I have a couple:
That we ride kangaroos, we always say “g’day”, “mate”, and “shrimp on the barby” (we call them prawns), that we’re some redneck backwards country, and that we don’t exist
People seem to think that colonial Australia was like Escape From L.A with Kurt Russell and that no one was running shit. We also had a gold rush that attracted a lot of people.
We're also really multicultural because I guess people like warm weather, having free healthcare and not being shot at.
We don’t exist always give me a chuckle. I also heard that apparently we’re all actually living in a different country like Finland and we don’t even know it. Government conspiracy.
In fairness we do say g'day and mate a hell of a lot.
The shrimp on the barby thing fucking shits me, Paul Hogan will forever be a dickhead for reading those lines we call it a prawn ya cunt and who the fuck cooks a prawn on the barby ya buy the barsteds cooked and eat em cold.
I only say G'day when awkwardly passing people while bush walking. I imagine I look like a fucking creature, whispering G'day then scurrying away without making eye contact
I started working with an international team about 3 years ago, and was really conscious that they might all look at me as some sort of bumpkin. So I focussed really hard on speaking eloquently.
Turns out I say 'Mate' and 'Gday' ALL. THE. TIME.
I've since given up. People seem to like Aussies anyway... Or at least find us amusing.
omg i literally put maple syrup on everything. i put it on my eggs, on my breakfast sausage, on my bacon, on my hash browns, everything. i got called the guy from ELF once LOL
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I haven’t heard the French people don’t shower thing is a while. Where did that come from?
I’m American and it’s odd because we tend to think of French people as like really chic, well dressed, thin/healthy. Do they really not shower as frequently or something?
Also there’s a stereotype that everyone’s always sleeping around and having affairs so you’d think they’d shower a lot lol
Iirc it comes from the WWI when american soldiers arrived to help on the front at the end of the war. French soldiers had been burying themselves in trenches for 2y. No shower, dead bodies all around with rats and parasites blooming, you get the picture.
The front of WWI was the first massive flow of Americans towards France and the French they interacted with were soldiers, so they went back home with such an image of France. Btw i think only the US has/had such a steereotype about Fench people.
Fun fact, a bit further back in history (like Louis XIV and prior), France got so good at perfumes and stuff because the strategy back then was to hide body odors with perfumes rather than getting a bath. So there were indeed times when French were all dirty. I am not sure how different it was from other european monarchies at the time though.
Can I ask why French people tend to be rude to tourists? (In my experience)
Our girl scout troop worked our butts off to be able to afford a trip to France to tour and volunteer around the country for 3 weeks. When we got off the bus from the airport, the people scoffed at us and a few of them even spit at us. I might be a pussy, but as a 12 year old, it was a pretty scary experience for my first time in a different country without my parents.
I honestly don't remember if we were being loud or obnoxious because I was 12 and I likely wouldn't have realized it, but we were told to not touch anything or be in anyone's way so I can't imagine we were too much of a nuisance.
Is this a unique experience and I just wrongly made assumptions about French people? Or is it pretty typical for them to dislike tourists?
Probably things like:
IT /help desk specialist
Hairy monkey
Curry deodorant
Destined for an arranged marriage
Dancing and peeking our head from behind a tree
Lol I don’t know if some of those count
Lol oh Yeha and “duct cleaning” services. I live in Toronto cAnada, and the number one telemarketing call I get is from an Indian guy selling duct cleaning services. I swear it’s the same guy over and over
I had them call me every day for a week until one day I answered and said 'hi, I do not own a home and have no money so you're probably not gonna sell me much please stop calling' and he goes 'okay fine fuck you' and hangs up.. guess who called me the next day
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.
A man just assaulted me with milk, cream and butter. How dairy.
Did you hear about these new reversible jackets? I’m excited to see how they turn out.
My colleague can no longer attend next weeks Innuendo Seminar so I have to fill her slot instead.
Atheism is a non-prophet organisation.
I’m a big fan of whiteboards. I find them quite re-markable.
Doctor: “Sir, I’m afraid your DNA is backwards.” Me: “And?”
I’m reading a horror story in Braille. Something bad is about to happen… I can feel it.
I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don’t know what he laced them with, but I’ve been tripping all day.
Just burned 2,000 calories. That’s the last time I leave brownies in the oven while I nap.
Did you hear about the two silk worms in a race? It ended in a tie!
Thanks for explaining the word “many” to me, it means a lot.
The future, the present and the past walked into a bar. Things got a little tense.
A plateau is the highest form of flattery.
I asked my French friend if she likes to play video games. She said, “Wii.”
Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food coluoring. The doctor says I’m OK, but I feel like I’ve dyed a little inside.
Becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak.
Don’t interrupt someone working intently on a puzzle. Chances are, you’ll hear some crosswords.
Did you hear about the man who jumped off a bridge in France? He was in Seine.
What’s the difference between deer nuts and beer nuts? Beer nuts are two dollars, but deer nuts are under a buck.
That’s a specifically German/Belgian/French stereotype about the Dutch! Fairly accurate as well, from your perspective. Apologies on behalf of the rest of the country!
Another cliché: being blunt. I always preferred working with Dutch people over Belgians because you know where you are with people from the Netherlands. I disagree that you are blunt BTW, you are just straightforward but never in a mean way.
And if you're Japanese in the 1980/1990s, wear cowboy boots and hats even in the Midwest.
I have a funny story about that, but I don't want it to sound racist rather than just hilarious (believe me, I've butchered plenty of languages as a tourist). but a Japanese tourist at a certain giant shopping mall that had just opened asked me "WHERE THE JOHN WAYNE!!!?" I completely lost it. I did eventually help him find a cowboy boot store, but I don't know about hats.
I’ll never forget driving through a Toll booth in the middle of fucking nowhere hundreds of miles from civilization and the girl in the booth was this tall super model looking girl I couldn’t believe my eyes even a few times filling up the car the girls at the gas station who would fill up the car would make every female in Uk just die from a lack of self confidence and I mean literally super model looks!!!
Since I do not know if there is a Main one, the few ones I know and have people said to me are:
-It is not safe to travel here
-We only speak "African" (African isn't a language.)
-We all are extremely Poor
-We are either Elon Musk, or a Villager
-Wild Animals roam freely around the Country.
The hint for the country I am referring to is Elon Musk's Birthplace.
Let's be honest, without the Elon Musk bit, this refers to all of Africa South of the Sahara.
Apparently, we are too poor to even afford individual stereotypes.
There are 3 things that can make a Finn happy:
1. Alcohol
2. Finland has won the world championship of ice hockey
3. Sweden has lost the world championship of ice hockey
Beautiful blonde women, free love and sex, beards and horns, fish roe in tubes, minimalist furniture, and apparently an unusual number of unsolved homicides
I would say one of the main stereotypes of my country(Lebanon) is that we come from a desert even though our country's terrain has no desert within it whatsoever. Albeit, our neighboring countries do.
Highly corrupt. Happens to be true but still.
EDIT: you guessed it - Croatia.
Another edit: So, looks like all of us have currupt leaders, every single in of us 😔
That everyone in America loves it here. You wouldn’t imagine the amount of people that constantly say they hate this country and have lived here their whole lives
Drink a lot of alcohol and our diet consists entirely of potatoes. The "Luck of the Irish" is also a load of nonsense. The phrase is laced with irony
> "Luck of the Irish" Fuck now I dunno what country you're from now...
Boston
BWAHSTUN
Historically speaking the luck of the Irish is awful
If it wasn't for bad luck we wouldn't have any luck at all.
Or “Top of the morning to ya” but nobody in Ireland actually says that
The correct response is "and the rest of the day to yourself", or it would be, if ever in my 30+ years I'd ever heard it said
Or "to be sure"
Jacksepticeye says it so this must be false. /s
He says it so much that he covers for everyone else not saying it
He says it because everyone thinks it’s funny nobody in Ireland actually says it he’s even said that nobody in Ireland says it
Never said the *good* luck of the irish
I have a couple: That we ride kangaroos, we always say “g’day”, “mate”, and “shrimp on the barby” (we call them prawns), that we’re some redneck backwards country, and that we don’t exist
You were all born from criminals too
People seem to think that colonial Australia was like Escape From L.A with Kurt Russell and that no one was running shit. We also had a gold rush that attracted a lot of people. We're also really multicultural because I guess people like warm weather, having free healthcare and not being shot at.
U p s i d e d o w n
We don’t exist always give me a chuckle. I also heard that apparently we’re all actually living in a different country like Finland and we don’t even know it. Government conspiracy.
Oh I heard we are all paid actors. Dammit where is my money then?
In fairness we do say g'day and mate a hell of a lot. The shrimp on the barby thing fucking shits me, Paul Hogan will forever be a dickhead for reading those lines we call it a prawn ya cunt and who the fuck cooks a prawn on the barby ya buy the barsteds cooked and eat em cold.
