My self destructive streak resurfaces

[Last Hussar]

http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=251880

In case its been removed, my suggestion was to ban everyone from the USA.

[Leon]

I can't see that ending well...   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's still there. I refrained from comment.

IanS 

[ciaphas]

I dont understand half of the nonsense that goes on over there, i find that i can ask a question get a sensible answer for about three or four posts, then someone posts something obtuse.

jon

[sebigboss79]

Having worked with Americans before and encountering them every now and then: TOTALLY SECONDED!

[Arsenus]

French people are better...
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I think...
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no?

[Leveller Mutineer]

A bit unfair on our cousins from across the water I feel. 

There's good and bad in all of us. 

TMP just attracts the worst sort of American.

Those that use forums. 

[lentulus]

A someone who posts on TMP all the time (same handle as here) I do think I should defend it at least a bit. 

Every forum has its own culture, and a few real personalities.  On TMP there tends to be a bit of a rough-and-tumble but mostly it is fairly sensible and since it *is* a web forum giving someone a good slap when they get out of line is not exactly as risky as it might be in a tavern.  There are a few personalities who act like a disfunctional family, but they are really part of the entertainment.  And not everyone in that category is an American.

As far as Americans go, I do find myself more comfortable working in the City than Wall Street; but the thundering majority of Americans are sweet, helpful people who are often friendly and likeable.  Certainly I have more often found myself in  pleasant conversation with a receptionist or a waitress in New York than in London.  If you get Americans in a tense, hot, crowded situation they tend to shout and argue a bit more loudly than Brits or Canucks.  You do have to not take yourself too seriously; in Boston for example if you cannot laugh at yourself you will get your knickers in a knot pretty quick but if you relax and take the jokes as the friendly poke they are intended to be you get along fine.

I'm afraid I've not been in France enough to oblige Arsenus with a comparison of the French, although the fact that some have listened to my awful French without hitting me is a good sign.

[mollinary]

Well TMP recently had a thread on favourite (or favorite) lines from the film Gettysburg.  I have probably got this particular one wrong,but it seems apposite, so here goes:  Sergeant Buster Kilrain (20th Maine) "any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit, you take men one at a time".    With luck, someone else will come  along with the correct quote.

Mollinary

[mollinary]

Hmmm, just watched the film again, and it looks like it was the right quote after all!   Also, the right sentiment!

Mollinary