[toesonthenose]

1. George W. Bush
2. Dick Cheney
3. Condaleeza Rice
4. Perpetual War
5. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran (I'm reading the US will strike Iran with a bombing campaign by Mid-April)
6. Unabashed greed
7. 48 million people without health insurance
8. Brinkmanship and Escalation of international tensions
9. Military personnel in over 130 of the worlds nations
10. Canada in the attic

[StevieD]

And THAT, is very, very scary :no

[willsken]

1. George W. Bush
2. Dick Cheney
3. Condaleeza Rice
4. Perpetual War
5. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran (I'm reading the US will strike Iran with a bombing campaign by Mid-April)
6. Unabashed greed
7. 48 million people without health insurance
8. Brinkmanship and Escalation of international tensions
9. Military personnel in over 130 of the worlds nations
10. Canada in the attic


What more can you say.........?:(

[ChrisK]

What is so wrong with Canada?

[Rizak]

10. Canada in the attic

HEY!

[speckythecky]

I think the problem is that yanks can see how much better things would be if they were Canadian and didn't have to put up with the other 9 reasons.

[Moorf]

I'm reading the US will strike Iran with a bombing campaign by Mid-April

Scarily I notice they seem to be priming the population for this via Fox News...

[Rizak]

We're bigger than they are and we're on top. If this were prison, America would be Canada's bitch.

[Ana&Steve]

11. No Nukes!
12. NZ doesn't feed their cows steroids like it was breakfast cereal!
13. "Politically Correct" isn't driving the nation against itself.
14. NZ isn't constantly running around trying to "fix" everyone else's problems w/o being asked while it's citizens go without basic needs.

Ana
/love my country like an unpleasant relative; you've no choice, it's in the blood, but if you weren't related, you'd have nothing to do with 'em!:roll

[toesonthenose]

Aboot Canada eh, I was only joking! Thus my attic comment, eh.
Stephen Colbert asked a congressman from Oregon, "Is Oregon California's Canada?" The congressman said no, so Colbert replied, "So then Oregon is Washington's Mexico!"
I love Canada, I grew up in Detroit and we would marvel at how clean and safe Windsor was, eh.

[Rizak]

Nice recovery.

uh ... eh?

:laugh

[Oregonkiwi]

"So then Oregon is Washington's Mexico!"


:laugh

[stu70]

Canada rocks baby. Even if I were to leave it for a bit, this will always be the home and I will return back. No place on earth like the great white north. Praising my country does not mean I am putting any other country down. God bless them all. Cheers

[Oliver]

1. George Bush
2. George Bush
3. George Bush
4. George Bush
5. George Bush
6. George Bush
7. George Bush
8. George Bush
9. George Bush
10.George Bush
:laugh

[wilson182]

We're bigger than they are and we're on top. If this were prison, America would be Canada's bitch.


:laugh :laugh :laugh

[wanderingoregonian]

loved the oregon lines... we laughed pretty hard

[Andy-Dee]

When I worked on the cruise ships I was often asked, due to my Celtic colouring, if I was Scottish by the Americans.
I would say No- I'm English actually.
One or two replied - Same difference isn't it?
I would ask " Are you Canadian?"
No m'am - I'm an American.
"Well - same difference isn't it????" :roll

There's good and bad the world over - here's to tolerance and a healthy dollop of humour! :laugh

[Rizak]

Comedy routine that doesn't go down very well in the US:

SHOPKEEP: OH! That accent! You must be English.
CUSTOMER: No, I'm Scottish. It's alright though. You Mexicans always get that one wrong.

They just don't seem to see the humour in irony.

:D

People always ask me if I'm Scottish because I wear kilts every day. I have many and varied responses, many of which are not polite enough for the company here.

:p

[Caroline and Dave]

Put this on another thread a while back but thought it would fit in better here
www.filmstripinternational.com

Dave and caroline

[able]

When I worked on the cruise ships I was often asked, due to my Celtic colouring, if I was Scottish by the Americans.
I would say No- I'm English actually.
One or two replied - Same difference isn't it?
I would ask " Are you Canadian?"
No m'am - I'm an American.
"Well - same difference isn't it????" :roll


To be fair on the "same difference" front, there are Canadian passports and US passports but there are no English or Scottish passports - just British. There's a Canadian army and a US army but no English or Scottish armies - there's a British army. There are passport controls between Canada and the US but none between England and Scotland. So I think the Americans who said "same difference" had the more valid point. Sorry if I'm being pedantic. :exit

[barryp]

Then again there's this one:

Q: How many Canadians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Who cares?

(and my personal fave)

Q: How do you get 100 rowdy Canadians to get out of a pool?
A: Say, "Hey, all you Canadians, please get out of the pool."

More on topic - a couple of small reasons NZ is better than the US:
1) Easy to tell exactly how much change you have in pocket by feel
2) Bus riders say 'thank you' to bus drivers when exiting the bus
3) In a pub, you might trip over a child's toy if you aren't careful.

