<div class="quote_poster">Iggy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">LOL sometimes Americans can be so ignorant. Theres been sort of a heat wave in Calgary and I work at Subway at the airport and sometimes when I'm outside waiting for the bus or a ride I hear Americans go "Oh wow! It gets hot up here?" Me and my friend who also works at airport always poke fun and fool with them. One time after someone said something along the lines of "it gets hot up here?" my friend said "yeah we put our igloos away for the summer!" Looked like the guy believed him cause he was like "Oh that's interesting."</div>
Everytime I think of Americans and ignorance, I think of Rick Mercer's segments.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Besides, do you really blame Americans for thinking it's usually cold in Canada? Look where you are geographically. I think it'd be worse if you overheard an American in December saying, "Oh wow! It gets cold up here?"</div>
The weather in cities like Buffalo, Detriot and a lot of the upper states are quite similar to Canada. It is quite ignorant to assume that Canada is always cold when the state of New York and Ontario have pretty similar climates. I think most Americans perceive Canada to be cold like how the Northwest Territories are (Yukon, Nunavut, etc). It really isn't that cold. Places like Vancouver and most of Southern Ontario get quite hot during the summers.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">And either way, it never gets as hot up there as it does in the dirty south, for example. To make matters worse, we have humidity down here so thick you can feel your body cutting through the moisture as you walk down the street. Canada's heat is at least dry heat, like out in California or the west coast, and it only comes for a few months a year, at a lesser degree.</div>
I'm with you on that one. Forget the south, I went to Maryland, and even the summers there were brutal, so I can't even imagine in places like Texas, Arizona, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if no one was caught walking outside in the summers until very late in the evening.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">lol, I was in the exact same situation last year. Everyone I worked with was either from Trinidad or Jamaica. I remember on my first day, this dude was training me and I could barely understand a word he was saying. I ended up messing up my foot, because I was moving the fridges around incorrectly. The cool thing is that after a while you get used to it. By the end of the summer I could understand everything and even knew a little patois.</div>
The guy who trained me 2 days ago was from Trinidad. I couldn't understand a word he was saying, he just kept ending his sentences with "okay, bro?".
