Sheeeesh! It’s been about three months since we’ve had to put up with a YankCanuck pissing contest. The last six were pretty boring; I doubt that this will be better.
Can we let this one die before Wally comes over and starts terrorizing his own countryman?
The reason some Americans are uninformed jerks is the same reason there are uninformed, jerkish Canadians, English, French, Brazilians, Japanese, Italians, etc.
Yeah, travellers–strangers to anyplace–may do some things that are inappropriate. They’re strangers already, so cut 'em some slack. They were interested enough to lay out the cash and effort to come visit, hmmmm? Let me tell you, I’ve seen some foreign travellers do some pretty strange things here. But you know all about us hateful Americans; pushy, over-friendly as big dogs–didn’t take long for people to start chatting w/ them, making friends, etc.
Want to disparage an entire nation of people? Indulge in snotty putdowns based on prejudice? G’head, loser. Tell ya what, email Bj0rn; he’s another bigot. And–whatshername–help me out, Dopers; the Candian female highschooler, the one with the godawful poetry…she was another big fan of hate-by-the-numbers.
::shrug::
Anyone, anyone who passes judgments on others based on convenient categories is an asshole. Fortunately, assholiness is it’s own reward; the practicioner loses out meeting some good folks who are just a bit different.
And BTW, this isn’t a flame. The topic is too lame, old and obvious to work up a good head of steam. You’re your own sentence; enjoy life in the prison of your own making.
A few months ago a coworker from Canada asked me and another coworker (both of us born and raised in USA) what we thought of Canada.
My friend replied, “We don’t.”
And it’s true for a lot of people. We don’t think too much about Canada. Not negative, not positive. It’s just that country to the North.
To be honest, I don’t know a heck of a lot about Canada. It simply does not interest me. Perhaps, it’s because it’s culturally similar to the USA (compared to say, European and Eastern countries). I’m more interested in things that are more different.
Miss Veblen, you are referring to Prose, I believe. Your desciption is so fitting, it’s gotta be her.
It is common knowledge that I like Canadians. I have some good reasons for that. There’s Rush, there’s the liberation of my country in 1945, there’s all these female Canuck posters here that flirt with me all the time.
Having said that: Pizzle Boy. What the fuck is your problem? Go feltch a moose or something. What’s up with the sweeping generalisations? You’re just as xenophobic as a certain American poster I’m not quite fond of (hint: he hates football).
C’mon, everybody knows all Canucks suck at debating
Prose! Bless you, Coldie! It was driving me nuts, in the way pointless things do. Y’know, like the most godawful song you ever heard, and you hate your own brain for retaining it, but it itches, squirms and tickles back there in your skull until you’re ready to use an off-brand “Swiss army knife” as a trepanning chisel to get it out…
whew! Sorry, don’t know why I even forget this one. The inherent irony of “Prose”, given the lame poetics in her sig, should have called it to mind.
Hey, wait a danged minute. As long as national stereotypes are in vogue, what’s with you remembering this? I thought the Demon Weed caused memory loss, inevitable drooling, flatulance and the total collapse of the entire human system. (We–the editorial “we”–aren’t even mentioning the deleterious effects of state-sanctioned sexuality.)
Can it be…? Omigod…could the whole premise of national categories be WRONG?!
if you canucks didn’t come in and burn our white house back in the day, maybe we wouldn’t be treating you this way!
hah!
jk. really, some of my closest friends are canucks.
'course, anytime i’ve been there myself, i’ve gotten kicked out, literally, and once even escorted by mounties back into NY. ahhh, the good old army days. we used to cruise up to Kingston from Ft.Drum when we were bored, and most of the time end up in a fight in some bar up there. I kinda like that town. And it’s nice to know at 19 i was able to go there and not only drink legally, but find a 16 year old chick that wanted to shack up with us uniformed yanks too. what a country. too bad it’s Canada.
tell you what,
drop the french shit, and i’ll write my congressman to let you guys become the 51st state.
i’ve done my BBQ duty for the nite. :bowing to the audience…:
thanx
have a nice fucking day all.
Would you like to know why Canadians know about Americans but Americans don’t know about Canadians? For the same reason the average Gaul knew more about Rome than the average Roman knew about Gaul.
AUGUST, DAMMIT!! Try the north pole
