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Offline steely07

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Top ten nationalities (Don't read if you have a thin skin)
« on: September 26, 2002, 07:23:24 AM »
saw this on my internet travels,thought i'd share :)

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING FRENCH

When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay

Yet to experience the joy of winning the world cup for the first time

You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs

If there's a war you can surrender really early

You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.

You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries

You can be ugly and still become a famous film star

Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride

You don't have to bother with toilets, just **** in the street

People think you're a great lover even when you're not

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING AMERICAN

You can have a woman president without electing her

You can spell colour wrong and get away with it

You can call Budweiser beer

You can be a crook and still be president

If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything

If you can breathe you can get a gun

You can invent a new public holiday every year

You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made and nobody seems to care.

You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy"

You can think you're the greatest nation on earth. When you're not. At all.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ENGLISH

Two World Wars and One World Cup doo-dah doo-dah

Warm beer

You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket

You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events

Union jack underpants

Water shortages guaranteed every single summer

You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.

Bathing once a week-whether you need to or not

Ditto changing underwear

Beats being Welsh. Or Scottish

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ITALIAN

In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes

Unembarrassed to wear fur.

No need to worry about tax returns

Glorious military history... well, till about 400 a.d.

Can wear sunglasses inside

Political stability

Flexible working hours

Live near the Pope

Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair

Country run by Sicilian murderers

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING SPANISH

Glorious history of killing South American tribes

The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees

You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits etc

The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans

Everybody else makes crap paella and claims it's the real thing

Honesty

Only sure way of bedding a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes and risk your life in front of bulls

You get to eat bulls' testicles

Gibraltar

Supported Argentina in Falklands War.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING GERMAN

In-built sense of pacifism

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING INDIAN

Chicken Madras

Lamb Passanda

Onion Bhaji

Bombay Potatoe

Chicken Tikka Masala

Rogan Josh

Popadoms

Chisken Dopiaza

Meat Boona

Kingfisher lager

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING WELSH

You've got to be having a laugh, haven't you?!?!?!?

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING IRISH

Guinness

18 children becuase you can't use contraceptives

You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road

Pubs never close

Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in the second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.

No one can ever remember the night before

Kill people you don't agree with

Stew

More Guiness

Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING CANADIAN

It beats being an American.

Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

You can play hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.

Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a canoe?

A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her popularity ratings will rise.

Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

Kill Grizzly bears with huge f#ckoff shotguns and cover your house in their skins

Own-an-eskimo scheme.

Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING AUSTRALIAN

Know your great-grand-dad was a murdering bastard that no civilised nation on earth wanted.

Fosters Lager

Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country for 40,000 years because you think it belongs to you.

Annihilate England every time you play them at cricket.

Tact and sensitivity.

Bondi Beach.

Other beaches.

Liberated attitude to homosexuals

Drinking cold lager on the beach

Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager on the beach.
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Re: Top ten nationalities (Don't read if you have a thin skin)
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2002, 07:33:23 AM »
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Originally posted by steely07
Yet to experience the joy of winning the world cup for the first time


If you are going to make fun of the French you must be accurate about it...so that Straffo has no come-back;)

They won it in 1998.
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2002, 07:50:14 AM »
but as they lost all their matchs in the 1st round of the 2002 worldcup ...

it completly negate 1998 victory :p

and so steely07 is not far from truth :D
« Last Edit: September 26, 2002, 08:22:45 AM by straffo »

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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2002, 08:02:43 AM »
That had to be written by a fellow Brit.

Loved the bit about the Canadians, the Welsh and the Indians. But no Jalfrezi?

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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2002, 07:39:52 PM »
:) i didn't write it,just copied from somewhere else,i have no idea of the author or,of course,i would give him/her credit :)
 While reading it tho,i do think us aussies got off a tad lightly :)
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2002, 11:42:12 PM »
Definately written by a no good Brit.  :p

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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2002, 11:49:58 PM »
If you can breathe you can get a gun


fluff'n A, BABY!

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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2002, 01:51:40 AM »
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Originally posted by hawk220
If you can breathe you can get a gun


fluff'n A, BABY!


Since when were the rules that strict?