!) friends go on like this but they, of course, are sure to let me know that, natch, I don't count in that over-generalization (just, apparently, the other 300 million-odd mouth breathers that populate the area between NYC and LA.)