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Ahtman wrote:

mattyrm wrote:

Ahtman wrote:They have the superior alcohol, in comparison to the US and Britain, to be sure.

Aiiiieeeeee!!

Britain and America make some of the best beer in the world...

Beer is all that counts to me. Im a real ale drinker, and we make thousands of different ones!

Being the best beer is like being the best patty out in the field though.

Heresy.

Anyway, what about Gin? Gin is awesome.

Ahtman wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:MJ was not Australian... I believe he was from your neck of the woods...

It's always an Aussie whose mind leaps to pedophilia.

I find it difficult to choose from the many USA slurs based upon truth to throw back at you...

Why dont you just admit that you know very little about wine instead of attempting to deflect yet again.

AvatarForm wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:MJ was not Australian... I believe he was from your neck of the woods...

It's always an Aussie whose mind leaps to pedophilia.

I find it difficult to choose from the many USA slurs based upon truth to throw back at you...

Why dont you just admit that you know very little about wine instead of attempting to deflect yet again.

How am I supposed to take the opinion of someone who actually thinks Australian wine is better than average? As or slamming the USA, you realize this is about French wine right? I mean it is in the title and everything.

Ahtman wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:

Ahtman wrote:

AvatarForm wrote:MJ was not Australian... I believe he was from your neck of the woods...

It's always an Aussie whose mind leaps to pedophilia.

I find it difficult to choose from the many USA slurs based upon truth to throw back at you...

Why dont you just admit that you know very little about wine instead of attempting to deflect yet again.

How am I supposed to take the opinion of someone who actually thinks Australian wine is better than average? As or slamming the USA, you realize this is about French wine right? I mean it is in the title and everything.

Your previous post possessed nothing to refute that Aussie wine is superior to French, and all to do with attacking Aussies... I simply responded to you in kind and requested that you stay on topic or gtfo

dogma wrote: Without cognac there would be fewer rap videos too.

That is enough to dislike them right there.

I would like to make a few remarks on the topic of wine.

It’s true that quite a lot of French wine is pish, however the French produce more wine than any other country so it stands to reason that they will produce more pish too.

I haven’t drunk much bad Australian wine, though I think it is mainly the better stuff that gets exported to the UK so maybe I have missed out on some stinkers.

I don’t like Australian wine as much as I used to. The alcohol content has got too high. 20 years ago, the average strength of a bottle of wine was 12.5%, It’s more like 14% now. That extra amount of alcohol does my head in.

The other thing about a lot of Australian wine is that it’s very in your face. There is a lot of fruit and flavour, but not so much depth and complexity, except in the most expensive bottles.

These are factors shared by a lot of New World wines, e.g. from south America. We’re also seeing the style being adopted by some of the Old World wine producers, even including the French. It’s a popular style associated with drinking wine by itself.

We can’t blame anyone except consumers for either of these trends (fruitiness and increased strength). Producers have to sell to the market.

I prefer to drink wine with food, and find the better quality French wines to be good drinking with food, less good as a beverage by themselves.

Lastly, regarding blind tastings; people very rarely eat and drink blind and one’s expectation of an experience changes the perception of the experience. That’s why champagne is still de rigeur for important celebrations. The production method and taste is basically the same for cava and other good sparkling wines, but only champagne is champagne.

May I say that we people dont love Brittain over here?
Because for example the Brittain news:
Brittain welcomes Obama
The queen and a daily trip
[insert soe other Brittain related stuff here]
To be short, there is olny stuff about Brittain on the news there.

thenoobbomb wrote:May I say that we people dont love Brittain over here?
Because for example the Brittain news:
Brittain welcomes Obama
The queen and a daily trip
[insert soe other Brittain related stuff here]
To be short, there is olny stuff about Brittain on the news there.

Brittain doesn't exist my friend...

Great Brittain...

Still doesn't exist.

They were the foremost military power of Europe for a good period of time, this was reinforced by WWI...

Unfortunately, "that" little episode happened and now nobody'll ever let them live it down

Before trying to insult a fellow nation, at least get the spelling right. "Great Britain". or if you prefer, "UK". I know they are actually two separate things, but most people don't know or care. and don't forget the caps.

As to the subject matter, I see it not as hate, but as friendly insults. its the same with Australia. I don't hate Australians, but the quip about it being a nation of British criminals (I know it is not) will probably not go away for a long time.
I guess its the British sense of humour. derogatory jokes are the mainstay. try not to get too offended when a Brit calls a Aussie a "Dundee", or a German a "Kraut". we just find that as a joking way to encourage conversation. not that I would in this day and age, but some still do.

airsoftmanic wrote:Before trying to insult a fellow nation, at least get the spelling right. "Great Britain". or if you prefer, "UK". I know they are actually two separate things, but most people don't know or care. and don't forget the caps.

