Let's be Europeans!

I'm room temperature carbonated water.

We're Europeans.

I'm a 30 inch waist .

I'm the tight mens trousers that cling to all the right parts in the right way.

I'm the German! I'm a Nazi! And I love masturbating in a bathtub filled with sauerkraut like all Krauts do!

We’re looking at the news from America and wondering how the fuck will they ever get rid of that lunatic in the White House.

I'm the well-fitted clothes in classic styles and the absence of sweatpants and sports jerseys.

I've cheated on all my spouses! L'amour, l'amour!

I'm 90% of human discovery and advancement.

I'm the foreskin.

Im the inexpensive flights all over the continent.

I have 2 STEM degrees and speak 3 languages fluently. I'm shocked at what Americans call a 'good education'.

I'm Berlusconi, and before that Mussolini and before that Caligula.

90% of human excrement.

Im the toilet paper that feels more like sandpaper ones ass

I'm the needlessly complicated scarf knot/wrap that now everyone seems to have to do or somehow you're not wearing a scarf correctly.

I'm the nasty body odor that still exists despite the global availability of soap, deodorants and antiperspirants.

I am the Cloisters. Why am I filled with you guys every weekend, you have this shit back home!

I’m the crooked, yellow teeth.

I'm sunbathing in Germany textile-free. I believe this to be a healthy way to spend a relaxing afternoon. I don't perv on the other sunbathers.

I'm the shock that Americans only speak English. Why don't they speak five languages like we do? There's such a need for speaking French, German or Italian in America, I don't understand it.

II watch CNN International late at night and listen to your president with complete skepticism.

I don't understand why more Americans don't do the same.

I'm the American tourist, puzzled at the discovery that beautiful Europeans don't throw themselves at me in wild abandon and, in fact, don't seem to like me very much.

I'm ugly, red in the face, refuse to speak anything but English and expect everyone else to do so - in their own country; I'm extremely loud, obnoxious and entitled; I refuse to learn anything about local customs and criticize local cuisine, asking my hostess where I can find some McDonald's.

I always say Barthelona though!

Why don't they like me?!

I'm the sneering contemptuous customer "service".

I’m the great healthcare service provided free by the state.

I'm the common North American bathroom exhaust fan. No one in Europe has ever heard of me.

I’m the bidet that the American tourists wash their feet in.

R20 Shut up Melania.

I am the scores of millions war dead.

We are the Roma - we are Europeans too but we are treated like animals by other Europeans.

I'm the inferiority complex.

R25 - um, yes, we have. Come visit sometime.

We are the neo-Nazis. Our numbers are growing. We despise both Jews and Muslims and want to finish what Hitler could not.

R9 Excuse me?

I'm the Western European, fully understanding that OP did not mean to include Eastern Europeans, which is second-nature to us Western Europeans, when one says "Europeans'.

Too broad to lump all into one neat category, really.

I'm violent European folk tales appropriated by an American mega-corporation, sanitized for American Christian families then sold back to dumb Europeans at the price of a two week holiday. Suckers!

I'm the the thin but completely flabby body

[quote]'m the common North American bathroom exhaust fan. No one in Europe has ever heard of me.

I'm r25, author of the above quote, who doesn't have the wherewithal to stay anywhere but a hostel when in Europe. Pity that.

Hello! We will become Europeans shortly.

I'm the room temperature beverages. ALL beverages, including milk.

I’m the tour guide laughing at yet another dumb American tourist who complains that the 11th century castle was built too close to the highway.

[quote] I'm the the thin but completely flabby body

—GermanGayGuy

We are Europeans descended from Nazis. We cling to ridiculous defunct noble titles and propagate our racist heritage.

I’m the gay sauna- in fact there are dozens of us. No right wing Puritanical bullshit here

R42 Megan sweetheart, I’m the kitchen that was too hot for you.

We are the stupid European tourists that flock to Times Square. We are frightened by the cartoon characters that follow us and we spend our money on overpriced crappy food and tchotchkes.

I'm the gay marriage which, unfortunately, doesn't seem primed to find its way to the eastern half of the continent any time soon.

Latin America, in fact, will much sooner see gay marriage across the entire region before they do.

Europeans... descended... from Nazis... with a photo of a member of one if the oldest dynasties in Europe.

I'm R44. I'm American. I have no concept of history or, indeed, time.

I'm the kings and queens in the north (and in Spain). Some of us still pay a (small) pension to the pretender(s) to the imperial throne of Brazil.

R43, I mean^

We are the religious right in Europe. Our numbers are increasing, as well as our political power. Liberal Europeans pretend we don't exist, but we do.

I’m the European that leapfrogged over the Americans and I live in the White House and Your taxes pay for my lifestyle.

We are European tourists in Manhattan, spending hours hogging an outdoor table (pre Covid). We damn well know that wait staff rely on tips to survive. However, at the end of our prolonged stay at a prime table, we throw a couple dimes and quarters as a tip.

Comme ci, comme ça.

I'm the smug sense of superiority.

I am the European Nazis who came to stay in the USA.

[quote] We damn well know that wait staff rely on tips to survive.

I am the living wage in force across the EU.

R48 is an idiot, who does not know who Princess Michael's father was.

"Freiherr Günther Hubertus von Reibnitz was a cavalry officer of the German Empire during the First World War. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and was a member of the SS Cavalry Corps."

I'm the hundreds of millions of dead indigenous peoples of the Americas resulting from centuries of European invasion, genocide and colonization. Doesn't stop Europeans from claiming moral superiority over the United States.

We are an example of a major European feat of technology.

I'm the ubiquitous white jeans worn by every man in Italy

I'm the citizens of the USA. I'm blissfully unaware that currently we are the Nazis of the world. I keep talking about Hitler who operated nearly a century ago. I know of no other tyrants and oppressors in the world. Hitler is my final argument to everything. 9/11 is the worst catastrophe in human history. Nothing you say will be heard or make me believe otherwise.

[quote] I'm the ubiquitous white jeans worn by every man in Italy

Only gays wear white jeans.

I grudgingly acknowledge that the US saved Europe from the Nazis and paid for the reconstruction.

We are Eurotrash. We populate every European country and often manage to find our way to Los Angeles.

R61 I am an antisemite, like many, many Europeans.

I'm Dresden, the jewel of Europe. I was completely destroyed by the US bombs. Over 250 000 innocents died. No American is taught about me. They are told that they paid for my reconstruction - a lie, by the way.

R62 - you are quite wrong. When was the last time you were in Italy?

We don't want COVID visitors from the US who are all banned now, the US passport being mainly useless.

R67 types gay and fat.

