[PacHead]

You'd think that in Canada, where it is cold as crap, they'd know how to make a decent heater.

I bought a new Bionaire heater 2 days ago, and I was shocked when I got home and turned it on. It was crazy loud, and I could hardly hear the television over the heater. God forbid somebody should put that heater in their bedroom. No way could somebody sleep.

Well, anyhow I returned it and got another heater, which was 20 times more quiet. The ironic thing is, the new heater was half the price of the bionaire, so I ended up getting 50% of my money back.

There were also 2 heat settings on the heater. HI & LO........The damn LO setting was louder than the HI setting !

Perhaps Bionaire should make hairdryers or vacuum cleaners instead, because that's what their heater sounds like.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

You'd think with the amount of hot air that comes out of you that you wouldn't even need a Canadian heater to begin with

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
You'd think with the amount of hot air that comes out of you that you wouldn't even need a Canadian heater to begin with

Yeah, whatever.

Here is a picture of the exact heater I bought, so nobody else will be fooled.



Don't buy it unless you're a deaf person.

[James L]

What a whiner, and it ain't that cold where I live at all. We have only had 6 days of snow in the last 3 years, and today it is sunny and borderline t-shirt weather. Nice attempt at a stereotype, however.

Oh, btw, my American built car broke down today.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Even funnier the weather up here has been much better than that mean snowstorm hitting the US.

Even more interesting:

Bionaire® Headquarters:
Milford, Massachusetts, USA

Bionaire® Production Facilities:
USA and China

Would you like some Canadian spring water to wash that foot down with?

[rjenkinson]

The score so far...

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO: 2
PacHead: 0

-r.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by rjenkinson:


The score so far...

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO: 2
PacHead: 0

-r.

Nope, the score is 1 - 0 to me, because I didn't waste $100 on a piece of crap.

[rjenkinson]

Originally posted by PacHead:
Nope, the score is 1 - 0 to me, because I didn't waste $100 on a piece of crap.

no arguing with the ref!

-r.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Even funnier the weather up here has been much better than that mean snowstorm hitting the US.

Even more interesting:

Bionaire® Headquarters:
Milford, Massachusetts, USA

Bionaire® Production Facilities:
USA and China

Would you like some Canadian spring water to wash that foot down with?

Worldwide presence

The company that started in Montreal, Canada over twenty years ago is now a global success.

Apple makes stuff in China too, doesn't mean Mac is chinese.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by James L:
Oh, btw, my American built car broke down today.

I wouldn't even have mentioned the fact that it was Canadian, if certain Canadians on here didn't constantly start USA bashing threads.

Crap is crap, regardless of where it comes from.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by PacHead:
I wouldn't even have mentioned the fact that it was Canadian, if certain Canadians on here didn't constantly start USA bashing threads.

And why do you think you are getting burned so bad? Because it was so damned obvious of you and petty

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by PacHead:
Worldwide presence

The company that started in Montreal, Canada over twenty years ago is now a global success.

Apple makes stuff in China too, doesn't mean Mac is chinese.

Yup, started in Canada now has the head office in the US run by Americans made in the US and China.

This just turned into the funniest backfiring MacNN thread ever.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
And why do you think you are getting burned so bad? Because it was so damned obvious of you and petty

Coming from you that's pretty funny.



Five minutes has passed since your last anti-USA garbage post. I assume it's time for you to start another one.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Yup, started in Canada now has the head office in the US run by Americans made in the US and China.

Like I said, crap is crap, regardless.

[rjenkinson]

back to your corners before i bust out my dance moves.

-r.

[James L]

Originally posted by PacHead:
I wouldn't even have mentioned the fact that it was Canadian, if certain Canadians on here didn't constantly start USA bashing threads.

Crap is crap, regardless of where it comes from.

Chicken and Egg my friend, chicken and egg. I have made my share of anti American comments in retaliation to anti Canadian comments, as I did so in this thread.

Perhaps we should all agree to stop being so childish and defensive and the cycle can then hopefully stop.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Yup, started in Canada now has the head office in the US run by Americans made in the US and China.

Designed in Canada, the Bionaire heater comes with a two-year warranty against defects.

[euchomai]

Originally posted by James L:

Perhaps we should all agree to stop being so childish and defensive and the cycle can then hopefully stop.

That's a good one, made me chuckle.

[rjenkinson]

are you guys finished?

-r.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

So what it comes down to is that you wanted to start a Canadian bashing thread.

