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[bzombo]

Stanley Woo wrote...

G30rg13 wrote...
(But I still hate the metric system with an undying passion... just so you know.)

I can understand that. I mean, the metric system is certainly the tool of the devil, requiring so much memorization and math to convert.

1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 63,360 inches
1 km = 10 hm = 100 dam = 1000 m = 10,000 dm = 100,000 cm = 1,000,000 mm

1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints
1 L = 10 dL = 100 cL = 1000mL

1 ton = 2000 pounds = 16,000 ounces
1 kg = 10hg = 100 dag = 1000 g = 10,000 dg = 100,000 = cg = 1,000,000 mg

32 degrees - 212 degrees Fahrenheit
0 degrees - 100 degrees Celsius

that said, I have a better frame of reference for Imperial units for height and weight.

the metric system was when "dumbing down" was officially invented.

[Weiser_Cain]

TheSpaceKraken wrote...

I live in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia where there are more German-Canadians than French-Canadians and the temperature gets up around 35 degrees celsius in the summer.

Some great things about Canada are poutine, hockey, basketball, Tim Hortons, the invention of the telephone, and BioWare.

Bioware's a US company now.

[Sloth Of Doom]

[quote]Weiser_Cain wrote...
BioWare.[/quote]Bioware's a US company now.
[/quote]

No, Bioware is OWNED by a US company. 

[Weiser_Cain]

Yeah, just like Canada...

[Tooneyman]

Canada gave us bioware. Thats what!

[Cra5y Pineapple]

The general opinion in our society in Britiain is that it's the USA with all the bad bits taken out and some more snow.

[Weiser_Cain]

Tooneyman wrote...

Canada gave us bioware. Thats what!

They also give us the worse winters.

[Weiser_Cain]

Syncrosonix wrote...

i actually enjoy canadian winters, and i live all the way down in arizona. i learned how to drive on icy roads by canadian truckers. some of the most interesting truckers i've ever had the pleasure of speaking to have been canadian. i drove on this road somewhere in the boonies of alberta for nearly 400 miles.

Yeah well I've done thirty years in Chicago. As far as I'm concerned Canada can keep it's weather.

[TimelessWinter]

1. we have Mr-Dress-up

2. our beer doesnt suck

3. Poutine



What more needs to be said?

[Weiser_Cain]

Syncrosonix wrote...

Weiser_Cain wrote...

Syncrosonix wrote...

i actually enjoy canadian winters, and i live all the way down in arizona. i learned how to drive on icy roads by canadian truckers. some of the most interesting truckers i've ever had the pleasure of speaking to have been canadian. i drove on this road somewhere in the boonies of alberta for nearly 400 miles.

Yeah well I've done thirty years in Chicago. As far as I'm concerned Canada can keep it's weather.

you can keep your gawd awful traffic along i90/94. {=oÞ there's nothing worse than hitting gridlock on an early sunday morning.

The price of big business in a big city.

TimelessWinter wrote...

1. we have Mr-Dress-up
2. our
beer doesnt suck
3. Poutine

What more needs to be said?

1 ???
2 Beer sucks, period.
3 I really wouldn't brag about that as it sounds like something you'd throw together when you forget to go shopping for about a month.

[MajorStranger]

One thing that will make Canada win the Moral fight against the US:



Frederick Banting and Charles Best worked over a year on the potential of Insulin as a treatment for Diabetes. (which 18 milions US citizen is affected) As soon as they finished work, they negotiate the Insulin Patent with a American Medical corporation. They sold it for the price of 1$. Why? Because 1$ is the minimal price to pay for a Patent in Canada. They would have give it for free if they wouldn't have problem with the Canadian scientific society. Money didn't matter for them, Only saving as much life as possible.



Canada 1

USA 0

[Wicked 702]

I love how this thread has gone from "tell me cool things about this country" to "let's bash another country that's not this country."

[TimelessWinter]

Wicked 702 wrote...

I love how this thread has gone from "tell me cool things about this country" to "let's bash another country that's not this country."

They started it

[Sago_mulch]

THE ONLY INVENTIONS THAT CANADA HAS EVER MADE ARE MILK IN BAGS, MOOSE CAVALRY, HOCKEY AND BIOWARE OH AND ALSO MAPLE SYRUP.

AMERIKUA IS BETTER. **** YEAH

[TimelessWinter]

Sago_mulch wrote...

THE ONLY INVENTIONS THAT CANADA HAS EVER MADE ARE MILK IN BAGS, MOOSE CAVALRY, HOCKEY AND BIOWARE OH AND ALSO MAPLE SYRUP.

AMERIKUA IS BETTER. **** YEAH

Actually. we invented:

Basketball,
the light bulb,
the gas mask, 
insulin,
the telephone,
five pin bowling,
the pacemaker,
the zipper,
the electric wheelchair,
poutine,
blackberries,
the electric oven,
lacrosse (which was technically invented by the first nations),
the snowblower, 
Paint rollers,
Tracer Bullets,
the Fathometer,
Wireless Radio,
The push-up Bra,
and more.

So do your research before you bash my country you stupid uneducated American. <_<

Modifié par TimelessWinter, 07 juillet 2010 - 02:25 .

[Wicked 702]

I only come back for the Maple Sugar....

.....oh, and to see my extended family too I guess.



mmmmmmm, Maple Sugar!

[mousestalker]

Actually the invention of the pacemaker is totally explained by the invention of poutine. Necessity being the mother of invention and all. Likewise maple sugar and insulin.

[smecky-kitteh]

this thread is still going, eh?

[A Killing Sound]

This thread will keep going until the Americans admit they suck compared to Canadians.

[A Killing Sound]

So is the USA North-South America? I'm confused by your logic sir.