I am Canadian and I still think this is dumb as hell

I personally don't care. The English language has been like that for who knows how long.

There are like 400 million people who speak English as their native language and 300+ million of those people are in the US so the US way is the normal way because numbers.

Loonies and Toonies are awesome, but we as Canadians are getting ripped off at our strip clubs. It is truly one of our nations biggest injustices. Specially if your are not rolling in dough (although the strip clubs in Montreal do kind of balance it out).

The spelling issue is just annoying, specially when you have to deal with people from U.S. I have no strong feeling about it one way or another but it is annoying.

Also even though we don't have bag milks in the West (and even if we did I doubt we would have organic milk in a bags, which is the only kind of milk I drink) I am very much in favour of having bag milks.

I'm not for the oohrah hell yeah America, we're better than the rest crap, but I am American, and I have to agree, I like our usage much better; it just makes sense when in conjunction to the verbal usage. As for the milk, I've never had milk in a bag, but I'm totally perfect with the gallon/half-gallon of milks we have here, though if I had to change, I don't think I'd mind. Oh, and as some have said before, the U.S. are the minority in the usage of keeping out U's, not part of the majority.

Of course, people who give $5 bills, the proper minimum at strip clubs. I mean those girls got to pay for med school...

I think the idea of the "o" in both "hon" and "nor" being pronounced differently is real dumb. And I'm a freakin' American. "U" is an awesome letter anyway, should be used more often.

I'm Singaporean and I approve of these comments.

Yes lets listen to the Americans on the English language YALL!

Well there we go. Case closed!

My fellow Canadians, we need to stop this bickering about letters and bagged beverage and deal with the real problems.... The fuck is wrong with American Ketchup, that shit is weird, and their damned bitter Ice Tea is a real problem too. Sweet Tea is not the same thing damn it! It's. Just. Not. The Same!

Yeah, You kinda don't do the dollar bill thing, it's dumb and degrading and kinda unsanitary (I know their strippers but still), and since our strippers can actually get naked and you can get drunk at the same time it's much more likely that you'll pay the big bucks for a lap dance/champagne room visit. Also can't speak for strip clubs in other countries, but I used to deliver beer for a living, and damn near every time I delivered to the rippers they'd casually grab your cock in conversation. It was more common than a damn handshake. Seems pretty warm and friendly to me.

hahaha, nice.

English is already one of the most messed up languages around, it is almost impossible to consistently pronounce the same combinations of letters in various words. And if we are talking about trying to hold onto british things... we are not the country which is still using the "imperial" system.

@mlarrabee said:

Oh, hey, while we're still on "This Is Canada," how do people in Canada give money to... ladies of impropriety? In America, it's customary to slip the bills beneath various elastic strings.

Do Canadian strippers wear coin dispensing belts?

Nah, chucking coins at strippers is not only discouraged, but you're likely to run afoul of a rather large man who wants to look tough in front of the peelers and will hurt you for it.

You use $5 bills instead.

@chocolaterhinovampire: It's because you were part of the British Empire.

We own you.

@chocolaterhinovampire: It's kinda silly that American English cuts it off, because every once in a while there's that awkward moment when they realize they still need it, like with the word "neighbour".

You can't spell that "neighbor".

It was actually Webster who first shortened the words. He wanted to simplify spellings as well as save money on ink when printing his dictionaries.

I can't believe I just read all of that.

Fuck me.

You've been Americanised.

Why don't you just ditch the metric system while you are at it.

Traitor to the empire!

Wait, what do you mean? People do spell it neighbor. Along with neighborhood. I've never seen someone spell it neighbour. Google itself is telling me to fix that last sentence.

Always be u-oozing!

Whilst I agree the purging all french is a good thing, we should do our best to preserve the history of the English language. Language is a wonderful thing, an art some would say, and why would we ever want to simplify and generally shit on art?

English is a language based on Old West (i think) German with Greek/ Latin and french influences, why would we ever want to get rid of that stuff for the sake of writing things phonetically or whatever the silly excuse is.

As someone who studied at an American international school, I wonder why I thought otherwise. My US English Firefox dictionary even correct the word "neighbour" so it's also weird how I didn't notice that.

That looks silly though. You guys are dummies.

we had bagged milk at our highschool for awhile. just saying

I'm more concerned about all this bagged milk nonsense.

More like in reference to just stupid people. "nite" is something you might see in typical lazy texting language.

Do you guys even realize how much time in your life is wasted by adding a U into those words every time you write them?

It's probably a lot.

@rebgav: Totally

pfft Britain ain't been shit since WW2

I'm Canadian and have never seen bagged milk in my life. I would be apprehensive about drinking milk from a bag. It was bad enough when the jugs came out, I want my milk from a carton dammit.

As for the U's. Yes it's correct. Keep them in and honour our British heritage or drop them and be a pleb. :D