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04-11-2007, 09:35
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Country Perceptions
As I have too much time on my hands, I was thinking about the BM's on this forum and all the countries they come from. Which led me to thinking about people's perceptions of those countries and what are the first things that come to mind when they are mentioned.
So, in the interest of something to do, I made a list, fairly much at random and/or where many BM's come from and would like to know what people think of them......(max of 3) AUSTRALIA CANADA ENGLAND FINLAND GREECE HOLLAND IRELAND LAOS MALAYSIA NEW ZEALAND PAKISTAN SOUTH AFRICA THAILAND USA
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04-11-2007, 09:45
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AUSTRALIA
Kangaroos BBQs beaches CANADA Mountains Lakes Bears ENGLAND Warm Beer Rain Trade Unions FINLAND Snow Rally drivers GREECE Olives Fishing Towns HOLLAND Tulips Clogs Windmills IRELAND Shamrock Booze Irish Jokes LAOS Rice Water Buffalo MALAYSIA ? (nothing comes to mind!!) NEW ZEALAND Sheep Cold weather Mountains PAKISTAN Muslim Poor War SOUTH AFRICA Nelson Mandella Gold Diamonds THAILAND Happy people Great food Beaches USA McDonalds Microsoft Music
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04-11-2007, 10:09
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AUSTRALIA
Ba$tards (Easyrider, Mav and dogblower) Not ba$tards (Dingo ... streuth only 1!! (humm but then again the jagerbombs )  )Greatest (NOT) Sporting Nation CANADA Seal clubbers Great outdoors Ice hockey ENGLAND Football Larger louts Her Majesty FINLAND Alcoholics (even worse than Swedes) Alien language Sauna's GREECE Classical architecture Sinking ferries Lesbians HOLLAND Dope Flat Van Gough IRELAND Guinness Crusty (Faulty Towers) Green green grass LAOS Beer Lao Beer Lao Dark Kip MALAYSIA Petronas Towers Panang Curry Mother Hash NEW ZEALAND All Blacks Sheep/Lamb Kiwi fruit PAKISTAN Mushariff Imran Khan Bhutto SOUTH AFRICA Nelson Mandela Gold Diamonds THAILAND Buddha Baht Bull$hit USA Wall Street 9/11 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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04-11-2007, 12:22
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AUSTRALIA...... Koalas, Grog, Steve Irwin (god rest his soul)
CANADA.......Strip Joints, -40 degree weather, Beautiful women (Montreal) ENGLAND...... Sh1t football team, Average cricket team, Brilliant Rugby team FINLAND......Helsinki, Kimi Raikkonen, Sami Hyypia GREECE......Hairy women, Souvlaki, Houmous HOLLAND....Amstel, Spliffs, Wh@res IRELAND.....P1ss heads, Dublin, More p1ss heads !!! MALAYSIA....Petronas Towers, Beach Club, Nasi Lemak NEW ZEALAND..... Fishing, The Maori, Favourite country PAKISTAN..... not suitable for a public forum...... SOUTH AFRICA...... Blood Diamonds, Racial Controversy, Lucky rugby team!!! THAILAND....... Sex Trade, James Bond, Fcuking Tuk Tuks USA...... Obesity, Ignorance, Least favourite country
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04-11-2007, 16:04
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AUSTRALIA
Kangaroo, Beautifull beaches, Wine CANADA *no idea* ENGLAND Fish & Chips, Beer, Subway, Football FINLAND *no idea* GREECE *no idea* HOLLAND Windmills, Beer IRELAND Guinness, Rubgy MALAYSIA Bak Kut Teh, Nasi Lemak, Satay, Wan Tan Mee...FOOD !!! NEW ZEALAND Sheep, Wine PAKISTAN *no idea* SOUTH AFRICA *no idea* THAILAND Food, Beer, GIRLS !!!!!! Tuks Tuks, USA Hollywood
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04-11-2007, 16:25
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Nautilus........ After seeing how you went on the Travel IQ test, it's not surprising that you don't have an opinion on many countries!!!!!
Then again, who needs it when we got LOS!!!!!!!
