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It's almost tragic that America's foreign policy has resulted in a breakdown of its relationship with its traditional Western allies (except France, since the French always will and always have said non to Americains). The question begs however : Is this merely a positive externality for the conservative Republicans, since this can only help enforce the governments push towards forcing rabidly horny teens to abstain from rumpy pumpy or is it just that French chicks are bitches?

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http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4117&n=1

AMSTERDAM—American students traveling abroad confirm the findings of a study indicating that Washington's unilateral approach to foreign policy has seriously undermined Americans' chances of getting laid.


"I've been in Amsterdam for two months and have yet to begin a conversation with a cute girl that hasn't ended in a lecture about how big, evil America is taking everyone's oil," said college sophomore Brad Higgs, a participant in Johns Hopkins University's study-abroad program. "I offer to buy them a drink, and they tell me I shouldn't just stand by and watch Bush destroy the world. Look, if I had that type of pull with the president, I obviously wouldn't be out trolling for anonymous Dutch pussy."

The report, released Monday by the Center For U.S.-International Casual Relations, was based on interviews with approximately 1,400 American students returning from abroad. According to study director Gilbert Hapbrook, sexual contact between American students and foreigners has declined steadily since January 2001.

"Unpopular military actions and dismissal of international organizations have galvanized world hostility toward the U.S.," Hapbrook said. "Instead of being inundated with questions about Hollywood and requests to help hot young foreigners practice their English, Americans are being openly scorned in European pubs and cafes. Data taken from a poll of students in December 2004 showed that only a dismal 11 percent had achieved sexual congress with a non-American."

Hapbrook said the 2004 overseas-coitus figures show a slight recovery from the all-time low reached in November 2002, after the Afghanistan invasion and during escalating conflict with Iraq. But the figures are still well below those of 1999, when Bill Clinton was in office and a very healthy 67 percent of respondents scored abroad.

"I'm in Amsterdam—Amsterdam, for Christ's sake—and I'm in the middle of the longest dry spell I can remember," Higgs said. "Last week, I was making out with this Italian girl at a concert. It was all going great until the music ended and she heard my American accent. I swear to God, I went from the cusp of a hand job to, 'Why won't your country sign the Kyoto Treaty?'"

University of Colorado junior Casey Knight recently arrived in Amsterdam after a month in Germany.

"I asked a group of German girls at some Eurotrash disco to dance and they started yelling at me," Knight said. "They said that by paying taxes to the American government, I am no better than a fascist. Well, they would know, I guess."


Above: A recent anti-American protest in Paris.
Even students who actively oppose President Bush are susceptible to criticism, according to Emily Biehn, a Duke University student spending her spring semester in Paris.

"I voted for Kerry and I marched against the Iraq war," Biehn said. "But when I got to Europe, I might as well have been wearing a Bush bumper sticker on my forehead and star-spangled cowboy boots. As soon as the French guys hear I am from the U.S., all they want to do is argue politics."

"And switching tactics and acting like you're totally apathetic about politics just pisses them off even more," Biehn added.

Acknowledging that a large-scale change in American foreign policy is unlikely to occur before the end of the current semester, Hapbrook recommended three tactics for American students frustrated in their attempts to bed foreigners.

"First, pretend you're Canadian whenever you can," Hapbrook said. "But make sure you're not around actual Canadians, because they'll know you're lying and cock-block you. Second, if there are any anti-American protests going on, take care to avoid women carrying signs. Third, focus your itinerary on countries like Ireland and Japan that are still relatively friendly to Americans."

"You may want to write off France altogether," Hapbrook added.

Hapbrook said he developed his tactics in 1983, when the American government was practicing hardline Cold War foreign policy and he was spending his junior year abroad.

Higgs, who spends most of his time in his hostel playing solitaire and watching DVDs on his laptop computer, urged students back home to write to their congressional representatives.

"This affects all of us," Higgs said. "The government has to acknowledge the needs of young Americans. Too many U.S. citizens in foreign lands are spending sleepless, lonely nights jerking off in increasingly filthy sleeping bags. It sucks."

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Do you think that America's foreign policy will negatively impact upon American-Euro relations over the next decade, whether because of the current leftist political climate within Europe, or because of some other reason? Or do you think that European governments will take (and have been taking) a more pragmatic approach towards Americas policies? Should the American's care, since economically the Europeans have been boning America and the rest of the world with their subsidies for decades? Also, do you think that there is a decreased chance of Australian's getting laid within Europe (and even Indonesia, considering some of our regional policies). Do Australians need to travel to China, America and Japan to get pussy?

Also, maybe it's just me, but French girls aren't all that they are cracked up to be.
 
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neo_o said:
It's almost tragic that America's foreign policy has resulted in a breakdown of its relationship with its traditional Western allies (except France, since the French always will and always have said non to Americains). The question begs however : Is this merely a positive externality for the conservative Republicans, since this can only help enforce the governments push towards forcing rabidly horny teens to abstain from rumpy pumpy or is it just that French chicks are bitches?

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http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4117&n=1

AMSTERDAM—American students traveling abroad confirm the findings of a study indicating that Washington's unilateral approach to foreign policy has seriously undermined Americans' chances of getting laid.


"I've been in Amsterdam for two months and have yet to begin a conversation with a cute girl that hasn't ended in a lecture about how big, evil America is taking everyone's oil," said college sophomore Brad Higgs, a participant in Johns Hopkins University's study-abroad program. "I offer to buy them a drink, and they tell me I shouldn't just stand by and watch Bush destroy the world. Look, if I had that type of pull with the president, I obviously wouldn't be out trolling for anonymous Dutch pussy."

