Canadians = Americans + Maple Leaves?
More stupid from skepticultist, found here in badtattoos_4:Canadians feel a need to slap maple leaves on everything, including, apparently, themselves. It's the only way they can remember they aren't Americans.
And when someone calls him on, he totally tries to play it off as soshul experiment, while simultaneously trying to defend the point:I'm mostly joking, but I was up in Canada a little while ago, and it was really ridiculous how many maple leafs there were. And I'm not talking about on people's bumpers and stuff. The 7-11s and McDonalds had maple leaves on them! The 7-11s and McDonalds in America don't have little stars and stripes on them. I mean even the little box in the corner of the TV screen that tells you what the rating of the show you're watching is shaped like a maple leaf. It's crazy!
And really, while I was in Canada, the only differences I noted between the part of Cananda I was in (Nanimo, on Vancouver Island) and were I'm from (Seattle) were as follows: a) everything was in kph rather than mph, b) cigarettes were ungodly expensive and had warning labels that were really over the top ("Cigarettes kill a small town worth of people everyday!"), and c) maple leafs on everything. Other than that, it was basically the same as every town I've ever been to in the pacific northwest.
So I formed a theory that Canadians put maple leafs on everything to remind them that it's not America. Because really, I could see how one could get confused. Sure didn't feel like a foreign country.
That guy is such an ass.
ETA: Locked post, bring on the macros.
ETA2: it's too bad too, because y'all will miss Canadian totes_madchen responding with the utterly brilliant line: "i find it amusing that all of you Americans say "up in Canada" like it's some foreign fucking country."
And when someone calls him on, he totally tries to play it off as soshul experiment, while simultaneously trying to defend the point:I'm mostly joking, but I was up in Canada a little while ago, and it was really ridiculous how many maple leafs there were. And I'm not talking about on people's bumpers and stuff. The 7-11s and McDonalds had maple leaves on them! The 7-11s and McDonalds in America don't have little stars and stripes on them. I mean even the little box in the corner of the TV screen that tells you what the rating of the show you're watching is shaped like a maple leaf. It's crazy!
And really, while I was in Canada, the only differences I noted between the part of Cananda I was in (Nanimo, on Vancouver Island) and were I'm from (Seattle) were as follows: a) everything was in kph rather than mph, b) cigarettes were ungodly expensive and had warning labels that were really over the top ("Cigarettes kill a small town worth of people everyday!"), and c) maple leafs on everything. Other than that, it was basically the same as every town I've ever been to in the pacific northwest.
So I formed a theory that Canadians put maple leafs on everything to remind them that it's not America. Because really, I could see how one could get confused. Sure didn't feel like a foreign country.
That guy is such an ass.
ETA: Locked post, bring on the macros.
ETA2: it's too bad too, because y'all will miss Canadian totes_madchen responding with the utterly brilliant line: "i find it amusing that all of you Americans say "up in Canada" like it's some foreign fucking country."