Relationships between neighbours countries

Smell of garlic, the Spanish? HHEHEHEHEHEHE, I didn't know that!!! LMAO

Amarylia: All right, but I'll visit your island one day, and maybe I'll decide you can get my place an the continent and change it for a place on your island.

 

Aha maybe we can exchange I sure am doubtful each day... Sure you've got to visit the whole archipelago, Madeira (a beautiful garden surrounded by the Atlantic), Porto Santo (such a beach paradise), Desertas and Selvagens. And if u ever have the opportunity travel by boat so u can smell islanders breathe

 

It sounds great, after the summer I'll start to save money for my amazing trip to the islands, but i'll need a guide, you know?

 

I love garlic. Usually I eat garlic the day before weddings and so on. Once I had a girlfriend who ate 24 cloves of garlic within 10 minutes. That was fantastic!

 

Mira migle um email d piadinhas maldosas sobre espanhóis que me enviaram, é mm o ideal para a tua pergunta.

>>>Olé...!

>>>Segundo recentes estatísticas, de cada 10 espanhóis, 11 sentem-se superiores aos outros.

>>>O Primeiro Ministro espanhol, em visita oficial a
Portugal, iria conhecer uma escola de Lisboa. E o director da escola foi preparar
os seus alunos para receberem bem a importante visita.
>>>- Vocês devem ser educados com o senhor Aznar.
Joaozinho, eu vou-te perguntar o que é a Espanha para nós. E
respondes que a Espanha é um pais amigo.
>>>- Não, senhor director! A Espanha é um pais irmão.
>>>- Muito bem, Joaozinho. Mas não é preciso tanto. Diz apenas que a Espanha é um pais amigo.
>>>- Não e não, a Espanha é um pais irmão!
>>>- Ta bom, Joaozinho. Mas porque é que achas que a Espanha e um pais irmão, e não um pais amigo?
>>>- Porque amigos a gente pode escolher!

>>>Qual é a diferença entre os espanhóis e os
terroristas?
>>>Os terroristas têm simpatizantes.

>>>Qual e a semelhança entre um espanhol humilde e o
super-homem? >>>- Nenhum dos dois existe.

>>>Como se faz para reconhecer um espanhol numa livraria?
>>>- Ele é o que pede o mapa-múndi de Madrid.

>>>Segundo a imprensa espanhola, Di Stefano foi o melhor
jogador do mundo e
>>>um
>>>dos melhores de Espanha.

>>>Um espanhol estava sendo entrevistado na TV.
Perguntaram-lhe: >>>- Qual a pessoa que mais admira?
>>>- Dios!
>>>- E porque?
>>>- Bueno, fue el quien me criou!

>>>O que se deve atirar a um espanhol que se esta a afogar?
>>>- O resto da família.


>>>O que é o ego?
>>>O pequeno espanhol que vive dentro de cada um de nos.


>>>Qual é o negocio mais lucrativo do mundo?
>>>Comprar um espanhol pelo que ele vale e vende-lo pelo que
ele pensa que vale.


>>>O espanholinho fala com o seu pai:
>>>- Papa, quando yo crescer yo quiero ser como usted.
>>>- Y por que, mi hijo?! - pergunta o orgulhoso madrilenho.
>>>- Para tener un hijo como yo.


>>>Por que há tantos partos prematuros em Espanha?
>>>- Nem as mães aguentam um espanhol por 9 meses!

>>>Noticia no principal telejornal espanhol. Portugal e
Espana empataram hoy el jogo por la Copa Europa: zero gols para Portugal e ZERO GOLAÇOS para la Espana!

>>>Porque é que os espanhóis em geral, preferem não se
casar?- Eles nunca encontraram uma mulher que os amasse mais do que eles se amam.

>>>Porque é que não há terramotos na Espanha?
>>>- Porque nem a terra os engole...


Tudo boa gente na brincadeirinha maldosa, afinal é bom ter auto-estima, no?


You put your feet in Madeira and you'll have a whole group guiding u trough Madeira's Levada walks, a kind of ribeiritas de água, the channels that distribute water trough the island, ma people is most welcoming.


Ahora vamos a ver Portugal ganando Holanda!

 

You call us "rosbeef" but we are equally mean by calling you "frogs"! A weird obsession with the other country's eating habits seems to lie at the heart of this!

Despite the cliche that the English hate the French and the French hate the English it isn't like that in practice at all... I lived in Paris for four years and loved it, and I didn't ever get any stick for being English. In practice we get on really well most of the time!

