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Culture, was Thx & New Q re: Engine Paint

To: Williams/MG Guy <mgguyc100@newedge.net>
Subject: Culture, was Thx & New Q re: Engine Paint
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:06:40 +0000
Williams/MG Guy wrote:

> Can anyone provide another manufacturer's code for this colour (BTW the 'u'
> in colour is the Canadian spelling...really, eh?)

Which leads me to post the following.  I did originally think it had breen 
penned by an 
Aussie, but on re-reading the title it couldn't possibly have been:-

> Cultural Differences Explained
> ==============================
> Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Pommies (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,
> hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.
> Aussies:   Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Poms 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 the 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, & liquor
> in a backwards country.
> Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor
> in a backwards country.
> Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
> Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
> Brits:     Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
> Aussies:   Drink anything with alcohol in it.
> Americans: Seem to think that poverty & 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 this matters after several
> beers.



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