American Anglophiles vs British Amerophiles

do amerophiles actually exist

Fuck yeah.

Anglophiles FTW.

do amerophiles actually exist

― its gotta be HOOSy para steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 15 February 2009 00:04 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"The name's Tex"
"He likes American stuff"

yeah, it doesn't matter if amerophiles exist becuz no way anglophiles can be beat

do amerophiles actually exist

Hello, who started this POLE?

I vote for British Amerophiles because I support people who try to better themselves and because Anglophile ppl are the most disgusting savages on earth imo

because i mainly encounter anglophiles, who are annoying
(and unfortunately i used to be one)

never met an amerophile, or does gravel puzzleworth count???

vote is for worst though? xp

^ lol

anglophiles are both best and worst

do both generally have better taste than American Amerophiles and British Anglophiles?

will a british explain what most anglophiles obsess over re usa

line dancing

http://byinvitationonly.merseyblogs.co.uk/The%20Line%20Dancing%2C%20which%20became%20quite%20competitive%20during%20the%20evening.jpg

cheerleaders

Yeah, what the hell's an Amerophile, anyway? People who prefer America's repackaging of other culture's goods? I guess that's the same shit behind those weird Japanophiles.

not sure i can fully describe the nature of buffalo joe's bar in gateshead, but it includes a cage where a couple of men dressed as native americans wait for women who want to simulate rough sex with them.

vote is for worst though? xp

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― caek, Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:34 PM Bookmark

oh shit. I hate polls like this.

are there any anglophiles left or is it just ppl who liked English music in the 80s

American Anglophiles

theres no excuse for this

this is tough. american anglophiles are obviously awesome by virtue of being american, but apparently british "amerophiles" are trying their best

Oh no, Amerophiles are much worse. At least the Anglophile girls are an easy lay. Not a good one but still an easy one.

Amerophiles? You mean like the evil dad in Twin Town who named his house the Ponderosa? Yeah, that's no good.

King Boy Pato is telling us who are easy and/or good lays.

I am tempted to say amerophiles based solely on some of the more aggressively anglophile soccer fans I know.

Britishes dudes who only like American sports cos they were shit at doing P.E. at school.

oh god, those guys

will a british explain what most anglophiles obsess over re usa

― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 February 2009 02:50 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

As stated above stuff like line-dancing, Highway 65, bolo ties, cowboy boots, stetsons, shrines to Elvis, Cadillacs, fitting out their kitchen to look like a 50s diner, posting to ringtone threads...

Oh no, Amerophiles are much worse. At least the Anglophile girls are an easy lay. Not a good one but still an easy one.

― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Sunday, February 15, 2009 5:05 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're not even british, koala boy.

Oh god, wow, does that mean there are Australian anglophiles? Jesus wept.

Post-colonial Anglophilia brings constant LOLs.

vsnaipul.jpg

vsnaiplol

Oh god, wow, does that mean there are Australian anglophiles? Jesus wept.

Only about 70% of all non-Asian university students, yeah.

get the feeling that anglophiles have to make more of an effort than ameriophiles.

basically everyone in the world is an ameriophile - anglophiles im not sure whats wrong w/them

ive seen studies that indicate that anglophilia has a strong correlation w/ premature births

dom this reminded me where tf are my hip hop connectionz

Amerophiles who are into like country and weird 60s Californian hippy pop and stuff are great, but the only other Amerophile I know likes Ben Harper and Dispatch and uses the word 'cellphone' in conversations with other British people.

dom this reminded me where tf are my hip hop connectionz

― and what, Sunday, 15 February 2009 14:41 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Shit. Post first thing Monday, promise.

~~^^see this is amerophile guilt^^~~

if a british dude had guilted dom about this he wouldve spit in his face but i live next to shawty lo so i get mine

lol italians

Third-generation Italian dudes in Kappa are far worse than any other type of people.

"Who's worse?"

Fancophiles.

Or, yeah, Italiophiles (Tony Blair, Jamie Oliver ect)

Tough thread for KBP

Third-generation Italian dudes in Kappa are far worse than any other type of people.

― The Loneliness of the Middle Order Batsman (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 15 February 2009 15:06 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

King Boy Patolini

i might be an italophile

voted for amerophiles because i hate myself

Wait until I throw in some foreign construction worker jokes.

