I would like to be welcomed back on GS. I m one of those senior guppies that is better than every body. Thats right … you… reading this… yes you. I am SMARTER than you.
Now that we are clear around the pecking order in this place, i would like to ask canadians to think about rebelling against the goverment and refusing to accept loonies and toonies as the currency. It pisses me off like this guy:
Why do we have loonies. According to the blog i came across:
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Canadians are insecure. I would know this because i happen to be one. We are so insecure that every product, every service and establishment has to have a flashing red maple leaf plastered on it. We have a constant need to be continuously reminded that we are north of the civilized world. Its as if the thermometer isn’t enough to remind us that we are in bloody Canada. We have this idiotic sense of patriotism because we suffer from an identity crisis. Canadians want be grand like New York but at the same time be known as Toronto. We want to be à la mode like Paris and be French Canadian at the same time. We are more confused and hated than the ugly duckling.
The reason why i m writing this is to bring to your attention what pisses me most about this country: our currency. The only reason why we cant adopt the more practical paper based dollar bill, like they do it in the civilized south, is that we wanna be euro trash. Our government still performs analingus to her majesty the F&@#$ING QUEEN of Britain!. I don’t mean to raise my voice but it really pisses me off. Every time i hear the toonies and loonies jingle in my pocket i want to choke somebody. I see my income disappear every time i buy a Tim Hortons coffee. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_WugfefWch2Q/ShRXKbc_PBI/AAAAAAAAABs/Og08IrxU22w/s400/canadian.jpg
Stop it with the coins already and lets print some one dollar bills please. I have had it! Starting from today, every time some one takes my money and gives a wheelbarrow full of change, i m clubbing a baby seal to death".
There there Gamma – we kow how flummoxed you must be to realize that there’s life outside the USA. See, you just had to step across the border to realize that you guys haven’t made everyone as imperceptible as you might have initially thought – I can almost hear you say:
“What?! They have different currency? In different colors? And to top off the laissez-faireness of it all, they give comical names to their currency!! this is too much! – why haven’t we, the vainglorious USA done something about this? How dare they be our neighbours and they detract from us? Isn’t it time we liberated them from their fallacies”
As Canadians, you have our sympathy… and we’ll always be here to support you through your new found matter-of-fact nonconformity from your old ways… we’re happy to provide a new and fresh outlook… our currency and our government is just a start - you still have a lot more to discover. Welcome to Canada... and Welcome Back to GS.
Yours is an ugly country. I m beginning to understand her french/american ways and i dont like it. Its like having a hot-dog with smelly cheese. Not good!
There there Gamma – we kow how flummoxed you must be to realize that there’s life outside the USA. See, you just had to step across the border to realize that you guys haven’t made everyone as imperceptible as you might have initially thought – I can almost hear you say:
“What?! They have different currency? In different colors? And to top off the laissez-faireness of it all, they give comical names to their currency!! this is too much! – why haven’t we, the vainglorious USA done something about this? How dare they be our neighbours and they detract from us? Isn’t it time we liberated them from their fallacies”
As Canadians, you have our sympathy… and we’ll always be here to support you through your new found matter-of-fact nonconformity from your old ways… we’re happy to provide a new and fresh outlook… our currency and our government is just a start - you still have a lot more to discover. Welcome to Canada... and Welcome Back to GS.
Yours is an ugly country. I m beginning to understand her french/american ways and i dont like it. Its like having a hot-dog with smelly cheese. Not good!
I can only imagine how difficult it must be for you as an American to part with your ways which you have been blindly indoctrinated with. It had to happen some day though... so take off your vanity visors and explore the world outside yankee den.
Re: Calling All Canadians: Whats up with loonies and toonies
I was born Stateside, and was six and a half years old when we moved to Canada. I didn't know any of the clichés about Canada then, but I very clearly remember driving into my aunt's neighbourhood and thinking that this place was some sort of minor heaven.
Alhamdulillah - it's a gorgeous, breathtaking place. I remember driving to the hospital when my nephew was born last summer, and tearing up in the car because the trees and cherry blossoms along the avenue were in full bloom and there was a breeze and it felt .... can't say heavenly, can I? but something akin to it.
Canada
Now I read a blog whats next ?