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04-11-2007, 16:30
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AUSTRALIA
Great place Friendly folk Bad drivers CANADA Canadian Club Lacrosse Obsession with bagpipes ENGLAND Chavs Scruffy suburbs High prices FINLAND Alcoholics (even worse than Swedes) English speakers Girls with great legs and racks GREECE Good food Small macho men Fat assed women HOLLAND Kanalgracht Exotic women Fast food IRELAND Xenophobia Good beer Girls with special dispensation from the Pope to wear their legs upside down. MALAYSIA Petronas Towers Chinese temple Honest taxi drivers NEW ZEALAND Good fishing Cup of tea Trouble finding women PAKISTAN Southall/Leeds/Bolton Takeaways SOUTH AFRICA Neckings THAILAND Beer Babes Being there USA Grand canyon Pimpmobiles Harleys
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04-11-2007, 17:03
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AUSTRALIA, Home, Great Wine, Food, Good at Sport (because we like to have a fair dinkum crack at it), Sufferable Women, too many levels of government... Love the joint.
CANADA, Terrific people, Unbelievable Scenic Snow Skiing, Food and Wine OK. ENGLAND, To many POMS (lol), ordinary food & beer, and way to many people, on such a small Island. FINLAND, Yet to see. GREECE, The islands are beyond belief, retsina, and all those hairy girls, yeehaaa. HOLLAND, Yet to see. IRELAND, Guinness, the countryside, Spud soup for brekky. LAOS, , Yet to see. MALAYSIA, over it, Penang, sssnnnnzzzzzzxxx, too many jellyfish. KL airport is fine to leave for home from. NEW ZEALAND, Wine is fine, overkill on the sweat potatoe thing, hate aussie's so much they move there? PAKISTAN, Yet to see. SOUTH AFRICA, Wine is fine, violent to the core, sad. Do the wildlife parks and leave. THAILAND, Heaven's waiting room. Next April, cannot come fast enough. USA, runny tastless cheese or is it mayonaise on eveything, loader mouths than Aussies, Farking fat-arsed women. Never ever again.
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04-11-2007, 17:05
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5555555, yeah, i dont know most of the countries on the list because i have not been to them, except for Ireland cause i know Guinness is from there, 5555555.
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04-11-2007, 17:40
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Interesting thread George. Laos?? No Sweden or Norway??
AUSTRALIA Shane Warne, Fosters , Sydney Harbour Bridge CANADA Ice Hockey, snow, obese people. ENGLAND Rolls Royce, British Airways, Buckingham Palace, FINLAND Great F1 and rallydrivers. GREECE Women with 'tashes, moussaka, superb islands. HOLLAND Johann Cruyff, Bicycles, cafes IRELAND Guinness, Dublin, great people LAOS Haven't a clue MALAYSIA Petronas Tower, rubber, chicken satay NEW ZEALAND All Blacks, Maoris, The Haka PAKISTAN Terrorism, Benazir Bhutto, spicy food SOUTH AFRICA Diamonds, Nelson Mandela, Springboks THAILAND The food, the nightlife, lousy drivers. USA Disneyworld, Wall St, obese people.
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04-11-2007, 17:59
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AUSTRALIA
Sport Sport Sport CANADA Ice hockey Gretski (or how ever you spell it) Don’t like being mistaken for septic’s ENGLAND Fish & Chips Warm beer Football hooligans (Leeds UTD Rule) FINLAND Never been there GREECE Hair women Islands HOLLAND Dikes Clogs Tulips IRELAND Guinness Irish Whiskey Shamrock LAOS Never been there MALAYSIA Bloody Bumiputrai Laksa Penang Harriets NEW ZEALAND All Blacks Sheep Bondi Beach PAKISTAN Cricket Imran Khan Jermina Khan SOUTH AFRICA Nelson Mandela Gold Diamonds THAILAND Heaven Heavenly women Tuk Tuks USA Opinionated Money hungry
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04-11-2007, 18:26
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Since when? Bondi Beach, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another thick Aussie - well actually wannabe Aussie ... better give your passport back mate!! 555+
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04-11-2007, 19:01
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Yes very true.....what the great wikipedia wont tell you is that one third the population of New Zealand choose to call our beloved Bondi Beach home......another third call the Gold Coast home and the remaining third are home playing rugby and snowboarding. i am guessing that was a bit of an in house Aussie joke from the LittleMan.
