This cute couple was beat down by a freaking US rest stop rent-a-cop for accidentally parking in a 'official spot'..
"YOU CAN'T PARK HERE!"
"YOU WILL GO TO JAIL!"
this one I loved..
"ARE YOU FROM CANADA?"
.. at which time I LOUDLY stated..
"Welcome to the USA, now go home you unwelcome fucking Canadians, eh?"
The rent-a-cop slinked away as I was REALLY PISSED..
and the pix of the Canadian couple says it all -
Why are some many 'mericans rude? I've NOT experienced anything close to that rudeness when I visit Canada...
..Edit
I love the fact this couple got the bigger picture - and just laughed at it.
MEM replies
Posted 07 September 2011 - 08:32 PM
dcarver, on 07 September 2011 - 08:17 PM, said:
This cute couple was beat down by a freaking US rest stop rent-a-cop for accidentally parking in a 'official spot'..
"YOU CAN'T PARK HERE!"
"YOU WILL GO TO JAIL!"
this one I loved..
"ARE YOU FROM CANADA?"
.. at which time I LOUDLY stated..
"Welcome to the USA, now go home you unwelcome fucking Canadians, eh?"
The rent-a-cop slinked away as I was REALLY PISSED..
and the pix of the Canadian couple says it all -
Why are some many 'mericans rude? I've NOT experienced anything close to that rudeness when I visit Canada...
..Edit
I love the fact this couple got the bigger picture - and just laughed at it.
That's RICH, dcarver !
Hey, the climate makes us TOUGH. We laugh at freaking US rest stop rent-a-cops (and other stuff )
We love you, too, dcarver
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dcarver replies
Bless your freaking heart MEM - just check out the faces/smiles on this pix of the Canadians.. at about .2 seconds after I blasted the ugly American.. that's what makes this pix 'alive' and 'fun' in MHO...
WFOSHEE
Posted 07 September 2011 - 09:23 PM
OTOH, like so many rent-a-cops out there, with nearly no training and no experience with the public, the uniform becomes a power trip for them. Dammit, they are "IN CHARGE," something they've been looking forward to since getting kicked out of A/V club in middle school so they couldn't run filmstrip projectors any more.
MEM
Posted 08 September 2011 - 07:08 PM
Then there's <THIS> f**ktard - caught spray painting a rock face in the Grand Canyon.
"Lucien Lionel Chenier"*....I can't editorialize without it being deemed political
WFOOSHEE
Boy, that would certainly make me proud! Find where my dad defaced a national resource so I could see it later!
To quote one of my favorite cartoon characters, "What a maroon!"
dcarver
Oooh, wow,
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I'm impressed, not.
Wing vs legs.
Ying vs Yang.
Darksiders vs. MotoTires.
The wonderful Canadian peeps I've met on the road still FAR outweigh this jerk.
FARWESTEDDIE
I's sorry, but, to do $1000 dollars damage to a fuggin rock by spray painting it........ in a few months the sun will wipe away any residue of paint.... Sensitive area..... a rock? my crotch is a sensitive area..... not a rock.
While I loathe taggers, graffitti artists and general lowlife homey turds, I also loathe the National Park loons who describe as fugging rock as a sensitive cultural area.Ya the guy was/is a turd. The NPS want to make federal case out of it, give the canuck a wire brush, make him scrub the rock, then scrub his own "sensitive" area. Case closed.
I love Canadians for two things
Great Beer! and cool togues (sp) so, take off to the great white north eh, take off! its a beauty way to go.... Doug & Bob McKenzie...
FWFE
"The weather is here, I wish you were beautiful"
MEM
Posted 08 September 2011 - 08:47 PM
FarWestFastEddie, on 08 September 2011 - 08:04 PM, said:
I love Canadians for two things
Great Beer! and cool togues (sp) so, take off to the great white north eh, take off! its a beauty way to go.... Doug & Bob McKenzie...
