Cultural Differences Explained

bbchris · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:09 am Post subject: Cultural Differences Explained

Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.

Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for

Americans when abroad.

Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.

Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.

Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.

Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who

belong to your club.

Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of themselves.

Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.

Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively

patriotic to the point of blindness.

Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them.

Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to

perform the anthem.

Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.

Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels.

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.

Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there

watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.

Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball,

and basketball.

Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and

rugby.

Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey,

hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in.

Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English".

Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it

"English".

Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.

Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in an attempt to get laid.

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.

Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.

Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.

Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.

Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.

Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.

Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally

suspect.

Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.

Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things.

Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several

beers.

ED1G · PIGGY MOONRUST Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 2644

very true about the english!!

Paul

RonOnGuitar · Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1916

LOL, Chris!

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"Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad."

Actually I'd wear a T-shirt with Old Glory (the US flag)on it, if for no other reason than to tick people off!! hahaha!

By the way, it's INDEPENDENCE DAY today! Happy B-Day to fellow & gal American blah-blah boardies!

:ww

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"Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad."

Reminds me of the time someone asked the late Sir Richard Burton if he was English. He replied with something the person didn't understand and so the person asked him "what did you say?" -

Burton told him: "I said 'Bite your tongue!' in Welsh."

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Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.

I'm not as much for beer as I was in my mispent days of youth, lol . A pitcher of Manhattans sounds good, though.