Japanese Precision & Accuracy
3mon 1d ago by lemmy.world/u/MTZ in lemmyshitpost
i don't see any Canadians disagreeing
Sorry, but I don't see her saying sorry!
Sörry
Yeah, some of the key Canadian words are missing, eh?
Yeah, that hoser needs to take off
I’m from Canada.
It’s not America.
As a Canadian this is the realist thing ever. Half our identity is being not-American.
25 years ago this was a bit silly, but these days it's like saying: "Look, I'm not on the Epstein List!"
But Canada is in America
Continents aren't real.
Which continent is Russia in? Is Costa Rica in the same continent as Mexico or are they in different continents? Is "Central America" a continent?
It's all made up bullshit, so why not just say Canada is it's own continent?
I fully agree with you, but add the additional point that countries are fictions as well.
While we're on the topic, borders are very fictitious.
Countries have leaders, cultures, and history. They're at least as real is this web forum we're communicating on is.
I’ll give you this; historically, they’re at least as real as the concept of whiteness.
The only purpose of Central America is to not have Mexicans on the same continent as US people.
Ya, and Europe is not a continent. What a super intelligent position to take.
There is no “America” by your definition. There are 800 million people in “the Americas”. Half of them refer to their county as simply “America”. Like 500 times a day. At least 100 million of the rest also use this label for the USA as does a big chunk of the world. When Churchill said, “You can always count of the Americans to do the right thing but too late”, was he talking about Chile or Canada?
I would say the “United States” but then some moron will point out that this could mean the United States of Mexico as if just saying “United States” or “America” is confusing anybody. Does the US National Guard protect Mexico? Cuba or Belize? The US Marines?
Do you think “America, fuck ya” is something people from Kentucky say to celebrate Honduras? Do you think “America the beautiful” is a song about Peru? Do you think the “American National Anthem” is pro Mexico?
Do you think “American football” is what they play in Brazil? Because they sure don’t play it in Canada.
And the 7,000,000,000,000 YouTube videos about “the American President”, who elected him?
It is hard for me to believe that somebody thought this would seem like a smart thing to say.
USians are so poor, they can't even get a name of its own for their country.
Calm down lmao
I run into people all the time who use the term “America” without at all meaning that country wedged between Mexico and Canada. Los Estados Unidos is often how you’ll hear the nation state referred to in Latin America, whereas “America” usually refers to the entire hemisphere.
It always blew my mind that the USA colonized the word America to have it refer only to themselves. How fucking on-brand is that?
Thdy must have vastly different smoking laws in Japan. We can't smoke within 4m of entrances (legally), let alone indoors.
We aren't - this is spot on
I’m American. That’s how we view you guys as well.
Good.
The biggest insult a Canadian could ever hear is being called 'American'.
Shit as an American the biggest insult I could ever hear is being called an American. That isn’t the flex you think it is
You want her to pour some maple syrup on you?
🎵Pour some syrup on me.🎵
oil maple syrup
Goddammit, another American pretending to be Canadian and fucking things up for us. She's clearly avoided any words with Z in it for fear that she'll give herself away when she fails to pronounce it "zed".
Maple syrup is the greatest thing on earth, and we treat it accordingly, with moderation, not like ketchup which is the third handle on American faucets.
Maple syrup is the greatest thing on earth, and we treat it accordingly, with moderation, not like ketchup which is the third handle on American faucets.
So stupid...
The ketchup faucet is the first one. 🤦♂️
Didn't discover washing my hands with water until I was already out of school.
I still remember the day they changed the mustard to that yellow ink to save on costs.
By this time the only thing water was to me is blanding.
Does that make ranch the second one?
In the Midwest, yes
Fuck, that last bit cracked me up. Consider it stolen.
Sure, she's holding weed, but her eyes say she's on something significantly different.
She hung out with Rob Ford
If you’re gonna sum up an entire culture in a handful of words, well, they could have done worse.
They coulda put "aboot" in there
Ms. Wood is incredibly based
I am from BC. Sure not every Canadian is like that but this person totally exists.
I remain unconvinced.
I spent a season in Whistler 20 years ago, and even though Whistler is "Disney Mountain" I managed to get to know some local residents through Japanese home stay students. Weed was everywhere, granted season skiers and and snowboarders are perhaps not a random selection of the population in that regard.
I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a "government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market", ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.
Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.
Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you've never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn't mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.
If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.
She said Thank You. Everything checks out.
Mordecai. Human. Level 50.
Manager of Princess Donut.
This is a non-combatant NPC.
