Canadian people: What's a 'peach kiddo'?

[exatreide]

I agree that the seal slaughtering should be stopped. You canadians are really odd.lol its okay I am kidding jessie :) ...not really.lol ahh I really am. ;)

its spelled jesse

jessie is the girls way if memory serves me right....which it usaly dosnt....

[Acriku]

And this time it doesn't :P It can go either way, I know only one Jesse and like 5 Jessie's. :P

[Gobalopper]

I think Jessie comes from Jessica.

[Acriku]

It probably did, but that wouldn't stop some parents from naming their son Jessie would it? Or maybe they didn't want their son so they give him a girl's name to make his life miserable.

[Navaros]

Why *should* the USA care about Canada? Canada has third-world currency. Canada's military is a joke LOL and could never ever EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRR pose even a marginal threat to the USA.

The USA just uses Canada and drains all of Canada's unrenewable natural resources, which Canada willingly sells to the USA for their *REAL* money.

What reason do Americans have to know anything else? Why would they care? If I was an American, I wouldn't care.

[Acriku]

Well Canadians did win the War of 1812 against the US or whatever war, can't remember (even as a devoted American I can't deny the truth). But I don't know a lot about that war to pose any opinion about it. And isn't it our instinctual earning to satisfy our curiousity?

It was the war of 1812.

[exatreide]

But your not.

Your french canadian...the lowest of the low...

the french hate you.......and so dose the rest of canada...sucks to be french canadian............. :)

"Of course I care about canada. Thaas whare Alaska is." George W. Bush

[SurlyPIG]

Sorry for this ixianmace...Let me put it this way, before this I'd never even heard that expression.

The problem is that Canadians who live in the southern provinces get so tied up against their perceived American cliche's that they forget that in their own country there are towns and communities that lie more than 500km north of the arctic circle.

In some areas (the territories) it's conceivable, but in terms of the likelyhood of running into somebody from the territories without actually going there, it's ridiculas.

Total population of all three territories: 99,004

Total population of all the provinces (southern Canada): 30,982,883

The chances are 3 in 1000 that any Canadian you meet will be from the territories. That's also probably reduced by the fact that people who live closer to the US will be more likely to travel there. That said, even if they're from the territories, they probably still dont ride snowmobiles year round.

Now, I have heard from numerous canadians (not to pick on Ace, but he's just one of many) that Americans have all these dumb cliche's about Canada. Some of them are: "moose-hunting in Toronto", or "do you live in an igloo" or "all canadians play hockey" or "hey, you're from BC. I have a cousin in Toronto, you know him?" or "you speak english well", etc, etc. Honestly, I have lived in America all but 2 years of my life and I seriously have not met one single american that has any of these views. I think that southern canadians perpetuate the myth that these cliches are widespread in America so that they can get a few giggles amongst themselves.

Like gob said, the closer to the border you are the more the Yanks know, but it sometimes it seems to me that the home state pretty much has to border with Canada before they actually know WHAT it is. And no, this isn't a conspiracy to laugh at Americans. Rick Mercer's special was funny but I certainly wouldn't base an opinion off of that.

And the idea that someone from canada might take a snowmobile to work from time to time is not far fectched

I concur, I cross-country skied to school once. But the understanding among Americans is that most, if not all Canucks have this lifestyle.

well i wont deny that the US has its share of morons, but I challenge the veracity of Rick Mercer's quotes. The guy is a comedian doing a comedic show. You would have to seriously look to find people that dumb, I know I haven't met them, well maybe I have, but never have I heard anyone say something so stupid about Canada and mean it seriously. Guys like Jay Leno do the same thing as Rick Mercer: you search around until you find an idiot.

Hehe if you could see it you would take that back. Though I think that the nature of the show is very high pressure, (in that not many people will question the statements of a seemingly-professional journalist on national TV) it's quite amazing what, and more important, WHO he got on his show. It's not always just the regular public. I mean the governor of Arkansas really DID believe that Canada's capital building was an exact replica of the whitehouse except made with ice, and that it was in danger of melting due to global warming. A 25-year harvard POLITICAL SCIENCE prof signed a petition to end Vancouver's "Run of the Caribou". During the last presidential election, neither Bush nor Gore showed any sign of doubt when told that the P.M. was Jacques Poutine and that Canada's capital was Toronto. But like I said, I think that very few people would be gutsy enough to shoot down Mercer's claims while a camera is pointing at them. The only time they've shown it is when a mother was being interviewed at a grocery store being asked questions about the Canadian states and congressmen, when her son, (looked about 6 or 7) butted in saying that Canada has provinces.

