TRUE TRUE TRUE

It’s all too true. I like to think that I break the American mold, but you’ve just shown me I have so much farther to go! I sent this to my brother in Tampa because I knew he would get his skivvies in a twist over it - and he did! You rock!

Halifax as bad as Tampa, no no no. I live in Halifax, at least Tampa has professional organized sport and beer at gas stations.

the rest of the world is just laughing at America and they haven’t realised yet

I agree with DF Fatty. Also, Americans live their life in so much fear its sad. Terrorists around every corner…wait what was that??…where is my gun?….shoot first ask questions later. WTF is with this security level? Blue Orange? Am I going to die today? Grow up America you did it to USA!

Correction: Grow up USA you did it to yourselves

Guess I didn’t have enough coffee yet to write!

Other differences include:
CREDIT ME
As said in the Slither review, they like to sit and watch the credits before leaving a movie. That’s a big thing with them: credits. You even see video games with the names of who designed it riveted to the machine. Look at comic books. British comic books are just Beano and Whizzer & Chips etc. There’s no mention of who does what. American comics say, Pencils: Carmine Infantino, Inker: Bladdi Blah, Lettering etc. The reason they’re into credits is what we call The Pet Rock Syndrome. They all think they are going to be discovered for doing their one thing and make millions of millions of dollars.

NO FRENCH
They hate French. A lot of them can speak Spanish but whenever they hear french all they hear is “You are stupid. You are uncivilized. You’ve never been anywhere. You have no idea what’s going on in the world.” Oh, do not speak French to a French waiter in a French restaurant. That drives them nuts.

BAD WORDS
They don’t speak English very well. Some irritating words they use include: misogynistic instead of misogynist, ironical instead of ironic, “I watch porno” instead of “I watch porn,” and the worst, “Don’t be a gossip” instead of “Don’t gossip” or “Don’t be a gossiper.” They also spell poser “poseur” and sometimes even pronounce it in a weird accent. Oh yeah, they don’t get apostrophes and will often use them to denote something plural like “We have 1000’s of songs.”

UBIQUITOUS TELEVISION
They always have a TV on somewhere in the house. They’ll also have a TV in the kitchen and it’s not unusual for an American family to sit down to dinner in silence as everybody there watches it.

WASTE
Portions are huge. If you are on a budget just split an entrée (that’s another weird thing. They call their main course an entrée even though it means appetizer and everyone does it now. Even French restaurants). Don’t get an appetizer and an entrée. You won’t be able to finish it. Americans usually order these huge meals and eat about half of them. Some get a doggy bag but they usually end up throwing that away.

PATRIOTISM
All Americans are patriotic, even punks. If you say something bad about someone’s home state they will get really pissed. They hate Bush but if you shit on America they will start making fun of your country. Canadians can take the piss out of Canada until the cows come home. If someone goes, “Aren’t you from Winnipeg?” they’ll go, “Yeah, it blows.” The same goes with school spirit. Cheerleaders in Canadian schools are white trash. Football players are also lonely and poor. Canadians don’t go to those games or give a shit about what school they go to.

Also, Americans are super-obsessed with race-as-racy-discussion-fodder. Also, barely anyone has a passport.

i love this blog its just like slag off America day oh man it’s great!

americans leave their dining room table set up, with plates and glasses and shit, all the time. they are prepared for a huge feast at all times, but they rarely even eat in the dining room.

canadians love to talk shit about americans because we are so insulted that they don’t give a fuck aboot us. it’s probably because we live in igloos

americans are usually good people.

its the religious nutty dumb fuck americans who all voted for Bush that everyone in the world hates.

the rest of them americans are A-OK.

my country’s a joke, but my teeth are beautiful!

British punk sucks. I hate all those stupid clown bands. Americans did punk WAY better, considering we invented it, and the only good music the British made was metal.

Kind of fascinating to read the perceptions about Americans; like any stereotype they’re about 50% true. You certainly can find an American to despise for any of the points listed above, and you can find the polar opposite as well, without much trouble. The damn shame of it is that one can find the negative examples so easily. Sheer numbers, I guess.
For example, I live in an area that is strongly Italian American; wonderful restaurants abiound, yet people throng to shitholes like the Olive Garden, where High School kids boil your pasta into paste, but the refills are free. Quantity is apparently quality.
A great lot of people would prefer to go to Disney World or Las Vegas and see replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Tower of London, rather than actually get off their fat asses and walk around in these great old cities. It’s perverse, but I know people who go to Disney, and then take Disney cruises. The World - sanitized for your convenience!!
But fear not -there’s at least 35% of us that love traveling abroad and up North, (Yea to Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, Banff, Nova Scotia et al.) and hate GW Bush and the direction he’s taken this country. Fear mongering is such a ruinous way to govern a society. I count on the pendulum swinging back our way before he drives us into a depression, or converts us into a friendless nation. What’s happening here has been pretty hard to watch - and frankly, there’s plenty of us that wish the USA was more like Canada!

SHOES
Americans all wear their shoes in the house. Even on carpets and even in the winter. Maybe they got it from sitcoms because people look dumb on TV when they wear socks so they always wear shoes on TV. Americans get super bummed when they come to Canada and are told to take their shoes off. Sometimes they refuse.

They also don’t know how to cook anything…they use their ovens for storage space…and they like to eat standing up or in the subway.

Correction, Vayas. We like to eat in our cars. There’s an awful lot of the country that has no mass transit - and besides, eating standing up would require getting up off of our fat asses. We don’t do that for anyone.

Canadians are corny, they just say corny shit. And they follow up clevor quips to make sure you know they are jokeing- so dry humor does not seem to fly to well. All the funny Canadians seem to flee immediatly for Hollywood. They also send all of their old to drive very slowly here. Canada is pretty bland. It’s like a great big Ohio.
I’ll say this for Canada, it’s big, and people seem to forget that their economy has suffered a good bit due to being our neighbor- not unlike mexico. We probably have many more illeagal Canadians that we think- they are fucking sneaky, they can appear to look just like us!!! Like aleins or something. So if you meet someone who strikes you as unfunny and possibly from Ohio….. might be a Canadian in diguise.
As for the punk thing, punk seems to fare better in countries with somethinng to bitch aboot…. The only thing good enough to bitch about in the US is how shitty the neo-mall punk scene is.

TONY G

That guy Tony G, is pretty acurate. His comment was better that the above article.

americans pray too much and bathe in crude oil- i’ve seen them do it! they ONLY eat fast food and are willing to give up their first born for a nice new SUV- at least that’s what a friend of a friend, who has a friend who visited a small town in wisconsin (for 15 minutes) told me. the cowboy hats and gangsters everywhere…don’t get me stared!

Why are Americans so obsessed with who is reading the news? I know Vice has touched on this before, but holy shit.

The cool thing about America is that we are America, so people in other countries are always thinking about us and getting pissed about our SUVs and everything. But Americans don’t really give a crap about other countries, so we barely even notice. We’re too busy being cool and having fun to really care what the herbs are saying.

