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Never argue with a Canadian. They give no ground, concede no points and are full of an incredible amount of national pride. I have made the mistake of trying to be reasonable with some Canadians today. I conceded points, politely recognized when I felt they were right. What I got was kicked in the ass repeatedly and told again and again that Canadians are pretty much the best thing that has happened to the world. I now understand how people feel when a USian gets on the forum and says the US is the best thing that has happened to the world.
Its just my opinion but leave the Canadians alone. Trying to make a point about their country is like stepping into a fireant colony. They swarm and bite, swarm and bite until you flee like a filthy coward.

This is meant in a good natured, humorous way. Not as an attack on Canadians. I hope it is seen as such. I certainly do not mean it as a flame post, (although I am not sure what that is)

Wow, that's only a little bit of a flame...

(Reposted from the thread that 31 left in a huff)

Uh sweetie, you're the only one getting his tail in a knot. All we said was we didn't want to be involved in the missile defense system. Then you bashed our military. We explained why it didn't deserve to be portrayed so poorly. Then you went off on a rant again.

Nobody was calling down the US, we were just disagreeing about the use of a certain piece of technology. Surely we're allowed to do that?

I'm not really upset. I just meant this as a humorous way to admit my defeat on the missle shield thread. Please don't take it any other way. I'm saying the Canadians beat me badly.

(Reposted from the thread that 31 left in a huff)

Uh sweetie, you're the only one getting his tail in a knot. All we said was we didn't want to be involved in the missile defense system. Then you bashed our military. We explained why it didn't deserve to be portrayed so poorly. Then you went off on a rant again.

Nobody was calling down the US, we were just disagreeing about the use of a certain piece of technology. Surely we're allowed to do that?

not in a huff, not upset. really.

Oh, you so-superior Canadians make me so mad with your we-don't-want-a-missile-defense-system and your national-health-care-system and your our-president-isn't-George-W-Bush and... and... and the swarming all over us Americans. If there weren't so many of you, we'd come up there and kick your butts!

I'm not really upset. I just meant this as a humorous way to admit my defeat on the missle shield thread. Please don't take it any other way. I'm saying the Canadians beat me badly.

Then perhaps you should qualify your original post in this thread a little? Because if people read that and not your explanation, you really will find people ready to do a little 'ass-kicking'.

Oh, you so-superior Canadians make me so mad with your we-don't-want-a-missile-defense-system and your national-health-care-system and your our-president-isn't-George-W-Bush and... and... and the swarming all over us Americans. If there weren't so many of you, we'd come up there and kick your butts!
so...why are they worse than the US?

actually no...cant be arsed arguing right now

The most intelligent person I have met on NS happens to be Canadian.

Perhaps it would be wise not to stir the fireants in the first place. Insulting and critising is the same as putting your tongue down the hole of the anthill.

Is t just me or is Canada to the US what New Zealand is to Australia? Next door, smaller population, weaker currency and much much cooler government? :p

Perhaps it would be wise not to stir the fireants in the first place. Insulting and critising is the same as putting your tongue down the hole of the anthill.

I was not intending any insult. Laugh and celebrate your victory.

Sheesh, people, lighten up. This is meant to be humorous, not insulting. And I can't help but laugh as I read it. I laugh at those posting the jokes and harder at those taking it too seriously.

Scarcasm, or humor doesn't portray well on the internet.
We need official and tags.

I almost jumped on you, until you made yourself clear. And now as I read over it, thinking of it as a joke (The main post) I find it funny. Well done.

But it's not just Canadians, it's just us stubborn nerds who know too much about the topic at hand.

What victory? I cannot call changing perspectives victory. I call it being louder than the other person until they submit ;)

Scarcasm, or humor doesn't portray well on the internet.
We need official and tags.

I almost jumped on you, until you made yourself clear. And now as I read over it, thinking of it as a joke (The main post) I find it funny. Well done.

But it's not just Canadians, it's just us stubborn nerds who know too much about the topic at hand.

*wiping my brow with relief* I thought I had created a monster. Was prepared to retreat in humiliation again.

I was not intending any insult. Laugh and celebrate your victory.
I believe me, we are. :P

What victory? I cannot call changing perspectives victory. I call it being louder than the other person until they submit ;)

A big problem of mine is complete lack of argument staying power. Also general laziness and a overdeveloped desire to use humor to avoid conflict. Basically I'm Californian but I can't help it, I was born and raised there.

