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Old Sep 20th 2004, 2:35 pm
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Default Just for laughs...

I saw this ages ago so don't shoot the messenger if you've already seen it.
As a Canadian recently become Australian, this applies on so many levels. LOL

P.S. Just for Laughs is a Montreal Comedy festival held each summer.

Nationalities.....

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Americans: Love to watch sports on the idiot box.
Brits : Love to watch sports in stadiums so they can fight with other fans.
Canadians: Prefer to actually engage in sports rather than watch them.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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