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 jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA | reply to jvmorris
Re: Elf and Safely Ehh? Is it really going to be necessary for me (a Yank, no less) to explain to you poor Brits what's wrong with Elf and Safely????  Given the amount of criticism they routinely receive in the British media, I figure there must be a good caricature of elf and safely somewhere, although I must admit that I've never seen it.
At the moment, they're doing an excellent job of wiping out fetes throughout the UK, never mind things like Christmas (or wintertime holiday, if you prefer) decorations throughout the UK, but that's only the beginning of their transgressions.
How on earth do you guys put up with this crap?
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 PjrDon't Panic
join:2005-12-11
UK
1 edit | said by jvmorris:How on earth do you guys put up with this crap? By ignoring it 
TBH the banning of Christmas decorations passed me by. Or was it that they were scared they'd fall on someones head? That's something else we have imported from the US: the sue culture. Slipped over on the ice and sprained an ankle really rather badly? Nasty bruise? Sue somebody, anybody, for as much as you can.
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jvmorrisI Am The Man Who Was Not There.Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-03
Reston, VA | said by Pjr:said by jvmorris:How on earth do you guys put up with this crap? By ignoring it Exactly (and what was the title of this thread initially, once again)? The English ignore too much as their culture is stripped away from them. You go whimpering into that dark night . . . . (restricting your complaints either to the home fires or those few local pubs in which you are likely to know everyone present).
We tend to be a bit more noisy about that here in the US (and unfortunately only a bit more noisy these days), but then we tend to throw the bastards out of office. I think what really amazes me about the English is that your papers (which, admittedly are more competitive than most of ours) are certainly willing, for the most part, to criticize the Government freely, but the electorate never seems to respond, even though, for the most part, they reflect the attitudes in the daily rags. (Okay, the BBC, especially recently, has become the mouthpiece for politically correct positions as espoused by the Labour Party.)
Could it be that over here (US) a great number of our elected representatives must stand for re-election every two (or four) years, whereas your situation is every (what?) five or six years, at best? Admittedly, our basic 2/4 year electoral cycle has its good points and its bad points, but the real problem today in the US is that the electorate seems to have about a 24-hour memory.
TBH the banning of Christmas decorations passed me by. Or was it that they were scared they'd fall on someones head? Oh, gimme a break, you have an established religion in the UK, we don't in the US, but our 'Christmas' decorations are far more extensive than yours! (Okay, it's more marketing oriented here in the US than in the UK, but I've always found your decorations both more tasteful and more modest.) Oh, sure our (Christian) weekly church attendance is much more than yours, but you have more ostensible Christians (as a percentage of the population) than we do. We have a higher percentage of practicing Jews and Muslims than you do. (Okay, you beat us out on Hindus and Sikhs, but there doesn't seem to be any problem with the Diwali celebrations.)
Let me ask you this: How many Brits have actually been injured in putting up Christmas decorations along public streets in the UK without using cherry pickers to do so in the past 100 years? How many members of the general public have actually been injured by falling decorations in the past 100 years (due to a failure to use cherry pickers to install them, of course)? How many British residents have actually been injured during Guy Fawkes celebrations (not to mention Diwali) as compared to Americans celebrating the 4th of July?
(Oh heck, I'll need to come back later and finish this up); something else has come up.
That's something else we have imported from the US: the sue culture. Slipped over on the ice and sprained an ankle really rather badly? Nasty bruise? Sue somebody, anybody, for as much as you can.
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 wonko3fcVerbum sat sapienti
join:2001-06-02
UK
1 edit | said by jvmorris: How many British residents have actually been injured during Guy Fawkes celebrations
Sadly, quite a lot every year....
I also have some vague memory of some poor sole being killed putting up street decor for Crimble and of course, I've no doubt several folks sustain injurys one way or another through domestic decor...
IMHO the problem is the imported littigation culture as alluded to previously in this thread. FUD (Fear Uncertainty & Doubt) has caused 'officialdom' to become 'overprotective' aka Nanny State as a consequence. All rather a shame really; its taken the fun out of life in an attempt to 'engineer' common sence... | |
 TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | reply to Pjr
said by Pjr:said by jvmorris:How on earth do you guys put up with this crap? By ignoring it TBH the banning of Christmas decorations passed me by. Or was it that they were scared they'd fall on someones head? That's something else we have imported from the US: the sue culture. Slipped over on the ice and sprained an ankle really rather badly? Nasty bruise? Sue somebody, anybody, for as much as you can. The beauty is we get a lot of our law traditions from your country... Not to mention, the majority of "American" culture is an anglo culture... America is more closely linked to the UK than to any other foreign country.
-Tzale
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