Canadian Politics Thread

[GRS 10]

Dismiss being called out by deploying subtle belittlement and continuing to act with a false sense of superiority. A typical move. Yawn.

There was no reason for you to act like an ass. Continue if you want, you just look like a clown and a hypocrite. *shrug* Remember kids, it's only bad if Americans do it!

Edited June 19, 2012 by GRS

[Hans Ludwig 0]

I've actually had tourists from New York ask me on the street in Toronto "Why isn't it snowing?" and "Where do we see the polar bears?". That was in the middle of August.

You silly Americans think it starts snowing when you cross the border....

What do you expect from New Yorkers? I mean, they vote people into office to tell them what or how much they can eat or drink.

[Matthewkunx 3]

Dismiss being called out by deploying subtle belittlement and continuing to act with a false sense of superiority. A typical move. Yawn.

There was no reason for you to act like an ass. Continue if you want, you just look like a clown and a hypocrite. *shrug* Remember kids, it's only bad if Americans do it!

Who what when?

[jblackrupert 14]

Not like your tourist story sounds very credible in the first place.

Actually you'd be suprised at the number of questions about snow, igloos and polar bears you get especially from big city, never been out of their state before tourists.

I had to deal with tourists from all over the world in jobs I've had. New Yorkers and Texans by far had the most rediculous beliefs about what is just over the border.

In 2007 I was up North in a town called Prince Rupert [Just over the British Columbia/Alaska border]. While standing in the tourist info center looking at some maps

a Texan came swaggering in the door, huge cowboy hat, spurs, the whole gettup minus the 6 shooters, slapped $50,000 in cash on the desk and said "I'd like to buy Masset"

Masset is a town 0f 1000 people on the Queen Charlotte islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masset,_British_Columbia

This guy argued for nearly an hour with the tourist info folk refusing to listen them telling him people live there, it's not for sale let alone $50,000. He claimed it was a deposit

and he pay $100,000 blah blah blah. The entire place was cracking up. Word came later he actually went there demanding to buy the town, houses with people in them and all.

Need I tell tales of all the Canadians that come down here on weekends to shop and act like arrogant complete ***holes the whole time, expecting to be waited on hand and foot? Everyone in this area dreads the weekends.

Probably Quebecers.

I remember many years ago a Mayor in Florida wanted to have them banned.

The hardcore Quebec uber alles! crowd seem to believe that being French means playing out the French castle scene from Monty Python's The Holy grail when dealing with non-french.

Did they have an Outraaaaaagious accent?

Edited June 19, 2012 by jblackrupert

[Tonci87 163]

Oh Quebecers seem to behave like any other french person I have met outside of France :o

[ProfTournesol 956]

Oh Quebecers seem to behave like any other french person I have met outside of France :o

Welcome in the received ideas and clichés topic :rolleyes:

Edited June 19, 2012 by ProfTournesol

[jblackrupert 14]

Welcome in the received ideas and clichés topic :rolleyes:

Visit some small towns in deepest darkest Quebec or Francophone Montreal and you'll understand.

They take the stereotype and crank it up to 11.

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

The clip doesn't seem to be on youtube anymore, but whenever I think of Quebec I will forever think of that scene in Canadian Bacon where they get pulled over to copy the english insults over to french.

[Hans Ludwig 0]

I had to deal with tourists from all over the world in jobs I've had. New Yorkers and Texans by far had the most rediculous beliefs about what is just over the border.

In 2007 I was up North in a town called Prince Rupert [Just over the British Columbia/Alaska border]. While standing in the tourist info center looking at some maps

a Texan came swaggering in the door, huge cowboy hat, spurs, the whole gettup minus the 6 shooters, slapped $50,000 in cash on the desk and said "I'd like to buy Masset"

You said he had $50,000 in cash and was wearing spurs? Yeah, totally believable.

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

You said he had $50,000 in cash and was wearing spurs? Yeah, totally believable.

Probably just struck oil that week, took a bath in a hot-tub full of money then decided he wanted to own a piece of Canada. Why he chose that particular place, we will never know... :cylon:

[jblackrupert 14]

You said he had $50,000 in cash and was wearing spurs? Yeah, totally believable.

