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The_Ghost_Ninja

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hermes200 said:
Vredesbyrd67 said:
America is south of Canada.
How about this?:

America is a continent, not a country...
Epic Win!
In Newfoundland, there is a different accent for each community. I doubt it's something you can look up. Also I don't know any Canadian who says aboot...
 

The_Ghost_Ninja

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salamarian said:
Did you know that nobody in Canada likes the Quebecois. I don't think they even do.
Reminds me of a 22 Minute segment. Where quebec was inviting everyone to join in there celebration and stuff

We Hate them and we hate you, But today we will all enjoy our celebration of the oldest
"oui 'atuh dem en oui atuh you, But tudeh oui will ull unjoy hour selebrat-tion uve de uldest

community of Canada, If you don't count Newfoundland, And Beleave me we never do"
com-mu-nit-eh uv Canada... ev yeu dunt count Newfoundland, and beh-li-ve meh, weh neva dew."

I got it spelled as they pronounced it. With better spelling above XD
 

Berethond

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KillerMidget said:
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).
An American actually invented television.
EDIT: And what's more, he thought of the idea while plowing his field.

Awesomesauce.
 

Berethond

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KillerMidget said:
berethond said:
An American actually invented television.
EDIT: And what's more, he thought of the idea while plowing his field.

Awesomesauce.
What was his name?
<url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth>Philo T. Farnsworth

And he apparently also invented a really small fusion reactor...
 

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chstens said:
DVSAurion said:
chstens said:
Norway, there are no polar bears on the mainland, and the winter lasts from november to march. And we have the longest coastline in Europe, 21,975 km!
Basically, there are no polar bears in any mainland of the nordic countries. Just so that everyone knows.
Exactly, but some people (I am lookng at you, america) seems to think that polar bears wander our streets.
When i moved from Iceland to Norway, many norwegians seemed to think polar bears wander the streets on Iceland. That only happens occasionally with geographically challenged bears that get drunk, go to sleep on a piece of ice that then breaks off and floats over to Iceland. The bear wakes up in Iceland and immediately gets shot, talk about a hangover.
 

dukethepcdr

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The U.S.A. here. There are a lot of things I could mention but I'll just say this.

There is no such thing as a "typical" American. In fact, I would say that this country has lost any sense of itself. The U.S. is highly fragmented with most people identifying more with the culture and nationality of their ancestors (or at least their warped idea of what they think their ancestors were like)or of the country they came here from themselves. People who are still truly patriotic, actually know any U.S. history and who are proud of the aspects of this country that are unique to it are getting more rare all the time.
 
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berethond said:
KillerMidget said:
berethond said:
An American actually invented television.
EDIT: And what's more, he thought of the idea while plowing his field.

Awesomesauce.
What was his name?
<url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth>Philo T. Farnsworth

And he apparently also invented a really small fusion reactor...
John Logie Baird is the one you wish to look for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Television_experiments
 

Berethond

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KillerMidget said:
berethond said:
KillerMidget said:
berethond said:
An American actually invented television.
EDIT: And what's more, he thought of the idea while plowing his field.

Awesomesauce.
What was his name?
<url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth>Philo T. Farnsworth

And he apparently also invented a really small fusion reactor...
John Logie Baird is the one you wish to look for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird#Television_experiments
His design is (and was) functionally useless, Farnsworth's was superior in every way, and operated on a different mechanism.
 

mr-fix_it

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Nightzirk said:
mr-fix_it said:
another swed here im here to say that we sweds have a entire genre of jokes about you guys :D
and thats our army is a joke(they have been hawling the funds for 10 years now wonder whats left). we let in ALOT of immigrants in sweden (Södertälje a swedish city let in more immigrants fron irak then the US and canada TOGETHER)
Yeah, we have the same jokes about you, söta bror. But we love you though. Your cheap alcohol, food and your lovely language (except in Skåne).
skåne jused to be danish thats why they talk like some other sweds that are drunk(jävla danskar har infekterat skåne dom jävlarna!! :mad: ) and i (and most of my freinds) like your luanguage to becuse you sound so happy all the i mean even when you say that you deppressed it still sound like your happu becuse of the vocal uppswing at the end:D
 

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darkless said:
Agent Larkin said:
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.
11 We invented modern day urban guerrilla warfare during the Easter rising.
12 Ireland is the biggest exporter of bananas in the EU:)
 

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Cuniculus said:
In America, we hate other Americans more then any other collective group of people on the planet.
Here here... and by the way, not all of us are drooling, fashion-obsessed and/or fat morons. =D

Really... it may be shocking but we're not all fat.
 

Troublesome Lagomorph

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My country was a Spanish colony before the Brits came along and kicked their asses. We achieved independence without war in the 1960's.