Maybe I'm just not thinking clearly right now, because you'd really think we'd already have one. It'd be very convenient just because they have so many things in common, like certain colloquialisms and their overall value for crossdressing in their comedy.
Crossdressing is always funny. :)
Canatish?
Britadians?
Cheeky?
amazing! ;)
inteligent
Foreigners.
But I suppose that's a relative term. :(
Amazing people. :)
EDIT: Amazing intelligent people. :)
I like that one!Quote:
Originally Posted by Strider
Those-people-who-always-add-an-extra-u?
Dourks?
Ouch...*sings "Oh Canada"* Am not, eh!Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
*Ouh Canada
Okay, I seriously love you all so much more now. Right in your fun holes.
People with better health care than the USA.
Take care all.
I love you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
Queen's Subjects
obviously never seen the NHS....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Captain
I have, and it still beats what the USA has, to be frank.
Take care all.
Due to laxened immigration laws, a large amount of immigrants are smuggling themselves into Britain in order to take advantage of the free NHS(frankly, I don't blame them), and due to these increased numbers the quality of the service has obviously diminished somewhat.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Captain
Several reports suggest that Britain's hospitals are filled with dirt and are extremely understaffed, however there are a great deal more reports stating that many ill or injured people were left on trolleys in corridors because there were not enough beds.
But now I've turned this lovely thread about "dourks" into a thread about the current state of the NHS.
i h8 uQuote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
I turn serious threads into non-serious threads and non-serious threads into serious threads. It's my thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZeZipster
There's a one obvious problem with "free" national health care(the socialist standpoint): the quality of the health-care diminishes. In this case, everybody would be given health care for the flu, but everyone would also die of cancer or other diseases which cost a lot to medicate.
The problem with the completely capitalist standpoint is that, of course, not everyone can avoid health care.
So the main problem is finding some sort of middle-ground. Both the socialist and capitalist health plans(basically, Europe's and the US's) are equally flawed.
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Originally Posted by Leeza
Amen sistah...spread the word!
Stay on-topic, thanks. There's a whole forum dedicated to your health care debate crap.
How about the Ehs?
I louve Canadians! And British peouple are my country's ancestours. Go them!
They are called: 'Those who hate America'
Well we don't "hate" them , per se, it is just their leader.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ansem
I don't hate Americans. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ansem
Whoever said you did? But if you are an average Limey or Canadian, you must hate Bush, and Bush represents America. Thus, you hate America. Bush makes many foreign nations angry, and I don't like him either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeza
Maybe I'm secretly a Canadian, eh?
Don't be silly. Bush is one man - a politician, a political leader. He is not the embodiment of his nation, or any of that old-school monarch claptrap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ansem
I dislike President Bush, and I actively despise many US foreign policies, but I have great respect for many American people and their accomplishments.
ANYWAY, back to the topic.
British and Canadians could effectively be referred to as "Commenwealthers', since both nations are Commenwealth members. However, many other countries - my own included - are also part of the Commenwealth. In fact, so are most countries that used to be colonies of the British Empire.
But if you wanted a generic term for Poms and Canucks, Ockers and Kiwis, you probably couldn't do much better than 'Commenwealthers'. It covers pretty much anyone in any country with strong British ties or ancestry.
Logical fallacy! *smites*Quote:
Originally Posted by Ansem
And Commenwealthers just doesn't roll off the tongue, does it?
Plus Commonwealthers would mean Aussies, and New Zealanders, and a whole slew of people, but I think we need one for us Canadians and the British. Like the people who beat the Americans in 1814
Yeah, I don't mind being affiliated with the Brits, but Aussies and us differ on far too many levels for me to be comfortably directly associated with them otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big D
Unfortunately, any term you can think of that would link Canadians back to the motherland would be applicable to any other colonist country, regardless of how much or how little that colonist country may still have in common with the Crown.
Besides, incase you guys haven't noticed.... Canada isn't exactly a colony of Britain and more. Why not try something based on societies instead of government?
Why don't you just call us cross dressers or something?
The Commonwealth of Nations refers to Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei Darussalem, Cameroon, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, England, Fiji, the Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Samoa, Scotland, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Wales, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Just looking for the United Kingdom and Canada, here.
Like I said, "The guys who beat the Americans in 1814"
Yeah, well, we kicked your ass in 1780.
1780....ummm....That was during the American Revolution right? Well, we defeated the idea of "manifest destiny", or at least put it on the back burner...Back to the topic
How about: "The Mini-english and the English"?
Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commentwealth for being racist and dictatorial. So they don't qualify now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kawaii Ryűkishi
You'd have a tough time finding something that applies solely to the UK and Canada, though. Compromise might be essential.
Going to go with dourks, then.