Francophiles. fucking pub lunches.

not like ooh mamma mia lets enjoy some authentic reggiano but just - A+ weather, cute girls, weird old buildings, olive groves n shit... shame about the dudes there

anglophil paterson

Italophiles are usually horrible 50+ types who vote conservative yet fucking complain that fruit and vegetables in their local supermarket aren't "organic enough".

not like ooh mamma mia lets enjoy some authentic reggiano but just - A+ weather, cute girls, weird old buildings, olive groves n shit... shame about the dudes there

I think this makes you a tourist, not an Italophile.

yeah that sounds about right

japanophiles are the worst imo.

Well yeah, that goes without saying.

all 'philes' are weird imo

realest of the real talk (xp)

I mean, being a 'phile' of anything kind of implies immersing yourself in the aesthetic choices of the sort of absurdly stereotypical blokes that most people are rightly put off by. Not, like, appreciating actual nice things like sunshine and wine and old buildings and cute girls.

(xposts)

odd definition of phile

anglostans vs amerostans

anglostani

im more of a paki stan

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Your search - anglostani - did not match any documents.

Did you mean: anglo scarfy

japanophiles are the worst imo.

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― ^^ one of enriques sincere posts (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, February 15, 2009 7:18 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbomb

i dont know any japanophiles (shiroibasketshoes besides) but americans who use the word "loo" and/or spell things w/ an "ou" are really the worst ppl on earth

I'm a total japanophile and enjoy it immensely. I'm all for -philing. What's the problem here?

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/5/5e/Wapanese.jpg

Super Cub, yesterday

I'm all for -philing.

that was before I put on my costume.

maybe i should abandon this line of jokery considering my username sounds like an homage to furrydom.

i dont know any japanophiles (shiroibasketshoes besides) but americans who use the word "loo" and/or spell things w/ an "ou" are really the worst ppl on earth

― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:44 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol i've been known to use 'the can'.

Real people say "loo" on this continent? See, that would definitely be anglophilic but "ou" spellings are the norm in any non-US English-speaking country so that doesn't seem the same to me.

i dont know any japanophiles (shiroibasketshoes besides)

― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Sunday, February 15, 2009 2:44 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol move to Seattle. Here it's every dork who's ever aspired to work at Microsoft.

i can always identify the anglophiles at my work because they sign off their emails with CHEERS

fuck you use a smiley face or LYLAS, anything but cheers

I would really like to meet an Amerophile just to see wtf they are like! Tho if they are into hick stuff, that is just weird. I wonder if they flipped out over Pixar's "Cars."

I accidentally made an Anglophile cry at a Halloween party, who managed to drunkenly imagine I'd called her both "Brit" and "limey," and she thought I was making fun of her. She was also like wicked upset I'd heard of like Mitchell & Webb, like I was revealing all her secret Britishes secrets, even though we didn't talk about the show or anything. She asked if I knew who they were and when I said, "Yeah, Peep Show," she just gasped. It probably didn't help that our conversation started when I told her Coco Rosie was 'racist' after she'd just played & sang a song of theirs. It also doesn't help that I'm really loud when I'm drunk. I'm not faultless here. It was just weird.

They are pretty racist though.

i've been accused of anglophilia because i'll sometimes drop britishisms in conversation :-/

this thread is basically taking sides between ian r-m and my cousin

I have nothing against your cousin.

Yeah, I gotta go with your cousin there.

fuck you use a smiley face or LYLAS, anything but cheers

seriously

tbf cheers is pretty much a normal american email sign off by now - people dont really say it but they sure email it - and im sure mostly those who use it dont really care or know abt england - just maybe imagine theyre toasting u and u have some booze or something

jeers to cheers

for that extra flavour add "big ears" on to the end of cheers. according to urban dictionary you have now become an australophile.

kind of obligatory

http://i7.tinypic.com/660l8ck.jpg

cheers unacceptable for brits too tbh fuiud

"i'm not a fackin bartender so don't cheers me mate"

I've been accused of anglophilia because I ... enh forget it

gross

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:PUNO0vFB0FNTgM:http://www.geomundos.com/deportes/Wrestling/kurt-angle_foto_25701hoxefwsbaj.jpg

http://dogonablog.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/no_irish_no_blacks.jpg

west brits all the way

too bad american anglophiles don't tend to be in it for things like the NHS, better treatment of employees, better transport infrastructure/less car dependency, and the ardkore 'nuum instead of the twee trivial crap many americans upthread appear to be objecting to.

why don't americans like "cheers"?

