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Oh the Stereotypes | Part 9 - The Scandanavians
Beatrice Posted Feb 4, 2004
Greet snow 
anywhere else the in the world with
"Call that snow? Why back in Helsinki we used to ski to school in temperatures of minus 50!"
Have very strange rules regarding the purchase of alcohol, and so have to resort to distilling it themsleves out of old potato skins.
Oh the Stereotypes | Part 9 - The Scandanavians
bighairyjez Posted Feb 4, 2004
favourite saying "In the old counrty..."
(yes I've changed sterotype!)
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E G Mel Posted Feb 4, 2004
Crumbs this one's still going strong, any suggestions for who's next?! 
Mel 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Feb 4, 2004
Travel in tourist flocks, and take pictures of anything that moves. Or doesn't move.
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Beatrice Posted Feb 5, 2004
Bow a lot when introduced to someone.
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E G Mel Posted Feb 5, 2004
Speak very good English but with such a strong accent that you can't understand it
Mel
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Crunchy Frog Posted Feb 5, 2004
diet consists entirely of sushi and "egg flied lice"
CF
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Baron Grim Posted Feb 5, 2004
No Mel.. they speak very good 'Engrish'!
See http://www.engrish.com/
Hilarious
CZ
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Feb 5, 2004
Can't pronounce "L"s and replace them with "R"s.
Can't pronounce "R"s and replace them with "L"s.
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Feb 5, 2004
Eat nothing but raw fish and rice.
Can't handle their alcohol.
Lack much in the way of body hair.
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Beatrice Posted Feb 5, 2004
Always traipsing round after some guy with an umbrella stuck up in the air, regardless of whether it is sunny or rainy.
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Mauritania Posted Feb 9, 2004
Don't get me started with the Japanese...
*notices Tokyo tower outside*
...It's a very nice country they are like Britain in sio many ways, they drink tea and eat Fish although not covered in batter and served with chips. They are both island isolationists that hate the mainland continents!
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Baron Grim Posted Feb 9, 2004
If it can be done in real life, they'd rather make a video game out of it.
BTW... see "Lost in Translation"... Brilliant.
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dasilva Posted Feb 10, 2004
In copying what the West does, they better it within the first decade and the West spends the rest of the millenia failing to catch up (cinema, electronics, cars, motorcycles, trains...) 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Feb 10, 2004
In fact, everything except aircraft carriers. 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Feb 10, 2004
I'm heased to plear it 
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Mauritania Posted Feb 10, 2004
The French make bad aircraft carriers, let's slag off the French!
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Oh the Stereotypes | Part 9 - The Scandanavians
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