UK identifies british rapper as beheading suspect

[sandman]

Mhmm, now how many those states have universal healthcare?

Christ. NHS, like every other government run program, is bureaucratic and inefficient. Last week I thought I had either conjunctivitis or a scratched cornea. Good luck getting into a doctor within the time frame it would take to heal on it's own unless you went to an A&E and spent 12 hours in the waiting room. Took 15 minutes to go to a private practice that I paid from my private insurance and another 15 to collect the prescription from Boots. We've had private doctors tell us they spend all their time doing house calls because the meds given out by the local NHS clinics here in Surrey are so cheap that they are little more than placebos.

There are some good things about universal healthcare, but there are some really really bad things about it as well. If you don't have private insurance to compliment your NHS coverage (especially for anything above check-ups and skinned knees) you will definitely have medical treatment well below the American standard.

As an American that is now living in the land that is the poster child for universal healthcare, I can say with a lot of confidence that its utopian state is a myth. It's just that the Brits learned a long time ago how to be really good at persevering with a stiff upper lip. I am amazed at what these people are willing to put up with for Queen and Country.

[sandman]

And I'd say the same about the Americans completely screwing a language that isn't even theirs to screw.

First, the vast majority of American colonists were from England, so how exactly is English not their language.

Second, do you take the same offense to Commonwealth countries that have totally ruined English as well?

Third, it is commonly accepted among linguistic experts that neither modern American English or modern British English are anywhere close to original English.

In other words, languages evolve. It's not a hard concept to grasp that two countries with the same common language at some point 300 years ago but separated by an ocean would linguistically (and culturally) evolve independently of each other.