Re: Typical Americans
I think the problem is stereotypes. French are arrogant, Dutch are avaricious, Americans are gunslinging morons, ...
These things aren't necessarily true (however some have or had some truth to them). The thing is that we see actions of those groups in light of those prejudices and by doing this enforcing those prejudices.
Originally Posted by Drone
Re: Typical Americans
Don't forget the English being pompous and posh!
Re: Typical Americans
Posh! In Yorkshire it's posh not to keep coal in the bath.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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Re: Typical Americans
WOW OK!
so the Poms aren't quite as posh as they are believed to be, they just sound it.
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Hate to be an accurate Anne but this picture is from Poland.....And we loved your idea about hot tubs... but we thought we needed to 'tweak' it a little...
Note: the cans of tasty Lech beer and the cheaper Tatras ale
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Re: Typical Americans
Can't be.
Everyone knows Europeans don't bathe !
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Re: Typical Americans
Well we can't in Yorkshire. The bath's always full.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: Typical Americans
I do have a Polish friend who went to Michigan to work and he told me that one day, while speaking to an American about Africa, the American revealed that Africa was actually a country in South America.
I couldn't believe that someone was that ignorant, but my mate isn't a liar.
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