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Doh import! (My typos often make me hard to understand)

We Canadians have lots of pipeline headaches - for example the pipeline from Alberta to the East Coast - Montreal mayor does not want it built for various reasons, but happily accepts transfer payments from Alberta oil revenue. I think we need to find a better technology for shipping oil to avoid spills - but that is neither here nor there. We also have to import oil to Canada because of transport issues! LOL

Don't be jealous. We'd probably also get all military if another country tried to control Canda's oil, or maple syrup, or Zamboni's. We like to be in control, I mean, support our allies.

We're not jealous! We have Justin Trudeau, ya'll have Trump. *snicker* (off topic - but you brought in the trombones ... er ... Zambonis)

ROTFL, this has got to be one of the longest and most interesting comment threads, I just finished reading them all and have NO idea how you got from shotacon to OPEC. well I do, but the trip is a blast to read - almost 100 comments!

Yeah, I wasn't saying they're totally alone. They do lead some allies who end up having more or less of an impact respectively.

By the way, ISIS:
"The U.S. intelligence documents not only confirms suspicions that the United States and some of its coalition allies had actually facilitated the rise of the ISIS in Syria – as a counterweight to the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad- but also that ISIS members were initially trained by members and contractors of the CIA at facilities in Jordan in 2012.

The now declassified document appears to confirm that the U.S., the European Union and other nations viewed Muslim extremists in ISIS as “a strategic asset toward regime change in Syria.” As a result parts of Iraq have been in chaos since ISIS began to cross the Syrian border in early June 2014."

America nuked Japanese CITIES, not military targets, when they were about to capitulate. First demonstration of their new shiny weapon to the world. Then, attacked Iraq. Disheveled Afghanistan. Created mujaheddin to fight their proxy wars with USSR, then Al-Qaeda, Taliban. And now ISIS backfired, they labelled them as threats for humanity, killed millions of native Indians, are attacking Yemen.

The American administrations first create and support terrorists and when they go out of control, pose as though they the saviors of humanity.

I'm mostly criticizing the foreign policies, just to be clear. Which the population doesn't have much control over I guess (and, it would seem, many are unaware of).

Anyway, those are things commonly talked about here.

True, I started it....but Donald...must you?

(There's a topic? Is it a poem about Asami?)

Sorry, couldn't help myself. LOL That being said, the OP was about Asami and Aki's age gap, so we have seriously diverged, but what fun this is!

All of that is true. It isn't easy trying to rule the world. Ask the Brittish. Still, I doubt the Soviets would have been much nicer.

To misquote A Fish Called Wanda:

"Oh, you [Candandians]. You’re so fucking [polite], aren’t you? Well, would you like to know where you’d be without us, the old U. S. of A., to protect you? I’ll tell you—the [syurpiest] fucking province in the Russian Empire.”

(Just kidding).

[Candandians]

We're actually in India, you know ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Ahem, we're actually not that polite at all LOL. I'm not sure why you're so obstinate of giving me typical English Canadians stereotypes ahaha. I guess we're that invisible, but come on, hello hello :P.

But yeah, it's good to know we're not having probably the world's greatest terrorists against us, I guess ;). We're in a pretty good spot to contemplate from afar the disasters happening out there, and thinking "man are they going bonkers".

(War is, terrorism, by the way. War on terror is quite the oxymoron.)

It's all good though terms though ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
Please don't kill me, I want to be able to read Finder's ending ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~

I assume Canadians are all polite because I don't understand when I'm being insulted in French--and the actual French are better at being rude anyway.

I don't know, the people I have met, of various ethnicity and origin who now live near me (I live in Western Canada) are generally very polite. We hold doors open for each other, apologize often, usually address each other with neutral/kind words. But to quote Penelope Garcia from Criminal Minds "Those Canadians all seem so polite, but when they go bad, the go Darth Vader bad" (I love that quote)

Your TV shows have a wicked humor--often dry, but not quite like the UK dry humor--and sometimes kind of zany or almost otherworldly too. Kind of trippy. And you do have to watch the quiet ones.

I think our humour is a mix of British and American, with a big heap of self deprecation and influences from our multiculturalism. Plus it is fairly cold up here and sparsely populated which gives us lots of opportunities to disparage things - hehe. (I think California has as many people as we do). The one thing that gets my goat is when people think we pronounce about (soft 'a'+bout) as "a-boot" - which is more Scottish or very East Coast (they still have strong ties to Scotland - at least pronunciation wise)

So I Googled how to insult a French Candian. Listen up:

The best poutine I ever had was in a McDonalds in Alberta.

You heard me. Or should I assess some taxes to have it translated into French?
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That might work. Personally, I don't like poutine (some even add ketchup on top of the gravy/cheese curd hot mess), but gravy and mayo is yummy (my friend forced me to try hers once and I never looked back)

Bwahaha, I guess they are particularly rude sometimes.

But lol, you must be thinking of random FC. I don't think they express themselves like us, it's probably closer to Canadian.

You haven't been under the wrath of a Quebecer :P. Search that up instead lol.

Here it's just more, let's say, colored language. Our favorite thing is seemingly throwing catholic words everywhere, such as the ciborium (ciboire), the tabernacle (we gave it the pet name "tabarnak", if you want to be less insulting, my own favorite variation is "tabaslak" which I personally use just to say "damn". Others say "tabarnouche".) etc.

They mean nothing themselves, they're just quite aggressive-sounding. The insults give them meaning though lol.

You can hear things such as (no, google translate won't be your friend, we say to hell with correct French grammar):

QC: Tasse-toé crisse d'épais !
F: Dégage, putain de connard !
E: Get out of my way fucking cunt !

QC: Heille mon ciboire, tu pues en ostie !
F: Oh la vache, tu schlingues !
E: Holy shit, you stink !

Or when you want to get it out from your system:
QC: Ostie d'crisse de calisse de tabarnak d'ostie (you can do it as long as you feel) de tarla !
E: Fucking cunt !

"Eat a car" (mange un char mon criss) is also a good one.

I don't want to get deeper though, I'm a girl with a some class, some make me quite uncomfortable :P

Yeah, I don't know how to translate them properly in English. It's just not going to happen lol.

From my admittedly poor French (but better Latin/Spanish) those translations work pretty well. Most languages don't have precise translations, you have to couch it in terms of the language you translating to and use that vocabulary and slang. I don't swear often, but when I do it's in Danish (my folks are from Denmark and I grew up with their swear words)

Thanks. That's more impressive than trying to say cave so it rhymes with chav. I thought I knew what "putain: was going to mean, but I was wrong. Spanish is easier.

I think I may start using, "Eat a car."

Its origin is actually the word "calf".
Moo.
Calves are stupid. Caves too.

Seems like the English liked to insult their fellow frenchy foremen with "bunch of calves" lol. Since they received their pay after the winter and they were so happy to see their family, they were like calves you just let free.

Though honestly, that's just because I looked for it, I thought it just came from "basement" since that's how we call them. Caves. Or "sous-sol".

Yeah.