Can a moderator please move this thread to the ASB section.
Hyperion...CHILL OUT!
There are very active threads out there that make this one look like a Ameri-wank/Britscrew.

If THEY haven't been moved to ASB, THIS one certainly won't be. YES, "Whale" is a Britwank.(1a) I don't think anyone can seriously argue that, other than those who simply refuse to accept the word "wank" in usage for any TL they like that isn't in the ASB Forum. But this TL is NOT an Ameriscrew.(1b)
1a) I love a good Britwank. The key word being "good". This is the best out there today IMVHO.
1b) There are Britwank/Ameriscrews on this site so virulent they have alienated everyone out there save for the most jingoistic Anglophiles/Ameriphobes.
YES, Astrodragon has engaged in some ribbing of the US, but he has NOT done so with a sense of deliberate cruelty and malevolence. If ever there was a time that the US could be given some ribbing, it was early in 1942.
Oh, and for someone else out there who likes poems (you know who you are):
We're the battling bastards of Bataan
No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam
No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces
No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces
and nobody gives a goddamn!
Not all Americans that fought in WWII were overpaid, oversexed, over there, and having an easy time of it while their allies did all the fighting.
I first heard that poem from the lips of Sir Laurence Olivier (by far the 20th century's greatest actor).
Hyperion, I think you know of what I am writing of. Astrodragon has thus far not engaged in vilifying the United States. There's plenty of that around to be found in the Forum. This thread is NOT one of those places.

EDIT: Ninja'd by perfectgeneral
EDIT2: Let's not let this become a mass bullying exercise against Hyperion, either, people. Those can get extremely ugly. Opinions are supposed to be tolerated, unless this is moved to the Author's Forum. Then it's shut up and read.

EDIT3: Ninja'd by Garrison, too!
