Canada!

[Lord_Panzer]

I always find it funny how Canadians just want to be mentioned.

(I'm Canadian by the way)

Seriously, look at how many Canadian threads there are in this forum alone, usually started by Canadians wanting Americans to affirm their need to matter.

If you watch American TV with any Canadians, we don't get offended when someone makes an outrageously over the top joke about how backwards or lazy we are, we are usually just glad that Canada came up in conversation.

Quoted for truth.

While we're a proud nation, we're also incredibly insecure in our need to be compared favourably to our American cousins (or even to be worthy of being compared to anything). We've kicked a lot of ass, but we feel the need to constantly remind the world of the past because we're not often relevant in the present.

 

[NoblePhilistineFox]

BROTHER OF CANADA!!!
*hugs*
Ive got one for you,
what part of Canada calls hoody's/hooded sweaters "bunnyhugs"
as well as call chocolate milk "vico"
if you can answer that, I would be surprised.

 

[Jack Nettle]

Canada... It's cities range in many different ways across the country. In some places we are a mirror image of our American brothers, and in other parts, we are a wild woodland full of amazing wild life. From country side to bustling city, the Canadian people are proud, and courteous towards foreigners. Though much like Americans, Canadians try to keep themselves independent and unique.

But of course, my opinion doesn't count in this conversation, as I myself am Canadian.
Bet you saw that one coming...

 

[Soviet Heavy]

CANADA? WHAT IS THIS "CANADA" YOU SPEAK OF?

Honestly though, if someone says "Canadian" I think of the moose from Brother Bear.
Don't hurt me.

Thats because those two moose are Bob and Doug Mackenzie! Great White North Eh?

 

[Pyode]

According to my friend from BC, you all live in igloos and your Xboxs are oil powered.

Edit: Also, what we in America call "hotpants" are short-shorts, but in Canada "hotpants" are actually heated pants. This lead to a very confusing conversation.

 

[-Drifter-]

If you watch American TV with any Canadians, we don't get offended when someone makes an outrageously over the top joke about how backwards or lazy we are, we are usually just glad that Canada came up in conversation.

Maybe the Canadians you know.

 

[Pingieking]

To clear up the milk think, I'm from around Toronto and the milk comes in bags. It may be that this is just a Southern Canada thing, since there are a few Canadians I shocked with this.

I'm from Nova Scotia, and I can confirm that bagged milk can be found in at least 3 of the 4 Atlantic provinces (I can't confirm it for Newfoundland, but nobody cares about them anyway).

 

[RelexCryo]

There are many assumptions that Americans know nothing about Canada, so I, a Canadian, challenge you Americans to show what you think you know about Canada!

Canadians are allowed to own handguns, but they may not carry them in public, except locked in a case and unloaded for transport to and from a range and between a home and a place of bussiness.

And while Canada does have very low crime, Switzerland has lower crime.

Of course, Canada is far more open minded towards video game playing rights. From my perspective, this pretty much means that no place is the sort of Utopian Freedom Fantasy Country (Where everyone is a kung fu master/gunslinger/pilot/hacker/action hero) I want to live in. Sigh.

 

[Nowheremaan]

I can describe this history of my home country in one sentence. We spent the first half of our history trying to convince the world we weren't British, and the second half trying to convince the world we aren't American.

EDIT:

Apparently I'm an idiot. I could have sworn they said so in House...

Whatever.

Thanks for clearing that up...oh....and we were also in the Boer War.

 

[spartan231490]

Canada is where my uncle lives! And his family. With their funny accents. Ho ho.

Anyway, yes, Canada! A nice place, so I'm told. Like the US, but without the crazy extremes.

As for what I know, I know you currently have troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Not many, well under a hundred last time i checked. Then again, im not even sure canada has 100 troops to send. I'm pretty sure they don't have a standing military.

 

[Nowheremaan]

Canada is where my uncle lives! And his family. With their funny accents. Ho ho.

Anyway, yes, Canada! A nice place, so I'm told. Like the US, but without the crazy extremes.

