And here I am working all weekend. Happy V-Day anyways folks.

"We can't figure out why so many perfectly intelligent Canadians..."

I have a better chance of getting video footage of Bigfoot and Elvis cruising around town in a stolen UFO than finding a "perfectly intelligent Canadian". Some things just don't exist.

Now that I have all of you Junior Americans riled up, Happy Victoria Day tomorrow.

Day off. Duh.

What am I gonna do on Vic-day? Go and day-trade a bunch of US stocks.

Yeah, day off, with pay, what's to wonder about?

Because it makes them slightly different from the US.

PacManDreaming: "We can't figure out why so many perfectly intelligent Canadians..."

I have a better chance of getting video footage of Bigfoot and Elvis cruising around town in a stolen UFO than finding a "perfectly intelligent Canadian". Some things just don't exist.

Now that I have all of you Junior Americans riled up, Happy Victoria Day tomorrow.

I can't decide if you're snarky or just a troll.

I have to work at a tourist trap so I don't get the day off and have to endure a busier than usual day.

/don't much care for holidays with this current job

feanturi: Yeah, day off, with pay, what's to wonder about?

I hate parties and holidays, they're all stupid, we should all have to work 12 hours a day 7 days a week.

/snark off. I celebrate ALL holidays, no matter what country or religion or how stupid.
//feast of maximum occupancy

In Quebec, they celebrate the Pat riots.

What's this Victoria Day of which you speak? It's National Patriots' Day tomorrow. Quebec is so farked up.

"If we did, we would try to puzzle out the conundrum, try to figure out why so many Canadians -- dwindling numbers, but still -- are so reluctant to cast off this last metaphorical yoke of colonialism. And this is the answer we would arrive at:

Queen Elizabeth II."

Might it have much more to do with that large republic to the South? ER II hasn't stopped the majority of Aussies from being pro-republican.

Because some of our gracious and ancient traditions are pleasant and worth sustaining, dawg.

Because it's one more excuse to drink beer and light off fireworks.

Sounds like another Cinco De Mayo....

FTA and the headline:

We can't figure out why so many perfectly intelligent Canadians -- some of them deeply nationalistic, like my late mother and a good friend who is recognizing herself at this moment -- insist on the importance of maintaining a masquerade that is hollow and (let's face it) irrelevant.

Show of hands, who here thinks this is just as valid a point when discussing religion?

/hands raised
//yes, both

Intelligent? Remember, folks, Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.

Those lazy pieces of crap are just desperate for something to celebrate (and an excuse to take a day off work) since their lame nation hardly has any holidays of its own.

thanks, I guess?

Thankfully, in Quebec, It's Patriote Day!



Je me souviens!

RocketFood: Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.

Of course. A celebration of a bountiful harvest is an entirely American invention. No other society has done it before. One more notch in your belt. USA! USA!

Well Canadians probably want to watch the NHL playoffs to root on their favorite Canadian team.

Christmas?
/Easter?

RocketFood: Intelligent? Remember, folks, Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.


Canadian Thanksgiving is actually more correctly based on the discovery of Frobisher Bay.

However, no one knows where that is, who Martin Frobisher was, nor why we should be thankful for his safe return from it.

So they lie to kids in school to make it easier.

An intelligent Canadian would know that she presided over the formation of our country. And she was cool about it.

Meh. While other people in the office take a long weekend, I get to work the entire thing. Long shifts at that.

/ out of here with time to have a BBQ anyway
// $$$

I really don't give much of a damn why there's a holiday this weekend in Canada. It just seems like a good place to put one and who can argue with a day off right at the doorstep to summer.

/wonders how anyone could get riled up enough to be a hater about Canada.

whatshisname: RocketFood: Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.

Of course. A celebration of a bountiful harvest is an entirely American invention. No other society has done it before. One more notch in your belt. USA! USA!

Bullshiat. Thanksgiving? Your ancestors commited motherfarking genocide. And you go "Thanks for the land, kthxbye" ... and farking celebrate it?

