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Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Old May 11th 2016, 7:17 pm
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Default Re: Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Originally Posted by caretaker
He seems a lot like Garrison Keillor (Lake Wobegone Days) to me, it's the same sort of folksy patter, it's good and most people can relate to that sort of story about an adventure that takes a twist or an odd relative.
You should watch A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and a great cast. It's a good movie, IMO.
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Default Re: Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
*In fact they are. One joke that even Canadians laugh at goes, “How do you get 47 Canadians out of the pool as quickly as possible?” The answer: simply yell, “Get out of the pool!”*
That's an extract from this link:
How to Move to Canada: 9 Points to Consider
The joke is more usually delivered as "say 'Canadians please get out of the pool'", the delivery cited here is clumsy, like the rest of the writing in the article.

Garrison Keillor may be twee but his anecdotes are well honed.
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Originally Posted by plasticcanuck
You should watch A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and a great cast. It's a good movie, IMO.
I haven't seen it, but he gave a performance in our old club and I sat right in front of him. That would be about 30 years ago. I liked the part in the book about his religious cousin who had a custom car horn made that played the doxology.
Edit: Actually, I had an Uncle Pete and Aunt Emma in Westbrook, Minnesota which I think is right in the middle of Keillor territory. We went there when I was about 13 and it was like small town America had somehow been kept under a dome. Coffee in the Bar and Grill on Main Street was 5 cents.

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I find Canadians humorous.

Then their mouths move and the humour turns to disappointment.
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Old May 12th 2016, 2:48 am
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Come on they are polite!
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Old May 12th 2016, 3:34 am
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Originally Posted by JanJoplin
Come on they are polite!
You're mistaking politeness for timidity.
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Old May 12th 2016, 3:42 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
You're mistaking politeness for timidity.
Timidity? Nah, it's passive aggression, ya limey bastard.
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Originally Posted by Dorothy
Timidity? Nah, it's passive aggression, ya limey bastard.
If they weren't timid their aggression wouldn't be passive. And I'd rather be a limey bastard than a moose ****er.
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Originally Posted by Oink
If they weren't timid their aggression wouldn't be passive. And I'd rather be a limey bastard than a moose ****er.
Moose. Tough act to follow
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One I like is Canadians are so polite when they withdraw cash from an ATM they say "Thank you very much".
Another is 'What's the difference between a Canadian and an American?'...Answer 'A Canadian isn't an American.'
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Default Re: Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Originally Posted by Dorothy
No we're ****ing not
I had to sit at Coutts POE for two hours and twenty minutes waiting to get to primary inspection a couple of months ago.

I finally make it to the front of the line and the CBSA inspector spent at least two or three minutes apologizing to me.

"Oh I'm so sorry for the delay, we aim to get everyone through in less than a hour, perhaps you should write to your MP, you know we're under resourced, we need more staff, we haven't got time to do the inspections properly..."

After a couple of minutes (the amount of time it took me to remember how to talk because I'd been sitting there so long) I really did come close to saying: "Shut the **** up and let me in the country already!!!"

And everything he said was total crap anyway, all the lanes were open, I doubt they could have done any better. Well except by not wasting time apologizing to everyone.
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Default Re: Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Originally Posted by Steve_
I had to sit at Coutts POE for two hours and twenty minutes waiting to get to primary inspection a couple of months ago.

I finally make it to the front of the line and the CBSA inspector spent at least two or three minutes apologizing to me.

"Oh I'm so sorry for the delay, we aim to get everyone through in less than a hour, perhaps you should write to your MP, you know we're under resourced, we need more staff, we haven't got time to do the inspections properly..."

After a couple of minutes (the amount of time it took me to remember how to talk because I'd been sitting there so long) I really did come close to saying: "Shut the **** up and let me in the country already!!!"

And everything he said was total crap anyway, all the lanes were open, I doubt they could have done any better. Well except by not wasting time apologizing to everyone.
On behalf of my fellow countrymen, I can only say sorry about the apologies
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Old May 13th 2016, 7:34 pm
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Default Re: Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Originally Posted by Steve_
I had to sit at Coutts POE for two hours and twenty minutes waiting to get to primary inspection a couple of months ago.

I finally make it to the front of the line and the CBSA inspector spent at least two or three minutes apologizing to me.

"Oh I'm so sorry for the delay, we aim to get everyone through in less than a hour, perhaps you should write to your MP, you know we're under resourced, we need more staff, we haven't got time to do the inspections properly..."

After a couple of minutes (the amount of time it took me to remember how to talk because I'd been sitting there so long) I really did come close to saying: "Shut the **** up and let me in the country already!!!"

And everything he said was total crap anyway, all the lanes were open, I doubt they could have done any better. Well except by not wasting time apologizing to everyone.
Maybe he was using some strategy to see if you get nervous. Ask FL...he knows about these things...
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Originally Posted by Davita
Another is 'What's the difference between a Canadian and an American?'...Answer 'A Canadian isn't an American.'
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I remember a joke doing the rounds when I worked in Toronto in the '60s. "What celebratory monuments would various nations erect if they ever sent settlers to the moon? Well, France would build a replica of the Eiffel Tower, Britain would build a statue of Winston Churchill, Germany would build an autobahn, America would build a skyscraper, Canada would build... the same as America only smaller..."

Not funny? Ah well, I guess you had to be there.
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