This is a human. This one is something called a Canadian. Part French. Part maple syrup. He’s weirdly obsessed with ice hockey and snowmobiles and semi-erotic lumberjack fan fiction. Has a well-worn Tim Hortons loyalty card in his Velcro wallet. He says “aboot” instead of “about” and gets really, really upset when you point it out, claiming you’re hearing things and that it’s a harmful stereotype. It’s not a stereotype, and that’s exactly how it sounds. He has a relative who was trampled to death by a moose. You get the idea.
The one detail in this that slightly annoyed me is the timmy's card. patriotic people don't shop there anymore because of the ownership, also their products have sucked for the last decade anyways. idr when that book came out, though
also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it "aboot". there's a clear difference between "about" and "boot". americans just really draw out the "ow" in "out", so yes it sounds closer to "boot", but it's hardly 'exactly how it sounds'. /angryrant
side side note, I don't have a relative who was trampled by a moose, but I do know someone who had their car trampled by a moose
also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it “aboot”. there’s a clear difference between “about” and “boot”. americans just really draw out the “ow” in “out”, so yes it sounds closer to “boot”, but it’s hardly ‘exactly how it sounds’. /angryrant
He says “aboot” instead of “about” and gets really, really upset when you point it out, claiming you’re hearing things and that it’s a harmful stereotype. It’s not a stereotype, and that’s exactly how it sounds.
ty for explaining the joke
I would say the Tim's card would imply from an era the company was less shit (RIP their OG Ham & Swiss sandwich with the crunchy bread).
But I don't think Tim's ever had a loyalty card did they? Maybe a roll up the rim "free coffee" they forgot to ever cash in.
I've got one in my wallet right now.
The ownership of Timmy's is Restaurant Brands International, a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Toronto. Sure there's a lot of American shareholders, but a significant chunk of the shares are owned by Canadian banks too.
Also it employs people at the coffee shops. I'm all about boycotting American products, but boycotting Timmy's seems a bit much.
dcc@piefed.world is leaking.
IMO, it's more "aboat" not "aboot".
But, Americans say "abawt" instead of "about" so we're even.
What's that look on her face... aggressively horny? Is this normally how Canadian ladies get while smoking BC buds??
Nah, that's the maple. We get crazy with the sticky tree blood in us.
That's just like, Victoria. It's a pretty dope city.
That's the reefer madness. East Asia takes a very hard line against drugs. As late as the 70s people in Japan would get 30 years in prison for possession of marijuana. Dealing drugs is often the death penalty across the region.
Please be real
I'm sorry to disappoint.
Still got those crazy eyes though.
That's actually fairly interesting. Apparently Japan thinks we're really into music. I wonder if there's a Canadian pianist that's popular over there?
Japanese English textbooks can be very wrong, very hilarious and very strange at times, so who knows.
I wish but the actual one is probably very mundane.
Is one of their leading exports actually marijuana? That's pretty interesting if true.
I think Canada has next to zero in marijuana exports, because it's illegal to import it in most places. It does contribute billions to Canada's GDP, but that's production and consumption that never leaves the country.
It doesn't leave my house LOL.
No, not even among just the illegal narcotics.
Yeah that does make more sense. I guess that makes the comic quite a bit more offensive though lol
During my study abroad in japan we visited an elementary school as a cultural exchange. The class that day had to pick a country and list three things about it. A bunch of them picked america and the three most common things were McDonalds / hamburgers, pancakes and Disney.
I would've thought corruption, racism and being fat.
Corruption goes with Disney, fat goes with McDonalds, and racism... goes with everything.
Pancakes are fine tho
Corruption and racism aren't really unique to America though. If you look at current Japanese politics you'll see they can be just as racist and corrupt as the US.
More like Kate Weed, amiright??
Also is weed super illegal in Japan?
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yeeeeeeeessssss*
* With some exceptions for medicinal marihuana
Seems like a lot of Asian countries really hate weed. Why is that?
America. During occupation we forced Japan to make marijuana, hemp and every other drug illegal. Partially its said to force our own ideas of morality on Japan. Part of it was specifically to destroy the Japanese hemp industry which was quite large at the time, to the point were Hokkaido has a large wild hemp/marijuana population that is actively watched and destroyed still.
I was quite shocked when my neighbor here once offered me a joint. And it's Osaka's central area, and it wasn't that late! Though I sometimes can smell it in the air, and occasionally see teenagers (on the older side) smoking weed, it's usually somewhere far from the crowds and popular places.
Canadians put syrup on their weed?
What Godless creatures
This is Ms. Frizzle’s dope-ass sister, Ms. Dank
She has her own "magic schoolbus" but it's just a clapped out sectional in her garage.
Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!
🤣🤣
Making the stickiest icky.
You may be tempted to think that the syrup thing is because of the bud, but actually she took up bud to stop getting so many questions about it.
I mean, if she pours it on everything...
she even got the syrup OG kush to close the circle
wtf i love weed and maple syrup
Yeah, okay, but which are you smoking and which are you eating?
none of ur fuckn business
Pour some maple syrup on that BC bud.
