"Don't be mean to them" could be the number one life rule!

The height of Alanna being "mean" is that she may call you "buddy-" but not in a nice way(lol)

That is so kind - thank you!

Respect to you for getting through your tough times and keep smiling.

@@mshatters28 thank you. Things are starting to improve now but it is thanks to people like Alanna who keep that light shining at the end of the tunnel.

@Adventures and Naps. Thanks! Could you please explain whether there is any differences in what liberals & conservatives are in the US, UK & Canada?

The mug is normal size... Alanna is really, really small.

Americans are the oddballs with "zee". Almost the entire English speaking world say "zed"

While this is broadly true, it is apparent (and I only learnt this today!) that "zee" isn't really a particularly American thing, having been referenced by English author Thomas Lye in his 1677 "Spelling-book", which is interesting. But yes, the original is clearly zed, like Greek zeta.

It's zed.damn americans😀😀😀

Yeah Webster really was a douche wasn't he

This smelled like folk lore, so I did a cursory check, and Wikipedia says: In A Companion to the American Revolution (2008), John Algeo notes: "It is often assumed that characteristically American spellings were invented by Noah Webster. He was very influential in popularizing certain spellings in America, but he did not originate them. Rather ... he chose already existing options such as center, color and check on such grounds as simplicity, analogy or etymology."[ In the past I've heard that it was more that England gained the 'u' due to French influence, after the American/US spelling had already split off.

@@AthAthanasius Remember that language, especially English, has always changed and lexicographers like Samuel Johnson and Webster attempted to pin down what they saw as the "correct" forms. Chaucer and Shakespeare frequently used alternate spellings. In reality, there is never one "correct" form of English, although The OED and Webster have catalogued it for our convenience.

The majority of the actors on that show were very likely Canadian, even most of the ones playing Americans (except for the biggest lead stars). Like many science fiction shows here, it was created by, written by and produced by (mostly) Canadians and filmed in Canada. In those cases, just about all but a few top roles are played by Canadians. 12 of the first 20 actors listed for that show on IMDb are Canadian actors. Once you watch long enough, you can start picking out the Canadian "Americans" by their accent. :)

Bad luck, hope you're ok soon

The Lusitania was sunk in 1915 in World War I.

@@kentix417 You are quite right! Thanks for the correction. It's strange after all these years to realise my error. I had never bothered to check!

Scots

@@matthewshuey1712are Irish immigrants.

@@ethelmini only if they came from Scotland

Unfortunately America's rebellion is, he rebelled against his hippy parents by joining the conservative party.

No, that was the son on the naughty-step 🤣😂

What about new zealand? Also jamacia is the pothead that eventually figured it out and moved out at 30

He may have ended up in prison, but it unusually actually managed to straighten him out, and he's now pretty successful?

I read that the British used to send convicts to Australia because they thought that was the best way to colonize/colonise it and that one in five are descendants are of those convicts.

Personally i think the UK should of made peace in 1940 and then gone to war 5 or 10 years later. ie when were better prepared and not under such a threat.

Fun fact, In Canada we don't usually say God bless you besides if you go to church. Certainly not God bless Canada. It sounds pompous to us, therefore, so very not Canadian.

@@quirkygal8 Pretty much. Religion is a "keep it to yourself" matter in Canada. Everyone's free to believe what they want but no one wants to hear about it. The best way for a Canadian politician to sink his or her career is to make it sound like their religious convictions will impact their politics.

@@paranoidrodent That's exactly it. It becomes oppressive otherwise. What about people who's religion is not monotheistic and people who are simply not religious. It's democratic not to impose a state religion and claim it publicly as the one or the right one. I like our private and understated approach.

@@quirkygal8 That said, the original message was clearly a well intentioned, respectful and heart-felt thank you. A kind word about our forefathers' acts to help their country isn't oppressive and we've veered into a different topic. To the original message, I think a humble "you're welcome" and "de rien" would been a suitable response. We appreciate that you remember our fallen with your warm thoughts. They were proud to help and we're proud of their valour. Thank you.

After the Revolutionary War (In Britain we call it the American War Of Independence) most of the Americans who fought against the revolution went to Canada

Don't forget the parents were a bit naughty treating their American son quite badly.

@@blackvulcan100 Sorry but in Britain we do not like tax evaders. (even though it was a pittance of a tax)

No way, how can we possibly hate you when Canadians love crossing the border and getting cheaper stuff there all the time.