*wiping my brow with relief* I thought I had created a monster. Was prepared to retreat in humiliation again.


You can't create me as a monster, I was already one.
For I am the evil Dictator of the world!

And my cat owns, everyone say hi to my cat.

A big problem of mine is complete lack of argument staying power. Also general laziness and a overdeveloped desire to use humor to avoid conflict. Basically I'm Californian but I can't help it, I was born and raised there.

Sounds a lot like me. Im always to lazy to go find sources so I just give up.

You can't create me as a monster, I was already one.
For I am the evil Dictator of the world!

And my cat owns, everyone say hi to my cat.

my nine cats say hello to your one.

Sounds a lot like me. Im always to lazy to go find sources so I just give up.

I hear that. Who are these google people? They frighten and confuse me with their magic.

my nine cats say hello to your one.


My cat and the 24 people scattered around the world who beleive her to be god, and follow her as their religion (The Scudian religion) say hi back.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

And after much deliberation and re-readings, this thread has been deemed 'funny'. You may now procede having fun.


Heh, We're (Canadian's) the most nationalistic people on Earth. We love out country, and normall I would slit someones throat with my guitar thumb pick (fingernail) for saying something offensive about Canada. But I actually agree with him, and his joke. We ARE too defencive and we really don't let others voice their opinions. Then again, I'm half Californian. I'm the only Canadian I know that LIKES Bush and is pro gay marriage heh.

"If there weren't so many of you, we'd come up there and kick your butts! "

California has more people than Canada...

I am a Canadian and I think I speak for most, encluding our fellow American's. That...what the heck is this defence system and how does it work? Why doesn't it work and when will, if ever will it work. How much do we as Canadians/Americans have to spend on totally uncertain unproven technology. What would you rather the governments spend money on?
It's like asking us to buy a car that really doesn't drive just yet but maybe it will when we need it and not knowing how much it will cost to run it? In fact we won't be allowed to even drive the car...

I don't blame us for rejecting it. I'm sure Bush will be pis@@@ but I hope he will soon forget about it and come on up for a cold glass of Crown Royal and a Beaver tail!

Well done thread! I took it exactly as you meant it... :fluffle:

I'm just glad it's DONE... On two fronts - NO to "Star Wars" and YES to beefing up our Military...

Goes to show that, at times, a minority Government WORKS...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/us_missiledefence

So u think there's no point debating with us eh? U think we live in igloos eh? Well the jokes on u Americans! We don't live in igloos and stop commenting about our eh. U tried debating with a different Canadian ...I give facts to my reasoning. And the missle plan....oh don't get me started with that.....and i don't believe this was meant to be a debating thread.

Damn you 31. I thought you had a winner you were talking about in your "Jealous and desperate" thread.

Let's see what you said in there...
"I find myself skeeming ways to start a thread that will be wildly successful without going the usual route of EUROPE vrs. AMERICA or GEORGE BUSH IS THE DEVIL. Does anyone else crave having one of those 3,000 posts threads?"

This thread had such great potential to become a classic, but you chose to kill it.

sigh

California has more people than Canada...
I think California is at 30 million, Canada is at 32.

K-Town....nice city my friend.....haven't been there in years. What a small world.

K-Town....nice city my friend.....haven't been there in years. What a small world.
Oh definitely. 37th largest city in Canada. I enjoy it quite a bit.

I am a Canadian and I think I speak for most, encluding our fellow American's. That...what the heck is this defence system and how does it work? Why doesn't it work and when will, if ever will it work. How much do we as Canadians/Americans have to spend on totally uncertain unproven technology. What would you rather the governments spend money on?
It's like asking us to buy a car that really doesn't drive just yet but maybe it will when we need it and not knowing how much it will cost to run it? In fact we won't be allowed to even drive the car...

I don't blame us for rejecting it. I'm sure Bush will be pis@@@ but I hope he will soon forget about it and come on up for a cold glass of Crown Royal and a Beaver tail!

I am going to run away. Flee, cower and hide. missle defense. . .noooooooooooooo!

Damn you 31. I thought you had a winner you were talking about in your "Jealous and desperate" thread.

Let's see what you said in there...
"I find myself skeeming ways to start a thread that will be wildly successful without going the usual route of EUROPE vrs. AMERICA or GEORGE BUSH IS THE DEVIL. Does anyone else crave having one of those 3,000 posts threads?"

