Dear Limey Writers

No, I didn't make a mistake. This is about English writers who managed to stuff their own feet solidly and completely into their own crevices.

"Visit an American university, bump into random students in the corridor and loudly call each one ‘asshole’. Then measure their reactions. This is what a team of psychologists did in a controlled experiment at the University of Michigan". Paul Robinson, starts off with inside the frying pan, and quickly jumnps into the fire.

Comments to his above post:

"This is complete and unadulterated Bovine manure. I'm from the North and if I was accousted and sworn at by a stranger I would feel compelled to give some instruction in manners, and I would do it with my boot."

"Hmm, another conclusion to the study could be that Northerners 1) accept that they are assholes or 2) they are too wimpy to stand up for themselves."

And in yet another case of the Brits landing in hot water, just before the 2004 elections, The Guardian organized something called Operation Clark County, trying to get their readers to send letters to voters in Ohio and convince them to vote Democratic. Here's a few choice responses to the letters:

Dear Limey assholes

"...Each email someone gets from some arrogant Brit telling us why to NOT vote for George Bush is going to backfire, you stupid, yellow-toothed pansies ... I don't give a rat's ass if our election is going to have an effect on your worthless little life. I really don't. If you want to have a meaningful election in your crappy little island full of shitty food and yellow teeth, then maybe you should try not to sell your sovereignty out to Brussels and Berlin, dipshit. Oh, yeah - and brush your goddamned teeth, you filthy animals..."

Consider this: stay out of American electoral politics. Unless you would like a company of US Navy Seals - Republican to a man - to descend upon the offices of the Guardian, bag the lot of you, and transport you to Guantanamo Bay, where you can share quarters with some lonely Taliban shepherd boys.


To read all the replies to the letters, visit The Guardian.