Fellow Scions,
My wife plucked this from the Organic Gardening List, hope
it entertains a bit.
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>Cultural Differences Explained
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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.
>
>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 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.
>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.
>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.
>
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Cheers,
Kurt Oblinger
Redondo Beach, Ca.
c394829@is6.mdc.com
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