Get out! And stay out! And quit coming back, idiot!

[Sea Demon]

I'm certainly not going to rip on you UK'ers. I think you are a bright bunch myself. But these idiot Americans that think you will be more accepting and loving of them if they insult us in your countries, should be stripped of their U.S. citizenship and tossed into your nations forever. I'm sick of hollywood idiots like this. Screw em'. This moron thinks America sucks but won't leave it. This idiot keeps coming back. The only reason this imbecile is anything is because her mother was made a success in the USA. Sorry, I just had to post out of sheer frustration that I can't personally stop this twit from re-entering my country, and telling her off in the process.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/1....xtnkgaet.html

[3Jane]

Freedom of expression.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

No no no, you are NOT shovelling any more people into this country. The whole place has already gone to pot.

[Sea Demon]

Freedom of expression is fine. But how about living by your words. If you think the USA is a country of idiots, then don't come here to earn you money. Stay there. Especially if you feel that you have to insult the USA to make your point. I for example love the USA and would never live anywhere else. I've lived in Europe as a member of the U.S. military. I don't have any desire to live there permanently and am glad to be back home in the good ole' USA. But I don't feel that I have to insult Europeans on my way out. And I certainly wouldn't trash Europe if it was responsible for my success. In this regard I have no respect for this piece of trash.

[TteFAboB]

How intelligent, considering the English were the champions of capitalism and the people who actually founded and created America. Does she realize this could be perceived as an insult to all the English people who believed or moved to America?

But she got the part about work and money covered alright. Just call her older sister and neighbor US pop star Madonna. That woman knows how to re-invent herself and always return to the top. Is Madonna to be considered part of British culture then? Nothing to complain, you can gladly have both of them!

Let's see: her debut film (Shout) featured on the USA. Then there's Flesh and Bone, USA, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious circle, USA, Se7en, USA, do I see a pattern here?

Out of the 38 films (including Lateshow and SNL) listed on IMDB 35 were filmed or co-produced in the USA, 9 in the UK, 2 in France, 1 in Italy, 1 in Germany and 1 in Canada.

On her IMDB bio it is stated that "She broke her much publicized engagement to actor Brad Pitt in 1997 citing as the reason the fact that neither she nor Pitt felt that they could pursue their respective careers and at the same time maintain a happy marriage." Does that mean she broke her marriage because of work and money? No wonder she doesn't want to talk about it! The woman has unsolved existential issues with work and money.

From www.boxofficemojo.com I see that "Shakespeare in Love" raised $289,317,794 gross out of which $100,317,794 or 34.7% were earned in the USA, pretty much half the amount of the entire rest of the world.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/...eareinlove.htm

"Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" raised $57,846,375 gross out of which 65.3% or $37,762,677 in the USA. Same source as above. All following values are in gross.

"Austin Powers in Goldmember" scored $296,633,907 with 71.9% or $213,307,889 in the USA. Same source.

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" $128,798,265 with $81,298,265 or 63.1% in the USA.

"Hook" $300,854,823 out of which $119,654,823 or 39.8% (more than half) in the USA alone.

"Shallow Hal" $141,069,860 with $70,839,203 or 50.2% from the USA.

And to end this, "Seven" earned $327,311,859 with $100,125,643 or 30.6% in the USA.

There's definitely a pattern here. With the numbers from these hit movies in hand, if it weren't for American capitalism and all American hard workers who care about money so much to make enough of it to pay to go to the movies and/or buy the DVD's we'd have a much poorer actress here bitching not from her 500,000 pounds flat in the UK but from her 5$ unemployed dirty shack down in New Orleans living off social security. That is, if Mom & Dad couldn't pull the strings and get her a job as janitor in one of the studios.

Now from wikipedia: "In an interview with The Guardian [4] on 27 January 2006, Paltrow admitted that she divided her career into those movies she did for love, and those "****e" films she did for money. The Royal Tenenbaums, Proof, and Sylvia fell into the former category, whilst View From the Top and Shallow Hal were in the latter. [5]." Ah, we care so much about work and money that we're willing to work for money and not for love but don't you dare talking about it in the dinner! You can only talk about work and money to the... ENGLISH Guardian, in England!

More: "In May of 2005, Paltrow was announced as the new face of Estée Lauder's Pleasures perfume." If you don't know:

