aaah, i also failed to see you are from Toulouse... do you practice at musashi dojo(Colomiers)? i've met some really nice blokes from there. they come often to several of our seminars and opens! http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif

Well we can't do a great deal about the weather. It only features in our stereotype because as an island it can be varied and therefore a topic of conversation. I mean the stereotype is that it always rains in Seattle so we can't have a monopoly on bad weather.

What's wrong with meat and two veg? It's uninspired not necessarily poor and tasteless. Just because it's simple doesn't mean it isn't good. The same argument would rule fish and chips as poor and tasteless. Say that to the passengers on a train when someone brings a parcel of steaming chips on board. You can just imagine a scene from 28 Days Later if that newswrap get opened.

'We have bad teeth' - not quite, what we have is a National Health Service that provides dentistry for all, although nowadays you're more likely to find alien life than a local NHS dentist. The fact is because there are NHS dentists it is assumed we should have good teeth but not all are. There are plenty of our European neighbours that we see on the telly with shocking teeth, not least the shawl wearing crone wailing about some-such or sitting in a doorway. And with 500 million Americans there must be a large portion of society who can't afford a 'dentist plan' or 'retainer' [braces to us in the Un-UK].

...all that jumping from dike to dike gives them a unique sense of balance... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

I stopped mocking British weather since I moved to Belgium.

Oh, and I wouldn't call British food unimaginative: mint sauce ? I would have never imagined it possible...

Aww really? Even though it has more canals than Venice? Never mind that they're filthy and full of old shopping trolleys and cars. Or perhaps its the deligthful brummie accent that sounds like the locals are all sucicidal even when deliriously happy.... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/eek.gif

Muahahhahaha!
Excellent!
My nefariously eeeevil plan seems to be working....

Soon the European Union will wither and fall..... and David Hasselhoff will be no more.

reckon hes doing a good enough job of screwing things up for himself without the evil machinations of Prince Machiavelli Kenzan http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Mike

Or if your feeling kinky - mint jelly. I preferred mint sauce on my lamb but as the wife doesn't like lamb - says it tastes like washing up liquid [?] we rarely if at all have it.

All anyone needs to do to put Europe and America in perspective is watch the Top Gear tour of America, where Messers Clarkson, Mays and Hammond drove across America in 2nd hand cars. No matter what idiosyncracy of a European neation I can't imagine them running for their live's like they did driving through Georgia in cars sporting the slogans 'Country and Western sucks', 'Hilary for president' and 'man love OK'. Surprisingly I think the Country and Western slur riled the locals the most.

Kenzan I believe your glass house is about to come a-shattering http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif
Oh and last I recall the Hoff was American. Undoubtedly popular in Europe and huge with our German friends, who says they don't have a sense of humour? Your nation gave him his big break...

If you really want to know what Europeans think of each other then come May and the Eurovision Song Contest all will be revealed, can we say "bloc voting"?

Ah-ah ! So the French urban legend is true, the British don't rinse dishes after washing them !

TBH I never tried mint sauce lamb, but I like my meat without sauce anyways.

Yep! Some of us went to Barcelona and london this year. If I improve enough, I'll try to go to Barcelona.

I did see that episode.
Fairly accurate actually.
However that is not really America. That is 'merikuh.
America consists of two cities;
There is Los Angeles, and then there is New York.
Betwix the two, there exists only a smoldering hole of emptiness, of which we dare not speak.

Not if I plug my ears and shut my eyes tightly it won't.

Lalalalalalala all is well! all is well! lalalalalalalalalalalalala! The dollar is strong!
lalala!

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And the French dont wash themselves. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Aaaaaaaah Paris...........what a delightful city....your architecture.....the beautiful sidewalk cafe's .....the pervasive smell of urine everywhere...... http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

Germany.......south of the Black Forest...."Rude but clean" could be their new ad campaign. I can say this because I am German. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif Now those of us from the northwest.....we're just nice.

Yes, that is our stereotype. Actually we mostly have a lot of overcast weather, gray, gray, gray. However, 4 or 5 years ago we had 180 straight days of measurable precipitation. I had to go on a vacation to get some sun. Joke here is we rust, not tan.

When we have sunny weather it is beautiful here, green, green, green. Hard to beat our access to water, outdoor and snow sports. More boats per capita here than just about anywhere.

And no, I do not drink coffee. Cannot stand Starbucks.

In a belated happy St Pat's way, here's what Dave Barry thinks of the Irish: link.

Key quote:

Can you promise that! Both things I mean!

I agree with this, but soon will come the backlash from chitown and boston.

BTW, i would throw San Francisco in there...so for me, there are 3 cities in america.

That's weird! My German friends, who come from Bavaria and Schwabia, say the same thing about anyone north of the Schwarzwald! Steifdeutsch was one expression I heard. But then they do wear lederhosen in the streets of Munich even when the Oktoberfest isn't on.

I also had colleagues from Frankfurt and Dusseldorf and they were good people and always made me feel welcome when I visited.

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Lederhosen.....mmmm.....sweaty leather short pants............another reason we lost the war. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif