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Althalus
Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (Brits) when abroad.
Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Yanks when abroad.
Yanks: 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.
Yanks: 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.
Yanks: 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.

Yanks: 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.

Yanks: 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 Yanks twice, playing baseball.
Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms in every sport they play them in.

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

Yanks: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

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


We pay a tax to watch two channels (BBC 1 & 2) ITV and Channel Four are free, as for Channel Five, well lets not go there.

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


LOL biggrin.gif






Kismit
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
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I've seen this in action .
Dowdy
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Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.

I've seen this in action .





I've seen this in action with my dad.

Not a pretty sight when my mum finds out tongue.gif
emmy
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Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the anthem.


Thats probably because about 90% of the population don't know the words!!
emmy
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Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.


sad.gif sad.gif blink.gif Oh my God now you tell me!!
Althalus
either that or don't care about it


but i think land of hope and glory should be the anthem
emmy
Yeah, I think so aswell
Homer
laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif Very funny Al, and very true from the Yank standpoint biggrin.gif
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