# Canadian 'dopers, Freedom Convoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 10, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186 "2022-02-10T00:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 35
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/681 "2022-03-03T18:58:57Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > that this is what happens when socialists take over a country and brutally silence all dissent. I’ve been forced to accept single payer healthcare, and now my freedom to become bankrupt due to medical bills has been brutally removed. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/682 "2022-03-03T20:05:25Z")
Canadian style socialism coming to Texas is one of his recurring nightmares. Both “socialized medicine” and “muzzling of free [hate] speech” terrify him. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/683 "2022-03-03T20:09:40Z")
He’s very fit and healthy and he’s never growing old or getting pregnant so he’s not bothered by this threat. He’s also got piles of money that he made as a government contractor supporting the only two legitimate functions of government: National Defense and Law Enforcement. He is one of those people who will actually say with a straight face that Fire Departments should be run by insurance companies not municipalities. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/684 "2022-03-03T20:11:21Z")
Gotcha. He’s a fuck-wit. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/685 "2022-03-03T20:20:43Z")
I thought the official medical term was “half-wit”. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/686 "2022-03-03T20:51:37Z")
I can think of scarier things that might come to Texas from Canada. These include dulse, screech, Nickleback, milk which comes in bags, “Cowboy steaks”, gas station Pepperettes, Anne Murray, nuns’ farts, Maudite, spruce beer, brewis, Lisa Lampanelli, black flies and “The Log Drivers Waltz”. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/687 "2022-03-03T22:52:45Z")
And he should really fear the invasion of Poutine. He may be fit now, but he’ll be halfway to a heart attack before he finishes his first serving. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/688 "2022-03-04T00:27:16Z")
Naturally he’s a militant vegan. It gives him one more thing to feel superior and lecture lesser mortals about. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/689 "2022-03-04T00:40:01Z")
But the the log driver’s waltz pleases girls completely! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/upsZZ2s3xv8/maxresdefault.jpg "Canada Vignettes: Log Driver's Waltz") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsZZ2s3xv8) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/690 "2022-03-04T00:40:26Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > about the atrocities committed against the heroic truckers in Canada Yes, the police who towed away the trucks left the windows down, so the cab interiors were covered in snow. _Quelle horreur!_ ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/691 "2022-03-04T00:59:46Z")
You’re not consuming the shit “news” sources he is. These guys are sharing videos that are obviously made in other countries in other decades and passing them off as police brutality in Ottawa and Windsor. If someone with a chess ELO rating over 2000 living in the USA can be this deluded, it’s really disheartening. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/692 "2022-03-04T01:30:09Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > he’s never … getting pregnant ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/d4zHnLjdy48Cc/giphy.gif) > [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > dulse, screech, Nickleback, milk which comes in bags, “Cowboy steaks”, gas station Pepperettes, Anne Murray, nuns’ farts, Maudite, spruce beer, brewis, Lisa Lampanelli, black flies and “The Log Drivers Waltz”. Why do you hate Canada so? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/693 "2022-03-04T01:58:04Z")
Apparently you have known few chess prodigies. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/694 "2022-03-04T02:02:33Z")
I love Canada. But nothing even vaguely unsanitary about an open, public jar of Pepperettes left on a gas station counter for months. Dulse is harmless but I don’t get it. Screech is rum too foul to be used in cars. Nuns’ farts are pretty good and should not be listed. There are many funny Canadian comedians but Lisa Lampanelli is not one of them, though this is only my opinion at the moment, 10:30 pm in Newfoundland. Maudite is better than Fin du Monde. We all have much to fear from Log Drivers - they’ll ruin your marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/695 "2022-03-04T02:18:25Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Dulse is harmless but I don’t get it. Screech is rum too foul to be used in cars. My dad used to love dulce. Screech - well, when you’re trading a boat load of salt cod for a boat load of rum, you do what you have to to maximise your take! > [@](#): > > We all have much to fear from Log Drivers - they’ll ruin your marriage. Potential. _Potential_ marriage. If the other dude can’t dance, that’s on him! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/696 "2022-03-04T05:47:08Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > We all have much to fear from Log Drivers - they’ll ruin your marriage. Sure, but the blackflies will ruin much more than your marriage: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qjLBXb1kgMo/hqdefault.jpg "The blackfly song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/697 "2022-03-04T05:51:16Z")
Heh! I thought about posting that. But it just seemed easier not to go to North Ontario. (Though Quetico is still the best place to canoe that I know. Still, Texas can have all the black flies and other no-see-ums they want.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/698 "2022-03-04T06:12:47Z")
North Ontario is a spectacular place. Never seen anything like it, and I’ve been through it more than a few times by road, and once by rail. But it’s not the kind of place you want to have a breakdown, as I once suffered at the Steel River, between Terrace Bay and Marathon, on Highway 17. A flat tire, and my spare had no air. Thankfully, the blackflies weren’t too bad that day. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/699 "2022-03-04T08:02:45Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > I can think of scarier things that might come to Texas from Canada. These include dulse, screech, Nickleback, milk which comes in bags, “Cowboy steaks”, gas station Pepperettes, Anne Murray, nuns’ farts, Maudite, spruce beer, brewis, Lisa Lampanelli, black flies and “The Log Drivers Waltz”. Nuns’ farts? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186/700 "2022-03-04T12:46:09Z")
It’s a small, sweet Quebecois pastry. I am guessing the name comes from the assumption that the eponymous object is also somehow sweet, being nuns and all, which still seems very optimistic. They sell them at Farm Boy but cleaned up the name for Ontario ears - calling them nun’s pastry instead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186.md?page=34) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-dopers-freedom-convoy/959186.md?page=36)