Nobody hates you, America saved our ass,s 75 years ago and for that I salute you. God bless

Haven't always had a warm feeling about the U.S. Gov't but I have always loved her people. Peace and Love and Happiness

I was in Nova Scotia a few weeks ago and went to Peggy's Cove with my girlfriend and her 2 boys. They are Canadian and I am English. We stopped to get lunch and the boys wanted hotdogs. An English lady was selling the hotdogs and she asked me if I were English. I replied, "Yes, but it's not my fault!" She found that very amusing 😂

@@pontiuspilot5887 That clip was amazing. There is no way that would happen here in Scotland if we we're playing England.

Some Canadians used to drive on the left though.

In Britain left is right and right is wrong

@@nobbynobbynoob A few Molsens and they still do.

That's only Britain, nobody else in no other country drive that way

75 countries and territories drive on the left about 35% of the world's population

Here you will meet me!

Beautiful channel! Here you will meet me. I am an American and we do say zee in the USA.

Funny thing is, it was only this morning I learned that "zee", as popular as it is mainly with our American cousins, isn't even "theirs" at all: ENGLISH author Thomas Lye referenced it in his "The New Spelling-book", published in *1677*.

A big part of it is that in general most Americans don't travel abroad and those that often are the type of people who will fall into the stereo type especially businessmen. I used to live somewhere where there was an International Airshow every couple of years and I would be going out of the town for work every morning just as all these people in the Aerospace industry where coming in from London and the Americans amongst them were typical 'Ugly Americans'. They were rude, loud and had massive inflated egos that seemed to make them think they were better than everyone else If you goto America it gets more confusing though, as so many of them rely on not confirming to the stereotype to make a living so even if they are naturally that way they will put on an act but as you are in their country you are more likely to see the average American and not the extremes who are more likely to travel so it could also be genuinely how the average American is and its the extremes who give them a bad name

@@SimonWakefieldUK Don't say "Ugly Americans" americans are beautiful. And the country itself so beautiful, i am from Los Angeles it is a city in california state! Have you ever seen the beauty of Los Angeles,i am so lucky to be from such beautiful city!. Have you ever seen hollywood?! If you have never seen it, i advise you to google it.! It is not just the USA even canada is one the most beautiful countries in the world... Due to the safety of canada many people wanna travel to canada! I guess it is safe and personally i love it so much and also i love its people. People in onteria are so respectable and they never become rude if you talk to them in impolite way! In my instgram i have canadians friend and they always talk to me about their county and the words that they say in canadian accent! So Americans are beautiful. Happy Eid to you bro

Bob Smith i think you it the nail on the head Bob,

At least they know he'll be gone in either 2 or 6 years. At least they have the choice.

That cliche is as valid as all people in the UK say": pip pip cheerio, oldchap"" at every opportunity=BUNK

Unfortunately the stereotype is true. I have met a lot of Americans who were very loud and materialistic. I think its them just being bombastic. When i was in Barcelona i hung around some Americans and god was they loud but after the initial l shock i just realised there was not much different between Americans and Brits. In Rome i met the same type, and which did my head in, though i met some lovely Americans as well, same in Barcelona.

Yes, Mothering Sunday refers to the Mother Church, not a physical being. Likewise, we have the Spring Bank Holiday on a fixed date and is often known as Whitsuntide, but Whitsuntide is also moveable and Whit Sunday this year is on the 9th of June.

^ This. Mother's Day is international, mind, not just for the US, and as you say, Mothering Sunday, the Lent festival, is an old Germanic Christian "thing", not "Mother's Day".

And those dictionaries would be right, and the "many people" you mention are wrong.

There are about 27 healthcare systems elsewhere in Europe that are better than our sainted NHS.

It is a wonderful institution to which I owe my life. The NHS may not always be perfect but it is, as you say, "a truly great creation". Though I do fear for it under Johnson and his truly awful government of crooks and scoundrels.

Enjoy it while you still have it

@@robbie_ NHS still good doe

HamishRover. Just shows how poisonous Nigel Farage and his right wing idiots are. No one from abroad gets free health care from the NHS. The NHS will always send the bill to the foreign patient.

I grew up on a council estate in the South West. There are plenty of British scroungers who dont pay into the system believe me!

@Daniel Spaniel Can you provide documented evidence of these people, or has it just come from the lies on Farages poster? I'd rather live in a country with refugees than you.

