90% German and 10% Huguenot…
But living in Canada… so believe me when I say that Canada-US relations are like the Scotland-England relations or the Austria-Germany relations.
The latter is one of the former’s main trade partner, but neither really like each other 
Well, ever since I got to know Nick, I have changed my opinion about Americans and I know think there really Cool…Like Nick!:lol:
Are things really that bad between Canadians and Americans? Being in the Southeastern United States we don’t really have the contact with Canadians like the Yankees do so I don’t really know how relations are. If it makes you feel better we Southerners don’t have the highest regard for the average yank either. :lol: We have been known to accept them once they prove themselves though.
I can claim to work with a few Newfies and they mesh just fine with us down here but from what they say they are regarded as the backwards, uneducated people of Canada so we have that common ground. 
Well, all I can say is that our Newfies speak about as good english as you Southerners speal english, with the accent and all. (Although I just Love it when a girl from the South speaks, cause her accent is so very cute!..Rrrrrr
You mean speak?
We have the only dialect that anyone else that speaks English can understand so how is our dialect wrong? Everyone else just needs to slow down and enjoy life a little.:mrgreen:
Maybe the word relations was a poor choice. I guess ‘Opinion’ would be better. And in fact, Canadians base a lot of their bad opinions and dislike of Americans on Southerners… (Rednecks, Bush, etc)
Ah it makes more sense now. Well people having negative opinions of Southerners dates back to the formation of this country and I am sure will continue. As long as the majority of people that form these negative opinions of us have never been here it doesn’t bother me too much.
Oh and as far as not liking Southerners because of Bush, what about Clinton or Carter? They were both southerners. Hell im going to count Regan too, he thought he was a cowboy :lol:
In America, Texans are not generally considered to be “Southern”, That appellation is normally used to describe those who live East of texas, but south of What is popularly called the “Mason-Dixon line” basically, south of the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,and Illinois.
Maybe us Texans get lumped into the “southern” description by having fought with the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War. But I have considered myself to be a southerner. Except being born in Pennsylvania, then down here I’m considered Yankee…gets complicated.:mrgreen:
Well, I’m afraid the Americans are alone with that. It’s the same as how Europeans refer to Americans as Yanks, whereas Americans refer to Northerners as Yanks.
And I agree, Dixie. As many poor opinions as people might have of Southerners (and I include Texans in this), every Southerner I have ever personally encountered was extremely friendly and easy to be around.
This is true. In fact, you could say that Bush was a fabricated cowboy southerner as he was largely raised in Yankee, blue blood Ivy League New England and probably had more in common with Kerry and the Kennedy clan than he did with Roy Rogers…
Personally, I think hicks and red necks are people who lack education and any sort of interest in getting any. And there are plenty of those everywhere…
The irony being is that the term “red neck” comes from union coal miners that wore red scarves and were socialists in many cases…
Actually Bush wasn’t much of a fabricated cowboy, hell he was born in Connecticut. Other southern states are not a strict but in Texas your not a true Texan until your a third generation Texan.
Nick the definition of “redneck” is one thing that causes some misunderstandings. See what y’all (I had to throw a y’all in there :lol: ) call a redneck is called a hick or just white trash down here. To us a redneck is just simply people who do things like hunt, fish, and ride four wheelers. Stuff like that. And by our definition I proudly claim to be a redneck
Hicks or white trash to us are the people that are broke, trashy, living in the trailer park, married to there cousin, and with no education or desire to get one. You know, the mental picture of what most people think southerners are and I can’t deny that there are some down here. That is a redneck by everyone else’s standards but not to us so of course southerners get all riled up about being misunderstood.
Well it is nice to know there are still some people that actually meet people from regions before judging the entire group based on stereotypes. Though I should warn you, we still are a bit touchy about people calling us Yanks. It may not get you shot with a 1860 Colt Army anymore :lol: but you will be clarified on your mistake. It is about the same as mistakenly calling someone from Scotland or Northern Ireland English.
From Toronto Star Newspaper…
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina sheriff who investigated Michael Phelps after he was photographed smoking from a marijuana pipe is joking about the uproar it caused, but standing by his decision to probe the superstar swimmer.
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott wore a bulletproof vest to guard against “pot shots” at a Rotary Club speech this week that combined good humour with a sober warning about illegal drugs.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s Michael Phelps or who it is. If you break the law, you’ve got to be held to the same standard,” Lott said during the Monday speech. “That’s what the law’s all about.”
