4_Phucsache
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OK before you get to the actual "big" text part of the thread could everyone please take note that:
A. I found this on the net and dunno the author.
B. Its a friggin joke aimed pretty much at all of us (Excluding Europe of course but I will get to them in the next thread)

OK here we go kiddies:


National Observations 101

Aussie: 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 and take care of
themselves.
Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.

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.

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 4 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, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.
Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they played 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

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic about 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: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

Brits: Are justifiably proud of the accomplishments of their past citizens.
Americans: Are justifiably proud of the accomplishments of their present citizens.
Canadians: Prattle on about how some of those great Americans were once Canadian.
Aussies: Wollow on about how some of their past citizens were once outlaw Pommies, but none of that matters after several beers.

Americans: Seem to think that poverty and 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.
Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.

Canadians: Endure bitterly cold winters and are proud of it.
Brits: Endure oppressively wet and dreary winters and are proud of it.
Americans: Don't have to do either, and couldn't care less.
Aussies: Don't understand what inclement weather means.

Aussies: Have produced comedians like Paul Hogan and Yahoo Serious.
Canadians: Have produced many great comedians, like John Candy, Martin Short, Jim Carrey, Dan Akroyd, and all the rest at SCTV.
Americans: Think that these people are American!
Brits: Have produced many great comedians, but Americans ignore them because they don't understand subtle humor.
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Ty
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Nice. I want to add a New Zealand one, in the same order as your catagories:

Kiwi: Believe that your mate had it coming.
Kiwi: Dislike being mistaken for Australian anywhere.
Kiwi: TV is too crap so go to a movie or a Rugby game.
Kiwi: Will yammer on about how they're really pretty good for a tiny nation.
Kiwi: Reckon they have no accent.
Kiwi: Insist on singing in array of different languages to be PC.
Kiwi: Attempt to outdrink Australians. Attempt.
Kiwi: Praise the one or two outstanding countrymen as Gods.
Kiwi: Seem to believe that wealth and success are all the fault of the Government
Kiwi: Blame the Weatherman.
Kiwi: Laugh at everyone else.

Sorry, couldnt' resist.
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=OBS= EstebanRey
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4_Phucsache wrote:

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch 4 channels.
Just to point out that the TV licence fee only covers the two BBC channels (and all the radio stations), the other 3 (there are 5 terristrial channels, not 4) are independently funded, ergo adverts.  It's actually a good thing because for £80 a year you get two channels without any adverts at all so you can watch a film or programme without interuption.  Who cares anyway, I've got Sky with 500 channles, LOL

Nice post though as most of it is true...I'm not going to be like one of those Americans that's starts flaming because my nation has had a comedic review......although, try as I might, I just can't resist doing this.....

4_Phucsache wrote:

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they played them in.
Like they did in the Ashes and the Rugby World Cup eh?  Sorry, had to be said, it's not like we get a lot to sing about over here so please excuse the bragging.

P.S.  Why do Austalians call the British "pommies"?  It comes from "Prisoner Of Mother England" and thus applies to the Australians (early ones anyway unless you are violently opposed to the commonwealth I suppose)......
Ty
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If you didn't have soccer-playing Jonny Wilkenson you wouldn't have got a point ya penalty kicking bastards! Score a bloody Try!
Still, thanks for stealing the trophy from the Aussies. I don't think the economy here could have survived if Australia got the World Cup a third time. We're still struggling to realise that they have it once more than us.

Pom I believe comes from what the crates were stamped with when they arrived in the colonies, Product Of Motherland.

Last edited by Tyferra (2006-06-15 04:22:56)

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Murphy <s18>
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I thought australians were the poms? you know Prisoner Of Mother England, nice find though i found it quite amusing


EDIT: S/P

Last edited by Murphy <s18> (2006-06-15 04:35:39)

Jinto-sk
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lol nice so true +1 for you
aardfrith
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Tyferra wrote:

If you didn't have soccer-playing Jonny Wilkenson you wouldn't have got a point ya penalty kicking bastards! Score a bloody Try!
Still, thanks for stealing the trophy from the Aussies. I don't think the economy here could have survived if Australia got the World Cup a third time. We're still struggling to realise that they have it once more than us.

