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A Message to the citizens of America.
>
> The USA is about, once again, to become a colony of
> The Great British Empire.
>
> In light of your failure to elect a competent
> President of the USA,
> with at least half a brain, and thus to govern
> yourselves in a serious
> manner, we hereby give notice of the REVOCATION of
> your independence,
> effective immediately.
> Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume
> monarchical duties
> over all states, commonwealths, and territories
> (excepting Kansas,
> which she thinks is a bit of a shit-hole].
> Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a
> governor for
> America without the need for further elections.
> Congress and the senate
> will be disbanded as they are useless anyway.
> A questionnaire may be circulated next year to
> determine whether any of
> you noticed.
> To aid in the transition to a British Crown
> Dependency, the following
> rules are to be introduced with immediate effect:
> You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English
> Dictionary, so
> you know what we are talking about.
> Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation
> guide. You will be
> amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing
> it all these
> years. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such
> as 'favour' and
> 'neighbour.'
> Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without
> skipping half the
> letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the
> correct suffix
> "ise."
> You will cease to use stupid words like 'sidewalk,
> muffler, ball park
> figure, etc.
> Generally, you will be expected to raise your
> vocabulary to acceptable
> levels. (Look up vocabulary).
> Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with
> filler noises such
> as "like" "you know" " man" etc. is an unacceptable
> and inefficient
> form of communication. There is no such thing as US
> English, [unless of
> course it is an abbreviation for useless.]
> We will let your real President Bill Gates, know on
> your behalf. The
> Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take
> account of the
> reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of -ize.
> You will relearn your original national anthem, God
> Save The Queen.
> July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday,
> more as a temporary
> lapse of common sense.
> You will learn to resolve personal issues without
> resorting to using
> guns,lawyers, or therapists.
> The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists
> shows that you're not adult enough to be independent.
> Guns should only
> be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to
> sort things out
> without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then
> you're not grown
> up enough to handle a gun. Therefore, you will no
> longer be allowed to
> own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable
> peeler.
> A permit will be required if you wish to carry the
> said vegetable
> peeler in public.
> All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and
> this is for your
> own good. When we show you good European cars, you
> will understand what
> we mean. All intersections will be replaced with
> roundabouts, and you
> will start driving on the left with immediate effect,
> except in Kansas
> on alternate days, at the special request of Her
> Majesty. At the same
> time, you will go metric and without the benefit of
> conversion tables.
> Both roundabouts and metrication will help you
> understand the British
> sense of humour. [with an f'ing 'U']
> The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which
> you have been
> wrongly calling gasoline) - roughly $6/US a gallon.
> Get used to it.
> You will learn to make real chips. Those things you
> call French fries
> are not real chips, and those things you insist on
> calling potato chips
> are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut,
> fried in animal
> fat, and dressed not with Ketchup/Catsup but with
> vinegar.
> The cold tasteless stuff you persist upon on calling
> beer is nothing
> like beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British
> Bitter will be
> referred to as
> beer, and European brews of known and accepted
> provenance will be
> referred to as Lager. American brands will be referred
> to as
> 'Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine', so that all can be sold
> without risk of
> further confusion. Hollywood will be required
> occasionally to cast
> English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be
> required to cast
> English actors to play English characters. Watching
> twats like Andie
> MacDowell attempt English dialogue in 'Four Weddings
> and a Funeral' or
> Prick Van Dyke in 'Mary Poppins' was vomit making to a
> true Brit and an
> experience akin to having one's ears removed with a
> cheese grater.
> You will cease playing American football. There is
> only one kind of
> football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave
> enough will, in time,
> be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities
> to American
> football, but does not involve stopping for a rest
> every twenty seconds
> or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of
> puffter ballet
> dancers).
> Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not
> reasonable to host
> an event called the World Series for a game which is
> only played in
> America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there
> is a world beyond
> your borders, your error is understandable.
> You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us
> mad. We know it
> was one of your lot, but who and why ?
>
> Finally an Inland Revenue agent (i.e. tax collector)
> from Her Majesty's
> Government, will be with you shortly to ensure the
> acquisition of all
> moneys owing to the UK (backdated to 1776).
> We shall use the proceeds to have a huge 'piss-up' at
> your expense.
>
>
> Thank you for your co-operation.
>
> RULE BRITANNIA
>
>
 
Hey - don't knock America....







it gives us somewhere to keep all the AMERICANS!
 
Hear - Hear :) Too many septics here already
 
Spare a thought for us indigenous West Australians, according to current statistics we're the number destination for Poms who are fed up with bad weather, bad (and expensive )food, completely unaffordable housing and mostly crap beer (Carling anyone?). Hard to decide what's worse, ex-imperials who think they still are or current imperials who like to tell you they are.
My 2c worth ...
 
Don't start me on the Poms :)

Though me Moms one :ph34r:

Edit - becoz i could
 
Noticed that Brits were well numerous when I was in Perth for work a cuppla years back. Although, to their credit, I did not experience (m)any "whinging poms".

Met a few mad Kiwis though...actually Maoris. No offence, just a fact.

I like to think of the US (which is only a part of the Americas) as the best job the Brits ever did. Getting rid of the convicts to Australia (God bless us all) and the outcasts to the new world (America/ U.S.) Quite a large prison island, both of them...and I'm sure that both lots of us think that we got the better deal.

Have seen this declaration before, in a number of variants, and they're all great.

