Hey Pandas, Tell Me You’re From Your Country Without Telling Me You’re From Your Country (Closed)
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Sorry.
I’ve been asked if I’m Canadian because I apologize too much haha, so Canada???
I do as well. But I grew up in Minnesota....which may as well be Canada.
Load More Replies...In the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver Canada there was a 5 minute video of Canada mocking itself for all the stereotypes. Including apologizing excessively. I still love that (according to another BP article I read) there's been a law passed that a Canadian apologizing during an interrogation cannot be construed as an admission of guilt. lol
Oh that second thing is AWESOME. That must have been a huge blow for Crown counsel across Canada. 😂
Load More Replies...ETA: and not because we say that too much. We don't say it at all. Many of us think we are justified in being a dumpster fire.
Load More Replies...A robber walks into a convenient store but before he pulls out his gun everyone else in the store pulls out their guns first.
Definitely as in the UK we'd all be indignant they were jumping the queue 😂😂😂
Speaking of queue... (since we Americans call them "lines").....I just love how America is the only English-speaking country that pronounces the letter "Z" as "zee" and not "zed". It's just one of the more overt examples of how Americans were happy to sound ridiculous as long as we sounded DIFFERENT. Of course, the UK showed US that two can play at that little game...mainly by getting nucking futs about the pronunciation of "aluminum". 😆
Load More Replies...The gun culture is INSANE here--especially considering that the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is not even accurate--as demonstrated by the fact that, both historically and contemporaneously, numerous Supreme Court Justices cannot even agree on its interpretation. When there is a prolonged history of dissenting opinion within the judiciary, you know things have gotten out of hand.
What's with the frowns. Isn't this a positive thing? Criminals will obtain what they want no matter what the laws are. Regular citizens being allowed to carry just makes everyone safer. I don't feel comfortable/safe being in a "gun free zone" - that's where the wackos would most likely choose to shoot the place up
Yesterday I made friends with a large venomous spider. Today I made friends with a small venomous spider. Tomorrow I’m going to find spiders everywhere, and buff kangaroos
I just need to interject: ....Spiders cannot be trusted. They PRETEND to be your friend, but all the time they are plotting to eat you.
This one was fun to see bc I was just texting with my Aussie friend (he moved there nearly 20 years ago-am I even allowed to call him an Aussie yet?) We were addressing the very important topic of how our home country has gone to total sh!t
Football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars...damn, now that's stuck in my head!
Load More Replies...Always mistaken with the country where kangaroos live
Aah, I was thinking New Zealand, the one famous for not being found on maps.
Load More Replies...No, I'm not hungry. No, you're not the first to think of that brilliant joke.
Funny enough, Turkey is currently undergoing a rebranding to be called Türkiye (native tongue pronunciation) to avoid being associated with the bird. This is becoming a trend more and more (Myanmar, Eswatini, etc.) so maybe it's time to become Magyarország so you're no longer haunted by the terrible jokes!
Nobody other than Hungarians would be able to pronounce that LOL! And then there's still the next question after the hungry one: so are you from Bucharest? Nothing can help us! :) But yeah, I can imagine the turkey jokes get old just as quick!
Load More Replies...Yesterday my sister told mom she was hungry. And I said that she was probAbly adopted if she was from Hung
And I was discussing with my sis and mom about how people from Hungary are always gonna be hungry. And today I see this....
Load More Replies...I literally couldn't figure this one out. Swear I thought it was italy. No, I do not know what's wrong with me. Wandering mind.
I don't work in IT, elephants after not my ride, snakes don't dance on the roads, my city is Silicon Valley 2, most of us speak 4-5 native languages and English is our main language in school and college. To the surprise of many outsiders, our English and grammar is excellent.
India. Has to be. The English comments and the SV2 are the clenchers.
I work with a lot of people in India. Their grammar and English are excellent if you remember they are speaking Indian English. Just like I speak American English, which has some differences from The Queen's English, Indian English has its differences. For example, people I work with who are in India will say they "have some doubts," when I would say I "have some questions." They aren't wrong and I'm not right. We're just different.
I like this one. Also, I've been closer to elephants in cambodia than anywhere else. Actually, I never saw a single elephant in india.
Very true ☺️ we have temple elephants for festivals and then there are the wild ones in our many many many reserves. Otherwise none on the road.
Load More Replies...I first thought India, but I would expect an Indian to have good English, given that they were once a British colony.
Hi! Welcome to your average restaurant! Would you like a large, an extra large, or an EXTRA large?
100% US. We like our restaurant food just like our people....way bigger than necessary.
Similar with drink sizes. In most european countries, a 16 ounce (sometimes 13 ounce) drink is a "large", while a "small" is between 6 and 10 ounces (approximately, as, of course, everybody outside the US is using metric). Meanwhile, the 7-eleven "Double Gulp" is 64 ounces. Noone in europe would ever even think of serving an 72oz steak or a 6000 calories burger.
bo’le o’ wo’ah is chewsday innit tea lots of pubs tea
I think this is meant to be Britain by someone who's not British?! What on Earth is the first thing here?? And Where's the fish and chips without we can't survive?? 🤣
Specifically England and probably Essex: not the whole of the UK!
It took me a good 20 seconds to figure out that first line. Good one mate.
We're an American excuse to get very drunk once a year
This is misleading. We Americans never need an excuse to get very drunk.
Yesssss. That's an entire WEEK of getting very drunk, as opposed to the ONE DAY that Ireland gave us via St.Patrick's Day. Which is why Germany gets the friendship trophy.
Load More Replies...I don't associate with my northern neighbor. Also we don't eat cats as often as you'd think.
The country where everyone thinks we sit on the couch in lederhosen all day long on some mountain, get paid for doing nothing, eat sauerkraut and yodel on our cuckoo clocks.
Wait...are you saying that y'all DON'T? Ach du meine Güte!
Annoying enogh that the image of Germany abroad is formed by a very small region of it that is very well the Texas of Germany...
I almost dropped my Sauerkraut on my Lederhosen reading this. (confused yodeling)
Please try not to get Bratwurstfettspritzer on your Kuckucksuhr.
