Op writing they walked 3km of 4 miles feels very canadian
Anon visits Canada
Submitted 9 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 9 months ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Do Canadians use both units?
No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org 9 months ago
Officially, they use the metric system, but because of the close contact with the US, many things are measured in imperial units
Mpatch@lemmy.world 9 months ago
One of the most confusing places to be in is a Canadian machine shop. Half the machines will be imperial and the other will be metric. Work order come in both units on the regular.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
The same Canadian might not use both, but older people are still more comfortable with the American system for certain things like temperature.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
We use all of the units; my prints generally list pipe diameter in inches, but length in millimetres
xenoclast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anon is either white or the come from the same area in the world as the immigrant family that he met.
Canada is like high key racist now. Thanks MAGA, and your interest in Alberta resources
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Hi. Am Canadian, am originally from Alberta, love everyone except fucking fascists, and can confirm Alberta is currently Canada’s stanky armpit and has been so for some time.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Well, it’s an armpit with gorgeous parks. You’ve got Banff, Jasper, and part of Glacier, that’s pretty awesome!
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
If Anon was a native woman they wouldn’t have lived to make the post
xenoclast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah yes, survivor bias raises its head again!
(Sorry. I’m the worst : 🧡🧡🧡)
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
We were racist before MAGA
Thunder Bay has been a race war for decades. If a crime happens in the white part of town it’s likely the aboriginals and if it happens in the aboriginal part of town it’s likely white people. I was nice to an aboriginal person once when I was there and he started crying then hugged me. You can guess which side the police actually investigate
Woovie@lemmy.world 9 months ago
racism exists everywhere, don’t blame the US for what already was there
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I’m Canadian and can confirm Canada has always been racist gestures broadly at indigenous affairs and history of violence and assimilation.
That being said Canadians are very nice and it’s only a smaller minority that is racist/ awful.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Our southern racist neighbor embolden the local racists and make them feel more comfortable doing their racist recruitment in public where it’s more effective.
Canada is always just an election cycle or two behind the popular American culture.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
don’t blame the US for what already was there
Flips on American television
Black people are committing crimes! Latinos are doing drugs! Arabs are terrorists! Chinese people are cheating on tests and stealing your jobs! Everyone in India is trying to scam you!!!
Now back to our regularly scheduled movie about a cool White Nationalist who fights back by shooting everyone with a big gun!
Damn, crazy how this was all here before Americans arrived.
xenoclast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean… sure… but you can’t say they’re not making it worse and feeding into it for profit
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Canada is like high key racist now.
Canada has a good reputation on how not racist they are, but really all that racism is directed at Indigenous people. You’ll be fine for the most part as long as one doesn’t stay in the prairies for too long.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I hate Canadians.
Those shifty bastards are hiding something.
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, it’s dead children under our residential schools.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Sorry?
sadbehr@lemmy.nz 9 months ago
Son, sit down there’s something we have to tell you.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Probably a reference to some show but idk either
Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
maybe before lockdown. we became budget maga about a quarter of the way into lockdown.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Literally. Not MCGA, but MAGA with cast-off paraphernalia from the 2020 US election. And Freedom stickers. And more F*ck Trudeau merchandise.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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Be in Canada
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Make small talk with random people you meet.
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People offer to drive you around, so you hitchhike everywhere
“Wow everyone in Canada is so nice! You make some small talk and they give you a ride wherever you want to go, practically for free.”
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Travel to NYC
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Ride the subway all the way across town for, like, $2
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Random people keep trying to make small talk on the train when you’ve got your headphones in
“Fuck NY, these people are assholes.”
curiousaur@reddthat.com 9 months ago
I’ve never understood the New Yorkers are assholes reputation. They’re some of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
I had a map out, guy asks where I’m trying to go, I tell him the Met. He starts giving me directions. Another guy overhears and stops to argue with him about the best way to send me there. It was the newyorkiest thing I’ve ever seen. “He doesn’t want to go that way, send him this way”, “if you want to send him that way you might as well send him this other way”.
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observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
He got at least partially Canadianized mid post switching from miles to kilometres.