Originated by Bitter Coast:
Come on in, there is something for everyone!

We have such an international group here, I thought it would be interesting to create a topic where we can discuss various aspects of foreign culture and have an open forum for legitimate questions. Feel free to ask for translations as well.

A couple of guidelines:

-Respect each other *and* your cultural differences.
-Be careful with religion and politics
-Keep it classy

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1342261-international-inquiries/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1342755-the-travelers-tavern-international-inquiries-ii/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1343569-the-travelers-tavern-iii/



Last post from the last thread was a question from Papafern:

Where is the nicest girls, the ones from here have drifted off on holidays and I don't like what's left.

EDIT: He's from Scotland, by the way.

@Papafern
I've heard good things about Montreal.

Paris! Everyone is beautiful in Paris, for some reason.

Beautiful, but scented with the aroma of poo.

I laughed, thank you
Least they have one thing ticked off that the left overs here dont have

(Replying to a post from the last thread)

Go ahead, be all emo with you pantaloons and their tightness. We'll be over here with our trouzes and their Gaelicness .

Bahh! Trousers what are you, a women!? Real men wear kilts
Ahhh the breeze, so fresh, so stro....Oh de..Hey pretty lady, you like what you see

I actually watched a show about Southerners in the US and how their accent is related to how a certain English class spoke in the 1800s. Was quite interesting actually... and I just thought they enjoyed their mint juleps too much.

And another food related/living question: Why is it that every real estate show I see on BBC has the absolute smallest fridges in the world in UK kitchens? Seriously, and I don't mean this as an insult, but the size of some of those fridges would only - and even then only maybe - house my drinks. There'd be no room for food. How do you make that work?

Now we just need a french chick to reply back in french, and then we'd have one sixy flame war.

Malheureusemant, ce qu'elle dit est tout à fait vrai... Bon sang que les rues sont dégueulasses.

I aim to please.

I'd be interested in getting a kilt, but they're rather expensive (a great kilt would be cheap enough -they're just several meters of fabric- but even more of an eyebrow raiser). Might pick up a Utilikilt some time, though.

When I was a kid I was always apprehensive about visiting my family in Paris because the metro was so dirty, I remember once at a station it smelled so bad I thought there had to be rotten eggs somewhere on the floor. :/ so yeah, Paris is a really dirty city.

Really? That's weird, I thought the French and Spanish had a bigger influence in the South. England's (Britain's) main priority was the north-east.




Do you mean the tiny ones that go under the counter? Those are usually used to store everyday things like milk and butter and there'd be bigger fridge elsewhere (Garage, Utility room) full of all the frozen stuff. Our kitchens generally aren't too big so it's easier to divide the storage into two than take up a large portion of your kitchen with a massive fridge.

Yeah, that particular "romantic" parisian smell... It's true for other cities, though. Most french dog owners are in need of a serious orientation lecture. With a sledgehammer.

What's everyones perception of Tasmania?

A big jungle. Full of people with poison darts and black magic. Also, every tribe has a leader like this guy.

http://blog.al.com/mhuebner/2008/04/medium_vanishing040308.jpg

Bunch of inbreds.

Lol

I call dibs!



Hopefully she said something good. I have a feeling that Google Translate failed on me again...

Has anyone here suffered from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome?

You mean that plot of land below Victoria, i was wondering what that was.

Actually had a pervy local politician try to look up my Kilt once, just about everyone in my family has worn a kilt, or played the pipes or drums.

There go all my illusions of La Ville-Lumière.

The most important "trigger" of the Paris Syndrome seems to be more down to earth than was once thought.