And then if you are desperate, you try to "lure" them into some kind of stupid trap in a deliberate attempt to make them look foolish (precisely what Mercer does) so people are baited to begin with (this form of cooersion that Mercer in particular does is dishonorable).

I don't quite get what you mean about being lured in, I mean the only difference between what he did and a real journalistic street interview was the questions he asked. It's not very flattering but it's good for a laugh. One of the reasons it's funny is because cultural knowledge is quite one-sided.

The other day in my Social class my teacher told us that , a couple years ago, 10,000 American high school students were tested on general geography of their country and the countries they interact with (nothing to difficult). He said that 50% of the kids couldn't find the USA on a map. After that, though, it seemed that people either knew nothing or everything, because 30% could identify Canada on the map. I wouldn't interpret these as being written in stone, but it's quite an eye-opener.

That said, you only know what you need to, and most Yanks don't need to know a single thing about anything outside thier border, but you miss much because a lot can be learned from other cultures.

[SurlyPIG]

Nav if you have that attitude, then leave! Go to the land of unsliced pizza and limb-crushing elevators.

And X, the cultural line between French ane English Canada is diminishing year by year...and no I don't think Nav's French. The French have a nicer way of saying things...

[TMA_1]

well forgive me for forgetting jesse's name didnt have an I in it. You guys really deify jesse.lol And dont get any bad ideas Gob. ;)

[TMA_1]

well nav. I would agree with you but canadians own a lot of business up in northern north america. so it does matter.lol

[Acriku]

"You don't frighten us English pigdogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English knnnnnn-ights."

Yeah they sure do.

[Mahdi]

"I fart in your general direction."

I'm not Frecnh, but 8 months out of the year I live in Ottawa. It wouldn't be smart for me to bash the French.

[DjCiD]

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[DjCiD]

this is just a joke plz dont ban me, im sure some older ppl here have heard of Bob n Doug tho some of the younger may be scrathing their heads... ;D O0

[emprworm]

ive never heard of bob n doug

[DjCiD]

some ;D O0

[TMA_1]

I just remembered another canadian saying! I heard this one a lot.lol here it comes!! "Groovy tomato". lol thats right. groovy tomato.

[DjCiD]

sounds like something from the 60's 70's O0 ;D

thats why BC has the best smoke now all the hippies migrated there and look what happened thru evolution ;D j/k

[exatreide]

I am not bashing the french. I am bashing the french CANADIANS. The french are evil on there own....But combine the evilness with the nail biting cold of canada and u got a bit of a problem....

Didnt Quebec try to suced from the union? Er....of canada?

[SurlyPIG]

See emp, there's your reason Yanks think all Canucks are like that. We both have satire about each other, but the difference is we get much more of your cultural influence ie TV, magazines, media, etc. We see the satire of southerners from whatever county in Louisianabamaginiasas, and likewise you see the satire of things like Bob 'n' Doug. The difference, though, is that we also see Larry King, Oprah, Regis and that blond chic, Leno, Letterman and even Jerry Springer (why he's on the list beats the hell out of me)

For example, on basic cable in my area we get affiliates of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, TNN and FOX. I didn't actually check last time I was down there, but do you guys get CBC or CTV? I think the only media network you get of us is MuchMusic. Franky I don't blame you guys for getting sick of MTV. Damn that idiot Carson Daly/Daily...

[DjCiD]

do you guys get CBC or CTV?

so is SCTV a channel and a program? or just a program?

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/9134/mack2.htm

as far as I know Bob and Doug really are Canadian

heres a lil thing from the site

Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis originally created the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie in protest against government requirements for "identifiable Canadian content" in domestically produced television programming. The skits, as an SCTV program "The Great White North" featured two dim witted brothers who combined as many negative Canadian stereotypes as possible. Despite this, they became so popular that the skits were included in the U.S. version of the program, and Thomas and Moranis were made members of the Order of Canada for their contribution to Canadian culture.

[SurlyPIG]

SCTV is a comedy show. Canadian TeleVision (CTV) is a network.

[DjCiD]

i knew it was a show just didnt know if it was a network as well... and when I saw the CTV I just figured I'd ask ;D

[SurlyPIG]

Ah I see...I havn't seen it but I've heard of it on the Comedy network...it looks kind of wierd.