It’s like those old beach movies where the big buff dude kicks sand in the little skinny dude’s face, and then walks off laughing with the hot girl. The skinny dude is consumed by nerd rage but the buff dude doesn’t even care about the whole thing because he’s more concerned with getting the hot girl to blow him.

Some thoughts:
1) Like 1/2 of Americans are cool, the other 1/2 are the fat loud NASCAR tards that give us bad press. When your in another country where and if there are a few Americans, you only notice one, the lound drunk one whom Americans hate also.

2) Spending lots of time in other countries has made me realize how much Americans waste and take for granted, but honestly, America is still pretty rad, mostly just California and New York, Texas sucks, and what the fuck is going on in Missouri?

3) American pop-culture rules the world. Everywhere you go, you are likely to hear Hotel California, Beyonce, Brittney Spears etc. Friends is on freakin every television in the world. We motherfuckin OWN the internet too.

4) Other then pop-culture, American’s lack of history makes us a wierd, un-cultured bunch.

5) America shits on people who smoke ciggs.

6) French people dislike Americans WAY MORE then Americans dislike the French.

That is all.

I’ve not met one American family that leaves their dining room table set 24/7.

I like Canada. Funny thing is I’ve been to Madagascar before I’ve been to Canada. In fact I haven’t even been up there yet. Madagascar was pretty damn rad though. Khat is fun to chew. Baobab trees are neato. And none of you all have seen a fight until you’ve seen morengy. The whores in Diego (Antsiranana) were making a killing off a bunch of capri pants wearing French Navy sailors. For that matter, what’s the deal with Euro men and those god damned sporty capri pants complete with Euro Pumas and sleeveless t-shirts?? I’ve never seen Americans or Canadians rocking those thank God.

One more thing… the Show Me State rules.

pshhh, all americans are fags, and 0/2 are cool- half of them are fat loud NASCAR tards that give you a bad press, the other half are whiny slut-bitches that spend their time conversing with foreigners about how alienated they feel within their own country.

u got nothing good going for you

your culture sucks shit too

alah akbar, death to america- until next time make mine Muhamed
hahah

But aren’t you guys from Canada?

Yes, a lot of these are true, but anyone could go into any country and talk shit.

Some of these arguments are lame, though. Who cares how we say words? The Spanish probably say the same thing about Central and South Americans.

And what’s wrong with Dischord? It’s one scene out of many, and each scene has its own characteristics. Why does everything have to be a competition? Can’t we just let it be? Is it really that bad if we like all that “sneakers and sweatshirt shit?” Do I give a fuck if teenagers listen to Good Charlotte and all that other bullshit? No.

Honestly, can we stop wasting time over petty nonsense and concentrate on more important things like the war, poverty, and other problems that need to be focused on? The WHOLE fucking world sucks, okay?

this post is just some simple observations… in no way intended to make fun of Americans

the problem with talking about 300 million people is, as soon as you stray from quirky things like “they watch a lot of TV” you get into trouble. They are not all dumb for example. There’s too much variation in the education to call them uneducated. Florida, for example, has schools worse than most third world countrie whereas New Hampshire has schools way better than the UK’s. There’s also Harvard and Yale etc here so that blows the “they’re all retards” theories.

Oooh, that’s another thing about them. They don’t have royalty so which school you went to / go to defines your place in society. When parents have a Brown sticker on their car they’re really saying, “I am of the Brown level of greatness.” People from community colleges are equally proud but they know they’re working class. Those stickers are America’s version of working class pride. It’s all in this great book called “Class” by Paul Fussell.

Bobby Sands,

I think Rick Mercer has shown that students and even professors from Harvard and Yale are not all that bright:

“Congratulations Canada on getting your second postal code”

I am not trying to start an argument here. Just merely pointing out that our slick satirical journalism proves that even the most highly regarded Americans know nothing but the ole a-ok-USA

uhhhhhhhhhh Stewart - Colbert, please?

The biggest difference between canada and th e u.s. is in the u.s you have these toilet paper things to sit on when you take a shit, canada.. not so worried about that, never ever seen one north of the border, i found that a tad odd, but hey one less thing to worry about so im cool w/ it.

Nice catch. The only time I’ve seen those toilet paper things in Canada is at my out-sourced American telemarketing job.

Outside of the fact that Seattle has way more nice buildings than Van (yet somehow it’s infinitely shittier there?), and the Peg is like Paris compared to Madison, this is pretty right on. Of course, their pop culture is basically ours, so we all know the names of all 50 states when we hear them. But I’ve encountered Americans who are absolutely blown away by a license plate that says “British Columbia” or “Saskatchewan”. Like, serious incomprehension as to how a car from a non-existent storybook land could physically manifest in front of them. With one person, even the repetition of “Vancouver” was not enough to jolt them into recognizing the concept of BC.

Outside of the fact that Seattle has way more nice buildings than Van (yet somehow it’s infinitely shittier there?), and the Peg is like Paris compared to Madison, this is pretty right on. Of course, their pop culture is basically ours, so we all know the names of all 50 states when we hear them. But I’ve encountered Americans who are absolutely blown away by a license plate that says “British Columbia” or “Saskatchewan”. Like, serious incomprehension as to how a car from a non-existent storybook land could physically manifest in front of them. With one person, even the repetition of “Vancouver” was not enough to jolt them into recognizing the concept of BC.

Van’s got nicer buildings than seattle

America is just different. That’s all. Like Canada, it had many regions and diverse histories. Canadians always love to bitch and moan about America, and like to think they are better than America, but they’re reacting to Canadian and American media, not actual America. The coolest non-American perception of America has to be Jean Baudrillard’s America. You have to look beyond what you hear and read, and just walk around in America.

I once saw a billboard in Orlando that read “Gay? Unhappy? call such and such a number”. But I’ve also seen the beauty of Vermont, swam in the freezing atlantic in Maine, been to outlet malls in Bufallo, and checked out midieval art in the Cloisters on the northrern tip of Manhattan Island. It’s all so diverse and crazy, but not unlike the diversity and insanity in Canada.

Im a canadian and I work in the states four months out of the year. America has way cooler stuff and more national pride. People are more confrontational also. Canadians dont care as much about things americans do, and we dont have as much money. We dont have high school cheerleaders, trucks on 28’s, or palm trees! But its hard to find a national identity when big brother is forcing his ways on you all the time. Canada will get there though, I like our chances with Harper.

Strikes me as rather hypocritical that Canadians can make any sort of bigoted and generalized comment about the U.S. they deem witty and be cool with it, while making a similar comment about any other country would be viewed as idiotic or clueless.
Saying those types of things just makes you a stereotypical “angry,bitter Canadian” and I’d say that’s just as bad as being an ‘uneducated, isolationist” American.

if it wasn’t for the us you boring ass canadians would have no popular culture period. same for all the eurotrash in eurabia.

It’s true… us Canadians ARE boring. The Tragically Hip? C’mon! What is that!?

maple syrup, though, that’s the good stuff.

