For all the money spent and lives lost we'd better get a good discount on our opium and hash.

This is one of those things that no matter how untrue the meme becomes it will never go away. And probably flame some Canadians in the meantime, if they're smart enough to get the joke.

US $... ahhh, that instrument of socialism.

How many banks more does the US Government own compared to say, Venezuala?

/Bush made you turn into pinkos

jaylectricity: This is one of those things that no matter how untrue the meme becomes it will never go away. And probably flame some Canadians in the meantime, if they're smart enough to get the joke.

Hell, that joke was going on when CAD was stronger then the USD.

Exchange rate jokes never get old. Really, they're so fresh and original, I'm glad that Canadian hater Drew greenlights this stuff. shows how much he cares.

Wait, the icebacks have dollars now? When did they stop trading in seal pelts and moose horns?

We'll just pay with war pogs. We're collecting a lot of them as change in Kandahar, even at Timmies.

GoDawgs!: Wait, the icebacks have dollars now? When did they stop trading in seal pelts and moose horns?

We switched to birds in like 1990 and then polar bear pelts in like 1999.

No YOU'RE a Towel: jaylectricity: This is one of those things that no matter how untrue the meme becomes it will never go away. And probably flame some Canadians in the meantime, if they're smart enough to get the joke.

Hell, that joke was going on when CAD was stronger then the USD.

I thought the joke was reversed for a while. Although CAD wasn't stronger for very long

Making exchange rate jokes about the US dollar is kind of embarrassing these days...

Ah it's OK, I for one am delighted with the good natured ribbing we get over our currency exchange.

Of course I go to bed knowing that my banking system isn't teetering on the brink of collapse too, so I guess we're even then.

$87? I heard it was about-a tree-fiddy.

What a farking complete waste. I'd rather have seen that all tossed into a furnace and saved the canadian lives.

GoDawgs!: Wait, the icebacks have dollars now? When did they stop trading in seal pelts and moose horns?

Yes, our financial system is ever so backward. Barter system, igloos, solvent financial institutions, banks with low leverage ratios...we are so out of touch with the modern ways. Sad.

Public Call Box: Ah it's OK, I for one am delighted with the good natured ribbing we get over our currency exchange.

Of course I go to bed knowing that my banking system isn't teetering on the brink of collapse too, so I guess we're even then.

You shouldn't, Canada's banks are not sufficiently separated from ours to avoid being dragged down with us during the collapse. Most of the world is pretty much screwed.

/Start investing in wampum again.

Darwin's Prophet: You shouldn't, Canada's banks are not sufficiently separated from ours to avoid being dragged down with us during the collapse. Most of the world is pretty much screwed.

The Canadians knew they would get kicked in the balls before the Americans did.

/ They don't have real news either
// But it's more of a news-like substance than American style

For all I hear about Canadians being nice, when they're on the internet they're some of the most butthurt, humorless, douchbaggy people I've ever seen. Of course, I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

Rethorn: I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

Dude. You live in Michigan.

Rethorn: Of course, I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

If?

Rethorn: For all I hear about Canadians being nice, when they're on the internet they're some of the most butthurt, humorless, douchbaggy people I've ever seen. Of course, I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

You'd be pissy and humourless too if for every one of you on the internet, there were 10 Americans, all completely uninformed and dead wrong.

In a few days my family and I will be flying down to Orlando to spend a lot of those CDN dollars.

I figure based on the unemployment rate in Florida, the deficit faced by all level so gov't that my CDN dollars will be viewed as pure blissful manna.

Great deals too, buy three days of Disney get two more days free, and the deals on renting condos are also amazing. Orlando is cheaper than mexico, not quite as dangerous tho...

DslainteC: Rethorn: Of course, I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

If?

A thousand times this.

PARITY, muthafukka...

DO YOU SPEAK IT??

Darwin's Prophet: Public Call Box: Ah it's OK, I for one am delighted with the good natured ribbing we get over our currency exchange.

Of course I go to bed knowing that my banking system isn't teetering on the brink of collapse too, so I guess we're even then.

