Wind up - Is it just me?

Begbie said:
Why did you move there?
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My gf is canadian and after living in England for a year, she missed her home and how "awesome" Canada is so I gave it a shot. :rolleyes:

For those of you laughing, I know it sounds funny but honestly, I've travelled to many different places and people in England are by far the most polite, I even have friends from Europe who say the same thing so it's not just me lol :D

Hard to believe I know but as long as you don't mess with chavs most of our population is pretty considered towards others. For example, just the other day, this guy knocks this 90 year old man on the floor by bumping into him and doesn't even say sorry and just keeps walking with his wife/gf with a grin in his face. I helped the poor old man and made sure he was okay and felt like knocking the pretensios git out. He wasn't even young, the guy was in his late 40s atleast and well dressed. It's these attitudes that I find you would never see in England where you take your time to say Thank you, excuse me or to ask if someone is okay if their in distress.
 
i find it funny, just shows how arragant they are.

according to yanks all we do is drink tea,eat crumpets and talk like the queen all day, oh and dont forget the bad teeth :D
 
franco_22 said:
So as you can tell by my location, I've been living in Canada for awhile, is it just me or, when living abroad people seem to think they know what life in England is like from what they see in movies/comedy clubs?
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Lots of people think that what they see on TV is representative of the country - it's not a disease exclusive to Canadia. I found Junior America a great place to visit and probably to live for more than the three months I managed but I didn't half enjoy winding them up. For all that you might hear complaining about the British and their bad teeth, rubbish weather and terrible diets there are huge numbers of Canadians who seem very keen to claim Scottish or Irish ancestry - occasionally it's worth asking when they last set foot on the British Isles but generally it's rather sweet how much they seem to want to claim a link to the "homeland".

TDenic said:
THERE'S NO CANADA LIKE FRENCH CANADA IT'S THE BEST CANADA IN THE LAND.
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Quebec - not French enough for the French and too French for the rest of the Canadians...
 
You sound like a bit of a gypsy. Pick a country, and stick with it, would ya.

Jeez louise!
 
well the British are in the top 3 for polite world tourists: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/257047

behind the Japanese of course - we used to be 2nd but now the germans are. canadians are 4th.

lets face it - if it wasnt for the legions of adolescents decending on the continent and behaving like kids we'd probably be no1.

i really despair at the sheer number of our own citizens that really convince themselves that we are impolite.

http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=ps...1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=a5a33dd5101bdb24

edit: actually i think we are currently 2nd
 
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I find you get the same thing more locally. In my experience people speak badly of London when they have hardly ever been there, let alone lived there...!

In fairness, I sometimes do the same about the north, so I guess its all based on stereotypes.
 
bledd. said:
I am not an agony aunt?
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I lol'd at this. haha 5 stars.

semi-pro waster said:
Quebec - not French enough for the French and too French for the rest of the Canadians...
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This is so true.

EVH said:
You sound like a bit of a gypsy. Pick a country, and stick with it, would ya.

Jeez louise!
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I like travelling while I'm young, I will probably stop when I'm 25/26 and settle down but for now, why not? :D Oh and there's no picking, it will probably always be the UK for me in the end.

Raikiri said:
For the love of...

They're arrogant? You can't even be bothered to learn the language!
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That's a pretty arrogant statement. :p
 
A fun way to annoy some of the more nationalistic Canadians is to start talking aboot independence for Quebec. I used to drive a Canadian friend into fits of rage by arguing aboot it.
 
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