Load More Replies...Germany, and isn't it the law that if you yodel, you must wear the lederhosen? Lol
Only on weekends. An Arbeitstagen wird gearbeitet! As a yodeling Lederhosen manufacturer, though.
Load More Replies...I lived in Germany 31 years. I never heard anyone yodel. I thought that was Swiss? And… sitting on the couch all day? Getting paid for doing nothing? Germans know how to enjoy their Feierabend, but only because they are so fleißig!
PERKKELE! I greet my finnish friend 🏁 Oh, sorry, wrong flag 🇫🇮
Load More Replies...We invented legos, constantly mistaken for our neighbours, love our bikes, and most of us is just as depressed as our weather.
On behalf of parents everywhere who have twisted their ankles in the dark on legos left on the floor by their spoiled children, just know that I'm looking at your people sternly and with my brows deeply furrowed.
Savage! (Danish wheeling and sniffling from somewhere in the background can be heard here in Germany.)
Load More Replies...yes! it's a mass noun not a count noun. Like "butter", "water", etc, rather than "bricks", "chunks"
Load More Replies...FUN FACT! The word Lego actually derives from the term Leg Godt, which is Danish for “play well.”
Load More Replies...I'm curious to know what neighboring country people are getting confused with Denmark?
Land of the mighty "T's": Tequila, Tacos and Tamales 😁👌
"Toast and avocado" 😉 there's always a way to get the "vitamin T" as we call it here 🤣
Load More Replies...Been to Mexico, and I can attest that the three T's are indeed fabulous!
Although here in Latin America we share our roots with the Spaniards, Tequila is 100% Mexican ;)
Load More Replies...Proper (pre-covid) social distancing between strangers waiting in bus stops is five meters, but in sauna hips must touch.
WE HELD THE RECORD FOR BEING THE HAPPIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOR FOUR YEARS MAN
Load More Replies...“No it is not advised to take pictures with the buffaloes, yes they will kill you if you want a selfie, no I am not trying to take away your experience for this trip” common phrases where I live
Since I've heard about Cape buffalo.... somewhere in southern Africa if not the nation of South Africa?
I’m assuming you meant bison. Buffalo live in the old world, bison live in the new world.
While up are correct they’re bison, Buffalo is the common term for them here.
Load More Replies...Recipe for disaster, 1 cup of depression. 10 tablespoons of homophobia. 1/8 teaspoon of happiness. 1 pound of racism. 2 cups of debt. 2 pounds of inequality. 4 tablespoons of homelessness. A pinch of excitement. 5 1/2 cups of guns. 4 cups of abandonment. 5 tablespoons of suicide. 7 pounds of unfair health insurance. And for a garnish, police brutality. Mix that all up and you get my country. Sorry for making it so dark, but it is where I live.
Oh this is good. The US by a mile. And I feel the exact same way about it.
Ding ding ding! You got it!
Load More Replies...The Ununited States of Chaos, one nation, under greed, divisible, with liberty and justice for the upper caste. I would increase the racism and homelessness ratio this recipe by two pounds each, and you should toss in a pound or two of environmental devastation for the right level of bitterness. Also, if you throw in 2 liters of hot, unchecked capitalism and whisk it in with the inequality, you will get just the right foul, frothy gruel that fills the place with the pungent aroma of failure.
We have coffeeshops all over the country where nobody orders coffee.
I am dutch and only the tourist go to the coffeeshops. Everybody think we are always high but thats not true. Also we are not al farmers and wear klompen
That's not true we just shifted from cows and grains to crypto and weed.
Load More Replies...Some cities made plans to issue some kind of weed-passport for their citizens to fight drug tourism from neighboring countries. They wanted a way to fight criminals who were buying cheap cannabis in the Netherlands and selling them in neighboring countries. It turned out in court that a weed-passport would conflict with several other laws particularly privacy legislation. Exit weed-passport. Now laws have changed and municipalities have more power to combat nuisance and crime caused by drug tourism without the need of a passport. At this moment it is indeed illegal for tourists to buy weed in a coffeeshop, but police will only act if they cause problems or if the shop sells cannabis to people under the age of 18 years.
Load More Replies...Because we assume that if you go to a coffeeshop, you have the money to buy your own weed. We don't like leechers.
Load More Replies...your username bloemendal is dutch or vlaams so... guessing belgium or nederland?
Coffeshops are synonymous with weed for most tourists in Netherlands so I'd say Netherlands is the better guess.
Load More Replies...We have thousands of curries, not just one. We don't ride elephants. And no we don't do the rope tricks. There's much more than just slums in our country.
You definitely do the rope tricks. It's on record in so many cartoons, so you can't deny that.
Go 3 miles and turn left at the 2nd McDonalds. Walmart will be on your right.
well you missed the 5 stoplights and then turn right just before the starbucks
It's obviously the USA but I'm guessing anywhere in the "south"? This description doesn't fit any of the west coast states. :p
Also Florida....except you'd only have to go 2 miles.
Load More Replies...A police car changed to the right lane when the cops saw me getting nearer in the rear mirror with around 240 on my speedo and let me overtook without any consequences i love it :)
Would it ever get a bit scary.. like if u are just starting to learn but it also sounds so much fun
Nah. Stay in the right hand lane if you're worried. I've done 155 mph (250 km/h) on German motorways, and still found people wanting to overtake me. The only reason there aren't many deaths on German autobahns is because German drivers are very disciplined and, compared to most Europeans, very patient.
Load More Replies...Autobahn and Nurbergring.. What an experience. I kinda envy you germans for getting to enjoy such beauties
Had an 8 k bill for er visit that lasted 3 hours and got no medication
Clearly the US--although that 3 hour wait feels unusually brief for American ER visits. ...
I should have been clear I was treated for 3 hours I waited 6
Load More Replies...somewhere in the states that has a population of over 100,000 AND cannot get doctors to live there - so maybe no incentives either.
Eh?
I cannot tell a lie... go women's!!!!!
Load More Replies...Wait, other countries have the internet?
Every time I tell somebody where I live they asked why I'm not black. Or if we have technology. Or the most common if I live with lions.
I mean most of the people who would say that probably think Africa is all one country so ...