It even made the newspaper in town. In a northern fishing town of 15,000 during the summer thats big news thats talked about for awhile.

That was in 2007 when Prince Rupert opened it's Cruiseship terminal to host visitors travelling the Inside Passage to Alaska

I'd post a link but they don't have a webpage with archived articles.

Americans showing up with large amounts of cash in the North to buy up cheap properties was not all that unusual back then.

unlike the US/Canada land border you can easily get into Canada with large amounts of money by boat without any issues because it's

nothing more then calling a local number when you moor your boat in a Canadian port. No vehicle checks, No showing ID

no face to face interviews. Just your name, boat registration number and how long you are staying.

Come visit the Boating, fishing and Camping shows in Vancouver and Alberta. I'll guarentee you'll spot the Texan's a mile away.

last year there was a guy strutting around with wearing a 10 galon hat, spurs, a Yak fur vest, bushy handlebar mustache.

kinda like Techno Viking crossed with a real viking and a cowboy.

Buying entire towns isn't that unsual either in the US but usually they are virtual ghost towns, Masset, BC is small but not a ghost town by any means.

Some people with money to burn do that sort of thing, just go around waving money around expecting to get anything they want.

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Probably just struck oil that week, took a bath in a hot-tub full of money then decided he wanted to own a piece of Canada. Why he chose that particular place, we will never know... :cylon:

The Queen Charlotte islands [Haida Gwaii] is one of the last pristine areas left on the West coast of Canada.

It's Canada's version of the Galápagos Islands

A huge portion of it is protected land, You can't even travel to many parts of the lower half without a guide

because there are ancient native villages there with above ground burial sites and caves with human remains.

It's close to both the Mainland towns with roads connecting to the rest of Canada and Alaska

it has an airport and a ferry service to the mainland and Alaska.

A house on the beach can be had for as low as $50,000. Even less if the seller is desperate enough.

Edited June 23, 2012 by jblackrupert

[Matthewkunx 3]

IM BAAAACK~ Did you miss me? I offer you all something awesome...

Thats right...there is bacon in that.

[jblackrupert 14]

Edited July 1, 2012 by jblackrupert

[Matthewkunx 3]

Omg yes!~

[Mr. Charles 22]

This seems to be the random comedy videos on the topic of Canada thread. I should open a random comedy videos about Germany thread then.

[Tonci87 163]

Jim Carrey is the best!

[nodunit 397]

This seems to be the random comedy videos on the topic of Canada thread. I should open a random comedy videos about Germany thread then.

Wouldn't that be in the Europe Politics thread?

[Mr. Charles 22]

Why? There are 4 pages of dribble here. One could open such a thread about all the 200+ countries that exist. This has got nothing to do with politics.

[PELHAM 10]

This seems to be the random comedy videos on the topic of Canada thread. I should open a random comedy videos about Germany thread then.

Awww let the Canadians be, this is often the funniest thread on this forum, as for a German Comedy thread well good luck and god speed with that. You can use this guy:

_wJaCedLfdg

[Mr. Charles 22]

Awww let the Canadians be, this is often the funniest thread on this forum, as for a German Comedy thread well good luck and god speed with that. You can use this guy

wtf is up with his face :butbut:

[PELHAM 10]

wtf is up with his face :butbut:

Clue is in the video - he ate British pub food which can do that to you. What he has observed about the english is all true lol.

[jblackrupert 14]

The 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 just past, talk about that.

[PELHAM 10]

The 200th Anniversary of the War of 1812 just past, talk about that.

Interesting read - it's fallen out of common memory in the UK for obvious reasons lol, I don't think I have ever heard it mentioned and am only aware of it from US TV and film. I didn't realise we had such a hand in the downfall of the American Indians but given events elsewhere it doesn't surprise me. End result looks like a draw to me? ;)

[Matthewkunx 3]

War of 1812 good start there black! I am not much of a history buff (Actually History was one of my worst subjects) But that was the fight between the Brit Empire and the United States of America. More specifically, their invasion of upper and lower Canada and them thinking that Canada would be as easy as "Marching" through our boarders :P

[max power 21]

* Canadians, British Regulars, and their Aboriginal allies vs. The US. It was a proxy war of the conflict between the British Empire and Napolean's France.

Edited July 3, 2012 by Max Power