Not gonna lie, I knew that already but enjoy pointing out how thick your government is whenever possible.
It's pretty similar over here in England though a bit less obvious, all the major politicians went to the same schools and hung around with the same people.
It's quite sad how much of a farce democracy is, we're only really given the illusion of choice.
I'm going to have a crack at my home country. Why is Australia so against multiculturalism? Some people like it but some people have vast hatred with people from other countries. Why? It's not like they're invading or anything.
I think there is more than we want to recognise. Actually scratch that, I think that we know that we have a racism problem but simply choose to ignore it. Sometimes I honestly think people are as bad as the KKK just without the costumes. The Cronulla Riots spring to mind immediately because it was the focus of the show you mentioned. Remember the text messages that were found on most of the arrested rioters?
"This Sunday every Fucking Aussie in the shire, get down to North Cronulla to help support Leb and wog bashing day...Bring your mates down and let's show them this is our beach and they're never welcome back"
Oh and:
"Just a reminder that Cronulla's 1st wog bashing day is still on this Sunday. Chinks bashing day is on the 27th and the Jews are booked for early January"
I love how they have chucked in some anti-semitism as well. Love me some bogans...
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.
Very much agree with your first one, especially when they spout the 'Give peace a chance' motto while being the aggressive ones.
We will not hear the end of Scottish independence, Salmonman wants to keep the British monarch as Scottish head of state which is rather fair since the Queen is monarch of Scotland already.
My own country: England, why must you contain people like Nick Griffin?
Ireland, why does everyone love you when you had the IRA, a terrorist organisation that killed people yet isn't as hated as Al-Quaeda and even got funding from that 'Enemy of Terror' the USA.
USA: Why did you fund a Republican group and not realise they were terrorists? The American Taxpayer may not realise that their money helped fund terrorist attacks in the past.
I think there is more than we want to recognise. Actually scratch that, I think that we know that we have a racism problem but simply choose to ignore it. Sometimes I honestly think people are as bad as the KKK just without the costumes. The Cronulla Riots spring to mind immediately because it was the focus of the show you mentioned. Remember the text messages that were found on most of the arrested rioters?
"This Sunday every Fucking Aussie in the shire, get down to North Cronulla to help support Leb and wog bashing day...Bring your mates down and let's show them this is our beach and they're never welcome back"
Oh and:
"Just a reminder that Cronulla's 1st wog bashing day is still on this Sunday. Chinks bashing day is on the 27th and the Jews are booked for early January"
I love how they have chucked in some anti-semitism as well. Love me some bogans...
I will say (and I can't stress this enough that I'm not condoning what happned)
but I can kind of see why this happened, around that time there was still this fear of "muslims" in particular...things like burkas and all that I think (obviously 9/11 had something to do with it)
this Idea that they were secretly infiltrating our country...and soon were going to force our women to wear burkas and have under sharia law with the Taliban..and the media didn't exactly help, its ridiculous to think now but when I was a kid and with my parents....."they should all be bombed" wasn't anything odd (in defense my mum isnt racist...its the religion/culture thing..not saying its ok...well...I'll stop talking)
so thats one thing..but these messages are just pure racsim...and I'm actually a little surprised
I will say (and I can't stress this enough that I'm not condoning what happned)
but I can kind of see why this happened, around that time there was still this fear of "muslims" in particular...things like burkas and all that I think (obviously 9/11 had something to do with it)
this Idea that they were secretly infiltrating our country...and soon were going to force our women to wear burkas and have under sharia law with the Taliban..and the media didn't exactly help, its ridiculous to think now but when I was a kid and with my parents....."they should all be bombed" wasn't anything odd (in defense my mum isnt racist...its the religion/culture thing..not saying its ok...well...I'll stop talking)
so thats one thing..but these messages are just pure racsim...and I'm actually a little surprised
And that's the worst part... You aren't even that surprised at this behaviour. It actually saddens me that something like this happened in 2005 as well, I mean seriously? Australia is a very multi-cultural country and its only going to become more so, why even bother forming some 'crusade' against it if it bothers you so much? And in regards to your mum I can understand, it is definitely a 'sign of the times' thing, my grandparents are the same. My nanna always jokes that Muslims will give you a 'moozzie bite' if you get too close. Its all in jest but you can tell she isn't entirely joking.
