Hey Europe!

[Echewta]

I'm familiar with regional stereotypes in the U.S. and generic stereotypes of the U.K. and Russia but help a brother out on some regional stereotypes in England please. What about other european countries?

I'd thank you but we saved your ass in World War II so you owe me this.

[Drederick Tatum]

all Scousers(people from Liverpool) are thieves.

people from the north(anywhere above London) are cheapskates.

people from the south(London and below) are soft and drink beverages that cause others to question their sexuality.

[Drederick Tatum]

Germans have no sense of humour and love Hitler.

[Drederick Tatum]

Spaniards are all lazy layabouts who sleep most of the day.


this one is more fact than stereotype.

[Drederick Tatum]

Italians are motherloving hotheaded no foreign language speaking greaseballs.

[Drederick Tatum]

the Polish are poor.

[Echewta]

Where does the term Scousers come from?

[Drederick Tatum]

I think they stole it from somewhere.

[Freebasser]

Scousers and Mancs thieve
Geordies walk around with their shirts off in winter
Brummies are thick
People from Yorkshire are boring
People who live in London have never been North of Watford
People from the SW of England are all inbred farmers
The Welsh shag sheep
The Scots are permanently sozzled and jobless and/or homeless

[Freebasser]

Where does the term Scousers come from?

Liverpool used to have a big Norwegian influx when it was a port city a few hundred years back. The Norwegians brought a popular stew dish over to Liverpool which was called lapskaus which then ended up being translated as lobscouse by the locals. They then became famous for eating it and were dubbed 'Scousers'.

[Echewta]

I dont know how I would feel knowing my people are referenced to by a popular stew dish.

[Fern]

all hatians smell .....

[Freebasser]

Last time I checked, 'Haiti' wasn't in Europe.

[Fern]

but it stinks like that dump ....

[camo]

London. Drink shandy, punch like girls, bit gay.
Liverpool. Scousers: thieve/steal, have curly hair
Manchester.Mancs: swagger like Liam Gallager
Newcastle.Geordies: impervious to cold weather, geordie birds are easy
Yorkshire. Sleep with their cousins, hard/like a fight, old fashion standards.
Birmingham.Brummies: are slow in the head, hard to understand.
Norfolk. Inbred and extremely backward and slow. Also applies for the entire South west.
Scotland. One big mountainous council estate.
Wales. One big mountainous council estate, but more sheep.

[MC Moot]

Spaniards are all lazy layabouts who sleep most of the day.


this one is more fact than stereotype.

this one is more a point of pride than stereotype...

[Helvete]

There are no stereotypes about my area, unless you lump it in with the whole south. I don't have a silly accent either.

[Echewta]

This is great info, thanks.

But what about the Irish? Or is that just a given. North and South?

[Adam]

Irish fight and drink - hate the english but get along with scottish and welsh. Everywhere in Ireland apart from Dublin its 1950 still. People in Belfast are terrorists.

[rirv]

The Welsh are sheep molestors whose sole personality trait is being Welsh.
Geordie girls are all slags who'll drop their knickers for a packet of Quavers, usually offered by a man with his shirt off.
Southerners are rude and don't smile or talk to other people in public. They all like to make jokes about 'the North' as though it is one place.
Scousers rob anything. Apparently. Because they don't have a job.
Yorkshiremen are dour.
Brummies have the worst accent in the world.
If you're Scottish, you're either on smack (Glasgow) or booze (the rest of Scotland). Either way, you're definitely fat. And ginger.
If you're from East Anglia, your mother and father are cousins and you have six toes on each foot.
Southwest folk chew on stalks of grass whilst swigging homemade cider and ploughing their fields.
Londoners are from Australia, South Africa or Poland.

[rirv]

The French smell and surrender in the first instance.
Belgians are all chocolate eating paedos.
The Dutch are just generally having a smoke and a pancake.
Germans have no sense of humour (don't mention ze war!).
The Swiss are Nazi-gold hoarding, watch makers.
Austrians are child-imprisoning tyrants. Birthplace of Hitler.
Russians have no conscience. Either it has been washed away by vodka, or it is genetic.
Italians are argumentative fascists.
Israel think they're in Europe, but really they're Arabs like the rest of the Middle East.

