What we don't know about your country

[KaiRai]

Did you know, in Yorkshire, on a Sunday, at mid day, you can kill a welshman with a longbow, and it's completely legal?!

Honest to god. It's just one of those stupid old laws they haven't got round to banning yet

 

[KaiRai]

Scotland: Not every1 weres kilts, only to weddings and such.
We dont all sound like an angry cat hissing, we just have a normal british accent.
We dont all eat chaggis, mince and tatties, (tatties are potatoes), i love potatoes and hate haggis and mince, yuck!!
Last, we dont all play the f-ing bagpipes!! they suk i think!

how the hell can you hate haggis!? I freakin' love the stuff, and I'm not even from Sctoland!

Also, in Birmingham, not everyone is a brummie.

 

[Lord George]

Snip

3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all.
4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.

And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.

THEY ARE ALSO NOT PART OF OURS. If anything northern Ireland is a country within its own rights. And not everyone hates the British thank you.

Everyone hates the British, even the British don't like the British, along with those damn Scot/Welsh/Irish gits

 

[oLEDs]

Norway. The cheese plane or cheese slicer (I really don't know what the english word for it is), is a norwegian invention. woot. Also I think the paper clip is a norwegian invention too.

 

[SimonJr]

Here in Belgium, video game rentals have been outlawed since January this year. It's like the government is begging us to pirate.

 

[HK_01]

Scotland, well we don't wear kilts unless it's a wedding or something, We only have haggis 2 times a year and thats Rabbie Burns day and St andrews day. We are not English . We can single handley stop a terroist because no one fucks with us we don't care if your on fire.

How the hell can you go bear hunting in Siberia then?

 

[Trendkill6]

In America we actually do learn foreign languages and it's actually now mandatory to take 2 years of a foreign language to get into college.

Well this one isn't from my country but
Everyone in Norway is not a black metal musician.

 

[Monocle Man]

Belgium is not just waffles and chocolate.
There are some other things too.

 

[Froobyx]

Scotland,

Edinburgh was the first city in the world which had its own fire-brigade.

We have over 600 square miles of lochs(lakes)

We have 790 islands, 130 are inhabited.

Our money is Legal Tender in england

Edinburgh castle is built on top of a volcano isnt it?

The world's longest pencil is in a pencil museum in Keswick (Lake District). There's a lot of graphite in those hills I guess..

Actually, isn't graphite mined?

 

[Mullahgrrl]

Norway. The cheese plane or cheese slicer (I really don't know what the english word for it is), is a norwegian invention. woot.

However, Norway was a part of sweden at the time so it counts as a swedish invention.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Snip

3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all.
4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.

And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.

THEY ARE ALSO NOT PART OF OURS. If anything northern Ireland is a country within its own rights. And not everyone hates the British thank you.

Everyone hates the British, even the British don't like the British, along with those damn Scot/Welsh/Irish gits

While I understand your point I'm talking about Irish people. We have a whole culture built about them being the cause of everything bad even though:
A We would have done the same
B They gave us a lot of benefits.

 

[Steelfists]

Anyway Ireland. I would love to start but there is too much to just pick so the basics.
1 We dont sound like we are from some crappy film from the 50's
2 We have the most complicated age of consent laws in the world
3 We dont all drink Guinness as it is horrible.
4 If you mention the British everyone has a different opinion.
5 Dont mention the civil war.
6 Dont mention the failed rebellions apart from 1798
7 We dont have leprechauns. We killed and ate all of them ages ago
8 Any further questions?
9 We all really hate tourists.
10 Our economy is so doomed we might get kicked out of the EU.

3 Despite popular belief some of us don't drink alcohol at all.
4 True, but in my experience the only difference of opinion is on just how much we hate them.

And to all English people, those six county's in the north, despite your collective arrogance ARE NOT PART OF YOUR COUNTRY.

Someone's a bit bitter!

In the UK it is illegal to eat mince pies on christmas day. Really. Look it up.

Ok fine: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6204511.stm

 

[Froobyx]

I have another one. On my interview day for uni I found out that the Sydney Harbor bridge was built in Middlesbrough, UK :O

 

[erikvduyn]

In Holland, clogs aren't as common as you think. In fact, far from it.

 

[GoldenCondor]

Did you know that in russia, contrary to popular belief, Mudkip doesn't like you because pokemon was banned?

AND that Ukraine has one of the most evil national anthems? The words for one part are (translated):
Ukraine isn't dead yet.

 

[Joshimodo]

Well, we Welsh have always been referred to as 'sheepshaggers'. While this may be true for some of us, did you know that there are actually more sheep in our neighbouring England than in Wales?

This does seem to make sense considering the proportion issue there is that England is of course bigger than Wales.

Not to mention Scotland has the largest sheep/people ratio in the UK.

 

[zuluking187]

The Avro Arrow, the world's first fighter jet, was created by Canadians in 1959.

Messerschmitt Me 262 was the first.

 

[L4hlborg]

We Finns don't ride polar bears.

Finland isn't always cold. The temperature's around 24C right now.
I think people already know that. Um.

Every Finn knows this saying, which tells a lot about us;
If a stranger smiles at you, he/she is either drunk or a foreigner.

Very true. I never smile at anyone really.

 

[Mullahgrrl]

We Finns don't ride polar bears.

Finland isn't always cold. The temperature's around 24C right now.
I think people already know that. Um.

Every Finn knows this saying, which tells a lot about us;
If a stranger smiles at you, he/she is either drunk or a foreigner.

Very true. I never smile at anyone really.

Are you a teetotaler?

 

[Connosaurus Rex]

The state of Massachusetts' name comes from the Massachusetts Native Tribe name for their land and it means "little hill place" I believe