The report, released Monday by the Center For U.S.-International Casual Relations, was based on interviews with approximately 1,400 American students returning from abroad. According to study director Gilbert Hapbrook, sexual contact between American students and foreigners has declined steadily since January 2001.

"Unpopular military actions and dismissal of international organizations have galvanized world hostility toward the U.S.," Hapbrook said. "Instead of being inundated with questions about Hollywood and requests to help hot young foreigners practice their English, Americans are being openly scorned in European pubs and cafes. Data taken from a poll of students in December 2004 showed that only a dismal 11 percent had achieved sexual congress with a non-American."

Hapbrook said the 2004 overseas-coitus figures show a slight recovery from the all-time low reached in November 2002, after the Afghanistan invasion and during escalating conflict with Iraq. But the figures are still well below those of 1999, when Bill Clinton was in office and a very healthy 67 percent of respondents scored abroad.

"I'm in Amsterdam—Amsterdam, for Christ's sake—and I'm in the middle of the longest dry spell I can remember," Higgs said. "Last week, I was making out with this Italian girl at a concert. It was all going great until the music ended and she heard my American accent. I swear to God, I went from the cusp of a hand job to, 'Why won't your country sign the Kyoto Treaty?'"

University of Colorado junior Casey Knight recently arrived in Amsterdam after a month in Germany.

"I asked a group of German girls at some Eurotrash disco to dance and they started yelling at me," Knight said. "They said that by paying taxes to the American government, I am no better than a fascist. Well, they would know, I guess."


Above: A recent anti-American protest in Paris.
Even students who actively oppose President Bush are susceptible to criticism, according to Emily Biehn, a Duke University student spending her spring semester in Paris.

"I voted for Kerry and I marched against the Iraq war," Biehn said. "But when I got to Europe, I might as well have been wearing a Bush bumper sticker on my forehead and star-spangled cowboy boots. As soon as the French guys hear I am from the U.S., all they want to do is argue politics."

"And switching tactics and acting like you're totally apathetic about politics just pisses them off even more," Biehn added.

Acknowledging that a large-scale change in American foreign policy is unlikely to occur before the end of the current semester, Hapbrook recommended three tactics for American students frustrated in their attempts to bed foreigners.

"First, pretend you're Canadian whenever you can," Hapbrook said. "But make sure you're not around actual Canadians, because they'll know you're lying and cock-block you. Second, if there are any anti-American protests going on, take care to avoid women carrying signs. Third, focus your itinerary on countries like Ireland and Japan that are still relatively friendly to Americans."

"You may want to write off France altogether," Hapbrook added.

Hapbrook said he developed his tactics in 1983, when the American government was practicing hardline Cold War foreign policy and he was spending his junior year abroad.

Higgs, who spends most of his time in his hostel playing solitaire and watching DVDs on his laptop computer, urged students back home to write to their congressional representatives.

"This affects all of us," Higgs said. "The government has to acknowledge the needs of young Americans. Too many U.S. citizens in foreign lands are spending sleepless, lonely nights jerking off in increasingly filthy sleeping bags. It sucks."

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Do you think that America's foreign policy will negatively impact upon American-Euro relations over the next decade, whether because of the current leftist political climate within Europe, or because of some other reason? Or do you think that European governments will take (and have been taking) a more pragmatic approach towards Americas policies? Should the American's care, since economically the Europeans have been boning America and the rest of the world with their subsidies for decades? Also, do you think that there is a decreased chance of Australian's getting laid within Europe (and even Indonesia, considering some of our regional policies). Do Australians need to travel to China, America and Japan to get pussy?

Also, maybe it's just me, but French girls aren't all that they are cracked up to be.
wow that was alot of reading for me to sit back contemplate and think... why do people analyze everything way too much... academia has become a JOKE
 

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Oh, you mentioned joke! For a second there I thought you actually took this seriously. Now wouldn't that be silly?
 

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I sure hope that my chances getting friendly with French girls haven't been dminished by our support of America on Iraq- I'm going there on exchange next year! Oh well, being of Chinese origin should slightly improve my chances :)
 

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Tell them 'Je suis de Nouvelle Zelande'. They probably haven't even heard of New Zealand, and certainly wouldn't be familiar enough with the accents to notice the difference.
 

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Abbeygale said:
Tell them 'Je suis de Nouvelle Zelande'. They probably haven't even heard of New Zealand, and certainly wouldn't be familiar enough with the accents to notice the difference.
Well even New Zealanders cant tell the difference between our accents :p
 

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Whenever you do something controversial the europeans don't want to be involved, however if things turn out for the better, you listen to them change their minds.

Things turn out good - Europe forgives, acts like they were a part of it.
Things turn out bad - Europe forgives.... over time, but acts smug that they weren't a part of it.
 

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Not-That-Bright said:
Whenever you do something controversial the europeans don't want to be involved, however if things turn out for the better, you listen to them change their minds.

Things turn out good - Europe forgives, acts like they were a part of it.
Things turn out bad - Europe forgives.... over time, but acts smug that they weren't a part of it.
based on like fifty years history dude??
bit of a stupid generalisation? yeah i'd say so
 

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The article says that Ireland is still friendly towards Americans. Why Ireland? Historically, the Irish dislike everything the British government proposes so theoretically, they should be decyring the Iraq war.
 

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leetom said:
The article says that Ireland is still friendly towards Americans. Why Ireland? Historically, the Irish dislike everything the British government proposes so theoretically, they should be decyring the Iraq war.
I don't believe this is true at all. Britain and Australia could do well to have a closer look at Irish economic and social policy, however. They have found a very good balance.
 

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