Top Ten Things that Great Britain Competes with the United States of America In

Well, let's see... Just what was born in the USA? Oh, yeah: jazz (all varieties, including ragtime, Dixieland, and swing), blues (all varieties), honky tonk, rock 'n' roll, soul, R&B, rockabilly...

Okay, you helped out with rock, though some punk and new wave were more like payback for evicting George III's gaudy Huns from the Land of the Free. But we're best buds now, right?

Gah... Okay, look, I am willing to admit that my absolute favorite music genre is American-born (thank you for that, by the way), but we have The Beatles (even if they are stale and hang over England like a moldy, stinking pizza), David Bowie, Led Zep, and Sex Pistols... Ahh... Why am I having to explain? Haha...

I gave you the vote for films and sports! What more do you want? British blood?! But... yeah... sure, we're still best buds (or friends, as the more elegant Brits would say).

Every time I go to America, I get complimented on my accent. Why, thank you, but there are some British boys back home with even better ones.

I sound like a cross between Ramsay Bolton and Michael from I'm Alan Partridge. I kind of look a bit like Ramsay as well.

In America, it's pronounced "humor." Well, British and Americans are very different despite speaking the same language.

Blackadder
Bottom
Fawlty Towers
The Young Ones
The Inbetweeners

I could go on, or I could watch one of those shows.

Team GB - Deadpan humor is better than visionary slapstick.

Oh yeah! We got Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Blue Sky Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and so much more!

British films are fine. Americans are more in-your-face.

Well, then where's the "British" Hollywood?

Almost everything from America was based on things in Britain. You have rugby? We're calling it football. You have football? We're calling it soccer. You say "zee"? Well, guess what, we're not pronouncing it your way anymore! We're pronouncing it "zed"!

Sometimes, American grammar astounds me. "I could care less," rather than "I couldn't care less." So, does that mean you care a little?

Hmm... I guess Team USA spells things a little less complicated. They tend to spell as they say them, which makes more sense.

Team US - Hate it when Great Britain is against the US in swimming, diving, shooting...

Considering that Britain can get away with massive Angus burgers, full English breakfasts, and other huge meals without getting quite as tubby as the average American, we do make better food with fewer adverse effects on one's health.

With that said, Britain is the second fattest country in Europe, second only to Germany. Both the UK and the USA eat too much.

You forgot one, V. French. But when all's said and done, no one really thinks about where it derived from. English is English.

*Crack!* Oops... Think I've just broken a couple of 'em...

Team GB - There is no such thing as an American language, however much the US has tried to change it.

No such thing as the American language? Say that to Sarah Palin. "Immigrants to the US must speak American."

When you look at the highest-ranked universities in the world, both countries dominate the charts, and both attract people from all over the world to study there. One reason I'd recommend living in London is that many of the most prestigious universities in the world are virtually on your doorstep.

Used to be. Just like Harvard and Yale. Now they're all just incubators and disseminators of Newspeak and other revisionism.

Team GB - Oxford and Cambridge are the best universities in the world.

Team GB - Both sexes are more natural.

Captain Pugwash came out of Britain, and it's the greatest show ever created.