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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 5, 2012 - 12:46am PT
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Anders notwithstanding of course.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Only been to the Squamish, Vancouver and Toronto areas. Had a blast in each of these places.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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BOOOOORIING!!
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alannamal
climber
B.C.
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Couldn't be more boring from a climber's point of view: no rad mountains, no epic rock, no sick ice, just boring old plains and tundra. Got to go to Amerika for the good stuff!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Thank you for noticing us.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I love to visit the rels in Barrie - it's like Modesto on Prozac with a side of Wonder Bread.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Nuthin clean. All mossy, loose n shite.
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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I'm from B.C., yeah... kinda lame , you're right...
I've heard the East of Canada is really where it's at yo.
You should check it out... yo.
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MisterE
Social climber
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Is Canada As Boring as it Looks?
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Yes. We are boring. Nothing to see or buy here. Stay in America. Keep yer friends and family in America too.
Sorry, it's too late. We are all fecked now.
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MisterE
Social climber
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I guess we have solved the whole cheese thing, what with Tillamook.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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They have a pretty cool navy.
And if you move there everyone gets to drive one of these.
They don't have problems with healthcare
this is how they do surgery.
I heard that this is what the females look like
though this guy might be your neighbor
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dugillian
Trad climber
Vancouver
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You don't want to come here.....Most of Canada is a wasteland after we squeezed out all of our oil for you thirsty Yanks. Probably best if you just stay home and enjoy your wonderful Hinterlands.
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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Holy Moly Climbski, I'm off to look at more of Mr Donahues Photos.
Sorry for the typos, either me or my 'puter got excited.
Oh yeah, this is from a Newfie living in Montucky.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Hinterlands, mmmmmmmmmmm
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sandstone conglomerate
climber
sharon conglomerate central
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I stay south of that border because of the way out is pronounced...its seedy, like a drunken clown.
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Dos XX
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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If you're an aficionado of the sound of urban gunfire, then yes, boring as hell.
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Canada?
Send me to Gitmo instead.
And if you meet any Canadians, don't forget to remind them: it's inhale, then exhale, then repeat.
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Celine_Dion
Trad climber
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Boring? Your Vegas strip would be a ghost town without my Canadian effervescence.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Yes, it's completely flat, and they have one hundred and thirty-two words for different kinds of snow, except in Vancouver where they have over two hundred different words for rain.
That's why I left.
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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No wonder Jim is always building Starbucks. It's not the talls or the grandes, it's the double D's.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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So, justthemaid, did you just wake up bored, or ... ?
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Compared to Thousand Oaks, even Rio looks tiresome...
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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we took a family vacation to canada sometime in the 60s. dad had gotten a super 8 and spent most of the very boring vacation--sudbury, ottawa, montreal, quebec city--filming things like the changing of the guard.
what i want to know is, do those idiots in red coats and bearskin babushkas make canadian powers-that-be feel any safer than our overweight skinheads in fresh-out-of-the-box nikes?
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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I remember chatting to some old timer at Desert Hot Springs 25 years ago and he thought we all lived in igloos and got around on snowmobiles. Classic. He had obviously spent too much time in the sun.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2012 - 10:41am PT
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Someone remind me again..
Where exactly is Canada? I think someone told me it is in northern Texas or the Russian Gulag or something. Red suits? My guess is Gulag.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Where exactly is Canada?
Yeah, it's a bit hard to find. You have to go north through Washington and into Alaska. Then you keep heading north for a while through Siberia until you reach the North Pole. From there, you continue north for quite a long way, and eventually you reach Canada.
You'll know you're there when this guy pops out from behind a big snowdrift and mumbles "How's your beaver, eh?"
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Picture it thus way:
gawd, they all talk funny.
(don't change it, malemute.)
:-D
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I hear it's as boring as bouldering
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Boring
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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"As American as mom and apple pie" (never did figure out why United Statesians has any monopoly on either).
"As Canadian as it was possible to be in the circumstances".
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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I lived in cold, frigid, snowy upstate New York for a while.
The summers were short and cool. The leaves started changing in mid August.
Winters were brutal. Four feet of snow with each storm.
And then....
I realized that there was a whole other country even further north....
My tuk is off to my Canuk friends, even the Quebexicans.
Did you know that most people incorrectly spell the country's name?
It is spelled with only 3 letters, and all 3 are consonants:
C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?
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Grampa
Trad climber
OC in So Cal
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I married a Canadian and after many visits, I can tell you, stay home. There is no reason to go to Canada.
The place is dangerous. Here is typical wildlife in downtown Calgary:
The summer ice climbing sucks:
Summers are way too cold:
The lakes have white stuff in them:
You have been warned, do not go to Canada.
[Oh yea, they also are our number 2 supplier of oil, from those evil oil sands.]