I'm sorry
*HONK* *HONK * *HISSSS HISSSSSSSS* *HONK* HONK* zzzzzzzzzzz *SMACK* zzzzzzzzzz*SMACK* SMACK *
Honks and hisses are geese. The zzzz are mosquitoes and they're getting smacked.
Dk why the downvotes? At least I'm trying to be somewhat original.
Because people are easily tired, don't worry, I appreciated your original approach
Load More Replies...Yup. I was trying to be original about it than just bringing up Tims, maple syrup and hockey.
Load More Replies...Fancy a brew?
Don't think so. They would have called it a PINT.
Load More Replies...Queen for 50 years and a mermaid in the harbour...
Growing up, I had a geyser in my front yard and a glacier in the back yard and a ton of sheep wandering the pasture between.
I want to go to New Zealand SO badly. !
Load More Replies...Beer and depression
Don't forget the COVID Cocktail FTW.
Load More Replies...Could be Germany--although "beer" would be "bier" and "depression" would be a 36-character word consisting of both letter AND sound combinations that trigger migraines. 😆
Depression ... pronounced with "s" and not "sh"... not that difficult
Load More Replies...Being a global issue, your statement isn't narrowing a bit
Load More Replies...A lot of strikes, and haute couture.
School system is broken, government is broken, economy is broken, HELP I WANNA GET OUT
Yeah...sadly, this isn't enough to go on. An ex-president that looks like a Cheeto and some half-eaten string cheese that was left in a hot car got together for a sordid affair? Now THAT we can work with.
Lol perfect, sorry I realize now that it is pretty vague
Load More Replies...Yes I now realize that this was pretty vague sorry, it is the US haha-
well just add "you could get shot at school" then we can differentiate you from other third world countries. lol ;-) /s/ jk
Load More Replies...my thoughts exactly. I would have gone with Chad though. But who the hell comes on here from Chad?
Load More Replies...Ohhh good one. I think I'll add the entire middle east to my 10 countries in africa answer.
Load More Replies...I like how the comments below are all assuming it's a third world country (ie somewhere in africa, somewhere in the middle east etc), but the OP confesses it's usa. eep. But TBH I think unless it's Singapore, Scandinavia, or Germany, pretty much the above applies to most countries.
Wiedźmin 😎
We regularly get left off world maps even though our land area is larger than the UK.
What, really. Ghana (my country of origin) is smaller than the UK (the country I live in) and is still on the map, how is yours left out, someone must have a grudge.
I would like to apologize to the rest of the world for 2016-2020.
Except Trumpsters would never apologize.
Load More Replies...With my wooden shoes I used to go to the windmill to get tulips and cheese but nowadays I just smoke loads of weed 😉
The part of the world that overdosed on freedom
I once saw a gun store next to a chuck-e-cheese WhAt. pEoPLe ThInK
I feel like all the USA contributions I have seen on this list so far are from Texas, Florida, Louisiana (bc I saw Mardi Gras mentioned) or just the south in general.
No actually this is some fl, USA crap right here!! WhY you ask? I don't know why don't you tell me??
Load More Replies...YEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAW!
I'm sorry to inform you that Texas is not a country.
Load More Replies...Yes, we put mayo on our fries. And stop calling ‘em French fries. Ain’t nothing French about ‘em. Just a couple of American WW soldiers eating fries while hearing someone speak French and thinking they were in France. They weren’t.
Rule 1 of visiting Belgium don't ask for French fries or we kick you out of the country.
By volume McDonald's and friends are probably selling a whole lot more American style french fries than frietkotten and restaurants are selling friet. Welcome to 2022.
Load More Replies...Patates frites! frietkot, professional cycling and awesome comic styles for a 100 years now.
Fish and chips
Yorkshire puds, shepherds pie, brolly, cuppa, corgis, fry’s chocolate… need I go on?
You had me at Yorkshire Pudding...then lost me at Shepherd's Pie....but then I rallied again for the Corgis.
Elizabeth II has had Corgis for decades. She's pretty much made Corgis the national dog.
Load More Replies...I have 30,000$ in student debt and own several assault rifles
It nearly always rains here! 😂 We’re a country that gets forgotten about a lot but we have a really cool flag!
similar and just as wet! 😄
Load More Replies...Some areas of new zealand look just like wales ! I think in some films they use new zealand instead, it looks so similar
Load More Replies...We're told to take an uber instead of an ambulance cuz it's cheaper.
When you go to another country, you get laughed at because of your president
I would say USA cause we've had some pretty weird ones but i'm not sure.
Of course! I was in Norway during the Clinton scandal and obviously more recently Trump lol
Load More Replies...We Stare. Better behave.
No Finn would stare. Social distancing includes eye contact
Load More Replies...My people act like if it was the end of the world when a train leaves one minute too late.
No. The Japanese don't dare to moarn.
Load More Replies...Switzerland of course. I had a 50 lb backpack and had less than 2 minutes to get from one train to another. I ran and had to jump onto the second one and fell on my belly on the floor, but I made it.
Germany has a whole song about how broken our train system is, the first line is "this train's departure was 14:02, no it wasn't, because it's 14:30" So no, not Germany, we're too used to belated trains to notice one minute...
Load More Replies...Nah in Africa everything runs late so we just look at facebook and wait.
Load More Replies...Yeah...I can see this being Japan bc of the work ethic. But also the US because of the hyperbolic entitlement.
No, neither. I give you another hint: You can reach the tiniest and most remote villages easily by train or other kinds of public transport. The vehicles are cleaned very accurately. So the level my people are moaning on is very high.
Load More Replies...Americans are convinced we have the most disgusting bogan accent to exist. Like 92% of us don't have the goddamn accent and we aren't upsidedown you are >:(
OMG if it IS Australia (I'm American) I LOVE the Australian accent, and am getting better at distinguishing between the Aussie and Kiwi accents.
same i fricken love australian accents (and irish, scottish, just pretty much all the english accents. and also colombian.)
Load More Replies...As of today, we now have assault weapons designed for pre-teen children. Its called a JR-15 instead of AR-15.
cheese cows watches chocolate 4 official languages and a flag that looks like the red cross
Dinner is two different meals depending on whether you live in the north or south.
