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Kiwis: are indignant about being mistaken for Aussies when abroad.


--- On Tue, 3/2/10, lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com> wrote:

From: lsf5275@aol.com <lsf5275@aol.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Pulled this off of PE - probably written by an Aussie
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 6:42 AM







 



  


    
      
      
      


I just saw this while reading about the Olympics, and 
thought that since many of us are from all these countries... we might as well 
get to understand one another a bit better! Enjoy! 

Aussies: Dislike 
being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad. 

Canadians: Are rather 
indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad. 

Americans: 
Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad. 

Brits: Can't possibly 
be mistaken for anyone else when abroad. 

Aussies: Believe you should 
look out for your mates. 

Brits: Believe that you should look out for 
those people who belong to your club. 

Americans: Believe that people 
should look out for & take care of themselves. 

Canadians: Believe 
that that's the government's job. 

Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to 
their beer. 

Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively 
patriotic to the point of blindness. 

Canadians: Can't agree on the words 
to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them. 

Brits: Do not 
sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem. 


Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box. 


Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American 
channels. 

Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels. 


Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, 
to Britain, where everybody loves them. 

Americans: Will jabber on 
incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball. 

Brits: Will jabber 
on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby. 

Canadians: Will jabber 
on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the 
Americans twice, playing baseball. 

Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly 
about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in. 


Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English". 


Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English". 


Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans. 


Aussies: Add "G'day", "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say 
in an attempt to be cool. 

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported 
because they live on an island. 

Aussies: Shop at home and have goods 
imported because they live on an island. 

Americans: Cross the southern 
border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country. 


Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & 
liquor in a backwards country. 

Americans: Drink weak, bad-tasting beer. 


Canadians: Drink strong, bad-tasting beer. 

Brits: Drink warm, 
bad-tasting beer. 

Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it. 


Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect. 


Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect. 


Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are 
inherited things. 

Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after 
several beers.