You Know You're From... When...

[Rakido]

You're familiar with Sesame Street, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck (as a comic character), Wetten, dass..., Die Sendung mit der Maus, Sandmännchen and Biene Maya. If you're over 30, add Tatort, especially Schimanski, Lindenstrasse, and Derrick. If you're over 40, add Bonanza, Dallas, Denver Clan, Kojak, Flipper, Ein Herz und eine Seele, Was bin ich? and Einer wird gewinnen. If you're over 50, add the TV-movies after the Edgar Wallace novels and probably Raumpatrouille. If you're under 30, add Baywatch, Married with Children (known to you as Eine schrecklich nette Familie), Harald Schmidt, Stefan Raab, Big Brother, Verona Feldbusch and at least one of the daily soaps.

lol ... only thing wrong would be Raumpatrouille. Have seen it in TV and i'm not 40

You know how soccer is played. If you're male, you can argue intricate points about its rules. You know what handball is but don't care much about it. If you're under 30, you might know about basketball or even American football, but you don't know how baseball is played, although it somehow reminds you of a game you played for fun in elementary school.

Now this is utterly wrong .....

[GNEP]

Originally posted by Lizzard[MPE]
they didnt have yorkshire :/

Oh well. There's nothing bad they could've said anyway

[Rakido]

and just by the way: what are you still doing here? Has Florida moved to a new time zone ?

[Lizzard[MPE]]

You always call soccer football and you have a team and it's not Manchester United.

TRUE

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Originally posted by Rakido
and just by the way: what are you still doing here? Has Florida moved to a new time zone ?

haha no. ive moved to the i havent worked in 3 months zone so i stay awake very late

[Rakido]

good for us europeans, so we too have a chance to meet you online

unfortunately bad for you i guess

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Originally posted by GNEP
Oh well. There's nothing bad they could've said anyway

Signs You've Been in Leeds Too Long
You are unaware of any other club culture except Leeds
You get secretly excited when people say Leeds is the new big thing.
You fool yourself into thinking you can afford to shop at Harvey Nicks by going to the restaurant and ordering a water- and taking five hours to drink it.
Ladies: you dress like a tart out of Ibiza Uncovered for a night out.
Gents: you act like a wanker from Ibiza Uncovered for a night out.
You'll go into a designer shop at the start of the new season and ask how much something will be in the end of season sale.
You go around Harvey Nicks to see what's in fashion, then run over to TopShop and buy something similar - and then lie about where you got it from.
You see Leeds United players beating someone up/slagging a blonde in Majestyk and don't think anything of it.
You think Londoners are ponces and that London is 'crap', but you've never been as you can't afford the fare, and mum won't let you borrow the mini.
You hate students - even though you are one.
Leeds is the centre of your universe - you can't ever imagine leaving. Until you leave, then you can't ever imagine going back.

[lecter]

You know you're Romanian if:


Everything you eat is savored in garlic and onions.
You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport.
You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think it's normal.
All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their real
names.
You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
Your parents never throw anything away and if you by some chance manage to
get something to make it to the garbage can... it mysteriously appears back
where it was again.
You have lace curtains.
You have lace tablecloths.
You have rugs covering every inch of your house.
You have or had rugs on your walls.
Your mom tells you you're too skinny even though your 30 pounds overweight.
You have curtains hanging across every doorway.
Your mom recycles plastic cups and paper plates, and sandwich bags by
washing them.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and plastic
utensils (Got free with some household items).
Your parents call you farm animals when you get them mad.
Your mom ever chased you with a rolling pin or a broom telling you to stop
so that she could hit you.
Your dad ever told you to smack yourself over the mouth for being
disrespectful.
Your mom washes your clothing at 40.
You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off or
receive you whether you are traveling by bus, train or plane.
You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten,
even if it's midnight.
Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have
improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs
when making foreign calls.
You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from getting
dirty.
You don't know half the people at your wedding because your parents invited
them.
You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.
Your baby wears a hat and 3 body suits in the middle of a September heat
wave.
You wear a winter coat from Sep through May - period, no exceptions.
You think people wearing shorts in Oct are completely crazy, even though
it's 20C.
You keep eyeing the TV even when a long gone relative visits.
You think parizer, telemea, urda, zacusca, vinete, gogosari, slana, mamaliga
are international staple foods.
You think that drinking milk and eating fruits (especially plums) makes you
find the bathroom in a hurry. (same for beer and plums)
You don't own any orginal CD's, only pirated ones.
Everything is too expensive, the only way you will get it is by bargaining
or receiving it for free.
Everything is good if it is for free.
All your friend learned how to swear from you and you know random swears in
the weirdest languages.
You know a person who owns 4 cell phones and that is not weird.
You have had a cell phone for 3 years and the total outgoing minutes sum up
to 3.
Skipping classes is a form of art.
Not skipping classes is an offense to the rest of the class.
Getting A's in math or engineering classes is so easy.
Getting A's in all other classes is impossible.
You say you are latin but have a russian accent.
You have no idea what FAT FREE products are.
You think anyone who reads anything other than white labels is a snob.
Cursing your friends is considered like saying "Hello"
Not cursing your friends' mothers is regarded as offensive.
You own a car but take the bus or subway so you can save money on gas.
You own a car but you go to parties by foot so you can get drunk.
Seeing a man drunk at 10 am is not unusual.
You have "tzuica" for breakfast.
The day continues by drinking the remaining two liters of "tzuica".
And the end of the week you must go and refill the fuel drum in which you
usually keep your "tzuica".
You enjoy watching foreigners drink the strongest tzuica you can find in
your house. And when they managed to get it down, you fill it up again...