More to do with class than region, I live in the south right on the coast. We (family as a whole..) have breakfast, dinner then tea
Glad someone said something about the delineation between dinner and tea. Many Americans don't know that you can have what we call "an early dinner" at tea.
Load More Replies...Dinner is dinner, that's why we have dinner ladies, and then there's tea lol
The british do like to confuse everyone. Imperial measurements. Guineas, shillings, and pounds. Stones. Cricket. And of course the names of meals.
Guineas and shillings?! You're talking about way in the past there!
Load More Replies...I'm not Russian. I can't even write in Cyrillic. Also, if you go to pride to shout homophobic slurs and beat up some gays you might get praised by a bishop. Oh, and our flag is opposite of Monaco's
Well today I slipped on while skating. I was driving my Toyota to a brothers birthday party at ice skating rink(where I slipped). When he opened his present he got a hockey stick, a bunch of maple syrup, and a hockey jersey. He was so happy. Then he bumped into the door and apologized to it…
We make Gouda cheese
Fush in Chups, cuzzie.
The "Fush and Chups" part sounds West End English. Do you get your meat from the bAHtcher?
Lol it sounds more like 'bitcher' here, replace most vowels with 'u' or 'i', short consonants, almost like Brit mixed with south African, but half asleep and muttering 😅 (eg a UK doctor had to double check if it was a ball or a bull that had hurt my son's finger, coz it sounded like bull apparently 😬)
Load More Replies...I love taking naps. I get irrationally ofended when people prepare certain rice dish in a wrong way.
Timmies.
Budapest is not the capital of my country and we still have wild brown bears and wild wolves...
Haggis
Welcome to Scotland, were we eat animal guts and call it Haggis and give it to children
I've been trying to reach you for your car's extended warranty.
I like football and hockey, and I love McDonald’s and sonic
Ahhh, yes. 13-Year-Old-Pubescent-Boyland. .....or "13YOPB" on the smaller world maps.
Saudi Prince's often come here for hunting Endangered and rare birds.
Pakistan? That's where all the Saudi princes I'm friends with (no, I'm not really friends with any) go to hunt.
Mass shootings.
Dialysis bills my insurance for $35K PER treatment. That's 3 times a week. Over $1MM/year.
This just makes me so sad. My gran died because she finally tired of dialysis. I know I'll need it soon. As if having to pay $700 a month for healthcare premiums ALONE (not to mention deductibles, co-pays, medications, etc) isn't bad enough. When people in our country act like socialized healthcare is a "fate worse than death", I often wonder how they'd feel if they got so severely sick that they had to choose between treatment and all of their many possessions--because that's essentially what American health care forces you to do. More than a few patients have become homeless having to pay for medical care they needed.
I hope this eventually leads to a revolt against your government’s partnership with big business. It’s nothing short of murder.
Load More Replies...Not saying this is a good thing, but I won my first turkey shoot (everyone shoots at targets and the best shot wins a frozen turkey) when I was shorter than the shotgun.
We hate the English
Do you have any idea how little it narrows the list? Could be the French, the Scots, the Irish or any country from half the commonwealth :´)
Not true. Most whites in SA seem to have a reasonably positive view of England, as do NZ and Oz. Lots of them emigrate there. We also enjoy the french taunting scene in monty python, so, fais attention ou je vais te narguer une deuxième fois.
Load More Replies...No the english-speaking colonies don't hate england. France might though, they seem to not be that chuffed with englishers.
Load More Replies...At the moment given the state of the country you could even BE English :)
Labas, cepelinai.
Chocolate, waffles, fries..... and way too much governments.
walloonian, flanders (which is already a fusion of the flanders & dutch governement), german, french, brussels. Yeah it was a good 2 years where we only had 5 governements
Load More Replies...Cheeky Nando's
We are loud and always happy, or so we are seen by turists In reality we are all stressed as f**k and can barely afford to live on our own... We have the most iconic country tho, with good food, awesome fashion and great history
Italy. If you want a realistic slogan on a t-shirt from your Italian vacation, you might consider: Welcome to Italy. Now shut up, take a number, and wait.
Cats.
Yes, Greece loves cats like Turkey ✌️🐈⬛
Load More Replies...We have words that are about ten or more syllables long.
Have you heard of these: Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, Nahrungsmittelunverträglichkeit Unabhängigkeitserklärungen,
Load More Replies...The Dutch combine nouns too. Germans just make a sport of creating the longest combos.
Tesla.
Come on, he was mixed. Just like I am Italo-Croatian, he could be Serbo-Croatian, or Croato-Serbian. No need to fight, we can be friends. Just like his parents were.
Load More Replies...Croatia. He was born in Croatia.
Load More Replies...I'm waiting at a red pedestrian light on an intersection at midnight. I look down all the intersecting roads and don't see a single vehicle anywhere. I look back at the pedestrian light. It's still red. I wait.
No way :D if there is no car, we would cross at red any time... We often don't need a crossing at all :D
Load More Replies...If you disagree with me saying we have the nicest cheeses, breads and wines … I will go on strike !
Crikey this list was written by a bunch of drongos
Australia! Don't think I have actually heard anyone say drongo in real life though :)
the morning Chai, then more chai then one more chai... Chai chai chai... It goes on... 😀 (tea=chai)
guns, beer, and the Superbowl parties
Pour language is more than a traditional bread and a pastry. Most natives are very Bad at languages and Breaking Bad would've ended with a simple card.
I set out to do some of the GOOD things about my country... turns out it's pretty hard. Guns, drugs, alcohol and hatred... you should be able to get it from that, sadly.
Rain....
Lol my first thought was Vancouver BC, we don't call it the wet coast for nothing!
Ha my first thought was Vancouver Washington! Or just Washington State in general, lol.
Load More Replies...everyone is horizontally tall
Horizontally dear. It's a joke about people being fat.
Load More Replies...A store in my city that sells every major food group: Fries, Burgers, Soda, and more!
I have to speak a minimum of 3 languages just to be able to talk to anyone.
in the summer you never know what time it is.
