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Blame Canada! Skyld på Canada! Alt galt i USA skyldes selvsagt Canada. Det hele startet lenge før animasjonsfilmen "South Park" sang:

Times have changed,
Our kids are getting worse They won't obey their parents, They just want to fart and curse. Should we blame the government, or blame society, or should we blame the images on tv No!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada

Alt galt i USA skyldes først og fremst Canada. Canada er egentlig ikke et eget land. De snakker fransk, for søren. 31 millioner og pluss noen kanadere teller egentlig ikke. La oss være ærlige, amerikanere hater kanadere, kanskje ikke så mye som de hater mexikanere, men det nærmer seg. Og når vi sier amerikanere, så mener vi republikanere. Fredselskende, kristne republikanere fylt av Jesu-fredsbudskap hater så mye i denne verden. Blame Canada!

Republicans don't hate Canadians personally but they do hate Canadians collectively. The hate comes from a deep philosophical difference with the way Canadians live. Many of the principles that conservative Republicans dislike the most, actually work in Canada, maybe not perfectly but they do work and this drives conservative Republicans crazy...

Kilde:  Why Conservative Republicans hate Canada

Ikke et eget land? Snakker de ikke litt rart? De lange aaa'ene?

Sure, there are cultural differences between Americans and Canadians, but they're pretty much the same as the difference between California and, say, Alabama. Sacramento and Boise, Idaho. We're different, but not so much that we're not essentially the same people...

I envisioned some guy with a "RUSH IS GOD" bumpersticker out in Colorado ranting and raving about "those damned Canadians...can't trust 'em".

Kilde: Watching our northern neighbours

Beklager og sorry about that! I mean "neighbors", not "neighbours"... Fy og fy. Husk, that down here we killed a bunch of Brits to not have to see that goddamned extra "u", so spell things correctly...eh?

Men hvorfor gjøre ting så vanskelig med å forklare dem? Tingenes tilværelse (das ding an sich etc) kan kokes ned til tingens enkleste Framskrittspartivennlige faktor: Canada sucks and I hate Canada. They is dumb not like us smart Americans. I hope Cananda blowed up on themselves. I know a Canadian and he hads shifty eyes.

Kilde: Canada Suck!!!

Forresten siste sitat har en kanadisk kommentar: Your sentence "They is dumb not like us smart Americans." (and all other sentences before and after) is grammatically incorrect. The fact that you consider your inability to construct a proper sentence to be "smart" amuses me to no end. Go fuck your hat, eh.

Apropos fucking your hat, det minner meg om en amerikansk venn som innrømmet at "having sex with a lawnmover is possible, though quite interesting in the beginning it's mostly painfully..."

En kanadisk venn ble sterk frustrert av å bli forvekslet som amerikaner: "Jeez, man!" kunne han si. "I am Canadian! Much more polite and less armed!"

Fredselskende amerikanere er selvsagt ikke totalt uforsonelig til tross for den kanadiske fare, slik en fyr innrømmer under tittelen One Way I Don't Hate Canada.

Fordi For a while I thought that Canadians had nothing in common except the fact nobody there, with the exception of a boatload of hippies, was American. I whimiscally decided that, in order to be taken seriously, a country needs someone outside the country to hate it (besides the Quebecois)--and everybody was ignoring them. So I've been politely loathing Canada and things Canadian as my bit to help out Canadian sovereignty. Since every Canadian I met seemed to despise my country for being so violent, blah blah blah, I thought it a cry for attention and was willing to throw you lot a bone.

Det er noe i det. For noe av det amerikanerne frykter mest er farene ved at kanadierne ikke i større grad er bevæpnet. En ubevæpnet nabo er truende til bortimot alt!

Our northern neighbors may try to cut gun freedoms here! Canada's two major parties -- the long-ruling Liberals and the new Conservative Party of Canada -- remained deadlocked after the polls closed last night. In all likelihood, that's bad news for gun ownership and public safety up north.

Det skriver Eli Lehrer så sent som sist sommer under tittelen Blame Canada, karakteristisk nok, og fortsetter med stjerneargumentet mot tvilsomme kanadiere: De hakke noe gun!

Canadians, whose Charter of Rights and Freedoms contains no right to keep and bear arms and whose legal system offers little in the way of judicial review, will almost certainly have at least some of their guns taken away when their newly organized government gets down to business!

Faren med ubevæpnete folk kan altså spre seg. Hva kan man si? Go fuck your hat, eh?

Right on, man! And dogs, please beware: