I’m hoping your attitude falls into the ‘much to be ashamed of’ category.
Seriously. Honestly.
Nigerians?
I can see it now.
Actually, if you’re ever feeling belligerant again and happen to be down D.C. anyway on one of your raids for women or whatever, you can make it up to us; we don’t want it burned down necessarily, but there is a tenant in there that we’d really like to “convince” to leave. If you could just sort of have your militia hint around that “executive mansions got a way of gettin’ burnt…” to them, we’d appreciate it- and we’ll even give you some of Maine or Montana that nobody’s using for your troubles.
So complete a misunderstanding on Canadians’ part that they think *they * did it, not British marines sent over from the British fleet in Chesapeake Bay, as an act of spite following their failure to take Fort McHenry.
Amazing thing about the way the War of 1812 is taught across the border - Canadians think they *won * it, while Americans don’t think Canada was even *in * it.
- the first university, hospital, and cathedral in North America and the only surviving walled city therein
- the colonization of and drive to assimilate the First Nations and Inuit
- accommodation of escaped slaves via the Underground Railroad
- the initiation of the dominion system in the British Empire
- the Canadian Pacific Railway
- the treatment of the Chinese railway workers
- the first woman public official in the British Empire
- the Komagata Maru, “one is too many,” and Japanese internment
- the Persons case
- the first socialist government in North America; Medicare
- insulin
- Vimy Ridge
- Dieppe Raid; Battle of Normandy
- the UN Declaration of Human Rights
- the Quiet Revolution
- the best World’s Fair ever
- the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- peacekeeping
- Egan v. Canada
- same-sex marriage
… you know what? Why am I even bothering? Nobody who seriously believes that nothing of import has happened in Canada in the last four hundred years is going to care that, you know, stuff has happened here. Stuff we can be proud or ashamed of, just like a real goddamn motherfucking country of thirty-three goddamn million people. Tell me, when you shit, how do you manage to aim the toilet paper?
That would be Expo 86 in Vancouver, right, Matt? 
Believe it or not, my first-ever visit to Montreal was to Expo in 1967.
I would have said the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892, or the Crystal Palace one in London in 1851. But wha’ev.
I’m right there with you.
This “Canadian” has to be just widespread enough that a lot of people have heard it (and if it started in the service industry, I’m under the impression that they talk, a lot). But it’s also small enough that huge swathes of people would think it’s nothing more than a joke because of how stupid it sounds.
I don’t disbelieve its existence, but I find it odd that even though I a) have lived in the South for most of my life, b) delivered pizzas/waited tables for several years, c) am quite familiar with the “black people don’t tip” meme, I had never heard of this particular “code word” before reading this thread.
That’s why I didn’t bother - someone ignorant enough to think that an entire country has never done anything doesn’t seem like someone capable of having a real discussion on the topic.
(You forgot the invention of basketball and Robertson screws. And feeding the entire world with new strains of grain developed in Saskatchewan. And the Avro Arrow - one we’re both proud and ashamed of. 
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I got nothing to add except that this thread has given me a craving for pizza. Now I just hope I don’t fuck up the tip when the driver shows up.
I was thinking about making such a list, myself. Thank you for starting one. I didn’t want to do it for a couple of reasons: first as an American I’d miss some vital things; more important is that I couldn’t make myself believe it would matter - not after that serious question.
Agreed. I would expect BrainGlutton to joke about that kind of stuff, and I would smile and might even chuckle, but I’m a little worried now.
That sounds like one hell of a sticky safe deposit box.
Actually, I think some of us would be willing to throw in most of Idaho too.
I guess Virginia was in Canada back then…
I found the list of things to be proud and ashamed of really informative and interesting, though. I hadn’t heard of the Quiet Revolution and it sounds fascinating.
I’ll refer to that list next February, when Canadian History Month comes around again down here.
“La ha, la ha, la ha!”
You had the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago?
IME in the service industry, the perception of blacks as poor tippers was somewhat true. The exception was that young black guys would occasionally give a real over the top big tip. Not sure if they were trying to show they were Big Pimps, but I didn’t look that gift horse in the eye, for sure. Women are also generally worse tippers.
An explanation is not far to seek. Black Americans, because generally worse off economically, probably have, all else being equal, less experience eating at sit-down restaurants. If they do eat out, or if they do work in food service, I would imagine (and the evidence of my eyes confirms) that it would disproportinately be at casual/fast food places where tipping is not done. And women would be expected to be poor tippers because mutatis mutandis, they are in the position of having things paid for for them more than are men.
Hello there BrainGlutton:
Your statement above would not happen to be a deliberately provocative statement that you don’t really believe, that you wrote simply to cause a reaction, now would it? Hmmmmmmm???
Meh. Nothing to get worked up about, given that the slight came out of the mouth of a Texan. Just pat the good old boy on the head, and walk on by.