A rude joke.

Well, the only place i've ever traveled and had a problem because of my nationality, is ironically, new zealand. We just ran into an asshole.

Anyways, the point is, there are 300 million americans, i'm sure you havent met 1000th of .01% of americans. I wouldnt judge all americans by the few you've met. Surely you wouldnt want me to judge all kiwi's as jerks by the few experiences i've had with them.

edit: like all societies, we hvae some of the dumbest people to have ever existed, and some of the brightest.

btw, how hte hell can you fly to new zealand and think its near spain!?

 

oh sure, - but internationally Americans are percieved as having an arrogance about them that is not the most appealing trait, nor one that is helped by a certain world leader. Maybe it's just a cultural thing - in NZ generally people are supposed to play down their superioties and achievements, kind os a tall poppy problem that we have. From what I've heard it's qute diffrent in America - if you do well then you let people know. Neither attitude is nessecarily better than the other - however, they do tend to grate a bit when one boogies with the other.

 

No, coming off like an arrogant asshole is definitely worse than being modest. You can't generalize anything about America though. I know many americans believe that foreigners have a superiority complex(especially europeans), so wtf, it seems everyone thinks the other person is arrogant. Especially when it comes to culture.

While many americans have np telling people they are richer, smarter, better lookign than others, they are frowned upon by most people as an arrogant assholes. Then again, most the people who you are likely to meet are the richer Americans who most likely dont give a fuck about you or me for that matter.

 

yeah, just the downplaying thing permeates NZ culture - like we have an ad on tv for beer - a train is coming down the track, but egad its broken! so mr typical kiwi bloke #1 jumps down from where he is fixing the telephone wires, puts his ladder in place of the tracks, the day is saved. But the broken piece slides down the hill, hits a dam, which starts to leak. Mr Typical Kiwi Bloke #2 leaps up from his campsite, shoves his can of DB in the hole, and the day is saved. But some Japanese tourists who lean out to watch get their hats blown off, which blow into the campfire and set a tree alight. Mr Typical Kiwi Bloke #3 explodes out of the woods and cuts down the tree with his chainsaw, felling it into the river and the day is saved. Cut to the three of them in a pub, where the barman hands them each a DB and asks "how was your day", to whcih they reply stuff like "oh, same old" "yeah, can't complain" and other laid back, unfussy and especially downplayed stuff.

 

ahaha thats great

 

I LOVE THAT SHIT. It's like the L.A.D.S ad or that one where those guys watched and decided who deserved a beer. That one made me laugh every time. They should do a new one.

 

well i certainly wouldn't be a star in that ad.

i mean heck i'm more like an arogant american than a modest kiwi.

the ad would be more like.....

little kid is playing with a little toy boat in the duck pond, and another little kid comes and starts throwing stones at it trying to sink it, then he hits it and almost sinks it. so i give the little shit a dead arm and he starts crying.

then his mum comes and beats the crap out of me giving me a good number of visable bruises.

so at the pub later with my mates, the bar tender is like "so how was your day", and i'd be like "same old"............ it would wait a we while as if the ad was gonna finish, but then it'd be right back into it..... "saved some guys yaught from sinking this morning..........."


oh man, i could never be modest if i tried. the only time i'm modest is if i fail at somthing LOL (don't wanna be gloating about being a loser now do we)

HA HA HA

sorry NZers i let you down, with my total awsomness that is. (everyone says i'm modest really, i mean i think i'm the most modest person in the world actually, if you could find someone more modest than me i'd be really suprised, coz i think its impossible really)

p.s. anyone know any more welly chicks, i mean i am a bit retarded when it comes to those things with cooties, suposedly quite a few like me, but heck why arn't i told these things untill its too late LOL. i think i'm the last one to know anything (boo hoo, cry cry.... anyway back to daisy, and fluffy here...........baaaaaaaa.......quite you.).

Doug

 

HAHAHA funny shit!

 

aha, lol...being a loser is the only thing me and my flatties gloat about. We have competitions to see who is the best at coming first at the wrong end (yeah I can smoke 'em)

 

oOooOooh but being the "best/biggest loser, is totally somthing to gloat about.

i'm talking about gloating about being "second place" now that is ultimate loserishness.

getting last place is so much better than 2nd. coz if you are last then you are the "bestest loser ever" if you are second you just go have a cry about it, coz you sucked by just that much.

Doug

 

have the jibjab parodies filtered down to NZ? www.jibjab.com the this land parody is the best.

 

yeah seen them a long time ago, jibjab ain't that funny IMO though.

they are pretty average.

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