Americans love to think that they are amazing while the truth is their infrastructure is rotting to the core. They are heavily in debt, all the decent jobs are being outsourced, the only thing left going for it is the military, which allows them to talk big and act like bullies but behind that they really dont have much left. Like the roman empire, the US empire is starting to show its cracks. The USA in the upcoming future is going to go through some tough times and alot of you dudes are going to have to become a lot more humble, when your nation is turned into a banana republic with a handful of super rich dudes and the rest working at wal-mart.

EVERYBODY HATES THEIR BOSS.

Get over it.

Canadians drink more than Americans. Ever go to CBGBs? No matter how packed it is the bar is always empty. Isn’t this supposed to be a seedy NY bar?
One of the outcomes of this less booze thing is fewer people riff. If you get on the bus in Ottawa and somebody’s in your way and he goes to the right and you go to the right and then he goes to the left and you go to the left and you guys keep fucking it up you could laugh and say to the stranger, “Wow, you’re just burning doing the nuetron dance.” And he’d laugh. In America they’d just be scared of you.
As you go farther South though Americans resemble Canadians more. When it comes to riffing at least. Austin is almost indistinguishable from a Canadian town. Everyone’s good for a laugh. Yankess are some of the most uptight people in the Western world. They make the dutch look like the Irish.

Canadians drink more than Americans. Ever go to CBGBs? No matter how packed it is the bar is always empty. Isn’t this supposed to be a seedy NY bar?
One of the outcomes of this less booze thing is fewer people riff. If you get on the bus in Ottawa and somebody’s in your way and he goes to the right and you go to the right and then he goes to the left and you go to the left and you guys keep fucking it up you could laugh and say to the stranger, “Wow, you’re just burning doing the nuetron dance.” And he’d laugh. In America they’d just be scared of you.
As you go farther South though Americans resemble Canadians more. When it comes to riffing at least. Austin is almost indistinguishable from a Canadian town. Everyone’s good for a laugh. Yankess are some of the most uptight people in the Western world. They make the dutch look like the Irish.

Who gives a shit.

Shouldn’t you cretins be working at Whole Foods and wasting your parents’ money on a useless degree from a mediocre liberal arts college? A regular meeting of the minds, what with your stale, cannibalized social commentary and this “me too, I have something original to contribute” shit. No you don’t. You sound like a bunch of “observational humor” stand-ups, but not as funny and less original. Give yourselves a big pat on the back and please go away, your thoughts lack merit. Switch “Canadians” and “Americans” for “Black People” and “White People” and you’d have an episode BET ComicView. Only worse. Much worse.

“But I’ve also seen the beauty of Vermont, swam in the freezing atlantic in Maine, been to outlet malls in Bufallo, and checked out midieval art in the Cloisters on the northrern tip of Manhattan Island. It’s all so diverse and crazy, but not unlike the diversity and insanity in Canada.”

What the shit is this nonsense? “I’ve also seen the beauty of Vermont?” I hope the rats nesting in your greasy dreadlocks chew off your face while you sleep, you pretensious hippie shit.

just a heads up to the guy sayin’ canada would have no culture with out the states… well the USA wouldn’t have Vice with out canada.. and who the fuck needs culture when you’ve got Vice

Im Canuck. What I would say Canuck vs Yanks is Canucks seem to be more posturing as “unassuming” in a lack of assertiveness sort of way.
*note how I said (posturing) :D

Example:
30 Canadians standing waist deep in the hotel pool. The lifeguard says “EVERYONE OUT, NOW!!!” all 30 will get out, some grumbling, some shrugging their shoulders, they all walk out.

Now there are 30 Americans standing waist deep in the same hotel pool. The lifeguard says “EVERYONE OUT, NOW!!!” A few of them will turn and say “What for?…its nice in here” and the 30 will more than likely stay standing there…maybe a slight chance that some of the Yanks that live close to the northern border, they might move towards getting out.

Would you think the Canucks more of sissy types?

….think again.

Canadians are for the most part, “passive aggressive”. Now a southerner may think “sissy” but to a northerner I would say that on the way out, a good percentage of the lads probably piss in the pool water on their way walking out, while grumbling or snickering under their breath.

I once read in a book about advertising that to sell something to an American, commercials emphasis that you personally will suffer if you don’t buy the product. To sell something to Canadians, commercials emphasis that everyone will suffer if you don’t buy the product.

every country has it’s assholes and non-assholes.

it just happens that the non-assholes in america don’t give a shit about civic issues anymore. just two more years… i hope we last.

Rex Murphy of the CBC (possibly the ugliest journalist on earth) once stated that “Canadians, who love to brag about their humility” are not as different from the US as they would like to believe.

I am a proud Canadian who has alot of family in the US. I have lived most of my life in Canada, but have spent alot of time throughout my 35 years of living, in the US. I have noticed, over time, how the two countries have slowly distanced themselves from each others’ culture and belief system.

Media influence I believe is the main culprit for how the two nations have developed. It seems to me that the “American” belief that you’re successful in life if you have the most wealth (or at least the appearace of wealth) and sensationalism in its’ news broadcasting is the underlying force that drives the society.

Consumerism:
The goal of living the Las Vegas lifestyle seems to be a narrow minded stereotype, but the proof is in the consumeristic puding.

Example: Mercedes Benz developes one of the most fuel efficient cars ever created and does their market research. Will Americans buy this ultra fuel efficient car?
No.
It lacks the size, power, and STATUS that large cars and SUV’s are known for, which Americans crave.

The “Smart Car” is not for sale in the dumb nation (sorry but I couldn’t resist).

Its’ sales in Canada however are doing quite well. Why?
Market research indicates that Canadians seem to be more concerned with efficiency, cost savings, and global polution than status.

Politics: Not only did Canada stay out of that mess in Iraq, (which many Americans, at least 51% of whom that voted in the last election, still believe is not about oil) more Canadians come out to vote than in America.

50% voter turn out in Canada, 20% voter turn out in the US.

It is amazing that in a country where patriotism reigns supreme, that only 20% of its’ citizens practised its’ right to be active in their democracy (ESPECIALY IN ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTIONS IN AMERICAN HISTORY!).

Canadians, and possibly the rest of the world, are wondering, is this the sort of democratic society the US is hoping to export to the world? Shameful if you ask me.

One of the largest differences between the two countries is the amount of violence that exists (which I believe is fuelled by the “Get rich or die trying” media message).

The United Nations has recognized Toronto as the most multi-culturally diverse city in the world.

There are more guns per capita in Canada than there are in the US (most people have a hard time bleieving this but it is true).

Yet, even with the a multi-cultured world capital and a larger number of guns per capita than the US, the US’s gun related murder rate is 100 TIMES that of Canada’s.

It’s easy to always look at the negative, I know, but you can’t help but to notice these aspects of the two cultures and wonder,
WHEN IS AMERICA GOING TO WAKE UP and realize that they are not the greatest nation out there. I’m not saying that Canada is, but at least we know it.

“I hope the rats nesting in your greasy dreadlocks chew off your face while you sleep, you pretensious hippie shit.”

eww. that’s gross, but funny. I guess your contribution is sick degenerate nihilism, eh?

