vintage-race
[Top] [All Lists]

Cultural Differences - 2nd try

To: vintage-race@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Cultural Differences - 2nd try
From: oldirish@ix.netcom.com
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:10:21 -0600 (CST)
I got this off another news list, thought it might spread some mid-week 
cheer.  

>>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.
>>
>>                              Submitted by: Bruce Guthrie @ nmaa.org


*************************************************************************
Jerry Liudahl - Eugene, OR USA                  
'54 AH 100, '64 AH 3000, '62 MGB                
Member, Purple Lips Racing Team: '61 AH 3000, '68 Datsun 2000      
URL: http://pw2.netcom.com/~oldirish/lip_service.html           
Member, Lip Service Racing - #33 - Power/Razor/Lips Racing                    
ITCC - Jaguar XJR; NWSICT - Lola; IGN/Netcar - Monte Carlo
URL: http://pw2.netcom.com/~oldirish/lip_service/liprace.html         
     http://home.ican.net/~sts/prl/index.html              
*************************************************************************

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
  • Cultural Differences - 2nd try, oldirish <=