Stevem, those of us who live here have rampant Anglophilia for most (If not all) of those things.

i voted amerophile because i am a bit amerophile myself, but I do find myself disgusted at the possibility of the existence of someone who was a total amerophile and spelled things incorrectly/followed the bullshit american sports or whatever.

Which are the good American sports and which are the bullshit ones?

the answer is rodeo

Yeah, the rodeo cowboying on whatever the fuck that extreme sports channel you get in some Sky packages is pretty enthralling.

i have met some amerophile musicians for sure

Which are the good American sports and which are the bullshit ones?

― i'm shy

i don't like any American sport. Ice hockey is the nearest to interesting and is that not Canadian anyway?

Most US sports are to some degree US + some Canadian. The NHL is like, 60-70% foreign, though. Damn foreigners stealing our hockey jobs.

"I need those baskets back!"

(I am secretly a Canadophile)

Hockey is not Canadian or American.

The baskets! He needs them back!

Canadian basketball history.

american women obsessed with english men vs british musicians obsessed with the strokes

xxxxxxxpost, Canadians represent about 50% of NHL players, followed by Americans followed by Czechs (I think).

xpost I haven't seen that video in years. Some stations used to show it in between cartoons.

too bad american anglophiles don't tend to be in it for things like the NHS, better treatment of employees, better transport infrastructure/less car dependency, and the ardkore 'nuum instead of the twee trivial crap many americans upthread appear to be objecting to.

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― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Monday, February 16, 2009 4:58 AM Bookmark

most otm post in this thread

Yeah, Pato's gonna be the tiebreaker since he lives in Texas, Ontario.

my cousin, bless him, and who i hold near to my heart, is precisely the sort of person brits do not want representing britain

fwiw

He's Irish, for a start.

he was born in lanc

irish then

Which are the good American sports and which are the bullshit ones?

Baseball and ice hockey are good.

American football is OK.

Basketball is bullshit.

Incorrect

In my opinion, obviously

I'm trying to think of whiter sports than ice hockey and baseball and coming up short

What's that got to do with anything?

I mean, in terms of they're being any good as sports, obv. it's important in other ways

american football is silly. basketball is cool. not a fan of ice hockey. baseball doesn't look too bad.

Basketball > ice hockey > baseball > American football. Rugby's bad enough when it's done by Northern colliery workers and repressed homosexual law students, it's not really improved by being played by men called Chip and having seven thousand more interruptions in it.

I'm trying to think of whiter sports than ice hockey and baseball and coming up short

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:30 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.polo.co.uk/images/ascotpark/Polo%20UK%20DSC_8498.JPG

what sports are japanophiles into? big ninja warrior style assault courses?

What about Sooty? Also, horse racing. In the UK, anyway. (xp)

Lot of Wapanese guys are really into joshi. xp

What about Sooty? Also, horse racing. In the UK, anyway. (xp)

― Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:37 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Godolphin?

japanophiles into baseball and j-league

Yeah, baseball is really white and not played by way more hispanic people.

Yeah, yeah

I think Tom D. should like basketball - it's actually the same sport as soccer, just played indoors with a very small net

It's nothing like soccer!

In fact, it's almost the exact opposite of football in so many ways.

Sure it is - the managers are called coaches but they both wear sharp suits and prowl up and down the sidelines.

The point of the game is to put the ball in the other team's net.

To do this, you need to work the ball into a suitable position, either by going down the wing and crossing inside or by working through the middle. You can try scoring from distance but it's low-percentage.

The most exciting teams are those who "turn defense into offense" (i.e. "fast breaks").

They are both considered the most flashy and modern sports in their respective home countries.

"Dribbling" is the primary mode of individual movement with the ball.

etc etc etc

Sure you score more points in basketball but that's because basketball is better

The most exciting teams are those who "turn defense into offense" (i.e. "fast breaks").