Shame that they voted that "peanut" to be President...or did they?

I think that the less they know about how great it is here, the better. At least for the rowdier and more odd citizens. They can just stick to their side of the world, and we'll do the same

Seth :p

**edited for spelling and to add more inflammatory comments. No (great) disrespect to any US members/ readers of this fine forum. **
 
If anything, Perth is overrun by South Africans. I've met more here in 3 years than I did over east in the rest of my life. And unfortunately thier reputation for being stubborn and arrogant exists for a reason.

Americans on the other hand, are fine individually. But once you cobble them together into a nation, something goes horribly wrong.
 
Have to agree on the South Affrican front, know we've got a bloody rugby team, why can't they assimillate, adopt our ways ... <_<
 
Aaaahhh, the pitfalls and benefits of multiculturalism.

You see, we ask people to bring their money and/or workskills to Australia from all over the world, hoping that they will see value in adopting our "superior" lifestyle.

We should not blame them when they fail to see merit in drinking beer, having BBQs, speaking English (or at least Ozi English), love our sports, realise that this is the world's best country, choose not to adopt citizenship.

We gave them the choice, you see, because most chose to abide by our immigration rules and not get here surreptitiously (for whatever reason, and I know some are legit, and I feel for them, but they are exceptional cases - all illegal, though). Little Johhny sez that they don't have to assimilate, and some choose not to. This is why we call it multiculturalism; so people (so-called Aussies) don't get inflamed when immigrants are speaking their native language in the street, and choose to live in ethnic enclaves. There are gains and losses, I'm sure.

Imagine if you were (and I'm sure some of you are) an indigenous person of this fine land. Should you also be expected to assimilate to the white man's way, or should they adopt yours? Where does it stop?

Live and let live. There will always be @rseholes in every bunch. Hopefully our "system" will lock them away with others who will reinforce their negativities. But let's not have a go at our legal (cetainly not "justice") system. It certainly pays to live your own life and not get bogged down in other people's problems.

Balance is required.

OK, no more off-topic for today.

Seth
 
Being an American naturalised Australian citizen I can see some truth to some of these comments. But to be honest I could give rats arse what you think about relgion, politics, race and nationallity. I come here to get brewing info and improve my hoppy passion. This site is on the favourites list for alot of other brewers in other countries. I would hate to see those brewers detered from posting because this is unfriendly place.



Cheers, JJ

American born Australian Citizen :beer:
 
jimmyjack said:
Being an American naturalised Australian citizen I can see some truth to some of these comments. But to be honest I could give (a) rat(')s arse what you think about rel(i)gion, politics, race and nationallity (nationality). I come here to get brewing info and improve my hoppy passion. This site is on the favourites list for a (space required) lot of other brewers in other countries. I would hate to see those brewers deter( r)ed from posting because this is (an) unfriendly place.



Cheers, JJ

American born Australian Citizen :beer:
[post="102369"][/post]​

Right on, JJ.

It's all about the brewing and the product of one's brewing, of course.
Petty opinions (and that's all they are) have no significance in the grand scheme.
Brewers unite.

The only thing that comes close to my beer is my pet peeve about spelling and grammar - see corrections in red above.
BTW, Aussies are great stirrers. What is a sacred cow anyway?

Again, apologies to all who take offence. And big apologies to all with no sense of humour, for that is a tragedy.

Cheers

(Citizen) Seth
(No humorous icon due to the serious nature of anti-bigotry)
 
I totally agree with seth. Working in a steelworks, i work with people from every corner of the world, and if theres one thing i've learnt, its that there are idiots, as well as good people in every country, and every religion and colour. So, chill out and drink some more beer, and lets all get along. :D
 
Biologically speaking we are all the same any way :excl:

Have a beer for humanity :beer: Cheers.

Now back to brewin.
 
This is all getting a bit deep and profound... did the beer get warm ? :)
 
... and the sooner this campaign to turn soccer into football disappears the better. :p (Richmond supporter)
 
Weizguy said:
jimmyjack said:
Being an American naturalised Australian citizen I can see some truth to some of these comments. But to be honest I could give (a) rat(')s arse what you think about rel(i)gion, politics, race and nationallity (nationality). I come here to get brewing info and improve my hoppy passion. This site is on the favourites list for a (space required) lot of other brewers in other countries. I would hate to see those brewers deter( r)ed from posting because this is (an) unfriendly place.



Cheers, JJ

American born Australian Citizen :beer:
[post="102369"][/post]​

Right on, JJ.


It's all about the brewing and the product of one's brewing, of course.
Petty opinions (and that's all they are) have no significance in the grand scheme.
Brewers unite.

The only thing that comes close to my beer is my pet peeve about spelling and grammar - see corrections in red above.
BTW, Aussies are great stirrers. What is a sacred cow anyway?

Again, apologies to all who take offence. And big apologies to all with no sense of humour, for that is a tragedy.

Cheers

(Citizen) Seth
(No humorous icon due to the serious nature of anti-bigotry)
[post="102381"][/post]​


Seth

I believe you missed one: The phrase is, I believe, "I couldn't give a rats..."

Flame suit on, ready to face the barage of other isms...

Steve (Fourth Generation Aussie but still lacking the lineage of our indigenous brethren)
 
Well i certainly am not racist, i hate every1 equally. :p
 
Sacred cows make the tastiest burgers...

and my beer is cold mika :)
 

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