Brits addicted to online gambling

Comment #16

Rip Snorter — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:03:07 GMT

Come to my country and I'm sure you will change your view about foreigners to a milder oneThanks. I appreciate the thought. But my post was misleading. What I said about foreigners, I should have said about humans, in general, including Americans. I doubt a visit to Wododa or Ahmedabhad would change it.Mostly, I'm just not real impressed with humans.Jack

Comment #15

shalini — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:23:27 GMT

Jack, I couldn't agree with you more........................however, you must visit India...we are not a xenophobic lot although I have to admit there is always some religious tension......................Come to my country and I'm sure you will change your view about foreigners to a milder one The americans in India are by and large an affable and popular lot.........................

Comment #14

Rip Snorter — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:20:52 GMT

Probably depends on the precise American view they're being intolerant of. A country can be forgiven for not being tolerant of an American government view that it knows better than the people who live there how things should be run. Especially if it involves having American troops attempting to enforce the American view.On the other hand, I'm not sure there's such an animal as American views on an individual level. We cut a wide swath in viewpoints, as demonstrated by this thread. On the whol... [ More ]

Comment #13

Rip Snorter — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:52:25 GMT

In a race to decide which race is the most racist it would almost certainly end in a dead heat.On the other hand, the 'issues' you referred to with the English (Norman/Saxon variety) had nothing to do with race, nor intolerance for viewpoints. It had to do with civility toward guests to a particular country. I'll be the first to admit the most visible American tourists tend to be uncivil to the residents of host countries without even knowing they are doing so. My thought is that guests to Am... [ More ]

Comment #12

shalini — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:20:09 GMT

Intolerance towards anyones views is racism and most of us are guilty of it.

Comment #11

Todd — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 04:21:56 GMT

Intolerance toward American views is racism in different clothing.

Comment #10

shalini — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 03:55:11 GMT

The Brits are very nice and civil people........I am an Indian and they are seldom racist. racism exists to a certain degree everywhere..unfortunately there is an anti- american feeling going around generally and maybe the person in question did not have a good experience.However, if I may add without meaning to offend, the Brits are less racist than the Americans

Comment #9

Todd — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:56:45 GMT

Phokas: I agree with you that people are free to express whatever views they have. By the same token, I have the same freedom of expression to expose the stupidity of anti-American statements made by the idiots who say them.It's amusing (but sad) that people who invoke the freedom of expression rights in order to slam America and President Bush are the same people who say it's censorship when people who express love and admiration of America rise up to defend her.

Comment #8

Rip Snorter — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:18:49 GMT

I'd say the thread's drifted with this as far as it needs to. Your body of experience leads you one direction, mind leads me in another. Each of our feelings about the absurdity of the views of the other is mutual enough to strike a nice contrast. Beyond that it's pointless.We'll agree to disagree. However, insofar as the original story of the thread, I think it makes a lot of sense and isn't surprising.Jack

Comment #7

Phokas — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 01:22:44 GMT

I speak from personal experience from having lived and worked there for many, many years. You're very wrong in your statements because the English aren't rude in public as you suggest. I find them to be a very civil lot and any behavior less than this is far less common than you would find in any given place here in the US or elsewhere around the world.Your comments implying that the Celtic stock is somehow more wholesome and kinder than other peoples living there is absurd.And yes I have met... [ More ]

Comment #6

Rip Snorter — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:02:50 GMT

I personally know many Englishmen and women and they are wonderful people with very keen judges of character. And they love social interactions too; just not with people who have very limited comprehension and senseless opinions.I don't doubt you do. My personal experience is that the folks on the east coast tend to be a fairly rude bunch in public. Not just to non-english, but to one another in a public setting. They're also, as a group, a bit smug, even bombastic in anti-American sentiments... [ More ]

Comment #5

CASH Only — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:05:36 GMT

In Great Britain it's legal to place bets on who's going to be the next US President. Does anybody over there have odds on Hillary Clinton

Comment #4

Rip Snorter — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:25:06 GMT

Jazam:Thanks for calling my hand. Sometimes the memories of lousy attitudes encountered overpower the good ones, particularly when the bad ones are bunched up in a particular geography. There's plenty on the east side worth the doing, and I'm sure, plenty of good folks there.But to suggest you haven't anyplace worth vacationing just ain't so. I'd like to spend six months wandering around South Wales, maybe longer in Scotland. Can't imagine I'd ever be sated exploring that country of yours.... [ More ]

Comment #3

jazam — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:23:58 GMT

The 'channel side' of the island also means the south east of England closest to France where London is located. Not the friendliest part of the UK so Jack is right about that.But it's true that millions of Brits holiday outside of the UK. It's cheaper for a start with better weather. Holidaying at home is perceived to be rather sad. There aren't many Grand Canyons or Aspens over here!If we didn't like socialising all our pubs would be closed by now.However any survey's only as good as the meth... [ More ]

Comment #2

Phokas — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:34:43 GMT

What are you talking about? You mention the Channel side of the island . The Channel divides the UK and France; it doesn't divide England from the other regions of Great Britain. The article is about all Brits which includes the Scottish, Welsh, Cornish and any other person from anywhere in the world who became a citizen in the UK - not just the English.And do you really think the English long to visit Scotland or Wales when in reality the most popular holiday destinations for all Brits are pla... [ More ]

Comment #1

Rip Snorter — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 02:01:54 GMT

Good to hear it. Those folks over on the Channel side of the island need something to take their minds off how difficult all the people they know and see in their lives are to be around.If they can't get down to Cornwall, over to Wales, up to Scotland, it's probably worth spending every dime they make staring at a comp screen so they don't have to have social interactions.Jack

Brits addicted to online gambling

Lottery Post — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:19:00 GMT

Britons spend 5 billion (US$8.82 billion) a year on online gambling, a survey revealed Friday. And 93 per cent of those with web access quizzed by Virgin Money, admitted they have placed at least one Internet bet.The average gambler spends between 10- and 20-a-week on gaming sites.The biggest players are Londoners with one in 10 punters in the capital gambling between 300 and 500 every week.Half of the 2,000 people polled say they only started gambling online in the past six months.Football... [ More ]