 

I love English people As well as their accents!! And I think that it's cute how they call us French "frogs" - I like frogs!! lol And it's better than pigs or something like that!

And I love all of you Europeans, there's a charm about each of your country and its people, I wish I could have all of you right here now so I could give you a big *hug*

For the non-Europeans who read this thread, I love you too

Anyways, all those are stereotypes, and they're not always true... some of them are legends even!

 

HEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHE LMAO HEHEHEHEH I can't stop laughing, I didn't know you have those ideas about us, they are the same jokes we make about people from the Vasc Country (Euskadi), because they think they are the belly bottom of the world (Spanish translated expression), and of course they also think the same about us, people from Madrid, but I loved the jokes, they are very funny, and in Portuguese are very nice, we must make an effort and translate them to English for the rest of people overhere, ok?

I'll try to translate one that made me LMAO:

Why are there so many premature births (good spelling??) in Spain??
Because there is no woman who can stand a Spanish for nine months.

 

I can regognize the same sarcastic (but maybe also functional and necessary?!) relation between scandinavian countries. Some kinda peaceful insider-competition.

love,

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Right Wolf, as the Finnish people I knew when I was there said, we have exactly the same relationship, much love and hate stuff.

Another joke from Amarylia, hehehehehe:

What's the difference between the Spanish and the terrorists??
The terrorists have supporters.

You can see the Portuguese love us, can't you? HEHEHEHEHHEHE

 

I didn't know that Aznar still had supporters.

 

Yep, it's a great piece of shit, because in the last generel elections, after the terrorist attacks, his party had 9 million votes again, they lost, but they still had a lot of votes, too much in my opinion after their behaviour with all the lies about the attacks authory.

 

I enjoyed reading the previous posts in this thread, and while wolf_at_door and KozmicBlue already wrote a bit about Scandinavia, I thought I'd insert some Swedish perspective on this as well.

I have a feeling Sweden isn't too popular among its neighbours, for various reasons. Historically, this could have something to do with the big Swedish empire, but nowadays the annoying "we know best" attitude is probably a bigger cause of irritation. There's a constant rivalry with Norway and Finland, especially in sports, while the relation to Denmark is much more relaxed. A Norwegian skier once said: "the most important thing isn't to win, but to beat the Swedes". This kind of thing isn't as strong in Sweden as it is in Norway and Finland though (in Sweden, we have loads of Finnish immigrants and are used to them being all around us, while in Finland they see Swedes as "those bastards over there").

As for how Swedes look at their neighbours, there's a common idea that Norwegians are, like wolf_at_door already said, very jolly people. It's hard to imagine a truly angry Norwegian, something which is often made fun of. There are also inumerable jokes about how Norwegians are stupid and ignorant (always beginning with a question). Norwegians are presumed to refuse to do anything Sweden has already done. If they can't do it first, they won't bother with it at all. Finns are seen as hard-skinned drunks who spend half their free time in the sauna drinking vodka. I bet there's more, but not that I can think of right now...

peace,
-Pat

 

lol, there was a French commercial a while ago, for something Finnish but I forgot what, but anyways, they showed 3 or 4 Finns in a sauna, and then going out to roll naked in the snow, hehehehe

 

our only neighbours, england, wales and scotland.

the irish seem to complain alot about the english. and always have. and probably always will. the history man. the history.

tis terrible.

when it comes ta scotland thou, scotland! our celtic brother! i think scotland and ireland have this link ya kno..the history man.the history.

i havent heard any irish comments on the ole welsh now.

its all aloud of shit thou.

 

The funny thing is that we actually do that.

 

I don't connect that bad habit to english people; rather americans. Many americans act like if they were anthropologists on a very important expedition when they are travelling in Europe.

 

English satire has been on stand-by for many years.
But with the genious "Black Books", they've proved that the good old english 'monty python satire tradition' still exists, imo.

Jerry Sadowitch is also hilarious.

 

I disagree on that... every time I've seen Americans in Europe they've always tried to speak the language of the country they were in, and were very open in general. And acting exactly the oposite of the French (blasé), always impressed by everything!

 

I agree. Don't misunderstand me - american tourists are very kind. But they are all so amazed of all the old castles and historical places. I'd rather wished that they spent some time to learn the people to know instead.

btw, I also want to tell a joke:

If a child fall while playing, and hurt his/her knee...:

-The norwegians will say: "don't cry, up on your legs again".

-The danes will start panic and whine, and contemplate the wound at the knee as a big tragedy.

-The swedes will immediately set up a commission, so that similar tragedies can be avoided in the future!