FWFE
FWFE - if you like Doug & B McK, you'd LOVE these guys ("big plans, little brains")
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BRAMFRANK
Posted 09 September 2011 - 03:51 AM
If the painter had done his deed 5,000 years ago, wearing a loin cloth and including outlines of stick figure men, Bison and other wildlife (which he might have done had the locals not yelled at him, forcing him to toss his artist's materials into the canyon after completing only the first four letters of what might have turned out to be a Snoopy tribute (perhaps he intended to draw a picture of Luci and Charley Brown after writing the caption?)), today we'd be hiking to that same rock to see his handiwork and academics would insist he be in awe of his accomplishments. So maybe he was simply preparing the site so his descendants could seek funding to study the habits of 'ancient man' at some point down the road?
There was no ecological damage resulting from his graffiti - if they must get rid of it, then perhaps instead of spending $20K scrubbing away the offending artwork they should just paint it over using a $2 spray can of 'sandstone brown'. No one would ever know the difference.
Besides, one of today's most recognised modern day traveler's phrases comes from graffiti . . . maybe society was robbed of a similar opportunity.
Kilroy was here!!
MEM
Posted 09 September 2011 - 06:26 AM
bramfrank, on 09 September 2011 - 03:51 AM, said:
If the painter had done his deed 5,000 years ago, wearing a loin cloth and including outlines of stick figure men, Bison and other wildlife (which he might have done had the locals not yelled at him, forcing him to toss his artist's materials into the canyon after completing only the first four letters of what might have turned out to be a Snoopy tribute (perhaps he intended to draw a picture of Luci and Charley Brown after writing the caption?)), today we'd be hiking to that same rock to see his handiwork and academics would insist he be in awe of his accomplishments.
Besides, one of today's most recognised modern day traveler's phrases comes from graffiti . . . maybe society was robbed of a similar opportunity.
Kilroy was here!!
I've seen wonderful graffiti that's become somewhat treasured as legitimate artwork - and, in some instances, encouraged (even Fredericton has put up a board for graffiti artists to 'have at it'). Buddy was, egotistically, spray-painting his name.
BTW, Charlie Brown's 'Luci' spells her name Lucy
AND, with this, I'm outta here !!!
TheZsDad
"The wonderful Canadian peeps I've met on the road still FAR outweigh this jerk."
Gunny +
I did contract work in Canada for 3 years 1998,99 and 00. Met lots of great people
from Vancouver to Montreal yes even on the French side. Always spent a minimum
of 3 months in each location. Got invited to peoples home for dinner and had some parties
thrown for me when I left. Hmmm guess that could be taking another way.
The few jerks I met were immigrants to Canada. I hope not but there policy on immigration
could be there down fall someday.
Bungie
Posted 09 September 2011 - 10:13 AM
TheZsdad, on 09 September 2011 - 08:46 AM, said:
To late for that sentiment.
Fred W
Posted 09 September 2011 - 10:21 AM
TheZsdad, on 09 September 2011 - 08:46 AM, said:
could be there down fall someday.
So which ones weren't immigrants? You working with a lot of Indians and Eskimos (kind'a redundant).
But I'm sure that what you meant was "recent immigrants" were the problem children. Right?
Ignacio
Posted 09 September 2011 - 10:40 AM
TheZsdad, on 09 September 2011 - 08:46 AM, said:
could be there down fall someday.
In case anybody was wondering when this ceased being remotely related to FJRs, went off the rails as political, and got the thread shut down for everybody.
Canadiens/Canadians I like em both
Got some great advice when I went to Canada, "Drink Canada Dry"
Well I gave it my best shot. :^)
"Trouble...
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
Trouble been doggin' my soul since the day I was born"
No body knows, the
..trouble I've seen!
I like Candian Club whiskey... does that count?
Canada Dry
Son of a gun... I always thought that was just a name. I had to google it to find out that it actually did originate in Canada, though it is now apparently owned by Dr Pepper of Tehas.
So, Canadian Club and Canada Dry together... that would be a Canadian Highball, right?
I like most Canadians but not the Canadiens.
And I prefer pretty much any kind of bourbon to Canadian.
Oh jeeze... it all gets so confusing. Couldn't we just call you northerners CanAms (Canadian Americans)? KInd of like Native Americans, but with tuques.
Fred W - you have totally confused me?
HUH?