You shouldn't, Canada's banks are not sufficiently separated from ours to avoid being dragged down with us during the collapse. Most of the world is pretty much screwed.

/Start investing in wampum again.

You're so right. RBC just announced their earnings, and they were down a whopping 17%. The poor company had a loss of $1 billion. What's that? Oh, sorry, it was a profit of $1 billion for the quarter.

hey Fark, you might want to check which Government asked which for bailout help.

use google. its handy.


hint:the American government asked the Canadian government if Canadian banks could help our banks with the bailout.


so much for your disguising Canadian "Socialism", eh??


/dev/null/republicans

mavrickatubc: GoDawgs!: Wait, the icebacks have dollars now? When did they stop trading in seal pelts and moose horns?

Yes, our financial system is ever so backward. Barter system, igloos, solvent financial institutions, banks with low leverage ratios...we are so out of touch with the modern ways. Sad.

Yea, but your only sport, we're better at. So stfu and make me some maple syrup.

Your headline sucks, guy.

I think the currency exchange jokes are lame, but seriously, $11 billion is a farking bargain compared to what we have paid for Bush's adventures.

Loucifer: Your headline sucks, guy.

I'mnot your guy pal.

No YOU'RE a Towel: jaylectricity: This is one of those things that no matter how untrue the meme becomes it will never go away. And probably flame some Canadians in the meantime, if they're smart enough to get the joke.

Hell, that joke was going on when CAD was stronger then the USD.

That joke was MORE common when the CAD was stronger than the USD.

SirMadness: Rethorn: For all I hear about Canadians being nice, when they're on the internet they're some of the most butthurt, humorless, douchbaggy people I've ever seen. Of course, I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

You'd be pissy and humourless too if for every one of you on the internet, there were 10 Americans, all completely uninformed and dead wrong.

A million times this!

\798,618.07 USD, adjusted.
\\and we'll still give a loan to our best friends.
\\\even if you guys can be real dicks sometimes.

I just talked to a friend in Canadaland today so I'm getting a kick ootta these replies.

/she doesn't say it like 'oot'

royal bank of canada: earnings down 15% in first quarter but still at 1.05 billion (new window). yeah btw even with the exchange rate that is a positive number. so yeah you wanna know more about how a banking system works or you all good over there?

Ooooh Canada bashing thread....

Canada sucks.

OlafTheBent: US $... ahhh, that instrument of socialism.

How many banks more does the US Government own compared to say, Venezuala?

/Bush made you turn into pinkos

Nationalization generally means taking it and owning it for a while. We aren't doing that. It was NEVER socialism, what Bush was doing. The government propping up big business is not socialism.

40below: We'll just pay with war pogs. We're collecting a lot of them as change in Kandahar, even at Timmies.

holy sh*t, they still sell pogs??

$11 billion Canadian, or roughly $87 American

[snort]


Fark You Canada. I go up there all the time, spend all kinds of dough up there.

When the dollar is good, you try to rip me off.

When the dollar is bad, you really try to rip me off.


I laugh at your retardation of ripping off Americans though, I always bring tons of your Monopoly money.

veale728: holy sh*t, they still sell pogs??

Yeah, you get them as small change everywhere on bases in Afstan, even ours. PXs, including the one in New Canada House at KAF, only take U.S. currency (Camp Mirage also takes [redacted local currency]) and anything less than a buck is paid out in pogs. Guess the state department doesn't want to haul around tons of change, and troops don't want pockets of jingling coins. I'm told they are collector's items.

Phil Herup: Fark You Canada. I go up there all the time, spend all kinds of dough up there.

When the dollar is good, you try to rip me off.

When the dollar is bad, you really try to rip me off.


I laugh at your retardation of ripping off Americans though, I always bring tons of your Monopoly money.

So, reading between the lines, what you're saying is that you bring foreign currency into a country and try to spend it. When they accommodate you by accepting your foreign currency, you get pissy because they don't do so at a rate that's favourable to you (yeah, favourable with a "u" motherfarker!). But now you're tricking the Canadians by actually exchanging your foreign currency for the local currency.

You, sir, are a cunning traveler.

Phil Herup: When the dollar is good, you try to rip me off.

