# Some American tourists are flagjacking; Canadians are not amused **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [September 23, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323 "2025-09-23T02:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/121 "2025-10-02T21:03:31Z")
That story would never be believable. Too many holes. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/122 "2025-10-02T23:27:19Z")
To be fair, their flag is a big plus. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/123 "2025-10-03T01:20:25Z")
Groan ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/124 "2025-10-03T01:29:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > neither one wanting to be treated like the “ugly American.” Tangent: the original character was called “The ugly American” because he was ugly. He was actually a nice guy. It was the other Americans in the book who caused the book to be conceived as anti-American. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/125 "2025-10-03T13:41:17Z")
It’s like learning that Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, wasn’t really an idiot but only appeared to be idiotic by his peers due to their own petty ethical and moral failings. Ha! as if. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/126 "2025-10-03T16:51:14Z")
My brain was confusing _The Ugly American_ with _The Quiet American_, and I thought “But Brendan Fraser isn’t ugly.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/127 "2025-10-03T17:19:46Z")
> [@Lar](#): > > Canadians are not amused… now? I wondered why they were unbothered in the early 2000s. We _were_ bothered by it, but like that one friend who always seems to get into a scuffle at the pub, we had your back. Now, you’re not only getting into a scuffle at the pub, you’re trying to sucker punch us as well, and that’s not cool, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2025, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/128 "2025-10-04T10:53:04Z")
And this is why i thought about doing it around 2000, but now feel it would be grossly rude to actual Canadians. ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323/129 "2025-10-16T20:07:01Z")
Australians are very embarrassed when they find out I’m Canadian not American and apologize. I gently tell them, if you are guessing …guess Canadian first then if they are Americans they won’t mind. ( I think ). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-american-tourists-are-flagjacking-canadians-are-not-amused/1023323.md?page=6)