BS: Mitt & the Brits

Subject: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 12:16 PM

From mega-blogger Andrew Sullivan, a Washington, DC-based Brit ex-pat: How To Royally Piss Off An Ally

All in all: hilarious so far. But one serious point: the Brits bitch and moan about everything all the time. They are characterologically piss-takers and doom-mongers, fearing (and predicting) national embarrassment always around the corner. But if a non-Brit joins in the doom chorus, the ranks will close, and the anger will be intense. They expect that kind of sneer from the French, not from an American. And now the Brits have a real asshole to prove wrong: the guy who's running to be president of the US.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 12:22 PM

Oh, dear. Sullivan is too much integrated into his adoptive home: he has forgotten how to spell

'arsehole'!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 12:46 PM

'arsehole' is a local variant, mostly restricted to England; far outnumbered by 'assholes' in North America.

(Hmmm, I don't think that says what I had in mind).

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Barb'ry
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 01:28 PM

I agree with the piss take bit but am slightly worried that despite being (allegedly) British, he doesn't realise most of the doom-mongering is also a piss take or at least vaguely tongue in cheek. It's sort of a cross between 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn' and 'Oh god, here we go again'.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 06:54 PM

I don't think too many people in England give a monkeys about Romney. I rather doubt if most people are really aware of his existance, still less of his presence.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 07:05 PM

Romney ain't wired correctly... It ain't his fault... He's just, ahhhh, defective...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 08:47 PM

He's just a broken reed from the Church of the Latter Day Saints, or in English, a moron.

Don T.

P.S. That isn't a typo.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 09:15 PM

'characterologically'.....hmmm

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,999
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 09:31 PM

In the parlance, "It was revealed."



If by chance anyone from the Conservative government of Canada visits England, you have my permission to keep it. No thanks required.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 26 Jul 12 - 10:26 PM

Mike Luckovich's cartoon on the proceedings

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:48 AM

Perhaps Sir John took Mitt to meet Q and fitted him up with atomic jet skis that fold up into the hologram of a machine gun - they'd be useful in Utah. he could play his Little Jimmy Osmond albums on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Stu
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 03:55 AM

We expect a far better standard of sneer from the French than anything a boorish oaf like Mitt could muster.

Sullivan's obviously spent too long tootling around inside the beltway; we're not bitching and moaning, we're taking the piss out of people like him.

P.S. Love the way Mitt called Ed "Mr Leader". It would have been inspired if it wasn't for the fact he was being genuinely thick.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 04:10 AM

Q, it's arsehole not asshole, it's our language, English, get it, we made an arsehole of teaching it to you colonials though.

Who is Milt Romney ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 04:17 AM

In a recent poll of 1,000 British Olympic-Games-Ticket-Holders, 999 responded by asking, "Who the fuck is Mutt Romney?".

Is it true that he changed his name from Terry Fuckwit?

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: David C. Carter
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 04:38 AM

He's the product of "Bad Sperm".

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: kendall
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 07:28 AM

Maybe he's an idiot savant? He knows how to make money, but has no clue about anything else, such as how to transport a dog 200 miles.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:33 AM

He'd get more respect if he was called Terry Fuckwit.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Arkie
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:56 AM

While I do not think Milt intended to insult the British, he did not present himself as an ideal diplomat. And he certainly has demonstrated a tendency to twist comments into something that was not intended or meant. You might say he is getting a taste of his own medicine.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Stu
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:42 AM

He's coming across as a thick, out-of-touch rich person in a country that still has a royal family.*








*This joke is one I nicked off twitter and tweaked slightly.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:57 AM

Doesn't he have ANY aides with him on this trip who could suggest quietly that he should... Shut up, Mitt!

He 'revealed' that he had actually spoken to someone in MI6.... too bad they didn't 'do something useful' with him when given the chance.

Next, he's going to Israel...what could possibly go wrong?

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 12:52 PM

Funny, was my post eaten by the post eater or modded off?

