Stupid things you hate about countries

[ElPatron]

dunno what you mean by your next paragraph.

it's not just London, people in city's are less patient and ruder

My city is only 500,000 big, so probably I'm just not used to it.

lol, the other paragraph was a testimony of my experience arguing against their "general population". Apparently if you listen to Nine Inch Nails the League of British Youtubers by Royal Appointment (or something like that) will have no problem insulting your sexuality.

The most ironic thing about it is that the "average" British homemade porn is less vanilla than North American. Anyone who follows Zero Punctuation: this is your cue to make a joke about repressed sexuality.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

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

I completely agree. Hell, I'm from America, and I still feel like someone's ramming a steel wool-covered finger in my ear whenever I hear a heavy souther drawl.

OT: Being rather young, I have yet to travel to another country, so I'll have to stick to America for this one; I find the degree to which some fans of American football get so emotionally invested in it. Whenever one of my friends loudly cheers "We won, we won!", I almost always make a point to say "No, they won, you watched" (Courtesy of Jerry Seinfeld)

 

[Psychedelic Spartan]

Tea really isn't that good. But the amount people drink here in the UK is ridiculous, you'd think it was free alcohol or something, when it actually just tastes like watered-down water.

DOn't let daystar hear that or you're screwed
OT: It's only in Baltimore, which is where I live. People are obsessed with a seasoning called Old Bay. It tastes like salty salt. I preferred living in NYC.

Don't you have bigger things to worry about in Baltimore "hun"?

Sorry my thing is the "Hun" culture in B-More, I can't stand that especially after seeing the "Kitchen Nightmares" where Ramsey goes to Baltimore. How bad can we look?!

For other countries...I got nothing

Surprisingly, I've never heard anyone say hun. It's odd, I know it's supposed to be a big thing, but it's not.

 

[Tiger King]

dunno what you mean by your next paragraph.

it's not just London, people in city's are less patient and ruder

My city is only 500,000 big, so probably I'm just not used to it.

lol, the other paragraph was a testimony of my experience arguing against their "general population". Apparently if you listen to Nine Inch Nails the League of British Youtubers by Royal Appointment (or something like that) will have no problem insulting your sexuality.

The most ironic thing about it is that the "average" British homemade porn is less vanilla than North American. Anyone who follows Zero Punctuation: this is your cue to make a joke about repressed sexuality.

yeah those people aren't metal fans so you can't expect anything but criticism from them.

I don't think I've ever seen British porn, they are probably trying too hard to compete with the larger USA market or something ha ha

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Tea really isn't that good. But the amount people drink here in the UK is ridiculous, you'd think it was free alcohol or something, when it actually just tastes like watered-down water.

I say! As a Brit this both shocks and offends me! If you really think that's the case old chap, then you're clearly not drinking the right stuff.

My petty problem with my good old home of the United Kingdom - or rather, England, since this is a specifically English issue - is the massive cynicism that pervades that nation, especially as it festers alongside far-right nationalism and idiocy, particularly in my area.

It also gets on my nerves how this cynicism so quickly turns to absolute "My-Country-tis-of-thee" TRUE NATIONAL PRIDE I NEVER NOT SUPPORTED ENG-ER-LAAAND WOTCHA TALKIN' ABAARRRT YOU PANSY balls the second England qualified for the quarter finals of the Euro 2012 and suddenly every man and his dog who spouted hate about our national football team decided they'd always supported England all the time, dunno what you mean ovverwise guvnor.

Anyway, Rugby's better

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Wales is ruined by the people, the weather, the language, the cities and fact that I have to see it every day when I wake up. All of this spoils some rather wonderful landscape.

 

[DJjaffacake]

UK: does London have ANY trashcan? Do you people eat your trash or just throw it to the ground? Because it's really stinks when you are walking ALL day with a bag full of your own litter until you get to the inn's trashcan.

Heck, I asked a airport employee where were the trashcans and not even the people that work there can remember where they are.

Aha! I can explain this!

Basically, the IRA put bombs in bins (or trashcans) in the 80s (I think) and now they're pretty much non-existent in the centre of big cities like London because terrorism.

 

[GonvilleBromhead]

UK: does London have ANY trashcan? Do you people eat your trash or just throw it to the ground? Because it's really stinks when you are walking ALL day with a bag full of your own litter until you get to the inn's trashcan.

You can blame the IRA for that one - they had a tendency to put bombs in dustbins. They came back in the late 90's after the ceasefire, but went away after 9/11.

I (and I'd imagine other Brit's would have been) was rather more surprised to see dustbins were still present in LAX airport when I flew from there in December 2001

EDIT: Fiddlesticks, looks like Mr Jaffacakes and I typed our replies at more or less the same time!

 

[BlackStar42]

Sweden and their beautiful ladies, delicious meatballs and surströmming, all the damn blond people, all the DAMN CUCUMBERS.

Also, I'm incidentally Swedish.

I'll grant you the wimmens and meatballs, but surströmming sounds utterly revolting.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I can't say there's really anything in particular that bugs me about any specific foreign country.