Your country's government has changed the holidays to hide your history. Labours day? 100% of the world remembers what happened in the USA, on May 1st, when your government killed tons of workers. OTOH, you have chosen an arbitrary date where everything is nice and happy, and celebrate workers day as if it was a farking party. May 1st is a day to fight for workers day, and you exchanged it for beer and barbecue. The same goes for Thanksgiving against Oct 12.
The United States hide the bloody history of America. The rest of America, from Tierra del Fuego to Mexico really remembers what happened. fark the united states. You fail as a society.

Victoria Day - more accurately known to most Canadians as "Monday is a stat holiday? Awesome!"

I'm not reading all that shiat. The queen and all that royalty business are irrelevant in the UK, to still link Canada with them is crazy ridiculous.

I happy to have a day off
It could be hitler day and I'd be fine with that
a day off with pay :-)

SeamusFerrell: Well Canadians probably want to watch the NHL playoffs to root on their favorite Canadian team

Since most of the players in the NHL are Canadians, they are still Canadian teams.

/flame on!

I love Victoria Day and I'm proud of our history and our connection to England.


YAY CANADA!!!!!

chrisco123: What's this Victoria Day of which you speak? It's National Patriots' Day tomorrow. Quebec is so farked up.

Yep, but I work. Actually, tomorrow is the first day of my last week of work in Quebec. Next friday I become a Calgarian.

I told my staff to enjoy "Terry Fox Day", anyone who insists on calling it Queen Victoria, I'll see bright and early Monday morning.

/change it already!

Who's got one foot in the grave?
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Terry Fox!

almafuerte: whatshisname: RocketFood: Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.

Of course. A celebration of a bountiful harvest is an entirely American invention. No other society has done it before. One more notch in your belt. USA! USA!

Bullshiat. Thanksgiving? Your ancestors commited motherfarking genocide. And you go "Thanks for the land, kthxbye" ... and farking celebrate it?

Your country's government has changed the holidays to hide your history. Labours day? 100% of the world remembers what happened in the USA, on May 1st, when your government killed tons of workers. OTOH, you have chosen an arbitrary date where everything is nice and happy, and celebrate workers day as if it was a farking party. May 1st is a day to fight for workers day, and you exchanged it for beer and barbecue. The same goes for Thanksgiving against Oct 12.
The United States hide the bloody history of America. The rest of America, from Tierra del Fuego to Mexico really remembers what happened. fark the united states. You fail as a society.

2/10

xx ginger xx: SeamusFerrell: Well Canadians probably want to watch the NHL playoffs to root on their favorite Canadian team

Since most of the players in the NHL are Canadians, they are still Canadian teams.

/flame on!

Vancouver, eh? Why, yes. I could flame on.

/and where is the damned NHL thread? There is only 1 1/2 hours left.

Kag3musha: Thankfully, in Quebec, It's Patriote Day!



Je me souviens!

Je me souviens la greve!


Canadians and thesouthern North Americans, not Mexico, are very much alike hence the high troll factor in this thread.

Let's all have a beer and eat poutine.

almafuerte: whatshisname: RocketFood: Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.

Of course. A celebration of a bountiful harvest is an entirely American invention. No other society has done it before. One more notch in your belt. USA! USA!

Bullshiat. Thanksgiving? Your ancestors commited motherfarking genocide. And you go "Thanks for the land, kthxbye" ... and farking celebrate it?

Your country's government has changed the holidays to hide your history. Labours day? 100% of the world remembers what happened in the USA, on May 1st, when your government killed tons of workers. OTOH, you have chosen an arbitrary date where everything is nice and happy, and celebrate workers day as if it was a farking party. May 1st is a day to fight for workers day, and you exchanged it for beer and barbecue. The same goes for Thanksgiving against Oct 12.
The United States hide the bloody history of America. The rest of America, from Tierra del Fuego to Mexico really remembers what happened. fark the united states. You fail as a society.

lol, you'll get over it.

I am perfectly happy to celebrate Victoria Day (of course I live in Victoria, BC so there is always a subtext of celebrating the wonderful city itself in my mind). When I was in the Canadian Forces I swore to "uphold the Queen and all her heirs and successors in perpetuity" without a qualm. I have always loved the Queen and the institution of Monarchy - now that its hobbled and no longer able to really affect public policy or the law. I love the symbolism of Monarchy, the historical perspective, the romanticism of it, and dearly hope we maintain our ties to the past in the future.

