What we don't know about your country

[Sonicron]

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.

That's what I was going to say. Word for word.

Also, we invented the telephone. ^^

I thought that was Alexander Graham Bell. Maybe I just have my facts mixed up.

You don't have them mixed up, at least not completely. Both Alexander Graham Bell and Philipp Reis developed functioning phones, it's just that Reis did it sooner than Bell.

-EDIT- Bell did, however, build the model which turned out to be the foundation of the first big, widespread network of telephones... that's something we can't claim for ourselves. ^^°

 

[L9OBL]

the light bulb was actually a canadian invention (along with our telephone network cellphone and insulin) 2 canadian inventors invented a working light bulb and sold the pattent to Thomas Edison. we also invented insulation.

on a side note we (canadians) also DONT live in igloos, DONT hunt moose, DONT live in an eternal icy wasteland, there arnt that many RCMP (we got them but now they're more like state troopers or the OP)most of us arnt rabid canucks fans, we have electricity, were the second largest contry in the world with the smallest land-population ratio, its about NOT aboot, we dont have dogsleds we have cars, our health care is paid via taxes it aint free, we dont have annoying accents, not all of us like hockey and beer but we always prefer are beer over the watery crap the americans drink (ours is 2-3x stronger cnd alch avg 6% amer alch avg 2-3% and the only ones who can give us a run for our money in a bar fight are the Irish. (though its fun to go down to the states and tell them otherwise)

 

[Twin Of Aphex]

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

 

[romitelli]

We don't speak Spanish.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

Filipinos: we're ALL terrible drivers. No exceptions.

 

[Vash108]

The American South East isn't all Inbred and Slack-Jawed, Just Mississippi and Arkansas

I beg to differ

I've been to Florida (Jacksonville, Miami's OK) and Louisiana (New Orleans and Baton Rouge) and you will have to add those two states to your list at least. Maybe because I'm from Nor Cal but any state where people still proudly display confederate flags is redneck to me.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas

Just to name them ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! SLACK JAWED IDIOTS THAT HATE ATHEIST BECAUSE FAMILY GUY DISLIKED BRIAN FOR BEING ONE, AND THEY ALSO FOLLOW BILL O' REILLY

I guess that includes you?

 

[Rassan]

Did you know not all Americans are fat?

 

[S1N1S]

In England we don't just have posh and cockney sounding people believe it or not and tbh cockney has pretty much died oh and were not all geezers

 

[L9OBL]

i live

Did you know not all Americans are fat?

i live on the cnd-amer border so yah. but alot are and even more are retarded stereotyping idiots (except detroit cause they deal so much with windsor theyre practically canadian while windsors practically american)

 

[Gardenia]

Sweden.
We all love making fun of our king.
We say 'thank you' a lot.
We don't wear shoes indoors.
On the bus, two complete strangers won't sit next to each other unless there are no other seats empty. We enjoy our personal space.
We tend to be forgiving towards foreigners who have trouble with our language.
Between 6th and 10th grade it is compulsory to read a third language (besides Sw and En); German, French or Spanish. I took French, and lately I have also studied Italian and Japanese.


We're generally a bit taller and a bit paler than the rest of the world.
The ladies are -not- always blonde, though it is TRUE that we're usually unnecessarily humble and a bit uptight.

I'm from Norway. We love making fun of your king too
But generally, all of this can be applied to Norwegians.

 

[Kaneman]

Slovenia
Little country in Europe.
Don't think many people here know anything about it.
Once I spoke to a guy from LA, and he didn't even know that Slovenia existed...

 

[hortez the champion of the frozen wastes]

Get ready for it....Canadians don't live in igloos!

*gasp!*

Oh yes and we're not all lumberjacks.

Oh and we invented Basketball.

 

[Seekster]

Did you know not all Americans are fat?

We arent fat we are just big-boned! ^_^

Also anyone who says Americans are all racist clearly hasnt seen our latest President (oh dear God). Obviously at least a little more than half the country isnt racist and truth be told I would bet money that only a very small percentage of the population could actually be called "
"hood-wearing" racists. So please dont even go there.

 

[Kahvimies]

Finland has about 188 000 lakes larger than 500 square meters and about 56 000 lakes
larger than 10 000 square meters

In addition to that we have about 179 000 islands

EDIT: of course many people know we have many lakes, but not that we have THAT many

 

[Seekster]

The American South East isn't all Inbred and Slack-Jawed, Just Mississippi and Arkansas

I beg to differ

I've been to Florida (Jacksonville, Miami's OK) and Louisiana (New Orleans and Baton Rouge) and you will have to add those two states to your list at least. Maybe because I'm from Nor Cal but any state where people still proudly display confederate flags is redneck to me.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas

Just to name them ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! SLACK JAWED IDIOTS THAT HATE ATHEIST BECAUSE FAMILY GUY DISLIKED BRIAN FOR BEING ONE, AND THEY ALSO FOLLOW BILL O' REILLY

I said there were only a few racists in America, the guy im quoting here is an example. Here you can see prejudice based on stereotypes.

Also Brian is a talking animated dog...so whats your point?

 

[Agent Larkin]

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

Thats why in all shops a Scotsmen hides in the background in case the Scottish Money accident happens.

 

[Agent Larkin]

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.

I wouldnt brag about the last bit.