Not even remotely true about football. When did Brazilian teams, for instance, ever rely on fast breaks from defence?

Sure you score more points in basketball but that's because basketball is better

The fact that it's so difficult to score in football and so easy in basketball is pretty important.

Important in making basketball better

See, I like sport I don't like circus acts, that's the difference maybe

How often do you hear in basketball that a team didn't "deserve" the score? I'll tell you - never, because there's a good way of keeping track of which team is actually performing better, and it's called the SCORE, which actually KEEPS TRACK of how the respective teams are performing!

How boring is that?

I mean, that is it, in a nutshell

What a good idea - let's have a sport where the score relates to the relative performance of two teams only in some tangential, mystical fashion

That's a great idea!

...

I think you have hit the nail on the head though, on why I dislike basketball so much

Because it accurately reflects the relative strength of the two sides?

Who cares about that? Watching Man Utd beat Accrington Stanley 8-0 is likely to be boring. Watching Man Utd deserve to beat Accrington Stanley 8-0, but Accrington Stanley somehow contrive to score a lucky goal and win 1-0 is likely to be exciting.

Are there many Americans who have developed a love of cricket? Allen Stanford, for one...

i love cricket

(that Netherland novel to thread, I guess, although I haven't read it yet)

max on point there

It was played a lot until baseball came along, I think?

yeah Tracer get 'em, explain how that sport that everybody in the entire world knows is awesome is actually lame

Yeah, Bart King was one of America's great 19th-century sportsmen xp

Basketball is technically the better sport but NHL > NBA.

Cricket is sort of like my argument for basketball's superiority taken to such extremes that it becomes solely an exercise in statistics, like two teams tasked with dropping a penny from the 5th floor onto a small target, 10,000 times each, and the team who hits the target most is the "winner"

John I just think it could be improved with a little more ZAZZ, you know, a little more scoring to keep everyone on their toes. Make the goal bigger basically.

Basketball does not even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as cricket

Cricket is sort of like my argument for basketball's superiority taken to such extremes that it becomes solely an exercise in statistics, like two teams tasked with dropping a penny from the 5th floor onto a small target, 10,000 times each, and the team who hits the target most is the "winner"

Also: needs bitchin' monster trucks

and a multi-ball power play POW BANG ROUND

Tracer, please don't make me mad on this of all days

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_king

^^^an awesome American

(lol KBP/UT11)

"Hell, we support xxxxx because we win! If we wanted to lose, we'd support yyyyy"

Cricket is sort of like my argument for basketball's superiority taken to such extremes that it becomes solely an exercise in statistics, like two teams tasked with dropping a penny from the 5th floor onto a small target, 10,000 times each, and the team who hits the target most is the "winner"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:56 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

come to i love cricket and say that and see what happens

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Some effective sledging there from Tracer

Some pennydroppers do better in the evening, others do better in the morning - it's full of strategy!

"What does a man know of cricket, who only cricket knows?"

Not even remotely true about football. When did Brazilian teams, for instance, ever rely on fast breaks from defence?

you forgot one thing: Aston Villa

Forgot to take the lightning fast reflexes and leg speed of Emile Heskey and John Carew into account

the American does not like the soccerball because delayed gratification is anathema to him; the squeaky-trainered high scoring of the basket-ball affords him the same impatient, instant thrill as the corn dog or the killing all of his classmates

The corn dog is what America was built on, son!

not really sure why the guy who invented Rugby by picking up a football wasn't beaten to death by everyone else present, but England being England it just developed into a culture of guys who thin out their own numbers by drunkenly killing each other while wearing dresses anyway

^^^loses points for no "would of" xxp and not

The great Knicks and Heat teams of the late 90s couldn't fast break to save their lives but they were still fantastic basketball teams, full of intricacy, strategy (and defense, obv) - still they weren't nearly as exciting as watching Stockton and Malone, or Shaq and Kobe, or Pippen and Jordan, or Parker and Duncan and Ginobli.. etc etc

I find it amusing that Tracer's allegory, "who will drop THEIR shot into the target area", far more closely describes basketball than cricket

yeah if i really wanted a good allegory to cricket i would have referred to baseball batting practice, where the same guy hits again and again and again and only runs when he feels like it

Now baseball is a good sport, but it's like cricket for 3 year olds

3 year olds who like to stick hypodermics in their asses

Like pool is snooker for 3 year olds

i'm pretty sure cricket is the sport with words like "googly"

"for three year olds" must be brit-speak for "but actually fun and doesn't last for 20% of your adult life"

my favourite 20% tbh

20% = not long enough

Not enough test matches last 5 days for my liking!

....

Tracer's already linked this somewhere:

i forgot how many british sports are designed either for layabout aristocrats with no jobs to go to or for beer-nursing pub regulars

or fulfilling weekends

Your first and best reason to attend a Cricket match

i forgot how many british sports are designed either for layabout aristocrats with no jobs to go to or for beer-nursing pub regulars

That's right, keep the middle classes out

"Once I threw a wobbly for 5/0/i/2220 for after my first chugger caused a Pollyanna; imagine my face when the three tits went up on scoreboard! Lawks, what a shocker!"

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Always a LOL with that one

^^^this, it's one of Dan's finest hours IMO

omg @ KBP's link

basketball and football are similar in this important respect: they are free-flowing games with extremely simple rules. what's interesting about them can't be reduced to facts or discrete phases (unlike, say, cricket or baseball or, to a lesser extent, american football). so much of it is in rhythm or space or patterns or stuff that's going on away from the ball. it's therefore difficult to pick up an interest in either game by reading about it or having it explained to you. the only way is to watch an awful lot, and ideally play some too. this is why i do not enjoy watching basketball. i have no idea what's going on. sure, i understand the rules, but they're not the interesting bit.

CAEK: SHUT UP AND JAM!

also, i can't palm the ball.

Unfortunately am not 7ft tall, so basketball out

are you thinking of playing in a professional league?

for me, i haven't scored many premiership goals this season, so football out.

caek sorta otm, except for the "to a lesser extent" bit

and the rhythms/patterns in cricket amount to almost imperceptible mental pressures and accumulations, which I personally find gripping

Nothing physically stopping you from though, I assume? (xp)

there is nothing physically stopping you playing basketball.

except wanting to throw up after 10 minutes of it

I played it at school! It's where my dislike started!

Admittedly the fact that NOBODY could play it didn't help

i will never get this idea that a sport is less entertaining because you need to be physically gifted to play it at the highest, professional level.

xp to lj: american football has more of this abstract, flowing stuff than cricket or baseball, but less than football or basketball. i feel like i could get into it much more easily than basketball, which i doubt will ever happen, but it's certainly less easy to break down and explain than baseball, which i follow and enjoy.

Cricket and Basketball are equals when it comes to personalities. Cannot deny that.

i will never get this idea that a sport is less entertaining because you need to be physically gifted to play it at the highest, professional level.

Nothing to do with entertainment, I wouldn't find basketball entertaining if it was Munchkins vs. Oompaloompas either

... OK, probably would

Basketball is kind of cool but Tracer is OFFTFM about the higher scoring making it better. The lower scoring a sport is = the more potential for sudden dramatic twists.

Tennis is the weird one here because it provides you with the best bits of high-scoring AND low scoring sports.

I think Tracer was pulling our plonkers a bit

Matt OTM

I enjoy basketball but when there can be 100+ scores over the course of 48 minutes of play the excitement value of each one is practically nil.

"Oh I missed a mammoth three point fg did I? Well, there'll be another one along in a minute."

basketball is about who loses the slowest

The lower scoring a sport is = the more potential for sudden dramatic twists

pretty much the crux yeah. the prospect of genuine upsets in football must be unrivalled. obv the drawback is the equally huge likelihood of dismal stalemates.

wait, how is baseball a white sport???

Even he admits when he started out covering NBA basketball on Channel 4 in 1995, he was not brought on board for his roundball expertise but for his knowledge and understanding of America, particularly young black America.

“I’m a black music aficionado and fan and basketball always kind of fitted with that. I’m not a sports presenter, I was brought in for my cultural knowledge. I got America, and I got the right bit of America; not the fat bastard eating ribs out the back of his truck, with his baseball cap on, his mullet and cowboy boots. That’s not really my end of the market. I got the other end, the cool end, and that’s where I came from.”

http://www.hosana.co.uk/files/images/small%20Mark%20webster_0.jpg

sunny it's not but it's whiter than basketball or football isn't it?

