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MacManMikeOSX · Jun 5, 2006, 01:20 PM

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

James L · Jun 5, 2006, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

The lounge needs more posts like this!

p.s. It is currently sunny, and 76 degrees F outside of my window (yes, in Canada).

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

I think you mean "pot smoking, gay, Inuit"

But ya, it is warmer in Toronto than NY most of the time.

eltrut · Jun 5, 2006, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

LOL

zmcgill · Jun 5, 2006, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

I think that everyone who replies in this thread, including the first person to reply, MUST quote the original post. Because people might not know what they're talking about.

ThinkInsane · Jun 5, 2006, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

What's he going on aboot?

zmcgill · Jun 5, 2006, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by ThinkInsane

What's he going on aboot?

You forgot to quote his post. Whoever could you be talking about?? I have no idea!

ThinkInsane · Jun 5, 2006, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

You forgot to quote his post. Whoever could you be talking about?? I have no idea!

Sorry aboot that.

MacManMikeOSX · Jun 5, 2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

You see you eskimos even fill threads warning people of your coming dominion with lies, lies, all lies!

Spliffdaddy · Jun 5, 2006, 01:44 PM

This is what I've been saying for years....and people called me an idiot.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by ThinkInsane

What's he going on aboot?

I've said it before but I have NEVER EVER EVER heard a canadian say that before in my whole life.
Must be a more of a hick thing.

They do say "Eh" a lot so pick on us about that one.

Jawbone54 · Jun 5, 2006, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by MacManMikeOSX

Oh yes you heard me, you scheming canooks! Despite my girlfriend is one, I fear you have some masterful plot to take over the world with all that ice and cold air you hold. Damn the loyalists! We would have won the war of 1812 and subjected you all if it weren't for your friends in red coats. I'm getting paid to sit and post this, I'm beating the system. Needless to say your day will come you liberal pot smoking eskimos.

Done for the sake of conformity.

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

I've said it before but I have NEVER EVER EVER heard a canadian say that before in my whole life.
Must be a more of a hick thing.

I'm from Louisiana and I've heard Canadians say "aboot" many times, but only two of them that are down here fairly often.

They do say "Eh" a lot so pick on us about that one.

Get offended about saying "aboot," eh?

Dork. · Jun 5, 2006, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

I've said it before but I have NEVER EVER EVER heard a canadian say that before in my whole life.
Must be a more of a hick thing.

I've heard it. It's not at all like an American saying "A Boot", but if you listen closely it's definitely different than an American saying "about". I can spot it if I heard it.

So, how about those Oilers, eh?

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Jawbone54

Get offended about saying "aboot," eh?

Na, it just doesn't make sense to me as I have never heard it in my 30 years here.

Eh is at the end of every sentence though. Pretty much on any sentence that has a question mark.

MacManMikeOSX · Jun 5, 2006, 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Na, it just doesn't make sense to me as I have never heard it in my 30 years here.

Eh is at the end of every sentence though. Pretty much on any sentence that has a question mark.

Isn't that wasted speech productivity? That would never stand in the American economy we prefer to shorten things, not add. Ya'll, yinz, ain't being examples.

Mastrap · Jun 5, 2006, 02:16 PM

It's because we don't have much to do during the long winters. Eh?

Steve Bosell · Jun 5, 2006, 02:33 PM

LOL, I love the reaction that is gets from the Canadians! LOL

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Bosell

LOL, I love the reaction that is gets from the Canadians! LOL

How so? the fact that we are playing along and not denying it and rather pointing out how Americans are worse?

Dork. · Jun 5, 2006, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

It's because we don't have much to do during the long winters. Eh?

Isn't that what hockey is for?

zmcgill · Jun 5, 2006, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Bosell

LOL, I love the reaction that is gets from the Canadians! LOL

LOL I LOVE PUTTING LOL AT EACH END OF MY PHRASES, IT ADDS A LOT LOL

Eug Wanker · Jun 5, 2006, 02:54 PM

Yes, it's Inuit.

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Na, it just doesn't make sense to me as I have never heard it in my 30 years here.

Well, that's cuz you live in Toronto. You'll hear it on cottage country and stuff. And plus, to me it sounds more like "aboat" than "aboot", whereas the Amrerica-ns say "abowwt" thru their noses.

Eh is at the end of every sentence though. Pretty much on any sentence that has a question mark.

Yeah, I find it irritating. I used to say sometimes, but forced myself to get rid of it, cuz I find it irritating.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

Yes, it's Inuit.

Well, that's cuz you live in Toronto. You'll hear it on cottage country and stuff. And plus, to me it sounds more like "aboat" than "aboot", whereas the Amrerica-ns say "abowwt" thru their noses.

Well like I said it is more of a hick thing.

At any rate, I find can I "Axe" you a question the most irritating thing on earth. Never head that one in Canada thank god.

