13 National Insults From the Book The Big Book of National Insults: 1001 Xenophobic Quips and Quotes
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1. There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. - Barbara Ehrenreich
2.Can we never extract the tapeworm of Europe from the brain of our countrymen? - Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. The best thing I know between France and England is - the sea. - Douglas Jerrold
4. The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them. - Robert Morley
5.Wherever Germans are, it is unhealthy for Italians - Italian Saying
6. One German a beer; two Germans an organization; three Germans a war. - Polish Saying
7. Belgium is just a country invented by the English to annoy the French. - Charles De Gaulle
8. Since WWII, Italy has managed, with characteristic artistry, to create a society that combines a number of the least appealing aspects of socialism with practically all the vices of capitalism. - Gore Vidal
9.Be friendly with the Russian, but take care that you have a rock ready on your chest. - Ukranian Saying
10. In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, bloodshed, murder - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! - Orson Welles
11. The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing influence. - Russell Green
12. English cuisine is so generally threadbare that for years there has been a gentlemen's agreement in the civilized world to allow the Brits pre-eminence in the matter of tea - which, after all, comes down to little more than the ability to boil water. - Wilfrid Sheed
And my personal favorite...
13. Cricket is a game which the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity. - Lord Mancroft
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13 comments:
MMMpf!!
Those were a riot. Sounds like a fun book.
Those are funny. Though I must say after believing all my life in 12, I was surprised to see what a range of delicious meals (including a LOT more ethnic cuisine) I was able to enjoy in Britain....
I am convinced that in moments of stress, all foreigners revert to English.
Those were very funny - especially the one about the Germans being unhealthy for Italians!
Happy TT!
Very funny! Happy TT to you!
LOL Fantastic list I epecially liked #7!!
I liked 10 and 12, lol.
Yay insults! :P Another book to add to my "to read" list.
I like the one about the french!!! I'm sure people realy believe these things!
Happy TT!!!
LOL #10 is awesome
I'd like to find out if #11 is true. I've always wanted to go to England. I have often felt that I am genetically engineered for a different climate.
Allow me to add a "Canadian" one...
Canadians spend 50% of their time explaining to Americans that they are not British... and 50% of their time explaining to Britains that they are not American... leaving no time for themselves.
Wonderful. My kind of book for sure.
I love the Orson Wells one. Cuckoo Clocks!
I like the cricket one too. I don't care how many people think Baseball is an American game, it's too close to cricket NOT to be a wayward child. That's why baseball games last forever and are mind-numbingly boring.
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