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Archive for March, 2005

Europe Views Our Blogs.

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Euro­peans, Aus­tra­lians, and expa­tria­tes — more often then not — feel that blogs writ­ten by Ame­ri­cans are extre­mely boring.

No kidding.

How could this be you say?

It appears that Euro­peans, Aus­tra­lians and expa­tria­tes, have had just about enough of Ame­ri­cans wri­ting about the news, what is going on in the country and in the world. They find this type of thing dull and self ser­ving; it bores them to death and their gene­ral con­sen­sus is Ame­ri­cans just like to hear them­sel­ves talk, so to speak.

Euro­peans( and when I use the term Euro­peans from now on it will mean Euro­peans, Australian’s and expa­tria­tes ), would like to get their news from the news  not read blog­ger posts about it all over again ‚and take note, they have a grea­ter dis­dain for the com­men­tary and analy­sis that Ame­ri­cans like to throw in.

What do Euro­peans want you ask?

It seems they want to hear about all the things that many Ame­ri­cans don’t want to hear about, at least not from fellow blog­gers. They want to hear about daily living, family life, what hap­pe­ned at work, who we hate at work and school, who we’d liked to mur­der, who had sex with whom ‚and who we want to have sex with.

What they want most of all is humor. They want funny blogs. They want us to stop taking our­sel­ves so damn seriously. They want to know what kind of shoes we wear and what type of toi­let paper sucks. They want to really know the peo­ple living in the sup­po­sed best nation in the world.

Euro­peans want to see how we actually live our lives on a day to day basis and what we find funny and fun about it; they want gos­sip and fashion.

Euro­peans read blogs as a form of enter­tain­ment and they want us to stop ram­bling on inces­santly about the pre­si­dent, the democ­rats, the moral majo­rity and Teri Shivo. They want to hear more about the Bush twins, swin­gers clubs and girls gone wild. They want to know that the Olsen twins will gra­duate after only a cou­ple years of school with a PhD to boot without doing one damn bit of real work and they also want to know how they are going to manage that. They say they can’t find any enter­tai­ning Ame­ri­can Blogs and they have had enough.

I’m off to look for some funny Ame­ri­can blogs. If you know of any please leave me a link. I want to please my Euro­pean friends.

I am such a peo­ple pleaser.