As I see new Xbox LIVE Profile Bio's pop up, the sarcastic title of this blog fits the happy mood. In the world of online gaming, we're a bunch of cocky yanks and they're a handfull of wannabe Americans. If there's a fierce battle, it's the battle between American gamers and United Kingdom gamers.

We both speak english.
We both play games.
We both kill eachother.
We both race eachother.
We both have an accent that annoys the other.
We both can't deal with a loss.
We both bring "M-for-Mature" to a new level, language-wise.
We both hate the hell out of eachother.

It's easy to pick sides in the game of hatred. Brit? Go to the maties. American? Go to the dudes. Anything else? Neutral grounds are holy.

In games like Gears of War, Halo 3, Need for Speed, Call of Duty and such like games, anything with a fair deal of competition - The UK vs US battle begins. Usually, it's a comment like "Damn Yanks!" or "That ****ing snooty accent annoys the hell outta me!" that starts the war.

In the eyes of the Brits, Americans are a bunch of fat and loud ignorant idiots.
In the eyes of the Americans, Brits are a bunch ofannoying wannabe-American kids.

From the side of an American, the reason for a big ass fight would be this:
- A bunch of guys who do nothing else but insult eachother. We're loud? C'mon, the average age for a brittish kid to learn the F-word is three. The thing that pisses us off is that they are trying to be American... We don't spell anything with a Z, like "Gearz" or "Bastardzzz!". Neither do we spell like tHiS. We don't all come from the ghetto. We don't call Brits out specifically. Everytime two Brits come into a game room, you gotta watch your mouth or you're a "yank". If they know eachother, you gotta watch yourself or it's hell.

From the side of an Brit, the reason for a big ass fight would be this:
- Stereotypical, annoying, overly-agressive and ignorant. They always pick fights for no reason whatsoever. And even if they start, it's always someone elses fault. Not theirselfs. They are always agressive about our accent and call us "brits***s". It's always like this, one American is silence. Two or more is trouble.

It always ends up to be blaming the other. Brits are agressive verbally, and Americans are easily annoyed. It's always enough reason to start a fight. And, since I'm partially Dutch and partially American(I'm born Dutch, but my dad was American - Hence the last name's Taylor) - I always need to pick the American's side.

While I find it very amusing see a few guys yell at eachother, I have to admit, I do defend the US side when a fight picks up. But still, it made me think: Why do we hate eachother? Like I said, if something pisses either one of us off - Brit or American, we always blame eachother in the end.

Doesn't matter wether the fight started because someone said "Goddammit!" in a way that would be amusing(I get that alot from brits), or wether a Brit said "****ing hell!" with a deep Brittish accent - In the end, it's always the countries we're from to become the main reason of the fight.

And since the new Bio's started to rise. The sense of hatred became smelly around alot of my "friends profiles". I've got one who's list entirely relies on the so called "Yank haters". But then again, I've got one American friend who deeply hates Brits.

In the end, the fight always seems to be continueing... The question will always remain: What ignited it in the first place?

(P.S Sorry incase I offended someone called the people from the United Kingom "brits", couldn't find another word to easily phrase sentances.... Like I said, I try to be as neutral as I can.)