The GirlAlive Blog

Okay, so I've had this blog for a good many years, and I have occasionally used it to vent my frustrations with the country I live in. My main complaint has been that the people are rude and nasty. In my experience, I've been mocked and picked taunted by complete strangers on the bus, who treat the whole world like their own little junior high school. My former co-workers treated me like crap just because I was American. (The alpha female in the office had a son who was marrying an American, and no one is good enough for her little boy, so she turned the whole office against all Americans.) My house has been broken into. I've seen more public puddles of vomit here in three years than I did in over 20 years in the US. I've seen people fly into violent rages against strangers for virtually no reason. In short, I've seen a lot of assholes.

Unfortunately, some of these assholes have figured out how to use a computer and have found this blog. What I find interesting is that the initial gut reaction from these people is to email me or post in the comments about what a horrible stupid bitch I am, and how I should go f*** myself, and basically dump streams of profanity and insults on me. So to refute my claim that British people are nasty racist assholes, they email and comment, with nasty racist asshole remarks. How does this do anything but prove my point?

It reminds me of those cartoons from Denmark a few years ago. They made a political statement about the Muslims being violent and reactionary. In response, the Islamic community had violent riots and burning of effigies. They basically said to the world, "If you call me violent, I'll kill you!"

I don't have a good summary or punchline for this post. I've got a nasty cold involving a waterfall of snot. I can't say I hate the British. Cause I don't. I just hate assholes, and a lot of them seem to live here.

Alana