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04-11-2007, 19:57
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AUSTRALIA
Steve Irwin Fosters well you wouldn't want a warm beer would ya Thanks fer standin still wanker! (Playing Team Fortress 2 as the Aussie sniper he says this a lot) CANADA Snow Having a weird part that speaks french Hockey ENGLAND Hooligans Football Beer FINLAND FN FAL rifle (even though I know they're Belgian! I just see the FN and it makes me think Finland) C0ck & Balls (on the map of EU Sweden and Finland make the shape of them) Fighting Russians in WW2 GREECE Hairy men & women An@l Hellinistic Wars (hoplites, etc) HOLLAND Orange Drugs Good english speakers IRELAND Green countryside Graffiti/Murals Guinness LAOS Vietnam War Isaan/Lao language Whiskey MALAYSIA Strangely being in two parts seperated by the sea Kuala Lumpur Petronas towers NEW ZEALAND All Blacks Lord of the Rings Sheep PAKISTAN Cricket The local "paki shop" as we used to call it as kids President Musharraf SOUTH AFRICA The way they pronounce seth efrica Nelson Mandeeeeela Apartheid THAILAND Holiday Smiles Thai girls USA Fox news scrolling news/alerts Christian extremism Drama Queens/Over-reaction to things
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04-11-2007, 23:33
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I am drawing a complete blank for all, but one, of the countries listed.
.... as for Thailand ... too many thoughts to list. I will be there in 2 weeks and need no think ... just experience.
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04-11-2007, 23:49
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AUSTRALIA
deadly Jelly-fish good wine crocodile hunter CANADA beer cold weed ENGLAND milk & whisky bad tippers castles FINLAND beautiful woman great vodka GREECE Mighty gods Vast history beautiful woman HOLLAND windmills beautiful woman redlight district IRELAND soccer guiness is there really anything else? LAOS anticipation beautiful exotic woman MALAYSIA ? (nothing comes to mind!!) NEW ZEALAND Fantastic Sauvignon Blancs ...um thats all I know... PAKISTAN Muslim zealots War SOUTH AFRICA Nelson Mandella Gold Diamonds THAILAND Happy people Great food Beaches USA dollar dropping rapidly huge deficit greatest country in the world (.) __________________
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05-11-2007, 01:12
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AUSTRALIA...... World solar challenge, Kangaroos, Alice Springs
CANADA.......Speed skating, ice hockey. ENGLAND...... football, London FINLAND......Cold temperature GREECE......Holiday, Ouzo, lamb chops. HOLLAND....Speed skating, Rain, bad winters, bad summers, expensive, increasing intolerant, still good to live there. IRELAND.....Rain. MALAYSIA....Kuala Lumpur, Cameron Highlands, expensive alcoholic drinks. NEW ZEALAND..... sheaps, rugby, maori's PAKISTAN..... corrupt regime, many extremists. SOUTH AFRICA...... Safari, crime. THAILAND....... Holiday, Girls, Buddha, Phuket, Samui, ect. ect. ect........... USA...... Many fat people, great national parks, sometimes too nationalistic.
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05-11-2007, 05:40
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Well, I was just going through the alphabet and had to stop somewhere!!!! Already had 2 Scandinavian countries!!! (and besides, the only thing that comes to mind about the 2 countries you listed is......Vodka!!!)
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05-11-2007, 06:56
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I dont mind hearing what people think about Sweden.
I know we are a small country and many people even think of Switzerland instead of Sweden. I guess we are most known for Bjorn Borg Abba Volvo cars / trucks / buses Saab cars Scania trucks Ericisson (SonyEricsson) Swedish Massage Absolute Vodka Skype Some military weapons Quote:
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05-11-2007, 07:20
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I remember a commercial that I once saw on TV while having a beer in a pub in London. It depicted a guy at at bar watching different scenes on TV. Scree one: A Volvo cars in motion. Announcer: It must be hard to be a Dane knowing that the neighbors in Sweden might be the home of the best car in the world. Scene two: Björn Borg playing Tennis. Announcer: It must be hard to be a Dane knowing that the neighbors in Sweden might have the best sportsman in the world. Scene three: Abba playing music. Announcer: It must be hard to be a Dane knowing that the neighbors in Sweden might have the best music band in the world. After scene 3 the camera was zooming out an showed the guy at the bar drinking a Carlsberg beer. Announcer: All this does not seem to bother the Danes ... perhaps that's because they have Carlsberg beer.
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05-11-2007, 07:20
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Ikea Swedish innit! Staka Bow (how ever you spell them!) and that other swedish band how sign bad reagge style song a couple of years back!
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