We are the 35,000 who died during the German bombing of the UK, far more than those who died in Dresden R66.

We are the Germans who seem to blame their war losses on the Allies, despite our initiating invasions of neighboring countries. Go figure!

I am the hair on the legs and armpits of otherwise chic ladies

We would still like to have another war France/Germany 1870-1914-1939-2020

Our rates of Covid keep going up - soon we will banned from traveling outside of the EU.

How are 35 000 more than 250 000...?

Let's not be Europeans.

We distinguish between EU and non-EU.

I'm a shelf toilet! Germans love their scat!

I'm the bidet. The French don't wipe.

Massive uncut dongs

R74 We are ignorant Europeans, who need to be educated on our history.

25,000 died in Dresden. NOT 250,000.

We're the lack of hygiene i.e. regular showers (with soap) and dental care that Americans find appalling.

I’m the scarf that is pulled up over every European neck if there’s so much as a light breeze on a scorchingly hot summer day.

I'm 1970. I'm the most recent year most Datalounge posters talking about Europe actually went there.

I am the 50 German principalities demanding independence along with Scotland and Monica.

^ Monaco

I'm the cheap, good glass of wine you can at a restaurant/bar. The U.S. has good wine, too, but it'll cost you.

you can *order^

As my older brother used to say to be funny, ""Schliessen sie finger poken"!

Thank Gott I married that arschole GI ang got to Clevelant.

Oh, thanks for Americansplaining our history to me, R80! Unfortunately for you, research by Dresden authorities based on the local census set the civilian deaths close, or even above, 250 000. Of course, that figure is disputed... by Americans and Brits.

I'm the thin-skinned European queen who soured a lighthearted thread with overblown prejudice toward Americans.

LOL, R5

I'm the fat pink slobs lolling naked on the beaches.

I travel internationally. I am not afraid of foreigners. I don’t refer to people as “foreigners”. I am curious about the world. I don’t believe that Europe is a country and that its constituent countries are states. I have churned through many passports in my lifetime. I have universal healthcare and find the American fear of this as some socialist plot pitiable. I am relaxed with nudity. I’m not afraid of the body. I live in countries where a female head of state or head of government is not a novelty.

[quote] I'm the nasty body odor that still exists despite the global availability of soap, deodorants and antiperspirants.

We're the laws that banned the ingredients in these things that make them actually work.

I'm the mixed stench of cologne and smegma.

I am the ghost of Erich. The authorities cited above were Soviet ones, in Dresden, part of the East Germany alas.

I'm the subpar-to-average native cuisines outside of the Mediterranean countries.

I'm the one ice cube you will get when you ask for a drink with ice. I'm the second ice cube you will get when you ask for "extra ice."

The US obsession with ice has caused global warming.

I'm the cringing insecurity of the Europeans on this thread- who are ruining it!

Play nice or fuck off somewhere more to your liking.

Fuck off OP this is not your thread. It doesn't belong to you. Fuck off now. Cunt.

R66, ever heard of an American novel called Slaughterhouse Five? It sells millions every year in the US because it is taught in high schools and colleges.

It's about Dresden by a young American who was there during the firebombing.

A romanticized tale from an American standpoint is not objective history, however, R103. I'm curious how the novel portrays the events. Does it criticize the US attack?

Appropriate responses for a Let's Be Europeans thread:

I'm Tin Tin I'm BD I'm curry-flavored everything I'm marzipan

Off-topic: Americans, the Holocaust, who has inherited guilt for which tragedy/war crime.

Go write in your diary, OP.

R104, I'm not your lit teacher. Buy it at ebooks and read it. Mindblowing. And it doesn't have a "side," unless it is the "human side."

I'm the youth hostels.

I'm Nutella, I'm put on everything considered food

I'm thick Hungarian cock.

If I'm not mistaken, they put Nutella on cocks, too.

I'm from the U.K. I am not European.

I'm the Channel. I am not English. I am just the Channel.

I'm their love for David Guetta music circa late 2000s.

I'm a Slavic whore. I'm hoping to be Mrs. Trump Number Three.

I'm Eurovision. Father Ted did not make me up.

I'm Europa. I was raped by a bull and now I have a bunch of teeny tiny countries and a few big countries as the fruit if my loins.

I’m the burgundy passports.

[quote] I'm the shock that Americans only speak English. Why don't they speak five languages like we do?

Because you're from a teeny-tiny country and have to leave for other countries if you want to go anywhere or get any business done.

The USA is enormous, and a huge percentage of the US population never needs to leave it.

Moreover, English is pretty much spoken the whole world over. That won't always be the case, but it sure is now.

Amazing, though not really, how many people feel that they know Europeans without having never been to any of the European countries. How do I know? Because I've been to most of them and most of what I've read so far is just not true. Well, except the fact that ice cubes (but not always) are somewhat rare.

Also, Europe is not just one country. Lots of differences can be found between one country and the next.

I'm the excellent train service.

Europe is not just one country R120? Wow, such insight!

I’m R119, I don’t understand the concept of irony. I’m American.

[quote] I'm the excellent train service.

Outside the European countries where it is not excellent.

Anyway OP, with YOUR thread, are you talking EU or Europe (ie the latter incl Belarus)? When I speak about Europe it is EU only.

I'm the scarf referenced in R15 's post. I'm worn in any kind of weather and every season.

European in the bathroom!

I'm the Alps, majestic and amazing.

[quote] I’m the burgundy passports.

Oh dear, but I accept that I am not usually capitalized.

I’m the horrible smell, greasy hair, tiny apartments, dick cheese stink, unwashed pits, near constant racism and the sneering superiority that if you aren’t constantly screwing around on your spouse, you are “unsophisticated”. I am also hideously ugly, yet somehow behave in a bafflingly superior fashion to the rest of the world. I still haven’t figured out that the world hates US, they only like our consumer durables.

I’m Denmark’s happy little electrical outlets.

I'm one of a handful of us that think Nutella is dreadful. I pretend I like it (of course!) to others.

Nutella is sugar, sugar, sugar. It is fucking hateful.

I'm the seperate faucets for hot and cold.

I'm the good Mexican food you will never find.

I'm black licorice.

There is no Mexican food in Europe thank God.

"I'm the seperate faucets." There are no faucets, thank God, only taps.

I'm good fashion sense, and clothes that fit properly.

[quote] There is no Mexican food in Europe thank God.

Outside of a few countries, there is very little flavor as well.

I'm over-rated wine that's been surpassed in quality by the New World.

I am Givenchy, Saint-Laurent, Dior, Gucci etc

I'm a 3 pound bag of ice that is sufficient for keeping the entire continent's beverages cold.

