So, from the story in the OP, am I to derive that people who can’t get out of jury duty in Houston, TX are tacitly encouraged to tip the prosecutor?
And why hasn’t a Vonnegut fan come in yet with a remark about reindeer?
I think that “Frostbacks” is the preferred term.
That’s funny. In the one I have - Batman Vs. La Masa - he’s just Batman, but La Masa calls him Orejas Puntiagadas :D.
I had no idea, and I find this thread fascinating.
Around ten years ago, Bill Maher had a panelist on Politically Incorrect. She was a conservative activist or writer, and a black woman.
At one point, to counter her advocacy of using the Bible as a moral guide, Maher reminded her that parts of the Bible condoned slavery. She replied that slavery would be OK, “if practiced the way the Bible recommends” (which she eventually claimed meant “against prisoners”).
Before she could clarify this, though , Maher interjected, “OK, cool, you would have had no problem with slavery if the slaves had been… Canadians!”.
I assumed that Maher, to to mock the logic of an African-American defending slavery, was trying to choose an ethnicity that was, 1) Culturally far from hers; and 2) Ridiculously arbitrary.
Now I’m not so sure.
I read once that the Canadian national magazine McLean’s once ran a contest to complete the sentence, “As Canadian as _________.” The winning entry was, “As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.”
Okay, now you want us as slaves. I really don’t like how this discussion is going.
(Do I really need the smiley?)
I wouldn’t say “okay”, in the sense that it’s stereotyping and it could be hurtful, but it’s certainly more okay. After all, you can ultimately choose not to be Canadian. The full legal process isn’t easy, but if you really wanted to badly, you could sneak into Alaska or the continental U.S. easily and start a new American life. I’m not saying you’d want to, and I’m not saying it would be easy in an emotional and psychological sense, but it’s technically possible. That’s way different from being insulted based on, say, your race or your sexual orientation.
Is this a whoosh?
If not: Ceceo
Actually, in one rather large suburb of San Diego, it’s the white folks who are regarded as terrible tippers and the Lebanese and Syrians who are thought of as the generous ones.
Only in the sense that the currency our NHL teams pay your players in isn’t worth anything.
Well, sure, but I’ll bet yours is relatively recent.
Mine is from 1969
This is the weirdest fucking thing I’ve heard. If I didn’t know better I’d swear you were all making this up just to do a number on me. “Canadians?” Seriously?
Real conversation, as best as I can remember it, as told to me by a friend from Canada.
Friend: “We only had one black person in our school in Canada. And nobody wanted him around.”
Me: “Oh, really? (sensing impending racism admission) Why, exactly?”
Friend: “He had an English accent and always wore a vest.”
It’s a whoosh… joke— laughing— in Spanish— “ja! ja! ja!” to which is added a Castilian lisp, y’see.
Most Canadians would choose to stop being Canadian around the same time that most US Americans would choose to stop being American. Youse guys might not know this because we don’t shout about it much, but Canadians are pretty proud of our country. I don’t know if I’d say being insulted based on something you didn’t choose but won’t ever change is all that different from something you can’t change.
I’m not saying it’s fun or fair to get insulted based on your nationality, but (IMHO) it’s not on the same level as being insulted based on an innate quality, like your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or whatever. Sure, I get pissed when people insult me for being an American–partly because I would gladly leave if it were feasible, actually, and BTW I think you underestimate the desire to emigrate that burns inside of some of us–but it’s nowhere near as bad as being insulted for being, say, Jewish (ethnically, that is).
Why?
Seriously. Honestly.
We Yanks have much to be proud of in our country, and much to be ashamed of. Canucks have neither.
Funny.
Well, at least now we know who really started it… a vest? Ça a porté un coup sévère.
We’ve been a country for 141 years, and you think we’ve done nothing good or bad? You think all we’ve been doing is sitting in the snow and waiting for Americans to develop some good tv shows? We don’t have to justify our existence as a country to you or anyone else.
Alright, since you asked, we’re pretty ashamed about that little misunderstanding that ended up with us burning down your White House. Sorry. 
Not much, but some.
12 years newer than yours - 1981.
What’s the best thing about an earthquake in easter Africa?
It shakes Djibouti.
Can we switch things around and call Canadian the n-word?
Yes. All we have to do is convince Canada to change it’s name to the Northern Incarnation of Greatness. Then they would live in the NIG so we could call them …