Cultural Differences.....

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: Okay, I would like to apologise in advance...it will save me a WHOLE lotta time later.  If you want someone to blame, blame the Dutch Trader...she made me do it!  And if you don't know what I am talking about......read on.....

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: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES:

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING DUTCH

: You can get arrested for growing plants, but not for smoking them.

: You can make jokes about the Belgians and still drink their beer.

: You're exactly like the Germans, except that nobody hates you.

: You think you are a world power, but everyone else thinks Copenhagen is your capital.

: You get to insult people and defend yourself by saying it's a national tradition.

: You can put your finger in a dyke and it will save your country.

: You can legally kill yourself - You can legally be killed.

: You live in the most densely populated country in Europe, and still you've never seen your neighbours.

: If the economy is bad, blame the Germans. If a war is started, blame the Germans. If you lose your keys, blame the Germans.

: Bikes are public property. Locks are a challenge.

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING FRENCH:

: When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay

: Experience the joy of winning the World Cup for the first time

: You get to eat insect food like snails, and frog's legs

: If there's a war you can surrender really early

: You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.

: You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries (Well who hasn't eh?)

: You can be ugly and still become a famous film star

: Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride

: You don't have to bother with toilets, just s*** in the street

: People think you're a great lover even when you're not

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING AMERICAN :

: You can have a woman president without electing her

: You can spell colour wrong and get away with it

: You can call Budweiser beer

: You can be a crook and still be president

: If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything

: If you can breathe you can get a gun

: You get to join wars late

: You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made and nobody seems to care.

: You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy"

: You can think you're the greatest nation on earth

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING NORWEGIAN:

: You get to pay the highest taxes in the world

: You can kill baby seals and eat Rudolf the Reindeer

: You live in total freezing darkness half the year and get 24 hour ozone-hole radiation the other half

: You can get capital punishment for smoking dope

: You can go skiing in your knickers

: You get to hate the Swedes and beat the Brazilians in football

: You have to be a woman to get anywhere

: You don't need to worry about land prices rocketing - it's fairly spacious

: When abroad you can impress people you meet with stories about killing polar bears and sex acts with penguins - and they believe you

: You can actually get bored with blondes

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ENGLISH :

: Two World Wars and One World Cup-doo-dah, doo-dah

: Proper beer

: You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket

: You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events

: Union jack underpants

: Water shortages guaranteed every single summer

: You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.

: Bathing once a week - whether you need to or not

: Ditto changing underwear

: Beats being Welsh.

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING SCOTTISH :

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

: You ain't English!

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ITALIAN :

: In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes

: Unembarrassed to wear fur.

: No need to worry about tax returns

: Glorious military history prior to 400 b.c.

: Can wear sunglasses inside

: Political stability?

: Flexible working hours

: Live near the Pope

: Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair

: Country run by Sicilian murderers

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING SPANISH :

: Glorious history of killing South American tribes

: The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees

: You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits, etc.

: The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans

: Everybody else makes crap paella and claims it's the real thing

: Honesty

: Only sure way of bedding a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes and risk your life in front of bulls

: You get to eat bulls' testicles

: Gibraltar

: Supported Argentina in Falklands War.

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING INDIAN :

: Chicken Madras

: Lamb Passanda

: Onion Bhaji

: Bombay Potato

: Chicken Tikka Masala

: Rogan Josh

: Popadoms

: Chicken Dopiaza

: Meat Boona

: Kingfisher lager

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING WELSH:

: You've got to be joking?

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING IRISH :

: Guinness

: 18 children because you can't use contraceptives

: You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road

: Pubs never close

: Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.

: No one can ever remember the night before

: Kill people you don't agree with

: Stew

: More Guinness

: Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING CANADIAN :

: It beats being an American.

: Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

: You can play ice hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.

: Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

: Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a canoe?

: A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her popularity ratings will rise.

: Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

: Kill Grizzly bears with huge shotguns and cover your house in their skins

: Own-an-Eskimo scheme.

: Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground

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: TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING AUSTRALIAN:

: Know your great grandfather was a murdering bar steward that no civilised nation on earth wanted.

: Fosters Lager

: Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country for 40,000 years because you think it belongs to you.

: Cricket captain not afraid to cry live on TV.

: Tact and sensitivity. NOT!

: Bondi Beach.

: Other beaches.

: Liberated attitude to homosexuals

: Drinking cold lager on the beach

: Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager on the beach.

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: TOP TEN REASONS TO BE A GERMAN:

: You do not WANT to go to the Oktoberfest, you know it is sh*t

: Cheap fantastic beer

: Behave like you want, everybody hates you anyway

: Expensive fantastic cars

: Unlimited Autobahn

: Who else lost two world wars??

: Who else in europe won three world cups :-) :-) :-) ??

: You can buy all neighbour countries...

: But you are not stupid, you rent them in the summer

: See number 2+4+5 = BIG FUN


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