I will have to go to BC one day.
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Greetings from northern Germany.
Most of the clichés you know about Germans are false or often describe crazy stereotypes from the south, which doesn’t like to think of itself as part of Germany.
Pretzels, carnival, lederhosen, wheat beer and veal sausage are not things that many people in Germany identify with.
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They say that no one in space wears pants. Not true, one time I saw someone wearing pants.
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Hahahahahahahhahaahhahaha, thanks Tchu. Will not elaborate but - thanks!
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Don’t bite the hands that feed you. 
Hmmm, I don’t know…
- Windmills are still present, but not on actual duty. It’s not like the country is littered with them, you’ll see more windturbines than the old stuff.
- Tolerance…yes, a bit too much actually. Well, actually it’s more ‘you do your thing, I do mine’ that tolerance. In such a densely populated country with a lot of people having different customs there’s no escaping people so friction does occur. But where we just grumble about just anything and then go back to the sprouts, potatoes and TV, the French raise hell and burn down the country if the fuels price rises by 0.01 cent. Wish we were more like that.
- We don’t all smoke pot. I’ve never touched a sigarette even.
- Being a bit tight with the wallet. Well…yes, I guess. But usually checks are split and spread to equal parts. We had Romanian colleagues over that were used to paying exactly their own share, that felt odd. On the other hand, taxes on just about everything except for breathing air (will probably come in the future), tax over tax, world’s most expensive fuel only surpassed by Hong Kong…so what do you expect? The government loves to feel important on a global scale and plays Santa for the rest of the world when they get the chance.
- Bicycles. Yes. Everywhere, used for anything. Roads therefor are adapted to that, you can basically cycle all around the Netherlands.
Did I miss something?
– Oh yeah, and actually thinking we are of great influence, an example for all, and importance on the global theatre. Our ultra-expensive climate stuff on this little speck on the planet will save the whole world, everyone will come to us for international advice in any matter. Ok, I’ll give them this: we’re pretty good at efficient farming, dykes, and salvaging big stuff at sea.
Also our drop and stroopwafel is nice.
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Pants are overrated.
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well to be fair, Santa is supposed to love everybody
in america we have two types of people, people who raise hell and burn things down over police brutality, and people who raise hell and burn things down over college football. 
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FTFY! It’s March Madness baby!
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Australia’s culture is Funk!.. if you hear a Funky band playing funk, not to be confused with a band playing funky… it will be an Australian band, some funky mf’s over there doing it like it should be done!
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everything about switzerland is true.
have a nice day!
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Historically, however, Bavaria was not always a donor state. In the first decades after the Second World War, Bavaria, as a structurally weak agricultural state, benefited from state financial equalization.
Bavaria also has very structurally weak and low-income areas.
The Munich metropolitan region benefits in particular from companies that have their origins in other areas (Lufthansa, Schleich, Allianz, Siemens, etc.)
Without the purchasing power from the other federal states especially, prosperity would rapidly decline.
On average, 30,000 skilled workers immigrate from the rest of Germany every year.
Bavaria imports a considerable proportion of its electricity requirements from other federal states.
The “Länderfinanzausgleich” between the federal states simply ensures a little justice.
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Hahaha…yeah, but let them play Santa with THEIR money if they want, not my hard earned cash and pension (something about ‘socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money’). Ah yes, regarding the sports…football/soccer…an ideal opportunity to wreck buildings, streets, and each other. Only see that around that particular sport regularly. Tribal unity and hostility at the same time. I’ll never understand that.
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Loved the cleanliness, order, gorgeous scenery, proud Swiss flags on a lot of houses. Me and the girlfriend were enchanted when passing inland through to Italy!
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Most persons find their culture/subculture, but fascists need it as a recruitment vector.
Sports makes for great nationalism, a quasi-religious ecstasy, and people excuse a lot of violence under those banners.
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«Ukrainians are natural born anarchists and disrespect all kinds of authorities by default»: mostly true.
to be continued.
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Sorry but your bagels are awful.
You got to know where to buy them. The Jewish district is the place to buy them. Saint-Viateur Bagel or Fairmount Bagel are some of the good places. Fresh from the bagel oven.
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The US has room for so many different stereotypes, and is very accommodating in demonstrating their correctness.
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