[Planetary]

i hate it when americans say they saved our ass in WW2.

someone on FRIENDS said i earlier and it annoyed me

[Echewta]

I forgot to throw in WWI as well. My bad.

[saz]

yeah, america had a lot of help from the ruskies, canucks and brits.

regarding stereotypes, i usually imagine the majority of the british to be hard ass cocknies who look like ginger baker (http://www.drumsoloartist.com/Site/Drummers/images/Ginger-Baker.jpg) and consume nothing but guiness, liver and onions, and pressed rat and warthog.

[roosta]

But what about the Irish? Or is that just a given. North and South?

Irish fight and drink - hate the english but get along with scottish and welsh. Everywhere in Ireland apart from Dublin its 1950 still. People in Belfast are terrorists.

Pretty much.

I will add:
Everyone in North Dublin is a heroin addict.
Everyone in South Dublin is a posh bastard.

[rirv]

Norn Iron Proddies vs. Suttern Oirish Cattolicks.

[Echewta]

This is all delightfully informative.

[gbsuey]

Can't add much to this but it is a common misconception that people from Cheltenham are posh, i mean a lot are but there are literally tonnes of thieving gypsy bastards there too! Rirv's right about the brummie accent, but it's joint worst with scouse.

And there are many small towns and villages made up of mainly slopey foreheaded inbred numpties,worst i ever encountered were in Cornwall. But i'm sure we share that with the u.s

[Caribou]

The Dutch are just generally having a smoke and a pancake.


This is amazingly accurate.

[Adam]

There is a town called Bath int he UK - every1 pronounces it Bath unless you are from there its pronounced Barth. They are posh.

But to add to the irish thing - us 2nd and 3rd generation Irish keep reminding people that we are because we aren't very proud to be English.

[insertnamehere]

pardon my ignorance, but could someone explain great britain vs uk ?

[rirv]

Officially we are the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Great Britain = England, Scotland, Wales.
United Kingdom = England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

[gbsuey]

There is a town called Bath int he UK - every1 pronounces it Bath unless you are from there its pronounced Barth. They are posh.

But to add to the irish thing - us 2nd and 3rd generation Irish keep reminding people that we are because we aren't very proud to be English.

See, Bath (i pronounce it Barth too)gets the same misconception as Cheltenham. Maybe because they're both Spa towns and once were more posh. But both have just as much council estates as private driveways nowadays-maybe a bit less! But granted, the countryside surrounding both places is absolutely mostly really posh, but beautiful.

[gbsuey]

There is a town called Bath int he UK - every1 pronounces it Bath unless you are from there its pronounced Barth. They are posh.

But to add to the irish thing - us 2nd and 3rd generation Irish keep reminding people that we are because we aren't very proud to be English.

See, Bath (i pronounce it Barth too)gets the same misconception as Cheltenham. Maybe because they're both Spa towns and once were more posh. But both have just as much council estates as private driveways nowadays-maybe a bit less! But granted, the countryside surrounding both places is absolutely mostly really posh, but beautiful.

[Yorkshire~Rose]

This thread has a chuckle-factor (and accuracy) of 8.5 (y)

[camo]

Rirv totally wins this thread.

[Funky Pepp]

It's fuckin' not true that we have no humour - assholes ;)
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Okay here's mine:
All Germans love beer and wear Lederhosen.
The Ossis (people from the Ex-GDR) are all Nazis.
The Bavarians are stupid farmers and hillbillies.
The Berliner are very unfriendly and proud of their city.
The People of the Ruhrpott (the ruhr area) are chavs.

[trailerprincess]

I love the idea of german chavs - do they make lederhosen tracksuits?

[trailerprincess]

The portuguese are wannabe Spaniards who tend to have greasy hair and smell of piri piri. Produce annoying footballers with equally annoying names - Nuno anyone?

[trailerprincess]

Londoners also think going to a park constitutes 'the countryside'

Brighton folk think that Brighton is the English riviera. But really it's the gay Newcastle Upon Tyne.

[Randetica]

who gives a shit about austria anyway

[trailerprincess]

Swedes/Danes/Norwegians - drink a lot and are generally pale and suicidal

[camo]

The French, smell, their females have hairy armpits, they cannot drive, they are generally obnoxious and arrogant and we refer to them as 'surrender monkeys'.

