XPost: aus.politics, can.politics, uk.politics.misc   
   From: f2r2a3n4@loonynutters.com   
      
   On 18/09/2020 9:11 pm, Daniel65 wrote:   
   > Fran wrote on 15/09/2020 9:37 AM:   
   >> On 14/09/2020 10:23 pm, Daniel65 wrote:   
   >>> Pestcontrol wrote on 12/09/2020 10:49 AM:   
   >>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:26:57 -0700, Janithor wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Glad to see you're finally on topic by talking about American politics   
   >>>>> in aus.politics.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yet another seppo jerk trolling outside its Yankland bubble, who can't   
   >>>> interpret headers properly!   
   >>>> Nor for that matter understand at all written texts.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>   Isn't Australia like the 52nd state?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> No!   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I think   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Oxymoron, the troll is not equipped to perform that particular task at   
   >>>> all.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Canada is the 51st.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That is how the seppos look on the rest the world, and are infallibly   
   >>>> quite upset when they discover that the world denies their possessive   
   >>>> claims.   
   >>>>   
   >>> Hmm! I don't think "the seppos look on the rest the world" because   
   >>> for a long time I've thought that a heck of a lot of Yanks think the   
   >>> world ceases to exist past the 48 mainland states!!   
   >>>   
   >>> And that might even be stretching it!!   
   >>   
   >> :-))  My husband used to have to travel a lot internationally when he   
   >> worked and wasn't fond of the US but always ran to pack his bags if   
   >> going to Europe.  He always used to come back with tales that   
   >> reflected exactly your comment.  My favourite was his relayign the   
   >> incident with the Hotel receptionist (4 star hotel so not some fleabag   
   >> place) who commented on his accent.  When my husband responded that it   
   >> was because he was Australian, the receptionist asked which State that   
   >> was in. After an explanation got nowhere, he gave up.   
   >>   
   > If your husband was in Europe and said "Australia', I would have thought   
   > the receptionist might have heard "Austrian" or whatever! ;-P   
      
   Nah, Europeans are quite good on their geography of other European   
   countries.  Being told we're Austrians has always been what we've been   
   told by Americans.  The best example was when I was told multiple times,   
   and finally quite insistently, by a group of Americans, that Australia   
   was in Europe and we spoke German.  We were in Scandinavia at the time   
   and my insistence that I knew where my country was and that it was the   
   large island continent to the south west of Hawaii was treated as a lie.   
      
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