You can meet Santa Claus and cross the magical Arctic Circle every day at Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland. Rovaniemi is the Official Hometown of Santa Claus in Lapland. It is Finland, had to tell you, welcome if you come up here.
Load More Replies...go west from Alaska and skip past Russia
Load More Replies...You really shouldn't have got on your high horse about Wales not being a country if you're going to suggest Greenland as an answer.
Load More Replies...Would you like some kielbasa?
Poland, but I don't think it is very characteristic. I would assume that rather the Germans like sausages...
Poles taught Germans how to make sausage, but didn't tell them how to make them really, really good.
Load More Replies...Went to the pharmacy to go grab a cake, some snacks, a card, and a balloon for someone’s birthday. Passed by a few gun stores on my way home.
Tell Me You’re From Your Country Without Telling Me You’re From Your Country: (Pulls up to McDonald’s drive thru) “Hi can I order a triple quarter pounder with everything on it and a side of large fries?
McDonald's has now added a McLand, Sea and Air, this consists of a big mac, a filet-o-fish, and a McChicken all crammed into one sandwich. Do they really want to kill us that badly?
Some of the most significant products of People born in this country include James Watt's steam engine,the bicycle, macadamisation, Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the first practical telephone, John Logie Baird's invention of television and Sir Alexander Fleming best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin.
TW for colonialism. We get get mistaken for the country that we used to be a region of until 1947.
Nessie, tartan, hills
Oh yeah and if we talk really fast we sound like we’re talking b******t and no I do NOT wear a kilt I don’t drink baileys with every meal our flag is the most boring thing possible and also there’s tourists who think every single cow here is from the highlands.
Hear this so much of this about Scottish people. Have they ever known any Scottish people, as friends? Doubt it. Mind you, when my dad joined the 48th Highlanders my first comment when he went out in full regalia, my comment was about being embarrassed about him going out in a "skirt". Oh so wrong thing to say. It wasn't very long before I was so proud. The Queen mother came for the Trouping if the Colors for the PPCLI. My dad went in his dress blues as one of the representatives for his regiment, and later, in full formal uniform was a member of the line of Honour Guard when Her Majesty visited Canada. She walked down the pathway right past him(Dad! What does she look like ?" His reply was "I don't know. We had to keep looking straight ahead and she's really short. The top of her hat looked nice though".) When we went out people looked at him with such admiration. Yep! That's MY dad!
Load More Replies...4 seasons in a day, and this can happen in January or June
DING! DING! DING! We haaaave a winnah!
Load More Replies...This is actually a quote from a famous song by Crowded House about Australia
Canada. Yesterday we got frost in the morning (typical fall weather here), cloudy/drizzling until noon, sunny in the afternoon, and snow at around 6:00.
San Francisco. I lived there for seven years. It's a country. They even have a national holiday--Halloween.
Can you pay me those 50 cents back please?
Sometimes I don't know if the loud bang I just heard was a gunshot or some idiot setting off a firework. Depends on the place and time of day which one is more likely, but who knows. It doesn't even really faze me that much, I just move away from the windows to be safe.
Also the US. I have small scaredy dogs so I abhor the fireworks as much as the gun obsession.
In certain states like California and certain seasons, the fireworks might be more dangerous.
I was late in college because the bus drivers were on strike again... But both are for free.
France. I was coming home from spending the day at Cassis. A trucker's strike completely closed the road. I spent much of the day in the fields picking fresh herbs.
Not really, the Netherlands isn't known for people striking and neither public transport nor college is free.
Load More Replies...Definitely not Italy, QuokkaVibes. Neither college nor bus rides are free here.
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11 official languages. 9 provinces. One of the top 3 strongest economies on the continent. 100% freedom of religion. Gay marriages since 2007. Highest buildings on the continent and richest square mile on the continent. Many tourist attractions. Worst Gini Coefficient on earth (greatest inequality).
Happiness is not having to smile at people.
I have not done military service, never paid for my child’s birth and my capital has about a million people as inhabitants, but we are not famous for banking
Country is easy as all I have to mention is that we kicked an angry orange out of power last year. Specific part of that country - if we were our own country we’d be the 5th largest economy in the world. We like strawberries, tech and nuclear weapons. We produce more agricultural products than any other part of the country. More people live here than in Canada. We have a bridge that is a different color than its name suggests. You can start your day snowboarding in our mountains, do motocross in the desert at lunch, and end the day surfing at the beach if you really wanted to. (oh and blah blah blah stuff like movies, television, celebrities and crap like that) I may hate my country as a whole, but tbh I actually love the part I live in.
CA - I feel this way about NJ although everyone makes horrible jokes about it. :)
Everyone is entitled to some good hometown pride. I'd love to hear fun bragg-y NJ facts if you want to reply. I do know the state is gorgeous and gets a bad rap tho since I've seen pics of where a friend of mine grew up out there. (I do give her crap because she's younger and told me she moved here because of the Laguna Beach MTV show - our city boarders LB. That's like me moving to NJ because I saw the Jersey Shore lmao)
Load More Replies...we have cheeseburgers, guns, and stupid people here.
I am so embarrassed to be an American. When I travel out of the country I try so hard not to stand out as the stupid American.
"america is a place where you're allowed to be stupid if you want"
Top O' the mornin' to ye!
1776
I would rather go with the arrogance to think the whole world would know that, when it's clearly a fact that's most known inside of the country. Aka, nobody gives a f**k when the American is convinced otherwise.
Load More Replies...You can lose your life savings if you get sick.
Land of the best singers and of course the best Flag of all.
Half our citizens will tell you that we have the best country in the world,, we invented everything you have in your country. We are the only country where you can be free. All the wars are us just helping the poor ignorant masses. And the other half of the country Are just sitting at a counter with our head in our hands wondering where our school tax went
We hate everyone who isn't the patriarchy but claim to be equal to everyone!
This has to be the US also. Or Goldman Sachs. Could also be Goldman Sachs.
We are so honest, free and open that we offend everyone who gets near our arrogant selves. oh yeah, and we've stolen everything we claim as our own. Even our Tulips.
