"The Ugly Americans Are Back" (Yahoo Article)

**Allskate** · 08-08-2012, 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by milanessa

Just don't strike up a conversation about women's soccer next time you're there.

And keep your distance from Melissa Tancredi:

http://blog.sfgate.com/olympics/2012...tampDescending

If she happens to stomp on your head, please don't be an ugly American and whine about it.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/08...tancredi-stomp

**riveredge** · 08-09-2012, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by PeterG

What an ugly American kind of thing to say!!

I'm not even an American.

Canada showed a bad sportsmanship against the US in the Women's soccer semi and talked a lot of trash before the game. But then again the word ugly only applies to the US. Hypocrisy. Suck it up Canada! LOL.

**marbri** · 08-09-2012, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by riveredge

I'm not even an American.

Canada showed a bad sportsmanship against the US in the Women's soccer semi and talked a lot of trash before the game. But then again the word ugly only applies to the US. Hypocrisy. Suck it up Canada! LOL.

Possibly. Maybe they could learn from the classy post game comments of players like Hope Solo

**rjblue** · 08-09-2012, 01:07 AM

Canada versus USA

**professordeb** · 08-09-2012, 02:03 AM

Originally Posted by rjblue

Canada versus USA

Yeah, I remember studying that war -- about the only one I recall much of anything about and that's very little. I think we Canadians/British won that war, didn't we?

**4rkidz** · 08-09-2012, 02:41 AM

Originally Posted by milanessa

Just don't strike up a conversation about women's soccer next time you're there.

So true.. glad you guys can't see my FB, I have already got grief from my american friends

actually this is posted :

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...160147757.html

Originally Posted by PeterG

What an ugly American kind of thing to say!!

Originally Posted by professordeb

Yeah, I remember studying that war -- about the only one I recall much of anything about and that's very little. I think we Canadians/British won that war, didn't we?

1812.. 200 years ago this weekend actually - we are off to celebrate on the tall ships - 'the lion on the lake'..

**moojja** · 08-09-2012, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by professordeb

Yeah, I remember studying that war -- about the only one I recall much of anything about and that's very little. I think we Canadians/British won that war, didn't we?

When it comes the war of 1812, what did you win? You manage to burn down the White House, you could have made the US a colony again. Instead, you gave up and even stopped pressing US sailors. Which is the reason US went to war in the first place. You have to give it up to the Americans, even when they lose, they win. LOL

**Norlite** · 08-09-2012, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by 4rkidz

1812.. 200 years ago this weekend actually - we are off to celebrate on the tall ships - 'the lion on the lake'..

Started 200 years ago in June actually. That's why all the TV specials that week.

**rjblue** · 08-09-2012, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by moojja

You have to give it up to the Americans, even when they lose, they win. LOL

You didn't read the cartoon. If you had you wouldn't be so mean to me. (Sitting sadly on my tree stump)

**jeffisjeff** · 08-09-2012, 03:18 AM

Originally Posted by Allskate

And keep your distance from Melissa Tancredi:

http://blog.sfgate.com/olympics/2012...tampDescending

If she happens to stomp on your head, please don't be an ugly American and whine about it.

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/08...tancredi-stomp

Originally Posted by 4rkidz

So true.. glad you guys can't see my FB, I have already got grief from my american friends

actually this is posted :

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...160147757.html

Those links are

. Do people really think the only folks dissing the other side are the Americans? It seems the "talk" has gone both ways, but only the Americans are labeled "ugly"? And only the Americans "whine"?

This what I hate about the Olympics. It can't just be about who is best in the field of play. Someone always has to turn it into a question of which country has the better fans.

**Prancer** · 08-09-2012, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by jeffisjeff

Those links are

. Do people really think the only folks dissing the other side are the Americans? It seems the "talk" has gone both ways, but only the Americans are labeled "ugly"? And only the Americans "whine"?

Yes; didn't you get the memo?

Don't forget how much Americans brag, too. Really annoying when everyone else is so modest and self-effacing.

**4rkidz** · 08-09-2012, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by Norlite

Started 200 years ago in June actually. That's why all the TV specials that week.

not the part we are celebrating this weekend.. it happened in August (Issac Brock )..

**4rkidz** · 08-09-2012, 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by jeffisjeff

Those links are

. Do people really think the only folks dissing the other side are the Americans? It seems the "talk" has gone both ways, but only the Americans are labeled "ugly"? And only the Americans "whine"?

This what I hate about the Olympics. It can't just be about who is best in the field of play. Someone always has to turn it into a question of which country has the better fans.

Well I think you guys are more ugly than Canadians

But I think we are actually better whiners

the Olympics now are just a huge corporate advertisement.. but still fun..

**Allskate** · 08-09-2012, 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by 4rkidz

So true.. glad you guys can't see my FB, I have already got grief from my american friends

actually this is posted :

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-...160147757.html

The Canadian press isn't doing Canadians any favors with articles like this one and all the ones calling Americans whiners because they dare to point out that Tancredi shouldn't be stomping on a competitor's head.

If they want to portray Americans as ugly they should use an event that doesn't make the Canadians look so bad. I'm no fan of Hope Solo, but her comments here pale in comparison to what Canadians like Tancredi said and did before, during, and after the game.

**overedge** · 08-09-2012, 03:26 AM

Originally Posted by riveredge

I'm not even an American.

No, you are a maniacal Yu-na fan. Which means that all Canadians are bad because they are from the same country as Brian Orser

**Prancer** · 08-09-2012, 03:28 AM

Really?

This is what we're going to argue about now--who has the most unreasonable hatred for Canada?

**jeffisjeff** · 08-09-2012, 03:34 AM

Originally Posted by 4rkidz

Well I think you guys are more ugly than Canadians

And that says a lot.

Originally Posted by overedge

No, you are a maniacal Yu-na fan. Which means that all Canadians are bad because they are from the same country as Brian Orser

Speaking of Brian Orser, just a few minutes ago, Brian Boitano was on Top Chef Masters as a guest judge.

**PeterG** · 08-09-2012, 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by riveredge

Canada showed a bad sportsmanship against the US in the Women's soccer semi and talked a lot of trash before the game. But then again the word ugly only applies to the US. Hypocrisy. Suck it up Canada! LOL.

From the little I know about soccer, it's a dirty game. Early on, I saw an American stomp on the ankle/foot of Sinclair. Later an American dove into one of the Canadian women's knee, almost bending it backwards... (

) But as the game progressed, I saw Canadians do some nasty stuff as well. I just assumed everybody tries to do as much sh** as they can get away with...

**Cachoo** · 08-09-2012, 05:07 AM

Originally Posted by nubka

Oh yes, chest hair rules!

As long as it is just the guys that have it...

**IceAlisa** · 08-09-2012, 05:20 AM

Can we talk about chest hair? Swimmers have them shaved. So technically, they do have chest hair or at least some of them do.

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