ThinkInsane · Jun 5, 2006, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

I've said it before but I have NEVER EVER EVER heard a canadian say that before in my whole life.
Must be a more of a hick thing.

They do say "Eh" a lot so pick on us about that one.

It doesn't actually sound like "aboot", but your (not saying you specifically) accent makes the word sound funny to us, same as when you lot say "out". "Aboot" is about as close as we can come to reproducing the sound, but sadly we just can't do it justice. You probably don't notice it, because you live there and here it all the time, so it sounds perfectly normal to you, just like southern accents sound perfectly normal to southerners. People from my town tend to have flat sounding hard A's, which I don't notice when I speak, nor when others speak. I only notice it if someone points it out to me.

We have a nurse at work that hails from London, Ont. When ever she says 'about', I always say "what was that?" and get her to repeat it three or four times until she catches on and gives me an "Oh **** you!".

So there, now you can just go on aboot your business

Eug Wanker · Jun 5, 2006, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Well like I said it is more of a hick thing.

Well, not just hicks, but the urban dwellers who say it are often in smaller cities than Toronto. And the hicks from Am-rerica don't say it.

They say other funny things though.

At any rate, I find can I "Axe" you a question the most irritating thing on earth. Never head that one in Canada thank god.

I hear it all the time in Toronto.

Rumor · Jun 5, 2006, 03:49 PM

Canadians are very proud aboot thier pride, eh?

Peter · Jun 5, 2006, 03:51 PM

you're american! ridiculous.American!
When americans go abroad they pretend to be Canadian because the world hates America so much.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

you're american! ridiculous.American!
When americans go abroad they pretend to be Canadian because the world hates America so much.

I see many travel advisory companies say that all the time and I never believed it.

Then I started seeing people with Canadian flags on their backpacks and talk to them to find out they are Americans doing it for the reasons you mentioned above.

When I travel the locals look at me suspiciously when they hear my talk and cautiously say.. American? I say no Canadian and their mood picks up and they are like "Oh Canadian, we love Canada etc.".

Eug Wanker · Jun 5, 2006, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

I see many travel advisory companies say that all the time and I never believed it.

Then I started seeing people with Canadian flags on their backpacks and talk to them to find out they are Americans doing it for the reasons you mentioned above.

When I travel the locals look at me suspiciously when they hear my talk and cautiously say.. American? I say no Canadian and their mood picks up and they are like "Oh Canadian, we love Canada etc.".

I see that too, but personally I think it's stupid.

Lots of really, really obnoxious Canadian tourists around.

Jawbone54 · Jun 5, 2006, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Well like I said it is more of a hick thing.

At any rate, I find can I "Axe" you a question the most irritating thing on earth. Never head that one in Canada thank god.

I hear a lot of "axing" questions in Shreveport. It's just an ethnic thing. My sister-in-law accidently said it once, and begged us (after we stopped making fun of her) to not tell her very intelligent husband from Michigan about it. It drives me crazy though.

Originally Posted by ThinkInsane

It doesn't actually sound like "aboot", but your (not saying you specifically) accent makes the word sound funny to us, same as when you lot say "out". "Aboot" is about as close as we can come to reproducing the sound, but sadly we just can't do it justice. You probably don't notice it, because you live there and here it all the time, so it sounds perfectly normal to you, just like southern accents sound perfectly normal to southerners. People from my town tend to have flat sounding hard A's, which I don't notice when I speak, nor when others speak. I only notice it if someone points it out to me.

We have a nurse at work that hails from London, Ont. When ever she says 'about', I always say "what was that?" and get her to repeat it three or four times until she catches on and gives me an "Oh **** you!".

Maybe "aboat" is closer than "aboot." I can definitely hear it and say it, but spelling it is an entirely different matter. It's more about the accentuation of the vowel sound. Funny story from work, too.

I just realized that I heard a lot of "aboots" from my Dallas Stars championship video from the late 90's.

Kerrigan · Jun 5, 2006, 04:09 PM

Like the Times leading article mentioned today, the strength of the world's America bashing reflects the weakness of its resolve. Patronising America has become more common these days because the rest of the world finds itself even more dependent on American defense.

Naturally this creates a feeling of anxiety which is dealt with by insulting America.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

the rest of the world finds itself even more dependent on American defense.

Are you kidding?

Nicko · Jun 5, 2006, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Like the Times leading article mentioned today, the strength of the world's America bashing reflects the weakness of its resolve. Patronising America has become more common these days because the rest of the world finds itself even more dependent on American defense.

Naturally this creates a feeling of anxiety which is dealt with by insulting America.

Rather, increasingly more people in the world are finding themselves threatened by 'American defence'

Kerrigan · Jun 5, 2006, 04:20 PM

Remember when the first Bush tried to negotiate a disarmament treaty with the USSR? European leaders went into a panic because they have no conventional forces and relied on the American nuclear umbrella as well as troops stationed in various countries.