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OT Mine's a continent-wide annoyance. Why can no one outside of the UK queue properly? ... They'll push right in front of you without batting an eyelid. I just can't understand how hard-faced you'd have to be to do that! And when they're forced to queue (like at an airport for instance) they have NO concept of personal space. The amount of times I've been in a slow moving queue and the people behind me have stood so close they're actually touching me is unbelievable. Eugh!
Oh my god this as well. I was in some Italian train station and these damn European tourists kept ramming me against the wall. Had to push back to be able to stand.
This is a failed attempt at queuing in all the other countries I've been to, which makes things awkward for everyone involved:
That's if the people in the queue are even attempting a line, and not just a jumbled mess. I think all non-Brits think it's a game where you've got to create a vacuum between you and the person in front's back.
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Personally, I have never, ever met a moral Italian gamer. I think they are the most morally wrong people on the planet for gaming based on past experiences. A German, Brit or a Frenchman might find a glitch and use it for a game (I don't. I actually turn against unfair-advantage-seeking team mates), but Italian will make it his life goal to exploit that one glitch in its most vulnerable form in every possible way he can, gathering Italian friends to join in too, relentlessly for hours upon hours of mundane glitch-doing just for the sake of doing it. Every time. I have rarely met an Italian who just sits down and plays fair game. That's probably why the Mafia is infamous for what it is, and of Italian origin and not some other country's.
Other stereotypes I've created over the years for gaming online (NOT IRL! People behave differently when they're gaming!):
US ignorance is unrivalled. You play their connection, (with lag delay thanks to the Atlantic and stuff) to only just lose, and get told your shit. Anything you send back, anything at all, falls on deaf ears to a repeated onslaught of trashtalk. I savour the days I play with/against genuinely remorseful US gamers.
French arrogance is top-notch. You beat them and get a slew of hate mail, to which all of your replies are stunted by unintelligible, lackluster insults. Makes me wish I was being insulted by an american, because at least it's comprehensible and -sometimes- clever. A strong correlation I have noticed with French gamers also, is camping. If 10 people are camping in a team throughout an entire online match on ANY FPS. I woudl bet money on it that 50%+ are French.
...and Germans are too good at games for their own good.
Scandinavian countries are littered with exceptionally good players, like the Germans, possibly even better - but if there's one running trend I've noticed, it's that they will do ANYTHING to gain that unfair advantage over opposing players. Anything. Including team killing. If your team is made of Scandinavians, you will win - but you will be turned on for the best equipment/spots/weapons/times etc.
The ONLY country I don't hold an online gaming stereotypical grudge against is Greece. I do enjoy myself a Greek in a game, on either my side or against.
Other Brits seem to be the most polite. A few that I've had heated arguments with have apologised for their knob-headedness surrounding gaming, which is a few more than any other country. But we can certainly raise our hand and say we're the most liable for our under-aged playing rated games: "Those squealers? Yep, they're ours. Sorry internet".
To be perfectly honest, we might be the worst country. We aren't specialised in any particular douche-baggary online, but we're proficient in all of them. Glitching, rage inducing, hating, trash talking, dodgy connections, inhumanly skilled players, the lot.
So on behalf of the considerate British gamer, I apologise.
Right then time to bash the homeland. I live in the countryside in Ireland so the attitudes I'm about to rail against are more prevalent here. Warning, a large amount of swearing to follow.
Ahem.
People of rural Ireland, WILL YOU STOP GOING ON ABOUT THE FUCKING BRITISH ALREADY! THE COUNTRIES SEPARATED NINETY FUCKING YEARS AGO, GET THE FUCK OVER IT!
HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT WRONG JUST BECAUSE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYS IT IS!
AND STOP JUDGING PEOPLE JUST BASED ON THE FACT THAT THEY ARE FOREIGN! YOU DON'T FUCKING KNOW THEM OR WHAT THEY'RE LIKE!
