the americans call british peoples teeth, so can we call them fat, stupid, degenerates without feeling guilty?

Question

i dont hate americans, i hate the arrogance of americans. difference

Answer 1

well lets see, at lunch we take great pride in taking the p*ss out of other accents, but the favourite of our wee group has to be the americans!!!! we love the comments of 'They're sooo fat!, stupid, and have you seen the size of a normal protion? bloody massive!! we would have to supersize our meals twice to get to one of their normal portions, no wonder they're so bloddy fat!!!'
yeah we get away with quite a lot without feeling guilty!

Answer 2

Ogden, are you ashamed of your teeth (you're not smiling....)?
Americans don't call us teeth but there is a running joke about the terrible state of (some) British people's teeth and - despite being English - I'm inclined to agree they can sometimes have a point.
Mike Myers played with this stereotype in the Austin Powers films, which were completely stupid and a good laugh.
You can call people whatever you like, although I'm not sure who you are actually talking to, or about. If you are stereotyping a whole nation, frankly it's racist.
It might be more productive to learn to laugh at yourself - at least then you'll stop being so defensiveand might even feel happy!!!

P.S. to roger - the French don't call us "teeth", they call us "rosbifs" (roast beefs) because we eat it pretty often and also because go bright pink and sunburned in summer (well those of us who are white and don't use sunblock.)
In turn they are called "frogs" because they enjoy frog's legs and are supposedly slimy.
It's all a bit childish really!

Answer 3

The only thing I have ever called a British person is: Brit, Britisher, Limy and Englishman. Oh, I have called them a few expletives, but only on a individual basis. Actually I have always liked the British—why all the hate for Americans?

PS. Take a close look at ogden25uk’s picture. I think he is an Islamic extremist trying to divide England and the United States—it won’t work!

Answer 4

Homer, please note... it was the British colonists (later known as Americans) seeing off the British Redcoats - of which many, incidentally, were Austrians led by a rather tipsy general! But since you raised the subject, have a look at what happened when the Americans tried to take Canada from the Brits... they are still finding old muskets thrown away by the fleeing US forces near Niagra Falls. Anyway that's a digression....

To add a bit of seriousness to this question, the truth is that while Americans get fatter (US obesity levels are appallingly high - and growing), British teeth are now as good as Americans - though not so false looking. (Those obviously veneered teeth of the typical USA TV News reader make you want to reach for really dark sunglasses!)

What the average (especially young) American does not realise is that - just like our allegedly rainy weather - most of the myths about Britain were propagated by US servicemen (mainly USAAF) returning home from WW2, having been based in Britain in winter (hence their memory of gloomy weather).

When America finally decided to enter WW2, British dentists had been serving as anaethetists in the UKs armed forces for over 2 years, leaving only a limited number of retired or elderly dentists to provide dental care. Hence, British children of that era were not given the opportunity of receiving any form of cosmetic treatment. As long as their teeth were healthy, that's all that mattered. "There's a war on, so stop being such a wuzz!" was the attitude. When these children grew up and travelled they certainly had healthy teeth, but not cosmetically perfect like their American cousins. But these early imperfections in British teeth were taken as the norm by Americans and the myth has remained into modern times.

However, this distorted viewpoint is no longer true; British children and young adults have teeth which are the equal of Americans of similar age. Older Brits often do not bother about the cosmetic aspect (too damned costly!), though many do have caps, veneers and inserts to improve their appearance.

And just as this British teeth nonsense is a myth, so it is with American dental perfection. I've lived in the USA and not all Americans I met had perfect teeth - but nearly all of 'em were a little, shall we say, 'chubby'!

Anyway, I think we'd all agree that it's who the person is that truly matters, not their teeth or their waistline.

Answer 5

Never have I heard anyone call Britons "teeth", and I sincerely hope I never am or appear to be arrogant.
I have been subjected to the company of arrogant people of different cultures, but I have little tolerance for it, either.

You have a great Sunday evening, though. I regret people have made you feel this way.

Answer 6

some of us might have a couple too many Lbs, but at least we are not all ugly, have you people looked at yourself in the mirror lately, you are, as a whole, one of the ugliest bunch of people in the western world. Aside from Siena Miller, you ain't got nothing going for you.

Answer 7

why do you think Americans call brit's "teeth"? Did you see it on a t.v. show?
I believe that it's the French that say Brit's are "teeth"

You must have good dentists if u r all called teeth...lol

Answer 8

You will do as you like an feel as you will. Why ask us? Your teeth are fine as far as I can tell. Praise God that you still have them!

Now, about your guilty conscience...

Answer 9

I may have called you a lot of things,most of them very uncomplementary,but I never called you "teeth".Like you,it doesn't make sense.

Answer 10

I've never heard another American call ANYBODY "teeth." Lay off the moonshine