As to the subject matter, I see it not as hate, but as friendly insults. its the same with Australia. I don't hate Australians, but the quip about it being a nation of British criminals (I know it is not) will probably not go away for a long time.
I guess its the British sense of humour. derogatory jokes are the mainstay. try not to get too offended when a Brit calls a Aussie a "Dundee", or a German a "Kraut". we just find that as a joking way to encourage conversation. not that I would in this day and age, but some still do.

This is what i was driving at...

Sometimes you just have to slap someone across the noggin to get your point across

Different stokes for different folks and all that.

My point is that nearly everyone in the UK thinks that they are the centre of the world, and most important. And Ive been there a lot on holiday

thenoobbomb wrote:

My point is that nearly everyone in the UK thinks that they are the centre of the world, and most important. And Ive been there a lot on holiday

Ha ha ha...
Most people in the UK think they live in a s**thole...

thenoobbomb wrote:

My point is that nearly everyone in the UK thinks that they are the centre of the world, and most important. And Ive been there a lot on holiday

It is the centre of the world; world maps all supposedly have their centres run right across Greenwich

Pax Britannica eh?

The UK strikes back...pansies! You dont even have coffeeshops in the version of drugs!

I would worry if we were the center of the world. we couldnt complain about it being too cold then..... 'cause we would be vapourised

thenoobbomb wrote: The UK strikes back...pansies! You dont even have coffeeshops in the version of drugs!

Whilst the legalisation and thus regulation of drugs may be a good thing it seem... rather un-British to do so...
Still it would be cool if we did it.

Well, kind people, take a look at the BBC news. While the international news has: 'DSK has been arrested!'
UK BBC news has: 'Kitten falls out of tree in Londen!' because there aint other news from da UK..


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purplefood wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote: The UK strikes back...pansies! You dont even have coffeeshops in the version of drugs!

Whilst the legalisation and thus regulation of drugs may be a good thing it seem... rather un-British to do so...
Still it would be cool if we did it.

Now all British people go to my pretty homeland, the Netherlands! For both drugs and the prostitues.. And getting drunk. Ah, well, thats just the UK, I think..

thenoobbomb wrote:

My point is that nearly everyone in the UK thinks that they are the centre of the world, and most important. And Ive been there a lot on holiday

Nearly everyone in the uk? Have you met 'nearly everyone' in the uk? Cos i haven't and i've been here for 30 years. Maybe you just met a bunch of British ass hats, we do have quite a lot of them, and i assume France does too.

Ah, well, take a look at TV in your country..

thenoobbomb wrote: Well, kind people, take a look at the BBC news. While the international news has: 'DSK has been arrested!'
UK BBC news has: 'Kitten falls out of tree in Londen!' because there aint other news from da UK...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

That's not what I see?

enlightened attitude.../ end sarcasm

thenoobbomb wrote:Ah, well, take a look at TV in your country...

The news reports what it wants to report...
We don't control it... why are you watching our news if it annoys you so much?
Britain isn't to blame if your news channels decide to report our news we do the same thing with America and i don't mind it. I like the insight into another culture i wish they did it more often actually.

It's kind of hard to understand all the French hate, really. I mean, among other things, we gave the world movies, food cans, vaccines, and bikinis.
Can you really ask more of a nation ?

Henners91 wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote: Well, kind people, take a look at the BBC news. While the international news has: 'DSK has been arrested!'
UK BBC news has: 'Kitten falls out of tree in Londen!' because there aint other news from da UK...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

That's not what I see?

wow!
Its mostly TV.


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HudsonD wrote:It's kind of hard to understand all the French hate, really. I mean, among other things, we gave the world movies, food cans, vaccines, and bikinis.
Can you really ask more of a nation ?

Thanks for the bikinis.

thenoobbomb wrote:May I say that we people dont love Brittain over here?
Because for example the Brittain news:
Brittain welcomes Obama
The queen and a daily trip
[insert soe other Brittain related stuff here]
To be short, there is olny stuff about Brittain on the news there.

To just rub the front page of BBC News in your face again...

-Mladic removed from Hague court
-Japanese man admits Hawker's death
-Thai PM-elect to 'form a coalition'
-Turkey recognises Libyan Rebels
-Japan finds Pacific rare earths
-India's sharp-shooting granny

So sorry, clearly we do take interesting stuff from other nations... are you just resentful that we don't cover all the windmills you guys presumably build (I wouldn't know, I don't get the opportunity to read about other countries after all...)?


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thenoobbomb wrote:
wow!
Its mostly TV.

It is?

Meh, I'm calling trollface...

Go grow some tulips.