What do Americans know about Europe?

by dutchstef 41 Replies latest jw friends

  • AllTimeJeff
    AllTimeJeff

    I know Europe is full of atheist, god dishonering socialists who live in Bohemian splender and depend on the US for military protection.

    Of course, I got that off of Fox News, it could be wrong.... (probably is)

  • JWoods
    JWoods
    Maybe americans don't know a lot about europe, but most of you got a good sence of humor!

    sence when?

  • wantstoleave
    wantstoleave

    And humour is everything :)

  • dutchstef
    dutchstef

    The Answers.

    a) What is the capital city of Denmark? Copenhagen

    b) what is the difference between Holland and the Netherlands? Holland is a part of the Netherlands, JUst like England is of Great Brtiain.

    c) How old is Belgium? Belgium is 179 years old( independend since 1830).

    d) Which european countries are a kingdom and which of them are an United Kingdom? Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Great Britain and Sweden are kingdoms. The netherlands and Great Britain are United Kingdoms.

  • JWoods
    JWoods
    I had a lot of fun reading the topic about english spelling

    So did we all, each and every one.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Thanks, DutchStef!!!!!!!!

    Sylvia

  • JWoods
    JWoods
    Maybe americans don't know a lot about europe, but most of you got a good sence of humor!

    Indeed many of us do have such.

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    Quid pro quo for the Europeans:

    1) Which American city has the most homicides per capita?

    2) Where in the US can you buy the highest quality heroin?

    3) Which State has the most NRA members?

    4) Given no other choice, would you prefer to live in California and get killed by an earthquake, drown in Louisiana or live in Oklahoma and get killed by a Tornado?

    5) What are your odds of getting AIDS in San Francisco, compared with say, Bismark, North Dakota?

    6) How many of the 50,000 people who live in a single high-rise apartment building in Manhattan are actually sane?

    7) How much poop do those people generate per day?

    8) Name just ONE politician in Congress that isn't thoroughly corrupt.

    9) Plus or minus one hundred or so, how many women did Bill Clinton have sex with since he went into politics?

    10) Name just ONE thing in the USA that isn't yet taxed besides sex and air.

    Farkel

  • JWoods
    JWoods

    Farkel, obviously there are finite answers to each of the above - but, as Jack Nicholson once said -

    YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

  • dutchstef
    dutchstef

    Wingcommander:We know that our forefathers left there to get away from oppressive forms of government and religious persecution.

    Actualy this also used to be the case in amerika, before it got independed. Accept in New Amsterdam( New York nowedays), which was founded by the dutch and they allready had freedom of religion and democracy, most of them where named Jan or Kees, so they were called the Yankees, by the rest of the colonies. This way of live became more and more popular in the rest of north america, so they took it over from the dutch. Even de declaration of independence is based on that of the dutch declaration of independence( from the spanish).

    Wingcommander:You would all be speaking German right now if not for us saving your asses!!

    Not true!! We probably would be speaking russian and be communists.

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