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Canada, mostly learned by listening to the CBC (our government media outlet) Laugh Out Loud podcast:
Vancouver is the weed capital
Newfoundland's "Newfie" accent/dialect
Hockey fights (when players go insane and beat the crap out of each other)
Quebec hates everyone
Our airline is terrible
We use a confusing combination of Metric and imperial units
Iβd also like to add timmies in recent years. There has been a steep decline
Still love me that iced capp.
We were at the fights and a hockey game broke out
The pool room.
Straight to the pool room!
Tell βem heβs dreaming!
Found the fellow Aussie lol
Germany:
To what end? Just shit and giggles or is there a goal to it?
It's the same as when people in the states say "Wyoming (or sometimes North dakota) doesn't exist"
I mean, have YOU ever actually met someone from Wyoming?
I mean, I have, but now that you mention it, Iβve only met people who claimed they were from Wyoming. Who knows what they might have been hidingβ¦
Exactly! It's a giant lie I tell you.
The German wiki article said that it's often used to illustrate and make fun of the fact that conspiracy theorists can claim the most absurd crap.
The English wiki article mentioned that even Angela Merkel mentioned it in a speech once, so I really gotta track that down now.
You should be able to find the Angela Merkel video somewhere, her mentioning it is actually how I feel down the rabbit hole in the first place
The swedish button
Here in Norway we like to make fun of Swedes as a stupid people. The swedish button originated (at least the first context I knew of) as yanking the power cable from the socket as a way of turning off an applianve such as a Tv or computer, inatead of the intended way
One can also call other extreme/destructive ways of turning something off as the swedish button, such as hitting a tv with a hammer.
ed balls
ed balls
Chile:
La Pampa province doesn't exist, Paraguay doesn't exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.
Mexico:
Quesadillas donβt have cheese by default in Mexico City, and everyone else outside of it make fun of them because of it.
La Pampa province doesn't exist, Paraguay doesn't exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.