what`s the different between UK and USA?


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A hooter?

We call a horn a horn.

I agree, who the hell would call a horn a hooter????

US (Y)

16 To Drive

Massive

Cheap electronics and ....well....everything!

Sun & Snow:D

Las Vegas

Home Of The Budwiser

US (N)

21 to drink

all the women have fake breasts (No too much of a bad thing i suppose)

"SOME" (Nobody flame me cause i know not all) Inhabitants think they and their Nation is Supreme

George Bush (Although He's Good at stand up)

Home of the "Did you have a fall or accident that wasnt your fault...."

110v

Uk (Y)

18 to drink!!!

No boarders with other nations

Desent Music (Sorry Guys although yours is improving)

Simon Cowell

240v

Imprssive history for such a little island

UK (N)

Too close to france

Too cose to europe

Want to be europe

Royal Family (Living off my income)

Tony Blair......explains itself

Too Much Rain

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Looking back at all of the mention of authors and poets... I actually sat here, and in about three minutes scribbled off a list of authors/poets from the US as well - classic authors and the like mind you.

I guess there's really no need to post it - but it does serve to bring up one question - who gets to claim T.S. Eliot? ^_^

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Too close to france

Too cose to europe

and whats wrong with that?

btw, UK is IN europe, it doesnt matter if its an island

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As for writers, yes, I could make a nice long list as well. but most on my list would have died in the last 50 years or still be alive.

hence my point, all of your writters took inspiration and ideals from the old world...

is the same point as your musical one, as I said, jazz and blues are 100% US and I dont deny it, but you said rock, and if rock is inspired or not thats a different history, and excuse me, elvis of course is extremely important, In fact he is the other and only name that can be added to the list, but I dont think you can sey he had influenced more than the beatles or the floyd, maybe indirectly, yes, but in a different roads.

about jazz and blues beign the classical gift to the world, well, the old world has given to the whole world the true classical "mozart, chopin, LV Bethoveen, verdi, vivaldi" I know I know, those are "old" but who cares? we are not talking about the age of the factors, and still is a very important fact that despite the veru "old" age of the cultural influence of europe and UK specifically is still influencing and alive, thats a strong fact

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,Jan 13 2004, 17:04] and whats wrong with that?

btw, UK is IN europe, it doesnt matter if its an island

i never said it wasnt, I just mean the governmnet actually wants to be in europe which i dont, i just feel us britss have nothing in common with them. You can meet people from spain, italy, germany and they all seam to have something in common (And before some smart ass say's its not that they are all foreign) but i dont think us britts are the same

and as for the french all i can say is that you'r obviously not from the Uk, if your american think of them as canadian

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Sorry to confuse the issue but im refering to the european government and the continent as europe

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hence my point, all of your writters took inspiration and ideals from the old world...

That is actually a moot point - and unavoidable.

The early American authors and poets from the colonial time to the earlier years of the country (Philip Freneau, Oliver Wendel Holmes, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, etc.) of course drew some inspiration from the Old World - they had no other choice - because the country itself was too young, or didn't even exist yet. Of course, inspiration was also drawn from their own unique experiences in the Americas and elsewhere.

More recent American authors drew (and draw,) inspiration from the Old World authors, perhaps, but it -also- comes from earlier American authors - who in turn drew inspiration from the Old World, yes.

Where influence or inspiration comes from, is a totally moot point anyway. Are Holmes or Freneau lesser artists to e.e. Cummings or Robert Frost simply because they lived during an earlier time of American history? Of course not.

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US is closed minded to many things and has many stupid laws.. in North Carolina you can't even get .. head by anyone period.. it's against the law!

No :pacifier: 4 me ? :omg: yaaaaiiikksssss :omg: Noooooooooo

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What's this I read that the USA doesn't have crickets! Of course we have crickets! I hear them chirp outside my window every night.

Oh... the game cricket... nevermind.

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and as for the french all i can say is that you'r obviously not from the Uk, if your american think of them as canadian

how about whe think about them as humans wich have helped the world culture too?

