Why don't all of you British thingies kick the queen out and take her money? I mean I know I would
Why don't all of you British thingies kick the queen out and take her money? I mean I know I would
I can't speak the whole country, obviously, but I know the only place I learnt any foriegn languages before year 7 (6th Grade in America) was in two years of private schooling. In addition our selection of languages (And subjects in general, for that matter.) is extremely limited compared to the schools of Americans I know. We could do French and German. Spanish was dropped because nobody was ever taking it, I don't think there was an Italian in the first place, there was certainly no Latin. There was Japanese, but nobody told any of us about that until it was much too late.Originally Posted by RedCydranth
If the British education system worked as it was intended I'd consider it only lacking with regards to the choice of subjects. As it is however, I'd go to great lengths to have the chance to have had schooling in the US. Maybe someone might have noticed the whole 'horrifically intelligent' part and pushed me.
But hey, no point ranting about it, right? I personally do prefer America, but that's not to say Britain isn't a damn fine place to live. If we'd just take a baseball bat to the Nanny State's crotch, and did a bit less encouraging stupidity and a bit more encouraging success, we'd probably climb back up to the top, where we should be.
Most Brits I know of think the Bond movies are pretty spiffy. Can't complain myself, since we put old Pierce in the role we've had the best Bond since Sean.
The same reason we're currently inflicting Coldplay on the rest of the world. The majority of this country has zero musical taste.
Mainly because of those very chavs.
Yea the Spice Girls suck. Girls Aloud is no better
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All we had was French and Spanish. Some schools around me had kids start learning languages early on where as my school has a hard enough time teaching us basic english. So we never started forgien languages until freshman year (9th grade)
ethnicly Most Austrians are Germanic plus Hitler was really Jewish lol.
lets see
Average Rugby player:
Weighs-150 pounds
height:5'10"-6'5"
padding-no
the tackles-when your tackled oyu can suffer broken nose broken arm broken leg or spranged ankle.Most of the time you don't though pretty fun sport.
Average American Football Player:
Weight:150-300 pounds.The line is 300 pounds the defensemen average at 250 pounds of pure muscle charging at you.
height:5'10"-6'5"
padding-yes.
Tackles-Imagine 250 pounds charging at you as you carry the ball running and it hits you!!! bookm.Those paddings jsut keep you alive literally.After a tackle like that if its oyur first you'll feel it throughout the game.If it isn't then you'll feel it later and it sucks.
Another thing about american football is how unique it is with its plays it is truly a tacticians sport.
Really we americans seems to not talk down rugby but you brits have this surperiority complex thingy thinking american football compares with rugby I'm sorry but you need to get padded up come here join a team and get ready for an unbelievable experience.
[sarcasm]Yeah sure american football is for sissies[/sarcasm]
BTW Why do brits think that american football is rugby for sissies?
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no all americans in suburbs DO NOT have american flages hanging outside their houses
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I started learning French in kindergarten *kicks butts all over*
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Did anyone ever answer my Prince question? I was serious. :/
Just another thing about american education...it varies from state to state, and even from school district to school district. Each state is in charge of education inside the state, and can decide how to run things there. Some states centralize power more than others (California, for instance). Others, like Ohio (my home) leave schooling up to each district. All the decisions about school are up to my own town's school board, as long as they follow fairly broad state and national standards.
As for post-secondary education, the terms "college" and "university" are used fairly interchangebly here. Technically, a college is a school that teaches higher education in one specific field, while a university is merely a collection of colleges (My new school, Northwestern University has a college of arts and sciences, engineering, education, communications, musics, as well as graduate colleges of managment, law, and medicine).
There are really three subsets of higher education. First are community colleges used by some to get credits to then transfer into another school...they are usually fairly cheap, local, and only cover two years. The next are state schools, supported by each of the states, and charge lower tution. They offer full degree programs, each state usually has several. The final are the private colleges, they are the most prestigious, and expensive, but on the other hand can usually do what they want (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. fall into this category). Even though they are so expensive, many students get some sort of financial aid to attend...belive me, without it, no one would be going to these schools.
