Clearing up misconceptions about your country!

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

British people have good teeth! Free NHS covers it

What about british food? is it really that bad?

It depends who cooks it, to quote Yahtzee "English food is "cuisine" in the same way jerking off with both hands is a 'menage a trois.'" it's pretty much true.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

America:

Not all of us are perplexingly fat capitalist pigs

Many of us are of a healthy weight and either apolitical or socialist.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I'm Canadian, and I've never said "aboot" once... then again I'm a west coaster... we behave differently, so i can't really comment on any of the other common stereotypes since in my travels across this fair country, the west coast seems to be a very... odd place by comparison to most of the rest of the country... so yeah...

and I do use "eh" in conversation regularly... so that one's true...

 

[effilctar]

English:
1)We have amazingly good teeth. Our teeth are even better than some Americans'(the hicks with yellowed teeth who are probably the main contributors to the British bad teeth rumour)
2)We don't all drink teawith our pinky out, just those of us who are posh, intellectual or studied at Cambridge/Oxford.
3)Oxford>Cambridge(it is, believe me)
4)We don't all live "near London"
5)We don't all support Manchester United.
7)Only the southerners have a posh accent
8)We don't all love cricket(I do but I prefer rugby)
9)Most of us hate our queen.
10)Most of us don't sit around talking about Diana.

 

[G1eet]

Sweden: We're not all blonde and blue eyed and eat meatballs all the time. And we don't have those ugly accents or bad speaking you hear on TV. Most of us are good at English, and we don't have that exaggerated accent.

Does everybody over there have to participate in a (death) metal band before they get their diploma?

I kid, I kid. Sweden's got the best metal scene in the world right now. Or for any of you Fins or Norwegians that I just pissed off, Scandinavia has the best metal scene of all the world.

Now that's a presumption that is true. Scandinavian metal kicks ass! I don't know what made it, but for some reason, all the good melo-death comes from here. God bless Scandinavia.

It's probably the only refuge left on earth where metalheads get strange on a regular basis.

/salute

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Texas

We DO mostly own guns.
We DO use the death penalty with enough provocation.
George Bush is NOT respected very much here.
We do NOT all wear ten gallon hats.
Our education does NOT suck for the most part (English class does, but no one cares because Spanish is spoken almost more than English).
We do NOT speak with an accent (unless we feel like messing with someone from a lesser state).
We are NOT hills OR desert OR forest OR plains.
We ARE hill AND desert AND forest AND plains.
We DO get every natural disaster except earthquakes and volcanoes (and any disasters that is caused by one of these) frequently.
As someone else mentioned, hurricanes do NOT necessarily suck. (only a high category 2 or higher in most cases.)

 

[Cakes]

We do not talk like the "Canadians" in south park.

They're Americans.

 

[CobaltBomber]

Sweden: We're not all blonde and blue eyed and eat meatballs all the time. And we don't have those ugly accents or bad speaking you hear on TV. Most of us are good at English, and we don't have that exaggerated accent.

Does everybody over there have to participate in a (death) metal band before they get their diploma?

I kid, I kid. Sweden's got the best metal scene in the world right now. Or for any of you Fins or Norwegians that I just pissed off, Scandinavia has the best metal scene of all the world.

Now that's a presumption that is true. Scandinavian metal kicks ass! I don't know what made it, but for some reason, all the good melo-death comes from here. God bless Scandinavia.

Vikings. Duh.

Also, the USA isn't made up of hicks and religious fanatics. Those are just the only ones who get any press coverage.

 

[shannon.archer]

Australia
- We don't ride Kangaroos.
- We don't all speak like Hugh Jackman from "Australia".
- We all say mate.
- We aren't are being invaded by Asians <_<

This pretty much covers all Australia's misconceptions. Oh We don't all live in the middle of the fucking outback with our nearest neighbor being 2 hours away. That's only farmers, most of us live in big fucking cities you know? Maybe you've heard of some of them, Sydney? Melbourne? Adelaide? (ok no ones heard of Adelaide but you get my point)

... if you grabbed ten random australians 9 would be white and 1 would be asian and then every so hundred people you would discover an aborigine or muslim... if they are taking over they arent doing a very good job at it.

 

[Something Amyss]

Vermont (USA):

Yes, people actually live here.

That's all I can think of.

 

[DazBurger]

One more thing...
New Zealand may have 4 sheep for every person.. But Denmark got 4 pigs for every person!
Wool and lamp-chops vs. Leather and bacon?

 

[effilctar]

We do not talk like the "Canadians" in south park.

They're Americans.

No, he means the "Canadians" in south park. Terrence and Phillip are 2 and there's been about 5 episodes revolving around the Canadians where they all say aboot and love Celine Dion.

 

[The_Echo]

As has been said before, the stereotypes about America are pretty much true, or well grounded.

Out of the 1600-or-so students at my school, only a handful break the mold of the stereotypical American, myself included (thank God).

 

[Toaster Hunter]

New Jersey

1. We are not all involved in the mafia
2. We do not have ridiculous accents
3. We do not have extremely low standards of living.
4. We do not like the joke "What exit?" It's not funny.

 

[Romblen]

Mine is more of a rant of my state.
Wyoming(part of United States)
1. No, we don't ride horses everywhere. We use cars.
2. Yes, we have electricity.
3. Yes, we have internet.
4. No, we're not part of Texas.
5. No, we do not act like the people in the old western movies.

I already posted, but I need to add another one.

6. Yes, we are aware that a black man is president.

 

[blackfrancis567]

Not all Irish are alcoholics just most of us
And the stereotype accent is a lie there's a million accent's here

 

[Chaos Bringer]

There are no nukes in Russia.

 

[stone0042]

-We're not all overweig... ok, that one has some basis. (If you're tall and skinny finding clothes which don't fit like parachute pants is like searching for the holy grail.)

Yeah it is. Ever since I grew 7 inches in one summer and topped off at 6'4", it's been nigh impossible to find good fitting clothes. Damn Mcdonalds, making everyone fat.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

-We're not all overweig... ok, that one has some basis. (If you're tall and skinny finding clothes which don't fit like parachute pants is like searching for the holy grail.)

Yeah it is. Ever since I grew 7 inches in one summer and topped off at 6'4", it's been nigh impossible to find good fitting clothes. Damn Mcdonalds, making everyone fat.

I don't have any problem with that.