Canadian stereotypes

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The only person I've ever known who says "eh", was my British / American grandmother who said and wrote ".. aye?" after questions. "That's a lovely dress, aye?"

I know lots of Canadians and I know the stereotype, but I've ever heard it except in parodies.

I was in Ottawa. I was asking directions of a middle-aged guy. He said "eh" (or, more like "a") after every sentence. He wanted to make sure I was understanding what he was saying. He looked like a person with class, actually.

i guess the times when i was in canada, i didn't interact with enough people for long enough to hear it.

Canada is really a place that doesn't stand out all that much.

Hence, there really are very few piquant stereotypes associated with Canada.

canada is my true north in multiple senses. lordy i wish i were born canadian.

I dunno if there are any Canadian stereotypes at all, really.. but we have all the same common ones as America & most countries.. Sony, Sharp, JVC, Panasonic, blah blah blah - there's tonnes of different ones.. shelf stereos, car stereos..

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

*rimshot*

Anybody see some of film-maker Michael Moore's works stereotyping Canada esp. the 1995 film 'Canadian Bacon?'

i'll have to see if i can netflix that one.

The Canadian national identity is defined by three things: hockey, Timmie's and not being American.

We have Tim Horton's in New York, by the way.

More and more of them are opening here all the time.

New York City is also a pretty decent hockey town.

Meh, Tim Horton's is Brazilian now.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

I will tell you that, after a long road trip, a Tim Horton's sandwich in Montreal was just what the doctor ordered.

It's certainly much better than Dunkin Donuts.

I've often thought about applying for a position as an ICE agent for the Canadian border, you know, to stop those caravans and coyotes at Niagara Falls, Windsor, and Sault Saint Marie. The Maytag repair man's a sucker.

The other thing I discovered back in summer of 2019 (squeezed that trip in just before the mess went down) - Kamloops and Hope are quite charming towns. I'm going to keep propagandizing my friends to go back to Banff camping with me so I can get that proper hike of the Lake Louis trail that I was denied by the tour bus last time, maybe even rent a car and spend as long as I f'ing want staring at Lake Moraine from the rock pile too, walk the whole perimeter of the lake, maybe even get a pit of canoeing in, rather than worrying about when the shuttles run.