Chicago is better than Toronto you twat.

fine
give us back our jeans
and airplanes
and google

you can have Lindros back

americans think that Canadians are practically inuit.

Canadians think that Americans are redneck morons.

Everyone else can’t remember which country is which.

Heres to international fucktards.

all of you can go and fuck yourselves…

you’re supposed to represent the educated elite new generation… you’re all just as fucking whiny and boring as your fucking parents… and please, no more precious useless facts jesse you stupid fuckknuckle-head.

this is funny as! the World thinks Americans are ignorant, annoying loud bastards who can’t think for themselves,have a poor grasp of the English language, believe the government without question, and know F.A. about other countries - e.g. I am Australian, and upon arriving in Sydney on a flight from the US I was asked by an American where all the kangaroos are and will they be on the runway. This is the tip of the iceberg!! They also seem to refer to America as ‘the World’. NO.
NB - these are generalisations. i am sure that everyone in America is not like this, but it is hard to think otherwise when the only loud and rude tourists you run into overseas are Americans.
Good Luck getting rid of Bush.

Canadians are more noticeably down on Americans than people from other countries because we live closer to them, have been exposed to their media for far longer, and know them better than anybody else.

The United States is the biggest force for just plain wrong and evil in the whole world. It’s been really amusing and frankly gratifying watching everybody else catch up to this realisation in the last five or so years. Face facts America - you suck.

American’s derelick their own balls…everybody’s pretty simple…having more than 1 interest is a very foreign concept here…I can’t believe I don’t run this place yet…

I’m American, my fiancee is Canadian. Yes, I know that a lot of Americans are pigheaded and intolorant of most people, places, cultures and languages. In the US, we do not have two official languages. I plan on moving to Canada after the wedding, but I still do love America. People say Americans suck, and America as a country licks balls, it’s not at all like that. The president of America is a horrible world leader, the choices he has made in the past six years have reflected very badly on our country and the people that live here. I love my country, but I hate the state it’s in now.

I do have to say, that all of this American bashing pisses me off a little. Yeah, so a lot of my country is filled with stupid people. I know Canada has it’s fair share of village idiots. I have met some of the nicest Canadians, and some of the rudest. In Quebec people actually went so far as to throw food at my car and spit on it.

And not all americans eat dinner infront of the TV, nor do we all have the televisions on at all times. I have never eaten dinner standing up, nor do I enjoy eating subway. My oven is used for baking and cooking. I do not hate French, I am actually trying to learn the language so that my transition to Canada will be easier. No one I know hates French. I am not entierly patriotic, but I do know that at one point, my country was the best in the world to live in. I no longer feel that way.

It’s nice to show the differences between cultures, but it can be done with out blatant finger pointing and making America look like a horrible place. It’s not that great of a place, but it’s not that bad either. If it were that bad there wouldn’t be 11 million immigrants.

i like the way every one has a little story to justify why they think they can talk about the subject.

Why do so many of the Americans posting on here not see that this is about their mannerisms and cultural diffrences not about americans all being idiot rednecks or about George Bush being president?

we don’t even say “aboot”. That’s like the myth of unicorns. Retarded.

Fuck, that “not all” thing is so lame and American. It’s like it’s impossible to ever come up with a pattern or a generalization because someoen will go “That’s not always true.” Duh.
Like when you say “Women have trouble having kids after 35″ they go, “Not so. My mother had my brother at 41.” yeah, Okay great but your mother’s experience is ANECDOTAL. Got it? I saw Jon Stewart on the Daily SHow and he as defending gay marriage and trying to say gays live lives just as decadent as we do. Look, gays can get married. Go nuts. But let’s not pretend we are just as decadent as them okay? Sure there are straights that go to orgies and fuck for days on meth and blah blah but have you ever been to a circuit party? It’s an endless drugged out fuckfest that makes even straights in the 70s look like prudes. Gays are a lot of things but they are NOT the same as us. Does Jon Stewart honestly think straights get laid as much as gays? Does he? No he does not. He’s just scared of generalization like all Americans so he clings to some exceptions and yells NOT ALL NOT ALL NOT ALL.

america is exactly like canada except it has more walmarts and half the population is rural alberta.

“we don’t even say “aboot”. That’s like the myth of unicorns. Retarded.”

I think the word you were looking for was “magical.”

One, two…!

Americans and canadians are just aboot the most unsame as saying a frog is identical to a toad…!? When i was little i believed toads enjoyed water as frogs did. I was wrong. I repeated this when i saw a toad somewhere under a leaf or a rock somewhere, where ever… “GO BACK TO YOUR WATER LAND… YOU ARE LOST!” However…I realized that the toad, unlike the frog needs a humid environment but not a wet one. They are both amphibians. Their limbs actually can grow back! I was amazed by this fact… also frogs can freeze in the winter and thaw out in the spring.
Canadians can’t do this. I imagine russians can… thaw out in the spring..? Americans are obsolete in many ways. Part of their culture is built on hype. Hype has had its time. Beards are in… Hairy men and the Ozarks are what is cool about the USA. All the rest is like a bad dream. Especially WASP’s, racists, most hip-hop, punk bullshit….
Canadians care about the environment, but in the same measure can be hypocrites too! Americans are too stupid to be accused of anything. Ultimatly, americans will be remebered for how stupid they are and laughable their Walt Disney lifestyle is.
A mouse is a mouse is a mouse is a mouse is a mouse….
In the USA a mouse is a Mickey MOuse is a Mickey Mouse is a Mickey Mouse….

Oh yeah I forgot to say that Canada is the shit because they have the “Poutine”

i didnt even know canada was still around. surprised we dont own them yet.

Yank]…In Quebec people actually went so far as to throw food at my car and spit on it.
Canuck]…Because they thought you were from Toronto.

Yank]…And not all americans eat dinner infront of the TV,
Canuck]…The rest sit in front of the washing machine.

Mosan]… didnt even know canada was still around. surprised we dont own them yet.
Joe]…Give it about 5 more years and all material things will be gobbled up by foreign ownership. Already 15000 business in Canada owned by foreign since NAFTA, about 1500 is offshore, the rest 13.5k is from the south of border.
The conservatives have sent the Canadian soverignty down the river…

America doesn’t own anything either. It’s all owned by Euros, China, and now the UAE.

This is the real difference, right here. Americans look at vice for cheap laughs/girls, Canadians troll around, posting weak arguments on the boards. VICE was over like 4 years ago, whats left is repetative. As a bonus, outside of Toronto/Montreal your women are so awful looking. Sorry Bros but America wins.

