That’s where eavestroughs are found: on the eaves. Gutters are found on the streets and in bowling alleys.
There’s a local business in my town: Adam and Eavestroughs.
Their logo is Adam and Eve, wearing loin cloths (both) and a chest cloth (her) made from greenery, and both wearing tool belts.
Their motto: “Removing original tin.”
Which brings us back to where we started:
Yes, I guess I got a little confused with that one. Put it down to fatigue—it’s been a stressful week.
Are you sure you’re really Canadian?
Maybe we can make it simple. Pronounce the name of this letter: Z
I’ve always heard them called ‘rain gutters’ (California).
I’d like to have a jacket with flag patches of the countries I’ve been to on the back. U.S. flag top-centre, and the other flags in order of the visits. Canada’s flag would be (I think) in position 10. I have the flag patches rubber-banded together in my Big Box O’ Patches. I don’t know if I should count Puerto Rico, since it’s a U.S. territory.
I’ve always thought Americans hiding their national origin with Canadian flags were behaving rather cowardly. Even during the Trump years, I still think it’s cowardly. I don’t blame Canadians who are not amused.
Yep.
This isn’t a new thing. Americans were doing it in the early-'80s.
He’s as Canadian as possible under the circumstances
The whole idea of Americans putting Canadian flags on their clothes/bags belies the unsaid thing of Canadians being the one group who absolutely HAVE to tell people their Canadian at all times, maybe most shown by the time a Canadian called a dead person just to remind them they were Canadian.
Ha! But yes, you are correct. Born in Toronto, lived in four Canadian cities and one town, never lived outside of Canada, only carry a Canadian passport. Love butter tarts, Nanaimo bars, and Kraft Dinner, a.k.a. “KD.” Graduate of two Canadian universities. Helped out in a maple sugar bush in Ontario, have driven the all-Canadian route from St. John’s to Victoria and back again. Flocons de mais are a perfectly good breakfast cereal, if the box shows that side when I have breakfast. Well-acquainted with CBC, CTV, and Global; and the Globe and Mail, National Post, and the Toronto Star. Owner of hundreds of thousands of miles on Air Canada. Well-acquainted with Molson beers and Labatt beers; and to the dismay of our American cigar-smoking friends, owner of many perfectly-legal Cuban cigars in my humidors.
Yeah, I can establish my Canadian credentials. Can our American friends who try flagjacking do the same?
Good on you … but if you have done the hard yards for Harris why would you down play your contribution?
I would think the majority of the Americans who have expressed that phrase to me ( not a great number but probably more than a dozen out here vacation) either actually, eventually, did 'fess up to voting 45/47 or at most charitable were lifelong GOP who decided not to vote at all.
Because i don’t think foreigners care all that much about the details. Because the most important thing i want to convey is that i don’t support our current president, or his policies.
It wasn’t a friend, it was an indigenous Greenlander interviewed on NPR about the issues around Greenland independence.
It’s not shocking, i suppose most greenlanders learn English from Danes, or from someone who learned it from Danes. But i was surprised. Especially given the topic, it was a little disconcerting.
To a Canadian? Of course not. I’ve visited dozens of times. I’ve watched the great Canadian baking show, rooting for the brother of a friend. I have the CBC app on my phone i enjoy a good butter tart, and Tim Hortons makes a fine breakfast sandwich. But I’m sure any actual Canadian could tell I’m from the US.
If i wanted to pass myself off as Canadian here in Japan, i bet i could, though. (Not that i will. But i think i could pull it off if i tried.)
I always thought that sounded like a good bit of swearing. Hit your thumb with a hammer? Flocons de mais!!
I watched very little TV when I was young and read like a fiend. The result is that I have a very amorphous accent and am often asked if I’m originally from Canada. Not to say that I think I sound Canadian, but that most people can’t place my accent. And I grew up near Boston, generally known for its accent.
From the “I like stories” department.
Well, it would be somewhat odd if there were other, non-Canadian groups who absolutely HAD to tell people they’re Canadian. 
But more seriously, if Canadians don’t say they are, they’ll usually be assumed to be American based on accent, which can be annoying.