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.

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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

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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I won!

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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