@@andrewguthrie2 So very well said..hats off to you young man :)

@@Electricdreams21 You are CORRECT re saying it is a system - It is a Vatican/Rothschild/Queen Cestui Que Vie Trust Bonded SLAVE System where they conned your mother into registering you handing over ownership of you and everything that you will ever own to them. They created a BOND with your Birth Certificate and have been trading you on the Stock Exchange ever since and everyone has a Cestui Que Vie Trust worth £$MILLIONS via that that they do not tell you about and everything that you buy and pay is PREPAID out of your Trust and then they con you into paying again - this is called Double Dipping. In the case of Mortgages the mugs buying the house paid it off straight away the minute they signed the Mortgage and then the bank conned the mugs into paying for at least another THREE houses over the term of the Mortgage and all to pay for a house that still belongs to the Vatican in the first place and never will be theirs. That is why your surname at least on your Birth Certificate is in all caps because that is NOT you and the same goes for any letters etc you get from the Council/Government etc as well. Look at your bank card as your name is in all caps on that as well - known as Capitis Diminutio where they have stolen away your freedom and rights and possessions by deception. Everyones benefits, and pensions are also paid out of their Trust so no one is scrounging apart from the Vatican/Rothschilds/Queen etc that are stealing all the Double Dipping payments and every penny of taxes, fines, registration fees etc and every penny in these trusts when you die. Google Paisley Expressions and the Jesus, Hitler and Wizard of Oz post on there just now exposing just some of this - the two Santos Bonacci videos on that post explains the Birth Certificate SCAM and Part 2 of that post is soon going to expose even more such as the FACT that under these trusts the UN, EU, Countries, Governments, Political Parties, Councils, Courts, Police, Health Boards etc etc are all Vatican/Rothschilds/Queen Cestui Que Vie Trust Private CORPORATIONS listed on Dun & Bradstreet and being traded on the Stock Exchange for PROFIT. The Rothschilds are the Vaticans Bankers and the Queen is the Popes Arch-Treasurer for the UK, Ireland, France, the Commonwealth and the US so it does not matter who you vote for THEIR government always gets in. By the way the unlimited immigration and free movement of people in the EU is to get rid of countries and bring down everyones wages and conditions as part of their New World Order - One World Government DICTATORSHIP agenda.

The best place to go in Canada is any border station connected to the US. Bring your passport, bring your wallet, bring your shopping list and spend, spend, SPEND! We Yanks LOVE your British pounds... a-heh. ;o)

Not the one-way street you think Dean - I usually head OUT of the USA INTO Canada, since it (generally) cheaper to fly to say Detroit than Toronto and then pay your $6 to get into Ontario :-)

U know the Americans bled the Brits dry in ww2 . Fun historical fact , also the Brits did not want to go on d -day they wanted the Germans and Russians to slog it out more. The Americans eager to prove themselves said no we are going. So the Brits had to agree

@@Mulberry2000 erm no... it was the lack of landing craft... actually.

@@LordGeorgeRodney wrong

@@Mulberry2000 erm... right. look it up! Also check out the fact that - the deception plan to fool Germans was the reason for the June landings.

@@LordGeorgeRodney Nothing to do with your comment about not have enough landing craft. The Brits were behind the Americans being landed on the beaches because they had more ships in the area and the proximity of the UK . Makes complete sense for them to have more.

SMILE

@@21lime or grimace, that can be mistaken for a smile!

What does that make us Aussies? The country most like Canada culturally, if not geographically, is Australia. Australia is full of unsophisticated men with good humor. We're unrefined but compared with every other people on earth, we're more gooderer. Do ya know wot I mean?

John Gibson the divorce couple i think as it would be Australia and New Zealand while the other commonwealth countries are like cousins in my opinion.

Some national stereotypes do contain a lot of truth - as applied to some hypothetical average individual. What is ridiculous is to apply a stereotype to any real individual from a population.

@@istvanglock7445 I totally agree...well said!

Istvan Glock - Couldn’t have said it better myself.

The most obvious one was left out :')

Nobody likes the French

@@austinpaxman503 For clarification, French Canadians are not 'the French' just as Anglo Canadians are not 'the English'.

quirkyvero no they are the French. They care more about France culture than British or English culture. They are ruining Canada.