It's well known that the UK can't fight a war on its own. Its last attempt at an independent military campain in the Falklands would have ended disastrously like the Suez had it not been for the US.

The Pacific countries like Japan, S Korea, Taiwan, are extremely dependent on the US military. They have the looming threat of Chinese invasion, America is the only deterent.

And America is the main force in the global anti-terror campaign. Even Canada relied on cooperation with US intelligence forces in that latest raid in Ontario.

Go take a history class and look at the military footprint set by President Truman in Europe and the Pacific, and you will understand why these regions are heavily dependent on the US.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 04:21 PM

Canada...now Nazi free because of the helpful American defense.

Socially Awkward Solo · Jun 5, 2006, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

Even Canada relied on cooperation with US intelligence forces in that latest raid in Ontario.

Even Canada is assisting the Americans in Afghanistan because the US begged them to.

Kerrigan · Jun 5, 2006, 04:27 PM

The US needs allies like Canada in order to keep up the appearance of an international coalition, not out of necessity.

Jawbone54 · Jun 5, 2006, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo

Even Canada is assisting the Americans in Afghanistan because the US begged them to.

True...

...because we don't want too look like are "friends" are utter pansies when it comes to making an aggressive stand against terrorism. To have people supporting us is good because it gives terrorists less ammunition in the "U.S. is out of control" argument.

Jawbone54 · Jun 5, 2006, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

The US needs allies like Canada in order to keep up the appearance of an international coalition, not out of necessity.

What I said...phrased much more eloquently.

Kerrigan · Jun 5, 2006, 04:31 PM

One day, probably towards the end of our lifetime, American military eminence will come to an end, and you'll get to watch as large-scale political disintegration occurs around the world, similar to what happened at the end of the British Empire in the early 1900s.

Rumor · Jun 5, 2006, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

you're american! ridiculous.American!
When americans go abroad they pretend to be Canadian because the world hates America so much.

I tell people I'm from Puerto Rico. Even though it's a territory of the US, people don't see it as part of the US.

ambush · Jun 5, 2006, 04:42 PM

Tonight is 420 night.

ThinkInsane · Jun 5, 2006, 04:48 PM

Why must every good natured ribbing thread go right down the great swirly? Some of ya'all need to stop taking yourselves and everything around you so seriously. Take the piss out of the Canadians, take it of of the Americans, for the love of God take it out of the Brits and leave the Irish alone, we can rip on ourselves better than any of you rank amateurs could ever dream of.

Lighten up and have fun kids!

MacManMikeOSX · Jun 5, 2006, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by ThinkInsane

Why must every good natured ribbing thread go right down the great swirly? Some of ya'all need to stop taking yourselves and everything around you so seriously. Take the piss out of the Canadians, take it of of the Americans, for the love of God take it out of the Brits and leave the Irish alone, we can rip on ourselves better than any of you rank amateurs could ever dream of.

Lighten up and have fun kids!

well said

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jun 5, 2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

The US needs allies like Canada in order to keep up the appearance of an international coalition, not out of necessity.

Canada did not want part of the Iraq war.

James L · Jun 5, 2006, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by ThinkInsane

Why must every good natured ribbing thread go right down the great swirly? Some of ya'all need to stop taking yourselves and everything around you so seriously. Take the piss out of the Canadians, take it of of the Americans, for the love of God take it out of the Brits and leave the Irish alone, we can rip on ourselves better than any of you rank amateurs could ever dream of.

Lighten up and have fun kids!

Bravo!

Salty · Jun 5, 2006, 08:07 PM

SWG if you wanna hear aboot you can either visit PEI, or the Thunderbay area. I know people from both areas who say aboot. But you're right it's rare in the important parts of Canada.

Kerrigan · Jun 5, 2006, 08:44 PM

Aboot is really more of a Scottish thing than a Canadian thing. But like someone else said, it sounds more like "aboat" than "aboot".

zmcgill · Jun 5, 2006, 08:47 PM

My physics professor was Canadian and always said 'aboat,' and there were a couple other words he'd say differently. At first, we'd snicker, but then we got used to it and didn't really notice it. But what really bugged me is when he'd pronounce 'sine' and 'cosine' literally 'sin' and 'cos.'

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jun 5, 2006, 10:02 PM

Take south park movie for example. It was partly about evil Canadian's in a war against the US.

Every Canadian I know that saw it loves it and the fact that we were teased throughout.

If Canadians had made that movie about Americans there would be protests and food would get name changes like "freedom bacon".

Spliffdaddy · Jun 5, 2006, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Salty

SWG if you wanna hear aboot you can either visit PEI, or the Thunderbay area. I know people from both areas who say aboot. But you're right it's rare in the important parts of Canada.

And rarer still?

the important parts of Canada.