What is Canada Like?

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[quote]jasmincar wrote:

[quote]bond james bond wrote:

Most folks from the other provinces think people from Quebec are arrogant assholes.

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and lot of folks form Quebec think people from the rest of Canada are morons[/quote]

Re read you post smart guy lol.

I’ve been to Quebec three times to snowboard and a bunch of times here in Ontario. Commen courtesy on a chair lift for example, there is a beginning, middle and end. I lost count how many assholes would just butt in line. I don’t encounter this bullshit here in Ontario on the slopes.

I met some great people there Jasmincar and have some great memories but courtesy seemed in short supply there, just an opinion.

I have always been envious of QC for one reason…you get all the best rock shows! Bands can bypass TO and Vancouver etc but never ever ever Montreal…fuckers.

edit/ you fixed your spelling error…poop, my dig is ussless now :frowning:

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[quote]polo77j wrote:

[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:

[quote]polo77j wrote:

[quote]Johnny T Frisk wrote:

[quote]therajraj wrote:
Canada : Minorities Welcomed

USA: Minorities Tolerated[/quote]

If you had the minorities that come into my work place and fuck everything up, I’m sure that welcomed would become tolerated really fucking fast.
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please elaborate…[/quote]

I work in the meat department of a food lion which because of its location the majority of its customers are black and the majority of them are assholes. Since I’m the new guy a big part of my job is to put out the lunch meats (bacon, hot dogs, sandwich meats, etc) so this is where most of my customer interaction comes from. Most of the time people will come in dig through stuff and just throw product all over the place into areas with different products, the ground, and even onto the shelves on the aisles that are across from where the market is. Not to mention the people that bury frozen food under the products where I work so they end up thawing and having to get thrown away plus the worst are people that stick their fingers into ground beef packages so they get thrown away too.

Not to mention having their little shit kids run around screaming and knocking random shit over added with belligerent dicks that want to argue over pricing after you tell them you can’t do anything about it. There is a acceptable level of douchebagery that you have to deal with in a retail environment put at some point you cross it. At the end of the day it takes every fiber of my being not to throw one of these cunts down and ear rape them.
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I’m still waiting for you to explain how this is strictly a minority thing and not just asshole people (ftr people ARE assholes. Especially when they don’t have to clean up after themselves. I worked a booth for charity a couple times at Darlington Speedway before/during/after a couple Nascar events and those people are some of the most belligerent rude condescending pieces of trash to walk the Earth.

Where you and I draw the line of decency and respectability gets thrown on the ground with the rest of their trash. But yet nary a minority is to be found. Trust me I get what you’re saying, but skin color has nothing to do with it. Just because the majority of people who shop at your Food Lion happen to be black does not mean that white people wouldn’t act the exact same way given the same environment.)

PS I apologize in advance if this breaks down into a race debate. So for the sake of avoiding that

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Quebec is the athletic powerhouse of Canada. They produce disproportionate amount of athletes. I guess they’re the Canadian equivalent of blacks in America with regards to athletics.

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This is our rednecks and we donate cars to them around here.

Yeah this is Canada!!!

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OP just watch Trailer Park Boys. Sums it all up.

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[quote]polo77j wrote:

I’m still waiting for you to explain how this is strictly a minority thing and not just asshole people (ftr people ARE assholes. Especially when they don’t have to clean up after themselves. I worked a booth for charity a couple times at Darlington Speedway before/during/after a couple Nascar events and those people are some of the most belligerent rude condescending pieces of trash to walk the Earth.

Where you and I draw the line of decency and respectability gets thrown on the ground with the rest of their trash. But yet nary a minority is to be found. Trust me I get what you’re saying, but skin color has nothing to do with it. Just because the majority of people who shop at your Food Lion happen to be black does not mean that white people wouldn’t act the exact same way given the same environment.)

PS I apologize in advance if this breaks down into a race debate. So for the sake of avoiding that

/hijack
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“the minorities that come into my work place”

I never labeled ALL minorities just the majority of the ones that come into my store which was simply in response to.

[quote]therajraj wrote:
Canada : Minorities Welcomed

USA: Minorities Tolerated[/quote]

They’re not dicks simply because of their skin color, they’re just dicks and I called out the minorities because I don’t have to deal with the same issues from the white customers. Maybe it didn’t come across as I intended but the point was that its easy to be welcoming of any group of people when you’re surrounded by the respectful representation of the group but if you’re surrounded by the worst that the group has to offer like I am everyday I work and in a hour when I show up for my shift, you become less enthused to throw out the welcome mat.