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PHO/AAGX003_8x10-2006TeamComposite~Red-Sox-2006-Team-Composite-Posters.jpg

“I’m a black music aficionado and fan and basketball always kind of fitted with that. I’m not a sports presenter, I was brought in for my cultural knowledge. I got America, and I got the right bit of America; not the fat bastard eating ribs out the back of his truck, with his baseball cap on, his mullet and cowboy boots. That’s not really my end of the market. I got the other end, the cool end, and that’s where I came from.”

just felt like that needed to be copied and pasted again

That's pure British Amerophile, that is

caek otm re: basketball being show loses the slowest. way more boring than soccerball

all of you are wrong about hockey: it rules

show = who

yah... no. a game you can't follow while drunk is a game not worth following.

Hard enough to follow when sober, nonetheless I like it

*I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for ice hockey, so I've got to be in favour of it

(*my dad played it, and my mum was a figure skater, that's how they met)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000CCBCAI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

LOL, I'll have to get a copy of that for Mother's Day!

"Toepick."

“I’m a black music aficionado and fan and basketball always kind of fitted with that. I’m not a sports presenter, I was brought in for my cultural knowledge. I got America, and I got the right bit of America; not the fat bastard eating ribs out the back of his truck, with his baseball cap on, his mullet and cowboy boots. That’s not really my end of the market. I got the other end, the cool end, and that’s where I came from.”

imo that quote needs to be polled

fat bastard eating ribs out the back of his truck

wkiw

the COOL end

Show me a decent part of America that does not feature RIBS (shut up, herbivores).

you love middle america

Ribs are fucking delicious, you don't have to be a person with those other traits to know a rack of ribs is the fucking business.

I was a dummy and didn't read that I was supposed to choose the worst.

Probably should have chosen Ameriphiles, since I'm somewhat of an Anglophile, at least when it comes to music.

Still, those Americans who say "Cheers" or use other British phrases/words/accents make my skin crawl.

And yes, ribs rule over just about any British food.

i use cheers at the end of work emails all the time, there are only so many informal sign-offs u can really use

'all best' is what I tend to use

I've never eaten ribs. But good Italian food has always been around here, so whatever.

I'm just in it for the jokes about football violence. And the boys.

Don't you mean the "bhoys"?

Possibly. Well, and the clothes. And the dance moves, now that you mention it. Oh hell, I'm a fraud.

"red beans and ricely" is acceptable

Still, those Americans who say "Cheers" or use other British phrases/words/accents make my skin crawl.

because?

I don't say 'cheers' or 'trousers' or 'arse' or various other Britishisms because they all sound stupid in my accent and real Britishes would probably laugh at/hate me for it. It just doesn't sound right...

but you are quintessentially Britishes yourself now

you are Bride of LBZC

*scary music*

i use cheers at the end of work emails all the time, there are only so many informal sign-offs u can really use

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^^ haha me too, i was feeling all guilty so i'm glad u manned up first.

i bet you a zillion dollars mandee has used "cheers" to sign off from work emails too

i actually copied it from my boss, he always does that and i was all like that's classy without seeming too "casual" but also not like too emo like "sincerely" or "take care" something

yeah i would welcome more suggestions for email sign offs btw right now i just cycle btw

• cheers
• best
• thanks

I've been saying "cheers" for years, but don't consider myself an Anglophile. I'm a pretty staunch American.

also i never say CHEERS out loud unless i am 1) toasting or 2) making fun of british ppl

Sometimes I say "...can't be arsed" but in my mind it's a joke about British people. That may or may not be evident to anyone who lives outside my brain.

xpost LJ if you guys want to coach me on speaking with some form of English accent I'd be happy to adopt your Britishisms, until then I will stick to Canadianisms, like 'toque'.

i use cheers at the end of work emails all the time, there are only so many informal sign-offs u can really use

Yeah, there really aren't many that aren't too formal or too familiar. Cheers is one of the only ones that doesn't seem totally awkward. I would never say "Cheers" though, except in relation to the sitcom maybe.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/cheers/CheersTV.jpg

'All the best' is actually VERY VERY Irish, more so than English.