AND YES, IT RAINS A LOT, YOU HAVE LIVED YOUR ENTIRE LIVES IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU KNOW WHAT THE WEATHER IS LIKE, STOP GIVING OUT ABOUT IT!
Whew, glad I got that out of my system.
And lastly to the government, Irish is a dead language. Forcing us to learn it is not going to revive it. Just let it go the way of Latin, die a dignified death, and be studied by those who actually want to learn it. This way those who come after this generation will have more time for useful things, like science, or foreign languages. You know, those other languages that are actually of some fucking use.
I personally hate when Americans ***** and moan about someone "taking away their freedoms" (See Post [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.379494-What-do-you-think-of-a-ban-on-larger-size-drinks]). If taking away a fucking 32 ounce drink is the end of the world then I don't want to live on this planet anymore. (BTW I'm American)
EDIT: I just had to add onto this. These fucking people are honestly baffling. You do not need a full liter of coke with your meal. I don't care what anyone says about it being their freedom to get that, a fucking liter is something you bring to a party of people and share around. You do not need a full liter with your meal EVER. No questions asked. I don't care if "the government is taking over our lives and the next step is Fahrenheit 451 style book burning totalitarian Nazi control". Get the fuck over yourself and learn to have a smaller size drink with your fucking quadruple patty Big Mac with 3 large fries. FUCK.
Yeah I needed to get that out. Sorry to anyone who got offended but FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKINGPEOPLEICANTSTANDTHEMSOMETIMES!!
I have the same problem with every country, why are they all so stupid? There's not a place on earth that I know of that doesn't have some easily solvable problem that's costing them ridiculous amounts of money and time to solve.
Well I have a major problem with my countrymen. While tourists will often go how friendly and warm people are here, when they visit...
...no. Many people here are incredibly prone to gossip, meddling into one's neighbor's affairs, schadenfreude and hypocrisy and arbitrary circle drawing (and remember, if you're not in the circle, you are something despicable). However, that seems to be mostly the problem with the older folks so I'm hoping that such weirdness is going to die out...eventually.
This statement, if placed in the wrong hands, would open up a can of worms that destroys half of America. That one poor girl who got slandered across America for testifying that birth control pills are a valid medical concern? That was messed up. America has problems.
My gripes:
Mexicans for inspiring the garishly colorful paper accessories and blaring music found in every cheesy fake Mexican restaurant in America.
Parisians for being unsufferably stuck up douches. (All you non-Parisians are fine)
Americans for supporting the Budweiser corporation.
Greeks.
Serbians for the inexcusable atrocity that was GTA IV.
Y'know, I hate when this bullshit gets spouted. Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable! They made it so that the tomato sauce used on the pizza counts as one serving of vegetable so that schools in poorer districts could come up with the legally required 'balanced lunch' without having to take money out of other areas to cover the cost. Pizza also counts as a serving of dairy and grain(and protein if it's the kind with some type of meat on it), you gonna go spouting off that "OMAGOD PIZZA'S MILK AND BREAD NOW!!!1!!!11!" too? It really pisses me off. Congress goes and does something useful and get called idiots for it.
Except that it isn't useful. For one thing, the pizza sauce typically used in school lunch pizza is pretty goddamn far removed from actually eating a tomato, and it's most certainly not good for you compared to an actual serving of vegetables. It may be "fixing" a funding problem, but it's sweeping a fairly major health problem, one that's getting worse and worse over time and will eventually cost us WAY more than those balanced lunches, under the rug. If you want people to actually eat healthier it doesn't help to classify foods that are ostensibly vegetables, dairy, grain, or whatever as healthy while completely ignoring all of the other aspects of the food that are horrible for you. By calling pizza sauce a vegetable, you're pretty much creating precedent to call almost anything a healthy food.
