# I am starting to dislike Canadians. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 28, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904 "2003-06-28T02:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/41 "2003-06-28T15:59:31Z")
That’s it Canada. We’re coming for you and you don’t have your British mommy’s apron to hide behind this time. Its’ a mere matter of marching. Don’t laugh, Mexico. You wanta piece? ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/42 "2003-06-28T16:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zoogirl \* > \*\*Hey, **Ex** , don’t know how old you are, but through most of my memory, Canadian money was actually worth more than American. It seems to me, it would have been more worthwile for you guys to copy us. > \*\* Badda-boom Badda-bing [Badda-bang](http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic). Currently the US Dollar (USD) is worth 1.34750 Canadian Dollars (CAD) \<–strangely appropriate– I’ll give you a US buck if you give me 1.35 of your funny money. :sticks tongue out: mlahhh 😃 pfft even _looks_ like play money ---
**Author:** ![Venoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/43 "2003-06-28T16:24:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lite \* > \*\*Mith sounds pissed-off. Maybe just jealous that he isn’t American, or she isn’t American. Eastern Canadians are so “little-man” syndrome, even us North Dakotans don’t take them seriously. Go to France if you think it’s such a great way to live. > DEATH TO FRANCE!!! > > BTW, Lance Armstrong will make France his bitch again \*\* UH? 😕 I’m an Eastern Canadian, and I’m also Anglophone. You’re really not funny. And no, I’m not living in the USA because I wanna be American, I’m living here because my love is. Yeesh. This is was mildly amusing before. It seems to be getting rather stupid now. Are all the latin languages garbage? or just French? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/44 "2003-06-28T16:29:04Z")
All of them! Death to latin! ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/45 "2003-06-28T16:35:00Z")
Well, I have to agree with you **Exgineer**. You have a very good country down there! Yes, you do, and you should feel very, very proud! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a very busy couple of days ahead. I have take a walk down my (safe, almost firearm-free) street to go to my (paid-for-by-the-state) medical checkup. Along the way, I’m sure to see cars with same-sex couples returning from Toronto’s gay pride event, with “Just Married” signs and tin cans hanging off the back (my congratulations to queers in the US, by the way, on winning the right to NOT be dragged out out of your home and thrown in jail for making love to your boyfriends and girlfriends!). Maybe I’ll see some people relaxing and smoking a doobie on the way (by the way, how _is_ that war on drugs going?) And then it’s off to work, where I’ll happily be speaking French! I’m so glad to know another language, instead of reacting to it with prejudice and fear. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/46 "2003-06-28T16:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Tony Montana_ > > Currently the US Dollar (USD) is worth 1.34750 Canadian Dollars (CAD) \<–strangely appropriate– > > I’ll give you a US buck if you give me 1.35 of your funny money. :sticks tongue out: mlahhh 😃 Heck, the yankee buck was worth 1.5 to our dollar a year or so ago so we’re making a comeback… ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/47 "2003-06-28T16:45:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drm \* > \*\*Heck, the yankee buck was worth 1.5 to our dollar a year or so ago so we’re making a comeback… \*\* It fluctuates,so dont do the happy dance yet. Ya know what I’m talkin’ abooot? _someone_ had to say it… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/48 "2003-06-28T17:15:53Z")
I thought this board was dedicated to fighting ignorance, not hate-mongering. **Exengineer** , you are coming across as prejudiced against Canadians. Not just the ones who have specifically done something ignorant, either, but all Canadians. Is that really how you want to present yourself here? Do you really think that all Canadians across our huge and diverse land are really the same as the louts you’ve met? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/49 "2003-06-28T17:17:04Z")
Oops, make that **Exgineer**. ---
**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/50 "2003-06-28T19:02:45Z")
You’d think it would be obvious that **Exgineer** doesn’t believe _all_ canadians are like this, but noooo, we can’t have that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![WaryEri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@WaryEri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaryEri)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/51 "2003-06-28T19:36:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lite \* > \*\*Mith sounds pissed-off. Maybe just jealous that he isn’t American, or she isn’t American. Eastern Canadians are so “little-man” syndrome, even us North Dakotans don’t take them seriously. Go to France if you think it’s such a great way to live. > \*\* In what world does Eatern Canada=French? Heck, I live in the only bilingual province, ands it’s at best 30 percent parlez-vouz here. The rest of the eastern provinces are English. We don’t enjoy Quebec tourists much either, to tell the truth. Or does your map stop at Quebec and leave out the three english and one half english province east of it? I can forgive, though. I’ve spent alot of time in ND, and more importantly in SD. It’s understandable that you’re tired of your state getting made fun of and want to take a shot at some one else for a change 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/52 "2003-06-28T19:51:21Z")
