Japan Wants Foreign Tourists to Avoid Public Flatulence

[Fleetwood Mac]

I hope the Japanese find us as surrealistically amusing as we find them. It would be a shame for them to miss out on such entertainment.

I for one don't find them amusing.

One of the best countries I've visited and despite superficial differences the people who are most like the English.

I've a lot of time for the Japanese.

[Steadmund Brand]

Probably the biggest issue I have with Americans, and it's nowhere near all of them, is that if you don't do things the American way, you simply must be wrong.

And???

Steadmund Brand

[Robert]

Deep down, don't most people think that their own country, their own family, their own religion and their own heroes are the best? Nothing wrong with that.

[Ginger]

Probably the biggest issue I have with Americans, and it's nowhere near all of them, is that if you don't do things the American way, you simply must be wrong.

Well, yes... The American way is the right way. Everybody knows that.

[Pcdunn]

I have always heard that Aussie women find American men very attractive and sexy. Is that true? Oh God, please let it be true.

c.d.

I don't know about that one, c.d., but as an American woman, I find several Australian and New Zealand male actors attractive and sexy.

[c.d.]

Come on down and find out.

Well I suppose if I got rejected there would at least be beer to drink. Oh wait, that is my fall back position here in America. Never mind.

c.d.

[GUT]

I have always heard that Aussie women find American men very attractive and sexy. Is that true? Oh God, please let it be true.

c.d.

Come on down and find out.

[c.d.]

I have always heard that Aussie women find American men very attractive and sexy. Is that true? Oh God, please let it be true.

c.d.

[Rosella]

Yes, when I lived there it was before I came to Australia, Gut. I was still a Pom then. I've been back since and from all my trips there have only been a very few French people who didn't like 'Anglo Saxons' and acted with disdain or rudeness. That was in Paris, the rest of the country was fine.

[Robert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpyt9IK-uQ

[GUT]

France is actually a place where Aussies are treated like royalty, if they think you're a Pom they don't treat you so well, but once they realise your an Aussie the whole attitude changes.

[GUT]

Any complaints about Aussies should really be addressed to the cultural attache :



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULFMp4jKBo

Yep, uncle Les will sort it out.

[GUT]

If you have a copy of Ambrose Bierce's marvelous "The Devil's Dictionary", he defines "Un -American" as. "Intolerable, heathenish". Good ole' Ambrose.

As for that major gap that sometimes appears in our sense of humor, since we are on the verge of seeing the Donald nominated you can wonder if our sense of humor has just gotten out of control.

Jeff

I figured it was all a joke.

[Abby Normal]

Abby, I'm sorry that the four people that you know felt unwelcome here in Oz.

All I can say is that I know several Americans who love it here. Australia is a very diverse country. We have people from over 200 countries who live and work here. Over 30% of our population was born overseas. I don't these all these people from all over the world would stay if they felt unwelcome or Australians were nasty or arrogant towards them.

For myself, I was born in England and travelled a lot overseas both before and since I settled in Australia decades ago. Emigration is a difficult process for everyone who undertakes it, but I don't think you can generalise about a country or its people from the experiences of a handful of people.

For instance, I lived for a little while in France. Some people I met were rather rude and didn't like Anglos very much but I didn't take from that the view that all French people were like it, and they weren't.

I've never felt uncomfortable or unwelcome in Australia. I think it's a great country and its people are on the whole warm, friendly, generous, humorous and blunt. I invite you to come to Australia and see for yourself.

Thanks rosella
Fair enough. It just kind of upsets me when I hear the stories these people tell me about how they were treated, especially my nephew. Also, because when I was in high school we had an new Aussie family move in and they were treated like royalty. Especially the kid, whO was immediately taken in by me and the other high school kids.

Speaking of France. I know they have a terrible reputation, but when my wife and I went we loved the French and they treated us great.But We were warned before we left.Now my wife took a crash course in French and learned enough how to converse, so I think that obviously helped. And it was right after the le blue won the world cup and I was a fan-they liked me for that. We met some local couples at a club and after the wives went to bed, me and the dude, who was a jim morrison fan, went to the cemetary where he was buried . Itwas an amazing surreal adventure through paris in the middle of the night.Had a blast and Paris is awesome.

[Robert]

Any complaints about Aussies should really be addressed to the cultural attache :



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULFMp4jKBo