Armchair Generals and Delusions of Grandeur and Werthers Original Imperialists25 Mar 2009 09:19 am
By Nelson

Thanks to Tom.

From reading “Have Your Say” is it evident to me that most people in the world hate the US and all we stand for. Therefore, I say we withdraw our military forces from all overseas bases and deployed areas. Futhermore, we withdraw from the UN, especially all financial aid. But, our limp president is all talk. He is more concerned about wasting honest workers tax dollars than doing what is best for the people, land, and nation.
Old Soldier, TC USA

You can’t just withdraw ALL military forces overnight and expect the rest of the world to cope, you selfish shithead. Perhaps you could burn a few of their kids and leave behind some mines and unexploded cluster bombs to help them slowly aclimatise?

71 Responses to “Unloved, Unwanted, Unhinged”

  1. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:29 am burnel

    Can you withdraw all the McDonalds as well and dunkin donuts, there’s far too many gut buckets waddling around this once great country, victims of the insatiable creep of corporate America….Give me convenience or give me death.

  2. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:40 am Dai

    “From reading “Have Your Say” is it evident to me that most people in the world hate the US and all we stand for.”

    Sorry? Which “Have Your Say” have you been reading?

  3. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:43 am Clovis Sangrail

    Yep, withdraw all that, but PLEASE don’t stop sending tourists over, cos apart from mocking our own numptys (like Topsy), us SYBers love nothing more than mocking fat stupid yanks (overheard in Tower of London “so which one WAS King Norman?”)

  4. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:44 am Dazza

    Or how about giving back all the looted antiquities, paying a fair price for the natural resources and shutting the fuck up about Jebus for five minutes?

  5. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:46 am samuel johnson

    Can they take Gwyneth Paltrow as well.

    And that odd bloke she married.

    I for one would hate the US that little bit less.

  6. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:46 am Tomsk

    It’s amazing how all these small-town closet racists come blinking into the sunlight after hiding in a cave during the Bush years.

    I love the joined-up logic of withdrawing from an international political stage, and in the same breath complaining about Obama ‘ruining the economy’. Absolutely brilliant. Top HYSer. Would use again! A+++++

  7. on 25 Mar 2009 at 9:50 am samuel johnson

    And that whole “everybody hates us so we’ll withdraw all our military forces” malarky is an American having a go at taking irony for a walk right?

  8. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:10 am Kelvin

    I like that his second proposal is to withdraw from the UN, when that’s what they did in order to do exactly the opposite of his first proposal.

  9. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:14 am Sarah

    I don’t think this is fair. Some nations have been so damaged by decades of dictatorship, they’d never have the wherewithal to raze their own cities.

  10. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:16 am dirigible

    Withdrawing international American military influence to help the US economy and make the US safer?

    Must. Resist. Making. Serious. Comment.

  11. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:25 am Kelvin

    Old Soldier, TC USA

    You see this all the time on HYS – even more so if you actually believe Topsy’s naval gazing. Why do all the ex-military people feel like being trained in which end of a gun shoots the painful stuff gives them some magical fix-everything political ability? You know what they say, when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you actually had a world leader who saw every single problem in terms of who to lob bombs at, you’d have… actually, you’d have George W Bush.

  12. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:26 am Incontinentia

    In these circumstances, my first thought is always “what would Jade Goody have done?” That’s the key here.

  13. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:28 am Mr Moderate

    ..and while you’re at it why not put North America back the way you found it …..

  14. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:54 am fucko the clown

    Don’t start incontinentia, before you know it, the morality police cavalry division will be here on the high horse squad.

    Jade would probably have said something about poppadoms and pakis, and then just got her kebab out.

    ah the princess of hearts

  15. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:06 am millie

    If the Old Soldier TC hates his limp president and those in power so much he could always emigrate.

  16. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:07 am Daley Mayle

    Yawn.

  17. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:07 am Daley Mayle

    (That was in response to Fucko, not Millie. Hot damn!)

  18. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:16 am Misha

    Surely if the prez were going to set foreign policy based solely on HYS the only sane thing he could do would be to press the big red nuclear holocaust button?

