Stupid things you hate about countries

[Allar]

I really hate how smug a lot of us Canadians are in terms of the U.S. We're so confident that we're better than Americans because of how inoffensive we are internationally (at least comparatively) that blatant anti-Americanism for its own sake is ok. There are so many people around here who abhor the idea of judging somebody else based on superficial characteristics that they have no control over...unless you're an American in which case stereotyping is totally ok.

By that same token though, it's really irritating how frequently I've run into Americans that have zero respect for Canada, the key word being respect not fondness. Of course we're nowhere near as powerful by any measure as the United States but a little respect for your largest trading partner and one of the largest suppliers of things like oil and fresh water would be nice.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

I really enjoy herbal tea & jasmine tea, I've just never got why anyone would like to drink plain British tea.

Coffee should be our national beverage, we should be enforcing every child from the age of 8+ to drink at least two cups every day, to go along with our new curriculum.

Ok, maybe that's not a great idea, but coffee will always remain superior to tea, and British stereotypes should change accordingly.

It's just like were speaking 2 different languages here, I just can't comprehend this

 

[Kennetic]

My petty problem with the USA: I can't stand Southern accents. They annoy the hell out of me.

Hey, y'all watch yourself talking bout my people ya'hear!

 

[shrekfan246]

OT: I hate that the UK and the US are 2 countries seperated by a common language...

Seriously... Australia speak the same as us in the UK, and have very similar terms for things! However the US seem to rename/respell things for the sake of renaming/respelling them! Some of it is just stupid! Like 'biscuit'... seriously!? And Aluminium/Aluminum... Why!?

To make a less serious counterpoint than the other people who have already quoted you...

"Aluminium" just sounds bad when our stupid American accents try to say it. And Firefox agrees that it's not a word.

I love Americans but some of them do like to pronounce all their sentances like a question?

It makes me want to set fire to their genitals?

OT: Well, I doubt this is specific to the US, but there are a lot of people around who just simply should not be driving vehicles that weigh a few thousand pounds. People weaving in and out of traffic, people zooming by you going 90 mi/h when the speed limit is 65, people who ride your bumper and act like they're in a huge hurry to get into a car accident.

Also, the US being just about the only country in the world to not use the metric system. WTF, us?

 

[Kennetic]

My petty problem with the USA: I can't stand Southern accents. They annoy the hell out of me.

Hey, y'all watch yourself talking bout my people ya'hear!

Now skeeter he ain't hurting nobody

But Clem, I just wanted to wave my shotgun around...

 

[MetalMagpie]

In America, supermarket sliced bread is sweet. Properly sugary sweet. The memory alone makes me feel ill. I don't know how anyone can have a savoury sandwich on that stuff.

*shudder*

In fact, most supermarket food in the USA is a lot sweeter than I expect it to be.

 

[Jazoni89]

In America, supermarket sliced bread is sweet. Properly sugary sweet. The memory alone makes me feel ill. I don't know how anyone can have a savoury sandwich on that stuff.

*shudder*

In fact, most supermarket food in the USA is a lot sweeter than I expect it to be.

Yeah, I've heard that American Bread blows hard.

We should just give all our Hovis to them, just so they can find out what proper bread taste like.

Or hell, even some French Bread.

Also, give them some proper cheese, you know the stuff that doesn't have artificial flavours out the wazoo. Cheese in a god damn can, CHEESE IN A GOD DAMN CAN!

:Facepalm:

 

[Zef Otter]

In America, supermarket sliced bread is sweet. Properly sugary sweet. The memory alone makes me feel ill. I don't know how anyone can have a savoury sandwich on that stuff.

*shudder*

In fact, most supermarket food in the USA is a lot sweeter than I expect it to be.

Yeah, I've heard that American Bread blows hard.

We should just give all our Hovis to them, just so they can find out what proper bread taste like.

Or hell, even some French Bread.

Also, give them some proper cheese, you knows the stuff that doesn't have artificial flavours out the wazoo. Cheese in a god damn can, CHEESE IN A GOD DAMN CAN!

:Facepalm:

Yah... most of that stuff is cheap, gotta go higher for good food but hey at lest you had not seen something like this.

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/04/30/canned%20chicken%203.jpg

Whole

Chicken

In

a

can

 

[Jazoni89]

In America, supermarket sliced bread is sweet. Properly sugary sweet. The memory alone makes me feel ill. I don't know how anyone can have a savoury sandwich on that stuff.

*shudder*

In fact, most supermarket food in the USA is a lot sweeter than I expect it to be.

Yeah, I've heard that American Bread blows hard.

We should just give all our Hovis to them, just so they can find out what proper bread taste like.

Or hell, even some French Bread.

Also, give them some proper cheese, you knows the stuff that doesn't have artificial flavours out the wazoo. Cheese in a god damn can, CHEESE IN A GOD DAMN CAN!

:Facepalm:

Yah... most of that stuff is cheap, gotta go higher for good food but hey at lest you had not seen something like this.

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/04/30/canned%20chicken%203.jpg

Whole

Chicken

In

a

can

Even seeing that picture made me psychically ill. I fail to see how anyone wouldn't get food poisoning from that.

Their's got to be laws against that sort of thing, surely.

 

[Dangit2019]

"Red Solo Cup" by Toby Keith is officially the best un-ironic portrayal of everything wrong with American Southern/Country Music, or just the American South in general. If you live in Europe or something and have never heard of it, LOOK IT UP I BEG OF YOU. It's one of the worst songs to ever earn a profit.

