I Am Canadian!!

[Great Big C]

I loved Joe! He made me so proud.

I still wear my Molson "I AM. CANADIAN." gear, in fact I've been wearing my hat a lot lately. I was in the gym with a buddy of mine who hails from Cornwall the other week, me wearing a Canada 06 tee, he, by coincidence wearing a Roots Canada tee. Our shirts were enough to get a loudmouthed asshole wound up about how we're "not helping with the war in Iraq". We explained the Canadian troops presence in Afghanistan which only made him become more obnoxious. We essentially told him to fuck himself, and now everytime I see him I slap on my I AM. CANADIAN. hat just to piss him off further...prick that I am.

screwnutty - that's hysterical. I've been in the States too long, I've never seen that!

Thanks for posting this Soilwork! It was cool to come back after a few months gone and see something that made me proud to be Canadian! Great memories, too!

 

[sheep]

Did you ever notice that Trey is a common nickname for guys of any name in the US&A. And why the fuck they call a liquor store a package store is beyond me.

 

[cAndId]

Made when the NHL was out for the year:

That honestly made me cry when it came on... I wanted to murder Bettman and Goodenow.

And when it came back:

I was sooo happy when I first saw this I cried! This and that TSN 'welcome back welcome back welcome baack!' commercial always made me teary eyed.

 

[Kurn]

I didn't realize that snow was a sensitive issue.
Well I had no intention that way. Thinking about it, I guess there are plenty of places in Canada that while cold are not scary with snow most of the time.
I bet the Maritimes are a bit messy that way. But I don't know.

 

[Soilwork]

You know J Kurn... I've been to Bakersfield in July, but I've NEVER been hotter than I've been in Toronto in the summer.. you dont' know what hot is until you've made it through a Toronto Heat wave in July.

And even in the Maritmes where I grew up, it's still quite warm in the summer.

Not hot, certainly, but about the same as you'd get in Kernville.

But yes, I've never been colder than when I lived in the Maritimes, either. I still have a scar on my face from the time I was outside for a few minutes to long and my skin froze and cracked.

 

[cAndId]

It's Frieghtning how cold it gets out there.

Hey you want really hot though? Try London (ontario) in a heat wave, because of the added pollution that seems to accumulate over our city, it's sometimes 4-10 degrees hotter than Toronto. I remember a few summers recently where it was 32 degrees Centrigrade at NIGHT! It's digusting because you can't breathe either and you can literally see the air hanging with the added pollution.

It makes me nausious just thinking about it.

The air here is pretty dry in comparison, winters here are A LOT more tolerable. Especially with the occasional chinooks... which we happen to be enduring right now

Summers are also more enjoyable without the humidity

When it comes to weather en canada:

1. Vancouver
2. Calgary
Dead last. Winterpeg

 

[Kurn]

You know J Kurn... I've been to Bakersfield in July, but I've NEVER been hotter than I've been in Toronto in the summer.. you dont' know what hot is until you've made it through a Toronto Heat wave in July.

And how is Lake Ontario as a swimmin' hole?


[I've been in L Michigan just north of Chicago in summer; just right; not too cold.]

 

[ambiguity]

The air here is pretty dry in comparison, winters here are A LOT more tolerable. Especially with the occasional chinooks... which we happen to be enduring right now

Summers are also more enjoyable without the humidity

When it comes to weather en canada:

1. Vancouver
2. Calgary
Dead last. Winterpeg

I'd say all of Saskatchewan is right with Winnipeg near the bottom.

After St. John's, Saskatchewan cities are the windiest places in Canada...

Sometimes in winter the temp will be bareable(sp?), but add in the wind, and its just gross. I can live with -20... but then sometime the windchill will double that... And the wind just cuts through everything... and I mean EVERYTHING.

Then in summer, it averages around 26-30ish... we don't have the humidity or pollution the East tends to have though... some days it gets super-humid... but most others it's livable... and then add in wind.