The True Difference of English Speaking Countries

[Merika]

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 be cool.

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, bad-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, bad-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, bad-tasting beer.
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

[Vautrin]

Too bad there was not mention of South Africa.

[Luba]

Love that!

[darkangelism]

that is funny.

[Merika]

Originally Posted by Vautrin

Too bad there was not mention of South Africa.

I always put South Africa and Australia together in terms of how they think and react. I'm probably wrong though. If it weren't for the fear of political uprising....I would love to live in South Africa.