I hear the “actuaries are boring, number-crunching nerds” frequently. Always from people who don’t know any actuaries.
Kangaroos are pretty much everywhere outside the cities. There are 'roos in the mountains, the deserts, the plains, everywhere. That said, you can drive across the country and not see a single one. If you drive on the main highways in daylight, the only kangaroos you might see will be roadkill. However, you might see twenty of them in ten minutes driving after dark on a dirt road in farm country. They are a major road hazard, and hitting a big one can really hurt your car.
The funniest stereotype about Australians is the convict thing. Not that it isn’t true, but foreigners are quite laughable when they use it as an insult, and do it in all seriousness (when an Australian was hanged last year in Singapore, the locals there were filling blogs with convict insults). The fact is, fifty years ago, people might have hidden their convict ancestry, but now it is a badge of honour, and it’s actually the case that relatively few Australians have this heritage, and people are clutching at straws to get some. Also, the convicts were transported for things like stealing a handkerchief or a loaf of bread, and generally not serious crimes, for which they’d hang.
Cool. Thanks.
Sure. If you like.
Crap, I was so puzzled by the Max thing that I forgot to turn on the sig.
Sorry, it’s an oblique reference. Of course I need someone to preserve my words beyond my untimely death, despite my protests to the contrary.
From the link:
Are we to expect this everytime you find out a Doper is black?
Yes, probably.
People with piercings and pink hair have nasty abrasive personalities.
Actually, I’m quiet and shy to the point of being awkward, and polite most of the time. I do have a mean streak of snark when provoked, however.
That just means you are under-the-skin kin to us redheads! Welcome! Would you care for a margarita?
What do these people have in common?
Edward R. Murrow, Craig Claiborne (NY Times food critic), Van Cliburn, Jim Henson, James Earl Jones, Leontyne Price (opera singer), Johnny Mercer, Sela Ward, David Brinkley, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Truman Capote
They are (or were) my fellow Southerners. We are a versatile group. Hold the banjo music when you think of us.
I also love the fact that the past two CBS Evening News anchors, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, are both from Texas.
As is Johnny Mathis… what the hell?
Why, sure, I would love one, and thank you very much! I will supply the strawberry shortcake. 
I also forgot to mention:
People with pink hair and piercings who wear leather and spikes (and Hello Kitty and pink and lace and frills, as well!) are attention-starved and want people to look at them.
Oh yes, of course! Because it’s just completely impossible that someone’s taste in fashion differs from yours! 
One of the things I like about Vancouver is that I can actually dress and look how I like, and no one pays me a second glance. Back in my small hometown, I got tons of attention - most of it negative, and I hated it. There is nothing odd about me here, and I like it that way.
Answering the OP directly, and this is merely a selection:
“girls can’t read maps” (at age 5, I was spontaneously using draftmanship techniques which architects didn’t start using until the 19th century - so yeah, I can read maps. And draw them)
“you can’t be an engineer, you’re a girl” (during a work interview)
“oh, how nice! Teach me to dance flamenco!” (I’m from the other end of Spain)
“you can’t be a girl, you tank too well to be a girl” (yeah well, you can’t be a human being, you’re too stupid)
Actuary, I know several: bundle of laughs.
“All Muslims are poligamous terrorists who hate the West, Jews and Christ.”
I don’t hate the West, I have lots of Jewish friends from my days studying in the UK and Muslims believe in Jesus Christ as well. Oh, and it’s quite difficult to find a Muslim man married to two or more women these days. Two wives, sometimes. Three wives, rare…could happen, though. Four? Fergedabouit.
“Hey, DataZak, you’re Asian…help me out with this math problem here.”
I always thought they were just being funny but nope…I’m from Asia so I must be a wiz at math. The hell I am! I sometimes don’t even remember what 7 multiplied by 8 is.
And what’s with the “Asian” tag? Asia is the largest continent in the world, stretching from the Middle east all the way to Japan. Be more specific. But in the west, Asian either means Chinese (esp. in the U.S.) or Indian (if in the U.K). I’m neither, by the way.
Let’s see: German, Catholic, fat, accountant-type, needlecrafter. Where to begin?
Is “tank” a typo for talk, or is there some subtle usage of the word tank as a verb of which I am unaware?
Jews secretly rule the world, through some rube-goldberg secret organization. Also, we have all the money.
Catholics are pagans and ritualistic cannibals (yes, I lived in a town in Oklahoma where this seemed to be a belief held by a number of the locals).
The only things that come from Texas are Steers and Queers (just not true, english dubbed anime, state-of-the-art fighter jets, and cotton also come from Texas)
Don’t know if this counts, but I’ve been told that liberal arts students are lazy, unmotivated, unfocused, and can only get jobs in teh fast food industry. (my having changed majors multiple times, my lack of study skills, my tendency to sleep late, and my recent employment at Wing Zone notwithstanding, I believe this to be entirely untrue)
As a researcher who uses animals:
I’m cruel and sadistic.
*No, we treat the mice humanely. Low stress levels will help our research. I have turned in people for abuse of the animals. And, by the way, I’m an animal lover. On the other hand, if you’re a student, I am cruel and sadistic 
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I steal pet dogs and cats to use in the lab.
Hell no! Our animals come from specific breeders. We need to be sure of the animals’ genetic background and health.
As a sexual violence survivor:
I must have been “asking for it.”
No, I wasn’t. Living and breathing does not qualify as “looking for trouble.”
I’m a lesbian.
Sorry no. I am heterosexual.
I’m emotionally fragile or mentally defective.
Neither. I survived something that was very painful. Trust me, anything esle is easy.
As a non-traditional student:
You must have spent the years after high school drinking and goofing off.
*No. I was recovering from sexual violence. Other non-tradition students have delayed school due to financile reasons or needed to take time to find a career path. We’re not slackers. *
I’ll start for you. (All thoroughly tongue-in-cheek, but you can probably tell from my ex-Mormon thread that I’m not serious about this stuff.)
- Your daughters wear homemade pioneer dresses.
- One of your daughters is named Heidi.
- You play EFY CDs in the minivan on long road trips and the whole family sings along.
- Most of your family meals are served in a casserole dish, topped with breadcrumbs or those dried onion things.
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