I am Sartre, Dante, Shakespeare

I'm the superficial parts of our shared culture which were exported to the US.

We're the Muslims who are everywhere.

I’m the bizarre eyeglasses worn by ordinary people.

I am the generalization, "Europeans". Europe goes from Brest in France to the Urals. America goes from north Canada to the Falkland Islands. OP is a bit of a cunt, really, sorry OP, cunt.

I'm R129 and I'm actually Samoan.

[quote]I'm 1970. I'm the most recent year most Datalounge posters talking about Europe actually went there.

Some have caught up to at least 1982 since that's when the [italic]Facts of Life[/italic] girls went to Paris.

R124 It would never have occurred to me to care about the difference. Let's go with the subcontinent of Europe rather than the EU. News to me that Western Europeans don't consider the East their own.

We don't go to the US as it is super sick there. Stinky, savage and sick. They're not allowed here.

[quote] It would never have occurred to me to care about the difference.

OP must be new.

Still discriminating after all these years, I see.

I'm the standard 34 to 36 hour work week in a stable, permanent job with sick pay and 4 weeks paid vacation time where I am treated well and paid a living wage so I can afford to house myself, eat proper food, look after my family and spend time with them. And in some countries - like The Netherlands - I get 13 months of pay per year with the extra month of wages paid in the summertime so that I can go on a family vacation if I choose to.

I'm the contraption known as a shower/bathtub. Despite a curtain, door or complete lack thereof, all the water is on the floor at the end of a 10 minute shower.

Which Europeans OP? Stupid. OP is a cunt but a worse than Shitler cunt.

I am the lack of/fear of air conditioning and throwing on of a thick jacket when an 89 degree summer breeze blows.

[quote] I'm the contraption known as a shower/bathtub. Despite a curtain, door or complete lack thereof, all the water is on the floor at the end of a 10 minute shower.

That's because you're a fat, yes FAT, clumsy bitch.

Where’s my scarf?

I'm the shirts tucked into tight pants even on men with beer guts

Who knew the Euros were so touchy?

[quote] I'm the shirts tucked into tight pants even on men with beer guts

She still sucks them, even with beer guts.

[quote] Who knew the Euros were so touchy?

Go to bed Boris / Sweatlana, it's late where you are.

I'm R154. I can't work out the complexity of hanging a curtain inside a bathtub and am actually proud of it.

[quote]America goes from north Canada to the Falkland Islands.

When people talk about "America" everybody knows they mean the US.

I'm the thousands of years of art and music produced on this continent.

Culminating in that wonderful zenith of music appreciation, Eurovision R165.

I'm the delicious authentic foods produced by every European country. We keep the best for ourselves and export the rest!

[quote] When people talk about "America" everybody knows they mean the US.

Finally a Murican patriot.

Oh please R166.

[quote] I'm the delicious authentic foods produced by every European country. We keep the best for ourselves and export the rest!

Lots of European countries don't export much at all. Look at poor little Moldova.

I am the Euro, launched 20 years ago.

The authentic cuisine produced by each country may be high quality in ingredients but the way it's assembled is bland if not outright gross R167. With a few exceptions of course (Italy, France)

[quote] I'm the delicious authentic foods produced by every European country.

Aside from the Mediterranean countries, I do wonder what these delicious authentic native foods (not desserts) are and where they hail from?

R146 I'd have plenty to add to a "Let's Be The Americas" thread, unlike you, you provincial cunt.

I am the cradle of democracy.

The political system which all modern, developed countries use as a political system and ideal in 2020.

OP is a very thin skinned person, DJT?

[quote] With a few exceptions of course (Italy, France)

Regrettably, fine cuisine from Italy does not exist; their food is stodge with lots of sugar and salt. France, on the other hand, does have haute cuisine and it is the only country in the world for that [US gays fuck off, there is no cuisine in your cuntry].

[quote] The political system which all modern, developed countries use as a political system and ideal in 2020.

Ha-ha! The USA isn't using it, nor is the UK.

Yes we know R177.

R160, I do believe there must be one humorless teenager with a hair-trigger temper (and an inability to laugh at one's self) posting.

R178 I am Athens, illiterate after all.

I'm all the hottest statues:

We are the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the mid-1990s.

I am the English language. I dominate Europe, EU and non-EU. The Germans love me; the French tolerate me. In Ireland and Malta I am secondary (officially); no other EU country uses me. The UK has left the EU but English remains as the dominant language of the EU and they are content with that as they don't want to go back to Latin.

I wasn't speaking of fine cuisine R176 merely the "delicious" cuisine touted by R167. Outside of Italy and France it simply doesn't exist in Europe.

I’m the Jewish-Americans who fled Europe in the face of genocide, R66. Cry us a Beautiful Blue Danube about your fucking shithole city and the loss of its various pissing cupid statues. BTW, the Dresden death toll was closer to 25,000 people; the plan was Churchill's and the majority of bombers involved were British so take it up with the limeys please; and if no American is ever told about you, how are they told that they paid for your reconstruction?

They have the best food and the worst military forces west of the former Iron Curtain.

Please r168 "America" is universally understood to mean the US.

R171, the Euro was launched in 1997.

Murica means US

America means the American continents.

Bye Dubya

America means the US throughout the world.

Here's the facts; Our full name is United States of America. It is not the United States. Once you have America in your name, then go ahead and call yourself Americans.

And, as a reminder, we were the first independent country in North or South America to leave their colonial rule.

People who say ' but we're Americans too' - No, you are North American or South American. It's petty bullshit and just one more thing to criticize the USA over.

Mexico's official name is United Mexican States. Yet we call the people Mexican, not United Statesian.

Brazil's name is the Federated Republic of Brazil. We call the people Brazilians, not Federated Republicans.

Uruguay's name is the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. We call the people Uruguayans, not Oriental Republicans.

We are the only country with America in its name. Yes, it is weird to have a country and two continents with the same name, but not our problem. And it is not some purposeful thing to co-opt the name.

Most people identify with their nation of origin, not the continent (except Australia). It is all bullshit - mostly from other North and South Americans who want to desperately find something to bitch about. They look like idiots when they bring this up.

If any other country had gotten to "America" first as its country name, no one would give a shit. Central and South Americans get pissy about citizens of the U.S. calling ourselves "Americans" because they don't like us, our country, or our government's shenanigans in their own parts of the Americas. While the latter dislike is completely justified, the whining over the use of "Americans" is annoying and pointless.

Central and South Americans don't conceptualize themselves as Americans in any meaningful sense anyway. I guarantee that if the U.S. didn't exist or if it weren't a meddling superpower, they wouldn't consider themselves "Americans" at all. Without us, they wouldn't have any particular common cause with each other.

