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Last modified: 23 April 2001
TOP 12 REASONS FOR
BEING ENGLISH
1) Two World Wars and One World Cup doo-dah doo-dah.
2) Warm beer.
3) You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket.
4) You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events.
5) Union jack underpants.
6) Water shortages guaranteed every single summer, and flooding in winters.
7) You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.
8) Bathing once a week-whether you need to or not.
9) Ditto changing underwear.
10) The most famous football supporters in the world.
11) Beats being Welsh.
12) Or Scottish.
TOP 10 REASONS FOR
BEING ITALIAN
1) In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes.
2) Unembarrassed to wear fur.
3) No need to worry about tax returns.
4) Glorious military history... well, till about 400 a.d.
5) Can wear sunglasses inside.
6) Political stability.
7) Flexible working hours.
8) Live near the Pope.
9) Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair.
10) Drive small cars like if they were Ferrari Testarossa.
TOP 10 REASONS FOR
BEING FRENCH
1) When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay.
2) Yet to experience the joy of winning the world cup for the first time.
3) You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs.
4) If there's a war you can surrender really early.
5) You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.
6) You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries.
7) You can be ugly and still become a famous film star.
8) Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street
humiliating your sense of national pride.
9) You don't have to bother with toilets, just shit in the street.
10) People think you're a great lover even when you're not.
TOP 12 REASONS FOR
BEING AMERICAN
1) You can have a woman president without electing her.
2) You can spell colour wrong and get away with it.
3) You can call Budweiser , beer.
4) You can be a crook and still be president.
5) If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything.
6) If you can breathe you can get a gun.
7) You can invent a new public holiday every year.
8) You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made
and nobody seems to care.
9) You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy".
10) You can think you're the greatest nation on earth
11) When you're not
12) At all.
1) Glorious history of killing South American tribes.
2) The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees.
3) You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits etc.
4) The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans.
5) Everybody else makes crap paella and claims it's the real thing.
6) Honesty.
7) Only sure way of bedding a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes
and risk your life in front of bulls.
8) You get to eat bulls' testicles.
9) Gibraltar.
10) Supported Argentina in Falklands War.
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10) In-built sense of humour and pacifism.
1) Chicken Madras.
2) Lamb Passanda.
3) Onion Bhaji.
4) Bombay Potato.
5) Chicken Tikka Masala.
6) Rogan Josh.
7) Popadoms.
8) Chicken Dopiaza.
9) Meat Boona.
10) Kingfisher lager.
1) You've got to be having a laugh, haven't you?!?!?!?
1) Guinness.
2) 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
3) You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.
4) Pubs never close.
5) Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in the
second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend
that you can't have sex with a condom on.
6) No one can ever remember the night before.
7) Kill people you don't agree with.
8) Stew.
9) More Guinness.
10) Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3
in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.
1) It beats being an American.
2) Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
3) You can play hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.
4) Only country to successfully invade the US and burn
its capital to the ground.
5) Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a
canoe?
6) A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her
popularity ratings will rise.
7) Only country to successfully invade the US and burn
its capital to the ground.
8) Kill Grizzly bears with huge fuckoff shotguns and cover
your house in their skins.
9) Own-an-eskimo scheme.
10) Only country to successfully invade the US and burn
its capital to the ground.
1) Know your great-grand-dad was a murdering bastard
that no civilised nation on earth wanted.
2) Fosters Lager.
3) Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country
for 40,000 years because you think it belongs to you.
4) Annihilate England every time you play them at cricket.
5) Tact and sensitivity.
6) Bondi Beach.
7) Other beaches.
8) Liberated attitude to homosexuals.
9) Drinking cold lager on the beach.
10) Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager
on the beach.