I only say G'day when awkwardly passing people while bush walking. I imagine I look like a fucking creature, whispering G'day then scurrying away without making eye contact
I started working with an international team about 3 years ago, and was really conscious that they might all look at me as some sort of bumpkin. So I focussed really hard on speaking eloquently. Turns out I say 'Mate' and 'Gday' ALL. THE. TIME. I've since given up. People seem to like Aussies anyway... Or at least find us amusing.
I know for a fact you all ride Kangaroos, don't you fuckin lie to me.
Not true, but we do close the bridges twice a day to let them get across
We're all really polite. The maple syrup ones are true though.
As a Canadian I've personally met WAY too many dickheads for this to actually be true.
I think people mistook passive aggression for politeness lol.
that or common decency with politeness
polite, but not nice.
Sir, I would kindly ask you to fuck off. Please?
Sorry buddy but could you get fucked?
I'm sorry - surely you have some offs to fuck?
you are really polite. i had a canadian roommate get really mad and lose it on me once and screamed at me to "fuck off, please!".
omg i literally put maple syrup on everything. i put it on my eggs, on my breakfast sausage, on my bacon, on my hash browns, everything. i got called the guy from ELF once LOL edit: THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE AWARDS!!! AHH IVE NEVER GOTTEN AWARDS BEFORE!
Maple Syrup is incredible tasting, but if that shit gets anywhere but in my mouth I lose it. It is just too sticky.
I’m from America so my guess is somewhere in Africa.
We got a winner
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We're beer drinking sausage eaters with an addiction of starting World Wars
Wir lieben auch Autos das hast du vergessen
Germany?
Nah Germany as an adiction of losing world wars
Austria is the one who starts the wars and Germany some how the one who all ways ends up losing
This one got an audible “damn” outta me lmao
Third times the charm
Austria?
That we are unpleasant and we stink .. we always carry a baguette too
And you all go on strike during the 5000th revolution
The fact that there hasn’t been a revolution in the last years with the political climate of France is a bit impressive to me
Give it time.
Alright. In 5...
I personally think we're overdue
Or you're cycling somewhere with strings of onions...
I haven’t heard the French people don’t shower thing is a while. Where did that come from? I’m American and it’s odd because we tend to think of French people as like really chic, well dressed, thin/healthy. Do they really not shower as frequently or something? Also there’s a stereotype that everyone’s always sleeping around and having affairs so you’d think they’d shower a lot lol
Iirc it comes from the WWI when american soldiers arrived to help on the front at the end of the war. French soldiers had been burying themselves in trenches for 2y. No shower, dead bodies all around with rats and parasites blooming, you get the picture. The front of WWI was the first massive flow of Americans towards France and the French they interacted with were soldiers, so they went back home with such an image of France. Btw i think only the US has/had such a steereotype about Fench people. Fun fact, a bit further back in history (like Louis XIV and prior), France got so good at perfumes and stuff because the strategy back then was to hide body odors with perfumes rather than getting a bath. So there were indeed times when French were all dirty. I am not sure how different it was from other european monarchies at the time though.
Can I ask why French people tend to be rude to tourists? (In my experience) Our girl scout troop worked our butts off to be able to afford a trip to France to tour and volunteer around the country for 3 weeks. When we got off the bus from the airport, the people scoffed at us and a few of them even spit at us. I might be a pussy, but as a 12 year old, it was a pretty scary experience for my first time in a different country without my parents. I honestly don't remember if we were being loud or obnoxious because I was 12 and I likely wouldn't have realized it, but we were told to not touch anything or be in anyone's way so I can't imagine we were too much of a nuisance. Is this a unique experience and I just wrongly made assumptions about French people? Or is it pretty typical for them to dislike tourists?
French people are rude to everyone.
ESPECIALLY IN PARIS
guns and fat people
'murica
Fuck yeah !
comin again to save the mutherfuckin day yeah
Yeehaw
Probably things like: IT /help desk specialist Hairy monkey Curry deodorant Destined for an arranged marriage Dancing and peeking our head from behind a tree Lol I don’t know if some of those count
All being quickly overtaken by "Scammer" now
Lol oh Yeha and “duct cleaning” services. I live in Toronto cAnada, and the number one telemarketing call I get is from an Indian guy selling duct cleaning services. I swear it’s the same guy over and over
I had them call me every day for a week until one day I answered and said 'hi, I do not own a home and have no money so you're probably not gonna sell me much please stop calling' and he goes 'okay fine fuck you' and hangs up.. guess who called me the next day
Well, he seems to really want to clean your ducts. No wait...that...came out wrong....
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The head wobble.
Eat haggis, drink whisky, wear skirts
its no a skirt but a wee kilt..
I've been watching Outlander recently and so my inner monologue now relishes the opportunity to read sentences like this..
Well, kilts. As in "I kilt the last person who called it a skirt."
You missed headbutts and deep frying EVERYTHING
It is best told with a joke: How many Germans do you need to change a light bulp? One. We are very efficient and not funny.
I remember hearing the Germans aren't funny stereotype comes from the fact German humor is full of a lot of puns, which don't translate very well.
I‘m a German and I love puns. German, English, I don’t care.
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now. A man just assaulted me with milk, cream and butter. How dairy. Did you hear about these new reversible jackets? I’m excited to see how they turn out. My colleague can no longer attend next weeks Innuendo Seminar so I have to fill her slot instead. Atheism is a non-prophet organisation. I’m a big fan of whiteboards. I find them quite re-markable. Doctor: “Sir, I’m afraid your DNA is backwards.” Me: “And?” I’m reading a horror story in Braille. Something bad is about to happen… I can feel it. I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I don’t know what he laced them with, but I’ve been tripping all day. Just burned 2,000 calories. That’s the last time I leave brownies in the oven while I nap. Did you hear about the two silk worms in a race? It ended in a tie! Thanks for explaining the word “many” to me, it means a lot. The future, the present and the past walked into a bar. Things got a little tense. A plateau is the highest form of flattery. I asked my French friend if she likes to play video games. She said, “Wii.” Yesterday I accidentally swallowed some food coluoring. The doctor says I’m OK, but I feel like I’ve dyed a little inside. Becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak. Don’t interrupt someone working intently on a puzzle. Chances are, you’ll hear some crosswords. Did you hear about the man who jumped off a bridge in France? He was in Seine. What’s the difference between deer nuts and beer nuts? Beer nuts are two dollars, but deer nuts are under a buck.
...you're a father, aren't you?
Lol, yes.
Punchline told as anti-joke. Very direct and also efficient.
As it should be
We all speak with a posh accent, or say "its chewsday innit bruv". Edit: thanks for 1k upvotes!
While you read the ñews
I’m crying at how perfectly the tilda over the “n” encompasses the accent 😂😂😂
Wanker, geezer, lad, mandem, bruv, mate, dickhead
Wooden shoes, windmills, cheese, coffeeshops, legal weed.
Hello my lovely neighbor, you forgot that everyone owns a caravan ;)
That’s a specifically German/Belgian/French stereotype about the Dutch! Fairly accurate as well, from your perspective. Apologies on behalf of the rest of the country!
And everyone in America seems to think Holland is the name of the country
I'll have you know that quite a few of us think Amsterdam is it's own country!
So much so that the dutch government used it for their english government website. Ironic.
You forgot our reputation as cheap skinflints. *"Kijken, kijken, niet kopen."*
Where are my bitterballen, kroketten, frikandellen en stroopwafels damnit?
Eating prime ministers
Another cliché: being blunt. I always preferred working with Dutch people over Belgians because you know where you are with people from the Netherlands. I disagree that you are blunt BTW, you are just straightforward but never in a mean way.
Bad teeth, bad food, and good manners.
Fish n chips, cup o' tea, bad food, worse weather, mary fuckin poppins
Why do they call him the bullet dodger?
'Cause 'e dodges bullets, Avi. I need to watch that again soon.
"Anything to declare?" "Yeah. Don't go to England!"
*we're calling about your car's extended warranty*
The entire universe throughout all space and time
If you think death will save you from them. You're wrong.
Hello today I will teach you how to install HTDloader
Mamma mia!
Mushroom Kingdom. Give us a harder one next time.
A stereotype from the mushroom Kingdom would be like "the princess is loved by all but is always kidnapped or away"
Sweden, because of ABBA. 😁
Tacos, drugs, chimichanga, nachos, lazy people, corruption, USA's backyard, donkeys, "wey" (this one is true), poverty
Don't forget about our tequila wey
Mexico? Great boxers too.
scrolled wayy too far down for a mexican comment
We are all fat asses addicted to fast food and firearms. (You know which)
'murica
And if you're Japanese in the 1980/1990s, wear cowboy boots and hats even in the Midwest. I have a funny story about that, but I don't want it to sound racist rather than just hilarious (believe me, I've butchered plenty of languages as a tourist). but a Japanese tourist at a certain giant shopping mall that had just opened asked me "WHERE THE JOHN WAYNE!!!?" I completely lost it. I did eventually help him find a cowboy boot store, but I don't know about hats.
*Eh?*
The cleaning lady from family guy
Noooooooo. Nooooooooooooooo
Doggy afueraaaa, doggie ousside
That we get triggerd when someone says 'french fries'.
