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TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING FRENCH:
  1. When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay.
  2. Own half the world's perfume industry and still never use deodorant.
  3. You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs.
  4. If there's a war you can surrender really early.
  5. You don't have to read the subtitles on late night films on Channel 4.
  6. You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries.
  7. You can be ugly and still become a famous film star.
  8. Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride.
  9. You don't have to bother with toilets, just shit in the street.
  10. People think you're a great lover even when you're not.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING AMERICAN:
  1. You can have a woman president without electing her.
  2. You can spell colour wrong and get away with it.
  3. You can call Budweiser beer.
  4. You can be a crook/adulterer and still be president.
  5. If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything.
  6. If you can breathe you can get a gun.
  7. You can invent a new public holiday every year.
  8. You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made and nobody seems to care.
  9. You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy".
  10. You can think you're the greatest nation on earth when you're not at all.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ENGLISH:
  1. Two World Wars and One World Cup doo-dah doo-dah.
  2. Warm beer.
  3. You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket.
  4. You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events.
  5. Union jack underpants.
  6. Water shortages guaranteed every single summer.
  7. You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.
  8. Bathing once a week-whether you need to or not.
  9. Ditto changing underwear.
  10. Beats being Welsh.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ITALIAN:
  1. In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes.
  2. Unembarrassed to wear fur.
  3. No need to worry about tax returns.
  4. Glorious military history... well, till about 400 AD.
  5. Can wear sunglasses inside.
  6. Political stability.
  7. Flexible working hours.
  8. Live near the Pope.
  9. Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair.
  10. Country run by Sicilian murderers.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING SPANISH:
  1. Glorious history of killing South American tribes.
  2. The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees.
  3. You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits etc.
  4. The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans.
  5. Everybody else makes crap paella and claims it's the real thing.
  6. Honesty.
  7. Only sure way of bedding a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes and risk your life in front of bulls.
  8. You get to eat bulls' testicles.
  9. Gibraltar.
  10. Supported Argentina in Falklands War.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING GERMAN:
  1. In-built sense of pacifism.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING INDIAN: (Yeah MAN!!!!)
  1. Chicken Madras.
  2. Lamb Passanda.
  3. Onion Bhaji.
  4. Bombay Potatoe.
  5. Chicken Tikka Masala.
  6. Rogan Josh.
  7. Popadoms.
  8. Chicken Dopiaza.
  9. Meat Bhuna.
  10. Kingfisher lager.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING WELSH:
  1. You've got to be joking, haven't you?!?!?!?

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING IRISH:
  1. Guinness.
  2. 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
  3. You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.
  4. Pubs never close.
  5. Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in the second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.
  6. No one can ever remember the night before.
  7. Kill people you don't agree with.
  8. Stew.
  9. More Guiness.
  10. Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING CANADIAN:
  1. It beats being an American.
  2. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
  3. You can play hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.
  4. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
  5. Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a canoe?.
  6. A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her popularity ratings will rise.
  7. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
  8. Kill Grizzly bears with huge shotguns and cover your house in their skins.
  9. Own-an-eskimo scheme.
  10. Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING AUSTRALIAN:
  1. Know your great-grand-dad was a murdering bastard that no civilised nation on earth wanted (ie: You get to live in what was Britain's largest "open prison".
  2. Fosters Lager.
  3. Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country for 40,000 years because you think it belongs to you.
  4. Annihilate England every time you play them at cricket.
  5. Tact and sensitivity.
  6. Bondi Beach.
  7. Other beaches.
  8. Liberated attitude to homosexuals.
  9. Drinking cold lager on the beach.
  10. Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager on the beach.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING A KIWI:
  1. Get to shag chics that resemble Jonah Lomu in a frock.
  2. Beer.
  3. Rugby.
  4. See above.
  5. See above.
  6. See above.
  7. See above.
  8. See above.
  9. See above.
  10. Hate everyone else ......unless it's their round.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING DUTCH:
  1. You can smoke dope legally.
  2. You can have sex with a prostitute legally.
  3. You can be a prostitute legally.
  4. You can be completely offensive to everyone and explain that it's just the famous Dutch "straightforwardness".
  5. You can go abroad and take the piss out of everyone else in Dutch and they won't understand you, except in Belgium where they're too stupid to understand you.
  6. You can live in a country so far under sea level, you get the bends when leaving.
  7. You have automatic immunity from any law while riding a bicycle, including most laws of physics and logic.
  8. Tall Blondes.
  9. You can have sex with a tall blonde prostitute while smoking dope.
  10. You can spend half your life outside Holland telling everyone how in The Netherlands you can have sex with a tall blonde prostitute while smoking dope, but you never have, because that's just for tourists.

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