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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Canada, mostly learned by listening to the CBC (our government media outlet) Laugh Out Loud podcast:

  1. Vancouver is the weed capital

  2. Newfoundland's "Newfie" accent/dialect

  3. Hockey fights (when players go insane and beat the crap out of each other)

  4. Quebec hates everyone

  5. Our airline is terrible

  6. We use a confusing combination of Metric and imperial units

[–] hazardous_area@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d also like to add timmies in recent years. There has been a steep decline

[–] Sudo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Still love me that iced capp.

[–] Cruxifux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

We were at the fights and a hockey game broke out

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Straight to the pool room!

[–] suspicious_dog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tell β€˜em he’s dreaming!

[–] GadgetGirlOz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Found the fellow Aussie lol

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Germany:

  • the town of Bielefeld does not exist. There’s a huge conspiracy to make people think it’s a real place
[–] ritswd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To what end? Just shit and giggles or is there a goal to it?

[–] Pechente@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The German wiki article said that it's often used to illustrate and make fun of the fact that conspiracy theorists can claim the most absurd crap.

The English wiki article mentioned that even Angela Merkel mentioned it in a speech once, so I really gotta track that down now.

[–] zammy95@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You should be able to find the Angela Merkel video somewhere, her mentioning it is actually how I feel down the rabbit hole in the first place

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the same as when people in the states say "Wyoming (or sometimes North dakota) doesn't exist"

I mean, have YOU ever actually met someone from Wyoming?

[–] ritswd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I have, but now that you mention it, I’ve only met people who claimed they were from Wyoming. Who knows what they might have been hiding…

[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly! It's a giant lie I tell you.

[–] Duchess@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

The swedish button

Here in Norway we like to make fun of Swedes as a stupid people. The swedish button originated (at least the first context I knew of) as yanking the power cable from the socket as a way of turning off an applianve such as a Tv or computer, inatead of the intended way

One can also call other extreme/destructive ways of turning something off as the swedish button, such as hitting a tv with a hammer.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Chile:

  • we are the best country of chile.
  • Rancagua doesn't exist.
  • the city of Talca and his wet completos.^[imagine a HotDog but profounfly better, Chad completo virgin gringo hotdog]^

La Pampa province doesn't exist, Paraguay doesn't exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.

[–] EliasChao@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Mexico:

Quesadillas don’t have cheese by default in Mexico City, and everyone else outside of it make fun of them because of it.

La Pampa province doesn't exist, Paraguay doesn't exist, The United K*ngdom will collapse soon.