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Ways To Know You Are A Filipino

Discussion in 'The Random List' started by Kuya, Oct 13, 2010.

  1. Kuya
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    Kuya The Geeky One Staff Member

    1. You point with your lips
    2. You nod upwards to greet someone.
    3. You collect items from hotels or restaurants "for souvenir".
    4. You smile for no reason.
    5. You flirt by having a foolish grin in your face while raising your eyebrows repeatedly.
    6. You go to a department store and try to bargain the prices.
    7. You add an unwarranted "H" to your name, i.e. "Jhun," "Bhoy," "Rhon."
    8. You put your hands together in front of you as if to make a path and say "excuse, excuse" when you pass in between people or in front of the TV
    9. You like everything imported or "state-side."
    10. You Check the labels on clothes to see where it was made before buying.
    11. You always offer food to all your visitors.
    12. You say "comfort room" instead of "bathroom."
    13. You say "for take out" instead of "to go."
    14. You asked for "Colgate" instead of "toothpaste."
    15. You asked for a "pentel-pen" or a "ball-pen" instead of just "pen."
    16. You order a McDonald's instead of "hamburger"(pronounced ham-boor-jer)
    17. You say "Ha?" instead of "What."
    18. You say "Hoy" to get someone's attention.
    19. You answer when someone yells "Hoy."
    20. You turn around when someone says "Psst!"
    21. Your sneeze sounds like "ahh-ching" instead of "ahh-choo."
    22. You prefer to make acronyms for phrases such as "OA" for over acting, or "TNT" for, well, you know.
    23. You say "air con" instead of "a/c" or air conditioner.
    24. You say "brown-out" instead of "black-out."
    25. You have a portrait of "The Last Supper" hanging in your dining room.
    26. You own a Karaoke System.
    27. You own a piano that no one ever plays.
    28. You own a "barrel man" (you pull up the barrel and you see something that looks familiar. schwing...)
    29. You refer to your VCR as a "beytamax"
    30. You have a giant wooden fork and spoon hanging somewhere in the dining room
    31. Your car has too many "burloloys" like a Jipneys back in P.I.
    32. You hang a Rosary on your car's rear view mirror.
    33. You order a "soft drink" instead of a "fizzy drink."
    34. You refer to seasonings and all other forms of monosodium glutimate as "Ajinomoto"
    35. This you 'll agree 100% ... Goldilocks" means more to you than just a character in a fairytale.
  2. Balot
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    Balot Active Member Lifetime Member

    Use to say bathroom/comfort room instead of toilet :)
    love the smeely food like dried fish than the smeel of marmalide
    love eating rice than the chilli con carne :)
  3. florgeW
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    florgeW Lady Mod Senior Member

    #27 made me smile... we own a piano that no one plays... LOL
  4. Kuya
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    Kuya The Geeky One Staff Member

    Is that because you own a piano? ;)
  5. KeithAngel
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    KeithAngel 2063 Lifetime Member

    Toilet is really not English proper folk would say Lavatory :baby:
    Last edited: Oct 17, 2010
  6. Balot
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    Balot Active Member Lifetime Member

    kaselyas sa bisaya may angal :) hehehe

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