That is actually a moot point - and unavoidable.

and I agree, but since he was the first to claim influences...

I find very flawed the argument that a culture os not valid because its age, thats all, the greates writters of all time are from other centuries and still, the most influential writters in the world humanisnms are european too, that was my point.

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I find very flawed the argument that a culture os not valid because its age, thats all, the greates writters of all time are from other centuries

They are? Perhaps you've heard of Robert Pinsky, T.S. Eliot, e.e. Cummings, Jack Kerouac or Maya Angelou for starters? ^.^

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They are? Perhaps you've heard of Robert Pinsky, T.S. Eliot, e.e. Cummings, Jack Kerouac or Maya Angelou for starters? ^.^

yeah, I know them, have you heard of

Patrick Suskind, Albert Camus, Lord Byron, Alexandre Dumas, Goethe, Jean Paul Sartre, William Blake, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietszche, etc... a good mix of old and new

We can have this argument forever, if you like US authors then more power for you, is a fact of opinions.

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No, no - I wasn't making an argument of liking one group of authors more than the other - in fact, Dumas is one of my favourite others, right up there with Sabatini (whom I happen to consider one of the greatest authors ever. Ever.) I was merely pointing out authors specifically from /this/ century - since you said the greatest writers of all time were from other centuries - and I felt like rebutting that.

Maya Angelou alone, in my opinion, is far more of a writer than Shakespeare or Lord Byron could have dreamed of being - and it has nothing to do with her being American. I also happen to think Nietszche's philosophy was -very- flawed - but again, has nothing to do with him /not/ being American. ^_^

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I like my Gloucestershire accent!

I agree with what someone said earlier, the cars are better over here!

sorry i just reading through this thread, when i stumbled upon this coment. I know its of topic US vs UK, but it has to be said. NO ONE and I mean no one likes the gloucestershire accent, not even the people who live there.

thank you

:D :D :D :D :D :D

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I also happen to think Nietszche's philosophy was -very- flawed - but again, has nothing to do with him /not/ being American. ^_^

oh, of course it has contradictions, every philosophy have them, but the strong sense of human mrality decaying was something that shocked the entire world, just one human brain trembling the floor of the moralists.

BTW, I want add another name to my list: one of the greatest poets of all time, Charles Baudelaire ;)

And even I dare to add De Sade

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i never said it wasnt, I just mean the governmnet actually wants to be in europe which i dont, i just feel us britss have nothing in common with them. You can meet people from spain, italy, germany and they all seam to have something in common (And before some smart ass say's its not that they are all foreign) but i dont think us britts are the same

and as for the french all i can say is that you'r obviously not from the Uk, if your american think of them as canadian

Yes, Labour does seem to be driving us into the EU at full speed, but that's not to say we don't have anything in common with people from Spain, Italy, France etc.

If anything, I would say they are superior to us Brits, as whilst we have let our culture be anally raped by what I like to call Americanism, those countries have not, and their culture is still rife among their population.

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Oh, americans have discovered the secrects of orthodontistry. (that wasn't very nice, and i know i'm play on just sterotypes)

HAHA! that made me laugh!

buts thats not true at all now

UK Rocks! US is full of Americans! lol!

joke

bring on the flames!

Britain has a better politics system and constitution

FLEXIBLE!

Not like America, where people are being killed everyday becuase of gun crime

But no one can do anything about it! Coz the constitution to too hard to change!

WAKE UP PEOPLE! The right to bear arms is the cause fo this problem but your hands are tied!

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oh, of course it has contradictions, every philosophy have them, but the strong sense of human mrality decaying was something that shocked the entire world, just one human brain trembling the floor of the moralists.
Sure, sure - often I feel that's the only reason he wrote half of what he did. Contradictions aside - his actual beliefs, as he wrote them, I tend to disagree with far too often.
BTW, I want add another name to my list: one of the greatest poets of all time, Charles Baudelaire

I counter, and remain in the 20th century at the same time. Ernest Hemingway. ^.^

(Yes, I know - more known for his novels than poetry - but still, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.)

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