canadian thenestor It's like the fifty-first state or something. They have snow and junk. Damn non-Californians with their damn snow and junk. 981121 ... k the border has been peaceful for a hundred years or something. after the "aroostook war" or something like that. it's fairly pretty though. but canadians get to have those cool accents. my accent is a mixture of new york, california, british, and cuban :) gotta love florida. 981121 ... kathryn The last war we had with the States, we won. I don't think that record would really stay so unsullied if we tried again, say, right now. But I can still say it. 990204 ... Annie My friend Andrew is Canadian, and he has the cutest accent ever. He says "bean" for "been" (but he says I say "Ben" for "been"). And Canada also has better candy bars than we do. In addition, all packaging is in French and English, so I can feel continental... when really, I'm just schlepping around Windsor's shoreline. 990205 ... jules i'm canadian. i am canadian. i'm glad i have to take french in school. i'm glad we have gun laws and i don't have to pass a metal detector to get into school. i don't know anyone who lives in an igloo. i think our flag is pretty. i have american friends and i like them. 990318 ... Derek Canada kicks ass. By speaking french, I can say things like «vous parlez trop de merde» and none of you now what the hell I'm saying! Persoannly, I haven't seen too many differnces between the coutries, we all surf the same internet, watch basically the same TV shows, listen to the same music and so on.... 990415 ... Annie But I do understand what you're saying. I took French for six years. Broadened my love for croissants. 990415 ... kitty why do americans feel this driving need to comment on the so called canadian accent? is it a peculiarity of the american ear drum that causes them to hear "aboot" where "about" was spoken? the only accent i've ever heard give that spin to the word was scottish, which we ain't. 990701 ... sheila broslofski blame canada! 990702 ... emsie I am canadian too. I haven't really noticed anything wicked about our country, until it was brought to my attention. I've been taking french for 13 years now, and I totally love it. I don't really think canadians have accents tho. I've never said "aboot", and I've never heard anyone say it. I like our health care system and the multiculturalism of my city (toronto). I like our gun laws too. I think canada is great. 990702 ... ewrw ewr 991109 ... deadpilot godspeed you black emperor! more than makes up for alanis 991206 ... alicia I am a 17 yr old girl living in Ohio and I was just recently told that I have Canadian accent ! My friends now analyze the way i pronounce everything. It gets rather annoying. They set me up to be forced to say the word "out" just so they can laugh. I don't even know any canadian's ! I may have picked it up from my father who spend a lot of his summers in Windsor or even my grandparent's who are in Canada a lot ? 991214 ... Anne Ashcraft I think Canada SUCKS ASS! Canadians are all a bunch of moose-f*uckers (except for Tom Green. He's cool because he admitted that Canada SUCKS.) What do Canadians do for fun? I bet they like to shove icicles up their asses. USA rules ( especially CA, but all the states are really cool in their own ways). I've been to Canada, and all it is is a frozen wasteland. Shout it from the mountaintops: USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!!!!!!!! 000212 ... lotusflower i cannot live without canadian rubbish. ketchup chips rule! 000212 ... stan Anne, I love the USA too. It's about the only place on earth where you can be ethnocentric, xenophobic, orallyproflatulant and just downright ugly, and no one will think it strange that you are proud of it. God bless America! (where we don't need to work on ourselves because we can nuke everyone else) 000804 ... claudia not to be anti-american or anything, but what are you ignorant assholes talking about? shut the fuck up, because you're not sounding smart. what do canadians do for fun? we make fun of losers like YOU who don't know shit about our country. so for those few americans who haven't got a clue, keep your mouths shut. we kicked your ass once, and we'll do it again. I AM CANADIAN. 000822 ... Wayne peace, dudes ya, sure i have a flag but it's just a piece of cloth. i live in vancouver but don't worry about where i walk at night. i've got my own version of independence day and my idea of excitement is to hopefully go camping if it falls on a weekend. so what if i miss fireworks, i make my own. i eat szechuan, greek and vietnamese food amongst others. less than half my friends are white and i prefer it that way because they are easier to get along with. i pay a huge amount in taxes. the world does not hate my country. they kind of ignore it as if it were norway or something. i can go to almost anywhere in the world on my passport too without fear. this has included places such as haiti and lebanon. the temperature is about 75 out right now, as it has been pretty much all summer. ok, it gets cooler at night. way up high in the mountains, sure, i did see a little bit of snow. i can go camping and backpacking all over the place for free. this summer i have seen amazing lakes and mountains and waterfalls. the ocean is right next door. most cars on the road look under 5 years old. i never notice garbage on our streets. the grungy area of town is really quite small, probably way less than a square mile. i could make way more money in the states but no thanks. i'd rather be here. now that's national pride. 000823 ... claudia VERY well said. did i sound too abrasive before? i'm so sorry if i did. but hey, moose make excellent lovers. 