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I know it's old, but i stumbled uppon it, and it's still hillarious big_smile


Top 10 Reasons For Being American

1. You can spell colour wrong and get away with it.

2. You can call Budweiser beer.

3. You can be a crook and still be president.

4. If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything.

5. If you can breathe you can get a gun.

6. You get to be really obese.

7. You can invent a new public holiday every year.

8. You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made any nobody seems to care.

9. You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy".

10. You can think you're the greatest nation on earth (but nobody else will agree)

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Australian

1. Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country for 40.000 years because you think it belongs to you.

2. Know your great-grand-dad was a murdering bastard that no civilised nation on earth wanted.

3. Annihilate England every time you play them at cricket.

4. Cricket captain not afraid to cry live on TV.

5. Tact and sensitivity.

6. Bondai Beach.

7. Other beaches.

8. Drinking cold lager on the beach.

9. Liberated attitude to homosexuals.

10. Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager on the beach.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Dutch

1. You can make jokes about the Belgians and still drink their beer.

2. Bikes are public property. Locks are a challenge.

3. You think you are a world power, but everyone else thinks Copenhagen is your capital...

4. You can get arrested for growing plants, but not for smoking them.

5. a. You can legally kill yourself.
b. You can legally be killed.

6. You're exactly like the Germans, except that nobody hates you.

7. You get to insult people and defend yourself by saying it's a national tradition.

8. You can put your finger in a dyke and it will save your country.

9. You live in the most densely populated country in Europe, and still you've never seen your neighbours.

10. If a war is started, blame the Germans. If the economy is bad, blame the Germans. If you lose your keys, blame the Germans.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Belgian

1. You get to speak three languages, but none of them intelligible.

2. If other countries want to fight a war, they will do it in your country.

3. You can brew drinks out of fruit, and still call it beer.

4. You are either:
a. Like the French, just less romantic;
b. Like the Dutch, just less efficient;
c. Like the Germans.

5. Great chocolate. Real mayonnaise. Decent fries. The best beer.

6. No one knows anything about you, except for the Dutch and French and they make fun of you.

7. You can drive like a maniac on the road and nobody cares.

8. More scandals in a week than any other country in a decade.

9. All your famous countrymen are either imaginary, or sex-offenders.

10. Face it. It's not really a country, is it?

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Canadian

1. It beats being an American.

2. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

3. You can play ice hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.

4. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

6. A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her popularity ratings will rise.

5. Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a canoe?

7. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

9. Own-an-Eskimo scheme.

8. Kill Grizzly bears with huge shotguns and cover your house in their skins.

10. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being English

1. Warm beer.

2. Two World Wars and One World Cup.

3. You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events.

4. You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket.

5. Union jack underpants.

6. You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.

7. Water shortages guaranteed every single summer.

8. Bathing once a week - whether you need to or not.

9. Ditto changing underwear.

10. Beats being Welsh or Scottish.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being French

1. When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay.

2. Experience the joy of winning the World Cup for the first time.

3. You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs.

4. If there's a war you can surrender really early.

5. You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.

6. You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries.

7. You can be ugly and still become a famous film star.

8. Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride.

9. You don't have to bother with toilets, just shit in the streets.

10. People think you're a great lover even when you're not.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being German

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Okay, give them a 2nd chance:

1. Oktoberfest.

2. Oktoberfest-beer.

3. VolksWagen.

4. BMW.

5. Mercedes.

6. Audi.

7. You think Sauerkraut is delicious.

8. In-built sense of pacifism.

9. On a highway you can travel at a speed that would bring you to jail in any other country of the world.

10. Contrary to common belief laughing is not forbidden by law (yet).

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Greek

1. The police are even more corrupt than the criminals they are supposed to be chasing.

2. You get to shout about your culture although the only real culture most Greeks have is what is growing between their toes.

3. You can blow your nose in the street by pinching it between the thumb and forefinger and trumpeting forth without everyone around retching their stomach contents up at the sight.

