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[earthbound14]

1. Do Americans sound like Brits when they sing or is it the Brits who sound American when they sing?

2. Why does being Asian mean you must keep the plastic protective covering on your new products as long as humanly possible, and then why do you cover this old yet new looking product with some other form of hideous plastic covering once the original has been destroyed?

3. Why is it that Canadians love Tim Horton's coffee so damned much? Is there cocaine in it or something?

4. Why can't anyone else make a proper beer like Guinness?

5. Why do the Americans still use the imperial system? Wasn't there a war for their independance from England?

[Aelric]

1. We Yank's emulate the Brits. The Brits emulate us. There are two ways to drive down jealousy street.

2. Reb Tevya says: Tradition? Tradition! Not really, but that is the best I figure they would answer themselves.

3. I'll report my findings when I receive an answer from my agents to the north.

4. Because something as to be the best and the Irish did it. In America (not sure where you are from), there are lots of great domestics that you can get from bars near the local breweries. If you are in the Northwest ever, try Mirror Pond.

5. See question 1.

Anything else I can help you with?

[E_athlete]

Reasons why Canucks like Tim Hortons coffee

1. Canadians like mediocre things. Tim hortons coffee is mediocre. It's not great, it's not horrible either, it's just right.

2 .It's also god damn cheap. You can live at Tim hortons for a day with $20. Consider the alternatives - starbucks, second cup, coffee time. All of which are too expensive or just plain nasty.

3. Part of Canadian culture if such a thing exists. Tim hortons has become assimilated into the Canuck culture of hockey, drinking beer and watching sports on tv while watching the game with of course bowling and pool in between somewhere there.

[AgentM]

Re #5: Americans hate change (yes, I'm generalizing). Imperial (or Standard as the Yanks call it) is what they're used to so they'll darn well stick with it!

[beercanman]

[beercanman]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

1. Do Americans sound like Brits when they sing or is it the Brits who sound American when they sing?

Maybe some of you will call BS on this, but maybe because I do this for a living a Brit sounds like a Brit and an American sounds like an American when they sing. Little giveaways in how they vocalize. But I guess singing tends to flatten inflections and American English is more legato and just less clipped than modern British is. But listen to something like Human League or Depeche Mode and the vocalists sound very British. I hear an Aussie twang in Midnight Oil but not in Men at Work.

2. Why does being Asian mean you must keep the plastic protective covering on your new products as long as humanly possible, and then why do you cover this old yet new looking product with some other form of hideous plastic covering once the original has been destroyed?

To make it last longer. I don't agree with it either. I have a friend who does this with cars to keep its resale value. I tell him that he doesn't really own the car; he's just keeping it for someone else. I annoy my wife because the first thing I do with new things is rip the damned plastic off.

3. Why is it that Canadians love Tim Horton's coffee so damned much? Is there cocaine in it or something?

We Canadians accuse Americans, but we can be really pigheadedly patriotic about some things. We feel this moral obligation to like the Tragically Hip and Tim Horton's, both of which are good but not fantastic. In truth, I find that Tim's has gone downhill over the last decade, and now I'll go to Dunkin or Krispy Kreme and not agonize over it. Sacrilege. I guess Tim's coffee has always had a following because it was consistent and cheap. Just like Americans like Coca-Cola (which might have had cocaine in it, but apparently it's urban legend).

4. Why can't anyone else make a proper beer like Guinness?

Fate! There's lots of good beers. But if it's rainy and I'm cold, and if the Irish Descendants come up on my computer, I want a Guinness. I have unpleasant memories of working in a bar and all the Guinness Nazis telling me how to pour it, but there's still nothing like it on tap.

5. Why do the Americans still use the imperial system? Wasn't there a war for their independence from England?

No idea. Of course, Canadians went into metric kicking and screaming in 1977, and only because we more or less had a dictator in power making us do it. Now it seems to make perfect sense. I see metric & imperial road signs sometimes in California, and some air traffic and engineering is done in metric whether the Americans like it or not. But it's a form of American conservatism. Funny they do this, since the US was much closer to France than to England in the 1800s, and the antipathy to England was so strong that the US narrowly avoided making German its national language.

Ken:>

[AgentM]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

>Pierre Trudeau was a dictator? Haha! Lemme guess, you're from Alberta?

Yes! Okay, I went a little far...

Ken:>

[the ireland]

[AmericanExile]

[Koveras]

At least some parts of the imperial system feel much more natural to me. I never think in kilograms, centimeters, meters or hectares, always pounds, inches, feet, acres. But I do think in kilometers, millimeters, and litres. I think most Canadians are like that, mix 'n match systems.

[beercanman]

you may have a pint

how many gallons in a fathom now?

i forget

[niugnepLIVE]

From a korean: "Do you do icehockey?"

Me: "No, I'm not canadian"

Korean: "what do you mean?"

Me: "We don't have ice in Australia"

Korean: "Oh. Do you have korean food?"

[rchristo10]

Hey look, are they Americans or Canadians?