How do Canadians vent?
 

This is inspired by another thread where one poster was arguing that, due to the avoidance of all things that may offend, Canada is a dull place to live, whereas another poster was arguing that it makes Canada a pleasant place to live.

This got me thinking about how usually, mild mannered Canadians become absolute nutters once they get behind the wheel of a car, or how said Canadians really love nothing better than a good hard fight in the middle of a hockey game.

Other than in the above situations, I have never witnessed a Canadian losing it. Have you and in what circumstances?

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I saw a Canadian quiver with rage before beating a nearby Londoner over the head with an umbrella.

The circumstance was that the Canadian was subjected to a barrage of abuse in a bar based consequent upon her accent. The Londoner intervened and, in the resulting fracas, all parties were ejected. The Canadian than discerned that she had left her stash in the bar. For this she blamed the Londoner.

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They smile nicely and say, "Awesome!"

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Pop to a local Walmart or Canadian Tire, visit Customer Service, once there hang around for a short while, I guarantee you will see Canadian's venting at some poor employee about crap product, limited warranties and Customer Service.

Threats and shouting appear to be popular, along with the promise to never shop at that location again.

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They vent on animals while wearing day-glow orange clothing.

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Took me ages to work that out. :rofl:

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By leaving numerous abusive voicemail messages at 4am and telling their Daughter-in-law that she has "a real bitch attitude":rofl:

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Sometimes you get a good fight going and a game of hockey breaks out around it.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/e...og/yefx82f.jpg

Noe that is what I call a right cross.

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At least you did work it out:D

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Guess there is hope for me yet then? :eek:

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no hope, you're on here with us.

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They're more repressed than Brits and so more volatile. I've never in my life witnessed the kind of road rage that I've seen in Canada, for example. Or the bad driving, but that's another story...

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If this was British football players scrapping the world would be horrified. Yet this kind of violence seems to be a part of hockey matches, and nobody does much to intervene.

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Work in Starbucks for a few months - then you will see how serious a Canadian can be. Coffee is no laughing matter, I tell you.

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True, but I am bored. I am seeing this as a fact finding exercise on how to integrate with Canadians. I shall put this to good use at work later.

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I told a client after numerous health and safety transgressions that he was a " f***ing childish pain in the ass". He went quiet, performed an internal process that rendered his face a shade approximating the colour of beetroot, then walked away.

That's the closest I've come to conflict with a Canadian.

Actually, on reflection, I've had a finger aggressively wagged in my face too. It took a great deal of self control not to giggle.

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not in Alberta they don't ;)

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All cammo out there is it, or just nothing left to shoot at?

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not sure about other provinces but in AB its not the law to have to wear the orange. Probably so more people will hope we kill each other ;)

Back on topic anyway - in my 2.5 years here I have never seen an angry Canadian - actually tell a lie, one, when my friend and I pulled up at the gas pump and he thought it was his turn so he jumped out of his car ran towards ours and started banging on the window.

We laughed and the gas attendant came and told him to get back into his car - so he did.

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Im married to a canadian, and have two daughters born here... Trust me, they vent:sneaky:

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With living and working downtown, I would expect to see a fair amount of fighting and people losing it. I don't though. I see people giving each other the finger (usually while driving) and calling each other "idiots". I am continually surprised at the limited vocabulary which Canadians use to insult each other.

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I think a lot of them go home, close the door and either drink or smoke themselves into a stupor, while not forgetting to preach abstinence to others.

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they vent by gossiping A LOT .. . I have seen that in the family I married into, at work amongst my colleagues, and in the community we live in.
I am always stunned what I hear about a particular person and then see how tremendously friendly they are with that person once they are present...

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re the limited vocabulary, I am surprised to hear Canadians calling each other w***ers, quite a bit.

MOH called his son it not so long back and I nearly fainted, apparently it means something different here, a term of affection for doing something silly I think.

I explained about the reasons not to use that when we go to the UK.

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Who was he banging on the window:rofl::rofl:

My bosses vent both audibly and violently, its not uncommon for a phone to fly across the office followed by an Oh *****

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Try working in a hospital. Canadians lose their rag just the same, sometimes for customers we have to call the police but usually the security guard tying them down with restraints is enough to silence them.

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They probably get upset when you don't let them use spoons for their soup.

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They are the wrong age group

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following this theme, generally when it is not to a real person I find at work, is where Canadians vents their anger:eek:,

I have had plenty of voicemails left at bizarre times of the night calling me all names under the sun, where they can just shout at the phone lol:rolleyes:

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Brilliant !!!!

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How do Brits vent? Whinge?

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I reckon thats true.

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Nah, they tell each other to f&*k off:p

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It surprises me not at all that Canadian hospitals hire security guards. Maybe they should hire some more, you know, medical people, so that folk don't get massively pissed-off when they've been sitting in ER for eight hours. That's just the urgent cases.

I feel better for that.

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Ah but there aren't any doctors to hire are there? They are all driving taxis. Plus
two of our nearby hospitals are laying off people. 117 nurses at Peterborough.

I feel your pain

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and eat and drink;)

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You might call it whingeing. We might call it complaining so that something gets changed. This is how things improve. Canadians put up with crap because 'that's the way it's always been done' and nothing changes.

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yeah, right.

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Complaining has never changed any thing, constructive suggestions on the other hand !!!!

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Many a true word spoken in jest. So all of the ex-pats who complain and whinge about the weather should provide constructive suggestions on how it can be changed.