As for what I know, I know you currently have troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Not many, well under a hundred last time i checked. Then again, im not even sure canada has 100 troops to send. I'm pretty sure they don't have a standing military.

Try a Battalion.

 

[The Madman]

Not many, well under a hundred last time i checked. Then again, im not even sure canada has 100 troops to send. I'm pretty sure they don't have a standing military.

Canada has close to 3,000 soldiers deployed to Afghanistan alone. You must have gotten your numbers mixed up with how many Canadian soldiers have died there since this war began. Ass.

Link.

 

[spartan231490]

There are many assumptions that Americans know nothing about Canada, so I, a Canadian, challenge you Americans to show what you think you know about Canada!

Canadians are allowed to own handguns, but they may not carry them in public, except locked in a case and unloaded for transport to and from a range and between a home and a place of bussiness.

And while Canada does have very low crime, Switzerland has lower crime.

Of course, Canada is far more open minded towards video game playing rights. From my perspective, this pretty much means that no place is the sort of Utopian Freedom Fantasy Country (Where everyone is a kung fu master/gunslinger/pilot/hacker/action hero) I want to live in. Sigh.

I believe finland has a lower crime rate, and some of the least gun control in Europe. I've never heard of a study which shows any corelation between gun control and violent crime rate, and I've seen a study which tried, they found that the distribution was random. Violent crimes occur for one of two reasons: desire or passion. by desire, i mean planned, and if it's planned you will use whatever weapon is available to you. If it's passion, you will use whatever weapon is convenient.

 

[AvroLancaster]

Canada is where my uncle lives! And his family. With their funny accents. Ho ho.

Anyway, yes, Canada! A nice place, so I'm told. Like the US, but without the crazy extremes.

As for what I know, I know you currently have troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Not many, well under a hundred last time i checked. Then again, im not even sure canada has 100 troops to send. I'm pretty sure they don't have a standing military.

We've lost just over a hundred, Princess Patricia's Light Infantry, the Royal Van Doos and I think a couple others cycle in and out relieving each other

 

[Nowheremaan]

BROTHER OF CANADA!!!
*hugs*
Ive got one for you,
what part of Canada calls hoody's/hooded sweaters "bunnyhugs"
as well as call chocolate milk "vico"
if you can answer that, I would be surprised.

Saskatchewan. The province that's hard to say and easy to draw. Go RIDERS!

 

[teutonicman]

 

[bubba145]

they have a prime minister and used to be a british colony

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

To my knowledge Canada is a Social Democratic part of the British commonwealth with lax marijuana regulation and have a similar obsession with hockey that we in the U.S. have with hand egg.

As far as I can tell, all the good Canadian bands either were formed in Quebec, or have a front man from Quebec. Also, Canadians seem to be very pleasant people.

Was I at all accurate?

 

[Nowheremaan]

Not many, well under a hundred last time i checked. Then again, im not even sure canada has 100 troops to send. I'm pretty sure they don't have a standing military.

Canada has close to 3,000 soldiers deployed to Afghanistan alone. You must have gotten your numbers mixed up with how many Canadian soldiers have died there since this war began. Ass.

[link=http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Canada%27s_role_in_the_Afghanistan_War#2010:_American_troop_surge]Link.[/link]

A brigade, you're right, my mistake. I always get brigade and battalion mixed up.

 

[PsionicAtlas]

n and all the tourguides and stuff are much happier than in America (in my personal experience, anyway)

It's that place thats kinda the USA though shitter in every way?

Okay i'm kidding, your one of my countries colonies?

Okay again with the kidding, Canadas just a country like any other and as far as I can make out, quite a boring one.

Not boring, just less publicized that America.

Okay I'll run with this ball you've given me. Tell me a couple of awesome things about Canada?

The tourguides, hotel managers, cashiers are usually more pleasant (my personal experience, anyway) and we are statistically more laid-back and live longer than Americans

That sounds nice, not awesome Makes it sound like a friendly 4 star hotel where nothing interesting happens but it's still... nice.

Come on, tell me some awesome things about Canada.

Here's one, we technically have the best snipers in the world (irl not video games...as far as I know)