Unless you are making an edible, wtf dude?
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Based
I mean sounds about right. They forgot square faces and mouths tho
She's cute.
Smash
...And cheat at curling
I'm just gonna go make some popcorn while I wait for the random Swede or Canadian to wander into this thread.
Hello, random Canadian curler here
Swede here, I don't care about sports, but online drama tickles my fancy.
We wasn't exactly as nice about it as I was lead to believe a Canadian would be.
SP always gets my upvote.
Why do they portray Canadians like Pokemon characters
At least 4 knots. Maybe 5 idk.
I used to have British made English textbooks, it had British stereotypes, minus the bombs for the Irish, and otherwise the more endearing ones.
Yea, Kate would
I see nothing wrong here.
Seems accurate
Sounds like my kind of place
Pretty accurate.
Thank you.
So quite similar to N. Korea 🤔
There’s no way that’s real. That is some next level fucked up.
No offense toward my northern neighbors was intended. I love the Canadians. Maple Syrup is my sacrament.
Canada isn't America? So what continent is it on? Africa?
Most English-speaking countries teach the seven-continent model. There is no place named "America," so when native English speakers omit "The United States of" for brevity, other native English speakers understand that they're referring to the USA.
It seems to cause some confusion with cultures that are taught the six-continent model (in which there is a continent called "America"). I would guess that it's because a lot of people are unaware of these cultural differences.
Edit to actually answer your question 😅: In English, Canada is in a continent called "North America"
Its all just America. America is named after Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), an Italian explorer and cartographer. His name wasn't "North America" ... so you all are wrong. It is what it is.
Oh that was centuries ago. In the US, we've even divided states in a similar manner over the years. The Province of Carolina became North Carolina and South Carolina. Dakota Territory -> North and South Dakota. Virginia and... West Virginia (not sure why no "East Virginia").
I suppose you can say it's "wrong" on the Internet, but if you tried the six-continent model on a school test in an English-speaking country, it would likely be marked as incorrect.
There are also five- and I think even four-continent models in some cultures. The thought of any of them being "wrong" is really interesting, to me. Personally, I've never really thought about any of them as "right" or "wrong", just cultural differences.
The point is moot either way. Canada and the USA are on the exact same continent. Say American or say North American ... the US and Canada are the same.
Sure. I was mostly just trying to answer your question and clear up some of the confusion. In all continent models, Canada and the USA are indeed on the same continent 🙂
There is no continent called America.
However, there is a country that hundreds of millions of people identify as “America”.
Be smarter.
HAH HAH HAH heh. What continent is Mexico on? What continent is the USA on? Hint: United States of ... Are you smarter than a 3rd grader? Fucking lame ass trolls.
Imagine spending your time being intentionally obtuse about the colloquial understanding of "America" and then calling other people "lame ass trolls." C'mon man. Be better.
Imagine having nothing better to do than argue about a definition that has 5-6 different ways to interpret it. Only MAGA and ther ilk have the inability to grasp that there are other countries that can be labeled "American".
Hi Wilco, the others went traight to sarcasm, which is not a good way to communicate. The point they failed to make was that the continent the USA, Mexico and Canada are located on is officially called "North America", not just "America". And people usually don't even use "America" for the combination of North, South and Central one. The USA is offcially called the USA, so there appears to be nothing called just America officially. I would argue that people do use America in common speach - but then the use differ locally. In my European country we use it to mean the US. If we want to talk about the continent, we can also use it, but we need to specify we're talking about the continent and which part, otherwise it gets confusing.
I dont care. Its all America. The USA, Canada, and Mexico are all on the same continent no matter how you look at it. It is what it is.
there are other countries that can be labeled “American”.
Name one, and then go out and ask random strangers as a control group what they think.
North America vs "America". I know it's a struggle, but if you keep practicing and repeating it, it might make it past that neutronium-plated skull of yours.
So Mexico is on the continent of Mexico? Canada is where? The whole continent is America ... its named after a specific guy. Being obtuse is one thing, but hurling insults over something this stupid is childish. Enjoy the 🚫
Might be meant to explain that folks say "American" to mean people from the United States more often than the American continents. Especially since it's for teaching people a different language.
Yea, but we troll MAGA by telling them that Mexicans and Canadians are Americans ... it breaks them.
You don’t like to be publicly respected for your informed opinions?
Why not?
Everybody knows what you are saying. What percentage would you estimate are impressed?
Mid Europe here, same currently.
Sadly, there is a need to say they are not 'murica now, can't stay so much kind and polite anymore. Understandable but sad.
I am not expecting japanese fascists to think out of stereotypes.
This isn't real. Someone posted the real dialogue elsewhere in this thread.