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I hear them call the tide
Join Date: Dec 2005
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my face hurts
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The future is unwritten
Join Date: Oct 2002
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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 and take care of themselves. CANADIANS: Believe that that's the government's job. 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: 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, and liquor in a backward country. CANADIANS: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, and liquor in a backward country. AMERICANS: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer. CANADIANS: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer. BRITS: Drink warm, beery-tasting p*ss. AUSSIES: Drink anything with alcohol in it. 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 things. AUSSIES: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
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..... and, I suspect, written by one of us frightfully nice British chaps.
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The future is unwritten
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Damifino, but it came from an Aussie site.
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
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That's different then.
They can take the blame/credit as applicable. ![]()
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
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