You pull out the big wig jokes of it being "cold" (you really need a Mounty or moose joke in there though for real originality). Neat thing is the most populated areas in Canada is Toronto, and Vancouver. Toronto has better weather than NY for the most part and it almost never even snows in BC. The US has more populated areas that are hit and effect more people with cold weather. So that joke is shot.

Second, the BEST Canadian bashing thread you could come up with is a merger of cold jokes and a broken heater which you thought was Canadian (Turns out is is American in the end for the most part). If this is your best shot at Canada and the worst thing about us than I think we are more in luck.

Thanks for re-asuring me what a great country this is.

[rjenkinson]

awww, jeez. guess not.

-r.

[TheBadgerHunter]

Quick look on google and it seems Bionaire heaters an such get great reviews. Perhaps your unit was damaged?

[PacHead]

Originally posted by rjenkinson:


are you guys finished?

-r.

I still have a hattrick up my sleeves.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by TheBadgerHunter:
Quick look on google and it seems Bionaire heaters an such get great reviews. Perhaps your unit was damaged?

I don't think it was. Seemed to work ok, it was just damn loud.

Maybe the other models are just fine. I'm just talking about the one particular model I bought.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
So what it comes down to is that you wanted to start a Canadian bashing thread.

No, this is a heater bashing thread™, that just happened to have been designed in Canada.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Since my ignore list is kicking it quickstyle my guess is we are seeing some tag team back peddling

[Kilbey]

So, Canadians make crappy heaters. SURPRISE!

I would have thought that Canada being so cold much of the year that they would make a good heater. Who cares how much snow they get, it's all about the temperature eh?

I bet that Canadian company moved to the US to avoid the high tax rate. It's too bad they picked Canada to assemble the unit.

GM cars built in Canada have the worst reliability ratings in the GM family. I wish GM would bring the manufacturing back into the US.

I guess this is just another symptom of NAFTA and Bill Clinton's trade policies biting us in the ass.

[effgee]

Originally posted by PacHead:
"You'd think that in Canada, where it is cold as crap, they'd know how to make a decent heater. ...

• "You'd think that in the "Capital of the World" they'd know how to build houses with heating systems in which one wouldn't a need an extra heater in the first place."

fixed™

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by rjenkinson:


The score so far...

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO: 2
PacHead: 0

-r.

HAHAHA

Post(s) of the day.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by effgee:

• "You'd think that in the "Capital of the World" they'd know how to build houses with heating systems in which one wouldn't a need an extra heater in the first place."

fixed™

I have heat in my apartment you genius. I prefer the heat to come on when I want, and not when some super or landlord decides to put it on.

None of your comments take away from the fact that the bionaire heater I bought sucks, and that's all this thread was about.

[effgee]

Originally posted by PacHead:
I have heat in my apartment you genius. I prefer the heat to come on when I want, and not when some super or landlord decides to put it on. ...

Thanks - that was great!

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by effgee:

• "You'd think that in the "Capital of the World" they'd know how to build houses with heating systems in which one wouldn't a need an extra heater in the first place."

fixed™

Good one

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Good one

Speaking of heat.

The death in early February 1999 of "Al", a homeless man who was sleeping on a heating grate directly under the office of Ontario Premier Mike Harris, along with the death in late February 1999 of Lynn Bluecloud, a homeless woman who was five months pregnant, who died within sight of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, dramatically underline the consequences of the governments' actions and inaction

[d4nth3m4n]

Originally posted by PacHead:
Speaking of heat.

The death in early February 1999 of "Al", a homeless man who was sleeping on a heating grate directly under the office of Ontario Premier Mike Harris, along with the death in late February 1999 of Lynn Bluecloud, a homeless woman who was five months pregnant, who died within sight of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, dramatically underline the consequences of the governments' actions and inaction

never been to DC, have you?

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
Because it was so damned obvious of you and petty

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
never been to DC, have you?

Ya that stuff never happens in the US. Man they need to try harder

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by Kilbey:
So, Canadians make crappy heaters. SURPRISE!

I would have thought that Canada being so cold much of the year that they would make a good heater. Who cares how much snow they get, it's all about the temperature eh?

I bet that Canadian company moved to the US to avoid the high tax rate. It's too bad they picked Canada to assemble the unit.

GM cars built in Canada have the worst reliability ratings in the GM family. I wish GM would bring the manufacturing back into the US.

I guess this is just another symptom of NAFTA and Bill Clinton's trade policies biting us in the ass.

Winner.

[paully dub]

Pachead buys some space heater based on silly misconceptions.

