Many of us have heard the deprecating characterizations of many countries. Like Putin described the UK as an "insignificant little Island", and Russia has been characterized as a "mob run gas station" or Trump calling El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as "shithole countries".

Let's flip things around for a bit of fun. After a heavy night of drinking with your country's head of tourism, you have one shot to give your best self-depricating characterization of your country for a new border sign.

I'll go first:

Welcome to Canada - Enjoy world class sexual assault in sport -- Come and play!

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[–] 50 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Welcome to America: get the fuck out, immigrant scum

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  • [–] 33 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    All Men are created equal, well not you, or you, or you over there, and definitely not her.

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  • [–] 16 points 17 hours ago

    It's took me half my life to understand my history. Being Lakota, outside of living in the Dakota's made it very difficult. I am often considered white and I don't understand it. I don't have long hair so that makes me white? But the truth is that my ancestors were the hardest against the immigrant. The Indian Wars of the late 1800s were fought by the grandfathers of my grandparents. That's only a couple generations. My mother's grandmother was witness to Wounded Knee.

    The lesson learned is that you can not stop people from migration. Our people were the greatest warriors who followed the Bison as they migrated. We had the biggest tribal territory of all the American Indians.

    It doesn't matter if you have an army of the baddest mother fuckers who ever fought... The desperate will to be will always win. Yeah there's still a lot of people on the Rez that will try to get you to leave but it's an accepted truth that we're never going to have our land back to the way it was. We will always have to accept that the white man is a constant presence. Many of us have loved ones and family members that are not native.

    But if you go to the Rez, they will almost always welcome you. They will show you the hospitality. The truth is accepting that people are not going to respect boarders when pushed. We should all learn to just accept that and stop trying to fight it. The empires of old made these lines and we don't have to go along with it.

    Let's instead try to find a way to deal with it, together. So many people. All of us, the people. The words we as Lakota use to describe ourselves is always in it core, a phrase that means The People. The world is big enough for us all. Our world is rich enough to support us all if we resist hate and bigotry.

    The ultra rich are the ones trying to exclude. They are the enemies trying to hoard all the resources. The last thing some foreign people looking for salvation want is your destruction. The history of brave people who walked into Indian territory and made peace with the people is amazing.

    There's a story in my family about a Scottish lady who somehow found herself in the tribe during the early 1800s. She was always the Scottish lady but she was so loved that we all know who she is.

    This is the way. We just have to open our hearts and minds to accept it.

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  • [–] 41 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

    Good luck finding us on a world map. We're famous for two things: an adaptation of a British guy's books, and constantly trying to convince people that we do not want to fuck sheep while one of our banks goes and makes an ad campaign with a sheep that the internet decides is sexy.

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    A sheep named Buck, no less. Careful not to typo it!

    I can't fathom the design meetings and nobody bringing this up.

    Incidentally, I moved to Auckland at the beginning of 2026, and I was startled by how many maps I started to see that didn't include New Zealand. There's an episode of Bluey where it seems intentional--they're doing a world map puzzle, and while Australia is there, they leave off the bottom-right puzzle piece that would've included NZ.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 18 hours ago*

    I don't know if that's slogany enough for a "welcome to" sign. Also feel free to mention the country.

    Also you remind me of a self deprecating joke a guy from Wales and Malta told me some time ago: How do you know a guy is from Malta? He's shagging a sheep. How do you know the sheep is from Wales? She pushes back while his hands are behind his head.

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  • [–] 32 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

    Canada - Europe without the culture

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  • [–] 28 points 17 hours ago

    Netherlands - capitalist water germans

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  • [–] 26 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

    Closed for repairs until Jan 2028.

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  • [–] 20 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    Norway - we're better than you.

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  • [–] 18 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

    "Explored the world for spices but decided we didn't like any of them." is the usual one.

    "A nation of Baldricks and Blackadders" might also work.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 16 hours ago (7 children)

    Need some help guessing where ish.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago* (4 children)

    I have no idea what a Baldrick is in this context, but bad food + global imperialism could really only be one place.

    I mean, I guess Spanish food is pretty meh, as well. But Latin America more than makes up for it, so nobody complains.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Spanish food meh?

    I'm sorry, but we must have a dual at dawn as I fight for their cuisine's honour. Swords, pistols or hockey sticks. Your choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 child)

    I dunno, it seems like it's mostly meat and olive oil. I guess the gazpacho is good.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 hours ago*

    Jamon Iberico is sacred. Olives and olive oil is sacred. Don't make our duel a holy war too. ;) i do love gazpacho.

    Paella, tapas, fideua (seafood vermicelli and fabada (bean stew) are amazing. Pan con tomate (a simpler bruschetta) is delicious. The wines are top 5 in the world. Their various sardine preparations are yum.

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  • [–] 15 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    We are responsible for the most public holidays globally: they're all independence from us days.

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  • [–] 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

    Welcome to the United States: BRING MONEY or you are dead to us.

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

    A nation of positive thinking worker drones who kneel to lick the anuses of the corporate raiders who own us. We have all the guns we want and the freedom to run people off the road with our big trucks, and after 12 hours on the shitty job we shovel down bland, sugary food and self-lobotomize on 400 streaming channels. To us,kindness is weak and the strong survive. This has us convinced that we're better then everyone else.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

    That's going to be a very large welcome sign. Maybe trim it to a slogan?

    Edit: also where?

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  • [–] 11 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

    The happiest country in the world where everyone is burned out and miserable

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    Scandinavia! (Is as specific as I'll get)

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  • [–] 10 points 5 hours ago

    "The world thinks we are efficient and have no humor. In reality, our trains are a joke."

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  • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago

    Welcome to Canada - where our talented people get famous elsewhere.