Most residents of the US describe themselves as simply Americans, it is what we are accustomed to doing and Euros and South/Central Americans need to respect our culture since we have to respect all of their marginal bullshit.

To the rest of the world - "America" means only one thing and that is the United States of America, or the USA.

When we think of "America" - we never think of Canada, Brazil or Mexico. That entire geographical area is called "THE AMERICAS" to anyone with an education.

What does that rant have to do with being European, r191?

It was a response to r168/89

I'm the grossly obese, bitter 97 year old American who can only get around on a mobility scooter, living in the past who repeatedly states that the USA saved Europe in WWII and brings it up whenever possible.

This is in spite of the [bold]fact[bold] that the Russians, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders and other European allies had already done the bulk of the fighting and dying and were responsible for enabling Europe to finally win the war. Americans only arrived at the very end of the war and only after all the hard work was already done as had refused to be involved for years and had done nothing but watch tens of millions of deaths and American leadership knew exactly what was going on in the death camps too.

I'm the smug European cunts who come to an AMERICAN forum and can't help shitting all over it when they receive fairly benign insults. Go to your own forums if you're so superior.

r196 who the fuck do you think landed at Normandy? Americans made up most of those troops and marched across France into Germany and Americans also did a lot of the fighting in Southern Europe. JFC you think the war could've been won without Americans? You'd all be speaking German now.

I pay my $1.99 per month. Muricans just keep opening new threads after 150 replies. And no, sorry, America is bigger than the USA.

When Americans landed at Normandy in June of 1944, Western Europe was still completely under the control of Nazi forces.

[quote]And no, sorry, America is bigger than the USA.

"America" is the United States of America. "The Americas" are the continents of North America and South America. Any idiot knows this.

[quote] We are the wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the mid-1990s.

Ethnic cleansing does tend to make a return to European soil about every 50 years or so.

I'm the kids that didn't die when Europe didn't drop an atomic bomb on their non-military-outpost.

I'm the practice of not manufacturing terrorism so that certain countries can have access to a third world nation's oil reserves.

Are you retarded R199?

[quote]I'm the kids that didn't die when Europe didn't drop an atomic bomb on their non-military-outpost.

The Japanese acted like animals in World War II. The US showed restraint by only nuking them twice.

I'm the shockingly little amount Europeans at the time cared when Americans did drop an atomic bomb on a non-military outpost, R203.

I'm their ugly history of colonialism.

I'm their finger wagging sense of moral superiority despite their own wars and atrocities.

A land invasion of Japan would've prolonged the war for at least two years and cost an estimated one million American lives. Yes, one million. That was unacceptable, the decision was made to drop the atomic bomb.

If those bombs had not been dropped and the war dragged on for two more years and one million american soldiers died, and the American public found out it was all unnecessary because there was a weapon that could've ended the war and spared all of those lives, there would've been hell to pay. It was unavoidable.

I'm R206. Desperate to flash fry hundreds of thousands of people in a split second and create vast areas of land that were uninhabitable for generations and then spend decades rejoicing about it. I'll tell anyone who will listen that such a cruel and inhumane slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian women, children and men and the radiation diseases seen for generations after them was a wildly positive and commendable thing to do.

And I really believe that. Also - I have a 1.5" cock and I have serious erectile dysfunction.

I'm the micro-distinctions Europeans make over tiny little sub-variations in culture, which tend to snowball into bloody violence at inopportune moments.

I'm the fact that R211 knows as little about the atomic bomb attacks in Japan and R66 does about the bombing of Dresden.

r211 it was a state of total war. Read the above responses to get some perspective.

Thank you, R196.

It’s a forum with a lot of very parochial contributors, R197- I can see why you might assume so but that doesn’t make it an “AMERICAN” (caps are all yours) forum.

Jesus Christ some of you people don’t realise what cliches you are.

r215, r196's summary is wholly inaccurate.

Everyone here understands that there are contributors from outside the US R216 it still doesn't change the fact that butthurt Europeans are coming to a website created by an American, run out of an American state and that is a majority American membership and turning a thread about European cliches into a pissing contest about which continent has contributed the most to the world. It's ludicrous and fucking hypocritical.

R218 = blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah...

R218 you do know that there are contributors to this forum who live in neither Europe nor the USA, don’t you?

Of course you don’t! I wonder where you’re from.

And thanks, R218, for so succinctly proving my point.

Um yes R220 that's why if you read my post (not that you know how to read) then you would see I said outside the US. And if the best comeback you can come up with R219 is that then you don't belong in this forum.

I traveled solely so I can be smug about my perceived superiority.

Snappy repartee, R222! Keep it coming!

Thanks R224 lots of people here seem to think so judging from the WWs on my posts

Ridiculous R222!

Of course I belong to this forum! What an absolutely bizarre thing for you to say - but then your post at R218 gave us a look into your mindset I suppose...

R225 = that never happened.

Whatever you say R227. You should get some rest, you must be tired if you can't see a person's posting history properly.

If so, I wonder why the US bothered to join the war at all, R217. After all, it seems like you had everything in hand and really didn't need our help at all!

i am appalled by the "US" responses here....i'm backing the fuck out because i don't agree with most of them

What's so appalling about them?

They dare to make fun of Europeans and their lack of ice

R231 They confirm everything that the rest of us believe about you Americans - the whole “we saved your asses in WW2” thing makes me want to hurl.

Sorry, but you guys DO need to wash your stank taints, junk and asses if you're going to get laid. Why do you have all those bidets over there if you're not going to use them?

[quote]They confirm everything that the rest of us believe about you Americans - the whole “we saved your asses in WW2” thing makes me want to hurl.

Why, because it's true? The war wouldn't have been won without the US. Europe was still completely under Nazi control until the Americans arrived.

NO ONE CARES R235

It doesn't matter who did or did not save who during a decades old war. What does matter is dick cheese and scarves.

Well r233 certainly cares. I only mentioned it because it was brought up.

And again, R235 - you confirm it all with your response.

r239 it's a true statement. If Americans hadn't entered WWII, it would not have been won by the Allies. This is elementary knowledge.

I’m not dead from covid!

The war was a joint effort. There is everyone happy now? Can we get back to stereotyping Europeans and their B.O.?

[quote]Can we get back to stereotyping Europeans and their B.O.?

The French are particularly noxious. The British don't pay enough attention to washing "down there."

Yes, R240 - that’s what you’ve been taught.

For generations!

In which case, R244, it was a shocking waste of American time, money and lives.

