🚀 go-pugleaf

This is in reference to <7424qg$goh$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, in which a one
st...@dds.nl wrote:
> In article <MPG.10cd5d07...@news.demon.co.uk>,
>   ma...@mhetherington.demon.co.uk (Mark) wrote:
>
> > I was out in the US during August, around the time of Clinton's testimony
> > before the "Grand Jury?" WTF is that? Anyway, every channel had a
> > programme about it. Each channel interviewed people around the world and
> > you had US citizens talking in great depth about the issue. Then they
> > went to Australasia, Europe and Japan and asked for comment and not one
> > person outside the US gave a f***. In their own way they all said that
> > "there are more important things to worry about".
> 
> Well this is the scary thing.  Americans seem to revel in their stupidity,
> and overseas people rub it in even harder.  But the Americans i've spoken to
> regularly couldn't really give a shit either.  They're like "just give the
> man a break, the Democrats won't run him for president next term anyway" just
> the same as people overseas.  It's such a media driven thing.  The media in
> the US get viewers by advertising scandal - same rubbish as the Mirror and
> all that - and the media overseas get viewers by making cheapshots at
> Americans (and Asians too if they can get away with it).  I don't think
> Americans are as stupid as they seem, or as they like to portray themselves. 

I think you mean "each other".

> I don't think they realize how stupidly they really do portray themselves
> either - if they did they'd probably try do something about it.

Well I never heard about this crap about people overseas getting good 
publicity for making fun of Americans...  I do know that over here people
do that for ratings though :)

> > Australia is one country with one language and one government. I will not
> > pretend to know Australian issues, but the issue *is* far simpler than
> > that in Europe and that is no assertion!
> 
> Of course it is.  I've always been the one to spout extreme profanities at
> the dickheads in the European government for being so obsessed with their own
> little strip of land's rulebook.  I feel like hitting every petty Yugoslavian
> and Czechoslovakian for breaking Europe up into even smaller bits than it
> already is.  They need to chill and realize that a united Europe is a zillion
> times more useful and productive in the long run than squillions of pathetic
> little dots on a map all with chips on their shoulder about the next dot
> along.

Hey that reminds me...  how's that European currency coming along?

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