From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3ee0b8c1$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Quick story from a meeting in Sweden.
>
> Myself, 2 dutch colleagues & a german collegue (Wolfgang) & the Swedes
> who worked for the comp + 1 dane (COOP Sverige are part of COOP Norden
> which is HQ'ed in Denmark).
>
> German collegue started getting much too detailed in his questioning &
> it looked like being a long meeting.
>
> Swede: "You know Wolfgang it's for reasons like this that we do not like
> the Germans"
>
> Dane: "Just like the Danes"
>
> Dutchman " & the Dutch..."
>
> Me: "Seems like we've discovered a common European culture" 
>
> What binds the EU together is a common antipathy towards (mainly) the
> Germans & secondarily the French.
>
> Re the UK...The Scandies, & the Dutch & the UK get on very well.

We don't like the Swedes.


Antti Kurenniemi
(because they beat us in hockey over and over again...)

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