Pom I believe comes from what the crates were stamped with when they arrived in the colonies, Product Of Motherland.
I'd been taught that POM came from that fruit with the pomegranate (however you spell the bloody thing, it never looks right).  The seeds being the same colour as we Brits turn as soon as we go in the sun (of which you have an abundance down there).

As for rugby, it's a poof's game.  I still prefer watching aussie rules.

Last edited by aardfrith (2006-06-15 05:07:53)

BF2Craglyeye
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I more inclined to go for Tyf's interpretation of Product of Motherland.

And because the only thing we use to recieve were the English prisoners, then they would naturally get the nickname POM.

Last edited by BF2Craglyeye (2006-06-15 05:08:34)

Adams_BJ
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We were having a bad day...or 2 when we lost the ashes, we'll have it safetly under our arm (where it belongs) soon anyway. And you stole the World Cup (thats right, I saw you!)
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=OBS= EstebanRey wrote:

P.S.  Why do Austalians call the British "pommies"?  It comes from "Prisoner Of Mother England" and thus applies to the Australians (early ones anyway unless you are violently opposed to the commonwealth I suppose)......
Hmmm.....

Claim:   "Pommy" (or "pom"), a slang term for a British person, comes from the acronym POHM, which was used to designate a "Prisoner of His Majesty."
Status:   False.

Origins:   "Pommy" (or "pom" or "pommie") is a primarily Australian (and largely derisive) slang term used to indicate a recent immigrant from Great Britain, or  a Brit in general. The origins of "pommy" having been lost in the mists of time, someone needed to cook up an etymology for it, preferably one equal to the pejorative sense of the word. Accordingly, we now have the story that criminals transported to Australia were designated "Prisoners of His Majesty" or "Prisoners of Mother England" (some versions claim the convicts bore one of these legends printed on the backs of their shirts), and thus the acronym "POHM" or "POME" eventually evolved into the slang term "pom" or "pommy."

This amusing anecdote is doubtful as anything more than a fanciful invention, as acronymic origins antedating the mid-twentieth century are automatically suspect, and the use of "pommy" has been recorded at least as far back as 1915. Moreover, nobody has yet turned up corroborating evidence that "Prisoner of His Majesty" or "Prisoners of Mother England" were actually common designations for criminals transported to Australia. The best guess at this time is that "pommy" was based on the word "pomegranate" -- either because the redness of the fruit supposedly matched the typically florid British complexion, or because (like "Johnny Grant") it was used as rhyming slang for "immigrant."

http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/pommy.htm

see also..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternativ … tish#Pommy

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mcminty
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=OBS= EstebanRey wrote:

4_Phucsache wrote:

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they played them in.
Like they did in the Ashes and the Rugby World Cup eh?  Sorry, had to be said, it's not like we get a lot to sing about over here so please excuse the bragging.
What was the score in the Union last week?

... Australia won 34-3, didn't we?


it's not like we get a lot to sing about over here
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aardfrith wrote:

As for rugby, it's a poof's game.  I still prefer watching aussie rules.
Lol, donno why you would. It's AFL that is the "poof's game".



Mcminty.

Last edited by mcminty (2006-06-15 05:47:24)

{A.K.A}LordBeefman
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you missed one why do pommies think a cake of soap is for eatting, because they never have a bath

Last edited by {A.K.A}LordBeefman (2006-06-15 05:56:20)

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{A.K.A}LordBeefman wrote:

you missed one why do pommies think a cake of saop is for eatting, because they never have a bath
But we do know how "soap" is spelled at least eh?
Flecco
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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.

Bloody classic... and very true....
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Cybargs
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{A.K.A}LordBeefman wrote:

you missed one why do pommies think a cake of soap is for eatting, because they never have a bath
shouldnt it be the french?

australia lost coz us ninjas were having too much sake (japanese wine) during the world cup which we didnt have time to kill those damn english pirates.
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the americans only manufacture the weak pissy tasting beer.  We drink the imports
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Lol the Brit ones are so true!!   Except for the beer... you crossed the line, you are a bad man.. -.- 
TheDarkRaven
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And change it from soccer to football...I've never jabbered about soccer...only football. My only qualm - oh, and the beer as above. Apart from that - all good!
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=OBS= EstebanRey wrote:

4_Phucsache wrote:

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch 4 channels.
Who cares anyway, I've got Sky with 500 channles, LOL

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