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Aliasalpha: Australians

1) Alcoholic
2) Sports Obssessed
3) Fit
4) Easy Going
5) Not entirely bright


Me
1) Teatotaler
2) Hate sport because it used to interrupt scifi on TV
3) Fat
4) Antisocial chronic depressive with a rampaging superiority complex
5) Multidisciplinary genius


Also just because there's no such thing as too much Dara O'Briain
1) Alcoholic
2) Sports Obssessed
3) Fit
4) Easy Going
5) Not entirely bright


Me
1) Can't stand beer but I'm partial to Jack Daniel's or Maker's Mark
2) I enjoy watching AFL but I don't play sport
3) Fat Fat Fatty Fat (Just like most people in Australia)
4) Antisocial chronic depressive with a rampaging superiority complex (Same)
5) Multidisciplinary genius (Same: See the above superiority complex


While we are at it;

- I don't like AC\DC not Men at Work.
- I have NEVER 'Whacked another prawn on the barby'.
- I don't wear thongs nor have a silly hat with corks hanging all over it.
- You cannot go see the Opera House, Ayer's Rock and Great Barrier Reef in one day.


This reminds me of an Incident back in the 90's when I first got my Internet connected. I was talking on and off to this nice bloke from the US. Anyway our ISP went down for about a week. When I got back on line he asked where I had been. Jokingly I told him that my village had been raided by Aborigines. They had ridden in on their Kangaroos and we had to flee and take shelter with a neighboring village and I had just gotten back.

To my surprise I recieved a phone call later that day from this bloke asking if I needed any financial assistance to get back on my feet! I ROFL'D so hard I think I hurt his feelings.
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Miaghstir: I don't know what the stereotype for a Swede is
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Darling_Jimmy: 1. ABBA
2. Sunless winters
3. Meatballs
4. Look like garden gnomes and live in mushroom houses
5. Umm... ABBA
You forgot Vikings.
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lukipela: Yeah, have you been to any other country? I have. Teenagers are idiots everywhere.
Yes, I have as a matter of fact. I've been to Canada and South Korea. I noticed the differences.
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OneFiercePuppy: Oooh, ooh, I wanna play!

Canadian stereotype:

1) Polite
2) Patient
3) Terrible taste in food (we're looking at you, poutine)
4) Wears layers


Real life:

1) MacGyver.
2) Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
3) Elwood Blues of the Blues Brothers.
4) Marty McFly.
5) Captain James Tiberius Kirk, you bastards.


Dammit. Canadians are actually a lot cooler than I thought.
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rs2yjz: poutaine is one of canadas better inventions, the English have terrible food reputation, butter on every piece of bread no matter what the sandwich and milk in tea, nooo
americans smell like tabasco sauce and melted cheese ands if you cut them they bleed peanut butter
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Hussar: Since this is multinational forum, I would like to start a discussion about national stereotypes.

Consistent with reality or not, lets talk about them.

For example sterotypes about Poles:

1. catholic
2. alcoholic
3. anti-Semite
4. never smile
5. hard worker

Me:

1. protestant
2. abstinent
3. philo-Semite
4. rarely smile
5. lazy bastard

Edit: sorry for my English ;)
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rs2yjz: Poles are afraid to smile? Now Czech and Russian feel smile too much means you a fool. Poles do however have enormous heads. lol
Screw poutaines, come to Nova Scotia and I'll hook you up with some donairs.
Stereotypical Mexican:
1) Lazy (Sleeps all the time, sometimes leaned against a cactus).
2)Wears Sombrero, sandals or boots.
3) Lives in dusty small desert towns using horses and donkeys for transportation.
4) Has a moustache.
5) They dance jarabe tapatio at all their parties (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtDNYqGNK3A).

