Yeah, well you know what? All this victimhood and blame whitey has had the opposite effect on me. I am positively NOT sorry.

I went to Norway a few years back and NO ONE, not one person, told me how sorry they were for the Vikings. Its an outrage.

Come to think of it you Dutchies owe me an apology, not sure exactly what for yet, but there must be something. de Ruyter maybe.

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Soccer. You should apologize for soccer.

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Well maybe they should be apologising for Aids, now I know we can't prove it came from Africa but I'm pretty sure that Africans practised slavery at the same time, if not before, we did.

Come to think of it, if all human life originated in Africa doesn't that make them responsible for pretty much everything?

Or we could all just move on and stop all the bloody whining about things that happened hundreds of years ago and, lets face it, have no effect on us.

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On the other hand, you owe us for the Glorious Revolution

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I think we should apologise for founding the USA.

This ferver for apologising is preposterous. I'm with you EA on this one. When I was in Italy last year no-one apologised to me for invading in AD 55, and it still smarts.

Prescott should make an apology for continuosity mangling the England language, like what he said.

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They thumped you in 1620 wasn't it?

Some of our African-descent "victimage merchants" keep trying to make me feel guilty for the enslaved blacks who ended up at Jamestown colony in 1623, so I think it is EXACTLY as reasonable for you to hold a grudge over Dutch iniquities from the early 17th.

Wait.....didn't they let you borrow a king or something a bit later on? And wasn't he the chap who thumped MY ancestors at the Boyne? Maybe we can all gripe and grudge against those nasty dutchies!

To the barricades!!!!!

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You are getting close. You are even dead right about the Boyne. On the other hand, we were the first to recognize the sovereign United States of America. Barbara Tuchman named a book after it: The First Salute.

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Well the whole PR thing was usually along the lines of: "do something nasty and apologise later, preferably much later", that makes it ok. Now it's evolved into: "do something nasty, then apologise for something else, totally unrelated, that happened two hundred years ago to distract their attention... then get back to talking about the carbon footprint of the Iraq war".

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Ah, so ultimately, it is the Dutch that are responsible for the Iraq mess.

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Yeah. If we'd have only put them in charge of the Iraq affair, they'd have offered Saddam 60 Guilders for Baghdad. Problem solved.

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I might if we ever won anything.

I'd like to add Hugh Grant to my earlier list of apologies.

I'd also like to apologise for Roger Moore ever having been cast as James Bond, except for Live and Let Die, which is not too bad.

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I'd like to profusely apologize to the rest of the world for the stupidity of my fellow Americans, whom I am deeply ashamed of, for re-electing our current government officials.

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