Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[maviczap]

Yes Bill I've never witnessed such a shambles and your boss doing that to you only goes to show that some people have forgotten about democracy.

[carelesschucca]

Bill that's one of the sadest posts I've ever seen on this forum. It's worrying and depressing.

[Littlepeahead]

What I noticed about my the news when I was in the States is how they didn't really cover world current affairs at all, it was so insular. It was only when I headed to Canada for a day that I saw England had had terrible flooding, yet if there has been a similar disaster in the USA it would have been straight on the UK news. I do wonder if many Americans live in a bubble.

In the UK during elections we get reams of 'what we'll do if we are elected', the economy, taxation, healthcare, immigration. You seem to get 'I'll build a wall and lock up that woman'. If David Cameron had come out with idiotic stuff like that he'd have been laughed out of London!

As for the email scandal, if an autistic British kid can hack into supposedly high security government servers Hillary may as well use Hotmail and Password123.

[Kenzie]

I know what you mean LPH, we were over there a month or so ago. Some of the things they had like the mini ads basically slagging each other off we wouldn't dream of putting on tv here. There was also a lot of the proposal ads and a lot of ads saying politician X is corrupt etc. But yes, very focused on themselves. One taxi guy was even listening to BBC world service as he was tired of all the election news.

[garynortheast]

Two gripes really. One agreeing with you Bill, and to say I have the same feeling of impending doom here. If we don't halt this horrible and alarming right wing slide into intolerance and xenophobia, I can see violent civil unrest and armed conflict happening on the streets of Britain within 5 years. I have daughters for God's sake, that's not what I would wish for them. Or anyone else come to that.
Gripe two rather more trivial in the grand scheme of things - waiting in for the second day this week for the courier to come and collect the parcel they were supposed to collect on Monday but didn't.

[Bibio]

my money's on Trump.

most Americans dont even know why they celebrate Independence day so what hope is there for keeping up with other peoples history, politics or current affairs.

question.. has America on their own ever won a war on foreign soil?

[littleoldman2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip...93American_War

[BanannaMan]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

What I noticed about my the news when I was in the States is how they didn't really cover world current affairs at all, it was so insular. It was only when I headed to Canada for a day that I saw England had had terrible flooding, yet if there has been a similar disaster in the USA it would have been straight on the UK news. I do wonder if many Americans live in a bubble.

My guess would be about about 90% of them.
You have to search for world news. US news is little more than propaganda.
I'd also bet 90% have no clue that Russia just sailed eight ships including it's only aircraft carrier through the English Channel en route to Syria or why or how that might effect them.


Most Americans think what little world news they see on TV is all the news in the world and there is surprisingly large percentage of Americans that don't care what's going on in the rest of the world because they think it doesn't affect them or either they just don't give damn about anyone else.


So yes, basically we are a nation of cupid stunts.
Just look at our 2016 elections if you need proof.

Originally Posted by Bibio

my money's on Trump.

most Americans dont even know why they celebrate Independence day so what hope is there for keeping up with other peoples history, politics or current affairs.

See the last two lines above in my response to LPH.

Originally Posted by Bibio

question.. has America on their own ever won a war on foreign soil?

We like to take credit for winning both world wars on our own.
That's when we saved the whole world twice.
We thought everyone knew that!




And here we go:
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37842977

How much of this will we see if Trump loses.
Or will this be the beginning of the purges if he wins?

[Heorot]

They think they won the War of 1812 but they got their a$$ kicked by the Canadians & British. At best it was a stalemate but they claim to have won. Given that they gained nothing from the war, I'd say they lost.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by BanannaMan

My guess would be about about 90% of them.
You have to search for world news. US news is little more than propaganda.
I'd also bet 90% have no clue that Russia just sailed eight ships including it's only aircraft carrier through the English Channel en route to Syria or why or how that might effect them.

So yes, basically we are a nation of cupid stunts.
Just look at our 2016 elections if you need proof.

And here we go:
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37842977

How much of this will we see if Trump loses.
Or will this be the beginning of the purges if he wins?

Your views mirror that of my friend from Orlando, and the common factor is that youve both travelled to Europe and interacted non US citizens, and you continue to do this.

To open your mind, you need to experince other cultures. ive a guy on my team who doesn't like the French, but he's never been there or met any!

When push come to shove, if its only you and my mate, im sure there's space in the UK for you to relocate