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired in Appalachia
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Thanks Malemute
Actually I love Canada. Vancouver is my favorite city in the whole world. I regularly go up to Toronto and kayak on the Ottawa River. I am even a collector of First Nations art.
Eh?
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MH2
climber
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Yup, that's Canada. Happy to show you and explain it to you.
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Grampa
Trad climber
OC in So Cal
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Sorry, I forgot mention the fishing is awful. This is all my son could catch on his second day fishing in Saskatchewan.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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Yeah, those Bugaboos are the WORST! Same with that Squamish place.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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This is all my son could catch on his second day fishing in Saskatchewan.
Where did he catch that one? I grew up in Saskatchewan and guided on the rivers in the north. I think I once ate that fish's great, great, great grandfather.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Yes, you would not like Canada; no guns well very few plus no cameras looking at you 24/7, not enough Mac Donald’s or Taco Bell restaurants. If you get caught drinking and driving the cops take your plates away, have to leave your vehicle where they pulled you over and telling you to pick them up the next day making you pay for a cab to get home or if you lucky can get free transportation. Give you a warning when you do pick them up and next time insurance $$$. Not like here where they haul you away, you have to pay for towing, a ticket plus your insurance $$$ or go to school pay $$$$$ so it won’t show up with DMV but does.
You can smoke a joint in front of the Parliament Building in Victoria, B.C. with an R.C.M.P. looking at you and he will do nothing; that’s not fun, you would hope he would take your stash and haul you off to jail.
And then there is no smog on the west coast so you would not like that but if you go east there is a place that is south of the border that has plenty. Wait a minute how can the USA be north of Canada? Reaganomics made sure of that telling the Canadians screw you we have an economy we need to run, no to regulations, “ global warming”, you are talking and acting like Communists “What’s your name or the name of your group?”.
And then there is too much blue skies/oceans and green colours not like the L.A. basin when you fly in and looks like the edge of a toilet bowl; the ones that are in the gas stations and alike.
Plus they do not use pesticides well just a tad not like the thousand we use. So you wouldn’t like their farms.
It was the Canadians with their higher octane beer to teach the US “Oh! So this is beer” but you have to run just in time to make sure you get it. Of course everywhere you go is the picture of the Queen of England, everywhere, even when you go in one of their many pubs and have to pee. Yep! There she is but at least she is not looking at you.
Hell! The Canadians smoke and eat at the same time at a restaurant, where will they do that here
And the women are different; they are a little whiter in colour than our Southern California types at the beach. They are smarter or better educated not like the ones that just ran for Miss USA and have no clue who was the V.P of our country.
Nothing to do as well like fishing; fresh salmon compared to dead ten day old bought at the store here.
Stay here much more fun.
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Grampa
Trad climber
OC in So Cal
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Ghost,
Lac Des Isles ( hope I spelled it right ). The fish is at a taxidermist in Edmonton and hopefully his grandparents will bring it down to So Cal this fall.
I have done a lot of fresh and salt water fishing in Calif and Baja, but man, I really love fishing for pike. My son worked it for about 20 mins on 14lb line with a medium sized yellow "five diamonds".
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matty
Trad climber
under the sea
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Way boring...
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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Canada is wonderful, and its people are very civilized and polite (although a little passive-aggressive).
If you are a downhill bike racing, BC is heaven. Its bike parks are incomparable. I'm going back to Whistler in 2 months for the third time with my wife. (I hear they get some pretty good snow up there too.)
Canada also generates some of the best comedians in the US. They become so because we bomb 80 percent of the population with our radio and television, and they can't get away from it. Canadians love to despise the US and its citizens and practices.
Invariably I've come to enjoy and like most any Canadian I ever met.
And, sorry for being sexist, but the coeds at UWO where I taught could make a red-blooded man lose his capacity to speak. Wow. (Only UCLA has better anywhere.)
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sac
Trad climber
Sun Coast B.C.
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Yeah... but DUDE... obviously you haven't spent a winter here...
It suuuuuuuucks.
Specially the West... it just rains... and rains some more.
I won't even go there about the bugs... and the rain....
Yeah, sorry..
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MH2
climber
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Canadians love to despise the US
Well most of what we know comes from the TV. How can you blame us?
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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ask far and wide, folks with exciting neighbors generally dig ours, eh?
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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And the very worst thing about Canada, at least if you're a climber, is that there is nothing worth climbing there.
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Canada is pretty sh#t yeah. Canadian tuxedos are far from boring. My only negative thing to say about the place is...
Way too many of these damn haircuts up dare eh?
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Canada is like a poor man’s “Alaska”, or maybe it is the other way around.
Nothing to do but watch the hair grow on your girlfriends legs or shovel snow. And why is their dollar so strong, used to be linked to the peso and a nice place to visit, now you can’t afford to drink there.
All joking aside, I don’t think it gets much better than BC or Alberta.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
The Illuminati -- S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Division
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B-eautiful
O-riginal
R-espectful
I-ntelligent
N-ice
G-enerous
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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And their jazz festivals are so boring, so boring that Les Paul showed up on Vancouver Island in the mid ‘80’s as well as a few other well-known famous jazz musicians. It continues today with Ten Hot Days and Nights of the Coolest Music in Town.
Yes stay here in the US, no fun there.
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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Yeah... but DUDE... obviously you haven't spent a winter here...
Well, I have--two of them, and before that I lived in Minneapolis / St. Paul and Wisconsin (hey?) for maybe 16 years. I can remember a day of -75 F below wind chill, and snow so high people had to use CB whip antenna with little orange balls on them so they could get through suburban intersections in the winter. One learns to dress and live in it. Sure I live in California, and the weather IS wonderful, I'll give you that. But there are things that Canada has going for it that I surely do wish the US would get on board with.
As a teacher of business, one of them I wouldn't want to import to the US is Canada's quick willingness to rely upon the government to bail its industries out of trouble.
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Stewart Johnson
climber
lake forest
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a cute chick ambles up and asked me...
do you know where split beaver is?
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Prod
Trad climber
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Their peeler bars are ALL NUDE.
Prod.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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It's true. We suck. Better to stay in 'Merica.
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Putein is unboring!
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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I love 'em, and of course there are lots of exceptions, but taken as a whole and averaging, nice, but boring.
Wait, I was talkin' about Canadiens.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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My first time in Canada was with this nice lady, we had a couple of drinks then found ourselves in bed a few hours later. After this fantastic sex, I being an American pull out one of her Canadian “Export” smokes on the table next to the bed, lit it up, kick backed looking towards the ceiling and asked her “Well! How was for you” and she said “eh”. Wow! I got an A.
Love those Canadian girls.
MH: got that one perfect
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matisse
climber
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MH posts up my favorite map
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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At least our porn stars don't chop up people, snack on their soft bits and then post the hard parts around the country.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Ricky--You wish!
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coastal_climber
Trad climber
Squamish, BC
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We convinced these cali climbers in the creek that we had time off work to climb. What do we do for work? We work on baby seal farms and we had to get back for the clubbing harvest.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 5, 2012 - 11:26pm PT
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Mmm baby seal. So I guess Canada's got that goin' for them.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Maybe that's why I didn't care for Saskas.....sasketch......Sascatchj.....That Cold fricken Prairie place! Where giant crawlers eat the prairies & spit out coal. A little "Veal Of The Sea" might spruce that place up nice.
Well, maybe.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Not boring! Way not boring!!
I rescheduled my annual sex tour this year. Thailand's played (though I got laid).
This year -- Manitoba Muff and Saskatchewan Snatch.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Even the Dead can get laid in Thailand. Those Canadian chicks don't really want you.......They're just cold. Of course they're friendly. ;-)
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WBraun
climber
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Americans are stupid.
They always think they are the best.
Canada is Awesome .....
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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justthemaid! maybe this guy would show you around?
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
B.C.
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A typical Canadian 'night out on the town'
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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For bonus points, who was Sir Wilfrid Laurier? (No google, now!)
I went to a school named for him, in grade 7.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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For bonus points, who was Sir Wilfrid Laurier?
C'mon Anders, I know Americans are stupid, but even they will see the clue in the picture you posted. Wilfred Laurier was obviously a ship-builder.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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I've said it before:
99.2% of Canadians can locate the US on a map of North America
62.4% of Americans can locate Canada
84.1% of Canadians care about what Americans think about Canada
1.05% of Americans "care" about Canadians think about America
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jstan
climber
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I think the Canadians might prefer, based upon our long history, to drill from behind Mt. Rushmore but coming up from below.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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This year, and through 2014, we're celebrating our victory over you know who in a war 200 years ago. We've been trying to do it politely, though, so as not to perturb the neighbours. In fact, you probably hadn't even noticed, had you?
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MisterE
Social climber
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When I was a kid, I thought Dudly Do-Right was THE MAN!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Thanks Grover! That was great.
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Reeotch
Trad climber
4 Corners Area
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YAWN . . .
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Even major monuments are more boring in Canada
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Reeotch
Trad climber
4 Corners Area
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
B.C.
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from http://geography.about.com/od/politicalgeography/a/5440orfight.htm
The boundary established by the Oregon Treaty still exists today between the United States and independent Canada.
Although Anders is referencing the war of 1812, not the Oregon Treaty... He probably assumes we won because the white house was burned down on Aug 24th of 1814, and such. 'Twas an odd war. One of the interesting notes is that after the war Britain paid over a million in compensation to US slave owners after offering them freedom.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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If Trudeau ever appears on our notes, I will have to burn my money.
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hamish f
Social climber
squamish
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Wow, you sure don't read that every day.
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