Wednesday,
August 29, 2007
Britons see US as Obsessed with Fighting
over Guns, Gays, and God
The
ANNOTICO Report
Americans
see themselves as World Preeminent........ Europeans view us more as Rude
Hicks.
Britons
are especially bemused by Americans preoccupation and obsession with battling over
Guns, Gays and God.
Now
they see us as getting sillier. The fight for the right to
bear a Moustache without ridicule. Poster Boy.
John Bolton :(
But there's a new
cultural battle being waged in
It is the
struggle over Americans' right to bear hair on their upper lips. The newspapers
highlighted the American Mustache Institute's fight to stop discrimination
against those with mustaches.
The articles
cited a recent poll showing that more than half of American women would refuse
to kiss a man with a mustache.
But
the newspapers claim it's tough to rally around a cause in which the poster boy
is John Bolton.
Sam Leith, a columnist for
"It is
definitely bad luck to be a black cat when an ignorant peasant crosses your
path," he said.
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