    P.S.
    Q: Why was Jade Goody buried in Kent?
    A: She always wanted a funeral abroad.

    I had to return my Jade Goody 2009 calendar, it only goes up to march.

  19. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:18 am Jack Tweed

    i dunt aprekiate teh fingz dat r beein sed about mah essex princesz hu is liek princesz Diana init?

    Jade onli got nekkid on teevee so she cud hilite teh plite of muzlim wimmin hu carnt get nekkid in publik.

    god bless mi princesz xxxxxx

  20. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:34 am Black Lesbian In A WheelChair

    Yeah, hilarious… Nelson, redo the login thing, please?

  21. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:34 am Felna

    Let me see, so what he’s suggesting is that America withdraws it’s military forces and ceases any political influence over the rest of the world…

    Sound good to me – where do we sign up?

  22. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:40 am millie

    god bless mi princesz xxxxxx

    Jack Tweed? Neil C, ENGERLAND me thinks.

  23. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:48 am tonymac

    If it’s okay with you lot, I’m going to take a six month sabbatical to laugh hysterically at all these hilarious Jade jokes.

    I think I’ll switch my phone off though, just in case I get more Jade texts and I have to reset the sabbatical stopwatch while I snort tea / coffee out of my nostrils for another six months.

  24. on 25 Mar 2009 at 11:48 am clowno the fuck

    Don’t start incontinentia, before you know it, the morality police cavalry division will be here on the high horse squad.

    yeah i hate the morality police always in here trying to make us think up new jokes instead of lazily copying shit out of sickipedia and making the comments a giant cesspool of middle class masturbation about how some pikey is all dead and stuff. they must really love Jade Goody because i can’t think of any reason they wouldn’t want to wade through post after post of unfunny shit jokes that have nothing to do with SYB.

    and what i really hate about them is the way they post under pseudonyms so i can’t engage them in a long self-congratulatory argument about how i have a moral obligation to shit up these threads and make them all about fucko the clown.

  25. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:13 pm Marcus

    Is there a way the blah filter could be rewritten so that every post containing the word “Jade” is automatically blahificated, while others are left alone?

    I’m loving the idea of getting one’s intel on what the world is thinking from HYS. Maybe that will be the new US policy if the downturn forces cutbacks in the CIA.

  26. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:14 pm fucko the clown

    Jade

  27. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:15 pm fucko the clown

    :) jade

  28. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:26 pm fucko the clown

    big flappy pikey dead jade

  29. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:26 pm fucko the clown

    ding dong the witch is dead

  30. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:29 pm countd_

    DNFTT

  31. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:32 pm JG(RIP)FC

    Jebus fucko, you’re even starting to get on *my* moobs now..

    Can we get back to the serious business of making fun of teh *live* stupids now?

  32. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:36 pm Kelvin

    Fucko, I think you’re hilarious.

    But what I think is hilarious about you is how you’re all “edgy” and “close to the bone” until someone makes you the butt of a joke and suddenly you turn into a petulant little toddler. That’s funnier than any “joke” you’ve ever posted.

  33. on 25 Mar 2009 at 12:46 pm Fucko the clown

    Yeah i’m not usually one to kick the arse out of an issue so much, but amused at the HYS like response of certain posters, mainly those who make up names for fear of sullying thier normal nickname.
    but since i am boring myself with it now, i’ll bury the whole Jade subject – no pun intended

  34. on 25 Mar 2009 at 1:03 pm Albert Muffpie

    Can we still make fun of Max Clifford, though?

  35. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:02 pm Clovis Sangrail

    And yanks? We can still take them the piss out them can’t we?

  36. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:03 pm MrFlabulous

    Folks, stop farting around and look at the “how should we tackle terrorism” thread on HYS. I’d post a couple of examples but I really have no idea where I should begin…. so many to choose from, so little bandwidth…..

  37. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:06 pm MrFlabulous

    Oh, just one then.

