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Post by shaggy1964 on Jun 20, 2012 20:34:06 GMT -5
Had to give a shout out to all the fab Canadians who were camped around me at Han Solo. Must have been 50% of the people in a 200 yd radius around camp. ALL the best to our friends to the North. You can make a run for the border any time.
Ran into a group from Canada. As I suspected, they came down last year for Arcade Fire and returned this year for the everything else. Coupled with all the Ontario plates spotted amongst the tents, that was a smart, smart booking for AC.
I highly doubt that anyone drove that far solely based on Arcade Fire being there, a band that plays in Canada fairly often, but who knows people are strange.
It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
I highly doubt that anyone drove that far solely based on Arcade Fire being there, a band that plays in Canada fairly often, but who knows people are strange.
Last year I ran into a good many Canadians who made the decision to come for the 1st time b/c of Arcade Fire headlining. Just what I experienced.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke..
As a Canadian, this made me giggle. But yes, we were everywhere this year! We were camped in R2D2 and met so many other Canadians. Ontario was representing well this year.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
Do you have any idea how many rednecks have the US flag on hand at all times? I don't think Canada is unique in that.
Post by kikosanchez on Jun 21, 2012 13:59:39 GMT -5
The first Canadian I ever met at Roo was Mark. I call him Canadian Mark to this day. And I do say I MET HIM, as he never met me. It was 2 years ago just after DMB closed out. We were walking towards the arch and noticed a guy laying out on the ground where everyone was walking looking either very much passed out or dead. He were able to wake him and our friend, who is a nurse, went through usual ER steps of getting him to talk and tell us a bit about himself while we helped him down some water and wait for medical to get to us. He was kind, but a bit irritated because he was so out of his mind gone on something.
Our neighbors this year were from Canada and yes sported the Canadian flag. Lucky for us, it made it very easy to find our tent every time. They were nice enough to let us swap some of their land for our entire plot because the dickbags on horses absolutely would NOT let us park beside our campmates. Anyway, they were nice and we were going to set all of our canopies up and combine them into a huge fort. This didn't happen because of the way we had to set things up eventually. Never really saw them the rest of the weekend because we had massive tents in between us. But from listening to them talk at night as I dozed off, they seemed friendly and made friends with other neighbors luckily.
Lastly, as I was packing up to leave, a guy ran up to me and said "here, we're crossing the border and can't take this with us" and gave us his remaining goods. Nice fellow. My girlfriend said "border?" and I said "yup, heading back to Mexico". Not sure if she ever understood the jest.
Post by kikosanchez on Jun 21, 2012 14:00:31 GMT -5
Speaking of Mexico, have any of you encountered any friends from south of the border? Not like immigrants, but people that actually traveled here just for Roo? To my amazement, I have yet to.
It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
Where are you saying you live now? So far in the last year we have had NYC, Upstate NY, Atlanta, and I think Texas as well. Most of these places where you are interning at Superfly/Skrillex/Golden Voice where people feed you fake info to make you look bad on inforoo right? Personally I have never really had a problem with Canadians myself, at 'roo or anywhere else I go. Mind that chip on your shoulder though it is making you walk funny.
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It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
Wow...talk about a "Sweeping statement"....that is SO FAR from the truth!!!!!!
It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
Wow...talk about a "Sweeping statement"....that is SO FAR from the truth!!!!!!
In summary, Canadians- nefarious bargain hunters who will stop at nothing to inconvenience retail and service industry workers.
It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
Yeah, I live in Buffalo. I actually live a 20 minute drive from the Peace Bridge and the Rainbow Bridge.
Yeah people travel here to shop at the Outlet Mall and the Gallera Mall. But so do I. Because they are pretty awesome places to shop.
Other than that nothing you say makes much sense. I love that I live so close to a lot of awesome people.
It's kind of strange because the majority of people in the US think Canadians are this kind, gentle people. However, if you live in a border town (Detroit/Buffalo/Seattle) you know how they can truly act.
They come down every weekend and invade malls/shopping centers looking for "bargains" in their tracksuits and thin-framed faux-designer glasses. They leave their used clothing all over parking lots and wear their new clothes home to avoid paying tax and they are by FARRRRR the worst tippers on the planet when it comes to eating in a restaurant. A normal Canadian tip is about 5-10% which is a joke.
Now mind you, I only have experience with Canadians from the Toronto/Montreal area, so I apologize to you central/west coast Canadians if you're not like this. However, the ones we deal with on an everyday basis in NY are absolutely awful, rude, and cheap.
The other thing that bothers me is their NEED to bring their flag everywhere. I've never seen a country with such a complex that they feel the need to constantly wear clothing with their country's name/flag on it.
I apologize if this is offensive, it's just based on my everyday interaction with them. Granted, most of them that I interact with are middle-aged women, Canasian, and Canindian familes from the Toronto area.
All of the Canadians I've met at Roo have been extremely nice, I just wish the rest of their population wasn't so materialistic, rude, and generally dickbags when visiting border towns.
Thanks for the general broad strokes you are painting Canadians in.
Just to clear things up a little...
The average tip% is actually 15% not 5-10. And as someone who has spent a fair amount of time in the service industry over the years, I would suggest the worst tippers by far are visiting Europeans (who have their tip built into a higher waitstaff minimum wage back home and thus leave nothing). Perhaps you are just a terrible server who deserves no more than 5-10%?
Many of us cross border shop regularly for a great deal and yeah a small, extremely cheap minority, may in fact dump old clothes to not pay duty and/or dress like side characters from the Soprano's (though that again seemed like a ridiculous comment) but if we weren't swinging by in droves every weekend think of all the lost service industry jobs you'd see in border towns and how much further your shit can economy might slide in these areas.
And don't get me started with the flag comments. First of all, unless of course you take it to a level of WWII Germany, sporting your national flag is a showing of national pride (of which Americans are, I would suggest to be, the biggest proponent of). And, there is nothing wrong in being proud of who you are and where you come from. I live in Toronto and frankly I can think of one huge flag that waves outside of a brewery off of the highway and very individuals, individual homes, or neighborhood pockets who sport our flag regularly and in your face (there is a spike around Canada day). In fact, there are more national flags from other countries visible in culturally specific neighborhoods (Little Italy, Little Portugal, Greek Town) than there are Canadian flags. In fact, I probably saw more Canadian flags hanging off of tents and cars at Roo (and that one this trooper of a kid from Niagara Falls was hauling around all weekend) which only made me proud to see. Put this against the multitude of US flags I see as soon as I cross the border on businesses, front porches, car bumpers , etc (nevermind the racist confederate flags I started seeing nearer Kentucky) and it's not even a close race.
I could fire off a number of complaints and generalizations based on individual encounters I have had with Americans at home and abroad over the years but that wouldn't be fair to the great majority who I have found to be great people.
