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Tim Horton was a Maple Leafs hockey player in the 1950s & 60s, a doughnut and coffee shop was opened in his name in 1964, and has since grown across Canada and even into Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. It now has 2,600 location in Canada and almost 300 in the US. People here like the crude joke about the fact that Timbit (doughnut holes) were intoduced about a year after Tim had died in car accident in 1974.
Anyways, that's what Tim Hortons is. Coffee and Doughnuts. Tastier than Crispy Cremes too, I might add. There was this huge interest in a Crispy Creme opening in Canada, near were I live, everyone was excited because you Americans are always talking so fondly of them. So there were line ups down the street for one of these Crispy Cremes.... no one I know who tried it ever went back. They were half the size of a Tim Horton doughnut and not as tasty *shrugs shoulders*. Whatever. It all goes to your thighs anyways.

As for metric... well because our parents and grandparents grew up on the same system as American and it has only been since the 70s that Metric has been in place, a lot of 30, 20 year olds, and I suspect teenagers know how to do both systems. If the weather man says there is going to be 5 cm of rain falling tonight, my grandfather asks me how much that is... so I have to know both to be a goddamn converter for people That's what I hate about the metric system... but in another 10, 20 years that won't be a problem anymore. As for comparing the two systems, Metric and Imperial.... I am sorry, but metric does make a hellalot more sense. Celsius with 0 being freezing and 100 being boiling makes a billion times more sense than 32 F and 212 F. And to be able to say 5 mm is way easier to understand and wrap your tongue around than the fractions Americans use with 3/16ths of an inch, etc.

ugg ... do u know how many American channels we have?? eek eek eek it's insane!! when the friggin elections were on ..... THAT WAS ALL THAT WAS ON TV .... IT WAS DRVIVING ME INSANE!!

*flip* ~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip* ~canadian news announcing that the american elections were on~*flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~Discovery Channel also announcing the american elections were on~*flip*~election~ *flip*~election~ *flip*~YTV~*flip* ~MTV - mentioning the American elections were on~ UUUUUGGGGGGG *turns off TV* stare

it was insane!! mad we can't even vote!! so why was it on every goddamn channel? crying WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??? crying that happens everytime too! crying

that's why canadians know too much about american busness .... and then they get mad at us for having an opinion!! eek ...... *lose-lose* crying

sweatdrop ..... not saying that every canadian know, and not saying that every american gets mad -- simply a personal generalization from what i've expirienced!! sweatdrop

also ... we have to learn american history!! eek and we have to learn about recent events in america in social studies!! eek and i've been told the americans only have to learn about american history! eek

WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?? eek

also .. i know the american president ... and some past ones ... where as - hell if i know my own prime minister's name ... or who he is!! eek i could name WAY more american presidents then Canadian prime ministers!! confused is it just me or is that screwed up? sweatdrop

Omg I hated the television for the 6 months that the campaign went on for. gonk Our campaign was like...3 months, or was it 3 weeks? XD

I dunno, I only know recent American president names, and I know more about the Canadian stuff but a lot I got from school this year, and Mr. Frater's poster of Canadian Prime Ministers. sweatdrop

Me: "Why was Mulroney disliked so much?"
Teacher ""
Me: "Oh. eek "

And for the longest time I didn't even know we had a female Prime Minister, but she didn't really last very long. ^^

Oh, I know, you get inundated with American info that has so little bearing on our daily lives that it drives us all insane. That's the problem with having so many American channels. At the same time, our channels and radio stations are not much better with the "Canadian Content Laws" That they have to play so many minutes of every hour with Canadian content or artist. I want to tie weights to Nickleback's legs, chain them all together, and dump them off a bridge... then I want to strangle Celine Dion then burn her corpse, she is a horrible talentless screamer, and a very ugly woman, to boot. Seriously, if she was hawt, then you could explain the reason for her fame away, but, nope. It's a mystery. She also has a terrible personality, an all round person to dislike.
Who else would I like to kill or make disappear....

But, it is true, we have to learn quite a bit of American history, when some Americans can't even place Canada on a map. Then we are accused of having a 'love/hate' relationship with America because we do happen to know some much about them. It's not our fault you are so loud. It's like living next door to a neighbour who likes to have noisey & kinky sex all the time. You can't blame me for knowing the intimate details of your sex life if you scream it through my bedroom wall all the time.

I believe it was PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau who said of America
"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."

But then he had also said of Canada "Canada is a country built against any common, geographic, historic or cultural sense." xd

we had a female Prime Minister? eek ....

HEY!! you can have celine! but Nickleback's not 1/2 bad!! stare

lolz ... i never knew that! eek

I heart Trudeau, srsly. If I had been alive when he was PM, I would have been a part of Trudeaumania. D: I also quite like his bit about how the state has no business in the bedroom, regarding to sexual preferences. whee