|
Warpe
|
03-22-2007, 07:31 PM
Post subject: Things you should never say to an American
|
#1 (permalink)
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Canuckistan
Posts: 3,905
|
|
This Canadian is going for a training course in St. Louis next week, and I expect most of my classmates will be Americans. Suggested conversation starters? And what subject areas should I avoid like plutonium?
Be funny, people.
|
|
|
Play for FREE and practice your game at...
Join the FTR Poker Forum to disable these banners and start posting!
|
|
uscheese
|
|
Flush
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 558
|
|
The local baseball team in St. Louis is the red sox. Ask them if they are looking forward to watching them win the world series this year.
Also...ask them why they would chose to live in St. Louis.
|
|
|
|
Warpe
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Canuckistan
Posts: 3,905
|
|
Nice try.
Cardinals, Blues, Rams... Besides, most of the Americans there will be from other parts of the USofA.
|
|
|
|
Numbr2intheWorld
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,561
|
|
Don't tell an American that Montreal is the best city in the world 2nd only to Toronto.
|
|
|
|
mrhappy333
|
|
Full House
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hartford, CT
Posts: 1,078
|
|
Avoid Religion and Politics!
Talk about how the beer in CANADA is so much better, and the women are so much nicer, and how people can leave their doors unlocked.
|
|
3 3 3 I'm only half evil.
|
|
DaNutsInYoEye
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: St. Louis
Posts: 1,921
|
|
-ask them how many tons of TNT they think you'd need to knock over the gateway arch?
-ask them if they think anheuser busch uses water directly from the mississippi to brew their beer?
-tell them that provel cheese is an abomination and has no place being on a pizza.
-ask them if there is any truth to the rumors that albert pujols and yadier molina are secretly gay lovers?
|
|
TheXianti: (Triptanes) why are you not a thinking person?
|
|
Lukie
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: back with a vengeance
Posts: 3,307
|
|
basically, if you avoid logical discussion on the world outside the US, you should be ok.
|
|
|
|
Wooderson
|
|
Straight
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Ft. Worth, Tejas
Posts: 136
|
|
Ask them if they want to bet whether or not you can throw a football over them mountains.
|
|
I'd like to meet Jesus. Not because people claim he was the son of god, but because he could turn water into wine. A man like that is good to know, because you never know when you'll need a bottle of wine or an extra nail.
|
|
a500lbgorilla
|
|
JESUS TAKE THE KEYBOARD
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: This room is a good place to be
Posts: 8,379
|
|
Americans are laid back so long as you don't bitch about the American gov't.
Conversation possibilities : Canadian football vrs real football. How cool hockey is. Why candians say "eh." WTF is up with Celine Dieon? etc etc.
|
Smithers, use the amnesia ray.
You mean the revolver, sir?
Precisely.
|
|
Pay4myCad!!
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Oklahoma, at some point in the next 15 yrs... Apparently
Posts: 82
|
|
Ask when they're planning on finishing the other half of the 'golden arches'.
Then every time it's in view hum: "Ba- ba - bop ba- ba... I'm lovin' it"
|
|
Of course I have bad days...
Sometimes I'll go a whole day without quads.
|
|
Phantaroth
|
|
Flush
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 505
|
|
If you talk politics make sure your entire political understanding is based on whether you love or hate Bush, expressing understanding of anything else is like speaking another language...
|
|
|
|
donkbee
|
|
WELP
Join Date: May 2005
Location: so close but so far
Posts: 3,604
|
|
The most annoying thing about Americans and conversation:
-they make fun of "eh" whenever possible, even though it's not funny anymore
-they make fun of "washroom" and insist on calling EVERYTHING a "bathroom" even though most restrooms don't have baths
-they make fun of the word "phone" when used as a verb
Just say eh a lot. It should make you lots of friends. Talk about your igloo at home. Whatever.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fnord
Why poker fucks with our heads: it's the master that beats you for bringing in the paper, then gives you a milkbone for peeing on the carpet.
|
|
|
mrhappy333
|
|
Full House
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hartford, CT
Posts: 1,078
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by courtiebee
Talk about your igloo at home.
|
Lmao!!
|
|
|
|
drmcboy
|
|
DrButtInski
Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 9,602
|
|
Quote:
|
-they make fun of "washroom" and insist on calling EVERYTHING a "bathroom" even though most restrooms don't have baths
|
most american men don't wash in there, and it's weird to call them "pee on the seat or floor" rooms.
|
|
|
English
Deutsch
Español
Français
Italiano
Nederlands
Pусский
Svenska
05-26-2012, 03:08 PM Australia Legalized Online Poker coming up in next 6 to 12 Months
Linear Mode
