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Posted June 01, 2011
Hobbits

1. Short
2. Hairy feet
3. Lucky
4. Friendly
5. Courageous

Me

1. Short
2. Hairy Feet
3. Unlucky
4. Unfriendly
5. Cowardly

arrrggghhhhh
Posted June 01, 2011
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Cymbeline: Canadians love their winter sports. And who can blame us? After all, we all know there are four seasons in Canada: winter, winter, winter and road construction. It is road construction time here now and I am not wearing a touque.
Actually, we have 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad skating. :p
Posted June 01, 2011
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svmariscal: Can you at least do the fart dance?
Like a champ! Now if you'll excuse me, budday, I have to make some Kroff dinnah.
Posted June 01, 2011
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Cymbeline: 2. Finish every sentence with "eh"?
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Navagon: That's still better than "like" as every other fecking word.
I have always thought the overuse of "like" as a place stopper was an unfortunate habit of the English speaking youth. If you like talk to like a teen, you like hear this like all the time. Another one I've heard with my daughter's crowd is starting a sentence or idea with "like standing there" which is odd. On occasion I hear something along the lines of "so, I was like standing there sitting on the bench....."

I keep cringing and thinking "this too shall pass".
Posted June 01, 2011
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Hussar: average GOG member:

1. IQ >130
2. well-educated
3. well-bred
4. polite
5. creative
I guess I'm not in that category. :(
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lukipela: Stereotypical Americans:

1. Fat
2. Christian
3. Dumb
4. Gun nut

Me:
1. Muscular going to fat due to movement impairing injury(and delicious food)
2. Atheist.
3. IQ 142
4. Own a few guns, but only for home defense(had many breakins when first moved to where i live)
I concur with the 3rd one for the stereotypes. Have you been to the high schools lately?
Post edited June 01, 2011 by Rohan15
Posted June 01, 2011
Americans:

1.Fat
2.Stupid
3.Loves FREEDOM
4.Guns, just everywhere
5.Did I already mention fat?

Me:
1.Skinny
2.Rather intelligent
3.Freedoms alright
4.I have a bow, if that counts
5.Still not fat.
Posted June 01, 2011
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Cymbeline: Canadians love their winter sports. And who can blame us? After all, we all know there are four seasons in Canada: winter, winter, winter and road construction. It is road construction time here now and I am not wearing a touque.
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Coelocanth: Actually, we have 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad skating. :p
Yes, skating during the season of road construction is rather sketchy and hard on the blades. Luckily our community out of desperation has organized indoor summer hockey so no one needs to put away their skates and sticks for long. Phew!
Posted June 01, 2011
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Cymbeline: On occasion I hear something along the lines of "so, I was like standing there sitting on the bench....."

I keep cringing and thinking "this too shall pass".
It's at that kind of point where words just don't have any meaning anymore. It's just gibberish. It reminds me of "turned around". Hearing people overuse that as they describe their previous conversation with someone "then I turned around to him and said..." gives me a mental picture of the two of them spinning around on the spot. Weird.
Posted June 01, 2011
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Cymbeline: Yes, skating during the season of road construction is rather sketchy and hard on the blades. Luckily our community out of desperation has organized indoor summer hockey so no one needs to put away their skates and sticks for long. Phew!
lol - actually, I wish we had winter out here on the left coast (I'm in the Vancouver area). We had no snow this year, and only a week's worth last year. I'm starting to forget how to skate or even build an igloo!
Posted June 01, 2011
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Coelocanth: lol - actually, I wish we had winter out here on the left coast (I'm in the Vancouver area). We had no snow this year, and only a week's worth last year. I'm starting to forget how to skate or even build an igloo!
Have you already forgotten the great blizzard of 2008? I have a picture of my husband standing on the frozen Fraser river!
Posted June 01, 2011
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Coelocanth: lol - actually, I wish we had winter out here on the left coast (I'm in the Vancouver area). We had no snow this year, and only a week's worth last year. I'm starting to forget how to skate or even build an igloo!
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Darling_Jimmy: Have you already forgotten the great blizzard of 2008? I have a picture of my husband standing on the frozen Fraser river!
Yeah, I have pictures of my kids playing in 4 feet of snow on our front lawn. But it's so rare an occurrence here. I remember winters in New Brunswick where I grew up. We had skating, snowmobiling, etc. for months each year. I'd love to have that for my kids. Me? I'm actually fine with the whole not shovelling bit. :D
Posted June 01, 2011
Stereotypical Americans:

1. Fat
2. Christian
3. Dumb
4. Gun nut

Me:
1. I do not have time to be fat when I am killing people for our country
2. I do not care whether there is a god, he will not save you from ME
3. I am smart enough to capture points, kill demomen, and eat your ribs
4. I can operate, reload, and repair a very wide variety of guns

Get a haircut, hippies
Posted June 01, 2011
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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.
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 ;)
Poles are afraid to smile? Now Czech and Russian feel smile too much means you a fool. Poles do however have enormous heads. lol
Post edited June 01, 2011 by rs2yjz
Posted June 01, 2011
Me (always me),

I am in fact a very typical English person. So what am i?

This thread appears to be an opening for people to say they are not part of the stereotype, I contend that in fact I am. Just that no-one knows what the English stereotype is.
Posted June 01, 2011
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wpegg: Me (always me),

I am in fact a very typical English person. So what am i?

This thread appears to be an opening for people to say they are not part of the stereotype, I contend that in fact I am. Just that no-one knows what the English stereotype is.
so just going on the typical English here yah go :D English!
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