This isn’t 1955. We have this marvellous thing called Kay-Bull and Satty-Light.
I agree, sadly.
You ARE kidding right? Or do you just mean the view from your side to our side is better than the view from our side to your side?
Our Ice Wine is tops in the world. Though your Turning Leaf is better than most here, I’ll give you that.
Please no.
Our economy is NOT in the dumper. Do your research on this one. Then come back and tell me what you find out. In fact, Canada is spending more on social programs, while balancing the budget, and our economy is chugging alon nicely right now. Look it up for yourself.
It’s because we’re Americans that we can forgive people like Rick Mercer for being stupid hosers.
And you don’t have to go all the way back to the War of 1812 for a military highlight. Wasn’t it just in 1863 that the RCMP kicked Chief Sitting Bull’s ass? Of course, he was all by himself, but hey, you still showed him!
This is fun.
Isn’t Canada still a colony? I mean they still have your Queen on their currency (although she looks sort of like an aquatic fowl on some of the coins; on others she appears in the guise of a beaver).
We’re better! You’re all phony and want to bomb everyone!
No, we’re better! You’re just jealous!
No, WE are! We have better beer!
Good lord, you guys. What is this, the second grade/grade two? Every time this thread appears (this is like the twentieth time), my eyes practically fall out of my head from rolling.
Even as I type this, my sides are splitting. Not even close, and I live on the American side.
As long as we’re making overblown generalizations about Yanks and Canucks, let me add a few gross comments of my own.
Winter in Canada lasts for six months a year, and they still haven’t learned how to drive in bad weather.
I have known sneaky Canadians to come over here and launder their change to take advantage of their own currency problems. It explains why 1/3 of the average handful of change I get here in Western New York is in inferior-value Canadian money.
And to balance the scales…you have to pay to drive into Canada from Western New York, but they let you back in for free. What does that say?
<severe schoolmarm>And you should be, young man! What are you even doing here? Shouldn’t you be having an argument over whether Britain is really part of Europe, or something equally inane?</severe schoolmarm>
No. Liz is the Queen of Canada, a separate crown from that of the UK. Canada is an independent country that happens to have the same Queen as a number of different independent countries. All Commonwealth countries were made equal and independent with the Statute of Westminster, and we repatriated our constitution in 1982.
I hope I’m not asking for a Canukle-sandwich, but please convey our responses to Mr. Mercer
You can call GWB whatever you like. Most of us are neither proud nor ashamed of him. He’s not like some obnoxious woman we once dated and would not want to be reminded of. He’s more like some obnoxious woman our brother dated.
Yep, the US has screwed Canada on lumber. And on fish, too. How could you forget the “Save The Fish (for US)” treaty? We made a treaty with Canada to stop over-fishing. When the fish population rose again, the Americans went back out (and even up Canadian rivers), but the Canadians politely observed the treaty. I sure hope Canada has appealed to NAFTA on these ones, the same way it forced California to accept toxins in its gasoline made by a Canadian chemical firm or forgo federal highway funding.
As with most sports, I think you have to learn to appreciate hockey in person before you can enjoy it from the remove of TV (perhaps even more so with hockey, since the puck is so small and moves so fast). Our own “national pastime” baseball has lost ground to basketball because large grassy areas are harder to find these days than small asphalt areas. Ice-covered areas are even rarer.
No organized Canadian auxiliary units were present at the burning of the White House. That has been cited on these boards several times now. If it makes you happy, you may brag that you encouraged your First Nationals to massacre women and children at the Racine River.
Some beers are much, much better than other, but there is no such thing as bad beer. Besides, beer, like drunkenness itself as well as poetry and motherhood, belongs to mankind as a whole, and neither observes nor respects national boundaries.
If it makes you happy, you can wait two years after we invade Iraq to decide what you’d like to do. From what I’ve seen on TV, Iraq looks a place that could stand to import a few trees and some decent beer.
1998
-Canadains can’t make it to the podium without the use of, ummm, “preformance enhancing” drugs.
-US takes two medals
2002
-Canadians can’t make it to the podium.
-US mens team sweeps half-pipe competition. US takes Gold in women’s halfpipe, and places in men’s downhill
Wow, can’t even afford your own queen so you had to take England’s out as a loaner. That’s even more embarassing. At least we’ll be rid of Bush in 2-6 years. That Liz seems purt near indestructible. But probably better than the alternatives given that you’ve got your own jug eared simpleton waiting in the wings.*
*Matt, I’m not serious on any of this (as I think most others are not), just having some fun at our Northern sibling’s expense, one of my favorite non-contact sports. We love you guys deep down inside. Except for Celine. And maybe that Tom Green character.
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We have this marvellous thing called Kay-Bull and Satty-Light. 
