Canadian, Eh?

[Stanislaw]

Just wondering, who is canadian out there, I am, I am from Alberta.

[emily655321]

I'm a New Englander. That's kinda like a Canadian who can vote in the US, right? :P

[Stanislaw]

sounds cool, We canadians are very accepting.

[emily655321]

Hehe Well, that's probably where you've got us. We're ice-cold and dry as wheat toast.

[verybaddmom]

I AM CANADIAN !!!
*pronounced in a proud, beery voice*

[simon]

I'm goibg to Alberta this summer. Calgary.

[verybaddmom]

I'm moving to Calgary in July to go to Univ. there, but I'm in BC right now
love BC, BC rocks, will miss BC...am lamenting the upcoming departure from BC.....waaaahhhhhh :eek:

[simon]

Are you at ubc?

[verybaddmom]

right now im at this dinky little college in the East Kootenays. I did two years at OUC in Kelowna (Okanagan Valley) and then changed majors, so I decided to try and save some money and pick up some credit at a less expensive institution....
However, I am doing three distance ed classes through BCOU and will be attending Mount Royal in fall 04, to get my degree through University of Athabasca.
and, yes the transfering of credit is a *****
:mad:

[simon]

Yikes, you've studied all over the place. I'm currently at UVic, first year coming to a close.

[GapingStarling]

Hurrah for the Canadians!
I'm from BC -- Actually, I go to UVic too, just finishing 3rd year.
And, since I just finished watching Men with Brooms, and feeling particularly Canadian, and kinda craving Tim Hortons... :p
Cheers!

[Lara]

I think you guys already know I'm Canadian. (It says on my location). :D I live in Ontario.

[kilted exile]

Currently I am only an immigrant come to steal all your jobs:D However I will be taking my canadian citizenship test in June.

[simon]

I am looking for a canadian marriage partner, because then becoming a canadian citizen will be alot easier. So far it looks bleak.

[Dyrwen]

Canadians eh? Well that's ok by me. Tend to see so many of ya folk online nowdays.

[baddad]

I've walked, motorcycled, hitchhiked the breadth of, flown and driven (motorcycle and auto)70% of the land inside Canadian borders. I'm leaving the country for an extended exploration of as much of the rest of the globe as I can afford. I just suffered a tattoo of a small Canadian maple leaf on my shoulder, healed now of course and just in time for my explorations. Loves?: Peace, contentment, ANYTHING out-of-doors! i AM cANADIAN!!!!

[simon]

Is that true that 1 in 10 people are athiest?

[verybaddmom]

You got a tattoo????
*giggle*

[emily655321]

Originally posted by simon
Is that true that 1 in 10 people are athiest?

Somehow I'd expect it to be a bit more than that. Maybe 10% is right, taking the global population into consideration, or perhaps the northeast has a disproportionate number of atheists? Or maybe it's just the people I hang out with.

"Atheist" connotes such certitude about the matter. I think of myself as agnostic: I have a hunch, but it doesn't really matter to me whether I'm right or wrong.

Oh well, off topic. (I shouldn't be here, anyway. Tsk tsk, naughty non-Canadian)

[fayefaye]

[from the Simpsons] 'I'm from cahhhhnada and they say I'm a little sloowwww, ayyyyy?'

hehe :) that's pretty off topic, sort of.

[Isagel]

Somehow all this makes me think of that South Park movie.

[emily655321]

LOL *blame canada.. blame canada..*

I'd like to move to Canada, but then I couldn't vote against all the grahzny bratchnies who will run for US president. Maybe I could steal simon's idea of marrying a Canadian...hmm...

Stanislaw, you don't have a chick, do you? :p

[simon]

Hey I get first dibs. And now off to my very first final exam! As long as they don't ask me about Theocritis or Callimachus I'll be fine. Tim Horton's be ready for my unwind.