000823 ... moonshine I didnt think anything good came out of canada until this last week. Fucking beautiful canadian men. 000904 ... klairchen The canadian are quite lovely, yes it's true. Keep it a secret though. 000904 ... klairchen The Canadian Men, that is. 000904 ... splinken canada plays a large part in the what-if game, sometimes. what if we lived in Quebec? what if we were part of a militant faction of the free-quebec-movement? what if we patrolled our streets with guns, just like the panthers did? to police the police. that sort of thing. i didn't what-if these things, someone else did. but i have given them a lot of though. 000904 ... ducky I was starting to get scared there for a bit, splinken. 000904 ... *CatMeow* I love the fact that we can hold an election and find out who is now running our country in the SAME day... I hate the fact that Stockwell Day was even an option in our election... I love the fact that my country is not egocentric and self-centered enough to call itself "the most powerful country in the world"... I hate the fact that we're not... I love the fact when I hold a door open for someone, they'll say thank you... I hate the fact that it's so cliche that we're polite... I love the fact that I'm a Canadian... I hate the fact that people are judging me (or anyone for that matter) based on my geographical location on the globe. 001207 ... Kate Fletcher I am doing a paper on why Americans dislike canadians, and I never realized that this issue is so big. As children we are taught not to descriminate against people who are different. This is exactly what americans are doing. Okay okay, some of our music sucks a little, and we have weird accents, but so does everyone. We are also one of the only countries in the world without nuclear bombs, and we have gun laws that make a lot of sense. I believe that there is so much hatred towards Canada, because we confuse Americans. Our customs are very similar, but at the same time very different. However, I do not want to come across as someone who dislikes Americans, and I know that not all Americans hate Canadians, however there are a great deal that do, and I hope that someday, no one will care about which country you come from, or what kind of clothes you wear, or the colour of your skin. Everyone should remember that there is only one race in this world, and that is the human race. 010327 ... no one I'm American, and I must say that I sadly have this untrue but existent hatred towards Canadians. I thought about it and I have absolutely no basis for this, so I asked my friend one day why we hate Canadians. He basically said that it was because Canada has no culture. No important literature has ever come from there, only Alanis Morrissette and Barenaked Ladies. Jim Carrey and Mike Meyers. Those are the only things anyone has ever gained from that country. I admit I didn't look into it or anything so there could be some wonderful writers from there and I just don't know it, but I thought about it and couldn't think of any. I think it's just that you guys have never done anything truly significant or impressive that has had any real, lasting effect on the world. 010327 ... k ok wher is miniver when this blather really needs her... 010327 ... kennee hey no_one, maybe you know nothing of Canada because your american education system has failed you. the content of your education consists of all-american biases. you know nothing of your wonderful and diverse Candadian neighbours. your loss. and just remember, Canada is on top....... 010327 ... Kate Fletcher hey no one, I hope that someday you come and visit canada, so that you will be able to see what a wonderfully divers country it is, i am sure you will not be dissapointed 010328 ... theaustrailianguy "im not a canuck!" -the austrailian guy 010328 ... no one I hope I can, too. I've heard it's nice, but cold. I hate the cold. I'll come sometime during the summer. 010328 ... Kate Fletcher the only time it is cold is in the winter. Is it cold where you live in the winter? Yes. Makes sense doesn't it? Yes, we have a slightly longer winter than some places, but its not that bad. Sorry if that sounded rude, but the reason why everyone thinks canada is so cold is because all our postcards have either igloos, or snow, or something like that! Its a little ridiculous. Canada is beautiful year round, and there is just as much to do in the winter as there is in the summer. 010328 ... no one sorry to have gone along with the stereotype. I'm from a place where people do the same thing, sometimes I've been driven to actually ridicule the obnoxious tourists, so I apologize for having been one of those people. But in all fairness, I don't know anyone from there that could have corrected me. I still don't want to come during the winter, though. Just because I hate the winter everywhere. I'm freezing at 70 degrees and below, so I still think I'll just plan on a summer visit. 010328 ... victim Can't we all just get along? 010329 ... upper canadian hey. i'm canadian. 8th generation. i've passed much time in the forest, adrift in a canoe or stolid in the snow, staring at the stars, with no one around for miles. by force of will or otherwise, during such times i've lost myself. become the forest. been reminded that, in the big show, i'm as close as it gets to nothing. such intimations're nothing new, and've been had by many peoples in many places and times, but the fact that canada facilitated them for me, personally, is the reason i love this country as i do. it has made me humble. to me, it's all about the land, not the people. cheers. 010329 ... Kevin Im canadian. I have no problems with the United States, only