29th July 2004, 10:07 PM
Biggest misconception? I'd say a huge misconception is that we actually THINK something like that. I'll let you in on something, we know! We all KNOW you don't have kangaroos and crocs and koalas as pets! But that doesn't mean we aren't going to totally make you think we DO think that :D. Ya know, generally any country you go to has NO idea what other countries REALLY make fun of it for. You know England? They think Americans don't like them because the English are too crude! Idiots! We make fun of them for being PRUDES! The opposite! Watch any english stereotype on American TV! They aren't the fat people drinking and shouting "woo". They are the cruller eating pipe smoking proper gentlemen with the upstanding high class accent that english people have struggling to be as "down" as we are.
Likewise, we like making fun of Aussies for their wildlife not because we actually think they are like that, but because we know Aussies get upset about it and that is highly amusing to us :D.
Likewise, we like making fun of Aussies for their wildlife not because we actually think they are like that, but because we know Aussies get upset about it and that is highly amusing to us :D.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)