4. Old women can sport moustaches.

5. Young women can sport moustaches.

6. You get to call the bouzouki a musical instrument when the rest of the world sees it as an instrument of torture.

7. Men can be hairier than the average grizzly bear and not get put in a zoo.

8. You are the only nation to have lost its marbles and still wants to let everyone else around the world know about it.

9. Nana Mouskouri and Demis Roussos.

10. Ridiculous bureaucracy.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Indian

1. Chicken Madras & Cobra Lager.

2. Chicken Tikka Masala & Cobra Lager.

3. Chicken Dopiaza & Cobra Lager.

4. Meat Boona & Cobra Lager.

5. Onion Bhaji & Cobra Lager.

6. Lamb Passanda & Cobra Lager.

7. Popadoms & Cobra Lager.

8. Bombay Potato & Cobra Lager.

9. Rogan Josh & Kingfisher Lager.

10. Aggravate everyone else by shaking your head when talking & Cobra Lager of course.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Irish

1. Stew.

2. Guinness.

3. More Guinness.

4. Pubs never close.

5. Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.

6. No one can ever remember the night before.

7. Kill people you don't agree with.

8. 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.

9. You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.

10. Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Italian

1. Unembarrassed to wear fur.

2. No need to worry about tax returns.

3. Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair.

4. Country run by Sicilian murderers.

5. Glorious military history prior to about 400 A.D.

6. Political stability.

7. Flexible working hours.

8. Live near the Pope.

9. In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes.

10. Can wear sunglasses inside.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Norwegian

1. You get to hate the Swedes and beat the Brazilians in football.

2. You live in total freezing darkness half the year and get 24 hour ozone-hole radiation the other half.

3. You can kill baby seals and eat Rudolf the Reindeer.

4. You can get capital punishment for smoking dope.

5. You have to be a woman to get anywhere.

6. You can go skiing in your knickers.

7. You get to pay the highest taxes in the world.

8. You don't need to worry about land prices rocketing - its fairly spacious.

9. When abroad you can impress people you meet with stories about killing polar bears and shagging penguins - and they believe you.

10. You can actually get bored with blondes.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Scottish

1. You ain't English!

2. You ain't English!

3. You ain't English!

4. You ain't English!

5. You ain't English!

6. You ain't English!

7. You ain't English!

8. You ain't English!

9. You ain't English!

10. You ain't English!

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Spanish

1. The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees.

2. The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans.

3. Glorious history of killing South American tribes.

4. You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits, etc.

5. Honesty.

6. Gibraltar.

7. Everybody else makes crap paella and claims it's the real thing.

8. Supported Argentina in Falklands War.

9. Only sure way of bedding a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes and risk your life in front of bulls.

10. You get to eat bull's testicles.

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Welsh

1.  You've got to be having a laugh!?

NEE NAW NEE NAW

Primo

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yikes

we let the canucks into DC

and I wish they'd burn it again, with everybody in it.

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Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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yeah I said that on the fourth of july

heil obama

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Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

4 (edited by avogadro 04-Jul-2009 23:11:59)

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are any of these supposed to be funny?

btw "2. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground." that was Britain....

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I thought many were funny

And it was canuck regiments under british bastards

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

6 (edited by avogadro 05-Jul-2009 00:18:08)

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the thing said the only country to, Canada was part of Britain at the time, Britain was the country to do it. and claiming accomplishments for your country before your country existed is stupid; its like Americans bragging about the French Indian War and how we pwned Canada and France, when we were only a colony of Britain, and Canada was only a colony of France. Americans never bring up pwning the French in that war, despite our dislike for the french and that being the only time we had anything to do with them getting pwned, simply because we were part of Britain when we did it, we give them the credit.

as for whether they are funny, there was nothing clever and few attempts at being clever, but mere reciting of stereotypes from different nationalities.

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Add a New Zealand PRIMO!!

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"

Metrex

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we were not a part of the UK, we didn't get seats in parliament nor were we governed by Lords Lieutenant, we were separate possessions either governed by a charter like Pennsylvania or a Royal Governor.

the USA didnt exist at the time of the French-Indian war but the colonies did, and there's plenty of bragging about what colonial regiments did against the french and indians.

US also beat the French in an undeclared naval war in 1800 and we whupped Vichy France in north africa in 1942

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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"Top 10 Reasons For Being German"

Whenever some german says to you and whatever their country did since WWII, you think (while listening to them):
Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler.

God: Behold ye angels, I have created the ass.. Throughout the ages to come men and women shall grab hold of these and shout my name...

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well until 1931 we were still ruled by the british parliament and we weren't our own truly self-sufficient country until 1982 so does that mean that our accomplishments during WW1 and WW2 weren't our own but British ones?

