TheScarf Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 There's more shaggers in Inverness for certain. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 You're currently reading the post of one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 6 hours ago, ICTChris said: I've seen this said about Russians and Ukrainians as well. Apparently smiling is kind of seen as a sign of being an idiot. I ask my friend who is Russian and she confirmed it! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekhibee88 Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 On 23/10/2022 at 23:05, Shotgun said: All Cockneys/Londoners are in love with themselves and mistakenly think everyone else wishes to be them. To be fair, this applies to natives of several British cities but Cockneys are by far the worst. Even any Cockneys left now.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 19 minutes ago, Ekhibee88 said: Even any Cockneys left now.. That's true. They put you in jail for saying you're English nowadays. So I've heard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Wolf Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 4 hours ago, scottsdad said: My favourite Edinburgh building is Donaldson's College. The city chambers in Glasgow is awesome, too. I once got a tour of the inner workings of it, including the (now disused) original ventilation systems. More interesting than it sounds. My token rich friend (everybody should have one!) lives there now. It is rather impressive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 9 hours ago, TheScarf said: You're currently reading the post of one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Golden God Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 All Irish students are studying to be teachers or in the medical field. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 All Irish students are studying to be teachers or in the medical field. This isnt true. Because all of them are now dentists 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 6 hours ago, tamthebam said: The lowest of hanging fruit, I’m glad someone ate it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 (edited) On 26/10/2022 at 16:03, Oystercatcher said: I'm in Sofia just now and the people are miserable as f**k. So I googled I found myself looking this up when I was in Riga last month. Anybody above the age of 40 is incapable of smiling (at least in public), and apparently they just got used to trusting absolutely nobody having lived through a time when somebody's wife could have been a KGB agent ready to shop you in, leading to 'a chat' with the authorities down at the corner house. Edited October 28, 2022 by Hedgecutter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 24 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: I found myself looking this up when I was in Riga last month. Anybody above the age of 40 is incapable of smiling (at least in public), and apparently they just got used to trusting absolutely nobody having lived through a time when somebody's wife could have been a KGB agent ready to shop you in, leading to 'a chat' with the authorities down at the corner house. I heard it said about the Soviet Union that if you were asked how it was going you said nothing. If you said things were bad, you were undermining the system. So they would take you away. If you said things were great, they wondered why you were doing better than everyone else. So they would take you away. There simply was no answer that would not be suspicious. Sounds like fun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Surely they could just say "no bad" like a normal person? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekhibee88 Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 On 28/10/2022 at 07:54, Hedgecutter said: I found myself looking this up when I was in Riga last month. Anybody above the age of 40 is incapable of smiling (at least in public), and apparently they just got used to trusting absolutely nobody having lived through a time when somebody's wife could have been a KGB agent ready to shop you in, leading to 'a chat' with the authorities down at the corner house. Yes, bit of a stereotype for Eastern Europeans they don't like fake niceness. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Can one of our residents of the Philippines confirm or deny that Filipinos love to high five? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 17 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said: Can one of our residents of the Philippines confirm or deny that Filipinos love to high five? They put Mister in front of your first name. Has anybody met a nice South African? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 They put Mister in front of your first name. Has anybody met a nice South African?I actually met a nice one the other day. It was most surprising. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 This looks about right 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty It Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 30 minutes ago, jagfox said: They put Mister in front of your first name. Has anybody met a nice South African? I've found South African women are pretty normal whereas the men are usually massive racists. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Ekhibee88 said: Yes, bit of a stereotype for Eastern Europeans they don't like fake niceness. They see people from the Anglosphere as being superficial and over-effusive and are uncomfortable with it, in much the same way we can feel uncomfortable with the way some Southern Europeans invade our personal space and cause us to spend a conversation gradually backing away from them into a corner. Not strictly Eastern European, but the kings of taciturnity have to be the Finns who seem to have taken a countrywide oath to patch the small talk...there's a long-standing saying that you know when you've finally made friends with a Finn...after about twenty years he'll stop looking at his own feet while he's talking to you and start looking at yours. Edited October 30, 2022 by Hillonearth 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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