I think we should sue.

In regards to odor, the French are like the sun. From far away it's pretty, what with all the colognes and stuff. But up close it's reeeally bad, like a turd dipped in flowers

Give it up r244.

I've never noticed that of the French, R246. I guess I've just been lucky.

Why should I give it up just because you disagree, R247? The “we saved your asses” thing gets trotted out all the time yet is patently untrue. As a citizen of a country which made a significant contribution to the allied war effort In WW2, and from years before Pearl Harbour, and which was never physically threatened (we joined because it was the right thing to do) I get fucking fed up with Americans claiming responsibility for ending WW2.

It’s a long time ago now but this kind of reasoning from you and the others above just confirms every cliche about Americans that others have been pointing out. And is confirmed by your input.

You give it up if you don’t like what you’re seeing and can’t defend it.

As you so obviously can’t.

I'm the grocery store with beverages at room temperature, food that is stale by 5 PM because nobody makes any fresh food after the AM hours, the inefficient checkouts, poor selection of anything non-European, and the lack of bagging service or AC.

r249 for the last time - Europe was under complete control of Nazi Germany until the Americans arrived. That is an undisputed fact. The Americans pushed back the Nazis from the Western front and from Southern Europe. The Allied Forces would not have won without the Americans.

[quote]As a citizen of a country which made a significant contribution to the allied war effort In WW2, and from years before Pearl Harbour, and which was never physically threatened (we joined because it was the right thing to do) I get fucking fed up with Americans claiming responsibility for ending WW2.

None of the European countries had made a dent in ending Nazi dominance on the Western or Southern fronts before the Americans arrived, and they had been fighting for 4-5 years by that point. Another fact. The war would not have been won by the Allies without American intervention, no matter what you personally believe.

I'm the Danish women in this video, trying desperately to stop our eyes from rolling out of their heads while Oprah grapples with the concept that happiness doesn't have to involve Jesus.

American forces also kept the Russians from steamrolling into Western Europe after the war.

R249, which country was that?

Funny how so many of you don’t understand the concept of a “world” war. It wasn’t just in Europe you clueless twats.

We're discussing the war in Europe because this is a thread about Europe, you stupid twat.

Australia, as you asked, R254.

And now I’ll sit back and wait for the usual incredibly sophisticated commentary about shrimps on the barbie, kangaroos, the whole country is racist, a dingo got my baby etc etc...

I’m the bland, repetitive pop songs (always in English) with lyrics that could’ve been written by six-year-old.

r257 Australia couldn't have won the war on its own. You also didn't make a dent in ending Japan's dominance. The first decisive Allied victory, the Battle of Midway, was on by the Americans.

R257, I fully excepted as much. No Canadian would be so dense.

You weren't threatened during WWII?

Who was bombing Darwin? The Easter Bunny?

You joined up because it was the right thing to do?

You joined up because you were still gobbling English Imperial cock like the good little cannon-fodder you were.

The Americans were unnecessary to the winning of WWII by the Allies?

I guess the first thing to go after thirty tins of beer is the memory.

Now, don't get me wrong. I think the US should have stayed out of WWII altogether and let the Australians win it, easy-peasy.

Just think of how much better the sushi in Sydney would be.

New Zealand voted against redesigning their flag to remove the Union Jack from it. The proposed designs were beautiful. These countries don’t have a real sense of self or pride.

Oops! Wrong thread ^

[quote] I'd have plenty to add to a "Let's Be The Americas" thread, unlike you,

Exactly. Half of Datalounge is American posters poking fun of/criticizing different regions of the country and being incredibly self-critical about its shortcomings and the current state of affairs.

[quote] I'm the micro-distinctions Europeans make over tiny little sub-variations in culture, which tend to snowball into bloody violence at inopportune moments.

And I'm the wild oscillation from that bloody tribalism to the rather sudden, thin-skinned Pan-European 'brotherhood' suddenly forged on this thread.

I know I bitched in this thread about it turning into a pissing contest but R260 I don't think the chip-on-the-shoulder Australian was saying Americans were unnecessary to winning the war I think he was saying they weren't the singular cause of the win.

But yes, his insistence that Australia was not under attack and that they signed up because it was the right thing to do was rather amusing for someone calling people twats.

I'm the obsession with soccer.

R266 football you mean

R258 Europeans say this themselves pretty frequently:

R267 This ain't your fight, Brit.

R263 Americans, especially liberal Americans, are accustomed to being criticized. We have a much higher threshold for insults than Western Europeans appear to. Christ.

I'm the young, cute Swedish atheist who opened up an atheist mission in Tennessee in the early 00s. I caused an UPROAR.

Anyone know who I'm talking about? I'm Googling and can't find anything. I remember the outrage, though.

[quote]I'm the one ice cube you will get when you ask for a drink with ice. I'm the second ice cube you will get when you ask for "extra ice."

No, R99, I'm the two big fucking cubes of ice you will get when you ask for a drink of ice in the hottest city in Europe. Extra ice? There isn't room.

It's served super cold, each "cube" a big thick, pierced cylinder as big as your left nut (if you're lucky.) It will outlast your drink.

I'm the legions knuckle-dragging hicks and soccer hooligans of western and central Europe that sneering urbanites forget about when chastising stupid Americans.

Where are you Americans going where the availability of ice is such a problem? I've lived in several countries in Europe for nearly 40 years and I've never had a situation where I'd have expected ice and they didn't have it.

They have ice you just don't get much of it. I've literally gotten two small square cubes when I asked for a lot of ice.

I'm the bug eyes when I see how cheap gas is in the United States compared to back home.

I'm the smug insistence that Americans should not be and by god ARE not called "Americans." I'm the deranged lectures that "America" is the name of a continent, not a country! I'm the condescending scolding that Mexicans, Canadians, Peruvians, Guatemalans, etc, are just as much "Americans" as anyone from the US and are properly called American!

I'm also the lack of map ownership and education that allows me to think "America" is a continent.

....

I’m the economically and educationally privileged, idealistic ‘European’ wearing blinders about what’s happening and spreading from Poland and Hungary within the EU itself. History unfortunately repeating itself.

I'm the tiny speedos worn by every man on the beach including the guys who should never b e seen in a speedo.

I’m a witch who only pretended to buy into that “Christian” bullshit the Romans forced on us.

I'm Zwarte Piet and I'm immune to SJW persecution.

I'm the countless number of individuals responsible for implementing crowd control procedures at airports, museums and other highly visited places. None of us know what the fuck we're doing, and our results are little better than just letting people do whatever they want.