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  • [–] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

    I've described western australia as basically texas but drunker.

    My dad always called the us "the land of bilk and money".

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Welcome to (Western) Australia - drunker than Texas.

    Works on a sign. Good work. I'll go visit.

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  • [–] 8 points 16 hours ago

    One that always stuck with me...

    "It was a frozen, hostile, wasteland. And there was much work to be done, if we were to survive the elements. After boring a hole through the ice to find food. My good friend Mantook and I, would build an Igloo to protect ourselves from polar bears and flying hockey pucks. Then we would drink a lot of beer, and when Mantook was ready, he would tell me the story of the Great Moose, who said to the little squirrel ‘Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.” - Jim Carrey

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  • [–] 7 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

    The US has been done pretty well. I'm from the state of Indiana, specifically; "There Are A Lot Of People In Indiana, But Annoyingly, I Do Know The Person You're Asking Me About"

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

    I actually had that moment on a family vacation. A hotel waitress said oh, you're from Canada? What city? REALLY? Do you know so and so?

    We thought it was just cheesing up the tourists for tips. Turns out she was close friends with a colleague from work and we heard stories about each other from our mutual connection. It does happen.

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  • [–] 4 points 17 hours ago

    That is hilarious. I live in New Zealand now, and I've actually met at least two people who know acquaintances of mine from back home, and one person who even spent a part of their childhood about a half hour's drive away from my (very rural!) childhood home, though their family moved down here a few years before I was born.

    So, two things to know about Indiana: one, our demonym is "Hoosier." No, we don't know what it means. And two, our list of local heroes includes sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut. In his fourth book, he wrote, "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers. But wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there."

    I don't know about "important," but apparently we're pretty memorable.

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    My mother and I were driving through Texas on the way to Tennessee to visit some friends. Stopped in a random restaurant just off the highway (not an Interstate highway, just a State highway). One of her coworkers was at another table. We are not from Texas, or even New Mexico. That restaurant in the middle was not on a major Interstate corridor and was multiple states away from home, and still somehow we ended up there at the same time.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    Had that experience at a festival in Germany. Walked from my tent to the stage and someone came up to me to ask "Hey, do you know where Rick is?". 40000 people at the festival, I had never seen that person in my life, but annoyingly, I did know who and where Rick was. He had walked past me just a couple of minutes earlier.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    We get left off maps.....often!

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  • [–] 6 points 8 hours ago

    Would you like to supersize that description for only a dollar more?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 hours ago*

    We have really good international PR and people think we're "nice" but most of the governments in charge are conservative. People think we have universal healthcare but it's actually two tier and up to individual provinces where conservatives are eroding public healthcare away with barely a whimper of protest from the citizens. It's cold and dark half the year, our currency is weak, and cost of living is insane. Welcome to Canada!

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago

    Why limit yourself to just a border sign? Let me write a whole self-deprecating travel booklet!

    Welcome to one of the world's famous places for exile convicts since XVII century!

    It's cold in here? Oh, don't be silly, just put on some warm clothes! You simply have to, as you're now trapped here and not even allowed to have too many proper roads to the mainland. Don't even try to leave this place!

    Tired of campism? Don't worry, there are only two living camps: governor-general's people and aggressive bears. So you won't be torn between factions... you'll just be torn into fractions.

    No, of course you're not allowed to claim any of these abundant natural resources! In fact, you're considered as one of them. How convenient to keep you here!

    Welcome here! You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining places in the globe. It's safer here. At least there are no motor-scooter sounds in the night sky...

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

    Turkey managed to convert a secularist revolution into a religious dictatorship.

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  • [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    Welcome to the UK a lot of things are our fault but we won't apologise.

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  • [–] 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    That’s why the Canadians are kept in the commonwealth, right?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 hours ago

    "Australia is the arse end of the world."

    Attributed (and slightly paraphrased) to ex-Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd, Paul Keating (who later denied saying anything of the sort), and Bob Hawke (need a necromancer to find out if he really said it).

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    We all think it's the greatest country in the world.

    Also… we never actually learned the names of any other countries in school, so it's kinda impossible to name any alternatives.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago

    Australia - bitches of the USA

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  • [–] 4 points 16 hours ago

    It's cheating, but one word: Trump

    In all seriousness:

    Welcome to America! Land of School Shooters and Prayers Only Afterwards!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 hours ago*

    cheeseburger genetics

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  • [–] 4 points 14 hours ago

    Not quite as bad as the US in almost every metric! Proud second-last place on every ranking of developed countries.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    Some of the best qualities of Italy and Spain added together... and their worst multiplied.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    Welcome to the US: we are a lot friendlier than the actions of our government might lead you to believe.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    Small patch of unnaturally flat earth filled to the brim with a mix of moody, always busy, direct to your face, cheese farm descendants turned bureaucrats, drug-den youngsters, aging white boomers that own every piece of real-estate and immigrants from EVERY corner of the planet, all 18 million of whom are perpetually unfulfilled in life even though they're supposedly ranked 7th in world's best list. - "Happy" Holland

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Our last child torture camp shut down in 1997.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago

    We have the same prices as the rest of the EU but our salaries are 1/5 (considering currency conversion too), Romania

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    welcome to orbanistan, recently renamed for our new glorious leader! we're the perfect hangout spot for commies for that raw soviet vibe, because we sure as hell haven't progressed since. indulge yourself in a thousand intricate flavours of hate, walk the depressed streets of our only city, or simply enjoy our currency making you feel like a millionaire just for being able to afford to visit.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Duitchland but small and with cheese

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Snob and so far incapable of officially facing our colonial past

    That feels unfair though because I like to see the best in people. But I did the assignment

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