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Why are Canadians so much more boring than Australians?

Discussion in 'Australia, NZ, Pacific' started by DennisTate, Mar 2, 2019.

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Why are Canadians so much more boring and less friendly.....than Australians?

  1. Our horrible climate makes us overly polite.

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  2. We are Elitist and we are trying to prove we are superior to Americans so......

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  3. We Canadians read a lot of books...... partly because we have nothing better to do so.......

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  4. We feel jealous because our veterans came back from WWII and told us Australians were better....

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  5. Australians have ancestors who were not so well behaved... and Australians are proud of them...

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  6. Other.....

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  1. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    This is actually a quite valid question:

    My off hand guess is that we Canadians..... tend to be somewhat Elitist.......
    and we like to think of ourselves as superior to Americans.......
    and we try our best to prove it by acting superior...... / quiet........

    .. so that we don't open our mouths and prove otherwise???????
     
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    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "Our horrible climate makes us overly polite."

    I went with this option.... because our weather or climate or whatever the .... you want to call it.... is so horrible that we never know when we may end up stuck in a snow bank................. or our power may go out........ and we have to ask a neighbour for help to get out of the snow bank........ . or perhaps even visit the neighbour who has a wood stove..... (I personally have no wood stove and rely totally on oil fired infloor heating which..... if the power goes out........... Everybody in my house has a problem.......


    Back in the 1980's when I was single and drove all around Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and P.E. I. a lot..... I got stuck in snow banks a few times.... and I never had to knock on door number two to receive assistance.......
     
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    Maybe all the interesting Canadians move to America.

    Canadians seem insanely polite. Australians not so much. I don't see an obvious reason for that.

    We also have a brutal climate. I was discussing last night what it must have been like for my forbears to move from a place where 30C is a heatwave to a place where 40C is a common summer temperature. At least the people who moved to Canada understood the concept of cold climates. For over a century we built replicas or English homes designed to keep the heat in. We also have fire, flood and drought to contend with, so I don't imagine the sense of community is any less than in Canada.

    The heat also encourages beer consumption, which might explain something.

    Maybe it is our wildlife that makes us so impolite - the possibility we could die gardening in the back yard means life is too short for politeness.

    Maybe it is our isolation. Canada has always been close to big, similar populations. In the age of sail Europe was half the time away or less compared to Australia. Not really sure if this is a reason, as new Zealanders seem more polite than us.

    Maybe it is the number of Irish who came here.

    Don't know.
     
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    They are the only commonwealth country that does not play cricket!
     
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    (emphasis, bolding, mine)


    Yes...... good theory........ my daughter and I watched Steve Irwin movies over and over again...... he was hilarious.......... but each day that he survived was an absolute miracle from Creator and the angels because Wow..... .but he took risks!!!!

    http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14663786/...ter-steve-irwin-killed-stingray/#.XHvHsVNKiV4
    One time when our daughter was about two or three years of age she told her mom about a bear in the back yard........ she had chased after it to pet it...... and the same day we saw a bear cross the road below our home. Maybe our daughter was Australian in a past life????!!!

    Little Colton Burpo reports meeting lots and lots and lots of animals during his near death experience.

    Ms. Jan Price reported meeting her previously deceased Springer, Maggie during her near death experience.

    I really think that Steve Irwin was met by a hoard of his animal friends and fans........
    because his fearlessness...... is a great example of how to live this life and squeeze all the juice out of every moment of life!




    The Near-Death Experience of Jan Price


    https://www.near-death.com/experiences/with-pets/jan-price.html
    Jan Price's Near-Death Experience With Her Pet Dog
     
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    Yea....... we went more so with whatever game Americans were playing and....... Americans sure have taken to hockey...... and if I remember correctly a Canadian invented basketball.



    Oh.... Canadian veterans did come back from WWII saying that it was so wonderful to work with Australians...... because you were so willing to do the impossible....... and get killed..... to take relatively impossible to take outposts that the Germans had set up. Australians......like Canadians felt that WWII was also your problem......... due to our closer ties to England.
     
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    Those hand gestures

    So Trumpesque     eh


    Do real :flagcanada:s gesture like that?
    Moi thought they are more hands down, sorts.
    :)
    Learned gestures from a Latina spouse? :lol: eh


    Aussies on the other hand, Moi imagines wave more
    than :flagcanada:s while :blahblah:


    VISIT :flagcanada:
    Discover Boredom
    Like a lovely train ride through unchanging landscapes, for days.

    I have not seen Australia market a lovely train ride across the iddy biddy continent.
    With similar exciting views, just different. Endless and dry and flat.
     
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    Two words.

    "Ice hockey". Yes I know it's just "hockey", I'm married to a Canadian.

    Another two words. "Rocket Richard".

    That should sort it out :)
     
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    Rocket Richard, nothing better than a fast dick
     
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    Thank you.......... I do remember back during the '80's I would be listening to Garner Ted Armstrong and / or President Ronald Reagan..... and I would kind of practice speeches while working at forestry..........

    I even ended up habitually going to work rather late and working to dark so that I could still get into research and other things in the morning. (After inhaling powersaw exhaust for most of the day I was useless at reading and researching in the evenings)!

    Indeed a Latina spouse changes our lives forever afterward...... that is for sure!!!
     
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    They could. They'd love it!
     
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    It's the flies which are the reason for waving.
    IMG_5108.PNG
     
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    I think they decided not to play after they asked the the English to explain it and got this
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    Then they asked Americans to explain it to them:D


    [​IMG]
     
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    Australia doesn't market its' 3 day train experience as wondrous
    :flagcanada: does.

    Got Boredom?
     
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    Australia Tourism Questions answered

    Canadian Version

    https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/06/24/tourist-questions-canada-americans_n_5499973.html

    Loved this one

    I've actually seen American tourists coming across the border in the summer with skis on the roof of their cars.

    Apparently there's some magical line where winter never ends up here."

    Or this one

    How do you guys keep the glaciers white during the summer? Do you have to paint them?'

    Of course, I would always answer yes to this common yet amazing question.

    Job creation I'd say, keeps us all working during the summer."
     
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    The Ghan

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    And the Trans Siberian railway is better?
     
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    A friend of the family came back from Europe recently.
    He went down the street (on the Gold Coast) to buy a carton of cigarettes and a bottle of Jim Beam
    He received coins only in his change from $100
    He mentioned that the two same items, if bought in Belgium would have
    cost him about $25.
    Yep, visit Australia and get ripped off folks.......
     
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    Well, youre the one thats spruiking about the Ghan...
     
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    No I am showing pictures of it

    I could have shown pictures of the Indian pacific
     
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    Youre promoting it...and Australia....Im simply point out the exorbitant cost of travel (and everything else) in Australia to any mugs who want to visit...
     
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    You get the same but, advertised by :flagcanada: as a great time.
    Just change brown to green forests. Or endless plains.


    KiwiLand has the only Train I am interested in traveling.
    The Trans Southern Alps from a central California environment
    to a rain forest.
    @Sallyally talked me out of the dream.

    I do like changes of ecosystems in short distances.
    Like Tide Pools.
    https://www.amazon.com/s?k=between+...398722&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_4azbx53yop_e

    The author, Ricketts, was "doc" to Steinbeck.

    Since the sixties and civilization, those tide pools are now - a memory.
    Empty of most life. A few barnacles, mussels, but . . .
    GWTt (Gone With The tides)
     
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