After 4 years (if you are a normal student), you recieve a bachelors degree (either a BA or a BS, the differences are mostly semantic). Graduate studies can lead to either Masters or Ph.D's...with varying lengths for each program...a masters is about 1-2 years full time, a Ph.D just depends on what field really.
Hope that helps.
Grab the opportunities life hands you, that's my motto!
Root beer is a drink made from ginger roots. It's too sweet to my taste, but it's still very popular--and a common way of drinking it is a rootbeer float, where you basically take a mug of rootbeer and toss a scoop or two of ice cream in it. Now, that's good stuff.
A corn dog is a hotdog wrapped in cornbread, usually with a stick in it so you can eat it with one hand. I think they're nasty, but they're still fairly popular.
Baseball, American Football, and Basketball are all cool, but they're not important. Rodeo is important. You can't call yourself tough until you've strapped yourself to a 2300-pound Brahma bull and told everyone to leave you two alone for a few moments to settle it out between you.
Wendy's is a lot like McDonald's except its a slightly better class of food--a little more expensive, but a little better.
Wal-mart is the biggest store where you can get anything, but otherwise there aren't many actual department stores left.
Suburbs are often regarded as the conservative strongholds of the nation, so they're often depicted as being so filled with American flags that you can't walk around without having one covering your face. While suburbs are most often significantly more conservative than cities, flags aren't quite that common.
I don't have cable, and I detest most TV programming, so I can't say about BBC. We have PBS, though, and from all I hear about BBC, PBS is just as bad.
And no, you can't have America back--but if you play your cards right, mebbe we'll make you a state.
And hominy is different from grits--grits are much like cream of wheat, except that it's made of corn instead of wheat, it's coarser, and only yankees eat it with sugar; you're supposed to eat it with salt and tobasco sauce.
SomethingBig--actually, the entire military history of the French can be summed up in WWII, wherein we "saved" them from the Nazis in about the same manner that Sir Galahad was "rescued" from Castle Anthrax. But polls wherein a plurality of French hoped Sodom whipped us and the frequent synagogue-burnings don't help much either. It's no coincidence that Americans who hate America keep swearing they'll move to France.
RedCydranth, most of us were rather pissed at O'Donnel long before she decided to be homosexual, because of her comments that anyone who wanted to own a gun should be jailed... followed by her bodyguard's application for a concealed-carry permit. And PBS owns the rights to Sesame Street, which gets about $800 million a year from selling various products, and Barney the Purple Dinosaur, which gets about a billion--plus they get extensive government funding.
Doomsday--yes, he used to just call himself "Prince". And he didn't used to prance around onstage in his underwear either.
And yes, some of us refer to the derriere as a "fanny", but we don't call it a "bum".
It's a long and strange story, but back in medieval times it was traditional to always pass on the left side of people (realtive to you. you actually pass their right), so they couldn't pinch your sword, as it was scabbarded on your left hip.
You americans, being the yellow bellies cowards that you are, shied away from mortal combat and thus dropped this practice.
Thank you Kamiko
Actually, we used guns while you folks were carrying around 'dress swords' so you could pretend you were tough.You americans, being the yellow bellies cowards that you are, shied away from mortal combat and thus dropped this practice.
yeah and look where it's got you, highest crime rates and prison poulation in the world, great job.
Anyway, i'm going to bed, night everyone, English and Yank alike.
Why don't all of you British thingies kick the queen out and take her money? I mean I know I would
Because we are sensible and i wouldn't alllow it.
Q why do americans think we all use the metric system, we don't!
oh and lord blazer average rugby player weights 15 stones
range 13-19 stone
thats in your language 169- 280 pound therefore American football = rugby for pussies.
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Your sig is too hilarious and witty, thus i have removed it to protect the minds of all forum goers
-The allways inspiring leeza
1. I don't 'refuse' to brush my teeth. & not all British people 'refuse' to brush their teeth.
2. You're the ones with the nasal voices.
3. Go figure.
4. Neither is McDonald's.
5. Bah, I don't like them anyway.
Question for the Americans:
Q. Why do you have to do & say everything different to the British? I'm not saying you have to be clones of us, but why call an arse an ass?
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