Not only are Canadians nicer ‘cept for a couple serial killers (“Canada in a frenzy over serial killers”) — and their Prime Minister (“‘You’re infuriating,’ Bono tells Canadian PM”) — they’re not nearly as fat as Americans!
However, the increases are meager compared to US obesity rates (23 versus 30 percent in adults, respectively).
Canadian women, in particular, were skinnier than their US counterparts — 23 percent of women in Canada versus 33 percent in the United States were obese. Girls here were also less likely to be overweight than US girls. Boys on either side of the border did not differ much.
My inferiority complex related our neighbors to the north is bordering on fixation. Especially when I think that we might have been just as nice if only George Washington hadn’t been so damn hardy and courageous, and that French bastard Lafayette (always blame the French) hadn’t been so plucky. Frank Sinatra, instead of singing “I did it my way,” would have sung a duet of “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine” with Helen Reddy.
is for generating body heat.
Canadians are thinner because fewer of them can eat enough food to keep warm! That’s my theory, and I’m sticking to it. 😉
Which leads us to the fact that the Canadians will NEVER have a city like Las Vegas or a state like Texas with its bumper crops of leading politicians.
that living in hot places unburdens human beings from the need to internally generate heat, thus liberating that energy to engage in folly – like gambling and politics.
Now why on earth are you trying to apply logic to my illogic?! :):)
Speaking of which, take a gander at the Bono quote below.
I’m not sure even Foucault could deconstruct that.
“He’s very difficult to deal with because he won’t agree to things that he doesn’t believe he can deliver, although that is very frustrating and annoying and infuriating,” Bono told reporters while standing next to Martin.
‘You’re infuriating,’ Bono tells Canadian PM
My translation:
Martin is ‘infuriating’ because he refuses to promise what he isn’t sure he can deliver, unlike so many other G8 leaders who promise all kinds of shit they have no intention of delivering, or who make ‘promises’ containing all kinds of coded language and wiggle room that empty them of any content.
How’s that?
So, the headline is a bit misleading. Eh?
And yes, it’s better being Canadian. Way better.
as the British call it.
I thought I heard David McCullough interviewed on the 4th saying that the war never had majority population support.
There were thousands of loyalists, especially in the southeast, and many of them were run out of their homes or voluntarily fled to–you guessed it–
after the war.
Thousands of African Americans fought on the side of the British. The British promised freedom at the end of the war and many slaves were set free by British forces as they captured slave holding territory, particularly in Virginia. It was quite tragic at the end of the war as the freed blacks were captured and returned to slavery. The British helped thousands of loyalist black people to escape the newly “independent” nation. There is still a large black community in Nova Scotia who are descendants of Revolutionary era loyalists. Many other black loyalists were brought to Sierra Leone where they founded a British colony. Others went to the Caribbean.
The British promised them freedom during the War of 1812 too as I recall.
Next time there’s a flap over incorporating the Confederate flag into a state flag, I suggest that African-Americans might consider flying an alternative state flag with a mini Union Jack where the Confederate flag is positioned.
Thanks to Bushco, can’t we say:
“We’re all Canadians now…”
And of course you’ve seen the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy entry:
CANADA: MOSTLY EMPTY
(they like it that way)
TOTALLY HARMLESS
One reason why Americans are different from Candadians is that many settlers to the United States came for religious reasons. In the early history of British Canada that isn’t the case.
Blame the Puritans.
That’s not true.
The earliest English settlers in the Americas were in the Chesapeake and James river area, around Jamestown, VA. VA, NC, and Maryland were the early colonies, and were built for economic reasons. They had the first Thanksgiving in Jamestown. Ask Lincoln. He cited Jamestown as the first Thanksgiving when he declared it a national holiday. Of course, don’t tell the Bostonains that.
The “Christian Persecution” America just appropriated other people’s history and lied about their own.
“Religious persecution?” Try “Got your ass kicked out of England because of Cromwell and the Protectorate, rampant and unpopular law-dictated religious beliefs such as book burnings, playhouse closings, and alcohol banning, and mass religious persecution of the English public.”
Bah.
My inferiority complex related our neighbors to the north is bordering on fixation.
Well, how do you think I feel? My mother was born in Calgary and moved with her family to the US when she was a child, obtaining her US citizenship when she was a young adult. If she hadn’t gotten US citizenship I would now have dual Canadian/US citizenship and an exit plan.