Very fat? Maybe a little husky or big-boned, but I doubt on average that we’re very fat.
Although not actually rich, Saudis as a group act rich as they spend their money on flashy cars and homes.
Yes, Saudis are quite backward and xenophobic.
Yep, they are defensive about the Crusades.
So do we – Leicester, Worcester, etc. But that’s because we got it from you guys 
As much as I don’t like to admit it, there is a “snob” undercurrent in these parts. I don’t know if it’s an offshoot from all the area universities or from the original British class system. Probably both. Being a native, I never knew it existed until friends from out of town pointed it out: * Everyone knows their place. Either you’re a “have” or a “have not”. There’s no intermingling between the two.*
After thinking about it, I reluctantly agree…to an extent.
German’s like beer.
Brits like Beer.
Aussies, Belgians, Swede’s, Swiss, Danes, Leichtensteiners, Yanks, Canuk’s…etc etc etc all like Beer.
You are thirsty for beer.
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Yes, again, that is what I meant. When I said everyone has cars, I didn’t meant that literally 100% of all adults have them.
I just meant that compared to other countries, a very high percentage of households have cars for the adults to drive.
Next time, I’ll have a lawyer draw up my post so no possible ambiguousness is left.
New Yorkers are assholes. Every last one.
I’ll note here that if you don’t own a car here in Southern California you might as well be dead.
I’ll add that this article was just written at Xin Hua, China’s news agency. It states that 1 out of 10 Beijing Ren(Beijingers) has a car.
Most Brits on vacation are insufferable drunks.
I avoid others like me when away, as their singing, shouting, vomiting and fighting puts me off my booze.
This is actually true.
We really do say “eh” a lot. A whole lot. Really, really a lot. But we don’t say “aboot.” Except Torontonians and Newfies. They say it a little.
And civilized. I remember visiting a friend in Canada. I lost the slip of paper with the phone number and directions. I thought if I could only find his phone number, I could call him and get directions from where I was. Then I remembered I was in Canada. I walked over to the nearest phone booth, and sure enough there was a phone book right there.
Yeah, I hear ya on that one. In eight years in the US, I’ve encountered maybe one phone booth that had a phone book, but most of the pages were ripped out. For instance, when you’re at the grocery store and you have to ask the courtesy desk person to call a cab for you because at the in-store pay phone there are neither white nor yellow pages in the book in the whole Taxi section.
Huh? I don’t remember ever having trouble finding a phonebook in a phonebooth in the US. They’re not everywhere, but it’s not that uncommon. Actually, these days, with everyone having cellphones, it may be harder to find an actual booth, rather than just the book.
Japan
The people here are generally smaller (shorter and thinner) than the average westerner.
The trains in Tokyo do get packed so full that if you removed the floor, everyone would still stay in place. They’re like that every morning, for the most part. You either get used to it or you don’t last long.
There is, in the general media (which I can only assume reflects the tastes of their readers and viewers), a marked fascination with schoolgirls and underwear that at times makes one think that McArthur’s “nation of twelve-year-olds” comment wasn’t so far off the mark.
Eh, on “aboot”: I had a Quebecois teacher (of English) in middle school who said it incessantly.
Southern California: Our heads really are full of air (but incredibly fashionably so). We really do look good all of the time, to the point of pathological disorder. We really do spend more of our lives in our cars than in our homes.
To be honest, I couldn’t really tell you what the Quebecois say. It makes things a lot easier if we just consider the Quebecois to have gotten their fondest wish and they are a separate country from Canada.