Jophiel wrote:
Nilatai wrote:
Lady Jinte wrote:
Right, and from what I've seen on TV, all British people love the queen, are excessively polite, and have terrible teeth.
Find me a random American citizen who doesn't believe this is the case. I'll wait.
I've never accused the British "people" (such as they are) of being excessively polite.
Yea... most of the Brits I know are pretty far from "polite", though I'm sure part of that is due to my being an American. The ones that I've seen be polite, however, rarely stay that way long. Also joph, you borked the quote, since I didn't say that bit. I would have made sure to mention that all Brits are clinically obsessed with tea, to the point that missing tea time is sacrilege, and a capital offense.
Elinda wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
Nilatai wrote:
Lady Jinte wrote:
Right, and from what I've seen on TV, all British people love the queen, are excessively polite, and have terrible teeth.
Find me a random American citizen who doesn't believe this is the case. I'll wait.
I've never accused the British "people" (such as they are) of being excessively polite.
I thought that it was the Dutch that were tagged with excessive politeness.
Brits are snarky.
The Dutch aren't the polite ones, they're the potheads. They are polite, but that's mostly because they're so mellow from being perpetually stoned that they can't muster up enough of a @#%^ to be rude. If I were to pick on nationality to be the overly polite one, it'd probably be either Germans (if you want a European country) or Canadians (if we're talking world-wide). It'd be Japanes people, but they're all raging xenophobes, hiding behind their polite masks. Honestly, the Brits aren't really rude, either, I agree with "snarky" being the best term. The rude ones would be, based on my own personal experiences, the Italians. The French are more obnoxious than rude, and I've met some cool French people, but I've never spoken with a single Italian person (born/raised in Italy, not italian americans like you find on Jersey shore, though they're a close second) who didn't have me wanting to strangle them within 10 minutes of conversation. @#%^ Italians.
edit: National Stereotypes are fun
Edited, Jul 6th 2012 3:00pm by Jinte