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 Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:


The British Top Gear beats the pants off the American one as well.

Someone made another Top Gear??






(yes, I know that someone took 3 American idiots and thought they could make a half-way decent replica of an International Icon... but failed miserably)

You want comedy.....Touch of Cloth, no can laughter and as funny as hell

"How annoying are 'British' Jokes?"

Not nearly as much as the 'British' themselves are.


I know ...took the easy shot...couldn't resist.

Seriously though,"How did this go 5 pages on Dakka before it was said?".

Later,
ff

I love Americans. Especially the ones who tell me "I love your Benny Hill."

Yeah, right....

 jasper76 wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

Pretty much this; British workers stuck in a dead-end office job understand that their future consists of awkward Christmas parties, annoying/unreasonable bosses, petty coworkers, and if you're really unlucky customers *shudder*. For some reason American workers stuck in a dead-end office job still really believe, deep down in their soul, that one day they'll be running the company and lording it over the peons.

So this is an incorrect characterization of US workers at desk jobs in general. Plenty, perhaps most, people who work desk jobs have no aspirations whatsoever of achieving managerial or other executive positions, and are content to come to the office, do their job, and get paid for their work And in many skilled positions, workers make more money than their managers do.

I think this is a pretty fair generalisation.

On my first visit to New Orleans, a couple of decades ago, we pulled up in a parking lot and the attendant started chatting. "You gotta move over here, young people like you, it's the best place in the world." He was a parking lot attendant and his home was probably washed away in Hurricane Katrina.

Is being optimistic in the face of depressing reality a good thing? Definitely yes and definitely no.