SHOCKING: Canada isn't a continent anymore

reply to post by tribewilder


It's connected....it's always been connected.

I won't insult you for having a bad memory or just plain not knowing where a country is on the map. I'd have a lot of trouble finding Afghanistan or Pakistan. Unless they end up in Antartica or right near Canada, I wouldn't know if they moved.

As for Canadians being just like Americans:

It's so true that we Canadians are just like Americans; when there are differences, we struggle to eliminate them!

In fact, a while ago we tried putting some of our people into ghettos to keep them high all the time so we wouldn't need to deal with them. Didn't work, we used American instruction manuals and nobody here could figure out what they meant by a "'n-word'", so we couldn't find any. Still don't get why black people were laughing their heads off...

They also tried distributing guns to everybody so we could have several murders a day. Unfortunately, it didn't work; people used their guns to go hunting. When they came back home, they put them away in safe places and forgot about them until the next hunting season. Unfortunately, a place like Montreal (3 million population) is stuck with having to cope with only 25 murders per year.

We tried segragating our hospitals; poor man's hospital, rich man's hospital. As you are required to show your free health card when you go in, nobody could figure out who were the rich and who were the poor.

We were extremely interested by ambulance chasing lawyers and frivolous law suits. Unfortunately, our judges (civil servants) didn't want the extra work. It was passed into law that nobody can become rich thanks to a lawsuit.

In the end, we figured out we might as well just congregate to Tim Horton's and review our accomplishments because we just can't live up to the US. We came up with these:

-The Guess Who
-Stephen Wolf
-Celine Dion
-Cirque du Soleil
-Avro engineers (after the CF-105 was cancelled, they were picked up by NASA and are responsible for putting Americans on the moon)
-Brian Adams
-Michael Bubble
-Bombardier

The list is much longer, but you get the point. Anyway, I feel like a lot of people will be adding to it...

Canada was never a continent and neither is it a country. It's roughly 2/3rd's of the North American continent and it is a COLONY of the UK, as is Australia, New Zealand and a few others. That's what happens when you have a prime minister (which means second in command) and a governor general (a monarch's viceroy that acts as head of state).

Personally, I would be more concerned with Canada being a colony, rather that some sideways time line delusion that it's a continent on its own.

Stop doing the mescaline and get back on the thorazine ;-)

Cheers - Dave

reply to post by nightrun


Are you guys from GLP or what?

I guess the American education system is not the only one in shambles, now is it?

That's the only wise crack I could muster because I am speechless after reading this...I want that 5 minutes of my life back please.

Semper Fidelis

-Nate

Another thread involving New Zealand and an alternate reality must have me invoke this culturally relevant piece of footage:



So let's see - Did you watch Ace Ventura, Wayne's World, Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves in your alternate reality OP?

-m0r

Originally posted by Rocketgirl
reply to post by intelgurl

 

>snip<
If Canada was an island then how did the students from my school get there on a bus?
>snip

Originally posted by Acid_Burn2009
I guess the American education system is not the only one in shambles, now is it?

That's the only wise crack I could muster because I am speechless after reading this...I want that 5 minutes of my life back please.

Semper Fidelis

-Nate

Me too!

But I want to torture the OP!
Here's how I do it.
OP open Google Earth (install it first) give the globe a few spins then zoom in close until the Globe just fills your screen where Canada is on the map, then spin it a bit more to your right to find Alaska, then draw a straight line from there to Norway, its easy, from there look at northern Sweden and notice the Russian borders. Now follow the shores to you right until you reach Kamchatka peninsula.
Ooops! You are near Japan now!

Mind boggling huh?

[edit on 10-3-2010 by spacebot]

reply to post by abecedarian


Whatever, Canada is not an island. I don't know how you people come up with such things.

I'm so confused... is someone cleverly speaking in the metaphorical? Or was there actually someone somewhere in this thread that thought Canada was an island? I can't tell if this is over my head or so far beneath it my mind can't comprehend...

reply to post by Rocketgirl


"Whatever" is exactly correct.

However, I didn't realize I was one of "you people", as you put it. I've never experienced one of these 'time line slips' or anything like that. I look at a map now, it it mostly looks like the map from elementary school, save for maybe a border shifting one way or the other as countries squabble, etc.

Seriously...
Why in the world would you post something like this on the internet? All it does is shows your ignorance to everyone. I am not trying to be a giant weiner head here, but c'mon.

Show some restraint and just realize you have not been paying attention to a damn thing for the past.........(insert your age here) years.

This reminds me of all these dumb social networking sites where people "wear their hearts on their sleeves" so to speak, for all the world to see. It just angers me to no end, but I digress as I am ranting off topic now.

Semper Fidelis

-Nate

reply to post by bobs_uruncle
Canada became our own country in 1867, long before your grandfather was born. We have a Prime Minister and our own currency, our own laws, military etc. we are NOT a colony of the UK. We do have a picture of Queen Elisabeth II on our coins and our 20 dollar bills, but this is out of respect and tradition.

reply to post by nightrun

Just what exactly was the point in posting this?

Seriously.....

It seems everytime somebody discovers their lack of geographical knowledge they want to post about it.

Wow I am speechless because I feel like you never had the proper geography class....I do NOT get all these threads popping up where people dont remember this continent being here or there or this country being here or there....Do people not look at atlases anymore? I use to have a globe in my house and I looked at it all the time.....I sure hope kids in school today are getting a better geography lesson than some people who have posted on this site.....How do you NOT know China and Russia are next to each other?! How did you NOT notice that Canada is frickin huge?!

Originally posted by Mars007
reply to post by bobs_uruncle

 

Canada became our own country in 1867, long before your grandfather was born. We have a Prime Minister and our own currency, our own laws, military etc. we are NOT a colony of the UK. We do have a picture of Queen Elisabeth II on our coins and our 20 dollar bills, but this is out of respect and tradition.

What planet have you been living on? The 1947 Letters Patent assigned the governor general as the kings (now queens) viceroy. The prime minister is second in command. You might want to do some research!

What happens when you get a ticket or charged with a crime, who is the plaintiff? Regina! The queen. Who do you owe money to if your default on your taxes? The queen! If you have a problem with the government, who do you have to ask for assistance? The queen.

I can't believe sometimes how misinformed canadians actually are (except me and a few others maybe). My countrymen are ready for the sheers, let the sheople games begin!

Cheers - Dave