Didn’t we give North Dakota to Canada a while back? Seems a good fit. Cold and sparsely populated. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/53 "2003-06-28T19:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Amazing \* > \*\*I’m a Raging River fan. Remember when it was just Storytown? \*\* Yeah, the Desperado Plunge! I had my brown and tan 3/4 sleeve baseball shirt–“I survived the Desperado Plunge” back in 1980. I was so cool. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/54 "2003-06-28T20:42:24Z")
**Exgineer** , you almost had me, but then you lost me. Relax, pick on the assholes, not the group. **lite** , **Mith** , shut up. **Hamish** , you’re not helping. Everyone else, go to hell. Except you, you, and you. You three are okay. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/55 "2003-06-28T20:45:45Z")
I’ve liked every Canadian I’ve ever known, including the Quebecois. That said, I understand what it’s like working with tourists and how easy it is to form irritations toward certain groups. I feel your pain…but I still like Canadians. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/56 "2003-06-28T22:30:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duke \* > **Zoe, Ex lives in Albany! Substitute “hamburgers” for “moose meat” and you’ve described Albany-ians!** Albany-a! Albany-a! You border on pause the pause Ad pause RI pause atic… I’m so sorry…blame my Tourette’s…I’ll go away now… ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/57 "2003-06-28T22:32:44Z")
I never met a Canadian I didn’t like. And I must have met, oh, at least 5. But one time I had a sandwich, on good bread, with nice hot mustard, and the canadian bacon was a little dry. THE CANADIAN BACON WAS A LITTLE DRY! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/58 "2003-06-28T22:36:27Z")
Yeesh…that is the lamest anti-Canadian rant I have seen on the boards…I mean Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show can do a better job with a hand shoved up his ass. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![stypticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@stypticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stypticus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/59 "2003-06-28T22:37:34Z")
So there’s this Newfoundlander rowing a rowboat down a stream. \ _Row, row, row your boat,_ \ _Gently down the stream,_ \ _Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,_ \ _Life is but a dream!_ Well, a couple of aliens float overhead and notice the Newfie. “What a fascinating creature,” says the one alien to the other. “Look how it goes about its business so intently!” To which the other alien replies, “let’s remove half its brain and see what happens.” This they do, and upon being returned to his boat the Newfie promptly takes up rowing again, singing: \ _Row, row, row your boat,_ \ _Gently down the stream…_ \ \ “Amazing!” says the one alien. “Let’s remove half of what’s left,” says the other. This they do, and once again replace the Newfie in the stream, this time with but a quarter of his brain to run on. \ _Row, row, row your boat…_ \ \ \ “Incredible!” says the one alien. “We must, you realize, take out the rest,” says the other. “But of course,” says the first. This they do, and replace the poor boater in the stream with a lighter, emptier cranium. Without pause he returns to rowing down the stream, happily singing: \ _Alouette, gentile alouette…_ ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904/60 "2003-06-28T22:42:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lite \* > **Detop is typical of the FRENCH Canadian. They have the French attitude of “Let the Americans save us twice, then we will stand up for ourselves” attitude.** Excuse me ? When did the Americans save us ? And from what ? Is there a memo floating around that I’m not aware of ? And in what fashion am I typical of French-Canadians. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Morrigoon_ > \*\*Umm… first of all, to my knowledge (from my Canadian mother and brothers): > > Canuck = derogatory term for English Canadians > Frog = derogatory term for French Canadians. Can also mean French people\*\* Let me expand on your knowledge of derogatory terms : Bloke, _tête carrée_ = derogatory terms for Anglo-Canadians Pea-soup = derogatory term for French-Canadians And if you really want to insult a French-Canadian, tell him/her to “Speak white”. But be prepared to dislike the results. > [@](#): > > **Last I hear, French Canadians were a bit of a joke to the real French, because the Candian frogs have this fantasy that somehow speaking french makes them french.** We don’t have this fantasy. We **know** we’re not French, we are **francophones**. And among the older generation, implying this would be an insult. And an apology to **lno** if I didn’t help. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-starting-to-dislike-canadians/184904.md?page=4)