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date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:11:05 -0500,    group: uk.local.devon        back       
The difference between Australians, Brits, Canadians & Americans   
The difference between Australians, Brits, Canadians & Americans
Australians: 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.

Australians: 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.

Australians: 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.
Australians: 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.
Australians: 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.
Australians: Add "G'day," "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say 
in an attempt to get laid.

Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Australians: 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, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Australians: 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.
Australians: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.


-- 
The authoritarian personality does not want to give orders, their 
personality type wants to take orders. People with this type of personality 
seek conformity, security, stability. They become anxious and insecure when 
events or circumstances upset their previously existing world view. They are 
very intolerant of any divergence from what they consider to be the normal 
(which is usually conceptualized in terms of their religion, race, history, 
nationality, culture, language, etc.) They tend to be very superstitious and 
lend credence to folktales or interpretations of history that fit their 
preexisting definitions of reality (thus the Founding Fathers of the US are 
conceptualized of as supporters of white nationalism.) They think in 
extremely stereotyped ways about minorities, women, homosexuals, etc. They 
are thus very dualistic- the world is conceived in terms of absolute right 
(their way) Vs. absolute wrong (the "other" whether African American, 
liberal, intellectual, feminist, etc.)
date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 04:11:05 -0500   author:   Alistair Sim

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