The connection to France is more distant, even for French Canadians (who absolutely do NOT view France as their "mother country' - more like a distant cousin - the cultures diverged too much over the centuries). The French civil law system is used for non-criminal and non-constitutional matters in the province of Quebec. Canadian French is spoken but it is at least as different from metropolitan French as American English is from British English. The French influence is basically a historical one to Ancien Régime era France (no Revolution, fought on the British side in the War of 1812 so definitely no Napoleon, none of the experiences that shaped modern France) and a connection to the ancestral colonists of New France. It's more like how the Americans take pride in the Pilgrims and other early settlers rather than in being British. Ties with France and particularly Quebec only really built up again after 1960 or so and they're looser than US-UK ties. Canada and France generally have good relations (de Gaule's speech being a notable exception). Honestly, French Canadians are the only people on the planet who can slam the French even more brutally than Brits (with Britain, it's an old rivalry between neighbours but with us, it's more like ripping into an arrogant relative when they get too full of themselves - we can cut to the quick like only family can). French Canadians are proud of their French heritage and their own distinct forms of French (which predate the standardization of European French and weren't affected by it) but we've been in North America for enough centuries now that no European countries feels like a mother country. North America fills that role for us. If one has to force the mother country metaphor, France is more like a biological mother who abandoned us in our early teens, had several nervous breakdowns while we coped on our own and much later built up a polite friendship with us once we'd grown up. The French seem to view Canada, and especially Quebec, with great fondness but sometimes it feels a bit like they view us as an extension of their own national pride, other times like they see us a gateway to their romantic notions about North America. Continuing the metaphor, the UK was more like a step-mother who never liked us and made sure we knew it, raising the rest of Canada to be sure it understood we weren't proper family... and we're still awkward sorting out the fallout from that. French Canadians view the UK in a manner very similar to how the Irish view the UK. Very close ally yet with lots of ugly history. British colonial dominance transformed us but it wasn't a pleasant time (we even had famine during particularly incompetent colonial governance too, thankfully not on the scale of the Irish one). There's historical resentment but, all that said, that's history and the modern UK is generally viewed rather positively and with curiosity by most Canadian francophones (although you'll have a hell of a time finding a monarchist - that's one institution that has zero support and is seen as a colonial relic). Several of my relatives have visited the UK and loved it. The UK's both weird yet familiar for us, kind of like France is (for different reasons of course). We've also got some weaker ethnic ties to Ireland but they get less attention. As for French influence on the rest of Canada, it's faded away largely outside areas with French speaking populations, aside from a lot of French place names. Quite a bit of Canadian identity stems from French Canadian culture, though, including the word Canadian (the original meaning of the word, dating back to the French colonial period, when Canada was the name of the what is today southern Quebec and Canadien just meant a French colonial descendent - it used to be our ethnic name, like Acadian is today), maple syrup, lots of the stereotypical attire and outdoorsy stuff (some of which we adopted and modified from the native population since our colonial culture was a French-native fusion), and yes, poutine. We're the part of Canada that views the US as genuinely foreign and never describe ourselves as "not American" or worry we're too much like them. The French think we're very British and very American. English speakers tend to lump us in with the French and apply the same stereotypes (which can be irritating). Truth is, we're very much a fusion New World culture. We're French speakers who are glaringly North American in outlook and have absorbed far more British culture that we care to admit (heck, we're French speakers who are familiar with Imperial units, have a tea drinking tradition and who consider shepherd's pie and full breakfasts (the Quebec version is obviously a full breakfast in the style of the British Isles adapted to local foods) to be comfort food and (gasp!) we queue up for things just like Brits do... and we will also glare at any who dare cut in).

Technically, they are everywhere, but generally they are only used in vending machines, especially those somehow related to the government (e.g. public transportation systems).

I was thinking the same thing I'd like one that size!

Knowing from lots of friends I would say Ozzies & Kiwi's humour is much like the British, where I think Canadians prefer American humour god knows why lol

They certainly seem to understand British humour, and particularly irony, better than Americans. But the Canadian humour you see and hear in the media is very much American in nature, rather obvious, loud, and in-your-face. And humour doesn't permeate the culture in anything like the same way that it does in the UK.

Lynn Hamps - Canadian mannerisms are similar to British mannerisms as we’re both polite, but Assies and New Zealanders truly have British humour.

Mick C - completely agree, Canadians don’t understand banter (neither do US-Americans) whilst Aussies and NZ-ers do.

@@abcxyz-cx4mr I stand corrected..lol..I know our antipodian friends are very similar to us but have met a few Canadians that were pretty much alike too..however I do admit I have never been to Canada itself and seen them in their native habitat or experienced Canadian TV.. :D Perhaps the ones I've met have been here long enough to assimilate to our humour...I do agree though that Americans in general just don't always 'get us' especially our piss taking of folk we like...lol

Thank you very much for the information

That's right. Both spellings have been commonly used in England for centuries. This is also true for "honour" and "honor", although for the words mentioned in the video, the English spelling is indeed "-our", logical or not as that may be. For "neighbour", both spellings - -our or -or - make no logical sense since the word is neither French nor Latin, the olde Englysshe being "neabur" (pl. "neaburen"?). This phenomenon is applicable to many other words too, e.g. "aging", "jewelry", "enrollment", and so on, are NOT American spellings: they were very common in England before about 1850.

I literally just wrote the same comment, I'm glad it wasn't just my school that celebrated the harvest festival too. Straight after leaving school the yearly harvest festival just seemed to disappear, did the same happen for you?