I really do wish the Quebecois would join us in the rest of Canada instead of constantly implying they are a separate country when they are not though. I welcome the Quebecois French into the Canadian polity, we would be far less Canadian without them, and I don't ever want to see Quebec separate. Canada would be lessened as a result.

Much as we deride the colonial period, it did bring some good things to many countries around the world, albeit in a heavy handed manner. I am perfectly happy to join the rest of the Commonwealth in celebrating something that unites us.

Figgtoria: I love Victoria Day and I'm proud of our history and our connection to England.


YAY CANADA!!!!!

Of course, a brutal colonial power who raped the country for all it was worth. Why wouldn't we celebrate our connection to them?


/Should point out that I lobby for the GG to be arrested for treason.

SeamusFerrell: Well Canadians probably want to watch the NHL playoffs to root on their favorite Canadian team.

Usually Canadian teams don't make it to Victoria Day. We also call it the May Two-Four - because any statutory holiday is an excuse to drink beer.

There is stupidty all over. The Uniteed States celebrates Cico De Mayo more than Mexico. And what does Cinco De Mayo celebrate? A Mexican vicotry over the French. Well who has not beat the French?

Mexico on the other hand celebrates George Washington's Birthday while we ignore it or lump with an abortion called President's day. George Washington deserves his own day people. And while we are at it we should be celebrating the 19th of October 1781-look it up.

I don't care.

I get paid to stay home tomorrow.

History: Boring and old, bff jill.

Who cares?

*reads article*

Aaaah, I see, writer is from Ontario. So let me fix that quote:

"We can't figure out why so many perfectly intelligent Canadians nostalgic monarchists from Southern Ontario...insist on the importance of maintaining a masquerade that is hollow and (let's face it) irrelevant."

No one else in the rest of the country (except, perhaps, Victoria, BC, Canada's Wee Britain) does anything on Victoria Day but grill things and drink beer, but for some damned reason, in Upper Canada they still feel the need to have parades and other events that actually recall the monarchy, thus the writer has these reminders to make him feel all wobbly and embarrassed about it. I found it really weird that they actually celebrate the "Victoria" part of "Victoria Day" when I was living in Toronto.

wgrant:

I really do wish the Quebecois would join us in the rest of Canada instead of constantly implying they are a separate country when they are not though. I welcome the Quebecois French into the Canadian polity, we would be far less Canadian without them, and I don't ever want to see Quebec separate. Canada would be lessened as a result.

The Quebecois would never leave, they like our federal handouts to much. I would miss the night life in Montreal if they left. Maybe we could negotiate to keep that city. Most people in Toronto have no idea what Victoria Day is even about other then time and a half if you have to work the Monday.
I plan to celebrate tomorrow by BBQing lots of meat and drinking Creemore beer.

Who's joining me?

They should just call it "May long weekend" :p That's really all that matters to most of us.

AlanSmithee: Who's got one foot in the grave?
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Terry Fox!

Terry Fox could win an ass-kicking contest.

(srsly - if you don't know who he is - he's like a Voltron made of Aron Ralston and Chuck Norris)

almafuerte: whatshisname: RocketFood: Canadians also celebrate Thanksgiving -- a holiday that has fark all to do with Canada (or any nation for that matter) besides the USA.

Of course. A celebration of a bountiful harvest is an entirely American invention. No other society has done it before. One more notch in your belt. USA! USA!

Bullshiat. Thanksgiving? Your ancestors commited motherfarking genocide. And you go "Thanks for the land, kthxbye" ... and farking celebrate it?

Your country's government has changed the holidays to hide your history. Labours day? 100% of the world remembers what happened in the USA, on May 1st, when your government killed tons of workers. OTOH, you have chosen an arbitrary date where everything is nice and happy, and celebrate workers day as if it was a farking party. May 1st is a day to fight for workers day, and you exchanged it for beer and barbecue. The same goes for Thanksgiving against Oct 12.
The United States hide the bloody history of America. The rest of America, from Tierra del Fuego to Mexico really remembers what happened. fark the united states. You fail as a society.


HAHAHA. Your last name is Gomez.

hasty ambush: George Washington deserves his own day people. And while we are at it we should be celebrating the 19th of October 1781-look it up.

They should Ro-Sham-Bo for it.