Alright, my own complaint. What the fuck is it with Italians and punctuality? I know lots of Italians and a few of them are good buddies of mine, but it's like the bastards have never even heard of clocks. I have never known an Italian who can reliably show up, on time, anywhere. And they just don't even seem to get that it's kind of inconsiderate when they ask you to wait for them somewhere, with nothing to do but twirl your thumbs, and they show up 20 minutes later. And then they give you an excuse like: "I know, but I was eating this really good salad, and just couldn't stop!" And I'm not even making this up, that's what he said. *Sigh* Italians.
I'm with you 100% of the way. If you ever want to do something with Italian friends always tell them half an hour earlier and then maybe, maaaaaaybe they'll be on time. Although I've also never come across a flakier nation either - half the time people just don't turn up at all and ring you 3 hours later with a 'dog ate my homework' style excuse. I live/work in Italy and making any serious, concrete plans with anyone is completely futile!
OT Mine's a continent-wide annoyance. Why can no one outside of the UK queue properly? Italy, Scandanavia, all the countries I've visited/lived in have some serious queuing problems. They'll push right in front of you without batting an eyelid. I just can't understand how hard-faced you'd have to be to do that! And when they're forced to queue (like at an airport for instance) they have NO concept of personal space. The amount of times I've been in a slow moving queue and the people behind me have stood so close they're actually touching me is unbelievable. Eugh!
Hmm I think Swedish people are pretty good at queuing since pretty much all places have a ticket machines and you simply get a number and then wait until its your turn but perhaps that varies a lot depending on where in Sweden you live
http://www.thelocal.se/23570/20091130/
OT: I hate all the stupid politicians that exist in every single country and I fucking hate Russian players in MOBA games
Wales: Why do you not use the land you have? I've been there twice now, and I've only driven through a total of 3 small villages. Not bad to say that both times were to the coast. I mean, sure be eco-friendly and all, but it doesn't count if you're making people drive 5 miles to the nearest city for work. There are wayyy too many fields in Wales. Way too many. (On the up side, the coast is utterly b-e-a-utiful. Shame the locals are boring.)
Reading all the stuff that bothers other people about different countries is making me realize that all that shit bothers me too. I've come to the conclusion that its not individual countries that have things that bother, it's people as a whole. Fuck I hate people so much. I'm not anti social and I do leave my house if that comment made it seem otherwise, but holy fucking shit I hate people so much. I swear every time I play a video game online the one weak link between me and having fun is 100% of the time the people being fucking twats and just trolling in every way they can.
I also hate when people can't take responsibility over their own actions or just act childish and stupid when they don't get their way. Example: The people in the US who are constantly saying that "Obama hasn't done anything!", no you fucking morons, this country's political structure follows a series of checks and balances. Obama first has to go through the House and Congress to get shit passes, AND WHEN THE FUCKING REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE THAT ARE THROWING A ***** FIT THAT MCCAIN DIDN'T GET ELECTED DON'T WANT SOMETHING TO GET PASSED THEN THEY DON'T PASS IT BECAUSE A DEMOCRAT PROPOSED IT! SO TELL ME AGAIN HOW IT'S OBAMA'S DOING THAT NOTHING IS GETTING DONE AND NOT THE FUCKWADS WHO ARE THROWING A ***** FIT AND NOT PASSING LAWS JUST TO MAKE A POINT! Fuck me people are stupid.
What do I hate about countries in general? I guess Patriotism, the divide.
It's all well and good being very comfertable and proud of the place you call home, but to call out other peoples countries in a negative way with nothing but shameful ignorance towards a fellow human being.
England rotating a boat is not entertainment. Also "fireworks", "firework" learn the difference.
I was watching something on the queen of England's birthday or something and it was just sad. Although that could have been because it was on CNN. I am going with 50/50, you share some of the blame England.
I'm going to have a crack at my home country. Why is Australia so against multiculturalism? Some people like it but some people have vast hatred with people from other countries. Why? It's not like they're invading or anything.
Oh wait you mean small, insignificant things. Well then, I really don't like how Brazil makes you wear speedos to a beach.
I keep forgetting you're Australian. The stereotype for you is you're all outgoing, and yet in you I've always seen an admirable amount of loathing of others.
OT: My own: Britain. Not enough of us live up to our cool stereotypes these days.
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