This thread had such great potential to become a classic, but you chose to kill it.

sigh

my god, my god, I didn't see it. I missed it completely. I had the prize in my hand and I have let it slip away. It is worse than I feared.

i once had an argument with a teacher of mine (canadian) who conuldnt fathom how its was possible for there to be NOTHING in a container (not even air and excluding all those weird particle that go through everything)

And now to work again. Damn these capitalist overlords.

:sniper: BUSH!

i once had an argument with a teacher of mine (canadian) who conuldnt fathom how its was possible for there to be NOTHING in a container (not even air and excluding all those weird particle that go through everything)

A Canadian who was unfamiliar with a vacuum? We do have them up here, you know.

(Although regrettably they frequently appear between the ears of politicians.)

Serious business indeed.

The internet is a serious business.

Well, you can't make sence of this Canadian thing until you look at the facts...
"they give no ground, concede no points" -We do, you just don't listen. It's like screaming into a void sometimes.
"full of an incredible amount of national pride" -is that bad?
"politely recognized when I felt they were right"- your "polite" is different than our "polite". We apologise when someone else steps on our toes. And it's only fair. We were probably in thier way.
"I now understand how people feel when a USian gets on the forum and says the US is the best thing that has happened to the world."- Again, it's different. When an American thinks thier country is best, they start a war to spread thier way of life to people can't live it or don't want it.
"Canadians are pretty much the best thing that has happened to the world"
-Well..... we are..... (I'm kidding. Really I am, I promise :) )

"they give no ground, concede no points" -We do, you just don't listen. It's like screaming into a void sometimes.



No we don't.
Need I remind you of Ypres?

(Reposted from the thread that 31 left in a huff)

Uh sweetie, you're the only one getting his tail in a knot. All we said was we didn't want to be involved in the missile defense system. Then you bashed our military. We explained why it didn't deserve to be portrayed so poorly. Then you went off on a rant again.

Nobody was calling down the US, we were just disagreeing about the use of a certain piece of technology. Surely we're allowed to do that?
You all don't have a military. Not one that the police detachment assigned to a single high school in New York City couldn't trounce. And they'd still have ammno left over.

You all don't have a military. Not one that the police detachment assigned to a single high school in New York City couldn't trounce. And they'd still have ammno left over.

Sigh.

Why don't you go read the missile defense thread so we don't have to repeat it here?

You all don't have a military. Not one that the police detachment assigned to a single high school in New York City couldn't trounce. And they'd still have ammno left over.

This is what we're talking about. We get attacked by Americans, and we rebuff by showing proof.. such as how the Canadian tankers beat American tankers soundly at CANAM games.

This is what we're talking about. We get attacked by Americans, and we rebuff by showing proof.. such as how the Canadian tankers beat American tankers soundly at CANAM games.

The Canam Cup is my new favorite sportting event.

As for a New York police department taking over all of Canada, quite frankly that's probably the most rediculus statement I've ever heard. You are grossly missinformed. Now please stop spamming the spam thread.

You all don't have a military. Not one that the police detachment assigned to a single high school in New York City couldn't trounce. And they'd still have ammno left over.


And this is something to be proud of?!?

in general this forum is quite a humourous eye opener.
i am a 4th generation canadian, and damn proud of it.
better beer, better hockey players, and a mostly peace loving country.
i am glad some of our american cousins are not spending all their time attacking us, but we must all rememmber that the US and Canada are dependant on eachother.
btw as a military strategy student, the canadian military my be small, but the training is far better them any other regular force in the world, and our "Special Ops" are some of the bravest and most hardcore guys, but they kept quite secret... they never make it on CNN coverage.


just out of the blue.... has anyone seen the show "Talking To Americans"... CRAZY!... check it out

You all don't have a military. Not one that the police detachment assigned to a single high school in New York City couldn't trounce. And they'd still have ammno left over.
-sigh-
Ever hear of our spec forces? Ever hear of the quality of our snipers? Ever here of the fact that we value training over a larger military force that is under trained?
'Nuff said there
EDIT:And Yourmamas I agree with you 100%. And I to am a 4th gen Canadain and damn proud of it

Who cares if the Canadians don't have a missile defense system? They have 10 million more people than Poland, in an area dozens of times as large. Any missile sent is unlikely to hi an eskimo and polar bear let alone an entire city. :p

All we need to do is seal off our border with Canada to make sure it can keep the radiation out...in the case of an actual attack. :D