Me:
1) Hard working (Gaming aint cheap) I take naps (or siestas) on the bus on my way to make a delivery or a shipment.
2) Only used a sombrero and boots as part of a really bad costume (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqN__iX09wk)
3)Puebla is kind a dusty, but we have cars and roads.
4)Could grow one, but prefer not to. Maybe a cool looking beard...
5)We usually dance this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3Hd9enUFA (a cover of a Billy Ray Cyrus song) and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMiSaBROLM&feature=related in every wedding, quinceaños, graduation party, etcetera.
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Phosphenes: Screw poutaines, come to Nova Scotia and I'll hook you up with some donairs.
I will take u up on this, nova scotia to me is the most beautiful of canada and also historically the northern gateway to the west. I love history especially when I can eat it lol
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mario.arreola: Stereotypical Mexican:
1) Lazy (Sleeps all the time, sometimes leaned against a cactus).
2)Wears Sombrero, sandals or boots.
3) Lives in dusty small desert towns using horses and donkeys for transportation.
4) Has a moustache.
5) They dance jarabe tapatio at all their parties (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtDNYqGNK3A).

Me:
1) Hard working (Gaming aint cheap) I take naps (or siestas) on the bus on my way to make a delivery or a shipment.
2) Only used a sombrero and boots as part of a really bad costume (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqN__iX09wk)
3)Puebla is kind a dusty, but we have cars and roads.
4)Could grow one, but prefer not to. Maybe a cool looking beard...
5)We usually dance this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3Hd9enUFA (a cover of a Billy Ray Cyrus song) and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpMiSaBROLM&feature=related in every wedding, quinceaños, graduation party, etcetera.
hey u forgot drug smuggling!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkuV7A6PeMk
Post edited June 03, 2011 by rs2yjz
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Hussar: average GOG member:

1. IQ >130
2. well-educated
3. well-bred
4. polite
5. creative
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Arianus: I support this post!


But just for the heck of it here's mine


lukipela
Stereotypical Americans:

1. Fat
2. Christian
3. Dumb
4. Gun nut
5. Lazy (added this one)

Me
1. Lazy (House Chores)
2. Don't Own a Gun probably never will (maybe a right but I'm exercising my right not to)
3. Work Oriented (Need to pay the bills)
4. Goes to School (Night Classes)
5. Christian (but will never try to convert anyone (were all on our own journey man))

so I guess I rank 1.5/5 on the Stereotypical American?
Ooh Ooh! My Turn
1.Have a disgustingly belly but I'm trying to lose it (goddamn slow metabolism).
2.Studying Urantia and passively studying The Bhaghavad Gita.
3.Self-Teaching Free Pascal and C# with the eventual goal of creating a universal replacement OS with a graphics engine built upon procedural generation.
4.I love guns, but some people are way over the fucking top *cough* Texas *cough*
5.I work 8-15 hr shifts at an embroidery studio with no time to sit down, but yes I collapse once I get home and talk to all my lovely fellow GOGer's >:-D
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Rohan15: Yes, I have as a matter of fact. I've been to Canada and South Korea. I noticed the differences.
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lukipela: Bullshit.
Whatever you want, I could care less about your opinion. Good day.
I'll tell ya what Americans really are:

1) scared, seriously, they are scared they won't have enough. They barely scrape by in a world where they believe they'll need insurance for everything because no one will lift a hand to help them if they fall down. Largely they are right.
2) Angry, they think people are stealing from them, everyone. It's basically ingrained in our culture. Your boss steals your time, makes you an indentured servant at best, slave at worst. You have to ask permission for time off, like you are asking permission to go to the bathroom in prison. Big G takes the money you needed for that new car, house, or your kids' inheritance and gives it to worthless people, often worthless people with a skin color different from your own!
3) Outraged, because there are so many "criminals". I mean, here they are, working their asses off and failing at the "fair way" and someone is trying to "cheat".

Yeah, pretty cynical tonight...
Post edited June 03, 2011 by orcishgamer
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orcishgamer: I'll tell ya what Americans really are:

1) scared, seriously, they are scared they won't have enough. They barely scrape by in a world where they believe they'll need insurance for everything because no one will lift a hand to help them if they fall down. Largely they are right.
2) Angry, they think people are stealing from them, everyone. It's basically ingrained in our culture. Your boss steals your time, makes you an indentured servant at best, slave at worst. You have to ask permission for time off, like you are asking permission to go to the bathroom in prison.
3) Outraged, because there are so many "criminals". I mean, here they are, working their asses off and failing at the "fair way" and someone is trying to "cheat".