Its amazing how generalized everyones views on america are. Not all of us fall into the easily recognized categories of racist moron red-neck,Rich kid hipster who feeds off a trust fund, upper class republican jesus freak, etc. the people in this country are as diverse as in any other, sure we have our fair share of assholes, but who doesnt? the truth is that the majority of you are buying into the anit-american bull shit which was started when your countries were threatened by a quick rise to a platform of power, from a fairly young nation, that your countries had to spend countless years waring to achieve. So now americans catch massive amounts of hatred, not because we think were better than everyone else, as we’re constantly accused of believing, but because we realize that we are your equals. you judge us with out knowing us, and then make fun of us for defending ourselves. you point out how defensive we get when you criticize our country or state, but really we are defensive because of the fact that you’re criticisms are generalized statements about the people who live here, and I couldn’t imagine anyone from any other country responding diferently. If I were to say “canada is boring” I’m sure canadians wouldn’t care less, but if I said “canadians are moronic, hockey playing, faggots, who just wish they were americans.” I’m sure a good few people would be insulted by that, and prolly remark on how thats just my isolated american perception of canada. an opinion which everyone else would support, but when americans do that very same thing we are insulted for it. It’s just a manner of you not liking us, for probably no reason other then our being americans, and nothing we say or do to prove how wrong and ignorant you are acting will ever change that.

The european hypocrasy that you’re better than americans because you don’t go around bragging about how much better than other people you are is rediculous, and needs to stop. you’re just like us, face it.

Um, who the F cares? i am Canadian & everything i’ve read here (aside, i guess, from the original article) is either totally lame or just wrong. i love the states, but would never claim to be proud to be an American. That whole country pride thing is such bullshit. it’s a tool created to make us feel like the crap we are being spoon-fed by government & culture (Hollywood)is actually good & right, when it’s not -it’s ALL WRONG & anyone who denies it is living a total lie!!! oh yeah - Americans say “excuse me” while Canadians say “i’m sorry”! How fukked up is that?!

The really funny thing is this article pretends that Canada has a distinct culture (other than Quebec) from the U.S.
Get over it Canada your just America with a dose of Socialism Lite.

Yeah girls in Montreal are just about the hottest.

Isn’t it kind of shitty and judgemental to make mass sweeping generalizations about people based on what country their from? Yeah, I agree with alot of points made in these posts, but surprise, most of us feel the same way you do. We don’t all think that we’re above it all, We all aren’t paranoid about terrorists. We all don’t hate the french. And for the love of god, most of us sane people didn’t vote for the moron. Don’t hate us because of how our politicians treat the rest of the world…..we hate them too.

I live on the border and spend alot of time in Canada, and love the country. But I’m also sick of hearing people pass judgement on me because of where I’m from.

We all don’t buy into the rhetoric people. You’ve got to remember that, and for christ sakes, some of us might actually be pretty good people.

Oooo…yeah, VICE is fucking great.

From America with love.

I liked the comment,”Nobody likes their boss”. Or how aboot, “Nobody likes the cops, but I’m sure glad they are here”. I was born and raised in soviet Canuckistan. I am not happy with the U.S. bashing these days…most folks who bash get their opinions from much music and form their hatred for americans from political facts and then take it to a broad personal level that is counter-productive. Alot of Canadians would have a hate-on for the U.S. even if this Bush thing didn’t happen at all. Canadians have always been jealous of the States because it has something that Canada once had…oportunity. Young kids in Canada have a crappy future. 40% of Canadian high school graduates flock to the U.S. to go to university. Why? Why are their hundreds of thousands of Canadians now living in the U.S.? Canadians need to look in their own backyards for crap to complain about. There is alot of it, I can start with all the corruption in the Government and you all know what I’m talking aboot. Scandal after scandal. Let’s get a hate on for the current leader of Iran. That’s something serious to focus on. The U.S. is the cool party happening in that cool house down the street and Canada is that fucked up room upstairs that no-ones hanging out in. To the person who mentioned the Tragically hip, they are nothing until I see them on American T.V.

What can I say? It’s all true. America has it’s
head so far up it’s own ass about everything that one just kind of watches it spiralling out
of control and thinks about leaving. But fuck
Canada, thanks. Outside of a vague curoisity aboot Vancouver and Toronto, I could give a fuck. Europe is way cooler than all this shit.

USA < The rest of the world.

the only two great british punk bands ever were wire and joy division. give the usa credit for only lou reed and the ramones and we still fuck your shit up. compared to canada, fuck it where do i start

hi, im french, and is wanted to point out that french people just don’t hate americans. We don’t agree with how Bush is ruling the country, anyway most of the french people just don’t give a shit about politics.
I think we should stop thinking of a whole country as a huge heap of clichés, all americans aren’t idiots, fatasses and so on. There’s also a lot of stupid people here in France and especially in the goverment. In europe, medias certainly give a bad image of the US, but we don’t believe the half of the crap they’re telling.
I went to the states like a month ago with school, and I met quite a lot of people, and none of them were as u’re describing them; and they were all really welcoming and nice eventhough i was a french kid.
If we are said to hate americans it’s because some people think that americans are like Bush as they’ve voted for him, as some americans surely think that most of the french think alike chirac (which is of course not true). If Jacques Chirac is still president it’s because in 2002, we had the voice between him and Le Pen, who is a fascist. If a lot of people voted for Le Pen, is because Chirac between 1995 and 2002 screwed our economy, social system and stuf :minimal wages had been lowered, unemployment increased, our future was uncertain and that fascist bastard used that fear to gather a lot of people votes. Chirac was reelected and keeps on screwing more and more our nation, and that’s why there’s been riots quite often now.
And finally don’t think french people are like parisians who’re (most of them) way too proud and thinking they’re so fucking exceptional. We’re just ok people, I guess pretty welcoming and taking things easy.
There’s no such things as hatred between french and americans, it’s just that we dunno each other enough, only real idiots could state “I fuckin hate them!” there’s absolutely no reason for that.

Hey D. Man! That aboot shit & the whole Soviet Canuckistan reference was sheer brilliance (though 40%? c’mon dude, puhleeze)!!!Fuck Canehdians are funny!

Most Americans are annoyingly left wing or annoyingly right wing. I know plenty of Americans who use long words and cook too. But we still suck. Boo… us.

I agree. They forgot to mention that Canadians are horrible tippers. We have Candadian tourists and each time we get stiffed or tipped poorly.

I have been back in Canada for two years after a 2 1/2 year sojourn over seas. Words can’t describe what has happened to the culture of a nation. The whole foreign corporation 3rd world slave market monopoly is a hegemon. Alarm clocks to computers to clothes; it’s all produced in 3rd world workhouses costing investors peanuts in labour for these poor people that are tricked into a ‘better life’. The world is building a super world power. We’ll be wise to learn our Chinese before the end of our Generationers time. Canada is super conservative, in fact all of n america is practically fascist now. We havent heard from that harper yet, whats he been up to for the last couple months we’ll do good to ask? He’ll be following in mulroney’s footsteps promptly and near-sell the rest of our country to bush and whoever’s interested. Canadian girls seem to be the least affable and amiable of females in 25 countries I have known. Increase in lesbianism on the rise. Much hostility and frustration and sexual tension between the sexes. Maybe just the cold weather, but cmon people lets rise above our weather and live. Canadians sort of fight quite a bit because of this lack of compliance from canadian females, subsequently leading to violence amongst males. Arts and culture is dead in canada. No support whatsoever from government and it seems not to sufficiently entertain the majority public. So they watch tv. tv is the true opium of the masses in n america. and what a twisted, idealogical, hegemonic big brother poppy it is. Seems the majority of our up and coming generation of contributors, dissenters, inventors, politicians of society, they all smoke dope to anestheticize the whole materialism of it all. In Canada, Boomers live high on the hog, X’ers are destitute, no hope, no future, unless mom and dad pay. This is the shape of canada as i see it, but that too is related to my position as poor student. I couldn’t really imagine any materialism and loss of human dignity worse than what I have seen in canada right. IN CLOSING: I will not be going to check out the states anytime.