And for the record I agree that it could just as easily be whites/mexicans/asians or everyone all mixed together that make my job ten times harder than it has to be but thats simply not the situation I’m in.

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[quote]krayon wrote:
Quebec is the athletic powerhouse of Canada. They produce disproportionate amount of athletes. I guess they’re the Canadian equivalent of blacks in America with regards to athletics.[/quote]

I don’t suppose you have any stat’s to back this up, because I just looked at a breakdown of CFL, NHL, and 2010 Olympic stats by province, which refute your statement.

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[quote]fraggle wrote:

[quote]krayon wrote:
Quebec is the athletic powerhouse of Canada. They produce disproportionate amount of athletes. I guess they’re the Canadian equivalent of blacks in America with regards to athletics.[/quote]

I don’t suppose you have any stat’s to back this up, because I just looked at a breakdown of CFL, NHL, and 2010 Olympic stats by province, which refute your statement.

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Olympic weightlifting maybe, only thing I can think of. I never saw any great performances at any cis t&f meets.

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Residents of the USA don’t even have a “name” for themselves. They call themselves Americans (like they own America ?)… but America is a continent, not a country … so Mexicans are Americans and Canadians too … just saying.

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I haven’t met a Canadian woman I haven’t liked so you guys have that going for ya.

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[quote]Nan-c wrote:
Residents of the USA don’t even have a “name” for themselves. They call themselves Americans (like they own America ?)… but America is a continent, not a country … so Mexicans are Americans and Canadians too … just saying. [/quote]

I’m sorry but your entire post is jibberish…Mexicans are from Mexico, Canadians are from Candia and Americans from the USA … check it, if you, being Canadian, went to Europe, would they consider you American or Canadian?

Me: 1
You: 0

Your post might make sense if you labeled everyone North American since THAT’S THE CONTINENT …

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[quote]js385787 wrote:

[quote]fraggle wrote:

[quote]krayon wrote:
Quebec is the athletic powerhouse of Canada. They produce disproportionate amount of athletes. I guess they’re the Canadian equivalent of blacks in America with regards to athletics.[/quote]

I don’t suppose you have any stat’s to back this up, because I just looked at a breakdown of CFL, NHL, and 2010 Olympic stats by province, which refute your statement.

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Olympic weightlifting maybe, only thing I can think of. I never saw any great performances at any cis t&f meets.[/quote]

they are strength powerhouse. Powerlifting, Olympic, strongman athletes are insanely strong from over there.

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I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience.

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[quote]js385787 wrote:
I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience. [/quote]

Wait which side of the border are you on??? also, knowing people from every side of Canada and been all over it, you get cultural differences going an hour in any direction. Then again your above statement just confuses me.

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[quote]majik wrote:

[quote]js385787 wrote:
I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience. [/quote]

Wait which side of the border are you on??? also, knowing people from every side of Canada and been all over it, you get cultural differences going an hour in any direction. Then again your above statement just confuses me.[/quote]

What’s so confusing? Anytime I hear someone complaining about their country, it’s always someone from ontario, alberta or somewhere west of quebec. And if you’ve been everywhere in canada, you would know there’s a huge difference between the east coast and the rest of canada.

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[quote]js385787 wrote:
I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience. [/quote]

A few questions:

  1. How old are you?
  2. Have you spent more than a week or two in other parts of Canada?
  3. Have you spent any significant time in more than a couple regions of the USA?
  4. Do you have any friends who grew up in other parts of Canada or the USA?
  5. Is this place in Maine a large or small, rural or urban area?

Your description of Maine sounds like just about any little town I’ve been in from BC to Ontario.

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[quote]js385787 wrote:
I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience. [/quote]

… could write the same. I live on the border and cross for cheap gas and it’s a very uninteresting place too just like you described. 18 is legal age here to drink but we should keep underage (-21) US-ers out of our bars because they don’t know how to behave they start fights EVERYTIME and they wreck things …

But hey, I’m not saying ALL US-ers are the same … I have met great people.