Dutch people are not more honest but many are rude in the way they speak. Saying "you look fat" is not honest, just rude. I have met many dutch and some were wonderful and some not but they werent more honest than others. Its just a myth.
Partially agree. It's true that in some provinces "Dutch directness" is used as an excuse to be plain rude. On the other hand, if you ask a Dutch person their opinion on your clothing, they won't hold back. Dutch people also take your word for granted. If they offer you help and you decline the offer, they will walk away. Even though it's obvious that you need help and you were just being polite.
Load More Replies...My ex-boss is a Dutch.. He is the quickest person to throw an expletive.. But otherwise, he is okay..
Ok, ok, Y'all Got My Goat. NOT EVERYONE IN ALL THE SPOTS OF THE U.S. HAVE AND/OR IDOLIZE/ABUSE GUNS - *pant pant pant* MANY (of the quiet, respectful, self-controlled) percentage are taught gun safety and use it copiously, dont mind if someone else ISNT into guns and weaponry and target shooting, DONT even BEGIN to think a weapon = bravado or braggadociousness (because once you start to handle something possibly potent, unless you have had a complete lobotomy, you understand the seriousness of the situation, and are extra careful of others' lives and appendages and properties once you are entrusted with one...) Omy Gosh I'm sorry for exploding but I dont understand (and am deeply frustrated by) the pervasive craving to rant and rave about a stereotype and trope that many many MANY Americans DONT fit into! We are NOT like Just Cause/Grand Theft Auto, and (dang, my whole explanation doesnt fit, lol) getting arrested for "disturbing the peace" or "ignoring the rule of law" still applies!!!
Load More Replies...Me: “WHERE THE FRIG IS ME FISH N CHIPS?” Mum: “NAH I TOLD YA INNIT, WE’RE ‘AVING CURRY NOW!” Me: “… a’ight, bet.”
*goes to bus stop* *another person there* *goes back home*
My bread tastes like cake, and the steering wheel is on the left :)
We think the Superbowl is something everyone is interested in
I just got my hospital bill for staying overnight in the E.R. With chest pain. My part, $32,000 and some change.
Jo mei, wos soi i dazua sogn. Wahrscheinlich nix, is eh gscheida, sunst vasteht me kana.
Cheese, clogs, tullips, windmills (old and new) I live about 5 meters below sealevel. (with dikes of course)
Er... you do know there's a difference between dike and dyke.. right?
Load More Replies...Nooo mummy i'm sorry i got A- please don't hit me with the chappel
the chappal is the scariest experience besides grandma asking for your exam results
G'day mate, I better go ride my kangaroo to school where we learn to photoshop so our photos don't look upside down
Tech support scams, roti, strict as heck parents, spice ass food
This one easy.. India.. Or Pakistan.. The both similar for me in many ways..
You can describe every single feeling you have with one word: KURWA.
No, i won't serve you cappuccino with your lunch, sir.
I add way too many spices in things and people always ask me if I can speak English.
Both the pacific and the atlantic are rechable and visible on the same day. There's even many spots from where you can see both. Also, putting your car on a given location to remain iddle, and hang out with your friends is the same. Last but not least, your grandpa provides the rum, and excels at it
We avoid lengthy trials by blaming animals for hits on famous people. Last century, our prime minster vanished. Our whole country accepted the explanation that a shark did it. Then a famous conservationist was murdered. They told us a sting ray did it. We said, ‘ok.’
Putting cream in carbonara is a punishable offense.
I walked an extra block to avoid an irate goose.
No, I don’t live in an igloo!
Canada. I was actually asked this question by some Americans when I was visiting Washington DC.
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coffee (not america)
At least one person in my family is named John, George, Demetri, Kosta, Chris, Eleni, or Maria.
G’day mate
I FROM WHERE THE PANDAS ARE
I live in a place where there is multiple fast food restaurants, car washes, and gas stations on every corner. And there is another gas station of a competitor company right next to that gas station. We fly lots of flags and some more controversial then others. We also have very large food portions and ice in drinks. Inclement weather(depending on where you are), traffic, overpriced heath care, and politics are a problem here.
G'DAY MATE 'BOUT TO PUT SOME SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE THEN RIDE MAH KANGAROO LOOK OUT FOR THAT REDBACK IN THE TOILET MATE, THAT'D F**K YA UP REAL GOOD
guns and mcdonalds and the occasional incest baby
If I got even moderately injured at my high-risk job, it would ruin my life.
Nah, if you get moderately injured at your job in the US, you can sue for millions!
Load More Replies...We’re legally allowed to marry out first cousins. And the schools don’t care at all lmao
It is legal in Australia (my parents are cousins) and is not unethical or gross and I wish more people got that!
@Huddo’s sister I actually hate this stereotype- we don’t do siblings. Now, I’m fine with the cousins part, because 1st cousins aren’t that related to us
Load More Replies...If anyone else thinks that "popty ping" is a real term rather than what the locals use to have a lol down the pub, I don't know what to say. It's microdon.
We have scheduled power cuts (Loadshedding)
Ok, I'll bite. What's positive about SA (not the natural beauty)?
Load More Replies..."Please drive safely, there are no hospitals nearby"
We love seafood, we have Subway, and we can drive to Canada. We're also the BEST place for sunrise photography (not to brag), just not in winter. Last thing, everyone here is a huge football fanatic (the Patriots).
Coca-Cola is not the most popular fizzy (soft) drink.
Misread the post. I should have said NOT ENOUGH COUNTRIES, unfortunately!
Normally its said we are the only country which doesnt have coca cola as its main soft drink
Load More Replies...We have a geographical border that looks like a mitten. Healthcare system sucks. VERY diverse citizens. Gub'ment is shady af.
Balut…
I'm putting this here for anyone who looks it up. Eyewash-62...8666ee.jpg
Bacony that was a public service you just performed
Load More Replies...Flags displayed everywhere, and not just country flags - flags displaying support for a certain, evil past-president. Like they should be proud of that support. SMH.
Healthcare? Who's she?
mc effin donalds
Boeing, nintendo, Microsoft, amazon, Starbucks, costco.
Every county council sucks. Went to a zoo. Ate fish and chips.
