I hate Canadians.

[blustocking]

They're arrogant and they can't spell. (and no, I'm not talking about the British way of spelling.)

Broad, sweeping generalizations are fun, no?

I love how an entire country gets lumped together and looked upon as stupid jerks just because Dubya's brother fixed a crucial state election. YEAH, we hate him! What the fuck do you want us to do?! Yes, it's true...there was an alarming amount of the population who did vote for him...but ask them if they'd vote for him now? Lots of Americans who voted for Bush, would take it back. And there has been MUCH talk among commentators and the "media" about his mannerisms and how he should not talk off-the-cuff...ever, about how he is embarrassing us. So don't fucking assume you know what America is thinking. *I* don't even know what America is thinking.

Fuck, I was in a good mood too.

I'm so tired and sore from moving...so sore.

And if I see one more dumbass with an American flag behaving like a jerk, I'm going to shove that $20 piece-of-cloth-on-a-stick up his ass. Deep pride is like religon. You figure you can act like a total shithead as long as you "luv yer kuntry" or go to church once a week. Look, I'm bitching about my country as a whole...because I live here.

People are shitheads, no matter what country they're from.

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I ran out of room, damn 4000 character limits!

[emu72.livejournal.com]

Canada's failings:

We have a bloated, out of date governmental system. Modelled after the british system, which descened from centuries of petty lord bickering.
That mostly, we don't understand.
And when we do hear about it's gross inadequacies and overspending, we do nothing about it.
Canadians for the most part are apathetic.
You could call this our national attitude.
Tell us anything thats happening in our own country and we'll generally reply with
'meh'
and go back to watching the Simpsons.
We had an instance where a Member of Parliment's credentials were found to be completely and utterly false. His citizenship papers, his university degrees, everything this man had down on his resume was a lie.
His party abandoned him. Which is to say his politcal party broke affiliation with him. And his riding (The people that voted for him) abandoned him as their representative. So basically you had this man (who wasn't even Canadian) with no party, no one to represent, taking up a seat in parliment. You'd think that would mean he'd be out of a job.
Nope.
As long as he showed up, as long he was there for the pre-requiste number of ballot castings, he got paid.
Lovely eh?
And that pre-requiste number of ballot castings is so outrageously low that we have MP's that don't actually live in the country anymore.
They live in Carribean or somewhere and just show up 5 or 6 times a year to cast a ballot on something.
The Reform party in Canada started out as a grass-roots kinda conservative retaliation to all this.
They refused to take the governmentally funded shuttle from the parking lot to Parliment as a form of protest over government spending.
The shuttle driver, who's entire job is to drive fat politicians to the door of parliment earned something in the neighbourhood of 80k.
Everyone like the Reform party, to start with.
Then their 'down-home' conservatism started showing. With pro-life, anti-gay and racist sentiments being uttered by every member, we were suddenly feeling like we'd been backing the KKK.
Luckily for us, as is the case with many extremist groups the Reform fell victim to in fighting, and now are just a joke.
Which puts us back to where we started.
With an overbloated, out of date, archaic and convulted governmental system that we don't fully understand, and now we don't even have any politicians on OUR side telling us whats going on up there!!
The Reform party made headlines when they revealed the salaries of the Parlimentary building staff.
There are full time shoe shiners working in Parliment, to keep the politicians shoes spic and span earning upwards of 100k.
And we wonder where are tax dollars go.
Side note: Canadians pay .... ooh BM correct me if I'm wrong.... the second highest personal income tax percentage in the world. (I think the first is Britain).
Granted, this pays for our 'National' Health care. (in quotes because it's actually provincally administrated and in Alberta it's not paid for with your taxes. You have to pay for it seperately) Or so the average citizen would like to believe. And since thats easier than over throwing the governement...

meh

;)

I will actually keep you updated (innundated) with Canadian info now! heh I would suggest a news paper if you really want to know, but all ours are corporate whores... though the Globe and Mail is still pretty good. Globeandmail.ca (I think). Our two big national papers are The Toronto Star and The Toronto/Calgary Sun. I was once told I was NOT allowed to use them as a source of info for a research project for HS because they were un-reliable. :) (Kinda like FoxNews).

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[77azkkr.livejournal.com]

I would love you Canadians if you would just learn how to say about.

You say abowt... as in, look, what's that in the ocean over there, a boat ?

LOL

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[emu72.livejournal.com]

It's not pronounced "a boat" or "a boot".

I honestly don't hear a difference in the way I say 'about' and the way y'all say it, but all my American friend giggle when I say it, so I guess there is a difference.

There is also the theory that it's just me.
Apparently I prounounce things funny. (according to my friends in Western Canada) being from Eastern Canada and raised with British parents makes me pronounce things funny, apparently.

But you are right about the 'ow' sound.

It's pronounced ah-bow-t.

Least thats how I say it.

I've no idea how y'all say it.

But I'll keep the 'ow' sound and give you back your "y'all".

;p