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Dev
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: Silly Things Canadians Say About Canada. |
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We need our own thread for this topic.
I can't think of anything we say, but other people are saying
1. Canada is a bilingual country.
Truth: Most people speak either English or French, bot not both.
2. Canada has great and clean nature.
Truth: Canadans throw away more garbege than Americans.
Our rivers are very poluted
3. Canada is a large country.
Truth: No. Unless you count the unuseable frozen parts. |
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seoulsucker

Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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4.) It's not America. |
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ajgeddes

Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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seoulsucker wrote: |
4.) It's not America. |
Is it? |
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bellum99

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: Silly Things Canadians Say About Canada. |
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Dev wrote: |
We need our own thread for this topic.
I can't think of anything we say, but other people are saying
1. Canada is a bilingual country.
Truth: Most people speak either English or French, bot not both.
---Official Languages equal two and two are needed for Federal Government. I know many many people who can speak both.
2. Canada has great and clean nature.
Truth: Canadans throw away more garbege than Americans.
Our rivers are very poluted
---Facts on this please. Our population is 1/10 of America. This is just stupid.
3. Canada is a large country.
Truth: No. Unless you count the unuseable frozen parts.
--Yes, Canada is a large country..because large means land area. |
Who wrote this? They say that a million monkeys on a million typewriters...blah blah blah. Even one monkey on one computer can make a few sentences. Call CNN! |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Canada is not reliant on the American economy to keep it going. |
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Smee

Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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Winnipeg should have an NHL team. |
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Gwangjuboy
Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: Silly Things Canadians Say About Canada. |
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Dev wrote: |
Canada is a large country.
Truth: No. Unless you count the unuseable frozen parts. |
I'm not Canadian but a flight from New Founland to Vancouver isn't quick. |
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seoulsucker

Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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ajgeddes wrote: |
seoulsucker wrote: |
4.) It's not America. |
Is it? |
Fair enough. It's not the USA. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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I think a more amusing/telling thread would be some of the things Canadians say about America. |
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ajgeddes

Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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seoulsucker wrote: |
ajgeddes wrote: |
seoulsucker wrote: |
4.) It's not America. |
Is it? |
Fair enough. It's not the USA. |
Now, if this thread was, "Things Canadians go on and on about" I would agree with you. |
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Yaya

Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Canadians are so loved around the world.
Fact: Most of the world don't have a clue about Canada, so it's hard for them to an opinion PERIOD, good or bad. |
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khyber
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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"Fact" Canadians are very polite....
.....until they get drunk when they become belligerent, creepy nationalist weirdos. |
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normalcyispasse

Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Location: Yeosu until the end of February WOOOOOOOO
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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I used to date a Canuck girl. She was always keen to point out which things/people/commodities were Canadian. For example, I'd be playing a song by The Tragically Hip and she'd start up: "Hey, did you know they're Canadian? They play them all the time on the radio in Canada. In Canada we have quotas to play Canadian artists on the radio, so you hear a lot of Canadian music. Like Bryan Adams. Did you know he's Canadian? And Alanis Morissette. They're Canadian, just like The Tragically Hip, so you hear them all the time in Canada."
One of the more amusing things I hear from Canadians sometimes is that they don't have an accent different from that of most Americans. Right. It's always evident they're from Canada when they apologize and say that they're "sore-ey." |
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ajgeddes

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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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normalcyispasse wrote: |
I used to date a Canuck girl. She was always keen to point out which things/people/commodities were Canadian. For example, I'd be playing a song by The Tragically Hip and she'd start up: "Hey, did you know they're Canadian? They play them all the time on the radio in Canada. In Canada we have quotas to play Canadian artists on the radio, so you hear a lot of Canadian music. Like Bryan Adams. Did you know he's Canadian? And Alanis Morissette. They're Canadian, just like The Tragically Hip, so you hear them all the time in Canada." |
That's true. |
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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: Re: Silly Things Canadians Say About Canada. |
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bellum99 wrote: |
Dev wrote: |
We need our own thread for this topic.
I can't think of anything we say, but other people are saying
1. Canada is a bilingual country.
Truth: Most people speak either English or French, bot not both.
---Official Languages equal two and two are needed for Federal Government. I know many many people who can speak both.
2. Canada has great and clean nature.
Truth: Canadans throw away more garbege than Americans.
Our rivers are very poluted
---Facts on this please. Our population is 1/10 of America. This is just stupid.
3. Canada is a large country.
Truth: No. Unless you count the unuseable frozen parts.
--Yes, Canada is a large country..because large means land area. |
Call CNN! |
Sorry. My bad for not giving the details.
1. Outiside of Montreal, Ottawa, and New Brunswick, the majority of people only speak English. French is hardly recognized outside of Quebec. For example: I was surprised that there were no French information signs in the Dufferin Mall, a major mall in Toronto. They had information signs in English, Italian and Chinese. I guess they figure no one speks French in Toronto. That's basically true.
2. Canadian families produce more garbage per capita than American families.
3. 80% of Canadians live within a 90 minute drive of the U.S. border. With a population that's only about 10% of America's, I'd say people are stretching it a little to suggest that we're such a big country. Include the frozen land that we don't use and I guess you're right.
I like what was said by Trudeau. When America sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Very true. |
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