Sweden
Im gonna go with Denmark, just because too many think that we are the Capitol of sweden
“There is nothing to complain about” is the best compliment you can ever get around here!
YA LIKE GUNS?!?
beer, winter, kwik trip, cheese, cows, cranberries, ginseng, lumber, lots of bars,
no, there are no 400lb people with AR 15s at mcdonalds
Mate😅
I prefer my potato fries with vinegar or gravy
Poor people are seen as second-class who aren't as deserving of proper healthcare and decent affordable housing, as well-off people.
Beer, ice hockey, NOT in Russia!
How? Did hockey become popular there in the last 10 years? Not criticising, just asking. Because I'm not familiar with this, but I've been abroad for over a decade.
Load More Replies...We built a ship that is only famous for immediately sinking with great loss of life. And everyone here is for some reason proud of that fact.
Hang on- I gotta head over the my nearest McDonalds
Our country is younger than the US and as old as the world. So many of our people have left that there are as many of us living outside the country as there are here in our country. And yet we treat immigrants here like garbage.
Hmmmm, makes me think of Croatia, but not sure. Our modern republic starts in the 1990s, so that would make us younger than USA, yet we've had a history officially since 6th or 7th century. Currently, more of us are living abroad than within the country (me included). But are immigrants treated so bad? Now this one I genuinely don't know. However, the fact you're comparing to the USA, combined with your nickname, leads me to believe it could be somewhere in S. America.
I don't think I understood what we were supposed to do. I don't seem to be telling people what country I'm from without telling them what country I'm from. I guess I didn't want to make it too easy. But with this country it's hard not to make it too easy.
Load More Replies..........hazard guess as Jerusalem or Turkey? middle east somewhere?
I have visited 12 national parks and they were all within 8 hours of driving, and I took a car to all those parks.
is it mackinac or mackinaw?
We discovered half the world but as we can't stop arguing with our neighbours we have lost all.
The land of idiots
Home of diabetes
Politics is gonna destroy us
Howdy, Folks!
Unlikely, howdy is not a word commonly used in Australia and neither is folks. I would say the US.
Load More Replies...The only thing people think we do is host barbies and roast our neighbours across the ditch We also say 'mate' more than Australians
Bad teeth, old buildings, an excess of gammon, pride in most things other civilised countries would be ashamed of, unapologetic, led by complete and utter donkeys...yeah not exactly hard, this one
Dang and I was SO SURE I'd made it difficult :)
Load More Replies...open kleptocracy in any dictionary to see my ex pm
BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE Lowest prices are just the beginning (If you know what this is, I bet you just sung it inside your head)
Cuppa?
Daffodils, red dragon,male voice choirs, chapels.
we like guns and we love burgers and we bring guns to a paintball right
would you like tea and crumpets lad
We have tulips, dykes and God created us as a finishing touch.
Gonna have a SIESTA...
I woke up this morning to a venomous spider on the roof....lol
Pálinka, bears, dracula...
I'm always on time for work and when I'm free I drink beer and do my tax return
I am neutral towards this and everything else.
chewing gum is illegal.
I need a visa from the neighboring courty to be able to visit my country and the place of my birth
We dont have a windmill or tullips in every garden and we dont walk on wooden shoes all day
Dealing with many volcanos, earthquakes, and sinking capital
Hindu and Hindi
French fries aren't french, and also we have the best chocolate but people just don't know it
I will eat my yoghurt while nodding my head left-to-right in approval and top-to-bottom in disapproval. Cold Rakia in the fridge, soccer on the TV and swearing at politicians.
We have to endure stupid jokes of uneducated people about WWII...
Our unofficial national dish is the Kebab pizza and we eat cabbage as a side for every kind of pizza. Also, the world seems to think we are naked all the time, that's simply untrue, because for midsummer we wear flower crowns, duh!
"French fries" are not really from France, but from my country.
17 thousand islands
We stole the flag from Holland and removed the blue bit (to make us unique)
Always left off maps of the world! also a small but fat flightless bird
Hahaha I didn't think of a dodo!
Load More Replies...Everybody loves sweet-style Spaghetti with a lot of red hotdogs!
US is our p**n. The oldest officials at White House were from here, we helped electing Nixon and then bashed him (since he was ours) and Trump was our agent. US might have CIA, but we have the things that matter - the White House. We are also a model for your officials and even a cultural trend - VSCO girls (a cartoonish copy of our society in the 1940s-2000s) would be nothing without Mario Badescu. Also, you remember the sudden outburst of irrationality, rape, violence and anti-intellectualism that started in the 1990s and keeps growing? Thank to the steroids produced under our security supervision and brought by the suitcase, and whose traffic was tolerated by authorities. We also stopped robbing banks when we could seize entire economic factors, but we'll make sure you focus on the small crime and prejudices, so people like us will prosper.
We love sugar in our foods. Guns in many homes. Healthcare is crippling.
Everything here is the "biggest", "tallest", "gold-est" and "first" in the world ... apparently we now have a building that is "the most beautiful building on Earth" 😂 🙄
Terrified of getting shot while trying to pass English.
When people for this country go into a shop to buy something, they ask it as a gift; think they are the greatest soccer players, but struggle to go to world cups. They believe they have the second most beautiful national anthem (no idea when the contest was or who won 1st and 3rd place) , and their current president is a pork shaped puppet
When people for this country go into a shop to buy something, they ask it as a gift; think they are the greatest soccer players, but struggle to go to world cups. They believe they have the second most beautiful national anthem (no idea when the contest was or who won 1st and 3rd place) , and their current president is a pork shaped puppet
Sweet Tea, Peaches, Biscuits, and Simply Southern
I’m 5 feet tall
Never be given any credit for fighting in the world wars but get trodden over by Russia and Germany (pole)
Btw I'm in Australia but going back to Poland tomorrow 11
Hey, It was the free Polish army that liberated my part of the country! They named a roundabout after them nearby... (edit) Here you go: https://www.google.nl/maps/@53.1478922,7.0247585,3a,15y,8.37h,86.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sThnKyRJNMzrvt_HORGxe-g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=nl
If I have a heart attack, call an Uber to get me to the hospital because I am NOT paying $2,688 for a ride in the wee-yoo wagon.
