Good writing. Kind of like looking at us from the outside and inside at the same time. And if someone talks about Canberra I'll be coming to change their position to the Great Sandy Desert.
Or that us Canadians ride around on horses in our Mountie uniforms all day, we always say EH!, its always snowing, and the moment you cross the border put on your Parkas!SODAssault said:The "Aussie bloke" stereotype is of a terribly likable, laid-back person. There are far worse ones to have, like "Norwegians will rape your women and pillage your villages", or "The Irish will get drunk at the first opportunity, beat their wives and start a riot in the streets over a soccer game that they won fairly". I should know, I'm both, and I get shit like this all the time.Labyrinth said:I will say this. I hate the "Aussie bloke" stereotype. With a fiery burning passion to be perfectly frank. It's really quite an obnoxious and bigoted image to have out there about most Australians.
And people wonder why I claim not to have a national identity..
Also, "Americans are fat." ...which is, well, sadly accurate. I've given up "scoping for chicks", as it were, because it always results in me seeing shit I do NOT want to see; every trip to the mall ends with me wishing for a gallon of brain bleach.