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From: "Ross Johnson" <rossjohnson@ROSSJOHNSON.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
To: <CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM>
Date: Wed
18 Apr 2001 23:43:19 +0100

 
From: Jackson Crawford
    My point, ya see, is not to get across information on any specific states, just more generally that people in the southern and western U.S. do not well-receive being referred to as "Yanks" .
tough! it's another matter of like it or lump it IMO.
 
It's residual bitterness from our great-great (or great-great-great, or great-great-great-great, whatever) grandparents losing the war for southern independence from the Northeasterners and Californians. You know, it's like calling a Scot an Englishman,
I don't care...i'm not a jock! :-)
but that does piss scots off big time....
here, there's a tendency to call a scot a brit when (s)he's doing well (eg when coulthard wins a GP) but when he fucks up and doesn't finish a race, he's a Scot....that really jacks 'em off.
 
    British or English?
english is everything from england. british is including english, scottish and welsh. perhaps northern irish aswell, i can't remember. with british isles, united kingdom, great britain it gets too bloody confusing for me.
 
if you're not English but are Welsh or Scottish or North Irish or whatever you don't want to be called English even though that's what most Americans would call you (or a Euro, or less flattering terms - how about "frog"...oooooooh...).
frog???? wow! that's really offensive innit??? never been called a frog before...is that supposed to offend me?? been called various 4 letter words before though....
come on! you can do better than that! :-)
 
Similarly, Southerners and Westerners (REAL Westerners, not the damn Californians and to a lesser extent the Oregonians -
that's where everclear are from right?
 
    What term would you use for Texans, huh? Why don't you come out and just say it...
cuz i got enough hate mail from the hick thing, so i'm not gonna go there again...not for a week or so anyway!
 
   At least I'm not flyin' over there to lynch your Euro ass with a 2x4, a crowbar, a pickup, some chains, and a .44 (a family favorite). I'm just jokin' around, see. I hope everyone recognizes that. But, seriously, I know damned good and well that there are some other Southerners, Westerners, and even some "fella" Texans on here, and we don't take kindly to that "Yank" crap.
if you(or anyone else for that matter) doesn't like it, the delete option is always available if needed...:-)
we can't always agree on everything, but hopefully we are all intelligent enough to realise(none of that z crap) that our opinions are what they are, our opinions. A little bit of respect goes a long way.
 
Mr Mungo, chocolate cup cakes mania tonight