Funny concepts that people have.......

[Steph1010 1]

I have been in Brazil for awhile now and i get...do you have malls......etc.....of course the us has malls.....hehe

[SOlcayto 0]

Hey, it certainly goes the other way too. I'm the USC from Texas and when I'm overseas I get the "Do you ride a horse to work?" "What do you think about George Bush?" "Oh, it must be really difficult living in Texas, with that cowboy lifestyle?" I'm just like what? I live in the most liberal, GW hating, hippy city in the world! I usually just start petting the person who asks me things like that on the head like a dog and say, "You're so sweet". lol.

SOL

[Peggy 1]

Its funny how everyone thinks that Canada is so cold all the time. They think that we never get any warm days or sunshine. Thats just nuts

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Hey, it certainly goes the other way too. I'm the USC from Texas and when I'm overseas I get the "Do you ride a horse to work?" "What do you think about George Bush?" "Oh, it must be really difficult living in Texas, with that cowboy lifestyle?" I'm just like what? I live in the most liberal, GW hating, hippy city in the world! I usually just start petting the person who asks me things like that on the head like a dog and say, "You're so sweet". lol.

SOL

I used to get this kind of ####### in the UK all the time and I'm from Michigan. I wish I'd thought to pet these people instead of just rolling my eyes.

[CarolineM 0]

Almost any time Stewart tells someone he is from Australia, they go, "Oh! Austria!! Wow!"

Ummm no.

Like Aussiewench said - he gets TONS of kangaroo comments...

also

1. Are there black people in Australia?

2. Can you throw a boomerang?

3. They LOVE asking him to Throw a shrimp on the Barbie.

4. They'll say G'day mate.....and then giggle.

5. Ask if he's either met Crocodile Dundee or "Don't you just love the crocodile hunter?"

[almaty 19]

Its funny how everyone thinks that Canada is so cold all the time. They think that we never get any warm days or sunshine. Thats just nuts

what?????????? you mean it does not snow all year round?

Almost any time Stewart tells someone he is from Australia, they go, "Oh! Austria!! Wow!"

Ummm no.

Like Aussiewench said - he gets TONS of kangaroo comments...

also

1. Are there black people in Australia?

2. Can you throw a boomerang?

3. They LOVE asking him to Throw a shrimp on the Barbie.

4. They'll say G'day mate.....and then giggle.

5. Ask if he's either met Crocodile Dundee or "Don't you just love the crocodile hunter?"

karo, what a bunch of chopf##ks to ask these questions...

[Sister Fracas 5]

Hey, it certainly goes the other way too. I'm the USC from Texas and when I'm overseas I get the "Do you ride a horse to work?" "What do you think about George Bush?" "Oh, it must be really difficult living in Texas, with that cowboy lifestyle?" I'm just like what? I live in the most liberal, GW hating, hippy city in the world! I usually just start petting the person who asks me things like that on the head like a dog and say, "You're so sweet". lol.

SOL

I used to get this kind of ####### in the UK all the time and I'm from Michigan. I wish I'd thought to pet these people instead of just rolling my eyes.

*groan* The George W. Bush questions.... No, I don't want to spend the first few minutes upon meeting someone in the UK, yapping about politics.... I like the petting idea...LOL

Another groan-worthy is having to put on the forced smile when I say I'm from Chicago and they go....ohhhh, Al Capone town huh?

[germangel 0]

Almost any time Stewart tells someone he is from Australia, they go, "Oh! Austria!! Wow!"

I get a similar mix-up. when I say I'm from Germany people ask me if it's cool to be next to Australia (Austria, you mean) and if we have roos as well.

Also, I have been asked how we shower as we don't have running water (we don't??)

I was asked plenty to yodel or if I had a lederhosen (I'm a girl!!!)

Well, well, it's great, oh, and one more "how come you speak english without a french accent?" (French??)

[Canuck Carrie 1]

Hey, it certainly goes the other way too. I'm the USC from Texas and when I'm overseas I get the "Do you ride a horse to work?" "What do you think about George Bush?" "Oh, it must be really difficult living in Texas, with that cowboy lifestyle?" I'm just like what? I live in the most liberal, GW hating, hippy city in the world! I usually just start petting the person who asks me things like that on the head like a dog and say, "You're so sweet". lol.

SOL

Huh.

Every time I go to TX they ask 'why are you guys Commies' and say 'I saw snow once, I liked it' and I'm frequently asked to say 'eh'.

Everyone here has teased that I'm going to ride a horse, wear a cowboy hat & boots and have a gun rack in my pickup once I move.

Edited February 16, 2006 by Canuck Carrie

[Sister Fracas 5]

Everyone here has teased that I'm going to ride a horse, wear a cowboy hat & boots and have a gun rack in my pickup once I move.

and say "yeehaw"

[nayalamb 0]

omigosh, this thread is a laugh riot!

i get all kinds of weird questions... and i can't hold back the sarcasm.

'wow you speak english so well, how long did it take to learn?' (same time i took you, i guess)

'so you live in the jungle?' (sure do, and i never leave home without my trusty blowdarts)

'isn't the bahamas owned by america?' (erm, unless there was something in that fine print...)

'you guys have internet?' (no i am emailing you in my MIND)

'bahamas? isn't that in jamaica?' (that must be why my luggage keeps getting lost)

'do you get around in canoes?' (sure, just hollowed out one a new one last week)

'what kind of clothes do you wear?' (um, well i usually wear nothing but today is a little nippy)

'can u hula dance?' (of course, kamehameha was my great-grandfather!)

and my favorite one is when people automatically start singing 'who let the dogs out' by the baha men. all of our achievements and culture summed up into one cheesy song that WE don't even play on the radio or at the ball park!

americans are not the only guilty ones. when i tell some people from home that i've been to japan, they are like 'oh so you can speak chinese?'.

but again, this thread rocks. we can all educate each other!

[Marilyn. 340]

My hubby's aunt actually thought Canada was a part of the United States and before I came here she thought it was strange that I couldn't just move here to the United States....

[jkb919 0]

Oh this thread was really funny,

My fiance is not here yet but he works on a cruise ship and when ever someone sees that he is from Jamiaca they are always saying "Ya Mon" but the main question is "So, Do you smoke ganja", so I guess I am glad that he works on the ship before he comes here, I told him everyone will be asking him that. (BTW he does not smoke anything )

[nayalamb 0]

Oh this thread was really funny,

My fiance is not here yet but he works on a cruise ship and when ever someone sees that he is from Jamiaca they are always saying "Ya Mon" but the main question is "So, Do you smoke ganja", so I guess I am glad that he works on the ship before he comes here, I told him everyone will be asking him that. (BTW he does not smoke anything )

LMAO

yeah we get the "hey mon, no problem" thing too. but its totally not what we say!

i don't even know a west indian that speaks that way. nor any that smoke weed.

Edited February 17, 2006 by nayalamb

[jackieanddave 0]

I got asked 'How do they say goodbye where you are from'

I replied 'Goodbye'

I'm not sure they believed me!

Another time someone was telling me about a movie on TV which she thought was in Italian. When I pointed out it was on the Spanish channel, so it was probably in Spanish, she said that was great because I would be able to understand it. I'm from UK.

Same woman asked me if the programs in England were in English, or were they subtitled.

My favourite game with her is to confuse her over England and Britain. She is forever apologizing because she tells people I am from one, and I tell them I am from the other! Cruel, maybe, but fun.