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    Over the years I've worked with many nationalities sometimes in their home countries. Inevitably stereotypical traits show themselves. Some examples based on my experience;

    Italians - lazy
    French - need a scrub
    Belgians - never go for a beer after work
    Dutch - work hard, play hard
    Americans - keen (that's about all)
    Aussies - kinda like the Dutch
    Kiwi's - invariably anal and boring

    Agree / disagree?
    Me, me, me...

    #2
    Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
    Over the years I've worked with many nationalities sometimes in their home countries. Inevitably stereotypical traits show themselves. Some examples based on my experience;

    Italians - lazy
    French - need a scrub
    Belgians - never go for a beer after work
    Dutch - work hard, play hard
    Americans - keen (that's about all)
    Aussies - kinda like the Dutch
    Kiwi's - invariably anal and boring

    Agree / disagree?
    French - **** like bunnies, well the girls do!
    Belgians - Beer after work? Oh yes they do!
    Dutch - Hmmm, they've got some big horny birds.
    Americans - pussies
    Aussies - good laugh.

    The rest, I agree.

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      #3
      Australians - Good for a laugh, like beer, but quietly good at the task
      Dutch - Boring
      Danes - Drunk and pretty daft, intelligent
      Spaniards - Manana, but very friendly
      South Africans - Graft like mad but always willing to laugh
      Belgians - Make the Dutch look interesting
      Swedes - Weird but bright
      Norwegians - Make the Swedes look normal
      Finns - Make the Norwegians look normal, beware the Finns and Norwegians in winter they are seriously grumpy
      Portugese - Officious and have no concept of deadlines at all
      French - Bloody useless

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        #4
        Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
        French - need a scrub

        Kiwi's - invariably anal and boring
        Agree with the Frogs can get a bit wiffy towards the end of the week.

        Nah, most Kiwi's I've met are OK.

        Swissies are odd ones. Some OK, but a lot are boreing. When they do express emotion such as joy or frustration it is done in English.

        Scandies are mental. Further north you go the worse they get.

        Septics -

        Canadians - very confused lot. One moment they are proud not to be Americans and the next they are trying to emulate them. On the whole I suppose they are OK.
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          #5
          Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
          Over the years I've worked with many nationalities sometimes in their home countries. Inevitably stereotypical traits show themselves. Some examples based on my experience;

          Italians - lazy
          French - need a scrub
          Belgians - never go for a beer after work
          Dutch - work hard, play hard
          Americans - keen (that's about all)
          Aussies - kinda like the Dutch
          Kiwi's - invariably anal and boring

          Agree / disagree?

          Italians lazy????

          ##### off. Seriously.

          You obviously have never worked with any of them. We wouldn't have been able to build entire countries, like Switzerland, if we were like you said and be able to find a job in almost every country in this world. Unless you worked in a Government company... (but then I guess it's the same all over the world).

          Dutch, work hard? Where? I have never worked with any lazier population so far...
          I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Francko View Post
            Italians lazy????
            Such a disapointment after the Romans.
            Me, me, me...

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              #7
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                #8
                Originally posted by Francko View Post
                Italians lazy????

                ##### off. Seriously
                Chortle. That's really caught on here now
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                  French - **** like bunnies, well the girls do!
                  Belgians - Beer after work? Oh yes they do!
                  Dutch - Hmmm, they've got some big horny birds.
                  Americans - pussies
                  Aussies - good laugh.

                  The rest, I agree.
                  You are such a stud ginger ninja... I am amazed your first wife let you go....

                  Tell us more stories about your many sexual conquests over woman from all over the world!!

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                    #10
                    I have worked with great of many nationalities and find generalisations like the ones expressed in this thread rather tasteless and lacking intelligence.

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