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Originally Posted by Texan
The odd thing about your observation, MM, is that not only am I allowed to interact with the outside world, I get paid handsomely to do so. Of course, I am not paid to interact on this forum. I act a bit differently here than I do when I am being paid. Here, I can tell the absolute truth about what I think of the people in our allied nations. When I'm being paid, I can't say that the British people appear to be idiots based on movies that I have seen.
In my personal interactions with British people over the last 20 years, I have found them to be friendly, mannered, intelligent and accepting.
In my interactions with British people on this forum over the last few years, I have found them to be quite ignorant, hostile, rude and unworthy of consideration as part of the human race.
Wierd, huh?
Maybe it's just you guys, and not the normal British people that give the British such a bad reputation in the world.
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Either that, or you present your politics on a message board on a hostile manner behind a mask of anonymity, to others doing the same, and the responses people bite back if you raise them in other, face-to-face situations you recieve with both barrels here. Your failure to engage in any of the banter on the forums and go only for contentious debates with bigoted views probably doesn't help you there. I'm sure you're lovely and approachable outside the internet. On it, you're exclusively judgemental and antagonistic, which I'm sure adds to the effect.
Just saying.