But there's A LOT that bugs me about my country, the United States. If I were to create a list it'd probably be close to the length of an average novel. So in the spirit of brevity...

I'd don't care what you say, government... PIZZA IS -NOT- A VEGETABLE!

 

[ElPatron]

Basically, the IRA put bombs in bins (or trashcans) in the 80s (I think) and now they're pretty much non-existent in the centre of big cities like London because terrorism.

You can blame the IRA for that one - they had a tendency to put bombs in dustbins. They came back in the late 90's after the ceasefire, but went away after 9/11.

This piece of knowledge will kill at the parties. Awsum thnx

 

[commodore96]

Portugal and their Metro. I want it to run at full capacity just one day all day without striking.

 

[Nooh]

Sweden for their obsession with coffee and budget to spend more on immigration than on health care. Yeah, brilliant idea...

No, I don't drink coffee, and people look at me like I just killed a bunch of people when I tell them that.

 

[Penguinis Weirdus]

Tea really isn't that good. But the amount people drink here in the UK is ridiculous, you'd think it was free alcohol or something, when it actually just tastes like watered-down water.

I say! As a Brit this both shocks and offends me! If you really think that's the case old chap, then you're clearly not drinking the right stuff.

My petty problem with my good old home of the United Kingdom - or rather, England, since this is a specifically English issue - is the massive cynicism that pervades that nation, especially as it festers alongside far-right nationalism and idiocy, particularly in my area.

It also gets on my nerves how this cynicism so quickly turns to absolute "My-Country-tis-of-thee" TRUE NATIONAL PRIDE I NEVER NOT SUPPORTED ENG-ER-LAAAND WOTCHA TALKIN' ABAARRRT YOU PANSY balls the second England qualified for the quarter finals of the Euro 2012 and suddenly every man and his dog who spouted hate about our national football team decided they'd always supported England all the time, dunno what you mean ovverwise guvnor.

Anyway, Rugby's better

This is defiantly one of my biggest gripes with England. That and if your not a staunch royalist your a good for nothing oik who has no right to live here.

Oh and Scotland (mainly the nationalists) learn your bloody history. You made the fecking Union in 1603, Scottish landlords buggered up your clan system and the Jacobite rebellion had both English and Scottish combatants on both sides (as in Scottish troops fought for the King George and English Troops fought for Prince Charlie).

 

[Product Placement]

well time to bash ye olde motherland hm? Denmark, why cant you play football?

WTF? 9th place on the world series is not good enough for you?

Incidentally... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_iixmqSBQw]

 

[MrHide-Patten]

I hate that whenever I try to spell "Colour" on my iPod, it auto corrects it to crazy American; "Color". Would ya like to buy a vowel?

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Argentina - Enough with the Falklands already. You never owned it, it belongs to the UK fairly and the people who actually live there don't want you. Get over it.

Scotland - Enough with the English bashing. We get it, you don't like us. Hurry up get your independence so you can shut up about it.

England - Stop basing your opinions on what you read in the daily mail, you make us all look like racist dickheads

Wales - The language, I'm sorry but despite your efforts no one uses it. Maybe its time to let go.

Italy - How corrupt is your country? Your football league has had two match fixing scandals in 6 years. In addition Berlusconi has been voted in as prime minister three times! Three times! How corrupt are the rest of them if he won three elections?

France - I'm English, they're French. This needs no further explanation

Spain - How come your footballers are so much better than ours? D:

USA - Americans buy a globe and use it.

England[footnote]best hate on my own country again to balance this out[/footnote] - Socks with sandals. Stop it!

 

[Jamash]

Americans: Stop putting stupid people in charge of your country.

well cant really say that from a country who gave boris johnson power ( i know he isnt anything more than a mayor but still...)
EDIT: i suppose ill go with my own, why the neds scotland.... why?

Ok, I'll concede your point.

English people: Stop putting stupid people in charge of your cities!

We should split the difference and put the stupid person in charge of our capital city in charge of America... because since he was born in America and has citizenship, Boris could run for President.

Now there's an interesting thought, "President Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson"... he may have silly hair and a stupid voice, but at least he's White, Conservative, Christian and was born in America.

 

[auron200004]

Americans: Stop putting stupid people in charge of your country.

We are trying! Truly we are. The sad thing is: most of us somewhat decent and somewhat smart Americans are only a very tiny Minority among the sea of dumbasses.

OT: America, why you so dumb?

It's actually pretty obvious. The schools don't...educate, for lack of a better word, anymore. I am still in high school. I attend Honors courses and AP courses. When I look at the bare minimum amount of information that students need to learn to pass lower-level courses (and even some honors courses), I can only shake my head and sigh. Kids aren't learning anymore.

I understand that AP courses are supposed to be more rigorous, but I often find that they are the only classes where I actually learn things. We didn't, and I shit you not, even mention the electoral college system through all of school up until I was in AP American Government my junior year. That is unacceptable.

It may only be Missouri (where I'm from), but based on conversations I've shared with New York and California, we're one of the better off education systems. No Child Left Behind really screwed us as a people, and I stand by that statement.