And a couple of small reasons the US is better than NZ:
1) No need to lick postage stamps
2) Trader Joe's - nuff said
3) 'Telecom' is a short form of 'telecommunications' and not an obscenity.

[Moorf]

Comedy routine that doesn't go down very well in the US:

SHOPKEEP: OH! That accent! You must be English.
CUSTOMER: No, I'm Scottish. It's alright though. You Mexicans always get that one wrong.


:p

:laugh:laugh

[Trigirl]

2) Bus riders say 'thank you' to bus drivers when exiting the bus this one is nice – and always makes me smile, a stream of people each saying not just thank you but “thank you driver” in turn as they get off the bus! Its fab!
3) In a pub, you might trip over a child's toy if you aren't careful. and this is supposed to be a good thing? I strongly prefer my pubs to be child-free and thankfully so far at least they appear to be!

[Andy-Dee]

Hey Able
Considering my Lancashire relatives still quote 'the War of the Roses' and would probably vote for unitary status if it were offered - it makes the whole english, scottish, us, canadian thing pale by comparison.

Wish they would carry the whole British thing through for the World Cup - might actually win something.

Awaiting major flac from the footie crowd!:exit

[Carol]

I love it when the person serving me in the supermarket - be it 100g of shaved ham or the person on the checkout - calls me "ma'am"


Have loved it since the moment I got here.
And still do.

[Moorf]

As they said in "The Queen" (bloomin' great film) it's Ma'am as in ham, not as in farm :laugh

I, too, still love the polite service and friendliness I encounter every day.

[KerryS]

And a couple of small reasons the US is better than NZ:
1) No need to lick postage stamps


You can get stamps in NZ that are self adhesive and just peel off the backing and stick to the envelope. They even have envelopes with stamps pre-printed on them.

I love riding the bus here - the people are all so polite. School kids always stand for the elderly or pregnant people. Very different to back in London...

I find society as a whole far more polite than I was used to - but that could be because I came from quite a rough neighbourhood before emigrating...

[Juniper]

You can get stamps in NZ that are self adhesive and just peel off the backing and stick to the envelope. They even have envelopes with stamps pre-printed on them.


Well shoot. And here I was starting to feel a little patriotic.

But do they let you choose from like 50 different ever-changing designs, so you can match them to your wedding invites, seasonal greeting, favorite hobby, or bygone star of the silver screen? Do they letcha pay extra to donate to breast cancer research? Do they let you design personalized stamps with a photo of your OWN FACE? Huh? Huh? HUH?!?

I'll have you know that the -only- kind you get in the US is the stickers. So there.
:p

[Rizak]

and this is supposed to be a good thing? I strongly prefer my pubs to be child-free and thankfully so far at least they appear to be!

Agreed. I'm sure that nobody wants their children scarred for life because they happened to see up my kilt. :laugh

I appreciate the idea that the pub is a family place. I suppose that this would be the difference between pubs and bars? Is there any such distinction?

[wiki]

Well shoot. And here I was starting to feel a little patriotic.

But do they let you choose from like 50 different ever-changing designs, so you can match them to your wedding invites, seasonal greeting, favorite hobby, or bygone star of the silver screen? Do they letcha pay extra to donate to breast cancer research? Do they let you design personalized stamps with a photo of your OWN FACE? Huh? Huh? HUH?!?

I'll have you know that the -only- kind you get in the US is the stickers. So there.
:p


I don't know about the charity thing, but yes they have ever-changing stamp issues - maybe not 50 different, but enough to keep letters interesting.

And yes, you can personalise your stamps.

http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/ is the NZ Post stamp website.

[barryp]

Yes, my point was that there are places where alcohol is served, sport is on TV, and so forth that also are family-friendly. The USA has been suffering from alcohol insanity for awhile now - the idea that exposing kids to adults' drinking in any shape will corrupt them, rather than instruct them in resposible consumption. NZ suffers it far less (though there is talk of raising the drinking age to 20 to reduce binge-drinking, as if 18-year-olds care one whit about what the state thinks about anything).

There are also drinking establishments where one can obtain adult entertainment and the services of a prostitute legally and safely. Presumably those venues are less child-friendly. I'm not sure that's an improvement over the USA, but it *is* different.

[Juniper]

I don't know about the charity thing, but yes they have ever-changing stamp issues - maybe not 50 different, but enough to keep letters interesting.

And yes, you can personalise your stamps.

http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/ is the NZ Post stamp website.


Well there goes our bid for superiority :rolleyes:

[Carol]

I appreciate the idea that the pub is a family place. I suppose that this would be the difference between pubs and bars? Is there any such distinction?


Most definitely.
There are "bars" here - that even I wouldnt set foot in - never mind my kids!
Definitely a "bloke's" domain.

But if a pub has a kid's menu - then it is fair game as far as I'm concerned and I'm taking them in there.