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[CBSA officer mistakenly confiscates DVD because of misleading title]

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Canadians eat a lot of things in their cars. :confused:

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Canadians do pretty much everything in their cars except pay attention to their driving. What's this thing with driving with a bloody dog on your lap?!!!

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[QUOTE=xxdb;11548606]Canadians are unfunny people
I don't know how to respond to that, I feel sort of passive/agressive.

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Absolutely.

It's not the lack of knowledge that's surprising it's the question coming from someone you'd expect to know better.

If, for example, you're talking to a lawyer, surely you wouldn't expect "are there trains in England?"

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And why would a group of women give themselves that name? :eek:

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Maybe he's thinking, are there freight trains in England? Come to think of it, I haven't seen any. Most freight is transported by road.

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That would be reassuring. Sadly the question came following my reference to catching a train when I lived there.

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And presumably you don't look like a hobo? ;)

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Only just before a shave. :lol:

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My wife's the same.

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A family member of mine from Canada (and therefore my compatriot), somewhat advanced in years, very successful in the world of business, a little intolerant of the needs of First Nations, asked while visiting me in Paris if in Europe they also had problems with native peoples.

I didn’t know where to begin.

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I'm sure plenty of British Asians would say that they have constant problems with native peoples :-)

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Lack of knowledge is just as bad in the UK.

I remember once a girl was helping me find a guide to Eastern Europe in a bookstore in London, after a while she said (I kid you not) "here's a book on Asia, is Asia in Eastern Europe?".

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As stated in the examples, though, it's not just the lack of knowledge so much as it's lack in people you'd think would know better.

A worker in a book store doesn't have to be an expert on the content of books. Now if your example was of a geography teacher or the Asian correspondent of a newspaper....:lol: