# Dear Euro-turds **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 22, 2001, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815 "2001-10-22T05:50:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![J248974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@J248974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J248974)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/81 "2001-10-23T17:43:27Z")
I’m sorry, you’re right. **Swiss banks**. I must have had a brain freeze. ---
**Author:** ![Damhna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/82 "2001-10-23T19:15:26Z")
**J248974** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/83 "2001-10-23T23:37:04Z")
Welcome johnny T, there are plenty of us rasslin’ fans here on the boards 😉 Didn’t you guess?? ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/84 "2001-10-24T00:59:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by J248974 \* > Nope. I don’t have a problem with foreign attitudes. I just love it when some towel wearing, woman enslaving, knife sporting, other religion hating fellow tells me that I don’t know what the world is about and he’s still trying to figure out just what, exactly, _is_ electricity. Boomhauser Bill is that you or you jis kin a ol’ Bill’s ? ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/85 "2001-10-24T06:49:39Z")
**AND THE BLEEDING WATNEY’S RED BARREL!!!** ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/86 "2001-10-24T07:13:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by J248974 \* > \*\*I’m sorry, you’re right. **Swiss banks**. I must have had a brain freeze. \*\* Swiss, Swedish it’s all the same isn’t it? This in no way backs up my previous post … ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/87 "2001-10-24T07:17:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amanset \* > **Swiss, Swedish it’s all the same isn’t it?** Yeah, and California and Carolina are pretty much the same, so the names should be used interchangeably. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/88 "2001-10-24T07:25:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aegypt \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by amanset \* > > **Swiss, Swedish it’s all the same isn’t it?** > > Yeah, and California and Carolina are pretty much the same, so the names should be used interchangeably. \*\* Er … you have read my previous post about Sweden/Switzerland haven’t you? I’m just not sure what your point actually is. ---
**Author:** ![puk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ea5d25/32.png) [@puk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puk)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/89 "2001-10-24T07:30:13Z")
sarcasm perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/90 "2001-10-24T08:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amanset \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by aegypt \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by amanset \* > > > **Swiss, Swedish it’s all the same isn’t it?** > > > > Yeah, and California and Carolina are pretty much the same, so the names should be used interchangeably. \*\* > > Er … you have read my previous post about Sweden/Switzerland haven’t you? I’m just not sure what your point actually is. \*\* I’m sorry. I realize, upon reading you post, that J248974 was the one who made the mistake, not you. My previous post was, I think, just a knee-jerk reaction to people confusing these two very different countries. Well, to be sure, the two have similar-sounding names, a tradition of neutrality, an association to winter sports, a Germanic language speaking majority, and don’t appear too frequently in the news, but still… Well, let’s be constructive here. To prevent further mishaps, it’s… **Aegypt’s handy-dandy guide to telling Sweden from Switzerland!** Sweden: \*Abba The Nobel Prize Ingemar Bergman The Swedish Bikini Team High taxes Geographical location: way up north \* Switzerland: \*Alps Cuckoo clocks Cheese Chocolate Low taxes Geographical location: sort of in the middle \* For further information, check: > **[Bundesamt für Statistik](https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home.html)** > > Das Bundesamt für Statistik ist das nationale Kompetenzzentrum der öffentlichen Statistik der Schweiz. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/91 "2001-10-24T10:18:16Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by amanset \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pennylane \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Princhester \* > > I just recently watched a British quiz show in which one of the contestants was asked: which American **city** has a baseball team called the White Sox, a basketball team called the Bulls and a football team called the Bears? The contestant hesitated, then replied, “Michigan?” \*\* > > \*\* Err, no, you’ve mucked up your coding here. I never said that actually. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blackclaw \* > **I acknowledged that as well and my rant wasn’t targeted at the OP but those derrogatory comments you mention. Princhester and J248974 in particular got on my nerves.** Now look, calling my post masturbatory, unfair, snippy, flippant, nationalistic (although given that I mentioned no nation, I’m not sure how you could) I could cope with. But putting me in the same category as J248974? Now that hurts. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/92 "2001-10-24T12:30:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by amanset \* > I wonder if many people from the US know that Glamorgan is a county and not a city … Likewise I wouldn’t expect a Brit to know which US “places” are actually states. IMHO you can hope someone to knows where a country is, its capital and maybe a few major cities. Anything more than that and you really are expecting too much. I agree, which is why I also said in my previous post that I thought you had a point. (BTW, I’m not sure that Greater Manchester or Merseyside are counties.) In any event, this is in danger of turning into Private Eye’s [Dumb Britain](http://www.private-eye.co.uk/dumb.htm). ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/93 "2001-10-24T12:40:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TomH \* > \*\*(BTW, I’m not sure that Greater Manchester or Merseyside are counties.) > \*\* [http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi\_19922026\_en\_1.htm](http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19922026_en_1.htm) “Greater Manchester” means the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, “Manchester” means the city of Manchester, and “Trafford” means the metropolitan borough of Trafford; [http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi\_19921992\_en\_1.htm](http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19921992_en_1.htm) “Merseyside” means the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/94 "2001-10-24T13:34:03Z")
You live and learn. I never knew there was any such thing as a metropolitan county, and I stand corrected. I come from the other side of the Pennines, where AFAIK we only ever had county and city councils. ---
**Author:** ![Blackclaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e68b1a/32.png) [@Blackclaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackclaw)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815/95 "2001-10-24T16:03:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Princhester \* > Now look, calling my post masturbatory, unfair, snippy, flippant, nationalistic (although given that I mentioned no nation, I’m not sure how you could) I could cope with. But putting me in the same category as J248974? Now that hurts. Yeah, well, it was kinda of a bad day. Sorry bout that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-euro-turds/88815.md?page=4)