[SOC] Something for all

[Bill Cunningham]

Having spent a few years on the ABCA circuit, this hits pretty lose to more
than one home.


>
> Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Brits when abroad.
> Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when
> abroad.
> Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.
> Brits: Can't possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.
>
> ***
> Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.
> Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to
your
> club.
> Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of
> themselves.
> Canadians: Believe that that's the government's job.
>
> ***
> Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.
> Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic to
the
> point of blindness.
> Canadians: Can't agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be
> bothered to sing them.
> Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform the
> anthem.
>
> ***
> Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.
> Canadians: Don't, but only because they can't get more American channels.
> Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.
> Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no one there watches, to
> Britain, where everybody loves them.
>
> ***
> Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball and
> basketball.
> Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.
> Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey and how
> they beat the Americans twice at baseball.
> Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Brits in every
> sport they play them in.
>
> ***
> Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it "English."
> Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it "English."
> Canadians: Spell like Brits, pronounce like Americans.
> Aussies: Add "G'day," "mate" and a heavy accent to everything they say in
an
> attempt to get laid.
>
> ***
> Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an
island.
> Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an
> island.
> Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas and liquor in
a
> backwards country.
> Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas and liquor in
a
> backwards country.
>
> ***
> Americans: Drink weak, urine-tasting beer.
> Canadians: Drink strong, urine-tasting beer.
> Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting urine.
> Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
>
> ***
> Americans: Seem to think that poverty and failure are morally suspect.
> Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
> Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are
> inherited things.
> Aussies: Seem to think that none of that matters after several beers.
>