that's also when "No" means "Yes" to you.

[Rakido]

and your favourite falafel guy is Egyptian.

what is a falafel guy ?????

[lecter]

Somebody who sells this stuff:

[Umfriend]

A guy selling falafel? It's fried balls of chicken peas(?) or frog peas(?) or whatever you guys call it, ussually put into a pita with some salad. The use the same peas to make humus. It's al Isralien of course, that's the real joke I guess.

[az]

The german stuff was very true

Falafel is oriental fast food, like Döner Kebap, but it is small balls made of mushed chickpeas (Kichererbsen), quite good. You can get it at your local Döner Kebap dealer, it's also quite wholesome. German Wikipedia Article (if you don't know something, look there. A very good site!)

AZ

[GNEP]

Nah - the Leeds stuff is out of date - it's the new big thing these days

[Umfriend]

Although over here, while most shoarma/kebab house have "falafel" on the menu, I actually need to convince the person taking my order by pointing to it on the menu that they shouldhave it. Ussually it just happens to be out of stock. Better to find someone who makes it fresh for you instead of plunging solid frozen balls into the oil.

[LvR]

You know you're from South Africa when you define popular computer terms along these lines............. (at the risk of being labeled non-PC)

1. Log on - Make the fire hotter
2. Log off - Don't add any more wood
3. Monitor - Keep an eye on that fire
4. Download - Getting the firewood off the bakkie
5. Floppy disk - What you get from trying to carry too much firewood
6. Ram -The thing that splits the firewood
7. Hard Drive - Getting home in a heavy rain storm
8. Prompt - What the postal service used to be
9. Window - What to shut when it's cold outside
10. Screen - What to shut in mosquito season
11. Byte - What the mosquitoes do
12. Bit - What the mosquitoes did
13. Mega Byte - What the Mocambiquean mosquitoes do
14. Chip - Of the "Slap" variety at old "T" Rooms
15. Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you eat the crisps
16. Modem - What you did to the hay fields
17. Dot matrix - Old Dan Matrix's wife
18. Laptop - Where the kitty sleeps
19. Software - The dumb plastic knives and forks they give you at
The Wimpy
20. Hardware - The real stainless steel cutlery
21. Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
22. Mainframe - What holds the shed up
23. Enter - City talk for - "come on in, eh"
24. Web - What a spider makes
25. Web site - The shed or the attic
26. Cursor - Someone who swears
27. Search Engine - What you do when the car dies
28. Screen Saver - A repair kit for the torn window screen
29. Home Page - A map you keep in your back pocket just in case you get lost in the field
30. Upgrade - Steep hill
31. Server - The person at the Wimpy that brings the food
32. Mail Server - The guy at the Wimpy that brings the food
33. MSDOS - Some new disease they discovered
34. Sound Card - One of them technological birthday cards that plays music when you open it
35. User - The neighbor who keeps borrowing stuff
36. Browser - What they call you when your eye brows grow together
37. Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
38. Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
39. Netscape - When a fish maneuvers out of reach
40. Online - When you get the laundry hung out on the wash line
41. Off line - When the clothes pegs let go and the laundry falls on the ground