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Most Infuriating Myth about your Country? | ||
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| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6120 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 89 of 177 05 July 2009 at 2:14am | IP Logged | |||||
ohh i'm sure...but how often? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 90 of 177 05 July 2009 at 2:29am | IP Logged | |||||
They don't bathe because bathing is for plebeians. It's more chic to put aromatic ointments on top of rich bodily smells. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6120 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 91 of 177 05 July 2009 at 3:49am | IP Logged | |||||
None of them do. I have seldom heard a stereotype about the United States that wasn't at least somewhat true, and I don't take offense because they are things that I would say myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 92 of 177 06 July 2009 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 93 of 177 06 July 2009 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was born in Scotland. The most infuriating myth is that we all wear kilts. I have never done so, myself, and I am not keen on shortbread tin Scottishness.
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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5898 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 94 of 177 06 July 2009 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Have you played the bagpipes today? hahahaha!!! I've heard that Scotland's beautiful but that the food's terrible. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Le dacquois Diglot Groupie France Joined 5647 days ago 54 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, German | Message 95 of 177 08 July 2009 at 8:46am | IP Logged | |||||
Scotland has some wonderful dishes but unfortunately most people know nothing about them. Some of the best soups come from there like Cock-a-Leekie, Broth and Cullen Skink. I'd much rather get that down my belly than some of the watery rubbish I've tasted elsewhere. If you eat by the coast and islands you'll taste some amazing seafood and game is also the subject of many excellent recipes. British desserts are also probably some of the best in the world and Scotland contributes a fair number of sweet goodies. No need to mention the plethora of fine beers to wash your meal down with. One foreign lady told me once about how she was in Poland and the family she was staying with had some Swede turnip along with the meal. She said it was the most foul, disgusting thing she had ever tasted. I chuckled inwardly to myself because I was brought up on it and I love it. I didn't mention the fact that she thinks sour cabbage passes for cuisine and I fail to see how that's a step up, but hey ho, it's horses for courses. A lot of French people laughed at me at first when I say I eat oats for breakfast, saying how typical it was and that only horses eat oats. I can see how it's funny, but I'm honestly the only Scotsman I know (and I know a few) who eats oats for breakfast and the reason is because I'm a bodybuilder. It's one of the best cereals you can put into your system for many reasons. Anyway, I've now got them hooked on oat biscuits and skirly (a type of stuffing or accompaniment that goes with chicken). Haha. My partner even confessed to missing certain Scottish and British foods now that we are in France (ahlala, quelle honte!!!) Here in France I generally turn down offers of pigs brains and spit-roasted sparrows. I know a guy who eats their charred heads and bones (no joke). I've noticed these things generally stay out of most recipe books. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| clde Newbie Australia Joined 5642 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German | Message 96 of 177 08 July 2009 at 9:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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I ride a kangaroo to work and wear an akubra hat. Fair dinkum mate!
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