Stereotypes
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Guess I should add a bunch for being American huh?
I must think America is so much better than anywhere else - No, and when I get the chance I'm getting the fuck out of here, first choice is actually Australia, the second being Britain, the third Germany.
I must be outrageously over weight - While I'm a bit bigger than I would like to be, I'm actually losing the weight, and I've never been that fat
I must be uneducated about the rest of the world, or at the very least close minded - There are things I don't know, sure, but I'm not close minded in the slightest.
Um...This starts to become more or less other countries opinions and stereotypes of us Americans, which admittedly i don't know all of. At the risk of sounding just as ignorant as the rest of my people, what do people see the majority of us as?
I must think America is so much better than anywhere else - No, and when I get the chance I'm getting the fuck out of here, first choice is actually Australia, the second being Britain, the third Germany.
I must be outrageously over weight - While I'm a bit bigger than I would like to be, I'm actually losing the weight, and I've never been that fat
I must be uneducated about the rest of the world, or at the very least close minded - There are things I don't know, sure, but I'm not close minded in the slightest.
Um...This starts to become more or less other countries opinions and stereotypes of us Americans, which admittedly i don't know all of. At the risk of sounding just as ignorant as the rest of my people, what do people see the majority of us as?
I'm 16 so:
I must be stupid - No, my GCSE's prove otherwise.
I must be gagging for it - No.
I'm probably a smoking, drinking, trouble making layabout. - Don't smoke, don't drink or do drugs, never have. I'm looking for a job but because of the economical state it's hard to find one, they won't employ teenagers.
I'm a slut - Been with my guy for nearly two years now, so I don't think so.
I'm British so:
I drink cups of tea, eat bangers and mash, crumpets and custard creams. - Pretty much true, actually. I like all of them apart from bangers and mash.
I speak posh - No.
Or I speak in a common London accent - Not London, but a common Bradford accent, and I can't pronounce my H's.
I have bad teeth - no.
I'm rowdy - At times.
I'm rude - no.
Stereotypes are funny.
I must be stupid - No, my GCSE's prove otherwise.
I must be gagging for it - No.
I'm probably a smoking, drinking, trouble making layabout. - Don't smoke, don't drink or do drugs, never have. I'm looking for a job but because of the economical state it's hard to find one, they won't employ teenagers.
I'm a slut - Been with my guy for nearly two years now, so I don't think so.
I'm British so:
I drink cups of tea, eat bangers and mash, crumpets and custard creams. - Pretty much true, actually. I like all of them apart from bangers and mash.
I speak posh - No.
Or I speak in a common London accent - Not London, but a common Bradford accent, and I can't pronounce my H's.
I have bad teeth - no.
I'm rowdy - At times.
I'm rude - no.
Stereotypes are funny.
Im Irish too but I actually live in Ireland. At least you dont get labelled with the whole ginger lepracaun thing. The rest though is true, I can hold my drink and have a short temper but thats what heppens when drinking is a national past time. As far the R thing goes, I just do it when when Im taking the piss.Isaac Dodgson said:
I have a kinda golden brown hair and grayish blue eyes, so the ginger thing can't be applied, and the R's or lack there of is the whole New England/Boston accent thing...WeedWorm said:
I've got a couple
I'm British, spent half my life in the home counties, and half in Northampton.
so:
I speak the Queen's English (yes, that'd be the stereotypical English villain accent to you yanks)
I vote Tory (no)
I hate immigrants (not all of them, just the lazy ones)
I spend my summers playing cricket, drinking tea, and being awfully polite (yes, i even walk before I am given out)
I drink massive amounts of larger and ale (every night!!)
I also have the pleasure of being a Uni Student
So:
I am lazy (true)
I'm a tax dodger (I pay more tax than most students, because i had the good sense to find a decent well payed job)
I spend more money on drugs and beer than I do anything else (true, true, true)
I sleep for 23 hours a day (I actually sleep for longer if I can fit it in)
I will doing anything for a freebie (hell yeah!)
I have never cleaned my flat, and only eat junk food (not at all true, I tidy at least once a month!!)
I'm British, spent half my life in the home counties, and half in Northampton.
so:
I speak the Queen's English (yes, that'd be the stereotypical English villain accent to you yanks)
I vote Tory (no)
I hate immigrants (not all of them, just the lazy ones)
I spend my summers playing cricket, drinking tea, and being awfully polite (yes, i even walk before I am given out)
I drink massive amounts of larger and ale (every night!!)
I also have the pleasure of being a Uni Student
So:
I am lazy (true)
I'm a tax dodger (I pay more tax than most students, because i had the good sense to find a decent well payed job)
I spend more money on drugs and beer than I do anything else (true, true, true)
I sleep for 23 hours a day (I actually sleep for longer if I can fit it in)
I will doing anything for a freebie (hell yeah!)
I have never cleaned my flat, and only eat junk food (not at all true, I tidy at least once a month!!)
LOL I can picture the Little Critters episode of Southpark now... forming the Antichrist and Santa crushing it with his mallet....Tattaglia said:
Oh and I just don't like the fact that that is how people see Australians and Steve Irwin played on that "Crikey! I'm Australian, I WRESTLE CROCODILES AND EAT KANGAROO PIE FOR BREKKY."
I'm British/English and I've travelled around the US:
-I do not know the Queen (or the Prime Minister).
-Although I studied politics at uni I am not going to be the Prime Minister.
-Yes, we do all make fun of you (US, Irish, Scots, Australians, French, etc).
-Actually I'd prefer black coffee most of the time.
-It is called football. The clue is in the name. What you play is padded rugby league.
-The right side of the road to drive on is the left.
-I can handle my beer. Natti Lite might as well be drinking water.
Also, I love this. Its marginally out of date but most of it holds true:
-I do not know the Queen (or the Prime Minister).
-Although I studied politics at uni I am not going to be the Prime Minister.
-Yes, we do all make fun of you (US, Irish, Scots, Australians, French, etc).
-Actually I'd prefer black coffee most of the time.
-It is called football. The clue is in the name. What you play is padded rugby league.
-The right side of the road to drive on is the left.
-I can handle my beer. Natti Lite might as well be drinking water.
Also, I love this. Its marginally out of date but most of it holds true:
To the citizens of the United States of America
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise."
3. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation.
4. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
5.There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."
6. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above).
7. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but to be celebrated only in England. It will be called "Come-Uppance Day."
8. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
9. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
10. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
11. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric immediately and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
12. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") -roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
13. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar.
14. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
15. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
16. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
17. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer". Those of you brave enough will, in time, will be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
18. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
19. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
20. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due backdated to 1776.
Thank you for your co-operation.
John Cleese
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise."
3. You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation.
4. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
5.There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."
6. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above).
7. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but to be celebrated only in England. It will be called "Come-Uppance Day."
8. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
9. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
10. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
11. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric immediately and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
12. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") -roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
13. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar.
14. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
15. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
16. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
17. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer". Those of you brave enough will, in time, will be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
18. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
19. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
20. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due backdated to 1776.
Thank you for your co-operation.
John Cleese
Let's see I an American Born Mexican and I happen to live right by the border in California.
I'm not lazy, I do like women with big butts, I love mexican food, My dad is a landscaper but he owns his own business, I have a half brother thats been deported, I don't like mexican music, I speak really good english after all it was my first language, I don't own a datsun, and I don't mind tequilla.
Now for the American Mexican stereotype. I don't have a shaved head, I'm not in a gang, I don't listen to gangster rap(but I do love punk,indie rock, and Underground hip hop). I don't drive a lowrider, I don't wear baggy clothes, I dont use the word holmes or ese and I love reading.
I feel like the only mexican on here, say it aint so....
I'm not lazy, I do like women with big butts, I love mexican food, My dad is a landscaper but he owns his own business, I have a half brother thats been deported, I don't like mexican music, I speak really good english after all it was my first language, I don't own a datsun, and I don't mind tequilla.
Now for the American Mexican stereotype. I don't have a shaved head, I'm not in a gang, I don't listen to gangster rap(but I do love punk,indie rock, and Underground hip hop). I don't drive a lowrider, I don't wear baggy clothes, I dont use the word holmes or ese and I love reading.