Perhaps the true question is WHAT'S WORSE, Americans who ache to be English or those who ache to be Irish?

I miss Carla Tortelli.

Pygmalion II: The Zinging

Those Irishy phrases are actually just part of normal US speech ... they got here because, you know, a lot of people from there came here at one point. Don't feel too special, though, Irishmen. Italian-Americans call themselves "Italian", and just about every other hyphenated ethnicity.

... does the same thing.

I like "Best Regards" or "Kind Regards" when signing off. There are a lot of people in academic publishing who use "Cheers".

I don't mean to insult anyone on this thread - I know my aversion to "Cheers" is my own issue. To me, it smacks of faux-sophistication as if the person says it because in their imagination that is what British people would use, and they are, by default, more cultured than Americans. I also read it as a sign of forced eccentricity.

I understand that these misgivings are entirely a phantom of my imagination and that people who use the phrase "Cheers" probably don't give it a second thought.

BTW, I always sign off emails with either "Thanks" or "Thank you".

"All best" and "Best regards" are peculiarly Irish or English? That's kind of silly, there are only so many vocab combinations that have the effect of being a sort of formal but congenial sign-off and those two must be common everywhere.

Are there Americans who think of "All the best" or "Best Regards" as very Irish or English? I don't, but I can't speak for anyone else.

OTOH, I think it is not uncommon for Americans to think of "Cheers" as British, whether it really is used by actual British folk or not.

Agree on both counts.

I know my aversion to "Cheers" is my own issue. To me, it smacks of faux-sophistication

True story: I remember once being called pretentious by an American for using the word "telly".

[I don't think this is particularly odd or hard to understand, by the way. Just worth noting in the hope that LJ will pipe up and say something idiotic.]

Wait, salsa shark, where are you in Canada? You don't know people who use "cheers" or "arse"? They're not the most common forms but they don't strike me as foreign per se either. Maybe I've just know too many Anglophiles?

("Trouser" is def a bit silly though.)

Oh, are you in Britain? I can actually kind of understand that then.

A lot of our daily phrases in the US actually came here from Ireland, Scotland, whatever... we just think they're normal because it's how we speak, and we basically don't know shit about what other English-speaking peoples are doing.

I've never eaten ribs. But good Italian food has always been around here, so whatever.

― burt_stanton, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

non-sequitur

I can't decide except to say that whenver an American or Englishman is tempted to eschew their legendary self-regard, narcissism and omphalocentrism and be interested in anything else, it's probably an improvement.

I like "Best Regards" or "Kind Regards" when signing off. There are a lot of people in academic publishing who use "Cheers".

― -:¦:-•(¯'•omg•'¯)•-:¦:- (dan m), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont have regard for anyone i interact with at work

i don't sign off "thanks" because i guess i feel that thanks should stand on their own - if i'm thanking someone i don't want it to be some quasi-formalized afterthought. HOWEVER if i do thank someone i will often then say "cheers" as a sign-off since outside of convivial drinking it carries a connotation of gratitude, so it's like a little shoring up and reinforcement of the general sentiment

90% of the time i sign off with "my best" unless i work with the person a lot and then it's usually no sign-off at all

, I always sign off emails with either "Thanks" or "Thank you".

But the problem with that is a lot of times there is nothing you need to thank the person you're emailing for. And I don't want to thank people for nothing.

i miss old keepin it posi max

Ever have an office job?

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Sundar,
I was born/raised in Alberta but have been in London ~18 months. I rarely heard Alberta people say 'cheers' unless they were toasting and 'arse' would probably get a few raised eyebrows, at least among people I know. 'Trousers' are, I dunno, the kind of pants old men wear. I just tend to avoid a lot of Britishisms because there are already Canadian/American equivalents that work just as well, don't sound weird with my accent, and don't make me feel like a try-hard. I say 'washroom' not 'toilet', 'elevator' not 'lift', 'pants' not 'trousers' (much to the confusion of many and amusement of me), etc etc. I do however say 'queue' instead of 'line up'.

everyone, as you were

Yeah, thinking about it, I'm probably just thinking of like indie people and academic dorks. The guy who changes your oil would probably not say "cheers" or "arse". I sometimes say "queue", probably because my parents use it, ha.

