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Quoth Toujin View PostHere's some from California, where I grew up
*Los Angeles covers the entire state
*The weather is always pleasant
*Earthquakes are like fun carnival rides
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*That everyone here is blond and pumped full of silicone and collagen (though mostly true)
*That everywhere here is lush and tropical
*that Disneyland must get old if you live here (I want another pass, dangit! )"Eventually, everything that you have said becomes everything you will ever say." Eireann
My pony dolls: http://equestriarags.tumblr.com
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Quoth Lace Neil Singer View PostGood one; the teeth thing makes me laugh cuz they say the same thing about hillbillies. XD I hate tea; coffee = life."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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Quoth Toujin View PostHere's some from California, where I grew up
*Los Angeles covers the entire state
*Everyone is either a movie star or surfer
*Everyone is a gazillionaire (kind of true, housing is very expensive)
*The weather is always pleasant
*Earthquakes are like fun carnival rides
As for Virginia, where I live now
*Everyone is either a xenophobic bible thumper or crude white trash
Quoted, because that is what most people believe.
*Everyone from California is exceptionally good-looking
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Seattle
It rains 360 days a year.
There is a starbucks on every street corner (oh wait that is true)
We are all grunge with greasy long hair and wearing of plaid shirts.
Everyone works for microsoft.
Nearly everyone one is depressed.
We all wear socks with our birkenstocks. (my brother actually does wear socks with his sandals)It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. -Office space
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When I was in NJ, I'd have people believing that I got kicked out of state for not being a Packers fan.
Oh, and that you can't graduate HS without showing proficiency in cow tipping.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
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I'd love to reply to this properly, but I'm from West Virginia and listing everything people think about us would just depress me.
Here's a quick rundown... overweight, uneducated, redneck, hillbilly, inbred, bacon-eating, moonshine-drinking, NASCAR-loving white trash. We're all poor, or miners, or poor miners...
Pretty much take every stereotype people have for all the rest of Appalachia, plus about half the ones about the South, and apply them to one state.
And then I once had a teacher tell me about a man she met in another state who was unaware we even existed as a state, and was thoroughly convinced that West Virginia was "somewhere around Raleigh."» Horse Words «·» Roleplaying Stuff «
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Quoth BarbieGirl View PostSeattle
It rains 360 days a year.
Oh, and West Virginia scares the crap out of me, in the same 10 minutes I passed a massive white cross and a car sales yard with the initials KKK.If I dropped everybody who occasionally said something stupid from my list of potential partners, I wouldn’t even be able to masturbate
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for Japan, some idiotic misconceptions I have literally heard....
- we are a colony of the US
- we are not a democracy
- free speech does not exist (oh yes it bloody well does)
- everyone is corporate drones (look up the practical jokes to see how false this is)
- everything is expensive (I live in central Tokyo and pay less rent than I did in a country town in Australia and the food. for the most part is about the same as anywhere else)
- tsunami are daily events
- Sumo is the major sport (baseball is actually)
- plotting revenge against the allies (what total mf rubbish)
- corporal punishment is allowed in schools
- foreigners are treated like subhuman
- the Emporer is head of state
- the royal family ended after WW2 (I have been at a festival and heard the Emporer speak in English - very articulte and interesting man - a botanist)
- everything can be found in vending machines (almost true)
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(When I lived in Western NY)
It's an easy trip to NYC (250 miles!!!)
We go to Canada all the time (4-5 hours to Toronto. I've been there four times. In my life.)
We accept Canadian currency (partially true; pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters (up to a point, but not in vending machines.)
It's always cold here, and have to dig our way out of the snow frequently.
We can see Niagara FallsTesting
"I saw a flock of moosen! There were many of 'em. Many much moosen. Out in the woods- in the woodes- in the woodsen. The meese want the food. The food is to eatenesen."
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Quoth edible_hat View PostThere are so many great Australian beers that are unknown outside Australia. I mostly drink Coopers but that's because I live in South Australia.
I'll keep my eye out for Coopers, although I gather they are just gearing up internationally.
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