Also their footballers cheat.

[rirv]

Swedes/Danes/Norwegians - drink a lot and are generally pale and suicidal

Never been to Sweden or Denmark, but my time in Norway was miserable - alcohol costs ridiculous amounts and you can't buy it after 6pm on a Saturday. Stupid country. Massive speeding fines too. Fuck Norway. Nice fjords though.

[Randetica]

The French, smell, their females have hairy armpits, they cannot drive, they are generally obnoxious and arrogant and we refer to them as 'surrender monkeys'.

Also their footballers cheat.

sounds more like facts than stereotypes

[Drederick Tatum]

The French, smell, their females have hairy armpits, they cannot drive, they are generally obnoxious and arrogant and we refer to them as 'surrender monkeys'.

Also their footballers cheat.

cheese eating surrender monkeys.

[camo]

my bad (y)


edit How about 'cheese eating, garlic wearing surrender monkeys'?

[Adam]

Was it some1 on QI who called americans Burger Eating War Monkeys?

That made me laugh.

[Guy Incognito]

If i can offer some chip shop stereotypes:

Southerners - have nowt moist on there chips
Northerners - Chips and Gravy
Scots - battered mars bars
geordies - have massive stottie cakes
bolton/wiganers - pasties on a barm(bun)
northerners eat black pudding


there's probably more..

[Funky Pepp]

I love the idea of german chavs - do they make lederhosen tracksuits?

This (http://s2.imgimg.de/uploads/Proll009a0178jpg.jpg) is a pretty good image (especially the one on the top-pic) :D

[Echewta]

Thanks for Phil Colins by the way.

[hpdrifter]

German Guidos? :eek:

[Caribou]

This (http://s2.imgimg.de/uploads/Proll009a0178jpg.jpg) is a pretty good image (especially the one on the top-pic) :D

I'd like to see Germany as a country that is divided between people who look like Till Lindemann and people who look like Bill Kaulitz.

[Adam]

If you want to stereotype looks.
British: Ugly with Bad Teeth
French: Good Looking but Smell Bad
German: Chisel Jaw with good hair but don't smile
Dutch: Soft Faced with puffy eyes
Spanish: Small with bad teeth and sometimes bad skin
Polish: Whiter than snow with big noses
Flemish: Like Dutch but arrogant and drunk

Compare that to americans: Good looking but fake and plastic - in debt for life just for good teeth.

I love these threads where you can be racist under the guise of research.

Vote BNP!

[Randetica]

i swear i saw austrian hillibillies once
well maybe they been just american tourists but they scared me shitless

[gbsuey]

i lived in Greece for a while, all the men are short, coniving little wankers and i don't really know about the women as they stayed at home, cooking for their short,wanky men. It was a small village but that's no excuse

[rirv]

The title of this thread has me singing Slick Rick in my head every single time I log on.

[Videodrome]

i love this thread.

[b-grrrlie]

Finns are quiet and don't dare to talk to strangers, but at weekends they drink an awful lot, and I mean LOT! and fight with knives.

Swedish girls are all blond and sexy and good looking.

Danes' talk like they've forgotten to swallow the porridge.

Norwegians smell of fish.

[Caribou]

Dutch: Soft Faced with puffy eyes

Flemish: Like Dutch but arrogant and drunk


I have a soft face, put no puffy eyes. (I think)
And the Flemish are like the dutch, but it's usually the dutch who are drunk, loud and obnoxious. When on holiday I could always pick out the Dutch people, because you can hear them loudly complaining about the prices/the weather.

Also the flemish (and many others) think the Dutch are a bunch of cheapskates (true)
And the Dutch seem to think al belgians are stupid. (not true).

imo the difference can be seen as UK vs USA, with the Dutch resembling the latter.

[Adam]

^I suppose I can only really take it from my experience of europeans and I am not very well travelled.

Dutch when they speak english sound american but I think that is because of watching american TV and probably how a lot learnt the language?

I asked a greek girl out once - she said no but we are facebook friends now and she is definitely obnoxious, it wouldn't of lasted.

[Helvete]

Have lasted.

[Adam]

Have lasted.

I apologise for my disgraceful use of english.