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    Canada, mostly learned by listening to the CBC (our government media outlet) Laugh Out Loud podcast:

    1. Vancouver is the weed capital

    2. Newfoundland’s “Newfie” accent/dialect

    3. Hockey fights (when players go insane and beat the crap out of each other)

    4. Quebec hates everyone

    5. Our airline is terrible

    6. We use a confusing combination of Metric and imperial units

      • @Sudo
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        31 year ago

        Still love me that iced capp.

    • @Cruxifux
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      51 year ago

      We were at the fights and a hockey game broke out

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    Germany:

    • the town of Bielefeld does not exist. There’s a huge conspiracy to make people think it’s a real place
    • @ritswd
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      31 year ago

      To what end? Just shit and giggles or is there a goal to it?

      • @Ryumast3r
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        31 year ago

        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?

        • @ritswd
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          21 year ago

          I mean, I have, but now that you mention it, I’ve only met people who claimed they were from Wyoming. Who knows what they might have been hiding…

          • @Ryumast3r
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            21 year ago

            Exactly! It’s a giant lie I tell you.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

        • Zammy95
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          21 year ago

          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

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    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.

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    Mexico:

    Quesadillas don’t have cheese by default in Mexico City, and everyone else outside of it make fun of them because of it.

  • Anti Weeb Penguin
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    21 year ago

    La Pampa province doesn’t exist, Paraguay doesn’t exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.

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    Chile:

    • we are the best country of chile.
    • Rancagua doesn’t exist.
    • the city of Talca and his wet completos.[1]^

    1. imagine a HotDog but profounfly better, Chad completo virgin gringo hotdog ↩︎