Yeah, pretty cynical tonight...
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lukipela: Thats just rich white americans.
Yeah, I fucking live in a city full of em.
Okies then, some Scottish Stereotypes:

1 - Always wearing Kilts
2 - Always drinking alcohol, especially whiskey
3 - We're violent tough-nuts
3 - We're all ginger and pale skinned
4 - We're overweight
5 - We hate the English
6 - First words we learn to say are swear words
7 - We live in castles
8 - We're tight-fisted cheapskates who never spend our money
9 - We love Haggis and eat it all the time
10 - We all have big-ass Claymore swords and introduce ourselves by saying something along the lines of "I'm Blahbitty Blah from the Clan McBlah"

...and MYSELF:
1 - Only at weddings
2 - I don't drink and folk know that if anybody tries to make me drink alcohol gets hit in the face
3 - guess I already answered this one :) Well, I'm not really violent, I'm just a "slow to anger, slow to forgive" type of person. And I don't care about Political Correctness or being unnecessarily subtle
3 - Brown hair and I'm quarter black (although, for somebody who is supposed to be quarter black, I guess I am a little pale)
4 - Yes, but only because of severe back injury and could hardly do anything for 2 1/2 years. I'm normally quite fit, strong and athletic (and surprising fit for somebody of my current weight and condition)
5 - Nope, not at all. Although it does annoy me when it looks like the gov. or several companies or organizations give England preferential treatment for no apparent reason
6 - lol, my first word was SHIT
7 - pff... I wish...
8 - The most tightfisted people I have ever known have all been English. One of them even went online to check his bank balance EVERY day without fail.
9 - I don't eat them all the time, have you seen the creatures there SOOO CUUUUUUTE!!! LMAO XD
10 - NO, just no, lol. Well I do have a big-ass Claymore but I never pull it out in front of strangers
Post edited June 03, 2011 by Lenriak
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orcishgamer: Yeah, I fucking live in a city full of em.
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lukipela: Sucks. I live in Austin, same thing here. Tons of white people that are pissed that someone else might become their equal at some point.
Ah yes, that must be especially bad down there. I can't really explain the Northwest, it's full of contradictions.
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orcishgamer: Ah yes, that must be especially bad down there. I can't really explain the Northwest, it's full of contradictions.
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lukipela: I used to live in Idaho. People are crazy all over.
Oh damn, grew up my early life in outside Caldwell, that place is full of people with cow crap for brains.
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orcishgamer: Oh damn, grew up my early life in outside Caldwell, that place is full of people with cow crap for brains.
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lukipela: Ha! Burley and Twin Falls here.
Oof, that may be worse than Caldwell.
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orcishgamer: I'll tell ya what Americans really are:

1) scared, seriously, they are scared they won't have enough. They barely scrape by in a world where they believe they'll need insurance for everything because no one will lift a hand to help them if they fall down. Largely they are right.
2) Angry, they think people are stealing from them, everyone. It's basically ingrained in our culture. Your boss steals your time, makes you an indentured servant at best, slave at worst. You have to ask permission for time off, like you are asking permission to go to the bathroom in prison. Big G takes the money you needed for that new car, house, or your kids' inheritance and gives it to worthless people, often worthless people with a skin color different from your own!
3) Outraged, because there are so many "criminals". I mean, here they are, working their asses off and failing at the "fair way" and someone is trying to "cheat".

Yeah, pretty cynical tonight...
Damn.... I wish I could refute it...
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lukipela: Sucks. I live in Austin, same thing here. Tons of white people that are pissed that someone else might become their equal at some point.
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orcishgamer: Ah yes, that must be especially bad down there. I can't really explain the Northwest, it's full of contradictions.
Yup the Pacific NW is pretty different.
Post edited June 03, 2011 by Arianus