It's pronounced Broo-SKAY-tah and it's not garlic bread. Also fettuccine Alfredo it's not from here :-)
Over the last 5 years I've come to hate nearly half my country's population, thanks to their concerns over personal freedom over the health and well-being of the masses.
I'm a processing plant manager for a profitable biofuel company. I don't have health insurance. Nor dental. I'm a f****n mess, but they "appreciate" me...
no, my eyes are open. no, i'm not squinting. no, we do not eat our pets!!!!!!!! (like who even does that?)
You probably didn't have the time or energy to read this, but: MY FAVORITE RESTAURANT IS TX ROADHOUSE
I walked an extra block to avoid an irate goose.
Alright, this is more "guess my state" than "guess my country": When someone threatened us if we didn't give them a cannon, we said "COME AND TAKE IT YOU PIECES OF SH*T!!!"
When the power comes back on,the water gets cut off and when the water comes back on, its dirty
I once saw a cheeseburger with nacho sauce, pizza toppings, and two beef patties and there drink was a reeeaalllyy big cup of mountain dew. Also, my dad cut his finger up real bad, should've got stitches, couldn't because it was too expensive and we wouldn't be able to pay our bills.
From SouthAmerica, but not from Paraguay
Every day i wake up and ride a kangaroo to school
All day drinking, free medical help and a government that likes to party
Bears is our favorite nation animal. Fermented potatoes is our go-to drinks. Common misconception of stereotypes is the name Boris.
Would you happen to have a vodka sodden potato headed murderous war mongering despot who wont tolerate opposition for a president?
I don't follow the political stand-off. I'm over in USA. And I'm already getting targeted by people. Who assumes I'm with Putin
Load More Replies...Baldy heads, beer belly's, beans on toast.
We're the good guys. We're also the guys who will freeze your assets and let your people starve, but it's because we're the good guys protecting you from the bad guys.
I dont personally know someone who has had Covid-19... yet
We have trees poisonous enough to make you seriously ill, give you pain so bad that it can make some people suicidal,( the pain can last for months).
Used to be Ukraine
Pope Francis. And by the way, football is kind of a religion here.
Our country has always had two problems: roads and idiots... At least our ballet and our literature are worth admiring...
50% of this country is infested with racist, homophobic, Jesus-loving, uneducated, gun-toting hypocrites. Freedom!
Its cold and I dont like people.
Many think we are a big evil country but we haven’t really bombed anybody… Have to use a vpn for Google or YouTube though ( somehow bp is exempt. Thank Karl Marx.) We ride pandas to work. You may think we eat Panda Express but we don’t. We do have a lot of McDonalds and Starbucks though. Hotpot, dumplings. My language is really old but many of us can read scripts thousands of years ago, at least some of it. We don’t use cash or credit cards. Some people think stuffs made in my country are cheap and low quality (partially true because we are the worlds factory). We are not all communists but we don’t kill for beliefs, not any more. My grandma believes in local mythology, my mother is a Buddhist, my father and my sister are communists but they both partially believe in Taoist. I dont believe in any religion or communism. Oh, I have a Christian aunt. My people are becoming ignorant and arrogant, especially netizens. That’s about it…
OK, so it's obviously the PRC, but I'm really curious about not using cash or credit card...what do you use?
Would you like a cup of tea?
Nothing happened in Tiananmen square in 1989.
oooooh, some many things! I can ask a cop where the nearest brothel is whilst smoking a joint and they'll give directions. I'm never more than 500 meters from the nearest house or 20 kilometers from the nearest hospital. Most conservatives are still in favour of affordable healthcare, education, accessible abortions, euthanasia and same sex marriage. Most foreigners think that's because of tolerance eventhough it's really just apathy. Riding a bicycle is a cheap mode of transport, not a hobby. Some people live below sea level and pay exhorbitant amounts of money for it, eventhough houses are half as expensive just 30 minutes away. We're one of the largest exporter of agricultural products, eventhough we're the second most densely populated and one of the tiniest countries. We complain about everything but don't do anything about it. We're always ready to point the finger at all that's wrong with the world and have not a single ounce of self reflection. Oh, and hardly anybody wears cloggs or lives in a windmill.
Where everyone is polite and most folks own at least one gun😌 I think y'all will get ir
Thirty five cities named Liberty. A lady named Liberty. But it is only liberty if I don,t have to work for it
More thAN 29 languages are spoken in our country. And we live in a tropical country.
Singapore does not have 29 states and all of that
Load More Replies...I say put you hands up and fire my gun but the crowd joins okay sing to the tune of party in the USA
This land is stolen land this land was stolen by white men, from eathquakes to the hurricanes, from the burned out forest to the oil filled waters, this country was made for whiiiitte meeen
This could be USA just going by earthquake rockin west coast and hurricane hammered east coast, and all the forest waters and oil spills off the coast. The only other one I can guess would be Australia. But I couldn't read this without singing the tune.
This morning I had a breakfast of bacon, sausages, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread, tomatoes, fried egg, and baked beans. With a mug of tea.
The cup of tea sold it. Before that, I wasn't sure between UK an Ireland. But you said tea, not guiness, so...
Load More Replies...Curiously several of the ones apparently for the UK don't seem to be By someone in the UK. They asked for people to tell you you're from your country etc but these are bizarre stereotypes and some I can't even work out within it 🤷♀️
I noticed the same thing. Might be the TV Stereotype Effect?
Load More Replies...Our country’s flag in every classroom and we say the pledge everyday (🙄)
This morning I had a breakfast of bacon, sausages, mushrooms, black pudding, fried bread, tomatoes, fried egg, and baked beans. With a mug of tea.
The cup of tea sold it. Before that, I wasn't sure between UK an Ireland. But you said tea, not guiness, so...
Load More Replies...Curiously several of the ones apparently for the UK don't seem to be By someone in the UK. They asked for people to tell you you're from your country etc but these are bizarre stereotypes and some I can't even work out within it 🤷♀️
I noticed the same thing. Might be the TV Stereotype Effect?
Load More Replies...Our country’s flag in every classroom and we say the pledge everyday (🙄)
