Obama is anti-british

We could even watch one of those DVDs after that they send over to us! Oh wait we can't, they were wrong region for UK :p
 
neoboy said:
We could even watch one of those DVDs after that they send over to us! Oh wait we can't, they were wrong region for UK :p
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You know, that would have possibly been the greatest situation ever devised by man.

Brown receives his DVD gifts, takes 'em home, and a couple of days later decides to watch "Casablanca".

His DVD player isn't multi-region.

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neoboy said:
We could even watch one of those DVDs after that they send over to us! Oh wait we can't, they were wrong region for UK :p
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looking at the film list....isn't it one of those collections which comes free with a DVD player for about 20 quid ? except you get 50 free films....**** has ripped us and kept the best ones.
 
All the reports of oil on beaches (without much oil on the beaches) means the US media has screwed up tourism even more.

Tar balls etc are normal anyway, 10x the amount of oil from DWH leaks into the Gulf each year naturally. Many of these oil plumes being reported do not have crude from DWH either.
 
KNiVES said:
So because Obama no longer treats the UK like a cute little poodle and instead like any other ordinary ally, he's anti-British? Ok. He has every right to heavily criticize BP by the way. Every right. The Gulf of Mexico could take decades to fully recover from the Deepwater Horizon spill, and just because Obama wants the BP executives' heads on a silver platter, doesn't mean he's anti-British.

BP may employ 23000 Americans, but they have just taken hundreds of thousands of jobs out on the coastline. And yet you will call criticism of this anti-British. Don't be so naive.
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"tru dat"

Really, are people just intentionally trying to stir this up and start this vendetta against America which seems more real than Obama hating all of Britain?
 
KNiVES said:
So you refuse to accept the fact that it is indeed called British Petroleum but shorthanded to BP since the merger with Amoco Corporation? What about the fact that it's still a wholly British company based in London? You're just backpedalling because you've finally realized how ridiculous all this 'Obama hates Britain' diatribe is.
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it hasnt been known as British petroleum since 2001 when it merged. B.P IS the the name of the company, not shorthand. BP plc to be precise.

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=2001578

BP announced today that following an overwhelming vote of approval at its Annual General Meeting (AGM), the name of the parent company has been changed to BP p.l.c. with effect from today, Tuesday, 1 May 2001.

The resolution at the AGM on Thursday, 19 April was carried with a 98.25% vote in favour of the name change (12,145,436,700 votes cast for the resolution).

The parent company was previously called BP Amoco p.l.c. - the name given on 31 December 1998, the date of the merger between BP and Amoco.

Trading in the company's shares will continue as normal. The Reuters Instrument Code (RIC) on the London Stock Exchange remains BP.L. Other Stock Exchanges trading BP shares are in Germany, France, Switzerland and Japan.

The ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange remains BP and the company's ADS shares will continue to be listed and traded on the Pacific, Chicago and Toronto Stock Exchanges as well as New York.
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further more, BP stands for Beyond Petroleum, a name chosen to reflect the companies direction in to alternative energy, not just oil. Which, coincedentally, ties in with the change of logo from the old sheild to the current 'sun burst' at around the same time, signifying an apparently greener company (solar energy and whatnot).

http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9028308&contentId=7019491

‘Beyond petroleum’ sums up our brand in the most succinct and focused way possible. It’s both what we stand for and a practical description of what we do
We take concrete actions to push traditional boundaries and meet the challenges of our time in a sustainable way. ‘Beyond petroleum’ is shorthand for what we do:

* exploring, developing and producing more fossil fuel resources to meet growing demand
* manufacturing, processing and delivering better, more advanced products
* enabling the material transition to a lower carbon future

It doesn’t mean we’re abandoning oil and gas, getting out of hydrocarbons, or focusing only on alternative energy. It means we’re at the heart of all these areas, ensuring we can supply the world with energy now and far into the future.

Our advertising brings this to life with example
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Fact is, BP hasnt been known as British petroleum for nearly ten years now.
 
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dannyjo22 said:
It's not like there isn't enough anti american sentiment any time they shoot up one of our jeeps/tanks/soldiers.

If an american oil company had raped the backside out of our coastline you can be sure our PM would be using the same tactics to mirror the outrage that the british public would have towards america/american company.
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Thats the problem, the same situation happening here would be a half british half american company who hired a BRITISH company to build/run a oil rig off our coast that we'd made possible through deregulations and then one of OUR government agencies allowed them to build it to lower safety standards(to save money no doubt).

In other words, its almost entirely the US of A's fault this happened, and Obama's constantly trying to put the wrap onto British petroleum, a company that doesn't exist, to make american's think its in no way his fault(which btw, it really is to a large extent).

Theres 3 groups of people here, the company running/building the oil rig, the company hiring them(essentially) and the group of people that said it was okay to build there and okay to reduce the safety levels and save cash.

Now two of those groups of people, are american and nothing but american, the 3rd group, BP, is half american with far more american employee's than British employee's. Now Obama is going around helping kill BP's stock price for no reason other than wanting to deflect attention away from the fact it was his administration that let this happen.
 
Anyone see this quote from Helen Mirren on some US chat show?

Dame Helen Mirren said:
My God, I have to say, with the soccer I know you were talking about earlier on - the football - I was so relieved it was a draw.

'Because you know if Britain (lol!) had beaten America, what with BP, which to my mind stands for bloody p***-poor '
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Stupid bint.
 
My biggest criticism so far of Obama's handling of this is that he recently likened it to as being another 911.

I thought that was a pretty stupid comparison.

If anything, the better comparison would be to Hurricane Katrina, where like this disaster, thousands of people lost their livelihoods and many animals were lost. I also seem to remember that the then President, also came under a great deal of criticism for his handling of that disaster and speed at which they did things.

911 resulted in a lot of people loosing their lives from a terrorist action. It's subsequent effects were largely on the airline industry and a war. I don't see the comparison there myself.
 
He's saying that so he'll get a bit more support at home. Things aren't going well for him at the moment because it turns out he's rubbish at his job, so his only option is to blame someone and say he'll personally crush everyone and everything that gets in his way.
 
i dont think hes anti-british. i just think hes very angry over this oil leak.

i mean bp first said 5000 barrels were leaking in the first few days but they obviusly lied because we know for a fact it is 40,000.

i think hes right to be angry especially since it is damaging the wildlife a lot and the beaches.

http://izismile.com/2010/06/08/the_bp_oil_leak_disaster_animals_are_the_first_victims_26_pics.html


dont get me rong i myself am not a supporter of america for reasons i will not tell here, but you must see this situation from his point of view.
 
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