Let’s not forget how bad they smell….that heavy meat diet causes some serious intestinal distress.

BULLSHIT…Vancouver can never be like Seattle cOs well basically Seattle is in the States and every time i gO to Vancouver all the white girls be all over me….kinda like hOw they be in Seattle so i guess you gOt a point there…sO DONT TALK SHIT ABOUT SEATTLE biiiOTCH…yet they are the same…DAMN…like the yOung bloOds would say…

why dO everyone try to get all deep on a vice website? its all saritcarical…damn i hOpe i spell that right…if i did and you catch me on it you’re a pretenious fuckbag and i dOnt like you…AND i pOst twice…what you wanna scrap over you gramma’s bra strap?!

Whoa there!
America may be “f*cked up”, but don’t forget good ole Alberta Boy, and Prime Ministeral suck-up Stephen Harper!
He’s got his nose way up George W. Bush’s _ _ _!
And sadly (or happily if you are waiting for Armageddon) over 30% of Canadians voted for this dork!
“God Bless Canada!” indeed.
Just stuff Harper into a box and send him via DHL to Washington DC. He would fit into the Republican Congressional delegation quite well!

The only difference between Americans and Canadians is that:
Americans believe they know who they are and Canadians believe they know who the aren’t.

For me the biggest difference is in the quality of excrement. Canadian stoolage has a lot more potato and cabbage, where the American “loaf” leans towards corn and beans. After you’ve eaten a few of either though, they pretty much all taste the same.
Hope that helps.

Dude,
The reason Canada has superior social services is cus they don’t have to spend money on thier military. Who the fuck is going to invade Canada, or even strong arm them. The US will regulate on that shit. Its like North North North Dakota! America was once the greatest place to live, but I don’t think so any more! And dude, is there anywhere else in the world more diverse then NY or Cali? NO!

I agree. They forgot to mention that Canadians are horrible tippers. We have Candadian tourists and each time we get stiffed or tipped poorly.
Posted by: Jo

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That’s because y’all never ask if you want the soup “first” or “with” the meal. The tip starts going down from there.
….And then the soup comes after the meal, well i’m just keeping the change dammit.

AND NEXT TIME, bring water to the table when you approach the first time.

*sheesh*

These Days: A modern American poem

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation go blank,
as they are attacked from all sides,
by guerrilla marketing
dish-soap propaganda,
and the invasion of homeland security.

Oh these days.

nothings really changed-
still cock and endless-balls-
and-chains.

This is Amerwrecka:
Home of the free who chose to be slaves.

We can trim the tree
We can toast champaign
we can watch the fireworks
while the rest of the world is consumed by our flame.

(I’ve heard that they have bombs pointed at our doors
threatening to knock the Christmas cards
off of our trophy-case-mantle.)

Is there a pill for everything- these days?
to make the genius sane,
to curb the artist’s hunger,
to keep the dreamer awake
and ready for the day?
(but the good ones- they still keep locked away.)

Kids and drugs don’t mix these days,
we keep them on lockdown, for our own safety’s sake-
until the temporary insanity subsides,
-to us on the outside-
And we all know why
the cosmos never get to align
without the youth magnets below
to read the planets’ signs

FEARFEARFEAR
afraid to die leaving them with the bill
afraid of computer viruses
afraid of socialist community
afraid of laughter without applause
afraid of rising hem lines and prices

afraid of plunging necklines and stock values

(And oh yeah Ginzy
By the way-
the ones who howl in the subway get thrown away.)

I have tripped my way out the door-
rolled out into the street-
and still there is something so beautifully-bitter-sweet
about never
going back.
But secretly I still wear a star between my eyes

(I stay inside when it shines)

Pop culture wars.
Commercials for bleach.
Hours of mock-reality.
Homeroom gossip on a grander scale,
projected on the side of the Hills
(we can see it from here-
even when we don’t look)

These days these days
we don’t hear much about over there
if we send them over there
we are safe over here
we are safe under here
I am hiding
in
h
e
r
e
.

091101
fourteen-ninth grade
and then
that not-so-distant day-
and a salesman-soldier
triggers doubt
two weeks before graduation-
and then before you know it,
being insourced
(wait wait wait
hold the plane!)
over there
as another
human-resource
stain.

So people like me can watch more TV
and buy more cigs and pick-three
and charge charge charge our visa cards
and buy/claim/take more land
(where someone once died fighting so they wouldn’t have to leave
but you can hardly see the spots of blood and guts, thanks to oxiclean.)
and procreate then fall asleep.

Wake up early to switch your car to the other side of the street.

Crying out for self help,
self love
(why wont I love me?
I try and try and try
but nothing I buy
is ever enough!)

There were invaders, raiders, crusaders,
scaling Plymouth Rock.
They left a decree in the sand.
They claimed the rain,
they taxed the wind.

There were poets, activists, angels:
hypodermic activity disorder punks
with speed of rockinroll,
and burning reggae rap
and smoking soul.

Were is our sanctuary?
Our tepid recreation?
Our Bohemia?
Our little piece of space,
a sovereign state of mind?

Now I wish there was a commune

50 yrs later
these days
haven’t changed
only the names.

Its the same old remarks
and the same clouded looks
and hand-me-down rhetoric
to fill history books.

This is the LAMEST page I have ever seen. Kill yourselves

You know, the funny thing is, I don’t think anyone in the world can name a significant world contribution … cultural or otherwise … that Canada has made. I travel the world, and this is a true perception of Canada among anyone.

And no Bryan Adams and William Shatner don’t count as significant world contributions.

What achievements Canada has achieved, were largely piggy-backed upon American success (much like the Canadian economy). 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border - and it ain’t just because of the cold.

Most of this stuff about Americans is way off the mark - seems to be written by a Canadian who met an American once - peppered with a few moderately accurate observations.

Canadians are really weird about sex.

As an American I can only agree. I really do love this country, but I can say the same thing about other countries I have visited. If that makes sense (an I think it should).

The bottom line is that traveling overseas is just not popular in America these days. Sure people go to Jamaica, or Mexico but it really isn’t the same. All the Americans I know that have spent more than 2 weeks in Asia or Europe have a much different perspective, and are much more open-minded.

In NZ we don’t have circuit parties or gay scenes so most gay people are normal joe average. I am not denying that in someplaces gays are decadent as fuck, but no in my little gothic repressed nation. I know sophisticated mid 20’s gay men who are saving themselves for marriage. Good luck guys.

