Originally posted by fccwpe That is hilarious!!!!!! But, sadly true. I agree many Americans are ignorant as hell. It can be quite embarrassing.
in my youth i spent a while as a bellman at a Hotel downtown Toronto, without fail a couple of times a summer some twat would show up with a ski rack and ask where the ski areas are
:, just pop off to the airport bud and catch a flight to south america or new zealand
occasionally they would try and speak french as well (even funnier lmao, since you don't get much more Anglo than Toronto in the late 70s early 80's)
I'll have to ask my bellman if the same thing happens here (I doubt it I'm at an Intercontinental as purchaser now and our clientele tends to be pretty worldly)
As for being annexed by the US or us asking to join (even less likely) not much chance of it ever happening
you really don't get Canada at all if you think it would ever be even a remote possibility we'd ask to join the US
Even the Albertans would get their hackles raised at that idea and they are the closest thing we have to Americans
and a little more bob and doug for you (we don't take ourselves very seriously up here) - how to get free beer from the brewery