I'm not just the refusal to tip, as mentioned above. I'm also the bolshie posturing about how atrocious it is that servers don't make a living wage and how I'm for the rights of the worker to be fairly paid, etc etc.

This is how I can camp at a table, stiff my server, and still feel smugly superior to those stupid Americans who are so wicked that they actually tip servers.

I’m Rick Steves and I’m here to fuck.

Vee err nort Breeteesh!

[quote]I’m Rick Steves and I’m here to fuck.

Your pole and hole have no currency here, creepy Rick Steves.

Take your 'fanny pack" and money belt and run along home.

R285 Fucking Rick Steves in his sexy Dockers! Rick has single-handedly ruined places like Cinque Terre and Rothenburg with tons of US peeps with their cargo shorts and white socks on the tourist trail.

Too true, R288. The American owner of a charcuterie board presentations company (just to provide some background) cornered me at a party to ask my favorite place in Italy. I said as much as "Well, Rome of course is my..." when she cut me off and said, "Oh, but that's touristy, right? I mean don't tourists go there? I mean *real* places...places like Cinque Terre, or however you pronounce it. We were just there and it was heaven!"

She would suck Rick Steves skunk weed tweezer dick.

I'd totally hatefuck Steves and his cute son.

I’m a European, wondering who the fuck this Rick Steves is.

I'm the hilariously unironic lectures to Americans, condemning them as racist and imperialist, and telling them they should be more like the enlightened Europeans.

I'm radishes and green peppers for breakfast.

I'm the jacket that zips up the neck, like a leather turtleneck. I'm sensible for cold weather. I'm also worn by German tourists in America even in the heat of summer, though sensibly not zipped up then. I'm sensible for studying maps and timetables and planning.

I'm a laundromat. I dare you to find me.

I am R66. We screech how Americans dared to kill 25,000 souls in Dresden while we were shoveling 12 million gassed souls into crematoriums.

^^^ I also assert that [italic]Slaughterhouse-Five[/italic] is "a romanticized tale."

This is our future.

I'm Greenland and ze don't know who the fuck ze am. The non-binary among nations. Geographically North America, politically and economically Europe and population-wise, Inuit.

12 million?! 25 000? Who is this lunatic US-ian who will madly twist history in USA's favour in this thread? I can just picture him foaming at the mouth, wearing a MAGA hat.

Oh, and for the uninitiated - ze internet is international. There is no such thing as an "American site". English is the lingua franca for the time being. Anyone can read and write here. You don't get a wall, DL!

R300 Nope just an American Jew with German Jewish parents.

You are the neo-Nazi here, trying to downplay what Germans did during WWII. Now why is that? Especially at a time when the far right is growing in strength in Germany and other European nations.

Is the WAPO a reliable news source??? Yes it is.

BTW I am now European too, thanks to Article 116.

So fuck you, fellow European.

Oh wow. Here's the obligatory American jew calling people nazis for not agreeing with him.

Watch it, man. I'm the law that makes using nazi as an insult a punishable offense in Germany. Get out of the past and welcome to the present where Germany is the most enlightened nation with the highest regard for human rights, and the USA is... well... you know.

US-ian?

I'm the delicious breakfast at a small hotel in Prague: the best coffee, cold ham, cheese and incredible bread, eat as much as you want.

And I'm the kindness shown many an American even during the deplorable Bush era.

R101 I’m the European who gives as good as he gets. Sauce for the goose etc

Fuck you back.

R306 You can't handle being told you wear scarves oddly and drink your drinks warm.

Pathetic, childish, reeks of someone with little knowledge of the world and no respect for others. Did you know Europeans have flaws?

I'm a European wondering where all these Americans got their ideas from, since they bear no resemblance to anything in Europe since the 70's.

I'm the European questioning Americans who have traveled to Europe in the last decade and know exactly what they are parodying because they saw it first hand. I'm also the European who has to state the obvious "the internet is international" but comes to a website created by Americans, run by Americans, with a majority American readership and membership, to smugly and condescendingingly deny that Europeans can be stereotyped as smug and condescending.

And lastly, I'm the European who doesn't know that Rick Steves is an American travel host who introduced a lot of Europe to uneducated Americans but through his travels only absorbed the European predilection for alcoholism and smugness and none of the chicness or discipline to maintain a slender body

R 307 European here, lived in USA for 10 years. Loved many things but the free-for-all capitalism and the conditioning of Americans to shop relentlessly, the refusal to care for your citizens, the refusal to provide healthcare, the appalling religious bullshit that colors federal policy, the trashing of your environment, the inherent racism, the belief in manifest destiny.... need any more?

No it’s not perfect here but my quality of life is streets ahead of yours any day.

What Americans do have is a wonderful optimism and an ability to accept someone at face value and not care about their connections , but to be able to offer that person the opportunity to do well based on merit, and to take a genuine pleasure in the success of that person. Those qualities are in short supply in Europe.

Now are you hung, because this European Jew needs a good fuck🥰

[R310] Thats good analysis. I’m American and would say you are accurate.

I thought we in the USA have come a long way in protecting the environment. I remember when recycling was in its infancy.

I am the Eurotrash who thinks only Americans can be trashy.

I know we just met, so when I come to America, I expect to be staying with you for over a month on my vacation because nothing says trashy like mooching off the kindness of strangers.

To be more specific, R314, those are Germans.

I am the lack of drying machines. Also, the belief that AC or a summer breeze at 85 degrees will land you in the ER so you MUST pack a scarf always.

R312 If you live on the East Coast next time look at the residue on the roof of the car is after the snow melts it’s industrial pollutants that’s been brought down.

I’m the white oval country code bumper stickers.

R317, elder gay here. I understand things aren't perfect. However, there was a time not long ago when rivers were so polluted they caught fire, there was NO recycling, none. Lead was in gas, paint, glazed dishes. DDT was not banned yet. Read Rachel Carlson's "Silent Spring". If you think the air is bad now, 50 years ago you should have been on I-95 in Connecticut going past New Haven.

Thank God those hippies cared about the environment and started Earth Day. We have more to do, but we have come a long way.

R319 I agree with you. But also I see the industrial farming and liberal overuse of pesticides on crops. Rarely will one see an unblemished apple in the USA. It’s spray, spray,spray. It’s in Europe too, but a lot less and stringently controlled.

I love the USA- a phenomenal country with so much to see. I drove west and having left Richmond, was enthralled by the endless forest, the various trees, the colors. You guys are incredibly fortunate to live on such a beautiful continent.

R319 I agree with you. But also I see the industrial farming and liberal overuse of pesticides on crops. Rarely will one see an unblemished apple in the USA. It’s spray, spray,spray. It’s in Europe too, but a lot less and stringently controlled.

