Canada, mostly learned by listening to the CBC (our government media outlet) Laugh Out Loud podcast:
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Vancouver is the weed capital
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Newfoundland’s “Newfie” accent/dialect
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Hockey fights (when players go insane and beat the crap out of each other)
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Quebec hates everyone
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Our airline is terrible
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We use a confusing combination of Metric and imperial units
I’d also like to add timmies in recent years. There has been a steep decline
The pool room.
Germany:
- the town of Bielefeld does not exist. There’s a huge conspiracy to make people think it’s a real place
The German wiki article said that it’s often used to illustrate and make fun of the fact that conspiracy theorists can claim the most absurd crap.
The English wiki article mentioned that even Angela Merkel mentioned it in a speech once, so I really gotta track that down now.
It’s the same as when people in the states say “Wyoming (or sometimes North dakota) doesn’t exist”
I mean, have YOU ever actually met someone from Wyoming?
I mean, I have, but now that you mention it, I’ve only met people who claimed they were from Wyoming. Who knows what they might have been hiding…
ed balls
The swedish button
Here in Norway we like to make fun of Swedes as a stupid people. The swedish button originated (at least the first context I knew of) as yanking the power cable from the socket as a way of turning off an applianve such as a Tv or computer, inatead of the intended way
One can also call other extreme/destructive ways of turning something off as the swedish button, such as hitting a tv with a hammer.