Pachead is unhappy with space heater. It did not occur to pachead that this ws a defective model, or that Canada the nation was not actually involved in its design.

Pachead returns said heater, gets another heater which works better for him.

Pachead, out for blood, starts thread at MacNN lounge blaming the nation of Canada for his faulty space heater. Needless to say, the thread is quickly derailed from its original topic of Canadian Space Heater Design and Manufacture, as petty insults are thrown in every direction.

Here here for Pachead, and his silly thread. At least I hope your feet are warm and toasty.

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

Originally posted by paully dub:
Pachead buys some space heater based on silly misconceptions.

Pachead is unhappy with space heater. It did not occur to pachead that this ws a defective model, or that Canada the nation was not actually involved in its design.

Pachead returns said heater, gets another heater which works better for him.

Pachead, out for blood, starts thread at MacNN lounge blaming the nation of Canada for his faulty space heater. Needless to say, the thread is quickly derailed from its original topic of Canadian Space Heater Design and Manufacture, as petty insults are thrown in every direction.

Here here for Pachead, and his silly thread. At least I hope your feet are warm and toasty.

WINNER!

[PacHead]

Originally posted by paully dub:
Pachead buys some space heater based on silly misconceptions.

What misconceptions would that be ?

Pachead is unhappy with space heater. It did not occur to pachead that this ws a defective model, or that Canada the nation was not actually involved in its design.

And of course, it did not occur to paully dub, that there was nothing technically wrong with the heater at all, and it functioned as designed.

Pachead returns said heater, gets another heater which works better for him.

True dat.

Here here for Pachead, and his silly thread. At least I hope your feet are warm and toasty.

They are now at least.

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by paully dub:
Pachead buys some space heater based on silly misconceptions.

Pachead is unhappy with space heater. It did not occur to pachead that this ws a defective model, or that Canada the nation was not actually involved in its design.

Pachead returns said heater, gets another heater which works better for him.

Pachead, out for blood, starts thread at MacNN lounge blaming the nation of Canada for his faulty space heater. Needless to say, the thread is quickly derailed from its original topic of Canadian Space Heater Design and Manufacture, as petty insults are thrown in every direction.

Here here for Pachead, and his silly thread. At least I hope your feet are warm and toasty.

Actually he was making fun of the SWF petty "TEH US SUCKS" threads. I doubt this was a legitimate rant.

[dcmacdaddy]

Originally posted by rjenkinson:

Originally posted by rjenkinson:

Pierlugini Collina ROCKS!

He looks like an anorexic French mime when he is making calls on the pitch.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Actually he was making fun of the SWF petty "TEH US SUCKS" threads. I doubt this was a legitimate rant.

The heater part was, the canadian part wasn't.

[paully dub]

Misconception:

"You'd think that in Canada, where it is cold as crap, they'd know how to make a decent heater."

Do I really need to explain?

and

"I bought a new Bionaire heater 2 days ago, and I was shocked when I got home and turned it on. It was crazy loud, and I could hardly hear the television over the heater."

Are you SURE it was designed to work that way, that every model was that loud?

[Zimphire]

Originally posted by PacHead:
The heater part was, the canadian part wasn't.

In other words, if it wasn't for the SWFs constant inane anti-US threads, Canada wouldn't have even been mentioned.

As per usual.

[PacHead]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
In other words, if it wasn't for the SWFs constant inane anti-US threads, Canada wouldn't have even been mentioned.

As per usual.

Exactly.

[Kilbey]

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Actually he was making fun of the SWF petty "TEH US SUCKS" threads. I doubt this was a legitimate rant.

He was using satire on SWF.

But then SWF would probably never get it so it was a waste.

But not a total waste. I did get to voice my opinion of GM cars made in Canada eh.

[d4nth3m4n]

you guys never cease to amaze me.

notes-
CANADA IS COLD AND THEY MAKE CRAPPY HEATERS AND THEY SUCK BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT AMERICAN THOUGH THEY LIVE ON NORTH "AMERICA"!

THE U.S. HAS THE BOMB AND IS THE BOMB AND THEY SUCK FOR HAVING THE BOMB!

thread over. get off it already.

[ambush]

OMG OMG

AMERICAN MICROSOFT WINDOWS SUCKS.

AHHA GG.

Manello, lock that piece a't'****.

[Wiskedjak]

My American made Windows operating system sucks. It's has tonnes of security holes. You'd think such a security conscious nation would be able to develop a more secure operating system for the 90% of it's PC's that can't run MacOS