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[quote]fraggle wrote:

[quote]js385787 wrote:
I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience. [/quote]

A few questions:

  1. How old are you?
  2. Have you spent more than a week or two in other parts of Canada?
  3. Have you spent any significant time in more than a couple regions of the USA?
  4. Do you have any friends who grew up in other parts of Canada or the USA?
  5. Is this place in Maine a large or small, rural or urban area?

Your description of Maine sounds like just about any little town I’ve been in from BC to Ontario.[/quote]

People like you are quite annoying. You should move to the states since you obviously have a hard on for it. I really can’t see any other reason why you would be trying to discredit what I’m saying to prove that canada is just like the states - you should learn some patriotism.

My “description” of maine isn’t a description of the entire state of maine in the first place - it’s a comparative example to highlight that there are differences between the us and canada with as little as a 10min car drive from one town in canada to one town in the us. So despite close proximity and a similar population size and geography, a border gives rise to lots of differences - that is the point.

I’d like to know what I said there that sounds like every little town in ontario/bc anyway? What, everyone hangs out in a parking lot? That’s the only descriptive piece in that entire statement. How that one statement can characterize every town from ontario to bc is beyond me. The rest is a comparison between the 2 towns.

I’ve lived in more provinces then most of you I’d imagine, at least a couple years in each of ab, on, nb, ns, nl. Done a fair amount of travelling down into the eastern states and I know quite a few people from various places in the world from doing 3 different degrees at 3 different schools.

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[quote]js385787 wrote:

[quote]fraggle wrote:

[quote]js385787 wrote:
I don’t really see what you guys are talking about with the no differences bit. I drive over to maine to go to walmart there or get gas sometimes and there’s a huge difference just with that little experience, for instance the products sold are way more processed, and a lot different that those sold 20min across the border. The people are fatter and look more like rednecks. The gas is cheaper. All anyone does in that town is drive up and down the main street with their chevy trucks and congregate in parking lots for something to do. Overall it seems like a less interesting place.

I never lock my car door or my house.

I’d wager and say anyone past quebec is not very patriotic in canada, and wish they were american, which is pretty pathetic. Quite different in atlantic provinces in terms of culture and experience. [/quote]

A few questions:

  1. How old are you?
  2. Have you spent more than a week or two in other parts of Canada?
  3. Have you spent any significant time in more than a couple regions of the USA?
  4. Do you have any friends who grew up in other parts of Canada or the USA?
  5. Is this place in Maine a large or small, rural or urban area?

Your description of Maine sounds like just about any little town I’ve been in from BC to Ontario.[/quote]

People like you are quite annoying. You should move to the states since you obviously have a hard on for it. I really can’t see any other reason why you would be trying to discredit what I’m saying to prove that canada is just like the states - you should learn some patriotism.

My “description” of maine isn’t a description of the entire state of maine in the first place - it’s a comparative example to highlight that there are differences between the us and canada with as little as a 10min car drive from one town in canada to one town in the us. So despite close proximity and a similar population size and geography, a border gives rise to lots of differences - that is the point.

I’d like to know what I said there that sounds like every little town in ontario/bc anyway? What, everyone hangs out in a parking lot? That’s the only descriptive piece in that entire statement. How that one statement can characterize every town from ontario to bc is beyond me. The rest is a comparison between the 2 towns.

I’ve lived in more provinces then most of you I’d imagine, at least a couple years in each of ab, on, nb, ns, nl. Done a fair amount of travelling down into the eastern states and I know quite a few people from various places in the world from doing 3 different degrees at 3 different schools.

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I could be a giant toolbag and respond similarly, but I make it a rule to not blow up over an e discussion.

You are quite sensitive though aren’t you? Ask a few questions and you jump to a number of conclusions that incorrect.

For one, me saying that there aren’t that many differences does not equal Canada is just like the States. Mans DNA is somewhere around 98% identical to a chimps DNA if I remember correctly.

Saying that there are a large number of differences between your town and a place across the border is kind of meaningless by itself don’t you think? I’m pretty sure you could find a number of places in the states that have relatively the same proportion of fat people, and amount of processed food on the store shelves.

My question about how small/large, etc that the cross border town was? If it is a small rural town, it would be similar to other small rural towns across the continent, barring any features such as ski resorts etc that some might have.

If you would have responded to my questions like a normal person, I would have simply said, “hmmn, that’s interesting, as my experience has been quite different”.