# I'm starting to dislike some Americans... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 1, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526 "2003-07-01T06:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/21 "2003-07-01T13:05:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoGoodNamesLeft \* > \*\*-I have NEVER, EVER heard anyone say ‘aboot’. Nice try with trying to invent a stereotype though… \*\* You’ve never watched “Hockey Night in Canada?” that’s the main place I’ve heard it. Though **Neurotik** is right, “aboot” isn’t quite right, though I can’t really think of a better way to write out how it sounds. Also, sorry mate, but Canadian beer is garbage. It’s slightly better then the garbage the big breweries down here put out, but it’s still terrible. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/22 "2003-07-01T13:09:29Z")
Happy Canada Day to you from your cousins to the south, BTW ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/23 "2003-07-01T13:15:16Z")
I vote for Monkey’s solution. Let’s try it for more countries! Mexico? Iraq? England? ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/24 "2003-07-01T13:28:08Z")
Italy? ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/25 "2003-07-01T13:56:00Z")
Effin’ Belgians, that’s wot! ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/26 "2003-07-01T13:57:23Z")
I think I’ll just punish you all by renaming you Canericans. One flag, one country, then everyone can just hate their fellow countrymen. Carry on ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/27 "2003-07-01T14:06:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jovan \* > > \*\* > Anyway, Georges said it better: > Maudits soient ces enfants de leur mère patrie > Empalés une fois pour toutes sur leur clocher, > Qu’ils vous montrent leurs tours, leurs musées, leur mairie > Vous font voir du pays natal jusqu’à loucher. > Qu’ils sortent de Paris, ou de Rome, ou de Sète, > Ou du diable Vauvert ou bien de Zanzibar, > Ou même de mon cul, ils s’en flattent, mazette, > Les imbéciles heureux qui sont nés quelque part. > \*\* I “babelfished” this and got: Maudits are these children of their motherland Empalés once and for all on their bell-tower, That they show you their turns, their museums, their town hall show to You native land until having a cast. That they leave Paris, or Rome, or Sète, Or the Vauvert devil or Zanzibar, Or even my bottom, they are flattered some, mazette, the happy imbeciles who were born some share. 😕 my bottom? ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/28 "2003-07-01T14:07:39Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by NoGoodNamesLeft_ > -I have NEVER, EVER heard anyone say ‘aboot’. Nice try with trying to invent a stereotype though… OK, I’m from neither America nor Canada, and I first heard the ‘aboot’ stereotype on South Park. But I was watching old Degrassi episodes the other day, and you guys really do say ‘aboot’. I mean, I thought it was cool, the way there are all these American sounding people talking and then they just drop ‘aboot’ into a sentence. But it was definitely ‘aboot’. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/29 "2003-07-01T14:09:37Z")
Canerican dollars damn well better be green, as God intended dollars to be. And no flora on the flag, por favour. ---
**Author:** ![WaryEri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@WaryEri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaryEri)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/30 "2003-07-01T14:13:14Z")
At best, it’s “abowt”. Or so the American SO says when I say it. The only person I’ve ever heard say anything that sounded like " aboot" was from the American midwest. Canada!= Fargo. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/31 "2003-07-01T14:13:43Z")
**NoGoodNamesLeft** : > [@](#): > > Lastly, most of us hate the French as well…you know, the other 95% of the country. I used to feel that way, but my admiration for the French has soared in leaps and bounds in the last 6-8 months. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/32 "2003-07-01T14:15:36Z")
I think Canada should annex the U.S., pure and simple…They would become part of Greater Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Azael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@Azael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azael)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/33 "2003-07-01T14:17:22Z")
Jovan hit the nail on the head… > [@](#): > > \*\* > Patriotic Canadian inferiority complex \*\* It’s easy to forget about you guys until you go off on another one of your “we are important too” rants. ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/34 "2003-07-01T14:18:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by omni-not \* > \*\*I think Canada should annex the U.S., pure and simple…They would become part of Greater Canada. \*\* [Plans](http://www.standonguard.com/) are underway, it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/35 "2003-07-01T14:19:10Z")
Go have some back bacon and beer, you hosers. --From the giant manhood of the USA As for Canadians handling sun, I’ll see it when I believe it. _glove slap to face_ …_Tanning at noon… …No sunscreen…_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/36 "2003-07-01T14:22:16Z")
Why the defensiveness over “aboot”/about? More significantly, why the DENIAL of Canadian accents and idioms? Long before “South Park” came along, I recall how Rush referred to producer Terry Brown as “Broon” (even SPELLING his name that way in album cover credits). The SCTV gang used “aboot” constantly, for comic effect. Heck, it’s long been one of Canada’s most admirable qualities that its people don’t take themselves too seriously, and are quick to laugh at themselves, their institutions and their idiosyncracies. Sigh… I suppose it’s one thing for Canadians to twit themselves and each other in all-Canadian settings, but another to hear outsiders telling the same jokes or laughing at the same things. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/37 "2003-07-01T14:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bruce\_Daddy \* > \*\*I “babelfished” this and got: > > Maudits are these children of their motherland Empalés once and for all on their bell-tower, That they show you their turns, their museums, their town hall show to You native land until having a cast. That they leave Paris, or Rome, or Sète, Or the Vauvert devil or Zanzibar, Or even my bottom, they are flattered some, mazette, the happy imbeciles who were born some share. > > 😕 my bottom? \*\* Okay, okay, I’ll translate: Damned be those children of the motherland Impaled once and for all on their bell-towers Who show you their towers, their museums, their town halls Who show you the native land until you can’t see straight That they come out of Paris, or Rome, or Sète Or the devil knows where, or even Zanzibar Or my ass, they’re proud of it, by God The happy imbeciles who were born somewhere ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/38 "2003-07-01T14:37:05Z")
That’s not a typo. _furiously chugging second cup of coffee_ I see things _after_ I believe in them. It’s positive thinking run amuk into psychosis. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/39 "2003-07-01T14:38:28Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s easy to forget about you guys until you go off on another one of your “we are important too” rants. Right, because only the US is important; anyone else who likes where they’re from and is tired of hearing casual patronization is just an upstart. Keep forgetting. > [@](#): > > I think Canada should annex the U.S., pure and simple…They would become part of Greater Canada. Indeed. Most of the West would go to Alberta. Yukon would annex Alaska. The South would be renamed Somavut, Arizona and New Mexico the Southwest Territories. The west coast would go to british Columbia, and Ontario would insist on Michigan, Ohio, and New York. Idaho would become the Prince Edward Mainland (the potatoes, you understand), and New England would be divided between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Louisiana would once again be part of Quebec. And Florida and Hawaii would be given to Newfoundland and Labrador, with thanks and apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526/40 "2003-07-01T14:46:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*The South would be renamed Somavut. \*\* Bring it. Daddy pulls the string on the dim light bulb as he hurriedly descends the basement stairs. Box-tops fly like scattered crows as the search for that damn flag and a rusty old rifle frantically begins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-starting-to-dislike-some-americans/185526.md?page=3)