Aussies:Do not sing at all but prefer
a large brass band to perform the anthem. 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 and take care of themselves. |
Canadians: Believe that that's the
government's job. |
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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. |
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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 4 channels. |
Aussies: Export all their crappy
programs, which no one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves
them. |
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Americans: Love to watch sports on
the idiot box. |
Brits: Love to watch sports
in stadiums so they can fight with other fans. |
Canadians: Prefer to actually engage
in sports rather than watch them. |
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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, and how they beat the Americans twice,
playing baseball. |
Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly
about how they beat the Poms in every sport they played them in. |
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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. |
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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 and liquor in a backwards country. |
Canadians: Cross the southern border
for cheap shopping, gas and liquor in a backwards country. |
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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. |
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Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting
beer. |
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting
beer. |
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting
piss. |
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol
in it. |
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Brits: Are justifiably proud
of the accomplishments of their past citizens. |
Americans: Are justifiably proud
of the accomplishments of their present citizens. |
Canadians: Prattle on about
how some of those great Americans were once Canadian. |
Aussies: Wallow on about how
some of their past citizens were once outlaw Pommies, but none of that
matters after several beers. |
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Americans: Seem to think that
poverty and 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. |
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Canadians: Encourage immigrants to
keep their old ways and avoid assimilation. |
Americans: Encourage immigrants
to assimilate quickly and dump their old ways. |
Brits: Encourages immigrants to go
to Canada or America. |
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Canadians: Endure bitterly cold
winters and are proud of it. |
Brits: Endure oppressively wet
and dreary winters and are proud of it. |
Americans: Don't have to do
either, and couldn't care less. |
Aussies: Don't understand what inclement
weather means. |
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Aussies: Have produced comedians
like Paul Hogan and Yahoo Serious. |
Canadians: Have produced many
great comedians, like John Candy, Martin Short, Jim Carrey, Dan Akroyd,
and all the rest at SCTV. |
Americans: Think that these
people are American! |
Brits: Have produced many
great comedians, but Americans ignore them because they don't understand
subtle humor. |