EURO -THINGS THAT AMERICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND.........

[caucajun]

FOR INSTANCE..........THE "NETHERLANDS"...........ARE IN THE "NORTH".....RIGHT

BUT, IF I TALK ABOUT MY "NETHER-REGION"........I'M DEFINITLY ALLUDING "SOUTHWARD".



HMMMMM.........WHASSUP WID DAT?


BTW: STLL DIGGIN' MY PRESTIGE 250. I'M GETTING A "78 LES AUL RECORDING TO KEEP IT COMPANY.

CHAIRS!

[corsair]

Hmmm - Kiwis just call The Netherlands Holland, and the nether regions would be your genitals?! Simple really!!

[Warrn]

I always found it amusing that a country would have "The" as part of its name. I only just realized that the USA does as well.

[corsair]

And if you wanna get technical, there's 'The Gambia', 'The Turks and Cocos Islands", 'The Maldives', 'The Virgin Islands'..... stop sniggering, you yobs!!

[Barry]

Hmmm - Kiwis just call The Netherlands Holland, and the nether regions would be your genitals?! Simple really!!

What he said. Same in Canada AFAIK.

Canadians are in a strange cultural pocket, neither Amercian nor European but with historical influences from both. And these days we're now also bombarded by the rest of the world! Identity crisis? What identity crisis?

(I have a feeling this thread might grow some legs... )

[corsair]

(I have a feeling this thread might grow some legs... )

No surprises there...

[norfolkngood]

I'm going to be really well behaved on this topic. I've been booked onto an "equality and diversity" course at work so I shall be a model of political correctness from now on (this will mean bugger all except to UK members, especially those unfortunate enough to work in the public sector)

[Barry]

Screw PC. Let 'er rip!

[grogg]

Just noticed I am now a "senior member", can I appeal?

[Barry]

Just noticed I am now a "senior member", can I appeal?

Nope. Grow old gracefully and take yer fish oil like the rest of us!

[corsair]

I'm going to be really well behaved on this topic. I've been booked onto an "equality and diversity" course at work so I shall be a model of political correctness from now on (this will mean bugger all except to UK members, especially those unfortunate enough to work in the public sector)

No no no no.... NZ also has the PC police in full force, which is why we're getting the flock out of Dodge!!!

[Bunyip]

In Australia, of course, we have no correct politicians to speak of.

[Barry]

...No no no no.... NZ also has the PC police in full force, which is why we're getting the flock out of Dodge!!!...

And into PC City, Canada... Beware the Human Rights Commission! The lunatics are running the asylum here too!

[Frenchy]

Canada... Beware the Human Rights Commission! The lunatics are running the asylum here too!

Now, now Barry, that is "the mentaly disturbed are running the asylum".....

P.

[Barry]

...Now, now Barry, that is "the mentaly disturbed are running the asylum"....

The PC version would be more like,
"the intellectually challenged are realizing their potential for self governance in their habitat."

(I'm getting a headache.)

[Frenchy]

Good one Barry.....

Still have a hard time with English.....

P.

[corsair]

...Now, now Barry, that is "the mentally disturbed are running the asylum"....

The PC version would be more like,
"the intellectually challenged are realizing their potential for self governance in their habitat."

Doesn't s*it like like, and the waffle of spin doctors, just rip yer undies?! Oxygen thieves, all....

[Frenchy]

Have to tell you, lately, I just dont understand anything Euro.....

Have a hard time understanthing things here to begin with let alone from another country and mentality....LOL.... Also the fact that I translate from french to English does not help.... Some things do not translate well or come across wrong....

[grogg]

A long while ago, while working in the US, a colleague of mine asked the secretary, in an open plan office, if she had a rubber. Some staring and jaw dropping from the locals, red faces all round.

Again in a bar in the US a British colleague said he could murder an Indian, caused a fair bit of mayhem.

Whats the similarity between sex in a canoe and US beer...
theyre both f...ing close to water. boom boom.

[Barry]

...Whats the similarity between sex in a canoe and US beer...
theyre both f...ing close to water. boom boom.

exactly!

What is it with US beer anyway?
And I don't get "lite beer" either!
Anything less than 5% is just barely flavoured H2O. Gotta be red or dark to have both taste and kick!

Barkeep! A round of real beer fer me and my Westie crew here!
Put it on Corsair's tab.