Why is it that when you travel abroad the locals hate americans but love the american money? I went to the Dominican and all the locals detested americans. If you showed them american money they would do anything (one guy tried to sell me a horse for 50 bucks)
Why is it that many americans sew (or wear) canadina flags on their backpacks, hats, etc when they travel.
I would say more but I am afraid your military would shock and awe my country:P
Living in Canada must be like having an apartment over a really wild party that’s going on all the time.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Living in Canada must be like having an apartment over a really wild party that’s going on all the time.[/quote]
This is all I have to say to that:
On the sixth day God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said “today I am going to create a land called Canada, it will be a land of outstanding
natural beauty, it shall have tall majestic mountains full of mountain goats and eagles, beautifully sparkly lakes bountiful with carp and trout,
forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs overlooking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, rivers stocked with salmon” God continued “I
shall make the land rich in oil so to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, they shall be known as the most
friendly people on the earth” “But Lord” asked Gabriel “don’t you think you are being too generous to these Canadians?” “Not really” replied God
“just wait and see the neighbors I am going to give them.”
[quote]TShaw wrote:
“Canada Borders on the Magnificent.”
Anyone remember that one?[/quote]
Better watch out Shaw. Dont you live close to the border? Someone might throw a hockey puck at you from across the falls.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
PGA wrote:
You cant pronounce Canada without duh.
It is spelled C - eh - N - eh - D - eh.[/quote]
Well actually Zap, when Canada was about to become a country of its own they had to choose a name, so they put all the letters into a hat. It was one guys job to pull the letters out and another guy was to record the letters.
So the first guy pulls out the letters and yells them out “C” eh, “N” eh ", “D” eh.
So Zap you are a scholar and a gentleman… or at least mildly intelligent and not completely void of social skills.
Aside: I had a teacher that always called the guys a scholar and a gentleman after a response to a class discussion. One day I discuss an issue in class with him. At the end he nods his head and says “Thank you, you are a gentleman”.
[quote]PGA wrote:
TShaw wrote:
“Canada Borders on the Magnificent.”
Anyone remember that one?
Better watch out Shaw. Dont you live close to the border? Someone might throw a hockey puck at you from across the falls.[/quote]
What a waste of a hockey puck!
A Frenchman and an Italian were seated next to a Canadian on an overseas flight. After a few cocktails, the men began discussing their home lives.
“Last night I made love to my wife four times,” the Frenchman bragged, “and this morning she made me delicious crepes and she told me how much she adored me.”
“Last night I made love my wife six times,” the Italian boasted, “and this morning she made me a wonderful omelette and told me she could never love another man.”
When the Canadian remained silent, the Frenchman smugly asked “And how many times did you make love to your wife last night?”
“Once, eh.” he replied.
“Only once?” the Italian
snorted. “And what did she say to you this morning?”
“Don’t stop!”
[quote]worzel wrote:
Here’s one for ya with an Irish twist!
[/quote]
A Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walk into a pub. They proceed to each buy a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage three flies landed in each of their pints,and were stuck in the thick head.
The Englishman pushed his beer away from him in disgust. The Scotsman fished the offending fly out of his beer and continued drinking it as if nothing had happened. The Irishman too, picked the fly out of his drink, held it out over the beer and then started yelling, “SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT YOU BASTARD!!!”
Worzel, stay dry my friend. LOL
Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Brits when abroad.
Canadians: Are rather indignant about being mistaken for Americans when abroad.
Americans: Encourage being mistaken for Canadians when abroad.
Brits: Can’t possibly be mistaken for anyone else when abroad.
Aussies: Believe you should look out for your mates.
Brits: Believe that you should look out for those people who belong to your club.
Americans: Believe that people should look out for & take care of themselves.
Canadians: Believe that that’s the government’s job.
Aussies: Are extremely patriotic to their beer.
Americans: Are flag-waving, anthem-singing, and obsessively patriotic.
Brits: Do not sing at all but prefer a large brass band to perform their anthem.
Canadians: Can’t agree on the words to their anthem, when they can be bothered to sing them.
Americans: Spend most of their lives glued to the idiot box.
Canadians: Don’t, but only because they can’t get more American channels.
Brits: Pay a tax just so they can watch four channels.
Aussies: Export all their crappy programs, which no-one there watches, to Britain, where everybody loves them.
Americans: Will jabber on incessantly about football, baseball, and basketball.
Brits: Will jabber on incessantly about cricket, soccer, and rugby.
Canadians: Will jabber on incessantly about hockey, hockey, hockey, hockey, and how they beat the Americans twice, playing baseball.
Aussies: Will jabber on incessantly about how they beat the Brits in every sport they play them in.
Americans: Spell words differently, but still call it “English”.
Brits: Pronounce their words differently, but still call it “English”.
Canadians: Spell like the Brits, pronounce like Americans.
Aussies: Add “G’day”, “mate” and a heavy accent to everything they say in an attempt to get laid.
Brits: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Aussies: Shop at home and have goods imported because they live on an island.
Americans: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.
Canadians: Cross the southern border for cheap shopping, gas, & liquor in a backwards country.
Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect.
Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things.
Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.
Nicely put Sabrina.
Q: How many Canadians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None, we accept it as it is.
I do not know any Americans but met a lot when I backpacked through Europe.
A few anecdotes to put some fuel on the fire of Canadian/American animosity.
-Small bank in Begium. American girl to the teller. “I am american god dammit…speak english.”
-Girl to her her male friends discussing me while walking through a train station. “Why do all the Canadians sew their fucking flag to there bags.” answer=So we don’t get shot bitch!
-Recently graduated teacher who majored in Canada to me. “Ask me anything about Canada, I just studied your country.” me “What’s our capital”.
her answer=Quebec
-American guy to me after I ran the pool table from the break “You racked the balls to tight. You cheated.” me “I am going to fight you, you , and you outside right now.”
When I was in Europe I barely had my passport stamped. When authorities saw I was Canadian they barely said anything besides if I knew their uncle in Toronto. Americans on the other hand frequently were searched for gay paraphernalia because…you know…most are gay.
Americans
Canadians
The only difference is in the headgear! haha
[quote]dre wrote:
The only difference is in the headgear! haha[/quote]
lol
[quote]TreadStone wrote:
We are virtually indistinguishable.
Kind of like the Irish and the Scottish, the French and the French-Canadians, the Aussies and the Kiwis. :)[/quote]
I read a study in my socio-linguistics class at Univ. of Toronto about how French-speakers would get lost (and unable to ask for directions) in Montreal (French-Canadian). There seems to be a big enough difference in the languages.
[quote]BarneyFife wrote:
Did anyone see that old john candy movie, canadian bacon? that was great stuff.
I don’t think there is too much animosity between canada and America. Think of the joint ventures, like the unguarded border, and NORAD. Norad is a secret canadian way to make the American’s have to protect twice as much airspace, right?[/quote]
That wasn’t a movie it was a Documentary! The difference between americans and canadians is the Yanks need 4 tries to get a first down we do it in 3. Fucking pussies!
[quote]summa wrote:
-Recently graduated teacher who majored in Canada to me. “Ask me anything about Canada, I just studied your country.” me “What’s our capital”.
her answer=Quebec[/quote]
Having lived for a time in the southern US, and conducted a poll on this very topic (to a cross section people from all over the country), “Quebec” is the most frequent answer.
Toronto, Montreal, and Alberta are others. Not one has gotten the correct answer, although people get very offended by it.
One guy replied; “Yea? Well you don’t know the capital of Nigeria!”
Oh, and don’t bring up the pronunciation of the last letter of the alphabet. That’s a can of worms and confusion. 
I should point out that I don’t bring this up to mock anyone. I simply feel that it’s representative of a much larger problem.
BTW-Yes, I still want to live in the US.
[quote]dre wrote:
Canadian…[/quote]
pointing at an american.
There, fixed it for you
[quote]Americans: Drink weak, pissy-tasting beer.
Canadians: Drink strong, pissy-tasting beer.
Brits: Drink warm, beery-tasting piss.
Aussies: Drink anything with alcohol in it.
[/quote]
You just made my morning!