Let's get rid of the Electoral College

That would explain why Americans are so rude on the internet.

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I have never seen a debate in any line of waiting voters.
Uniformly, the lines r quiet.
In my observation, no one ever seems to be interested in debating

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That would explain why Americans are so rude on the internet.

U can judge the degree of our relative courtesy for yourself.
I doubt that it is uniform.

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They spend their lives in uniformity being nice to each
other without getting too close and then they come on here
to vent off their pent up rage on poor deluded, misguided and
ill-conditioned innocents such as myself.

I 've lived most of my life in NY.
Here, we don t spend much time trying to be nice to anyone.
Rather, when in public walking down the street
or waiting in line to pay a cashier in a department store
or waiting in horrible lines at the Motor Vehicle Bureau,
it does not occur to us to say anything. We just stand there quietly,
tho there r no rules against debating nor against electioneering.
We tend to mind our own business.

HOWEVER, I grew up in Arizona, where social norms r a lot different.
There, it is not too unusual to greet a stranger,
passing in the street (tho I did not tend to do it).


I was in New Orleans for a convention immediately before Katrina.
THAT blew my mind; the friendliness of the natives was astonishing.
Waitresses in good restaurants brought me free drinks and free food
that thay recommended. Thay were RIGHT.
Superhedonic eruptions of ineffable culinary felicity enraptured my mouth.
(Obviously, honor and decency required me to take care of the waitresses,
at the end of the evening.)

America is a big place whose inhabitatants r heterogeneous n disparate.
Different cities have different personalities.
I lack sufficient information to compare or contrast it to England.
My only visits to England were to its Heathrow Airport.

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A bollocking is a dressing-down. A telling off.

That means that your remark was that
the left told us off in November ?
It DID.
The forces of darkness had a victory
over the lovers of personal Freedom.
It was a catastrophic loss
from which I do not believe that America will ever recover.

And where do you live, that makes you so special and smart?

Britain. Thats what makes me smart. Yorkshire, thats what makes me special.

If the members are not shouting someone down with rude boos and other assorted noises…it means they are in recess!

That shows how Americans dont think properly: taking an interest in world affairs is the opposite of dull and empty.
Americans are blinkered by their absurd patriotism. I am perfectly willing to discuss changes to the British system.
The mess up of the American banks has affected the British economy. Britain has been dragged into an illegal war to back up its ally. The Americans having a stupid president affects the world.

The liquidity crisis we now face has to do with a bubble in housing markets, the excessive trade in securities used t0 finance them, and an associated breakdown in the credit standards applied.

And where do you live, that makes you so special and smart?

Britain. Thats what makes me smart. Yorkshire, thats what makes me special.

I have found all the Americans switch straight to abuse. Plus they are so touchy about their system. I mean you dont have to be a genius to spot its crap.
2004 was the biggest shambles anywhere. I think I'm trying to be too subtle.
I mean, any system 200 years old doesnt need changing: der------really? It takes a year to elect a leader. You're kidding right?
Because Americas don't travel they are happy with the crap they have.

Why would anybody be on a tortured high maintenance regimen and causing polar bears to be homeless? That seems radically stupid.