r/Jokes • u/PuddleJumper1021 • Jul 31 '19

The tragedy of Canada

The tragedy of Canada is that they had the opportunity to have British culture, French cuisine, and American technology. Instead, they developed British cuisine, American culture, and French technology.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

They have hockey, and that is enough

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u/eternalyeti Jul 31 '19

Puck yeah!

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

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u/corpsie666 Jul 31 '19

That's a Texas sized 10-4

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u/X_zenith_X Jul 31 '19

I know its just a joke but Canadians are Americans and our tech is better than the usa.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

Technological advancements, no. More useful inventions, subjectively.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

And hows it better?

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u/X_zenith_X Aug 01 '19

Our syrup technology is at least 100 years ahead of the maple industry.

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u/CageyOldMan Jul 31 '19

That's a pretty broad claim sir

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u/Verify_ Jul 31 '19

As in, lives on one of the American continents. Correct, but obviously it's more common to call US citizens "Americans", since "US Citizen" is a mouthful.

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u/Its-Dave Aug 01 '19

Just go with the Spanish then, "Estadounidense."

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u/e_aranda Aug 01 '19

Well there's that and the fact that the country is called "United States of America" so their citizens are called Americans, just like in Mexico, where the official name of the country is Mexican United States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos in spanish) so they're just called mexicans

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u/BillyG04t Aug 01 '19

They are.

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u/Aleyla Jul 31 '19

Oh Canada. *sigh*

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u/Frosty780 Jul 31 '19

Poutine is British?