TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE FRENCH:
- When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay.
- Experienced the joy of winning the world cup for
the first time after drugging the opposition
- You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs.
- If there's a war you can surrender early.
- You don't have to read the subtitles on those late
night films on Channel 4.
- You can test your own nuclear weapons in other
people's countries.
- You can be ugly and still become a famous film star.
- Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous
street without humiliating your sense of national pride.
- You don't have to bother with toilets, just go in
the street.
- People think you're a great lover even when you're not.
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE AMERICAN:
- You can have a woman president without electing her.
- You can spell colour wrong and get away with it.
- You can call Budweiser 'beer'.
- You can be a crook and still be president.
- If you have enough money you can get elected to do nothing.
- If you can breathe you can get a gun.
- You get to be obese.
- You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever
made and nobody seems to care.
- You get to call everyone you've ever met "buddy".
- You can think you're the greatest nation on earth.
10a. When you're not.
10b. at all.
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE CANADIAN:
- It beats being an American.
- Only country to successfully invade the US and burn
its capital to the ground.
- You can play hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.
- Only country to successfully invade the US and burn
its capital to the ground.
- Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh
water in a canoe?
- A political leader can admit to smoking pot and
his/her popularity ratings will rise.
- Only country to successfully invade the US and burn
its capital to the ground.
- Kill Grizzly bears with huge shotguns and cover
your house in their skins.
- Own-an-Eskimo scheme.
- Only country to successfully invade the US and
burn its capital to the ground.
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE AUSTRALIAN:
- Know your great-grand-dad was murdering scum that
no civilized nation on earth wanted.
- Fosters Lager (although it's brewed in the UK!)
- Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country
for 4,000 years because you think it belongs to you.
- Annihilate England every time you play them at cricket.
- Tact and sensitivity.
- Bondi Beach.
- Other beaches.
- Liberated attitude to homosexuals.
- Being the world champs at Aussie Rules football
- Very well mannered and cultured
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE ENGLISH:
- Two World Wars and One World Cup doo dah doo-dah.
- Warm beer.-
- You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket.
- You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events.
- Union jack underpants.
- Water shortages guaranteed every single summer.
- You can live in the past and imagine you are still
a world power.
- Bathing once a week - whether you need to or not.
- Ditto changing underwear.
- Beats being Welsh.
10a. Or Scottish.
10b. Or N. Irish
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE SOUTH AFRICAN:
- Being able to win the world cup rugby the first
time you enter the competition.
- Get to eat raw dried meat and call it a treat.
- Stable and politically safe economy.
- Thinking that gays only live outside the country.
- Having a flag which looks more like Joseph's
Technicolor dream coat
- Having 11 official languages and only being able to
speak one
- Having an ex convict as your president.
- Having one of the most honest postal services in
the world.
- Being able to charge tourists to visit areas of unrest
- You can drive drunk
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE ITALIAN:
- In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes.
- Unembarrassed to wear fur.
- No need to worry about tax returns.
- Glorious military history prior to 400 a.d.
- Can wear sunglasses inside.
- Political stability.
- Flexible working hours.
- Live near the Pope.
- Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair.
- Country run by Sicilian murderers.
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE SPANISH:
- Glorious history of killing South American tribes.
- The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees.
- You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits etc.
- The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans.
- Everybody else makes lousy paella and claims it's the real thing.
- Honesty.
- Only sure way of meeting a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes and risk your life in front of bulls.
- You get to eat bulls' testicles.
- Gibraltar.
- Supported Argentina in Falklands War.
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TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE DUTCH:
- You can ride your bicycle everywhere you want to
- If your bicycle gets stolen, you just steal somebody else's
- Amsterdam
- You can smoke weed anywhere without getting arrested
- You are allowed to hate Germans
- Heineken
- You can go to a soccer match and throw rocks at policemen afterwards
- You can go to the red light district if you're over 12
- You can buy beer if you're over 6
- You can ride your bicycle drunk
TEN REASONS IT'S GREAT TO BE IRISH:
- Guinness.
- 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
- You can get into a fight just by marching down
someone's road.
- Pubs never close.
- Get to eat potatoes with every meal for the rest of
your life.
- No one can ever remember the night before.
- Kill people you don't agree with.
- Stew.
- More Guinness.
- Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub
at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence
TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING BELGIAN
- You get to speak three languages, but none of them intelligibly.
- If other countries want to fight a war, they will do in your county.
- You can brew drinks out of fruit, and still call it beer.
- You are either a. like the Dutch, just less
efficient; b. like the French, just less romantic;
c. like the Germans
- Decent fries. Real mayonnaise. Great chocolate. The
best beer. Need I say more?
- No one knows anything about you, except for the
Dutch and French and they make fun of you.
- More scandals in a week than any other country in a
decade.
- You can drive like a maniac on the road and nobody cares
- All your famous countrymen are either imaginary, or
sex-offenders
- Face it. It's not really a country, is it?
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- Oktoberfest
- Oktoberfest-beer
- BMW
- VW
- Audi
- Mercedes
- On a highway you can travel at a speed that would
bring you to jail in any other country of the world.
- You do not have to learn German as a foreign language.
- You think Sauerkraut is delicious.
- Contrary to common belief, laughing is not
forbidden by law.