Learn me about cranky Canadians....

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by stealthn

You wake up it's dark, you go to work and it's dark. You work in a vertical ice cube tray all day until it gets dark, then you go home. All the while it's 30 degrees below zero C with 10 feet of snow on the ground.

It's winter, we're all grumpy....

Except the ski bums...we have a different take on things

[Joe Bob]

Blue boilerplate ice? Right....that's skating, eh....

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Brian 162

Deal. We will take teeny bopper back and to show you we're a fair lot we will also give you Celine Dion.

If that doesn't get a fence on the border I don't know what will . Just to be clear for all you "cranky Cannucks" (in case you missed that thread). This tread was just poking fun at RecycledSixtie. I don't find Canadians to be cranky at all...quite the opposite actually.

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by KC911

I don't find Canadians to be cranky at all...quite the opposite actually.

Then you just haven't met the right ones.

Ian

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by KC911

If that doesn't get a fence on the border I don't know what will . Just to be clear for all you "cranky Cannucks" (in case you missed that thread). This tread was just poking fun at RecycledSixtie. I don't find Canadians to be cranky at all...quite the opposite actually.

I save my crankiness for this thread. When I go to Palm Springs I will be on my best behaviour. The subjects of conversation I avoid in the US are as follows:
politics
government
taxes
and a new one the Dixie Chicks
This list is going to get longer!


If I am too cranky in the US I won't get the great service at hotels and restaurants.
If I am cranky here then I can expect a live squirrel with rabies in the PP gift exchange.

[Trog]

Originally Posted by stealthn

You wake up it's dark, you go to work and it's dark. You work in a vertical ice cube tray all day until it gets dark, then you go home. All the while it's 30 degrees below zero C with 10 feet of snow on the ground.

It's winter, we're all grumpy....

But it's a dry-cold.

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by Trog

But it's a dry-cold.

And the wet coast guys say "at least we don't have to shovel it".

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Brian 162

Deal. We will take teeny bopper back and to show you we're a fair lot we will also give you Celine Dion.

Just for that we're keepin James Tiberius and Pam Anderson and we're sending Jim Carrey back.

[72doug2,2S]

[72doug2,2S]

I don't know, what if you had a town named Swastika?

Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Tervuren]

Those guys don't have it all the same way. The Swastica pred-ates the Nazi's.

[72doug2,2S]

Originally Posted by Tervuren

Those guys don't have it all the same way. The Swastica pred-ates the Nazi's.

True, but they were soo cranky they wouldn't change their name during WWII.

[john70t]

[GWN7]

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by gwn7

lol...

[trekkor]

I read every post with some sort of accent.

Have you ever done that, eh?


KT

[recycled sixtie]

Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S

I don't know, what if you had a town named Swastika?

Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The least they could have done during the war years was to change their name to something like Crankenstein.That way they retain their joyful nature and Germanic background without teeing off too many of their fellow Canadians. During WW1 many Ukrainians living here were sent to internment camps because they were considered enemies of the State.
Thanks Doug for teaching me about Swastika, Ontario originating from 1908.

[GWN7]

Swastika, Ont has as much to do with the Nazis as Hell, MI has to do with the devil (I've been to both places)

The swastika design is known from artefacts of various cultures since the Neolithic, and it recurs with some frequency on artefacts dated to the Germanic Iron Age, i.e. the Migration period to Viking Age period in Scandinavia, including the Vendel era in Sweden, attested from as early as the 3rd century in Elder Futhark inscriptions and as late as the 9th century on Viking Age image stones.

In older literature, the symbol is known variously as gammadion, fylfot, crux gothica, flanged thwarts, or angled cross.[1] English use of the Sanskritism swastika for the symbol dates to the 1870s, at first in the context of Hindu and Buddhist traditions, but from the 1890s also in cross-cultural comparison.[2]

Examples include a 2nd century funerary urn of the Przeworsk culture, the 3rd century Værløse Fibula from Zealand, Denmark, the Gothic spearhead from Brest-Litovsk, Russia, the 9th century Snoldelev Stone from Ramsø, Denmark, and numerous Migration Period bracteates. The swastika is drawn either left-facing or right-facing, sometimes with "feet" attached to its four legs.[3]

The symbol is closely related to the triskele, a symbol of three-fold rotational symmetry, which occurs on artefacts of the same period. When considered as a four-fold rotational symmetrical analogue of the triskele, the symbol is sometimes also referred to as tetraskele.

The swastika symbol in the Germanic Iron Age has been interpreted as having a sacral meaning, associated with either Odin or Thor.[1]

[Mark Henry]

Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S

I don't know, what if you had a town named Swastika?

Swastika, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

How about Dildo, NL?

But of course you Yanks have Intercourse, PA.

[sammyg2]

IIRC, a symbol very similar to the swastika was used by the boy scouts prior to WWII, but it was reversed.
Not sure what that has to do with Canada, cept maybe it reminds me of dudley dooright a little.