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Are Canadians as polite as the jokes say?

Old May 13th 2016, 8:47 pm
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
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.
I think I read somewhere that if you did a poo on the moon it would not deteriorate and it would still be just as smelly and brown if you visited it years later. I'm not a physical scientist but there are some on this forum who are, so is this true?
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Old May 14th 2016, 2:08 am
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Originally Posted by Oink
I think I read somewhere that if you did a poo on the moon it would not deteriorate and it would still be just as smelly and brown if you visited it years later. I'm not a physical scientist but there are some on this forum who are, so is this true?
Apparently so
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Old May 14th 2016, 11:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Oink
You're mistaking politeness for timidity.
I suppose so but for a lad from Essex, I don't mind the politeness, even if it's fake as ****
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Old May 15th 2016, 12:03 am
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I don't mind the politeness, even if it's fake.
Me too, though it can be confusing. Here in Cayman, there is deep, deep resentment among the native-born of all expats here (from dozens of countries) - but you would never know it from the courtesy of individuals. We British are (as a species) high on the list of the unwelcome - second only to Jamaicans. Canadians are highly regarded, for some obscure reason!
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
Me too, though it can be confusing. Here in Cayman, there is deep, deep resentment among the native-born of all expats here (from dozens of countries) - but you would never know it from the courtesy of individuals. We British are (as a species) high on the list of the unwelcome - second only to Jamaicans. Canadians are highly regarded, for some obscure reason!
Probably because of their natty dress sense.
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Originally Posted by Dorothy
Timidity? Nah, it's passive aggression, ya limey bastard.
There is a woman at the center I work at - she is very repressed and she does seem rather passive aggressive. Most are just polite though, not invested but polite.
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
Canadians are highly regarded, for some obscure reason!
It's reputational. Politeness = non offensive like Switzerland
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It's reputational. Politeness = non offensive like Switzerland
Is anybody here old enough to remember The Stan Freberg Show, back in the '50s? On it, inquiries into the nationality of any foreign-sounding character were answered (often in a stage-Mexican accent) with: "Sweess. Zat way we don' offend nobody."

My son - forty years old - has adopted from me that and several other Freberg goodies: "It makes a difference to the sheep", and "I come tru de window", and "Don't stop me now, man, I got to where I like it!" Oh, don't get me started...
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Originally Posted by JanJoplin
It's reputational. Politeness = non offensive like Switzerland
My children have Swiss and Canadian passports. They don't use the Canadian ones, "too confrontational".
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Originally Posted by Shard
Maybe he was using some strategy to see if you get nervous. Ask FL...he knows about these things...
I think his strategy was not to get yelled at, I've never seen a guy with so many big muscles and tattoos look so worried before.
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Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
There's always confusing the topic at hand with historical contradictions, easy to do with almost any country in the world. Rather than try to blame 2/3 of it on British colonial attitudes and the other 1/3 on American Manifest Destiny nonsense we just accept it as our dodgey history and make apologies and reparations when we have to the same way every other nation does, and rightly so.
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