I dissagree with generalizing that americans dont listen to English punk. I have been listening to punk since the early 80’s and I love the exploited. It may depend on what part of the States you are from though. Here in Seattle we listen to all types of punk. As far as Canadians go we are down with them and for the most part they are down with us. I think the only problem is that they drive up the cost of gasoline in Bellingham Wa. 16 mile from the border. By comming down just to fill up because its way cheaper here in the states then in Canada. I really cant blame them.. Punkin and Pukin since 85

i hate this shit. i’m entertained by whoever wrote this for the simple sake of their observations but that’s it. all this comparing canadians and americans is so annoying to me because i’ve heard the shit before. my stepdad is canadian and every time his family comes to visit it’s time to make fun the way americans talk. they do it more than we make fun of canadians. the fact that they’re here when they do it fucks with me too. yeah americans think we’re better than canadians, but we are. you know what i mean. sure we can make fun of “eh” and “aboat” but that shit’s funny. all canadians have is “americans don’t say thank you” or “yuge” (huge) or “ruff” (roof). nobody says that shit in america except for inbred retard pieces of white trash. and there’s just as much of those in ontario as in the whole usa. south park was right, canadians all look the same with their beady eyes and flapping heads…fuck you canada…and whoever wrote this pointless article. here’s a big word for ya bitch suckmymotherfuckingdick.

americans wear shoes inside?!?!?! i can hear my mother now… ‘TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF! THE CLEANING LADY WAS JUST HERE THIS AFTERNOON!’ maybe i should rethink emigrating to the south…

i webt to canada and it sucked everyone their thinks their better than american butthey are really jealous. futher more i leave my shit in fast food places every time and i like the french language and i dont like you…. bitch

Seattle wishes it was Vancouver….

So, what’s the equivalent of L.A in Canada?

The Canadiens on the right side of the country are way gayer then the Canadiens on the left side of the country. Those fuckers are always posting shit on message boards, making fucking observations aboot nothing. We all need to get ourselves to one of them big 20000 seat churches they got in the states with the wise men at the front, those guys with the healing powers who shout at the people aboot how shitty they are. I’m sure a little time crying with our hands in the air and that wise man hitting us in the forhead is all we need to smarten us up. Also, what the fuck is white castle?

honestly, both american and canadian beers are the most awful shit i’ve ever drunk in my life. it’s like taking a mouthful of piss from a hobo with chlamydia.
corona kicks ass!!!!
(written by a mexican wetback)

Hmm… from this blog, sounds like everyone in America (the continent, not just the nation) is pretty fucking gay. Whatever. The world is ending anyway, why not go out with a bang? Whaddaya say Canada? Team up against Russia? NUKEFEST!!!!

PS to answer your question, white castle is the shittiest fast food place in the world. I’d sooner eat at a north korean deli.

AND ANOTHER THING!! ALL PUNK SUCKS!!! Buncha whiny pukes. Waaaaahhh! My dad won’t buy me a BMW! Waaaah! The government sucks! I COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT DO NOTHING TO REMEDY THE SITUATION! I’m so hardcore! I can play two notes and scream jibberish! LOOK HOW WASTED I AM!!!! I COULD DIE RIGHT NOW AND THE WORLD WOULD BE UTTERLY UNAFFECTED!!! I’M SO FUCKING UNIQUE!!!! Got news for ya’ bucko, we’re all the same DNA. There’s only so much personality to go around. Somewhere on Earth, there is a perfect clone of you, and he leads an equally pointless life. Making shitty music and screaming about how much you suck won’t make you suck any less.

Canada and canadians are not what they think they are.

They are very deceitful , arrogant hypocrites , they dont even know it. If not for the generosity of their perceived enemy , America , who buys 90 perent of their products this nincoompoops of a people will go down.

For the real canada please refer to http://www.notcanada.com and its links.

You will see the real canadian.

canadians dont carry guns to kill each other as americans do.americans r unwelcomed everywhere in the world.thats why they tell we r canadians when they r asked.that tells everything between usa and canada.we r not dummies as americans r.

you will get your ass americans,the world is getting warmer and you will have no water.we r here with water and oil.you will beg for water but we will give you only our urine.but not free.if we transport our urine with trucks we will not charge much but if you wanna full service,we will pee in your mouth and we will charge more.we r canadians.if our urines r not enough for americans,we have moose here,they will give you their urine as a water.wherever you go to somewhere as american,you wont be loved but you will be loved as a canadian.you spend your money on guns,we spend our money on us.

Canadians think Hip hop still = Vanilla Ice

To the person who said Canada has made no contributions to the world, you are sadly misinformed. Not only did we invent Peacekeeping (Lester Pearson), and timezones, we also invented the snowmobile, jet ski, the goalie mask, the drug the counters diabetes, grow the best marijuana in the world and don’t forget burned the whitehouse down in 1812.

dont talk shit about canada. its a great country. keep it to yourself.

burned the whitehouse down hammered lol ! and canadas beer cases are big enough to fit your gloves in, in the winter !! haha :)also invented hockey basketball and baseball. and were all hot :)

Hey, you can actually cut the bias in here with a knife. Amazing! Gotta love reading yet more and more comments from people informing me that I’m a bad person because I was born in the United States. Man, I fucked up pretty bad by selecting where I was going to be born! Oh, and it’s nice to know that, because I’m an American, apparently I: live in the South even though I live in the North, voted for Bush even though I vote Democrat, shoot at everything and anything like a lunatic from the north Hollywood shootout, I’m overweight somehow at 140lbs, I’m a slob even though I’m a neat freak, I somehow had a say in government and put us in Iraq, and I’m somehow a racist.

Thanks Canada, for yet again telling me who I am even though you have never met me, my family, or any of my friends. Not one of my friends or family are anything like this disgusting stereotype you’ve been brought up to fabricate on a mass scale.

I’m from Buffalo. We drink Labatts, and we’re Hockey wild since before we even had an NHL team. We have pricks from Canada with this chip on their shoulder tell us we don’t deserve a hockey team all the time, meanwhile 10,000 people outside of our sold out arena during the playoffs prove that shit wrong. We get buried in snow every year and live for it. We work hard, care about each other and both local and world affairs, and fight through every next day.

By the way, I’m half Canadian. My mom raised me to appreciate that part of my background, but overtime I’ve grown completely ashamed of it. Ever single fucking time I’m in Canada or online at an article like this or a hockey forum, all I ever hear is Canadian’s BITCHING about Americans and spewing ignorant stereotypical shit.

My assessment: Canadians are all raised with a chip on their shoulder and spoon-fed this extreme animosity towards the United States. You are quick to judge, and equally quick to dodge and cover up your own faults when others start to defend themselves. When you are proven wrong, you revert to using a pre-arranged list of hurtful false stereotypes instead of admitting defeat or reconciling. “Oh yeah, well Canada invented Hockey” “Oh yeah, well Canada burned down the White House”. Um that’s great, but relevance?