You see, I live in Texas, and here, if you don't like country music you're essentially a pariah among your friends whenever the topic of music comes up.

 

[6urk17s]

Well, I do get annoyed a bit when Russians want to turn my country in to Little Russia. Some of them don't even bother to learn the native language and become politicians in the parliament.

Some don't even bother to earn citizenship and would rather go get the Russian one so they can go in to pension faster.

 

[MetalDooley]

Spain - Why are your people so loud?Can ye not talk at a normal volume rather than shouting at each other all the time?

Ireland(my country) - Stop complaining about the damn weather all the time Irish people.You live in Ireland.It rains a lot.You should be used to it by now so shut the hell up.Even worse are the people that complain when we get some rare good weather."It's too hot "...please,please just fuck off

 

[Dethenger]

In America, supermarket sliced bread is sweet. Properly sugary sweet. The memory alone makes me feel ill. I don't know how anyone can have a savoury sandwich on that stuff.

*shudder*

In fact, most supermarket food in the USA is a lot sweeter than I expect it to be.

Yeah, I've heard that American Bread blows hard.

We should just give all our Hovis to them, just so they can find out what proper bread taste like.

Or hell, even some French Bread.

Also, give them some proper cheese, you know the stuff that doesn't have artificial flavours out the wazoo. Cheese in a god damn can, CHEESE IN A GOD DAMN CAN!

:Facepalm:

You know those slices? They can't even call it cheese.
I'm not even kidding. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cheese]

Today's American cheese is generally no longer made from blended cheeses, but instead is manufactured from a set of ingredients such as milk, whey, milkfat, milk protein concentrate, whey protein concentrate, and salt. In the United States, it may not be legally sold as "cheese", and must be labeled as "processed cheese", "cheese product", or similar?e.g., "cheese food". At times even the word "cheese" is missing in the name on the label, e.g. "American slices" or "American singles."

Shit, same thing with Hershey's. [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26788143/ns/today-food/t/chocoholics-sour-new-hersheys-formula/#.T-NNRZG0KSo]

What's going on here? On Friday, TODAY consumer correspondent Janice Lieberman reported that Hershey's has switched to less expensive ingredients in several of its products. In particular, cocoa butter - the ingredient famous for giving chocolate its creamy, melt-in-your-mouth texture - has been replaced with vegetable oil.

Also, this kills me:

The removal of cocoa butter violates the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's definition of milk chocolate, so subtle changes have appeared on the labels of the Hershey's products with altered recipes. Products once labeled "milk chocolate" now say "chocolate candy," "made with chocolate" or "chocolatey."

And I thought this was a comedic exaggeration. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X08upzdwejg&feature=player_detailpage#t=174s]

 

[The Floating Nose]

Ok, im going to throw a rock at my own people in Quebec. The french accent that the people in Montreal have is really awful to listen to (but kind of funny). Oh yeah, and the french accent in New-Brunswick is impossible to understand.

 

[Arkley]

I hate how Argentina - or, at least, the Argentinian government - seems to think their country's close proximity to the Falkland Islands trumps the wishes of every single person who lives on the Falkland Islands when it comes to matters of the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

 

[Meight08]

What about all those Hasidic Jews who wear full suits in the desert.

Well... I guess we have those. But at least they don't get intense sunburn like the rest of us!
If you saw me shirtless you'd think that it's someone else's arms that are attached to me.

Memo to myself: File under plans to finance world domination.

Invent kosher sunblock.

You shall not get in my way!
*puts on hit list*

 

[White Lightning]

Australia, The fuck are you doing all the way over there?

 

[Joshey Woshey]

I hate the fact that the Labour party are meant to be the working class choice when they don't speak for the working class in the slightest.

I also hate how because of the Tories we have 6 police officers left in this country.

I also hate how English people are critised for having bad teeth because they don't glow in the dark.

 

[BlackStar42]

*Splurts out tea and monocle falls off face*
WHUT?!?!?

In all seriousness though, you must have been doing it wrong, if it just tastes like watered-down water. I know about 4 or 5 people that don't like tea, and as such are treated like heathens when they mention this. [sub]And rightly so.[/sub]

A lot of the time these people just aren't taught how to make a proper cup of tea, or the people in their family that made them tea and put them off it don't know how to make tea, OR THEY WEREN'T GIVEN ANY TEA AT ALL WHILE BEING RAISED IN THE UK, and it's just flat out wrong, it should be like, a mandatory part of primary school education to be taught how to make tea in just the right way.

I really enjoy herbal tea & jasmine tea, I've just never got why anyone would like to drink plain British tea.

Coffee should be our national beverage, we should be enforcing every child from the age of 8+ to drink at least two cups every day, to go along with our new curriculum.

Ok, maybe that's not a great idea, but coffee will always remain superior to tea, and British stereotypes should change accordingly.

I demand satisfaction for this insult, sir! Pistols at dawn!

I don't really hate the Americans for this per se, but it is a small niggle. Why do you come over here and then moan about the weather? We do it enough ourselves, you should have learned by now!

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

West-Europeans, can you hear me way up in your ivory tower? How is the weather up there? Smug?

God forbid that the US isn't exactly like Western Europe and that we have our own values and idea that might be something that West Europeans don't want for their own country.