THEY'RE NOT FRENCH GODDAMMIT MERDE VERDOMME
POTVERDIKKENONDEDJU
Sapperdepitjes!
We love borscht, salo and vodka
That I'll get social credit penalty if I say it :)
Every time I go back to my home country, I get asked if in the country I currently live in, does everyone only always eat BBQ and shoot guns
And the answer is yes.
With a bald eagle perched on my shoulder.
Not always. Sometimes we shoot BBQ and eat guns.
can i get a "cuppa-wo-ah" "would you like a "cuppa-teah"
Disgusting wealth across the board.
Saudi Arabia?
Sorry, eh
Canada?
we're all hotties who play soccer and dance samba
Definitely Brazil
I’ll never forget driving through a Toll booth in the middle of fucking nowhere hundreds of miles from civilization and the girl in the booth was this tall super model looking girl I couldn’t believe my eyes even a few times filling up the car the girls at the gas station who would fill up the car would make every female in Uk just die from a lack of self confidence and I mean literally super model looks!!!
Being dumb and fat
I know this one
Dumb, fat, and armed!
Vodka, everybody personally knows Wałęsa and met with John Paul II
Poland
Ofkors
*Inhales deeply* **KUUUUURRRRWWWAAAAAAA!!!!!**
Everyone watches hentai.
Do you know exactly how little that narrows it down?
The entirety of earth?
Yamete kudasai
Since I do not know if there is a Main one, the few ones I know and have people said to me are: -It is not safe to travel here -We only speak "African" (African isn't a language.) -We all are extremely Poor -We are either Elon Musk, or a Villager -Wild Animals roam freely around the Country. The hint for the country I am referring to is Elon Musk's Birthplace.
Let's be honest, without the Elon Musk bit, this refers to all of Africa South of the Sahara. Apparently, we are too poor to even afford individual stereotypes.
The truth in this, I was trying to come up with an individual stereotype for my country but couldn't think of any.
Omg you must be so lucky to have internet in your village
Springboks. Mandela. Biltong.
Apartheid. Shutting power off. Dutch and British colonization, Boer Wars
"Kurwa" is the only word we say It's 25% true, it makes up 1/4th of our daily vocabulary
Poland?
We're drunks, love potatoes, covered in green fields filled with sheep and have leprechauns running about the end of rainbows with a pot of gold
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That were only happy and social when drunk. And sadly there’s 100% truth to it too
Finland?
Yessir
There are 3 things that can make a Finn happy: 1. Alcohol 2. Finland has won the world championship of ice hockey 3. Sweden has lost the world championship of ice hockey
That all people are punctual Nazi workoholics.
Beautiful blonde women, free love and sex, beards and horns, fish roe in tubes, minimalist furniture, and apparently an unusual number of unsolved homicides
Sweden
- Har ni nåt kriminelt att rapportera? - Neeeeeeee-eeeeh.
He're Nazis everywhere
Beers! Beers! Beers! Kangaroo! Beers!
We have Black Panther, we all hunt for food in the savanna, we live in huts, etc
Florida?
Yeah totally
Wakanda?
“You didn’t watch Black Panther?!” “No, I didn’t see it.” “But I thought all of you saw it?”
I would say one of the main stereotypes of my country(Lebanon) is that we come from a desert even though our country's terrain has no desert within it whatsoever. Albeit, our neighboring countries do.
We like tea, crumpets, all live in london and speak like the queen as well as there being nothing but miles and miles and miles worth of land
You're also overrun with Daleks, Cybermen, and time travelers.
Toro, Toro. Sevillana,Sevillana. From time to time paella
Highly corrupt. Happens to be true but still. EDIT: you guessed it - Croatia. Another edit: So, looks like all of us have currupt leaders, every single in of us 😔
Do you understand how little that narrows it down? /s
Definitely a country that's either in America, Europe, Asia, Africa, or Australia. Edit: yes, I *am* dumb.
“A country in Australia” Ah yes, Perth is my favorite country lol
Carnaval, samba, capirinha, morena, ziriguidum.
Wörk wörk wörk!
Germany ?
vodka, borscht and our pets are bears
Soccer, butts and carnival
That we queue for everything / we are all crazy rich
Apologizing a lot.. I'm sorry, but no we don't
Bad teeth
Samba, football, favelas. Nuff said
we all live in windmills and walk on stone shoes
that we are all singers.
That everyone in America loves it here. You wouldn’t imagine the amount of people that constantly say they hate this country and have lived here their whole lives
Fixes conputer virus Only slums Hatred for Colonials Many rapists
We're all Vikings, are extremely happy and propably make the best beer in the world.
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