Yes,Yes,Yes, I'm the one that's been killing all those people, but i'm also the creative force behind Happy Noodle Boy,So forgive me and shut up - Johnny

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<+Zarf_BeebleBrix> we have a schitzophrenic underaged queen attempting to assassinate a whoremonger king while getting around cowbell-wearing knights...

11 (edited by Kelivut 05-Jul-2009 04:09:38)

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Germany was ruled by Prussia before and during WWI.  Plus, they were not completely in the wrong, just stupid.

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Um what weren't they wrong about?

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Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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that world domination is not wrong per se.

Elrohir
"Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.."

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"Germany was ruled by Prussia before and during WWI.  Plus, they were not completely in the wrong, just stupid."

You have no idea how oversimplified that is. tongue

God: Behold ye angels, I have created the ass.. Throughout the ages to come men and women shall grab hold of these and shout my name...

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lol funneh tongue i d like to see lists on kiwi's tongue and china tongue and russia tongue and loads more tongue

(other people: stop crying already 8-) )

till the end of time..

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Well they wanted a united europe and we all know how that's turned out

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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During WWI? Hello?

God: Behold ye angels, I have created the ass.. Throughout the ages to come men and women shall grab hold of these and shout my name...

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kiwis ftw!

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh!"

Metrex

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Australian

> 1. Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country for 40.000 years because you think it belongs to you.

lol. So because they were there first, it belongs to them?

> 2. Know your great-grand-dad was a murdering bastard that no civilised nation on earth wanted.

Or he stole a loaf of bread. Or he as an immigrant...

> 3. Annihilate England every time you play them at cricket.

Cricket is gay.

> 4. Cricket captain not afraid to cry live on TV.

Cricket is gay.

> 5. Tact and sensitivity.

Huh?

> 6. Bondai Beach.

Lame bogan/shark infested waters.

> 7. Other beaches.

Yay.

> 8. Drinking cold lager on the beach.

Beer tastes like cold piss.

> 9. Liberated attitude to homosexuals.

Gay.

> 10. Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager on the beach.

Read #8



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Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
Linda: It's a 't'. It goes "tuh".
Morbo: Hello, little man. I will destroy you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE

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Skoe's an afrikaaner spy!!!

The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.

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> Skoe's an afrikaaner spy!!!

*Shifty Eyes*

Morbo: Morbo can't understand his teleprompter. He forgot how you say that letter that looks like a man with a hat.
Linda: It's a 't'. It goes "tuh".
Morbo: Hello, little man. I will destroy you!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpP7b2lUxVE

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> Wild Flower Soul wrote:

> "Top 10 Reasons For Being German"

Whenever some german says to you and whatever their country did since WWII, you think (while listening to them):
Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. <


It's not just me then? wink

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Top 10 Reasons For Being Russian

1 Vodka
2 Sauna, and Vodka
3 Sauna, Vodka, and rolling around in the snow, naked.
4 Country so massive it spans 12 hours
5 Army so massive they never need to worry about being flanked
6 Women so massive they never need to worry about being raped
7 Men so unhealthy they're dead by 55
8 Leader so evil he has his own puppet
9 Leader so evil he has his own theme tune
10 You have an actual nuclear death zone, which will come in handy for the movie business in about 10,000 years.

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

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>9. You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy".

That's so unbelievably true. I've called at least 3 people 'buddy' today and it's just a little after noon.

Rehabilitated IC developer

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I am not your buddy, friend!

Elrohir
"Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.."

25 (edited by avogadro 06-Jul-2009 22:24:29)

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> Alch wrote:

> well until 1931 we were still ruled by the british parliament and we weren't our own truly self-sufficient country until 1982 so does that mean that our accomplishments during WW1 and WW2 weren't our own but British ones?


back when you were still ruled by british parliament, i dont see how you could take credit for accomplishments, and im not familiar with the amount of power Canadians had between 1931-1982; but obviously when your region is ruled by 1 country, and you're following instruction from that country, you are working as part of the gears in the machinery of that country; the achievement is of that country, not your region. That is why during WWII the French cant take pride of pwning the British in certain battles when they were ruled by the Germans, but they can take pride in Pwning the Germans when they were ruled by the Germans, because their attacks on Germany, was their region's actions, not the actions of an arm of the German government, while the Pwning of British troops may of taken place in France, and in some isntances might of primarily consisted of French troops, but were the actions of the German government.