mardyarse

hahahahha too true, maybe I should suggest that perhaps if a few of the miserable buggers on here that have to disagree with anything remotely positive or "happy" got out and did a few of those "Canadian" things it might bring a smile to their face..................................or not!!

Oink

So you think that commercial is representative of Canadian culture. You don't find it reduces their culture to overly simplistic embarrassing stereotypes?

mardyarse

and your suggestion for an alternative commercial representing how a typical Canadian lives would be???

iaink

At the risk of stating the obvious, its just a commercial, for canadian tire. The film board of Canada was not involved. Simplistic is the order of the day.

Have you ever seen Antanajuat? Now thats also canadian culture, but then to be fair it didnt have to be compressed into a minute between the fights and the leafs conceeding another goal.


Count your blessings, It could be worse eh!

airbornesapper

Yep..right out of err...

-A kid riding a bike delivering papers in foul weather
-Two guys carrying snow shovels
-Kids jumping in a pool
-A woman in a garden reflecting
-Early morning hockey practice
-BBQ any time of year
-Camping..or going to the cottage
-Observing wildlife through a pair of bino's
-Raking leaves and having kids enjoy a flop into them
-Skating on a back yard rink
-Canoeing on a lake
-Shoveling snow off a school bus
-Heading to Can tire for this and that - to grab a rake, stuff to tie a lure, change a tire....

Barking mAD....all of it...I see what you mean now. Thanks for sharing.

immichaelcaine

i agree wit U on dis one.....but i knO dat every piece of china made crap i bought at a canadiantire ended up in the 'effin bin within 7 days....

Tangram

Hey, Mr Sheen is back !

Novocastrian

Future PhD theses will be written on your style.

Most of the erudite discourse will focus on that enigmatic apostrophe on the front end of "effin".

Truly fascinating for modern media studies experts.

Oink

Future? I've supervised a few that were originally written in that style. In fact, given some of the dubious quality of many these days I wouldn't be surprised if writing them in crayon or finger paints didn't become the acceptable form.

Novocastrian

Oh yes. The style is very familiar, but I said "on", not "in".

Oink

Well that makes a big difference. I look forward to reading the analysis. What department will this emanate from, media studies or psychology?

Novocastrian

Canadian Studies, perhaps? You can imagine the author freezing his backyard, piling up leaves and getting up at 5 a.m. to freeze his ass off at an iced hockey pitch with every syllable.