Top 3 Americanisms Today...

My apologies to my American friends reading this but some of your fellow country people come out with some of the silliest/stupidest comments known to man. Hopefully it is all in good fun, kinda like the way The Simpsons make Australia look like a country of hicks with no mode3rn technology - always funny to see this stereotype come across .... so remember, we are laughing along WITH you. These all actually just happened today too.

Number 3 - This dog came running up to me and the owner was shortly in tow and just started talking in English - a bit of a welcomed change from all the foreign languages I keep hearing. So I was chatting with her for a bit and then she askes 'Are you from around here?'

Number 2 - Room mate was an American complaining that he wasn't get his passport stamped in all the 'dodgy' countries (Eastern Europe, Morocco etc). I asked why this bothered him? "Cause I want to mess with immigration when I go home. What are they going to do about it?". Ummm... lets see, there is this thing in America called the PATRIOT act which actually lets them do whatever the hell they like. Why would you want to pull the lions tail?

Number 1 - Looking at a sign and it has countries flags for various languages and then the descriptions. French Flag for French, British Flag for English, Italian flag for Italians, Spanish etc. An American standing next to me. "Why the hell don't they have an American Flag so that we can understand it?"