I pointed out that Mutt had made a bit of a twat of himself

there was the "Anglo-Saxon" gaffe
the olympics gaffe
the leader gaffe
the MI6 gaffe.

It's quite a tally in so short a space of time.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 01:31 PM

Could we Yanks persuade you Brits to keep him? We'll pay you handsomely if you find some excuse to detain him until after, say, Nov.6th. Find a problem with his visa or passport or something. Better yet, declare him a terrorist threat - now that would be rich. Thanks in advance.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: it'smagic
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 06:47 PM

Not Terry F, his real name is Willard (and this is true). But I must have slept through the Anglo Saxon gaffe. What was it?

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 08:12 PM

(NEWSER) – Mitt Romney was backpedaling as fast as he could yesterday after an unidentified adviser derided President Obama for not being able to recognize the depth of the British-American relationship because he can't fully appreciate the shared "Anglo-Saxon heritage," the Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. "We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage," and Romney "feels that the special relationship is special," the adviser was quoted by the Telegraph. "The White House didn't fully appreciate the shared history we have." The Telegraph warned that the comments "may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity." Vice President Joe Biden immediately accused Romney of "playing politics with international diplomacy."

A Romney spokeswoman initially denied that the statements were made, but Romney said later that he didn't agree with the comments. "I'm generally not enthusiastic about adopting the comments made by people who are unnamed. I have a lot of advisers," he told Brian Williams on CBS. "I can tell you that we have a very special relationship between the US and Great Britain. It goes back to our very beginnings—cultural and historical. But I also believe the president understands that. So I don't agree with whoever that adviser might be." Romney yesterday started a six-day trip to Britain, Poland, and Israel, beginning in London.

The above is from

http://www.newser.com/story/150829/mitt-tries-to-quash-anglo-saxon-gaffe.html

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Don Firth
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 09:54 PM

Don't you folks have a useless, uninhabited little rock somewhere out among the Orkneys or Hebrides you could maroon him on? Being a bit of a bird-brain, he'd be right at home among the puffins.

'Course I don't know how the puffins would feel about that. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:41 PM

Hmm - how about the Falklands - he should find the sheep intellectually stimulating.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:44 PM

Hang on! There's still sixteen days for us to make a complete and utter bollocks of everything..

Could be this Baseball Mitt Rumbugger is the only one to have grasped the situation in all its horror - namely we have handed this massive project to people who couldn't run a whelk stall - people who every year nearly bankrupt one of the richest countries in the world.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jul 12 - 10:54 PM

Mitt Romney: it's cruel of you people to speak of him in this fashion. You should be ashamed of yourselves. However, if you Brits decide to keep him, may I be so bold as to suggest you take Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay to sweeten the pot just a tad?

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Fook you then, just Harper.

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To my Canadian friends: Sorry, I tried!

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 12:09 AM

Actually, Mitt's done Davey C a BIG favour; Davey should be thanking him. In the space of 24 hours, the papers have gone from nearly nonstop criticism of the handling of the Games to lambasting Romney for his comments. The jaw-dropping problems with G4S/security, the diva-like demands of the sponsors, the appalling waits at an alarmingly understaffed Immigration, and the threatened strikes -- all are now almost forgotten/forgiven as the media and the people of GB pull together to show that churlish Mitthead that he has "misunderestimated" (a Bush-ism; sorry... couldn't resist!) the Brits.

If I didn't know better, I'd think Davey had paid him to say disparaging things...

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 03:14 AM

Well you could be right, YY. He's so obnoxiously avaricious I'd bet that if you waved dollar bills at him, he'd probably agree to eat his own shit.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 04:29 AM

"On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower set sail,for America."

It all started so well.
What went wrong?

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 04:35 AM

They beat us in the War of Independence, which then gave the lunatics freedom to take over the asylum.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 06:09 AM

Another irony is that a major reason they did was thanks to robust and effective support from the French, particularly on the water, yet redneck Americans still dub the French "Cheese eating surrender monkeys".