[verybaddmom]

its funny that you guys talk about marrying for citizenship.
last year i was proposed to by the most (read: least) romantic young moroccan man who declared that he "needs to find a wife in canada so he can get a job here and save money on tuition".
He said, and i quote: "I cant seem to find anyone better than you" of course, this was directed to me. I decided to attribute this ambiguous statement to a language barrrier difficulty.
however, i still turned him down, although he put in my hot hands two plane tickets to morocco for the summer.
of course, after reading the travel advisory for morocco, i decided that maybe the calgary stampede would be a better place to spend my holiday.
strangely, i havent seen him around lately...
hmmmm......i wonder?

[emily655321]

:D :D :D That's so sad. Oddly, I recently experienced an inexplicable rash of (supposedly) lovelorn Vietnamese young men IMing me on Yahoo Messenger. Then they stopped, just as suddenly. (My friend joked that my screenname must be written on a bathroom wall somewhere.) Not nearly as bizarre an experience as yours, though. That is odd. :p

[verybaddmom]

welcome to my world *insert musical notes*

[IWilKikU]

I would love to find a British girl that would marry me for citizenship. I wouldn't live with her or anything. I'd stay with my girlfriend of 2 1/2 years. I just need citizenship so school doesn't cost so damn much here. Any british girls out there???

[amuse]

i have dual citizenship :D
and i'd stay with my boyfriend of 13 years :)

[amuse]

hm. they're thinking of making temple u. ivy league. so i'll stay here for the undergrad stuff. (would anyway, :) of course, wanted to go there for some time) but maybe i should do graduate work in the u.k since you make it sound so cheap. if only i didn't love our frigid winters and unbearably humid summers here in pennsylvania! :D

[Kiwi Shelf]

I live in Canada
The East Coast, place called Nova Scotia :)

[Lara]

Oh man, Kiwi, you guys get the worst weather out there. Also, I understand, it's a very beautiful place. I've been as far east as just inside the Quebec/Ontario border, and as far west as just insode the Alberta/BC border, so I haven't had the opportunity to visit either coast.

BTW, I just wanted to say that I love the fact that there are people from all over the world on this website.

[verybaddmom]

Lara, you are missing out on some of the most beautiful territory on earth, by not venturing into BC. the Okanagan Valley, Kootenay National Park, Vancouver Island.....wow, you poor thing.

I'm curious though...all you Canadians out there, and people who have heard of Canadians:
in a recent political science class, my prof asserted that Canadians have no culture. I was profoundly offended by this, but his persistent questioning has made me wonder, what exactly is Canadian Culture? i mean we are remarkably close to Americans in so many ways, but insist on being recognized as separate and individual societies. Why? does anyone have any idea what it means to be Canadian?

personally, when i think of Canadians, I think of reasonably mellow people who are kind and thoughtful, rational and slightly hedonistic. i realize that this is a total gross overgeneralization, but that's the overall impression that i get.

what do you folks think?

[Lara]

I think Canada's multiculturalism is what gives it's beauty and makes it unique. Canada'a culture is the multiculturalsim.

[emily655321]

I can't say I know much about Canada, but the impression I get is like low-stress, non-violent Americans with a few more brain cells and less blubber. Oh, and a good sense of humor -- a lot of good comedians from Canada.

[Kiwi Shelf]

Yeah, I do get bad weather. It is snowing out right now actually
:( It's a nice place to live, though. Even witht the snow the scenery is beautiful. :)

And, Canada does have a culture. We are respectful of all different cultures, and elements of that create who we are.

[simon]

Canada is called a cultural mosiac, not a melting pot like in the US, so it's culture comes from the immigrants who came to Canada and how they were recieved. Look at the french, you could even say that the Canadian Tim Horton's chain lends culture to canada, or you could say it was an example of capitalism. Whatever, the point is that Canada is multicultural, the only problem with this is that unitly and nationality is harder to find.