    Quite simple. If a person is convicted of a terrorist act, has helped them evade prosecution, has concealed their whereabouts or has plotted or been involved in the plotting of a terrorist act…Execute them by firing squad. Would save prison space and I would guess get the approval of most indigenous Britons.Lets be realistic,most terror attacks now are by Muslim extremists.With execution and a possible backlash to the Muslim population would they be so keen to escalate their war on UK soil?

    Karl Flavell, Loughborough, United Kingdom

    He’d pull the bloody trigger himself….

  38. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:07 pm MrFlabulous

    BTW, any indigenous Britons out there? I’m afraid I’m a Norman so I don’t count.

  39. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:20 pm DonkeySquicker

    Personally I’m enjoying “Can drug warfare in Mexico be controlled?”

    Stop the corruption and you might stand a chance of stopping the drug trade.

    [mediamogul], Medway, United Kingdom

    indicates a deep understanding of the nature of corruption for example.

    Both the “legalise everything” crowd and the “nail some sense into em” types are out in force too.

  40. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:23 pm ekcol

    “Lets be realistic,most terror attacks now are by Muslim extremists.”

    Those Muslim Irish Republicans are the worst.

  41. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:25 pm pigfrottage

    Most Americans are lovely. Sorry.

    I’ll get my coat.

  42. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:31 pm dirigible

    the “legalise everything” crowd

    Leave The Economist out of this.

    As for Jade, I’m torn. On the one hand, I don’t care. On the other, I don’t really feel that people have got the hang of what the objection from the management is and it’s really, really, really tedious to read the results.

  43. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:33 pm Clovis Sangrail

    What is it with threatening suicide bombers with the death sentence?
    And Pigfrottage – yes, yes they are. But the fat thick ones are well funny.

  44. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:35 pm Rock Snob

    My great aunt married an Italian (You couldn’t make it up!) and I heartily disagree

  45. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:41 pm umlaut

    Is it blahfilter time again already?

  46. on 25 Mar 2009 at 2:53 pm Daley Mayle

    Karl Flavell (not so keen on the spelling of Carl with a K – looks distinctly forrun-commie to me) is a living genius: if we publicly execute anyone who’s so much as said ‘excuse me’ to a potential terrorist, when trying to get past them and then we encourage the rest of the populace to turn on innocent Muslim citizens (more than usual), then there’s NO WAY any existing terrorists would want to bomb the living fuck out of the UK. And it’d certainly not encourage young, disillusioned muslims to radicalise into militancy, ho no.

    Have I been sardonic enough yet? Can I stop typing now and start facepalming myself violently, crying ‘why? WHY?’ to the cold, blank wall?

  47. on 25 Mar 2009 at 3:09 pm Alex

    I like the Jack Tweed jokes the best. Alright so he’s only grieving and not dead, but it’s really funny ‘cos he’s my social inferior. “Innit”? Heheh.

  48. on 25 Mar 2009 at 3:11 pm fucko the clown

    Lets be honest, Old Soldier used the word overseas, as he hasn’t the slightest fucking clue where anything outside the US is

  49. on 25 Mar 2009 at 3:30 pm pigfrottage

    But the fat thick ones are well funny

    True. Ask them to pronounce Worcester, Leicester or Loughborough for added fun.

  50. on 25 Mar 2009 at 3:38 pm Mr Moderate

    “With execution and a possible backlash to the Muslim population would they be so keen to escalate their war on UK soil?”

    Yes.

  51. on 25 Mar 2009 at 4:26 pm Swinger

    Wang is at it again with a bold plan to sort out our economic mess.. Klaatu Barada Nikto..

    “All countries are foolish that maintain the country border,have military,maintain the luxury life for those presidentes, the Earth should union one real entity,elect only one leader,the Earth should invent a new country and nation theory!!!

    Wang Dong, Xi’an, China

  52. on 25 Mar 2009 at 4:42 pm 773 (metric)

    If a person…has concealed their whereabouts…Execute them by firing squad

    Hmm, that seems a bit harsh. Just last week I was out getting Mrs 773 a few things for her birthday.
    - Where are you going? she asks as I’m putting my coat on.
    - Oh, I just need to get the brakes checked on the car. Been noticing they’ve been squealing a bit recently. Won’t be long.

