"New Canon" inconsistencies....

[reverendmotherQ.]

I hope you Yanks will share your shotguns

Oh bring it! I will bring the revolver, the 22, the machine gun, and we can give one hell of show. I am not a yank btw, but I must be one in spirit.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Where are you from then? I'd made the assumption that you were in the US like most members here...oops!

[nampigai]

there are yanks on this forum?

[SandRider]

Where are you from then? I'd made the assumption that you were in the US like most members here...oops!

*sigh*

somehow, I feel like I've just plain failed with you ....

Miss rmQ is a Belle o' The South, and so would never refer to herself as a "yank" ....

the fact that the rest of the world refers to all Americans as "yanks" is more evidence
of your misunderstanding of this nation; much like American's thoughts of Canada, which
until the recent Olympics, 54% of polled Americans thought was another state, like Rhode
Island or Guam. Even with continued prompting from NBC personalities, this same 54%
after the Olympics still listed America's border countries as Mexico, Russia, and California;
100% of that 54% also answered "no, I don't give a fuck" when asked.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Where are you from then? I'd made the assumption that you were in the US like most members here...oops!

*sigh*

somehow, I feel like I've just plain failed with you ....

Miss rmQ is a Belle o' The South, and so would never refer to herself as a "yank" ....

the fact that the rest of the world refers to all Americans as "yanks" is more evidence
of your misunderstanding of this nation; much like American's thoughts of Canada, which
until the recent Olympics, 54% of polled Americans thought was another state, like Rhode
Island or Guam. Even with continued prompting from NBC personalities, this same 54%
after the Olympics still listed America's border countries as Mexico, Russia, and California;
100% of that 54% also answered "no, I don't give a fuck" when asked.

Don't worry, you haven't failed with me SR, I know that amongst Americans Yank only applies to some of you, as far as I know the side that wasn't The South (with Capitals of course ) is the Yankies (that correct?). I was just bugging her.

Buuuuut - the rest of the world calls you ALL yankies. Same way a lot of Americans (and Canadians to be fair) call all Asian people Chinese (which is worse), and call Indians Pakistani (which is worse). It's something Y'all will just have to live with.

I can't believe an entire 54% percent of you guys thought Canada was a state, man that's just shameful! That's orders of magnitude more fucked up than us all calling you Yanks! I wonder if that was just in one specifically uneducated area... I don't expect anyone to name our provinces or anything, I can't name all your states (you have too many!), but the level of knowledge many American seem to have about the outside world is just frightening.

[Spicelon]

Canada isn't a state?!

<ducks>

[Spicelon]

I can safely say that approximately 99.5% of the people I interact with on daily basis, be they my wife, my coworkers, the coffee shop girls, friends, and so on, do not refer to any Asian person as Chinese. If anything, the opposite is true - it is beyond the scope and will of most Americans to identify the specific geographic source of one's appearance. Any person remotely resembling a person of Far East heredity is simply referred to as Asian. Which, in a different sort of way, is insulting as well.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Don't worry, I love all you guys (and girls).

It doesn't make me angry "as a Canadian" that 54% of Americans are ignorant of what exactly Canada is - if it was someone from any other major Western country, then I'd be worried. That 54% probably only knows the following "countries": America, Mexico (where those damned illigals come from), China (where all Asians come from), ____istan (they'd probably just insert some random prefix and hope it was right), Russia (commies), and Africa (where the black people should be shipped back to). The ones with a higher education probably know Japan (nuke testing ground and dirty ambushing basterds, how dare someone ambush someone else in a war?), France (freedom fries forever!), England (used to hate them, but now they help in wars) and Iraq (though again, they might think it's one of their states now).

It makes me angry/sad just as a person, because I hate to see people so hopelessly aware of the world around them in one of the world's most advanced countries.

EDIT: Sorry if that was offensive, just venting. I personally haven't met a single American I would consider any more ignorant than most Canadians, and I've met and work with a lot of Americans. My comments are only directed at idiots, and also apply to idiots from countries other than the USA, I'm well aware there are people like that everywhere.

[Spicelon]

Let's be honest here, American idiots seem to have an extra degree of idiotness about them, so it's all good.

[A Thing of Eternity]

I can safely say that approximately 99.5% of the people I interact with on daily basis, be they my wife, my coworkers, the coffee shop girls, friends, and so on, do not refer to any Asian person as Chinese. If anything, the opposite is true - it is beyond the scope and will of most Americans to identify the specific geographic source of one's appearance. Any person remotely resembling a person of Far East heredity is simply referred to as Asian. Which, in a different sort of way, is insulting as well.

I know, most of the people I know are the same way. Of course, I do live in one of Canada's worst areas for general ignorance (Oh, you're vegitarian? Would chicken be ok? ... I kid you not.). Back in Vancouver most people much more accurate, and would just ask a person what country they were from rather than make an assumption. I miss that place.

[A Thing of Eternity]

Let's be honest here, American idiots seem to have an extra degree of idiotness about them, so it's all good.

Man, I was trying to be nice, why'd you have to ruin it with the truth?

Seriously though, we have some good ones up here, real losers.

[Omphalos]

The world is full of morons. They are everywhere. We just happen to have more than most because we have the world's third largest population. But my suspicion is that they are pretty much evenly distributed across regions. The worlds MPM* is the same everywhere.






* - "morons per million," or "morons per mile," as you require.

[A Thing of Eternity]

True, plus your morons could just be louder.

[reverendmotherQ.]

I was born in Oklahoma, but yes, I was raised in the south after my rents were restationed from Germany.

[Ampoliros]

Half my family is from Oklahoma, you have my sympathy.