What do you think of the Canadians on PF?

[gravenewworld]

Canada=America Jr.

 

[rocketboy]

Canada has to have the whimpiest flag ever. we have stars and stripes that represent our history. mexico has an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake from the aztec legends, but Canada has a leaf?! WTF?

That's because the liberals chose it.

In one of the classrooms at my school there is a poster that has all the top proposed Canadian flags...some of them were so much cooler than the leaf.

Now adding to the war...Americans don't know how to spell "colour".

hehe, actually when I am browsing around PF I don't even notice where people are from most of the time, I read people's posts and to me it's as if rather than having nationalities, we all just have the fact that we all live on the same planet. Well, until this thread, because in this thread it surely doesn't seem that way. I find it kind of stupid that people steryotype others due to nationality,

I'm in Canada and I hear Canadians all the time steryotyping Americans (mostly negatively) and i always stand up for the Americans because in many cases, the Canadians (in these cases not all Canadians) are wrong to judge people a certain way before even knowing them. My history teacher last year was very anti-american, (and very leftist) and i couldn't stand listening to her because it made her sound like such a retard making such large generalizations. (and because I'm right wing so I never agreed with her in the first place)

For example, we took a trip to NYC and at the border she was following the US border guy down the isle of the coach and trying to do what she thought was 'help him do his job' so he told her to shut up and go sit down. (HILARIOUS if you were there and knew my teacher...I could see her trying to avoid hitting him over the back of the head...thank god she didn't). So anyway, afterwards she went on about how americans are so rude and impolite etc...after one american example. I felt like saying there are people from every country like that not just the US and also just because he was like that doesn't mean all americans are.

So basically I think I'm saying that (this is going to be lame) "you can't judge a book by its' cover".

 

[gurkhawarhorse]

well i don't know what u call to the flag of my country, but i call it unique .
while making it the makers kept in mind the hindu flag structure (triangle) and put 2 triangles. red for courage and blue for peace. sun and moon for life of the country till they(sun & moon) exist.
just look at it...

gurkha-war-horse

 

[JamesU]

Now adding to the war...Americans don't know how to spell "colour".

say that word aloud. is there a 'u' sound in it? no. you guys can't spell flavor or check, so leave us alone

 

[outsider]

say that word aloud. is there a 'u' sound in it? no. you guys can't spell flavor or check, so leave us alone

hahaha... proUnoUnce "z".

btw.. my wife is Canadian

 

[Smurf]

btw.. my wife is Canadian

I'm sorry.

 

[Pengwuino]

Canadians are evil.

They team up with soon to be giant Penguin based media corporations in the US to try to sell people a load of horsecrap they just want to hear for pure profit!

 

[Smurf]

Ha! Wait till you see what me and TSM do with our T-Shirt idea!

 

[Pengwuino]

Oh pff, tshirts won't stand a chance to my latest corporate development.

Me and evo are basically going to take over Microsoft and literally eliminate our competitors. No more of this open source alternative BS.

 

[outsider]

I'm sorry.

hahaha... it's too late to apologize... but she's great :!)

 

[The Smoking Man]

Canada has to have the whimpiest flag ever. we have stars and stripes that represent our history. mexico has an eagle perched on a cactus with a snake from the aztec legends, but Canada has a leaf?! WTF?

Well, there ARE more trees than people.

I think they should go back to the Jack.

But then I also think the USA should have used vertical stripes on their flag so they look thinner.

 

[Smurf]

Me and evo are basically going to take over Microsoft and literally eliminate our competitors. No more of this open source alternative BS.

Ah. Well. I'm afraid I'm going to be fighting you all the way on that one. My soul's worth more than that.

 

[Pengwuino]

Ah. Well. I'm afraid I'm going to be fighting you all the way on that one. My soul's worth more than that.

Your not invited!

 

[rocketboy]

say that word aloud. is there a 'u' sound in it? no. you guys can't spell flavor or check, so leave us alone

aaaaah, but the 'u' in colour compensates for the lack of an 'e' at the end that would be necessary to make the 'o' a hard 'o' sound.

 

[outsider]

aaaaah, but the 'u' in colour compensates for the lack of an 'e' at the end that would be necessary to make the 'o' a hard 'o' sound.

what does the "e" in "u" have to do with what?

 

[rocketboy]

what does the "e" in "u" have to do with what?

This is rocketboy calling all Canadians requesting immediate backup.

 

[Andrew Mason]

name one truly great Canadian scientist

How about:

Alexander Graham Bell
Gugliemo Marconi
Frederick Banting (Nobel Prize, Medicine, 1923)
Gerhard Herzberg, (Nobel Prize, Chemistry 1971)
John Polyani, (Nobel Prize Chemistry, 1986)
Michael Smith, molecular biologist (Nobel Prize, Chemistry 1993)
Bertram Brockhouse (Nobel Prize Physics 1994)
Henry Taube (Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1983)
Richard Taylor (Nobel Prize, Physics, 1990)
Rudolf Marcus (Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1992)
Sid Altman (Nobel Prize Biology, 1989)
David Hubel (Nobel Prize, Medicine 1981)
Louis Taillefer (superconductivity)
Ernst Rutherford (ok, he was from New Zealand, but he did his important work on atomic structure at McGill University in Montreal)

Not bad, eh. Now I'm going to have a beer and watch curling.

AM