Is american popular culture poisoning young british society?

Actually Socrates was sentenced to Death for corrupting the young: i think old people are a drag. Even myself. I think one of the problems is demographics too. Their are a lot more old folk around. Get out of the way, if you won't lend a hand.
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Of the thousands of blokes I've heard say Fancy a f**k, darlin, not one has ever been successful. Even with drink or drugs involved. Ironically teen idol Cassidy was 26. I think I love you was a naff song then. But that was also when I understood what puppy love was.

This line made me literaly laugh so hard, blood came out of my nose.

How about some American bands that not only BEAT the 'standards' set by the above bands, they beat them up, take their lunch money and send them home to their quaint little island to cry in their mummy's apron.

I'm talking about The Doors, Metallica, The Beach Boys, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Buddy Holly, The Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Nirvana, and my personal favorite, Blue Oyster Cult.

I'll concede the fact that the Beatles opened the door for many other bands that followed and some of their later stuff was amazing.

The Stones have never impressed me except with their longevity. No one knows HOW Keith Richards is still alive.

Floyd and Zep were amazing bands and they each established unique sounds that many others strove in vain to copy, but many of the above American bands blazed original trails that no other bands could follow.

I went on Youtube to listen to the Arctic Monkeys and came away less than impressed.

And Oasis? OASIS? Are you fricken serious? Oasis is not even in the same class as any of the above bands. Oasis is so far out of the class of these bands that if Oasis' class were to explode, none of the above bands would hear the noise for a week.

You're full of crap. But that's not news. In answer to the original question, American popular culture poisons EVERYTHING it touches. The perfect place to live would be the country that looks at everything America does - and then doesn't.

Sure, then instead of having the highest standard of living in the world, they will have the lowest. Instead of producing more food than anywhere else in the world, they can sit and starve. Instead of having one of the freest press, people and society, they can live in constant fear and oppression.

WAIT! I found your Utopia! You should move to Zimbabwe! It has EVERYTHING you are looking for.

Wilso...what in the heck happened to you??? I don't remember this kind of tripe coming from you. Do we really have to hate each other this much?

I find your argument on music strange: Your list of artists are entirely snowflakes. If there were great American musicians I'd say Hendrix (who is a Brit),Prince, Motown generally, but Aretha Franklin in particular and Chuck Berry.
Do you believe America only has white people?

By the way...how can you good folk possibly have a discussion purporting to be about MUSIC…and not yet have mentioned the names Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Arturo Toscanini, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Wagner.

These people made music.

The other people...the ones you have mentioned...make noise.

A wonderful selection Frank: a cultured choice indeed: Number of Americans in your list?

And exactly how many non 'snowflakes' are in the groups YOU mentioned?

Or are there only white people in Britain? Have none of them ever made any music?

Before you make some sideways implication of racism to someone, be sure to take a long look in the mirror

Hey, everybody, let's compromise! By which I mean we'll all agree that Foreigner, composed of both Americans and Brits, is the BEST BAND EVAR. I firmly believe that if we listen to "I Want to Know What Love Is" exactly 11,389 times, we'll minimize the risk of admitting that poisoning an entire fucking society might be a concept more aligned with, I don't know, certain superpowers colonizing India and Northern Africa, or bringing "democracy" to the Middle East, as opposed to certain rock n' roll bands rocking the balls off of Cleveland.

Look. I just want to know what love is, bitches.

Best anwser yet!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh come on. Despite various achievements, your country is a fucking cess pool. You murder roughly 20000 of each other each year, some of your cities are so polluted the air can barely be breathed, and a dribbling moron liky Dubya can be elected president.

Oh Fedral, I'll take good old Oz over your stinking shit hole of a country any day. Especially if it means keeping 12000 miles between myself cocksucking fuckwits like you you worthless cunt.

And what is American popular culture?Is it represented by such high quality television shows such as Gossip Girl, or the second coming of 90210. Maybe Desperate Housewives provides such a positive influence to the world!

None. Your point is???

Your pathetic little country is just as much of a cess pool as you allege the United States to be. Get a grip. You sound like an irrational hate monger, which is what i suspect you have become.

Well, Wilso...one of the things I've been arguing is that Bush has destroyed any lingering good feelings people of other countries have for America...(little as that has been in recent decades)...and apparently I am much more correct in that than I actually want to be.

The incredible distaste and loathing you folks are showing towards us is not easy to hear…nor to tolerate...but “hear it” I do and “tolerate it” I will. I even am willing to acknowledge that I understand a lot of it.

But not all of us are the insufferable boors you and Fount seem to want to portray us all as being. Some of us are pretty decent folk…caring, concerned, hard working.

We are an industrialized nation, Wilso…and every industrialized nation has its share of smog, pollution, waste, and inner-city filth. We are no exception.

We do tend to murder each other with greater frequency than most other nationalities…something that makes many of us cringe to acknowledge—something some of us detest more in ourselves than does someone from Oz judging us for 12,000 miles away.

Many of us strive to get our national psyche under control; many of us loathe the constant references of fellow citizens who want to puff out their chests and brag about “lone super power” bullshit. Many of us recognize the difference between pride…and being a bullying asshole with a smile on one’s face.

Seems to me, though, that boorish behavior is not confined to Americans alone. Lumping together a heterogeneous group such as we are for the sheer pleasure of calling the lot of us derisive names…is pretty boorish in itself.

You said to Feral:
Hardly the kind of thing one would expect from someone essentially calling boorishness to someone else’s attention…and giving that person a lecture on how to improve.

And if an American had written those words to you…would you not have thought it an example of the kind of thing you seem to think is wrong with all Americans?

Am I correct, that Australia is part of Asia (a Pacific Rim country)?

Seriously. What did we get from you? Two decent AC/DC albums? Crocodile Dundee? Get the fuck outta here!

You do, however, have the honorable distinction of being the first Auissie I've met who's a complete cockfart. Every other I've met has a sense of humor.

USA! USA! USA!