General Chat

Haven't you realised that Rollo only ever finds the bad about countries?

I'm sure he must spend much of his time googling for "bad things about (name of country)"

Unfortunately many of us know far more about our countries than he does so that anyone of us can counter whatever is posted ........... and we might joke about them but it is friendly jibes not nasty ones.

I think France usually escapes condemnation.

Maybe from Rollo but I'm sure many of us have had things to say about the place over the years :-)

Let's not even start on the fact the French lost Canada but still act like they won :-)

I will always remember going to Expo 67 in Montreal, before we even knew we would end up living here.

We went into the British Pavilion, and they had the audacity to have as the centre piece a very famous painting of the death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham. You went up an escalator and it was facing you at the top. No way to avoid seeing it!

We spotted it immediately and both got the giggles ........... but I don't know how many other visitors spotted the joke.


Yes, we can all make jokes about our own country, or make serious comments or complaints against what has happened ........... but I still maintain that we do it from a point where we know what it's about, not picked at random from google.

Ahhh Wolfe....isn't there a roundabout basically where he died so a bit like life going round and round the same disagreements :-).....no Polar bears though..

I didn't mean to start a dialogue on drop bears , nor on 'trivialising yer country', but I just found it very refreshing that a National Institution could actually do a tongue in cheek, pseudoscientific description, of a non-existent urban myth.

Obviously, my sense of humour needs urgent surgical intervention :-(

But all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again
The passengers will please refrain
This train has got the disappearing railroad blues

That told us Allan :-S

Your sense of humour is just fine Allan :-)

I might just disappear into the back of beyond, to converse with the drop bears :-P

Don't do that Allan I need someone to sail in the yellow submarine with :-D

Just remember what happened the last time I was on a submarine :-0

Yeah but lightning doesn't strike twice does it??

Yes

with or without a lightning rod??

It is not only the Australians that eat the animals on their national flag, why do you think there are no unicorns left. And, yes, I know they are not on out flag, but HM's coat of arms. Or somewhere.