One liners are pretty weak, but honestly, you can all go to hell. I’m ashamed to be half Canadian.

Don’t know why I feel the need to post this but….As an American living in Vancouver, all I really have to say is that Seattle is NOT Vancouver in any way. Vancouver is 100 times cleaner, with a very controlled ghetto that is not allowed to spill out past the downtown area. In other words, gentrified to the max. Seattle is dirty, with bad public transportation, with homeless people EVERYWHERE. The despair and grit are palpable, whereas Vancouver likes to hide their problems under a shiny veneer.

And Seattle actually has a significant ‘underground scene’ whereas Vancouver does not. It has a bunch of posers in neon and Urban/AA clothing, dancing around to Girl Talk rip-off DJs while they take pictures of themselves.

Not to disparage either place ;-)

Kinda similar to the Scottish/English thing we’ve had going on here for about 5 million years. Except that seems to only be a one-way thing on our behalf (scotland) mostly concerning some bullshit about independence we probably couldn’t even deal with. Yer forefathers got it right when they decided to get the fuck outta here when the going was good.

I’m British and neither of you see that different to us. Have you seen how South Africa treat there shitty little neighbours Swaziland; http://www.swazisagainstluhkwele.blogspot.com/

Foreigners have in their minds that Americans know jack shit about other countries, which may be true to an extent, but really non-Americans are just as ignorant when it comes to opinions on America.

I’d rather live in Canada than America. I can’t believe the US doesn’t have free healthcare. It’s shocking.
But I like American pop-culture more. I love Friends.
Canadians are less loud and less fake happy. Fake happy is jarring.

I hate Canadians and Americans equally. It’s good to have citizenship in each country though.

Generalisations are fun. Here’s a list of them for you all to cry over (possibly into your MASSIVE soft drink vessel).
- Americans killed, or are in the process of killing their indigenous population. (or putting them in cages, or getting them hooked on smack)
- Americans marginalise everyone that doesnt look like Ian Ziering (look it up, he was cool once).
- American sports are FUCKING SHIT, they are all blindly devoted to them, and have the audacity to call the palookaville buttplugs, or whoever wins the stanley cup ‘world champions’.
- Americas should not go near the ebach, because a lifetime of 30,000 calories a day and no exercise has made them all look like kathy Bates or John Candy (who clearly succumbed to the US lifestlye after moving from Canada).
- Canucks are all goofy, either in a Martin Short ott way, or A Jim Carrey Fucking annoying way.
- How did america invent punk? the new york dolls? thats more ‘tranny-rock’(tm). America invented the gloryhole, the ku klux klan, morbid obesity, and modern wasteful excess and they perfected international intolerance and ignnorance.

If these piss you off, start a support group for you and your fat friends, or go on valium or something.

I agree with the person above. everyone on here is going ‘i’m amercian and i’ve never invaded anyone, voted bush, grown fat, had triple bypass surgery, driven an SUV, been to NASCAR’ etc.
But the point is, the US is the epicentre of all of this shitty shitty stuff. Tourists arrive (usually in LA or NY) and go ‘fuck look at all the fatties, boob jobs, hookers, smackheads’ etc. And that my freinds is called Sociological observation.
Sure, theres also a lot of great stuff in the US, but our shop window is a fucking joke (plus it doesnt help that we’ve been bombing everyone recently)

Having lived in Canada for 15 years then returning to the US and being married to a Canadian I would have to disagree. Canadians smoke more, drink more and swear more. They wear windsor knots in their ties so they always look a bit odd when they get off the plane in Orlando. Easy to spot. Canadians living in the US can be expected to complain that they are better educated, have a better medical system and a government that is far more rational. When people are caught doing the naughty, they don’t protest, they just resign in disgrace. Canadians love to sit in judgement of their neighbors to the south. They like to be second in all things, letting the aMarikins screw up first then they’ll fix it and do it right. All that said, Canadians are generous, selfless and always ready to lend a hand. Great neighbors, and the only ones who in fact have any right to criticize us at all. Because they’re the ones who pulled up stakes and left as royal empire loyalists during the revolutionary war. They are our closest relatives.

Does all of this make me canuckian…?

Only really stupid, boring, uninformed people take the time to add their wisdom to these opinion pages. Except for that one guy… he knew what he was talking about. Oh yes… when you see a Canadian wearing a US flag on his backpack to score points abroad… please let me know.

@anonymous:

All you need to score points now abroad is a “I voted for Obama” sticker and you’re all set.

Just for the record, every one of you who quoted a stereotypical American or Canadian trait is a media sheeple. It’s sad how many of “us” buy into that crap.

Americans and Canadians are equal opportunity losers as are the rest of the worlds inhabitants. Any time you bash another country you just show how ignorant you really are.

This article is shit. This is one of a worse piece of “journalism” I’ve ever read. In addition, coming from Canada and having been living in the state for the past four years, I can say such generalizations are so far off. People are people and there are all types of them in both countries. We love to generalize and categorize things but that’s just not it. It sounds to me whoever wrote this comes from a very narrow Canadian background as I can’t even relate to her description of them. Canada as well as the US is a very diverse country and for her to give herself the right to write an article generalizing both countries without having been exposed to various types of cultures in either of the countries says something about the quality of this piece. I’m not saying I’m all that great and have experienced and saw more than she has, but at least I don’t go out making hilarious assumptions.

Wow, I spent way to long reading all these comments.

Never knew how much countries seem to hate each other.

And after reading all this, I have a headache.

All countries are different, whether its culture [or lack-of], history, race, religion, entertainment - its different. It just depends on whether or not we can accept other countries and their differing ways. So one country is different from another country, so what? People should not bitch about other peoples countries until you yourself have stepped foot on their soil, lived a year in their shoes - and learned their history. Every country has their faults, and just because one country does something that the other country disagrees with, is not our problem. You live in the country you live in, and you should start dealing with your own problems before you start dealing with others.

This, including the comments, is the single biggest pile of bullshit I have ever had the displeasure of reading.

Cheers for wasting four minutes and thirty two seconds of my life. You Fucka’s

europeans dislike americans more than americans and canadians dislike each other.

To the retard to said the only thing to come from Canada was Bryan Adams (we’re sorry)…

Ever watched Basketball (Canadian)
Ever spoken to someone on the telephone (Canadian)
Ever had a grandparent with a pace maker (Canadian)
Ever jerked off to a picture of Pamela Anderson (Canadian…well partly)
Ever turned on a light bulb (Canadian)
Ever read a Superman comic (Canadian)
etc, etc, etc…

The idea that Canada hasn’t produce anything is ridicules and also proves how you are a product of America’s insular media and educational systems. There a good and bad things about both countries like there is with ever country however it’s America’sunwarranted sense of superiority that makes it the rightful but of these jokes.

You may have your differences but to the rest of the world you are all fuckin rednecks.

“the rest of the world is just laughing at America and they haven’t realised yet” haha i always thought that aswell, but having never been to america… do they really not realise, come off it mate, no one likes america.