### Author:  [@Pizzle\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pizzle_Boy)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/1 "2000-06-02T15:21:57Z")
So then, why is it that Americans don’t know anything about Canada?
Overheard in a bar in New Orleans: “Ottawa?..can’t miss it. Go north as far as you can and turn right”.
And seriously, why do you show up with skiis on your car in August and ask for directions to a ski hill? 😕 AUGUST, DAMMIT!! Try the north pole
C-A-N-A-D-A…it’s just like the US except less obnoxious, not quite so trigger-happy and obviously more highly educated.
Snow comes in December, August is HOT and Ottawa is next to a mojor highway…just like every other major city.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/2 "2000-06-02T15:52:20Z")
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> So then, why is it that Americans don’t know anything about Canada?
Are you sure you want the answer to that?
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> Overheard in a bar in New Orleans: “Ottawa?..can’t miss it. Go north as far as you can and turn right”.
I think that would put you in either Greenland or Sandinavia.
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> And seriously, why do you show up with skiis on your car in August and ask for directions to a ski hill? 😕 AUGUST, DAMMIT!! Try the north pole
Those must have been Newfies and no one in Canada will admit to them being real Canadians.
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> C-A-N-A-D-A…it’s just like the US except less obnoxious, not quite so trigger-happy and obviously more highly educated.
Sadly, we are getting more like America all the time.
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> Snow comes in December, August is HOT and Ottawa is next to a mojor highway…just like every other major city.
And outside of a required school trip, I can’t give you a single reason why any Canadian would want to go to Ottawa.
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### Author:  [@Pizzle\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pizzle_Boy)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/3 "2000-06-02T16:10:32Z")
I don’t think I have the right tone in here…I’m pissed dammit!!!
I should have posted in the PIT…\
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### Author:  [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/4 "2000-06-02T16:37:17Z")
…:singing: Blame Canada! Blame Canada!..
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/5 "2000-06-02T23:11:12Z")
Pizzle Boy, your wish is my command. 🙂
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/6 "2000-06-02T23:17:18Z")
Umm . . . speaking on behalf of Americans who DO know something about Canada, you might want to watch out for the ill-advised generalizations there.
IOW, fuck off, eh.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/7 "2000-06-02T23:20:27Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/8 "2000-06-02T23:56:59Z")
Oh, brother, here we go again…
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.
Veb
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/9 "2000-06-03T00:03:52Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/10 "2000-06-03T00:55:37Z")
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 😛
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### Author:  [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/11 "2000-06-03T01:09:55Z")
Yeah, well I’d expect somthing like that from a clog-wearing hash-head.
::d&r::
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/12 "2000-06-03T01:36:07Z")
Your point being?
😉
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### Author:  [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/13 "2000-06-03T01:46:37Z")
_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?!
Oh, fercryingoutloud, thanks, pal.
Veb
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/14 "2000-06-03T02:24:03Z")
Canadians are just unarmed Amerikans with health care.
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### Author:  [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/15 "2000-06-03T03:11:11Z")
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. 😉
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/16 "2000-06-03T04:10:58Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@WallyM7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WallyM7)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/17 "2000-06-03T07:04:27Z")
Pizzle, what do you use for brains? Peanut butter?
I’m a Canadian who has travelled extensively in the U.S. and I’m here to tell you that you’re a moron.
**Putz**
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/18 "2000-06-03T09:11:25Z")
Why don’t Americans like Canada? Well, as the late, great John Candy said in _Canadian Bacon_…
“Canadian beer sucks.”
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### Author:  [@Initial\_Entry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Initial_Entry)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2000, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/19 "2000-06-03T09:43:49Z")
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> Ottawa is next to a mojor highway
You canucks sure do talk funny don’tcha…
😃
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### Author:  [@Pizzle\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pizzle_Boy)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-eh/21215/20 "2000-06-05T16:40:46Z")
This topic is stale.
Let’s move on…I have nothing against americans…there just fun to pick on.
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