In a video posted on the (Columbia) State newspaper’s website, Lott responded point-by-point to much of the criticism he heard. In response to claims that he was going after Phelps for publicity, he said he turned down interview requests from Jay Leno, Geraldo Rivera, Diane Sawyer and Larry King.
“If I wanted 15 minutes of fame, I could have got about 35 hours if I wanted to,” he said. But, he decided, “This wasn’t about publicity. This wasn’t about me. It was about what was doing right.”
Lott initially said he would look into the Olympic swimmer with 14 gold medals after a British tabloid published a picture of him smoking from a marijuana pipe at a party in Columbia last November. Last week, the sheriff announced there was not enough evidence to charge Phelps, who acknowledged using “bad judgment” after the photo appeared.
…so what pisses me off about this is that the Sherrif has got nothing better to do then probe some guy who smoked a joint. is there no murders or rapists that this Sherrif can probe?. What is he going to do?, bug Phelps phone, intercepr his emails and speak to his neighbours if Phelps is operating a gro-op?.Jeesh!..Give the guy a frigin break already. Why do we spit on the heroes of our country when they do minor stupid things like smoking a joint. the Guy won zoodles of Gold Medals for America. Why defame him over bullshit. The Sherrif is going to look into this Big crime with a fingerdusting kit cause he thinks he is the Sherrif saviour of the world.
if an American vet who saved children from a burning building and carried fellow soldiers to safety away from flying bullets and bombing; was to smoke a joint afterwards; would the police arrest him and charge him, and invest a 10 man team of investigators to look and probe into his illegal activities??..My God, Sherrif, get a Life! Its only a frigin joint; Leave the superstar alone and let him eminate the glory that America represents and do not belittle him with nuisance crap. If Phelps was Canadian, the toronto Police would have been joining him in smoking a joint, instyead of investigating him, for this so called heinous crime. Oh brother!
What pisses me off?
Idiots who take cellphone pics of people at a party when they’re not hurting anyone else…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8YTKu9D7o8
Joe Rogan, American comedian, weighed in on the Kelloggs corporation’s firing Phelps as a sponsor…
Yeah, one can only hope for him that he never hangs with that douche again.
That would defenitly piss me off if I was Phelps but you know what really pisses me off, people on a forum that ruin it for the others cough “colonel hogan, nazi kid, someone else that I can’t think of at the moment” cough.
People who don’t insure their houses and then expect to have them rebuilt at public expense after a predictable event, such as a bushfire in a bushfire area, demolishes their house.
Or just a housefire in a housefire area, being an area where there is a house and things like fat fires on stoves, electrical faults, melting computer screens, sparking ceiling fans, kids with matches, and so on can cause fires.
If you gamble that you can save a few hundred bucks a year on insurance and then lose your house, then you should just live with it when you lose the gamble.
This whinge has been provoked by public discussion / demands here that uninsured bushfire victims should have the rebuilding of their houses funded out of public donations and / or public funds.
Having donated a useful sum to the Red Cross bushfire relief fund, if they use it to fund rebuilding uninsured houses then that will probably be the last time I give anything to any disaster charity, at least without knowing exactly to what they’re going to apply it.
Ah now you see why I stopped giving money to the American Red Cross. I know the Red Cross does lots of good things but when they started showing up at planned protest marches and handing out free food and water I had enough.
I donated money to them to help with disaster relief, not to help out at planned events because people may be thirsty or hungry. :evil:
Which leads us into the next level of “Exactly where did my charity money go?”.
I gave to one of the major international relief organisations for the tsunamai disasters.
Apart from the absence of a receipt for or other response to my rather substantial credit card payment by internet (they apparently being so busy that they could only set up systems to receive money but not receipt or acknowledge it 
) :rolleyes: ), I have no idea where the money went. And, given what I’ve read since, there’s a bloody good chance that my money went somewhere else, and perhaps on funding some professional relief organisation fat cat(s) quartered in five star hotels while attending conferences attended by other fat cats on relieving poverty in the Third World etc etc, which they could do a sight more effectively if they spent their money on helping the people who need it instead of talking endlessly about how they’re going to help them, some day.
I knew all about the corruption in the charity industry before I gave for the tsunamai.
What really pisses me off is not that I probably wasted my money when I should have known better but that some bloated turd or turds plus a few spunky turdettes wasted it attending a conference in some flash location when the money wasted on that could have re-built a dozen villages in Indonesia or Thailand or wherever with disease-free water systems and other improvements to make the inhabitants’ lives safer, which is the sort of thing I wanted my money used for.