    It’s an untruth, I’ll be the first to admit, but it’s for her benefit.

    In Kaiser Karl Flavell’s world, I’d be straight up against the wall on my return, bang bang bang. You try to do something nice for those you love and end up with more holes in you than a pair of Linda Bellingham’s fishnets.

  53. on 25 Mar 2009 at 4:59 pm wobbegong

    Do Linda Bellinghams fishents have more holes in them than the average fishnets then?

  54. on 25 Mar 2009 at 4:59 pm ey

    Maybe that will be the new US policy if the downturn forces cutbacks in the CIA.

    Based on their performance in the last several years, you’d think their SPESSHUL adviser was/is Topsy Turvy.

  55. on 25 Mar 2009 at 5:18 pm Black Lesbian In A WheelChair

    He might be a mental, but Wang Dong is a kick-ass name.

    Incidentally, what did you get for your wife’s birthday, 773?

  56. on 25 Mar 2009 at 5:28 pm 773 (metric)

    Brake pads

  57. on 25 Mar 2009 at 5:31 pm Dr Shade

    Rich pickings…

    Let’s not forget the “real” terrorist threat that STILL exists: the various remnants of the outlawed Provisional IRA are re-emerging. They did not and will not defeat the British people, and neither will Al-Qaeda, or whatever crackpot (i.e. fascist) organisation that happens to attack our country. The Bulldog Spirit will never be broken…

    Robert Hawkins MBE, San Diego, United States

    Well said Robert Hawkins MBE, you bastion and bulwark of the true British Bulldog Spirit – you’ll never say die will you? You’ll make sure that the British nation stands firm against the suicide bombs that slaughter innocent civilians – sat at your keyboard several thousands miles away from all the trouble and any potential towel-headed fruitcake with an Asda bag full of semtex over there in that hotbed of terrorist activity, San Diego!!!

    Well said, sir!

    You Fuckwit.

    during ww2 you wouldnt have seen nazi sympathysers bearing placards saying “BRITISH BUCHERS OF BERLIN” would you? they’d have been hung.oh how times have changed.and they say winson churchill wouldnt have supported the bnp………
    andy, dudley.uk

    Who says he wouldn’t andy? Did the people who are saying this actually know Winston? For all we know he might…

    “We shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills!

    We shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, full of all the grateful little nig-nogs and sambos we’ve taught to wear shoes and go to church, would carry on the struggle – at any rate they’d bloody well better if they don’t want to get a fucking right good kicking in their kebab shop on a Friday night!”

    [sob] Makes you proud to be In-Ger-Lish, dunnit?

    “I’m more worried about being struck by lightening or even sunstroke and thats here in the wet UK!!!
    Boring, Wigan”

    That’s probably what people were thinking as they travelled on the Tube & buses on 7/7. But a worst kind of lightning struck, suicidal jihad bombers. And sadly, they’re still in your midst, even maybe in boring Wigan. So, don’t be fooled that lightning’s just in the sky; it could be nearby, marauding in the form of Jihad terrorist’s!
    v.gerrard, Dublin

    MWU-HA-HA-HA!!!!!!

    TREMBLE in fear you PATHETIC infidels!!!

    For it is I – “Suicidal-Jihad-Lightning-Terrorist Man”!!!

    MWU-HA-HA!!!

    QUAKE in FEAR as my terror-lightning strikes you – NOT from the SKY! – but from that SHRUBBERY, or that EMPTY CRISP PACKET, or from behind that PORTA-POTTY!!!!

    [KRAKA-BOOM!]

    Your PUNY In-Ger-Lish superheroes are NO MATCH for the MIGHTY powers of Suicidal-Jihad-Lightning-Terrorist Man!!! I LAUGH at your Green-Cross Code Man with his SILLY West Country Accent!!! I WIDDLE on your Mr Tambourine Man with his… erm… with his… with his Poofy TAMBOURINE!!! And don’t even get me STARTED on Bicycle Repair Man…!

  58. on 25 Mar 2009 at 5:35 pm samuel johnson

    Is Linda Bellingham the old bird in the Bisto ad? I remember her getting her norks out once or twice (not whilst serving gravy I might point out) but can’t remember her being famous for fishnets in particular. (Or even fishents).

