Confederate Flag Prom Photo With Gun-Toting High Schoolers Backfires

[Teddy B 17,252]

can we just focus on how awesome it is that vol spent two weeks in england and had the opportunity to asses the jealousy levels of an entire population towards muricans? give the dude a golf clap..something.

"But many of the males tended to have a chip on their shoulder toward me."

I'm sure Probably 100% because they just don't like Americans.

Something tells me one's arrogance had a lot to do with the perceived hostility towards himself and Americans in general. It's more probable that they were simply laughing at him.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How do I put this. Teenagers are idiots, pretty much across the board. I don't know anyone that doesn't look back on those years without some modicum of embarrassment about how they behaved and how naive they were about a lot of things.

I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't trust my teenage experiences for any sort of truth - apart from the one that says that teenagers are no-nothing idiots.

[VOL 425]

What were the English people doing or saying that made you think they were jealous of Americans?

It was just the general attitude. It was a long time ago, the wedding with DI and Charles was happening that month. As I said long time ago. I was 15 years old and stood 6' 2" at the time, maybe they were intimidated by me. I have meet some English people in Texas and they have seemed nice enough.

How do I put this. Teenagers are idiots, pretty much across the board. I don't know anyone that doesn't look back on those years without some modicum of embarrassment about how they behaved and how naive they were about a lot of things.

I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't trust my teenage experiences for any sort of truth - apart from the one that says that teenagers are no-nothing idiots.

I agree....

[Teddy B 17,252]

It was just the general attitude. It was a long time ago, the wedding with DI and Charles was happening that month. As I said long time ago. I was 15 years old and stood 6' 2" at the time, maybe they were intimidated by me. I have meet some English people in Texas and they have seemed nice enough.

I agree....

That would be my guess.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

It was just the general attitude. It was a long time ago, the wedding with DI and Charles was happening that month. As I said long time ago. I was 15 years old and stood 6' 2" at the time, maybe they were intimidated by me. I have meet some English people in Texas and they have seemed nice enough.

I agree....

I'm sure there are no other 6'2 dudes in the U.K.

[decocker 7,198]

I'm sure there are no other 6'2 dudes in the U.K.

yeah uk is where hobbits come from.

[Boiler 45,517]

Nobody in the UK is over 5ft 6inches.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

yeah uk is where hobbits come from.

Not many people realise this but Christopher Lee is 6' 4".

He may be alive by black magic rituals but he's no short #######.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Nobody in the UK is over 5ft 6inches.

Is that per your own observation? Or were you interested in the height of males in the U.K. so you Googled it?

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

So you are saying that it is something that has been done time and again throughout history? And that pretty much every society has done it at one time or another? And that we should be aware of it, but not dwell on it every single day? I am down with that concept!!!

Are you African or American? Because if you claim to be African, you might be upset to find out that the Congo and Nigeria are in the top 10 of countries that have the most slaves. And the link doesn't hate on either of your two favorite oppressions: http://247wallst.com/special-report/2014/11/20/countries-with-the-most-slaves/

In 2013, the US was ranked 134 out of 162 countries in numbers relating to slavery. So if you claim to be American, be proud that we are doing so well!! And that may be why you are as successful as you are today, and not locked up in chains and treated as sub-human.

And you are right, neither of us know for sure. But one thing I DO know for sure is that I don't go around whining about what people may or may not have done generations ago, and how someone is owed something because of it. I work hard to provide for my family and try to raise my children right; I don't stand on anyone else's laurels, nor do I blame my current station in life on my family, my race, nor on how unfairly I was treated growing up. I am where I am because of me, period. I could have done better. I could have done worse. But I sleep well at night knowing I treat others decently and with respect until they prove to me they don't deserve it. I also don't complain about where I am in life because of how my grandparents were treated, nor how their grandparents were. Heck, I don't even know. I just know I have worked hard (sometimes) to get where I am today.

ETA: Link for 2013 statistics - http://www.ungift.org/doc/knowledgehub/resource-centre/2013/GlobalSlaveryIndex_2013_Download_WEB1.pdf

I have a question. Are you black? Do you face the exact same challenges as me or any other black person? Because you act like we come form the same place. Like you grew up in the same neighborhood or dealt with the same struggles.

Now to be fair, everyone struggles at some point. But to sit there and talk about whining when you haven't walked a day in my shoes, it a bit immature. You don't know me or what I've been through. It's very rude and condescending when you don't have a clue as to what a person has been experienced. Don't get mad because you called out a member on the master race and oppression when your own ancestors came to this country, enslaved the rightful owners, brought over people from Africa, and spent the next 400+ years destroying them and their culture. Then you sit up here and have the nerve to say you work hard and black people are whiners? Until you can trade places with me, please keep it to yourself.

Edited May 14, 2015 by Stay Woke

[decocker 7,198]

Not many people realise this but Christopher Lee is 6' 4".

He may be alive by black magic rituals but he's no short #######.

isn't russell brand a giant of sorts?

[GandD 5,966]

Not many people realise this but Christopher Lee is 6' 4".

He may be alive by black magic rituals but he's no short #######.

Nope 5'6"

isn't russell brand a giant of sorts?

5'6"

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Benedict Cumberbatch

Michael Caine

Christian Bale

Daniel Day Lewis

Sean Connery

Ralph Fiennes

Jude Law

I think I will stop now.

[GandD 5,966]

Is that per your own observation? Or were you interested in the height of males in the U.K. so you Googled it?

Its a fact

www.fact.fact/tallestpersonintheuk

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

isn't russell brand a giant of sorts?

He's the world's largest talking scrotal sac is what he is. Edited May 14, 2015 by Venkman