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| which of these countries are disliked most? |
| America |
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68% |
[ 50 ] |
| South Africa |
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6% |
[ 5 ] |
| UK |
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15% |
[ 11 ] |
| Canada |
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6% |
[ 5 ] |
| Australia |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
| New Zealand |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Check out how I spell colour. With a U. Americans don't. They're brutish and lazy and probably uncircumcised. We spell colour with a U. God loves us more. My uncle has a sailboat." |
Don't get me started with spelling. I'm Canadian and I prefer American spelling. Like the Japanese who adopted and simplified Chinese characters, the Americans simplified English spelling.
Why have the "u" in color or catalog? It serves no purpose.
We don't say the word theater the way the English spell it (theatre), so why spell it that way? Why the hell do you need an "e" at the end of old?
British spelling needed some improvements.
I just wish the Americans would use the metric system. It's a helluva lot easier to use than the Imperial system. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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Worldwide, it seems to me the US is the most despised and yet also the most adulated or envied.
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That's usually what having a lot of money does to you. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Check out how I spell colour. With a U. Americans don't. They're brutish and lazy and probably uncircumcised. We spell colour with a U. God loves us more. My uncle has a sailboat." |
Why the hell do you need an "e" at the end of old?
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Mostly one doesn't and British spelling doesn't use one. Does US spelling?
But occasionally one does need that final "e", for special colour, as in
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olde
/old, oldi/ (also olde worlde)
� adjective pseudo-archaic old-fashioned in a way that is intended to be attractively quaint.
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Check out how I spell colour. With a U. Americans don't. They're brutish and lazy and probably uncircumcised. We spell colour with a U. God loves us more. My uncle has a sailboat." |
Don't get me started with spelling. I'm Canadian and I prefer American spelling. Like the Japanese who adopted and simplified Chinese characters, the Americans simplified English spelling.
Why have the "u" in color or catalog? It serves no purpose.
We don't say the word theater the way the English spell it (theatre), so why spell it that way? Why the hell do you need an "e" at the end of old?
British spelling needed some improvements.
I just wish the Americans would use the metric system. It's a helluva lot easier to use than the Imperial system. |
I always found it curious Canadians know the "patriotic" spellings but then do things like spell centre as center. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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Do Canadian really harbor ill will to brits? As a Canadian, I don't encounter and I've never, ever encountered anyone (aside from French Canadians) that feels we got shafted by the Brits.
Now, you may have encountered a line of Canadian arrogance that goes "We're Canadian, we come from the greatest country in the world, and why don't you know more about us and why do you not accept your nation is, at best, the second best nation in the world? I've got this UN survey in my back pocket that proves we're the best country in the world. I really do. And you hate your immigrants. We love them! Bow down before me. At least don't expect me to pay for this round. Things are expensive here. Not like Winnipeg. Toronto people have gotten here first, I suspect. They're not real Canadians. Be careful of them. I'm Canadian. Not American. We're like Americans but we're loved by everyone. I'd never own a guy. Even if an immigrant moved next door and started building a minaret and used it to call all the other immigrants in the neighborhood to come live in his house. People love Canadian so much I could go up to that Korean, show him the flag on my backpack, and he'll offer me his spare room and his daughter. See my flag on my backpack? It makes me invincible in the middle east and Europe. Did I mention Mike Myers is Canadian? Yeah, Shrek is Canadian. What do you think about that? You have nothing to compare so don't even bother. Check out how I spell colour. With a U. Americans don't. They're brutish and lazy and probably uncircumcised. We spell colour with a U. God loves us more. My uncle has a sailboat." |
All except the 'God loves us more'  Though in all honestly, here is an ordered list of who tends to pay for others (like a drink, cab ride, etc) from my experiences in Asia.
Aussies & Kiwis (a lot)
Candians
Brits & South Africans
Americans (not that often)
I like Americans, actually just pointed out they are the most professional people of all these countries in another thread, but they are the worst for splitting the bill to the penny (or won, yen, kwai, whatever).
There are exceptions to all these opinions of mine, especially one vegetarian Canadian girl I met once. I hated going out as a group with that cheap *beep*. |
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Benicio
Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet
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Mindmetoo, that was great!
Don't get me wrong, I have some Canuckistan friends who are real tip top people, but you hit the nail on the head with a few Canuckers who give the Yank reputation for arrogance and bragadocia a real run for its money.
I cringe the same as I do when I fellow 'merican who is acting like an arrogant a$$hat. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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No votes for New Zealand.
I expected that.
The friendliest people in the world I met during my month there. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Geez did I really say Canadians would never own a guy? |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
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| Check out how I spell colour. With a U. Americans don't. They're brutish and lazy and probably uncircumcised. We spell colour with a U. God loves us more. My uncle has a sailboat." |
Don't get me started with spelling. I'm Canadian and I prefer American spelling. Like the Japanese who adopted and simplified Chinese characters, the Americans simplified English spelling.
Why have the "u" in color or catalog? It serves no purpose.
We don't say the word theater the way the English spell it (theatre), so why spell it that way? Why the hell do you need an "e" at the end of old?
British spelling needed some improvements.
I just wish the Americans would use the metric system. It's a helluva lot easier to use than the Imperial system. |
Heh- I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. I remember spending all of 5 min. on it in 8th grade. Basically my teacher said as Americans, we don't need to study it  I guess he figured all of us would stay settled in central WI and never travel outside outside the US. Maybe if I went to a nice boarding boarding school in Connecticut, I might've learned the metric system  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Dev wrote: |
I just wish the Americans would use the metric system. It's a helluva lot easier to use than the Imperial system. |
Heh- I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. I remember spending all of 5 min. on it in 8th grade. Basically my teacher said as Americans, we don't need to study it I guess he figured all of us would stay settled in central WI and never travel outside outside the US. Maybe if I went to a nice boarding boarding school in Connecticut, I might've learned the metric system |
They should teach it, after all its a big part of all the sciences. Canadians, we have this knee jerk reaction to anything that seems "too American". First we have an elected senate, then no more gun control, and they we'll have to start paying for our doctor visits. I say this so I can say my next point without seeming like I'm dumping on America:
Americans at times have a knee jerk reaction to anything that seems European. In my Seattle suburb, there was a survey to see if people wanted traffic round abouts instead of stop signs. The logic was solid: improves traffic flow, reduces accidents, saves gas (okay gas was $1.25 a gallon then). The vast majority of suburbaners didn't want them, even after reading the findings. The major reason? Too European. I suspect the logic goes, first we get the traffic roundabouts, then we get socialized medicine, then they take away our guns, and pretty soon we have heredity kings instead of just voting the same senator into power for three decades... |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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There were several roundabouts in Edmonton when I was a boy, but they have slowly disappeared over the years. One reason is that US tourists find them unfamiliar and accidents happen if you don't know the rules. This might be part of the reason Seattle chose not to have them.
Not sure about what this thread is asking. Most hated by who? Everyone? Some Canadians don't like the British royalty, but I've never met anyone at home who dislikes the English themselves. And yes, kiwis are not likely to be on that list either.
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| Anyone who dislikes Kiwis either can't be right in the head or has the social skills of a rabid cat in heat. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Suddenly we get a vote for New Zealand.
We know it's some jealous Aussie! The rivalry/sense of superiority there is ABSURD, but very real from my experiences. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:37 am Post subject: |
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Suddenly we get a vote for New Zealand.
We know it's some jealous Aussie! The rivalry/sense of superiority there is ABSURD, but very real from my experiences. |
How would you compare it to the Canada/USA one? Or is that even considered a real rivalry? |
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kato
Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Location: Tejas
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| Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| The US and Israel. |
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