But the problem with that is a lot of times there is nothing you need to thank the person you're emailing for. And I don't want to thank people for nothing.

― Nicole

you should always at least implicitly thank the people reading your correspondence, if only for actually doing so

i miss old keepin it posi max

― harry s tfuman (and what), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:24 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

step away with ur positive ways ethan this aint back in the day

btw i gave nabisco a gold star for being positive today so id like to think im keeping it balanced at least

, I always sign off emails with either "Thanks" or "Thank you".

But the problem with that is a lot of times there is nothing you need to thank the person you're emailing for. And I don't want to thank people for nothing.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:23 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I thank them for taking the time to read my email. I have to send many, many emails to people in my job, usually asking them to do something for me or provide some information or absorb some information. I'm thankful if they pay any attention to it and don't trash it immediately.

I never looked at it that way, I guess I'm not really expecting people to read/care about my emails.

the only email salutation is "always"

or desalutation or whatever

REGARDS,

SOMEONE WHO CARES ABOUT ANGLOPHILES

And yes, ribs rule over just about any British food.

We used to eat them, in a slightly different form admittedly, when we were kids, so they're not exclusively American.

A lot of our daily phrases in the US actually came here from Ireland, Scotland, whatever...

But not as many as came from England, of course

imho max should kiu with the negging.

no more mr.milquetoast

thanking someone for actually reading your email seems like setting the bar pretty low!

noone has thanked me for reading their posts. pretty rude imho

saw Pink Elln last night at APT - rock!!!!

thanks,

voted anglophiles btw, even though they will sleep with you for a bar of cad-berries

cheers

thankig u

I always put my glasses in the cupboard upside-down. Ew!

Thanks,

To me, it smacks of faux-sophistication as if the person says it because in their imagination that is what British people would use, and they are, by default, more cultured than Americans. I also read it as a sign of forced eccentricity.

thanks Moodles, that makes some kinda sense

what of britishers who say "y'all"? (not that there are many of 'em)

best

There are new guidlines up on the intranet. Barry will be around later this afternoon to go over them with you.

Thanks,

Never heard anyone say that... yet (xp)

IS THERE SOMETHING I OWE YOU THAT YOU HAVE NOT SPELLED OUT, IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE THANKING ME FOR?

i say:

y'all
dude
HOWDY

I was accused of Americophilia for saying something "sucks" the other day.

i thought yankophile was the term anyway, not that i care for it

No, that's just someone who likes Weird Al.

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so wrong

Totally, yes. There's so much more American stuff to like than British stuff.

are there any anglophiles left or is it just ppl who liked English music in the 80s

― J0hn D., Saturday, February 14, 2009 10:23 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i still think john is OTM.

do amerophiles actually exist

Surely, they do. We are drowning in them in Norway. Here are a few of them at a festival in the Norwegian town of Halden:
http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.3135874!img3135855.jpg

As for British Amerophiles, there are good ones:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tRg73iZIquM/RuXyi2uMfuI/AAAAAAAAPVQ/j0wnjOvfjrc/s320/records+shades.jpg
And there are bad ones:
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/b/bush/album-sixteen-stone.jpg

of course i have signed off my emails with 'cheers' before. just grown to have a distaste for it.

Danielle,

Friday, March 30 would be just fine. Just name a time and I will be there.

Cheers,
Amanda

Dear Andrew,
I am at the Dallas airport in their brand-new international wing. Even though I am not flying internationally. I hope this isn't an error on American Airline's part. I cannot express in words how goddamn excited I am to get out of Texas. My new observation about Texans this go around: they take the elevator up ONE FLIGHT OF STAIRS. This was quite a useless trip, save for my visiting a printing facility yesterday where I was required to examine sheets of signage and circle FLAWS. Also, at this particular printing facility there were about 30 young women assembling Tampax tampon boxes, which was sort of amusing.

Anyway, hope you are well, just wanted to drop you a hello!

Cheers,
Mandee

okay i'll stop finding all the emails in my outbox that contain the word 'cheers'

cheers mandee

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2391955/Paedophile-Anthony-Nelson-52-jailed-police-double-bluffed-pretending-11-year-old-girl.html

literally reading this in a queue at the Dallas international airport