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Offline Corsair

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Cultural differences explained
« on: November 10, 2003, 07:19:03 PM »
Something to brighten up a Monday...

http://www.aviationhumour.co.uk/general/cdiff.htm

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. (hey, come on it's 5 now!)

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.

Offline john9001

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Cultural differences explained
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2003, 07:55:15 PM »
:rofl