Rector slanders US students?

[lethe]

I'm not one of the people being described here, but I know I would be offended if I was the one being described in such a generalisation as "If he is seen going into a shop or a bar, a text on every female American’s mobile gives the location and it’s like the potato riots."

So Bonnie, how do we get on the texting list for this rapid response service?

(http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=461082004)

[Bonnie]

As I lost my mobile a few weeks ago, (anyone seen it? lost by Kinnessburn Terrace. big-ass old-school brick of a Motorola) I must not have been informed of such an American cell phone stalker fad by my peers. Shame, really.
I will have to be sure to ask Sir Clement about it all the next time I see him.

[hr]I love cheese.

[Sarahbails]

This is fairly insulting. Of course, I've been told by numerous british flatmates, peers and classmates that St Andrews saw a huge boom in female American applicants once the Prince had enrolled. It's easy to make the connection that Sir Clement seems to have made. As a female American at St Andrews I offer a different possibility. I would say that Prince William being here did had an effect on my applying to St Andrews to study abroad- NOT because I hope to stalk him into submission and become your next princess, but because his being at St Andrews gave it a lot of international publicity, and I may not have heard of the university without it. Don't be insulted, most Americans don't know much about British unis outside of Cambridge and Oxford, just as most British students probably don't know many american universities outside of the Ivy League. But the Prince came here and the world heard about St andrews, and now I'm here and quite glad of it . I don't give the prince much thought though I will admit I'd like a sighting before I leave- have a friend or two who'd be very impressed and it'd make a good story for my future kids and grandkids . . .

[CarolynSD]

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[David Bean]

I'm offended! My girlfriend is American and, at least as far as I'm aware, she isn't especially concerned about trading me in for anyone of royal descent. And not only that, but she doesn't even have a mobile phone! So you're wrong on both counts, Clem - put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[hr]"And all the people rejoiced, and said: 'God save the King! Long live the King! ...May the King live forever!'" - Handel, 'Zadok the Priest'

[sly]

who gives two fucks?

[JackDaniels]

[s]sly wrote on 23:16, 25th Apr 2004:
who gives two fucks?


some of the people who decided to post about it?

[Kibet]

[s]sly wrote on 23:16, 25th Apr 2004:
who gives two fucks?


someone who has good stamina and a rapid recovery time

[ka25]

I think it was just meant to be a joke. Stereotypes are used for humour all the time. Take for what it is and don't get too upset about it.

[hr]save a tree, eat a beaver

[ka25]

I think it was just meant to be a joke. Stereotypes are used for humour all the time. Take it for what it is and don't get too upset about it.

[hr]save a tree, eat a beaver

[lol]

[s]Kibet wrote on 07:43, 26th Apr 2004:
[s]sly wrote on 23:16, 25th Apr 2004:[i]
who gives two fucks?


someone who has good stamina and a rapid recovery time
[/i]

Surely not that much stamina is needed for that or that rapid a recovery time. Sheesh, kids today, so lazy.

[jennyo]

I love how he bashes these supposed hordes of American stalkers for taking an undue interest in William, but then has to get in the incredibly important fact that he's related 'in some way' to the royal family. At least all these 'fleet-footed Americans' are just interested as most people would be in seeing a celebrity, and aren't trying to inflate their own egos by telling everyone they're William's 12th cousin or whatever.

[hr]We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now. -- Withnail and I

[moonshine boy]

Im sure this town is turning into america anyway

[tintin]

The Rector has said something that nobody else in a high position has
dared to say for a very long time...his message boils down to this: many Americans here have nothing but COLD RICE between their ears.

I know, however, of a select few
(and a couple of them post on the Sinner; you know who you are) who are extremely intelligent, thoughtful and interesting, and completely unlike your countrymen, but they are sadly in the
minority.

I resent the fact that the thick ones come over to our country and then call e.g. St. Andrews a "quaint little village" or slag the place off because there are no drive-through dentists or megamalls the size of a small town.

Many of them are totally clueless about the realities of life and posess zero social skills. They try to impose their consumer materialism on everyone else. Guiding philosophy seems to be - my face is looking a little tired, so I'll trade it in for a newer one. My voicebox doesn't match my new youthful body, so I'll fix that. I don't like the shape of my tummy, so I'll get surgery.

Many of them frankly bore me to tears. Their innate suspicion of anything that isn't pre-packaged, formulaic, hygienic, safe for American citizens to consume is sad - witness the "McDonaldisation" of global society. Everythnig has to be done "their way".

You could spot them in town when the sun came out, because almost without exception they wore flipflops and jeans, that highly stylish combo if ever there was one.

They are renowned for their intelligent comments in tutorials, like: "Did John Knox invent Calvinism?" to which a KateBush patiently replied, "No, Calvin invented Calvinism".

Perhaps I should stop ranting; I am in a cynical and pessimistic mood and this tends to make me see the worst side of people rather than their best.