[IWilKikU]

The only thing that comes to mind when I think of Canadian culture is the movie Strange Brew. If there's a mouse in your beer, you get free beer for life. Yeah eh? It's in the Canadian code.

[Stanislaw]

Hey emily I already have a "chick";) .

Any ways you guys know that an American has bought the Tim Hortons chane, the only thing we got left is beer and petrol.

[simon]

No! Horror! Shock! Bought out by the US, drastic measures are called for, Canadians retaliate and get Timmy Hoes back!

[emily655321]

What?? NOOOoooo!! And I thought my efforts to fight our own monster-coffee-chain were beginning to pay off. Now there's another one?

[IWilKikU]

HAHAHA!!!! I heard that America has actually bought "Beer" the word. No one can drink or say or look at beer of any kind (including root beer) without paying a beer-tax to the very big corporation of America.

Oh and uh, Petrols next *evil laugh*!

[emily655321]

The Corporation of America. How true -- we'll have to coin a term for this new form of government. A Greed-ocracy... no that's dumb. What's the Greek for "money?"

[simon]

How can a country buy a word? It's in the english language, the "corporation" of America didn't invent it, they didn't invent beer either, they cannot have it! Including root beer just tops off my disgust.
I saw, or rather heard some American tourists in downtown Victoria yesterday, and I couldn't believe how racist and ignorant they all sounded. I know not all Americans are like that, but it has come to my attention that some of the stereotypes of American tourists are truer than I thought possible.

[amuse]

the first time my brother visited after moving to japan, he was on auditory overload for a while. he wished he understood as much english as japanese, for the reasons you just stated!
america has its benefits, like we don't have to hike miles for water, as a friend of mine had to in india when she was young, but it does come with a price...

[IWilKikU]

Ah, simon. I figured that somone would point out that my joke didn't make sence, but I didn't think it would be you. If anything I thought you might appreciate my Monty Python reference (The Very Big Corporation of America) considering your multitargeted "slap" to nonpythonites in another thread.

EVERYONE! DO NOT BE ALARMED. AMERICA HASN'T REALLY TAKEN CONTROL OF THE WORD BEER. YOU MAY GO ABOUT DRINKING AND SAYING "BEER" AS NORMAL, REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY OR ORIGIN OF YOUR PARTICULAR BEER... But only because the very big corporation of America says so!

[simon]

Well Kik, it sounded exactly like somehting America would get away with and when I read that it didn't suprise me at all. Monty Python...brings sweet memories of laughter till the piss almost flows.

[simon]

Canada take me back

[rachel]

I am excited for you Kilted Exile. I went to OUC , Vernon campus and still live in Vernon though I will probably end up in Kelowna for a while and then Rome and then Jerusalem(hopefully) lived in Calgary, worked at the Foothills hospital. It is beautiful and all that jazz but i love.....LOVE british columbia. The hills, the lakes, the green everything.
Simon Iwish for you that you find the person you love and that person just happens to be a Canadian.

"So good day eh" bob and doug mackenzie

[baddad]

I have taken classes at OUC as well, and am intimately aquainted with Kelowna, Vernon, and most other places in this incredible country we live in. I am a proud Canadian. Got the tattoo that proves it. I'm thinking of getting a road map of the country tattooed on my body, beginning on my right foot, and tracing all the hundreds of places I've visited.......but if the Atlantic and Pacific straddle either end of the 'tat', where would the great western plains reside on this fair skin?...............

[rachel]

verybadmom,

i lived in lower Mount Royal in one of those singles apartments. Hell on earth. no one sleep. I couldn't handle it and although it is a very beautiful area i moved just a couple of blocks from the university and much closer to work. i lived on a street called cuthbert drive, so quiet and peaceful and perfect for sleep. but then you might like the more shall we say interesting area of lower mount royal. i guess i couldn't have really stayed there much longer anyway since my then roommate stole salt and pepper shakers and ashtrays from just about every restaurant and pizza place in the area.
Soooo embarrassing.