What we don't know about your country

[Toasty]

In Holland, not everyone wears wooden shoes, lives in a mill, and eats cheese the whole day.

We do have a lot of prostitutes and drugs though.

Yes the last line was more the stereotype I believed in.

My Grandma is Dutch......so yes i was given wooden shoes when I was a little kid and still like salty licorish(apologiesI am ashamed to say I'm not sure how to spell licorice)

 

[Sulu]

Okay, here we go.

1. Without Scotland the world would not have, amongst other things: televisions, telephones, penicillin, pneumatic tires, etc.
2. We have heard of other music. We don't all listen to the bagpipes. Honestly, that instrument sounds like a strangulated cat being ran over with a drivable lawnmower.
3. Haggis is NOT an animal. Haggis is oats and other stuff boiled inside a sheep's stomach.
4. We don't always wear kilts. We're not still living in the age of the Jacobites.
5. WE KICK ARSE. Seriously, the Jacobites managed to march all the way down to London before being dissuaded from their course by a big filthy stinking lie. Plus we owned the English at several major battles. Like Bannockburn or Stirling Bridge.

But what about culloden?
YEAH THATS WHAT I THOUGHT!

Yep, I am drawn to William Wallace's quote in Braveheart.."You can take my life but you will never take our freedom".

Well we took his life and then we took the Scots freedom!
I love you really Scotland

 

[Mekado]

I always assumed they were named after Molotov the Russian minister. Silly me!

Well, they are, Molotov wasn't on the giving end though, but the receiving end

Edit : Quebec, Canada : Not everyone is a stern nationalist that hates every other Canadian, most of us are actually quite happy to be Canadians.

Fun fact : Quebec is asking for the recognition of a "distinct society", if making Canada bilingual mostly (95%) for our sake isn't a "privilege" i don't know what distinct is, what ? we want a party hat saying "i'm special" ?

 

[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.

Are you a teetotaler?

Actually, yes I am. Very rare in Finland.

Maby you should start drinking.

I mean, what else is there?

To drink: Coca cola
To do: play video games

 

[titanium turtle]

Did you know...
Not everyone in England wears a top hat?

More's the pity. Would be awesome if we wore more top hats and suits with tails

Contrary to popular belief, not every farmer in Wales does naughty naughty things with their sheep.

(just most of them)
- sorry but there was no way I could resist that

 

[HentMas]

The color TV was invented here in Mexico by Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena (1917-1965), a Mexican national from Guadalajara Jalisco, but as the Mexican goverment didnt really cared about inventors he had to go to the US.

Also, most Mexicans are much more racist against African american (or any other etnic group) than those from the United States, actually a lot of Mexican are racist against same Mexicans based in skin tone (the darker skin tone the more prejudice they get)

 

[rhyno435]

in Canada, we don't actually have to get milk from bags, every where I go in canada there's usually one or two bags of milk in super markets and the rest are cartons or jugs

don't call me on this but I believe we invented the basketball

alright here's the weird stuff though and I'm not kidding you it's true
1) it doesn't always snow here infact I've probably have had 10 days of snow in the last 2 years
2) we actually DO NOT I repeat DO NOT live in igloo's

I let that soak in,

3) I have never met anyone who pronounces 'about' like 'aboot

honest to god true you can quote me on that

and I'm sorry if some one said this before

This is absolutely true. I've only met one person who lives in an igloo, but he's in a psychiatric hospital now.

I've never heard anyone say "aboot" and nobody says "eh" any different than Americans say it.

I've never heard about the milk bag thing though.

And BTW, Canadians are Americans too. We live in North America just like people in the US lol.

*sigh*............................................ I follow the habit of shortening the name The United States Of America to U.S.A then to U.S but I usually just call it america because everybody knows what I'm talkinjg about

I know, I'm kidding lol. I do that too.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

*sigh*............................................ I follow the habit of shortening the name The United States Of America to U.S.A then to U.S but I usually just call it america because everybody knows what I'm talkinjg about

I know, I'm kidding lol. I do that too.

good.............yes..............good

 

[Turtleboy1017]

Did you know that not everyone in America is a racist, insulting, rude, stupid sack of crap?

It's true, only about three fourts of us are like that.

 

[Rigs83]

In America, we hate other Americans more then any other collective group of people on the planet.

And even more, most like other countries. Why? Because you wouldn't have been dumb enough to elect Bush, or enact all the laws he did. That and you're women.

To the Bush comment, I'd have to say simply: Yes. We're so stupid, we elected him TWICE. Whoo! Go USA!

