America is a ____ 10 year old boy.
April 19, 2010 7:05 PM Subscribe
I once read something, perhaps a comment on this very site, that compared the united states to a ten year old boy. It might have made similar nation to person comparisons. They went on to describe this ten year old using some term that was close to, but probably not, "belligerent". What was this bit of writing?
Could it be this, from Johnny Depp?
"America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."
posted by ROTFL at 7:21 PM on April 19, 2010
"America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out."
posted by ROTFL at 7:21 PM on April 19, 2010
it's Douglas adams in the book the Salmon of doubt - he also says "Canada is like an intelligent, thirty-five-year-old woman" I believe the description of America is "like a belligerent, adolescent boy"
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 12:17 AM on April 20, 2010
posted by 5_13_23_42_69_666 at 12:17 AM on April 20, 2010
Best answer:
"Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. In fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things.posted by I_pity_the_fool at 2:39 AM on April 20, 2010 [3 favorites]
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posted by thelastenglishmajor at 7:12 PM on April 19, 2010