The company began in 1946, when Joseph Lauder and wife Estée Lauder began producing cosmetics in New York City, New York. At first, they only had four products: super rich all purpose cream, creme pack, cleansing oil and skin lotion. Two years later, they established their first department store account with Saks Fifth Avenue in New York.
Over the next fifteen years, they expanded the range and continued to sell their products in the United States. In 1960, the company went international. Its first international account was in the London department store Harrods. The following year, it opened an office in Hong Kong.
In 1964, they launched Aramis Inc., which produced fragrances and grooming products for men. In 1967, Estée Lauder was rewarded for her efforts by being named one of ten Outstanding Women in Business in the United States by business and financial editors. This was followed by a Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University in 1968. In that year, the company expanded again, opening Clinique Laboratories, Inc. Clinique was the first dermatologist guided, allergy tested, fragrance free cosmetic brand created by Estée Lauder.
Estée Lauder became the first women's cosmetic company to introduce a second line for men when, in 1976, they began a separate line of skin supplies. In 1981, the company achieved another breakthrough when their products became available in the Soviet Union.
Estée Lauder now sells its products in department stores across the world, as well as having a chain of freestanding retail outlets. It employs over 20,000 people, and in 2003, its sales topped $5 billion. The company is still controlled by the Lauder family, which controls over 90% of voting shares, and Estée's grandson chairs the board of directors. In February 2004, the company's teen-oriented jane business was sold; in April 2006, the professional-quality Stila brand, which Estée Lauder purchased in 1999, was sold.
The company has been known for its sometimes iconic spokesmodels, sometimes referred to simply as 'faces'. Past 'faces' for Estée Lauder include Karen Graham, Willow Bay and Paulina Porizkova. Currently, the public spokesmodels for Estée Lauder are Carolyn Murphy, Liya Kebede, Gwyneth Paltrow and Elizabeth Hurley.

Fruit of American capitalism and alot of work.

Thus Gwyneth Paltrow will never adapt to the British anti-capitalist and highly cultured dinner tables and has no option but to vent the frustration of her state as an inferior being. If Paltrow considers herself to be an American, along with the rest of all Hollywood royalty trash, then what she says couldn't be more true: the worst of the worst scoundrels of Britain is more intelligent and civilized than a woman who spits on the plate she served herself so many times without a cry and without realizing there was a real 'bloody' world out there.

I haven't been to the UK in years, what a shame, but I'd like to invite our British friends to tell us afterall: what is it that you talk about at dinner that is so higher and civilized? Please share this big secret with us, afterall "Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live".

[Dowly]

From the title of the topic, I though you meant Sir Big Juggs! :rotfl:

[Fish]

he he , your quickly huffed.

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by Fish

he he , your quickly huffed.

I was thinking likewise. Really, who cares what some actress says. I for one couldn't give two hoots about the Australian "feminist academic" Germaine Greer who calls London home for most of the year while heaping verbal vommit on Australians and our country. Not worth getting in a huff about.

[XabbaRus]

What a stupid cow. Can't stand her or her husband. She thinks we talk less about money and are less obsessed about work and money? No in the UK we just spend it, and most of it is someone else's.

Aghh I thought she hated the UK and made some horrible comments about not wanting her poor kid born in a UK hospital. I thought her and her prat of a husband and shut up for a bit.

[3Jane]

Originally Posted by Sea Demon

Freedom of expression is fine. But how about living by your words. If you think the USA is a country of idiots, then don't come here to earn you money. Stay there. Especially if you feel that you have to insult the USA to make your point. I for example love the USA and would never live anywhere else. I've lived in Europe as a member of the U.S. military. I don't have any desire to live there permanently and am glad to be back home in the good ole' USA. But I don't feel that I have to insult Europeans on my way out. And I certainly wouldn't trash Europe if it was responsible for my success. In this regard I have no respect for this piece of trash.

Given the global corporate nature of most markets these days, especialy the entertainment media, such a suggestion would be not only meaningles but disingenuous. Given the number of American people who make a living in all the aspects of such industries in general, and the specific individuals work in particular. The inherent concept seeming to indicate that status and sucess buys silence from critical obsevation. Given that many people have achieved success in a world where many nations have aspects of their cultures weather social or political which people are equaly critical of to trivial or major degrees. Is the idea that people should only be critical on places which haven't contributed towared their overall staus etc. Perhaps a sliding scale based on sales figures or box office recipts.
Perhaps it might have been more palatable if the comments had come from an American personality.

[bradclark1]

I don't see where she's insulting. It's a fact that Americans are somewhat workaholics(?) and their world rotates around their jobs. All she's saying is that Brit's don't sit around and talk shop as often as Americans do and face it, when you are rich you can indulge in your little idiosyncrasies.

[cobalt]

why waste 20mins to make a 1000 character reply about this?

you have no affiliation with this women, who cares what she says?

[AVGWarhawk]

She is dead on with her response. I'm an American and yes, that is all we talk about is money and work. We work all the time because big industry demands it or you are fired. If we are lucky we get two weeks off from work a year and usually these are not in a row.

As far as UK being more civilized.....I agree whole heartedly. There is more concentration of standard of etiquette in the UK. Here in America it is a free for all. There is no respect for the elderly, freedom, authority, tradition. This country is going to hell in a hand basket. Welcome to the melting pot of smut, debauchery, drug abuse, alcohol abuse and twisted sex offenders.

[TteFAboB]

This has completely escaped me, I must've been dazzled by her sophisticated and intelligent phrase: Gwyneth separated "American psychology" in good and bad parts. She said she doesn't fit in with the bad part. While that doesn't necessarily puts her automatically in the good part nor did she ever stated that she is, it is implied as such.

Considering that she fits into the good part that means all members of the good "American psychology" group are de facto British.

[Sir Big Jugs]

When I saw the title I thought you were referring to me...