LBmuskoka
So You Wanna Be Canadian
Posted on: 06/02/2010 05:59
This one's for Pilgrim's Progress...
and if it makes you smile, you are a Canadian!
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LBmuskoka
This one's for Pilgrim's Progress...
and if it makes you smile, you are a Canadian!
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puppypaws
This video made my morning!
Posted on: 06/02/2010 06:05
This video made my morning!
Beloved
I enjoyed it!
Posted on: 06/02/2010 14:13
Pilgrims Progress
Sheesh, I smiled - this
Posted on: 06/02/2010 16:38
Sheesh, I smiled - this Summer I'll be more than happy to be a Canadian, eh?
Gotta admit though, that this gal will always love chilling out with koalas. Their home is the eucalytus tree, and on a hot Summer's day that distinctive eucalyptus scent spells "home" to every dinkum Aussie.
Once, while out walking in Greece, I came across some eucalytus trees and unbidden tears came to my eyes. Sometimes you've got to leave your country to know how much it means to you.
While your country is a part of who you are, it's really people who matter. In my experience, connecting and sharing with others is what life's really about - and what country you originate from has often very little to do with it.
(Sheesh - now I'm soon to be a Canadian - I'd better remember my manners. Thanks for this, LB!)
Kinst
Very jokes.
Posted on: 06/02/2010 16:52
Very jokes.
Tabitha
Step 2 buy a canoe-loved it!
Posted on: 06/02/2010 21:48
Step 2 buy a canoe-loved it!
Elanorgold
Love it!! Gonna send it to my
Posted on: 06/03/2010 00:28
Love it!! Gonna send it to my friends. Funny, catchy and so true! I think I'd buy the 45!
Pilgrim, when you say about walking in Greece, I had the same thing in England in the evergreen plantations, the right trees, but so forgeinly planted in weird unnatural rows with no undergrowth. And in the Lake District, Northern England, they have hills, but not really mountains, and we were out for a walk, and I saw something poking out of the clouds and my heart leapt as I thought it was a real mountain, but alas no...it was only another cloud. That made me homesick. Then again going up to Scotland, they have mountains and wilderness sortof like BC, it was a bit like going home. I appreiate your words about it being the people who matter. Hubby focuses on that thought, but we both miss the UK, terribly at times. We plan to retire there.
Tyson
WHAT?!?!? No mention of
Posted on: 06/03/2010 00:37
WHAT?!?!? No mention of Rush,back bacon or beer.
Hilary
do we say "please" too
Posted on: 06/03/2010 01:01
do we say "please" too often?
Great video. Thanks for sharing, LB.
LBmuskoka
Glad to spread some
Posted on: 06/03/2010 05:38
Glad to spread some smiles.
Pilgrim, you don have to live here to be Canadian! Here in Canada, we all are proud to be hyphenated, so you would be an Aussie-Canadian. My family has been here forever and we're still Scotch-Canadians. I'll always be stuck on a thistle....
As an aside and one with not so many smiles, the young man who made the video was recently interviewed on CBC about on line racism. He received a number of nasty comments on the above video about his obvious ancestral origins. He made a video response to the posted comments about how "He'll never be a real Canadian" and showed he is, indeed, Canadian because he responded to hate through humour.
LB
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
Virginia Woolf
jon71
Pilgrims Progress
Posted on: 06/03/2010 05:42
Sheesh, I smiled - this Summer I'll be more than happy to be a Canadian, eh?
Gotta admit though, that this gal will always love chilling out with koalas. Their home is the eucalytus tree, and on a hot Summer's day that distinctive eucalyptus scent spells "home" to every dinkum Aussie.
Once, while out walking in Greece, I came across some eucalytus trees and unbidden tears came to my eyes. Sometimes you've got to leave your country to know how much it means to you.
While your country is a part of who you are, it's really people who matter. In my experience, connecting and sharing with others is what life's really about - and what country you originate from has often very little to do with it.
(Sheesh - now I'm soon to be a Canadian - I'd better remember my manners. Thanks for this, LB!)
I think for me I get a little bit of that feeling from Kudzu.
jon71
I really liked that. I love
Posted on: 06/03/2010 05:43
I really liked that. I love America, but Canada really rocks too. On a lot of points you all do have us beat cold.
LBmuskoka
Jon, except perhaps for
Posted on: 06/03/2010 07:12
Jon, except perhaps for Siberia, we have everyone beat by "cold"
LB
Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts.
Pierre Trudeau
Pilgrims Progress
LBmuskoka wrote: Pilgrim, you
Posted on: 06/03/2010 16:15
Pilgrim, you don have to live here to be Canadian! Here in Canada, we all are proud to be hyphenated, so you would be an Aussie-Canadian. My family has been here forever and we're still Scotch-Canadians. I'll always be stuck on a thistle....
Ahem, in view of the fact that my Dad was Scottish, I feel a correction is in order.
Och, ye no right, lassie - scotch comes as a wee dram - ye are a Scots-Canadian.
myst
Love the video LB, thanks for
Posted on: 06/03/2010 22:26
Love the video LB, thanks for sharing it!
LBmuskoka
Pilgrims Progress
Posted on: 06/04/2010 05:20
Ahem, in view of the fact that my Dad was Scottish, I feel a correction is in order.
Och, ye no right, lassie - scotch comes as a wee dram - ye are a Scots-Canadian.
Och well there lassie, if we're gonna be paticular t'be Glaswegian-Canadian even if Glasgow be ta earth bound 'ome of 'ell*
* ed note: present day Glasgow is a beautiful city but according to my grandmother who left in 1921 it was the very definition of hell on earth, yet she was always proud to say she was from Glasgow even though she was born in Ireland!
LB
It is said that all Scots have a sense of humor
- because it is a free gift !
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Yasu
I love this clip! My feeling
Posted on: 06/04/2010 12:22
I love this clip! My feeling is similar to jon71's comment: I love Japan but Canada totally rocks too!
Elanorgold
Love the Scots talk! I can
Posted on: 06/05/2010 22:33
Love the Scots talk! I can just hear it!
It makes me fume that people would say he wasn't a real canadian because he was asian decent. Get real! He grew up here, and he's as Canadian as the next guy! There were plenty of Canada born Asian kids in my school. I was friends with a chinese canadian guy and was at grad with him, and he was as Canadian as the guy in that video, or me, or anybody, and a very sweet person, with cute floppy hair!