I feel like the only mexican on here, say it aint so....
Kangaroo meat is awesome, its lean and very healthy and has a tasty almost gamey taste. Kangaroos produce way less green house gas then livestock (such as cows) and by not having hooves they don't create as much soil erosion.Fluffles said:
If I had my way, we'd farm millions of them and ship'em all over the world.
I am British:
I love tea - Meh, it's nice once in a while for me, but everyone else I know is addicted to the stuff so yeah, it's kind of true.
I have bad teeth - I'm getting a brace, again kind of true.
I say things like 'jolly good!' - Yes, I do. Because it's fun.
I live in Gloucestershire so I must drink cider, be inbred, say 'Ooohh arr' etc - I like Cider, I can't stand the accent and I'm extremely glad I don't have it, and fuck-no I'm not inbred. I was born in London dammit.
I love tea - Meh, it's nice once in a while for me, but everyone else I know is addicted to the stuff so yeah, it's kind of true.
I have bad teeth - I'm getting a brace, again kind of true.
I say things like 'jolly good!' - Yes, I do. Because it's fun.
I live in Gloucestershire so I must drink cider, be inbred, say 'Ooohh arr' etc - I like Cider, I can't stand the accent and I'm extremely glad I don't have it, and fuck-no I'm not inbred. I was born in London dammit.
I'm Black... African American... oh hell I?m BLACK
Well this will be fun, apparently I:
Love fried chicken...
Have a need to drink 40's
Am great at all sports... particularly anything that involves running, stealing, and hitting
Love watermelon
Rollin on DUBs
With a Pimped out ride
Diamonds in my teeth and on my chains
That doesn?t like to do anything but hand around on the street corner selling, drugs, listening to him hop, Hitting on bitches (now I feel sick) and making you mama jokes while not being able to read? (phew that felt better)
While really:
I Hate chicken, more of a steak guy
I don?t drink often
I can?t play most sports, real or video games
Watermelon is okay, in moderation
Really what the fuck is a DUB???
Toyota Camry and an old one at that
That just looks so stupid and? well stupid
I don?t like to go out in my neighborhood, don?t know where to find drugs, I prefer J-pop and Classical, I?d rather talk to the lady, and while I do have the occasional snide comments my friends don?t joke that much? reading is fundamental.
Well this will be fun, apparently I:
Love fried chicken...
Have a need to drink 40's
Am great at all sports... particularly anything that involves running, stealing, and hitting
Love watermelon
Rollin on DUBs
With a Pimped out ride
Diamonds in my teeth and on my chains
That doesn?t like to do anything but hand around on the street corner selling, drugs, listening to him hop, Hitting on bitches (now I feel sick) and making you mama jokes while not being able to read? (phew that felt better)
While really:
I Hate chicken, more of a steak guy
I don?t drink often
I can?t play most sports, real or video games
Watermelon is okay, in moderation
Really what the fuck is a DUB???
Toyota Camry and an old one at that
That just looks so stupid and? well stupid
I don?t like to go out in my neighborhood, don?t know where to find drugs, I prefer J-pop and Classical, I?d rather talk to the lady, and while I do have the occasional snide comments my friends don?t joke that much? reading is fundamental.
I'm english and I've let the side down by actually having bad teeth...
I also am remarkably intelligent and converse with the queen over cucumber sandwiches and tea at test matches regularly. I sometimes find the time to be the villain in a movie, when Russians and Germans are unavailable...
...okay that's all lies apart from the first one.
I also am remarkably intelligent and converse with the queen over cucumber sandwiches and tea at test matches regularly. I sometimes find the time to be the villain in a movie, when Russians and Germans are unavailable...
...okay that's all lies apart from the first one.
I can't remember the comedian I'm stealing from but...CMDR Zero C said:
Who the hell doesn't like fried chicken and watermelon? Seriously? I'm a white as the first snow of the season and I can't get enough watermelon and fried chicken. My Dad barbecues a great chicken recipe, half deep fat fried, half BBQ (for the finish).