I love the USA- a phenomenal country with so much to see. I drove west and having left Richmond, was enthralled by the endless forest, the various trees, the colors. You guys are incredibly fortunate to live on such a beautiful continent.

I’m the red trousers on men from Eindhoven and thereabouts.

I'm socks with sandals.

R323 - to be fair that also happens in the US with school teachers.

I never thought a bitch war with Europe would be so humorless 😏

Yes, r325. That’s what Europeans are known for. Finely honed wit and great senses of humour. Especially the Eastern Bloc shitheads.

O! The laughs!

[quote]I get fucking fed up with Americans claiming responsibility for ending WW2.

That's a terrible shame, but it's completely true. The US was called the arsenal of democracy for a good reason: it was. The UK, the country I assume you're from, did not have anything like the financial resources to fight the war. I mean not even fucking close. Without American food, money, and munitions, the UK would have had to surrender, and that's no exaggeration.

The Russians also received absolutely MASSIVE support from the US. The one key item they received that they probably could not have fought the war without was trucks. They received huge numbers of the extremely reliable and well designed US two and a half ton trucks by lend lease.

And this is not even mentioning the US contribution to the invasion of France, the air war, and the drive into Germany. (And let's no even get started on the Pacific War.) I'm sorry, I know it's not "fashionable" for Americans to brag about WWII because the British are so sensitive about this, but yes, the US was key in the war being won.

That said, it goes without saying that, without our allies, the UK and USSR, holding out as long as they did, it would have been supremely difficult, or perhaps even impossible, for the US to have won the war on its own.

R322: I'm laughing at the 'red trousers' thing. I grew up in the Netherlands and was so used to seeing those among a certain type of men aged 55+ that I never thought about it twice, until my brother (who lives in the US) visited a few years ago and pointed it out to me. They are also quite common in the 't Gooi area of Holland, by the way, and may even be a national phenomenon.

I'm the Michael Kors bag that is considered a top fashion brand here even though the same bag is available at Marshall's for $59.99

I am the flavorful seasonal produce sold on by street vendors. Juicy Nectarines, apples, Muscat grapes

I'm the signature local weird, dry baked good.

I must be soaked in tea or coffee to be enjoyed, and even then only mildly enjoyed.

I'm European exchange students' shared determination to fuck a black American before returning home.

I’m the horrifically unstable Internet service on copper wires which keeps dropping every two or three minutes.

R326 - I would say Romanians here have a crazy sense of humor. Then again, it is a Latin culture but one of the things I do miss from going to the office is the easy way people of all kinds, from our young IT twink to middle aged fraus would sit at lunch tables for 1.5 hours and make hilarious jokes about everything from Beyonce being mildly retarded to Trump's appearance to weight...you name it. Latin cultures love to talk and argue. They can get into screaming debates with the women calling the men castrated bulls if the men call them cows or ambulatory skeletal remains and the next day, no grudge and go at it again.

I'm the young thin pleasant gay waiter who has no higher education yet speaks 3 languages fluently and 2 more somewhat well, and has a good knowledge of Greek mythology and the history of Opera.

I’m a Luxembourger. We’re like Belgium’s kid sister.

We're Austrians and we're CUNTS.

Back to the subject of the thread: I am the best damn breakfast i've ever had in a restaurant...full English with orange eggs and to-mah-toes and delicious sausage. And very nice people who will answer you with a smile. i loved the (sadly) 18 hours i spent there.

I'm the doorknob that, for some reason, is located at eye-level.

It’s so funny to see Americans spew what everyone else in the world sees as naked propaganda acquired through mass indoctrination by their education system and mass media. Such a brainwashed country. No, the Americans did not win WW2, though they helped accelerate its end. The Russians bore the brunt, and finally wore the Nazis down, and have greater claim to that role.

[quote]That's a terrible shame, but it's completely true.

No it’s not true, r327. Also, American bombs destroyed some of the most beautiful art and architecture in Europe. Would have been better if they’d stayed out.

3 countries won WWII. Eliminate UK Russia or USA from the war and Nazis would rule.

[quote]The Russians bore the brunt, and finally wore the Nazis down, and have greater claim to that role.

On the Eastern Front, not the Western Front.

[quote] Also, American bombs destroyed some of the most beautiful art and architecture in Europe. Would have been better if they’d stayed out.

It was a state of total war. The Nazis had to be defeated at all costs. It was unfortunate, but that's the price of total war against an enemy who had to be defeated. The British did their fair share of bombing as well.

[quote] No, the Americans did not win WW2, though they helped accelerate its end.

The Americans bore the brunt in the Pacific, and were the main contributors to the Japanese defeat. Britain and Australia never could've won without the US.

R336: Wëllkomm! You are a rarity.

I carry a coin purse for my Euro coins.

About the American bombing of European artistic and cultural heritage, remember they also bombed the convent in Milan with Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. The adjacent walls all collapsed yet, miraculously, the wall with the mural survived.

R348 The monks did more damage to the fresco than any bombing when the put a door in the wall of the fresco.

[quote] No it’s not true, [R327].

Even a child can simply gainsay. Feel free to attempt to refute my facts if you’re so bold.

[quote] The Americans bore the brunt in the Pacific, and were the main contributors to the Japanese defeat. Britain and Australia never could've won without the US.

To go even further — the British and Australians were incidental targets to the Japanese war effort. Their real foe was the US for the oil embargo.

Australia would have been conquered by japan were it not for the US carrier fleet fighting the japanese to a draw at the battle of the coral sea.

[quote] About the American bombing of European artistic and cultural heritage,

That’s a laugh — the bombing campaign was dreamt up and started by the British, not the Americans. And the British did this in response to fascist mass bombing that went all the way back to the spanish civil war (wonder if our anxious brit has ever seen the painting Guernica?).

And unlike the British bombing, the Americans initially planned to bomb industrial targets only, using presidium bombsights and daylight raids. It was the British who were out to simply blow things up and kill people. That’s why they bombed at night. They specifically set out to murder civilians.

All that said, it couldn’t have happened to nicer countries. Play the game of world conquest and genocide and reap the whirlwind.

^^^ precision bombsights

I'm lectures to Americans about what's wrong with their country!

I'm the American seeing all the shelf toilets in Germany and thinking "OMG Germans really ARE obsessed with shit!"

I'm the Eurotroll here who obviously hasn't realized that the people you hate the most are the people you desire the most. He'd bend over for a chunky hillbilly in a MAGA hat no question 😂

I’m colonialism who’s always quick to point out America’s history with slavery.

