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 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:40 am
Quote: The left jar looks like one you'd pee in if you were cut short somewhere. Isn't it funny how every thread here ends up on either food or drink? Well, I did start this thread with a picture of chicken and waffles, didn't I?
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 2:20 pm
After a batch of Canadian pancakes with maple syrup and sausage (don't look so surprised, I'm progressive!), I decided never to eat meat with pastry again. And yet I still eat Steak and kidney pie...
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:35 pm
Where is Alabama? In the US? Nah, I like Canada better. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:38 pm
I know the States and most major cities and towns, a few famous landmarks, and some Welsh parts (isn't school useful?), from Bangor in Maine to Cardiff in California. Hehe
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The Fabulous Prince Babel
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:39 pm
Huh, I never really thought of other countries learning American history. xp
How's Britain teach the 'Merican Revolution, just out of curiosity?
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:42 pm
Canadians learn about all the stuff we weren't involved in...
ex) Pretty much all wars in the history of the world
I can only think of these wars that Canada's been in:
The French and Indian War
uh....that's it
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:43 pm
We're taught the War of Independence, the Civil War and Colonisation. Which one of these would you count as a revolution? I count all 3.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:44 pm
The one where we ran away from you guys like sissies until you got fed up and left.
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The Fabulous Prince Babel
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:52 pm
Uh, that's War of Indepenance, eh?
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:58 pm
No that was colonisation. Lol. The one where we ran away and you saved our arses was the First World War, which ironically involved only Europe, America and some colonies. So not very global for a world war.
Canada did fight with us there. Queenie made you. Well, it was Kingy back then. But Queenie sounds better than Kingy.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:59 pm
Oh, come back, proud Canadians
To before you had TV,
No hockey night in Canada,
There was no CBC.
In 1812, Madison was mad,
He was the president, you know
He thought he’d tell the British where they ought to go
He thought he’d invade Canada,
He thought that he was tough
Instead we went to Washington....
And burned down all his stuff!
And the White House burned, burned, burned,
And we’re the one’s that did it!
It burned, burned, burned,
While the president ran and cried.
It burned, burned, burned,
And things were very historical.
And the Americans ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the War of 1812!
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:00 pm
silent_death_is_loud Uh, that's War of Indepenance, eh? Yup. :3 Funny how we Americans always paint it as a glorious war when really it was little 'ol us against the greatest world power at the time. If it was a REAL war we would have gotten our asses handed to us by the British. Luckily we didn't yell, "DEATH TO THE KING!" in the streets. Then there would have been blood.
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The Fabulous Prince Babel
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:21 pm
Okay so we've been in 3 wars? I don't pay much attention in History, since all we really learn is the French had Quebec, and fought for it w/ the Inuit and stuff. Ontario has little history. 4th grade geography was so easy....
I bet Americans have a lot more to learn, eh?
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:36 pm
 and now a song, by Tom Lehrer about the wonders of The American South. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwhC_btAUU <--- audio from the album.
I wanna go back to dixie,
Take me back to dear ol dixie,
Thats the only lil ol place for lil ol me.
Old times there are not forgotten,
Whuppin slaves and sellin cotton,
And waitin for the Robert E. Lee.
(it was never there on time.)
Ill go back to the swanee,
Where pellagra makes you scrawny,
And the honeysuckle clutters up the vine
I really am a-fixin
To go home and start a-mixin
Down below that mason-dixon line.
Oh, poll tax,
How I love ya, how I love ya,
My dear old poll tax.
Wontcha come with me to alabammy,
Back to the arms of my dear ol mammy,
Her cookins lousy and her hands are clammy,
But what the hell, its home.
Yes, for paradise the southland is my nominee.
Just give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy.
I wanna go back to dixie
I wanna be a dixie pixie
And eat corn pone til its comin outta my ears
I wanna talk with southern gentlemen
And put my white sheet on again,
I aint seen one good lynchin in years.
The land of the boll weevil,
Where the laws are medieval,
Is callin me to come and nevermore roam.
I wanna go back to the southland,
That y'all and shet-ma-mouth land,
Be it ever so decadent,
There's no place like home.This was a song that was written in the 1960s and has basically affected my view of the deep south.
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Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:40 am
If you think being American gives you too much history to learn, be lucky you're not European. Or worse... Israeli.
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