To the other: Yes as well. At least half of us are indeed women. Most of the mothers in the US are women, in fact.

Bush was elected once he was put in the White House by the Supreme Court first.

I don't know if this is some conspiracy theory I've never been told about... but I really don't know about this. I just thought the voting process was a huge bunch of stupid idiots voting for something now, that in eight years they'll regret.

Go to this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File
and read about these books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_about_the_United_States_presidential_election,_2000

 

[jaammiie]

English: America, our spelling our not wrong, your's are. We made the language.

Can't... reply... irony... suffocating... please, please tell me you were being funny.


On the theme of 'times of day when it is legal to kill x people', in Carlisle (an English city on the Scottish border) the Mayor is supposed to patrol the city walls on a Tuesday evening with a longbow, shooting Scots.

The other one of those weird laws I always remember is it is illegal for a lady to eat chocolate on public transport.

Oh, I see, it might have come out wrong, I'm English. I was addressing it to Americans. Oops.

 

[LaBambaMan]

Did you know...
Not everyone in England wears a top hat?

I call bullshit!

As for something someone doesn't know about my country? Well, the U.S. is such a publicity whore that everyone knows pretty much everything about us, except where we keep the nukes. Actually, we keep them in this small town in Ne...wait..there's a knocking at the door. Be right back.

 

[Beefcakes]

...2. The following were made by Canadians (or in Canada): Insulin treatment...

Hmm, I distinctly remember an Aussie being mainly credited with it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Walter_Florey]...

Good try but no Frederick Banting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting]

Woah my bad, I thought it was on about penicillin...
Whoops

 

[Sweep117]

At least we beat the States. Heh heh heh...

P-80 Shooting Star....

Alright, so I have the worst sources on the planet! What do you expect? I'm Canadian. We only just got the internet.

 

[iggyus]

Serbia. We started World War 1

 

[Haunted Serenity]

Canada
1)we store some of USA nukes
2)we have the most fresh water in the world
3)The cajun-french came from acadia when the british kicked them out
4)beavers are not commonplace
5)molson canadian is not CANADIAN
6)alexander graham bell invented the telephone and the hydrofoil
7)we are the stormtroopers Somme, Paschendale and Vimy Ridge
8)the RCMP is not as trigger happy as the media states
9)maple syrup is not god
10)winter is cold. and we have our degrees in celsius
11)USA money is not accepted in canada stop trying please
12)The Avro Arrow was the worlds most advanced jet in the world when built and still outstrips most
13)Bioware is canadian
14)we know our weapons well...don't pick a fight with us
15)we like to kick back and enjoy ourselves. Join the party folks...plenty of room something for everyone and my favourite MOST CANADIANS WILL THRASH ANY RACIST OR SEXIST
oh and we hate our government...alot...harper can stick it.

 

[Kyoufuu]

Harold Holt, the then-prime-minister of Australia, went swimming and just disappeared. Not many people seemed to care. Also, we are the only country that eats our national animal (kangaroo) and every poisonous animal has never heard of overkill. eg Redback spiders catch tiny flies and inject them with enough venom to drop a horse. Victims of box jellyfish stings have been known to be sedated, pumped full of morphine, unconscious, and still screaming from the pain. Koalas look cute, but their claws are very sharp. If you ever go into the bush, watch out for drop bears.

 

[Dark Link]

Okay, here we go.

1. Without Scotland the world would not have, amongst other things: televisions, telephones, penicillin, pneumatic tires, etc.
2. We have heard of other music. We don't all listen to the bagpipes. Honestly, that instrument sounds like a strangulated cat being ran over with a drivable lawnmower.
3. Haggis is NOT an animal. Haggis is oats and other stuff boiled inside a sheep's stomach.
4. We don't always wear kilts. We're not still living in the age of the Jacobites.
5. WE KICK ARSE. Seriously, the Jacobites managed to march all the way down to London before being dissuaded from their course by a big filthy stinking lie. Plus we owned the English at several major battles. Like Bannockburn or Stirling Bridge.

But what about culloden?
YEAH THATS WHAT I THOUGHT!

Ach, we wouldn't have lost if the McDonald clan hadn't been all boozed up and got stuck in the swamp

 

[SnowCold]

Did you know...
While Israelis hate living in Israel, it's not cause of the terrorists, it's cause of the horrid wheather

 

[Voltaggia]

Even though you won't be hearing any of Slovenians admitting it, we're still part of the Balkan.