Sailing xenophilia

[jimi]

.. i'm all in favour of poles, partic when sailing on the run (although Ities might be best there) on the other hand when acquiring boats big Czechs are best ... what's your favourite furriner?

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[AndrewB]

One thing that long-distance sailing does teach is that you can't judge anyone by their nationality.

(Lecture over ... some zenophobic humour now please!)

 

[jimi]

Dunno .. I've met a few English ...

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[Roberto]

what's your favourite furriner?

Brits, of course -.<)



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[Ohdrat]

Anyone with a celtic fringe

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[Chris_Rayner]

Danes are great.

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[jimi]

erm Englander .. its philia not phobia so stop trying to hijack this post

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[jimi]

Partic the pastries .. I'd murder for one right now!

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[Nickel]

My favourite foreigners are those happy smiling people you see on TV adverts.

You know the ones - glossy teeth, pristine clothes, faces full of junk food, lives so shallow you wouldn't get wet if you stepped in them - they're in a language I don't understand, about a culture I don't recognise, trying to sell me things I would pay not to have.

Why do I like them so much? They remind me my glass is half full!

<hr width=100% size=1>Nickel

Being paranoid simply means - having all the facts.

 

[AndrewB]

Philias and phobias

Thread hijack?? Cmon jimi that's MILD!

Now, you might have a complaint if I'd started on yet another ColReg rant ... I was sailing out of Ramsgate yesterday, when this mad Froggie .... damned foreigners, foisting their regulations on us and ignoring them themselves ... mutter mutter mumble mumble ...

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[Ohdrat]

They're not foreigners they're aliens..

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[robp]

Mobos are always Russian.

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[Romeo]

Brazilian. nm

mmmm

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[AndrewB]

Yes, "Nichole and Papa" for example. Nice analysis on the "100 best adverts" programme on Sunday, as to why that advert could only ever have been directed at the English, no-one else in the world would have understood it.

Can we stereotype the English as being the nation most obsessed with national stereotypes?

 

[jimi]

Reminds me of something my father said

He "I've got russian wellingtons."
Me "Oh, why"
Him "Cos there's a hole in 'em and the water rushes in and oot!"

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[capricorn]

I've tried to get into this sailing thing and I'm afraid it's all Greek to me. I mean what's the point of it all, you just spend all day getting Thai'd up in knots and come home Hungary and Chile.

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[Romeo]

I was supported by a Spanish Maiden whilst sailing on the Malcolm Miller. You stand on it at the end of a yard.

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[Aja]

The Irishman said BRITISH would only understand that advert.

Pay attention.

Donald

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[Chris_Rayner]

Danish pastries

Funny thing is, they call them Wiener brod, Viennese pastries.

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[Koeketiene]

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

<hr width=100% size=1>Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.