When the dollar is bad, you really try to rip me off.

Because your right-wing choad aura is so powerfully strong.

I'd probably rip you off, too...

Lt. Cheese Weasel: Yea, but your only sport, we're better at. So stfu and make me some maple syrup.

Hockey? Majority of the players in the NHL are Canadian. We win far more international competitions than you at all levels of play.

Lacrosse? Yeah we kick your ass at that too.

Your post? Makes no sense.

hankhorsey: Phil Herup: Fark You Canada. I go up there all the time, spend all kinds of dough up there.

When the dollar is good, you try to rip me off.

When the dollar is bad, you really try to rip me off.


I laugh at your retardation of ripping off Americans though, I always bring tons of your Monopoly money.

So, reading between the lines, what you're saying is that you bring foreign currency into a country and try to spend it. When they accommodate you by accepting your foreign currency, you get pissy because they don't do so at a rate that's favourable to you (yeah, favourable with a "u" motherfarker!). But now you're tricking the Canadians by actually exchanging your foreign currency for the local currency.

You, sir, are a cunning traveler.

The worst is the American travelers who go into Canadian stores, pay with USD (which we will gladly take at some exchange rate set by the company) but get pissy because you don't give them USD back in change...

I mean WTF how stupid and ignorant can some people possibly be?

whidbey: I'd probably rip you off, too...


No, you wouldn't. That is not what you're about.

We'd be cool [fist bump]

Phil Herup: No, you wouldn't. That is not what you're about.

We'd be cool [fist bump]

As long as you didn't open your mouth and spout some stupid right wing talking point...as you're wont to do...

I got friends like that...

shinji3i: Rethorn: I suppose I'd be pissy if my country sucked too, so I can't blame them.

Dude. You live in Michigan.



Heh.

entropic_existence: The worst is the American travelers who go into Canadian stores, pay with USD (which we will gladly take at some exchange rate set by the company) but get pissy because you don't give them USD back in change...

I mean WTF how stupid and ignorant can some people possibly be?

Pretty damn stupid.

In michigan when I was waiting tables through college, I once waited on a party of canadians. At the end of the meal their professor comes up to me and tells me that they are college students and in addition to wanting 30 separate checks he was wondering if I could let them opt out of the mandatory party gratuity because they are only college students.

I told him I was a college student and instead of taking trips to other countries on my friday nights I was here at work. He says "well, then you understand how little money these guys have, I'm glad you could help us" and I say "no, I understand how your poor college class evidently has more money than me, so I'll be adding the gratuity, thank YOU for understanding my situation".

Not really a currency issue, but it is my opinion that a certain percentage of the human population is inclined to shiat all over any place they don't live.

Linux_Yes: hint:the American government asked the Canadian government if Canadian banks could help our banks with the bailout.

Shhh.... you are ruining our plans of WORLD DOMINATION, Bwahhaaahaaa! _{Oh shiat I yelled that.}

hankhorsey: You, sir, are a cunning traveler.

Well I actually love your country, I am a gracious guest, and have received wonderful service. I do not begrudge anyone for making a profit either. I have been there enough throughout the last 17 years to recognize how things are done. It is not often, but you can easily tell when they are being greedy.

Phil Herup: Fark You Canada. I go up there all the time, spend all kinds of dough up there.

When the dollar is good, you try to rip me off.

When the dollar is bad, you really try to rip me off.

I laugh at your retardation of ripping off Americans though, I always bring tons of your Monopoly money.

Try to rip you off? Sounds like the businesses up here do better than try to get 'all kinds' of your dough. 'Retardation' of ripping you off? If you want to take intelligence, I'm going to go with the guy making money over the retard getting ripped off and coming back for more.

For the record, everybody gets ripped off on many things up here. At least our banks haven't ripped us off by fleecing our taxpayers for hundreds of billions of bailout money.

On the exchange rate, pretty sure we're headed back to parity or beyond. 1.75 trillion-dollar deficits aren't go to bring the dollar up, that's for sure. Not to mention paying it back someday...good luck with that.

Canada is awesome .
Canadians ?
Our knee-jerk anti-Americanism is off-putting .