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 07:35 AM

I'm not sure that a satirical character in The Simpsons can be taken as representing very many Americans, Richard --

[not but what some French are cheese-eating surrender monkeys at that: one thing those of my age will never forgive is that obnoxious swine de Gaulle accepting our aid and hospitality right thru WWii, when he fled his native country leaving it to others to lead the Resistance, and then turned on us over the EC &c. Bastard! & then they elected him President...]

BTW, who is this Romney person? Some sort of prez candidate, I gather? I never read news reports about US Elections, regarding them as only marginally more interesting than American football [so-called] reports, accounts of film actors' sexual shenanigans, & gardening columns about when to spread the shit on your mangelwurzels.

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 11:26 AM

I'd imagine that the idea might have been that saying stuff designed to piss off the British (if they ever took any notice of it, which is pretty unlikely) would have been an intentional bid to appeal to voters back home.

If he can repeat the same ploy with a whole range of other foreign countries that should go down pretty well with the kind of people he's hoping will vote for him.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 12:29 PM

I still don't see anyone asking for Stephen Harper. It's a sad day when no one wants your Prime Minister.

If we promise to keep him in haircuts and gels, would y'all reconsider?

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 12:39 PM

It's a sad day when no one wants your Prime Minister.

I'd have thought you'd be looking forward to that day, so far as that one is concerned...

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 06:24 PM

It does seem that various "Republicans" in the USA have now, since Romney has taken such a drubbing here, taken to describing the UK as a degenerate second class nation.

It really does seem that George III was right.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 06:41 PM

Tell ya' what.........How about you keep Mittens over there in his preferred Anglo-Saxon air and we'll send all of you a lifetime supply of feathers to shove up your "arses" and thus we will ALL be tickled to death!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Greg F.
Date: 28 Jul 12 - 07:03 PM

I'm not sure that a satirical character in The Simpsons can be taken as representing very many Americans, Richard --

You're forgetting that the phrase was picked up & used in session and out by a large cadre of (Mostly Republican)idiots in the U.S. House of Representatives and that august body also officially re-named French fries (a.k.a. chips) as Freedom Fries.

Such is the idiocy that sentient beings in the U.S. of A. have to put up with on an ever more frequent basis.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 12:37 AM

Mitt is a twit.
His wrote a book, titled No Apology, in which you will find this:
"England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions."

Now that his trip has taken him to Israel, he has decided to have meetings in secret, not allowing any reporters.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 12:38 AM

That should be "He wrote".
sorry

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 04:19 AM

'Mitt is a twit.
His wrote a book, titled No Apology, in which you will find this:
"England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions."


Interesting! What it tells you is that being the only country in Europe to let them use our airspace when they wanted to bomb Libya. Putting our young mens lives on the line in Helmand .....doesn't buy you respect, does it?

Phew!

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 05:43 AM

You know what? I wonder if he flew here in an aircraft using Rolls Royce engines.

Turd.

Ignorant primitive insular turd.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 06:09 AM

I think that we ought perhaps to take such US Republican politicians' comments as something of a compliment.

After all, this does indicate that this "degenerate second class nation" has the power to upset the largest single collection of idiots and crooks in the Western Hemisphere.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 10:55 AM

Meanwhile, visiting Israel, the bloody eejit let it be known he will fully support a military intervention by Israel in Iran. Lovely, just what we need.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 11:05 AM

I suspect that the Americans who denigrate the French got most of their opinions from the Brits.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 11:12 AM

"Meanwhile, visiting Israel, the bloody eejit let it be known he will fully support a military intervention by Israel in Iran. Lovely, just what we need."

If indeed he did, then he he should be tried then shot for giving state secrets to a foreign government.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: Alice
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 12:35 PM

Romney is a Mormon bishop. He did his mission in France (during the Viet Nam war, so he escaped military service) and it is one of the many things that make the French-bashing Republicans uncomfortable.

Subject: RE: BS: Mitt & the Brits
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 29 Jul 12 - 01:21 PM

If indeed he did,

Well, there's no doubt about it, it's being widely reported a campaign spokesman issued a statement to that effect.