    BZZZZZZ … digression

  59. on 25 Mar 2009 at 6:02 pm Dr Shade

    Is Linda Bellingham the old bird in the Bisto ad? I remember her getting her norks out once or twice

    Norkage display in both “Confessions of a Driving Instructor” (1976)& “Sweeney!” (1977) IIRC but no fishnets – I think that’s more to do with 773’s stained tissue fantasies than any coherent opinion on how the threat of terrorism could be curtailed in this country.

    If I’m right, that is.

  60. on 25 Mar 2009 at 6:22 pm Kowalski

    She definitely got them out in The Sweeney-mind you I think she was dead at the time (in the film of course, not in real life,otherwise those Bisto ads would have involved zombie mum eating her family’s brains with lashings of tasty gravy!)
    I still would have ‘ad ‘er though!

  61. on 25 Mar 2009 at 6:46 pm fucko the clown

    bisto could have been a cover story for a budding career in choco porn, afterall she is on loose women. The loose might be referring the tension on her ringpiece

  62. on 25 Mar 2009 at 6:56 pm 773 (metric)

    Do Linda Bellinghams fishents have more holes in them than the average fishnets then?

    I have to be honest and say that it’s pretty unlikely. And what’s more, I have no evidence that she wears – or has ever worn – them. But, watching the Oxo ads as a kid, it always struck me that her gravy was wrought forth into existence with fairly mucky sexual undercurrents. She had a certain dirty mischievous twinkle in her eye. And there are times in a man’s life that, when searching for metaphors, similes or analogues, imagery with sweaty, subtly depraved wrongness are the only ones that will do.

  63. on 25 Mar 2009 at 7:42 pm millie

    Do Linda Bellinghams fishents have more holes in them than the average fishnets then?

    Depends on whether they’re small, medium or large.

    One thing I do know though is that if they’re on a fat American bird the holes per sq. metre will be larger.

  64. on 25 Mar 2009 at 7:55 pm john Adair's Gerbil

    Withdraw financial aid from the UN? You owe 1.25 billion dollars, you stupid fuck.

  65. on 25 Mar 2009 at 10:20 pm The Gnome Secretary

    John Adair: I thought you were shot by Col. Sebastian Moran?

    Or maybe you’re making some oh-so-clever reference to having an ‘Empty House’ due to all the terrrrist-peado-muslim-lieberal-Guardian readers coming over here and taking all your jobs?

  66. on 26 Mar 2009 at 8:43 am terrrrist-peado-muslim-lieberal-Guardian reader

    I think that this Old Soldier is on to something here. If the next World War is anything like the last two, then the yanks would of had to of pulled out of Europe before it starts, so they can be a couple of years late for World War III. Ho-Hum.

  67. on 26 Mar 2009 at 10:04 am twopoint6khz

    Seems now that George W Bush is out of office he’s got plenty of time to go trolling on HYS. What a cunt.

  68. on 26 Mar 2009 at 2:58 pm Dr Shade

    But, watching the Oxo ads as a kid, it always struck me that her gravy was wrought forth into existence with fairly mucky sexual undercurrents. She had a certain dirty mischievous twinkle in her eye.

    Fair point.

    But she wasn’t even in the same league as the Shake’n'Vac woman – now she *was* a horny bitch!!!

  69. on 26 Mar 2009 at 7:49 pm 773 (metric)

    FILTH

  70. on 27 Mar 2009 at 9:20 pm Suicidal-Jihad-Lightning-Terrorist Man

    i am actually a little scared of the green cross man, he is darth vaders body after all!

  71. on 27 Mar 2009 at 9:35 pm Flash

    Ironically lightning kills more Americans annually than terrorism does, fact!

    Let me think, so far we have had a war on drugs [FAIL], then terror [FAIL] (all pretend wars of course, although they can still be admired for their artistic value, just like fart enthusiasts might while perusing around the Tate sipping fizzy piss), so therefore I believe the next war should be on lightning, or ghosts?