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NimbleJack3

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Speaking of Wales and England, it's legal to kill a Welshman with a longbow in England, as long as it's before noon.
 

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Voodoo Child said:
In Australia, our fire hydrants aren't above the ground.
Voodoo Child said:
In Australia, our fire hydrants aren't above the ground.
Christ? Are they? Don't we have those square box like things? I though underneath them was a little hydrant thing?
 

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Voodoo Child said:
In Australia, our fire hydrants aren't above the ground.
Actually, the covering IS above ground. You could argue that the connection is made below ground, but it doesn't really count.
 

El Poncho

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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.
 

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Fact from Russia. There are no bears!!! absolutely none, no matter what you may think. Also Moscow is the city with the most millionaires living in it.
 

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The Inventor of the steam train I think it was lived in my town :) And theres a brick train on the outside of the town on the bypass and also a railway museum where Thomas the Tank Engine comes to visit every so often. :)
 

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poncho14 said:
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.
I thought it was noone fucks with a glaswegian who has a package holiday?

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.
 

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In Holland, we're actually not as tolerant as most people think we are. And it's 1 of the main reaons why I really want to leave this country.
Cpt_Oblivious said:
Did you know...
Not everyone in England wears a top hat?
Ofcourse not. Some people prefer bowler hats.
I Fiend I said:
Fact from Russia. There are no bears!!! absolutely none, no matter what you may think. Also Moscow is the city with the most millionaires living in it.
Wroooong, brown bears live in parts of Russia.
 

Summerstorm

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Germany here. We are not all bavarians. They are the ones with the "Lederhosen", white sausage, beer and strange festivals. (Although beer is good everywhere here). It is like thinking that all americans are like texans, or californians.

Also: Yes we see what the U.S.A is doing, and we copy it exactly. So yeah, we see what will not work and KNOW: Yepp in three-four years our politicians will do the same and we will all pay for it.
 

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In England, we don't all speak like the Queen. In fact, no one I know speaks like the Queen.
 

Eleuthera

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Another Dutch one. We were the first foreign country to salute the US flag, and by doing so recognising US independence on november 16th 1776 [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E04E4D9103EE733A25752C1A9649C946797D6CF] (I'm sure the Brits loved us for that)
 

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Ren3004 said:
We're not part of Spain.
who would that be? portugal? andorra?

anywho, the U.K. has the 2nd longest country name on earth; the united kindom of england, scotland, wales and northern ireland. or something like that.
 
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DVSAurion said:
Here is one from my country, Finland. People seem to generally think that the molotov cocktail was a Russian invention. It was actually developed in Finland, against Russian tanks during WW2. We didn't really have any anti tank equipment, so we had to use logs and snow to stop the tanks, then scorch them with molotovs.
You shall be pleasantly surprised that I am not Finnish, nor Russian, and knew that little fact, and have been persuading people that the Molotov was named as such by the Finns to make fun of the Russian Minister of Defence at the time.


On topic, it might surprise Americans to learn that the British do not have teeth made of wood or consisting of every shade of the colour yellow.

The British also invented television (And yes, Scotland is part of Britain so don't go "No it was the Scottish"), and the all-powerful refridgerator, and the worldwide web was created by a British man working at CERN (and no, not the internet. America invented the internet. The worldwide web is different, and it's a British invention).