I am Andorra, Liechtenstein, and San Marino. We exist.

r358. And Monaco and Vatican, which BTW is also a monarchy.

R341, as opposed to the British and German bombs which of course did nothing of the sort.

British writer Evelyn Waugh (who hated Americans with a passion) wrote an essay where he grudgingly appreciated the fact that the United States military prevented Britain from bombing Rome, citing its historical significance.

Stick your shitty Nazi propaganda deep within your fucked-out hole.

The Soviet Union killed more German soldiers in WW2 than any other nation. It suffered more casualties than any other nation (civilian and military) It liberated all the countries of Eastern Europe, and captured all of the concentration camps It captured Berlin and forced Hitler's suicide. The battles of Stalingrad, Kursk

Without the sacrifice of the USSR, Hitler could not have been beaten. The Normany landings, at the time, were always described as a *second* front. It is unfortunate that Hollywood has effectively erased the sacrifice of some of history's bravest people (many young Americans, according to a poll I read, thought that the USSR was the USA's enemy in WW2), That said, I give the USA the vast majority of the credit for defeating Japan.

The US would've defeated Nazi Germany in Eastern Europe, but with massive casualties. It's not out of the question that if the US had to go it alone into Eastern Europe, a nuclear bomb would have been used.

Anyway, back to Europe. Here are some great names who were the leading world-historical figures in their fields, which I have just sketched out more or less at random in a couple of minutes, off the top of my head..

Lev Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago Oscar-Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Immanuel Kant, GWF Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze William Shakespeare, Racine, Moliere, Voltaire, Samuel Beckett, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky,, Giacomo Puccini Jean-Luc Godard, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, Federico Fellini

Nowhere else in the world can call on such a wealth of talent, in such a comparatively small geographical area, over only a couple of centuries. There are individuals from other continents who stand comparison with the names above, but not in such numbers. Facts is facts. If you appreciate the finer things in life, you love Europe.

Yes, part of the reason for Europe's dominance in all these areas may be its history of exploitation, colonialism and imperialism: I'll grant you that, but on the whole, the people I've quoted didn't support those terrible crimes and often actively organised against them.

Think of a figure between zero and 3000 euros. That's how much it costs for a year's tuition at a university in the EU, depending on the country (for an EU citizen). We allow our young people access to an education, in some of the world's leading universities, and don't force them to mortgage the rest of their lives to get it.

Similarly, we also allow them to get sick and have hospital treatment without doing the same.

I'm a lecturer at an EU university and I always enjoy seeing the students arriving from the USA who were smart enough to rediscover their Italian granny and save themselves from a lifetime of debt.

I’m the historically ignorant European in UK, France, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain who know nothing about my country’s role in the triangular slave trade, setting up slave colonies and economies, procuring and transporting human beings from Africa to the ‘New World...and don’t forget sometimes ‘blackbirding’ almost the entire populations from various Pacific islands. I live in cities where many of the historical. buildings were built from profits based on slavery.

"Nowhere else in the world can call on such a wealth of talent, in such a comparatively small geographical area, over only a couple of centuries."

If you know anything at all about Asian history, linguistics, music, literature and culture, you would know this is complete and utter bullshit.

Michel Foucault r363? Really?

R366, note that I said:

"in such a comparatively small geographical area, over only a couple of centuries.""

Asia is not small, nor is it young.

Why not R367, he's had a huge impact all across the humanities after his death. Which North American philosopher would come close in terms of citations?

His impact has been quite negative. A strange 60s-era Frenchman who ruined humanities studies with postmodernism garbage.

OK, well, no-one is forcing you to love all the names I mentioned, the point being they have been vastly influential in their fields, and I came up with that list in 2-3 minutes.

R367 (whom I had blocked) idly scanned R363's post so he could pick out one name and write his pointless, facile "Really?" post. Your list was fine, R369. You shoudn't even have bothered responding.

I’m the decimal separator used for thousands and the currency sign following the number.

From this thread I have learned that Europeans are brittle and insecure children.

I'm positivism, the post-modernism of the 19th century. I ruined South America and made it poor for more than a century.

Brought to you by Europeans!

R374, I spent the past several years living in Europe and it's hilarious how Europeans remain obsessed with the US, while claiming not to care America or being disgusted by what we've become. They also are willfully blind to the fact that America was built by the dregs of Europe, who found life in their home countries stifling. My favorite is them always bringing up slavery and the treatment of Native Americans when the abhorrent treatment of blacks and Indians was perfected by the British, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish.

As much as I hate Trump and sometimes fear for the direction of our country, I take comfort in the fact we deal with our shit. European countries are racist as fuck and full of rampant inequality, yet they benefit from flying under the radar...because USA bad.

I firmly believe we'll be stronger for not being able to hide from our problems. Meanwhile, European countries will be weakened by continuing to pretend everything is fine socially and economically.

[quote]Meanwhile, European countries will be weakened by continuing to pretend everything is fine socially and economically.

But they don't--there's huge discontentment everywhere, as witnessed by the emergence of far-right parties everywhere from Sweden to Spain. Who, exactly, is "pretending everything is fine"?

[R376] Everyone wants to be let off the moral hook. Within the US, all racism is blamed on the South as if Boston and Chicago are, and always have been, beacons of liberty and tolerance.

[quote] My favorite is them always bringing up slavery and the treatment of Native Americans when the abhorrent treatment of blacks and Indians was perfected by the British, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Like when some among the British smugly pat themselves on the back when talking about how they abolished slavery way back in 1833, forgetting that they were a major reason for its spread in the first place.

So tender to the touch r372.

[quote]My favorite is them always bringing up slavery and the treatment of Native Americans when the abhorrent treatment of blacks and Indians was perfected by the British, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Don't forget the French, Germans and Portuguese in Africa. Abysmal records. In the early 1900s, the Germans literally wiped out a tribe in Namibia.

I am Boris, true European influencing European values on Americans!

God, this Boris shit is the most tired and exhausted old horse.

R363 this is about Europeans not just homosexuals.

I'm the millions of Europeans whose current economic luxury and standard of living is a result of American soldiers twice giving their lives for European freedom, yet sneer whenever America uses its military elsewhere in the world. It's perfectly fine to intervene in Europe, but not elsewhere.

Oh god not this again ^^^

r385 is clearly a product of the American education system.

I'm good customer service, which never seems to have taken hold in many parts of Europe.

I’m the view that customers and service providers (e.g., shop bottoms) transact their business as persons of equal status and therefore obsequiousness on the part of the latter is not required and is in fact debasing to both parties.

R389 If there's one thing Europeans cultures are known for, it's social equality.

Well, at least in theory, R390.