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Your perception of Canadians is?

Your perception of Canadians is?

  • Great people

    Votes: 21 55.3%
  • Nicest people you could ever meet

    Votes: 3 7.9%
  • Down to earth

    Votes: 6 15.8%
  • Salt of the earth types.

    Votes: 2 5.3%
  • Many of the best people I ever met are Canadian.

    Votes: 6 15.8%

  • Total voters
    38
I don't know a lot of Canadians personally but my experience with those i have met has been nothing but positive. They're awesome.

Oh, and I love me some Middleground! :)
 
Americans without the guns



Actually they have lots of guns by anyone else's standards. They just don't shoot each other with them very often at all. Wouldn't be polite, eh? :D
 
Almost every Canadian I've ever met was just awesomely nice. Most were intelligent, industrious and capable.


I have to make exception for Quebecois truck drivers. I've yet to meet one I didn't want to punch in the mouth.
 
I basically think of them as less violent Americans with funny comedians but for the most part ****ty music.
 
I basically think of them as less violent Americans with funny comedians but for the most part ****ty music.

I am going to have to disagree with you there. If you're going to judge our music by the **** we export, then m'kay. But for the size of our country, we certainly have had some exceptional ones.
 
I basically think of them as less violent Americans with funny comedians but for the most part ****ty music.



0:42 "Now now, the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on a number of occasions..."

 
Canadian girls in college were fine and fun to hang out with.
 
Canadians are dichotomy on display On the one hand they are very liberal with high taxes and free healthcare but unlike American liberals they are pro resource extraction industries and go after their resources like we did here in the 50s. They mine, log and drill like there is no tomorrow and club baby seals to death with zeal. Their military is a complete joke and they live under Americas umbrella while at the same time trashing us for being to militaristic. They are kind of like the youngest kid in a family who is a bit spoiled and expects things to be handed to him on a silver platter. Oh and they drink crappy beer too.
 
People, just as anywhere else.
 
Canadians are dichotomy on display On the one hand they are very liberal with high taxes and free healthcare but unlike American liberals they are pro resource extraction industries and go after their resources like we did here in the 50s. They mine, log and drill like there is no tomorrow and club baby seals to death with zeal. Their military is a complete joke and they live under Americas umbrella while at the same time trashing us for being to militaristic. They are kind of like the youngest kid in a family who is a bit spoiled and expects things to be handed to him on a silver platter. Oh and they drink crappy beer too.


That's a bit unfair and inaccurate in my experience.

Canada's military is small compared to ours (hell almost everyone's is), but of very high quality. I know some Canadian vets and I assure you they are consummate professionals in the trade of war.

As for clubbing baby seals, well we don't have a lot of room to talk with all our factory farms and mass slaughter facilities do we?

Frankly I do NOT see Canadians as being spoiled. Not at all. Yes they do depend on the US military umbrella to some degree... but so does half the world, right? I enjoy walking around with my son too.... he looks like a Viking warlord and thus nobody bothers us. :)

Hell if their guns laws were a bit more reasonable I might move to Canada. Bit cold for a Southern boy but...
 
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We always enjoy Canada. Great people. Your favorite places are also our favorite places. Banff is my wife's favorite. Lake Louise is one of the most beautiful places on earth. I have some great pictures of Canada from Vancouver to Quebec City.

A few months ago we were in Montreal and Quebec City. We didn't want to leave. French Canadians are very friendly. They love to to laugh.

I remember when you were in Montreal & QC and I remember your pictures. Yes they are also beautiful cities.

Lake Louise takes my breath away each time I see it. Banff is spectacular - I could spend weeks there every year and not tire of it.
 
Your perception of Canadians is?
Time to have some innocent fun.

All in all I think of them about the same as any other nationality. I've met many Canadians that I like, and some that I do not. In general, as long as they're not Argos fans, they're alright :mrgreen:
 
... I can't believe this thread has gone on for 4 pages and nobody has mentioned poutine. Quebec, for all of its political flaws is an amazingly beautiful place.... If you guys ever visit Newfoundland, I encourage you all to try screech rum. I spent some time in the Canadian Maritimes, and they are the stereotypical Canadian person on TV. They're so nice it almost hurts. With that said:

 
That's a bit unfair and inaccurate in my experience.

Canada's military is small compared to ours (hell almost everyone's is), but of very high quality. I know some Canadian vets and I assure you they are consummate professionals in the trade of war.

As for clubbing baby seals, well we don't have a lot of room to talk with all our factory farms and mass slaughter facilities do we?

Frankly I do NOT see Canadians as being spoiled. Not at all. Yes they do depend on the US military umbrella to some degree... but so does half the world, right?

NYC has a bigger police dept. than Canada has a military.

Walking up to baby seals and clubbing them to death for the fur and some beer money is repulsive to anyone with an once of compassion.

Canada lives next door to the largest military machine on the planet which enables them to spend money on social programs and less on defense and then they act superior to us because they have these programs and we don't.

I notice you didn't address the crappy beer part though.:lol:
 
Almost every Canadian I've ever met was just awesomely nice. Most were intelligent, industrious and capable.


I have to make exception for Quebecois truck drivers. I've yet to meet one I didn't want to punch in the mouth.

You could have stopped at Quebecois. Seriously Ive met several and all of those people have something deeply wrong with them
 
I basically think of them as less violent Americans with funny comedians but for the most part ****ty music.

Canada has Skinny Puppy which imho is one of the greatest bands to have ever existed.

 
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Canada has Skinny Puppy which imho is one of the greatest bands to have ever existed.



42 yeas old. have a listen (the magic begins at 1:55)
 
... I can't believe this thread has gone on for 4 pages and nobody has mentioned poutine. Quebec, for all of its political flaws is an amazingly beautiful place.... If you guys ever visit Newfoundland, I encourage you all to try screech rum. I spent some time in the Canadian Maritimes, and they are the stereotypical Canadian person on TV. They're so nice it almost hurts. With that said:



I think somebody did mention poutine briefly. I had to look it up... sounds interesting, I'd give it try sometime though I have no idea what cheese curds taste like.
 
That's a bit unfair and inaccurate in my experience.

Canada's military is small compared to ours (hell almost everyone's is), but of very high quality. I know some Canadian vets and I assure you they are consummate professionals in the trade of war.

As for clubbing baby seals, well we don't have a lot of room to talk with all our factory farms and mass slaughter facilities do we?

Frankly I do NOT see Canadians as being spoiled. Not at all. Yes they do depend on the US military umbrella to some degree... but so does half the world, right? I enjoy walking around with my son too.... he looks like a Viking warlord and thus nobody bothers us. :)

Hell if their guns laws were a bit more reasonable I might move to Canada. Bit cold for a Southern boy but...

I know this wasn't posted to me, and I don't want to derail this thread, but I also mentioned the clubbing of baby seals in my post on the first page of this thread. It's the only argument I have against Canada/Canadians (except for a few hockey players). The clubbing of baby seals is a horror beyond most forms of animal abuse. In the USA farms are supposed to be regulated and monitored; they aren't always and there are maniacal assholes who work in them who take pleasure in torturing animals about to be slaughtered, and the humane treatment of animals raised for slaughter is a pet project of mine, but most animals in this country who are slaughtered are slaughtered because humans are omnivores and eat meat. The primary end result of a baby seal who is viciously and inhumanely beaten to death in front of its mother, cowering in sheer terror, are seal skin products worn by the vain and selfish humans.

I apologize for derailing this thread, but please understand that in more ways than one you can not compare what happens to animals slaughtered for food with the baby seals in Canada.
 
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