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Depends on where you go. West coast of canada has the closest to american culture, middle canada is mostly country trash, all of canada hates toronto, except for toronto itself, and then eastern canada is full of french people, longshoremen, and newfoundlanders.
Even Toronto hates Toronto.
It’s true.
Shma,
Toronto
I never understood the hate for Toronto. We love every where else in Canada.
Actually Toronto is most like American culture. Arrogant, opinionated, think they are the center of the universe, violent, massive drug and gang problems.
The west coast can only be considered close if you consider hippies to be American culture.
Quebec is the most, if you take away the French
If you take the french out of Quebec, what’re you left with?
if you take away the french from quebec ur left with… an empty space?
Montreal???
A lingering scent of cigarette smoke and bad cheese, and people that want to think they have culture. Wait. Isn’t that whats there now?
They have very good cheese, unless you consider good cheese to be something that comes in individually wrapped slices, or a can. And they have more culture than you can ever hope to experience.
Good Luck.
Welcome. Try not to eat all our bacon. kthx.
You couldn’t have picked a better weekend to show up here. it’s going to be freaking scorching hot.
Btw, are you going to try and hit the mountains at all? Banff will be busy, but it’s beautiful.
Oh ya. I hope you know it’s the long weekend here!
If you come to Banff, go by the Banff Upper Hotsprings, as an empolyee and a devoted reader I can let u guys in for free!
Let’s face it, all Hawk needs to know is that Canadian women have boobs, too. ;)
lol 1 of the best sets of boobs is canadian, Pamela Anderson
But they were made in the USA!
I’d be willing to bet an industrial park in Hong Kong.
Southern Ontario is calling for scattered showers and a high of 18 over the weekend.
Canukistanian women have teh b00bs and we males appreciate them just as much as you do.
Enjoy the con guys.
Make sure you do the conversion. 18 degrees in Celcius is about 41 Farenheit.
Actually, more along the lines of 65 degrees farenheit… but yeah, we’re getting in and around mid-20’s celcius… which is 75-85 in farenheit.
Gah! It’s too bad it’s in Toronto or I would so get down there and see you guys! I live in NB and it’s too far to get through…
@Cyberwulf: Actually, BC is “run-down drug-opolis”, Alberta is “country-people”, Saskatchewan is “out-on-the-range”, Manitoba is “through-the-country-and-into-the-city”, Ottawa is “boomin-city”, Quebec, well no one really cares about Quebec in Canada, Newfoundland is “home-of-the-durs”, New Brunswick is “yo-yo-wannabe-gangsta-druggie-yo”, Nova Scotia is “Canadian-England”, Prince Edward Island is “little-paradise-in-the-east” and the upper countries are all cold, ’nuff said.
Welcome to Canada!
Just wish I could join you guys at the con, but I’m all the way over here in Newfoudland still doing courses. Hope you guys enjoy the con and the canadian girls!
Unless they’ve moved Otafest since last year.. It’s in Cowtown, aka Calgary :) If you guys haven’t seen the 404s you’re in for a real treat!
AB hospitality is legendary! Just resist saying “I have nothing in my butt” to the nice men at immigration. Some of them have no senses of humour. :)
rofl
It was very nice meeting both Hawk and Annanth this past weekend. It was also cool to be able to buy the signature Applegeeks bandanna too! ^^ Hope you guys had fun here in Calgary!
Just remember this:
If you get into any kind trouble, just buy the person a beer and all will be forgiven.
It’d be cool to go but I live near Ottawa and that’s a fair distance away from Alberta.
A few freinds of mine uses this same principle if we hurt each other in combat trainig or on the field.
But it does tend to lead to trouble if your faking an injury.
If you want to try a cultural food then go to a decent pub or restaraunt and order poutine. Fries with gravy and cheese curd… yeah I know. But it aint half bad.
And, of course, GO TO TIM HORTON’S.
CHIPS CHEESE AND GRAVY! :D My god, I didn’t think that you could get that outside of Liverpool and the Isle of Man! (GB) It’s genius, you should definately have some. It’s the Isle of Man’s national dish. (Maybe. ¬_¬)
umm…poutine is a Quebequois dish (meaning it was developed by the people in Quebec). If GB has it, they stole it from French Canadians.
Um, maybe… but chips cheese and gravy doesn’t really take much development, y’know? I’m willing to bet it was a seperate discovery. ;) I don’t think our version is quite as advanced as poutine… it’s more like something you eat at 3 in the morning after a night out! Yum.
Calgary is like a cold version of Austin, Texas. Except that in Calgary they don’t execute the mentally retarded.
and calgary is where all the money is these days :P
I saw Erin Diaz of Dresden Codac at the Emerald City Comic Con last weekend, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned from him, it’s that Canadians enjoy every bit drawing stereotypes of their fellow countrymen as Americans do. Canadians are generally pretty nice people across the board. Except for Toronto, which is so bad there’s actually a movie about hating Toronto.
Toronto really isn’t that bad. It’s just that a lot of areas are rough neighborhoods.
I’ve been to Toronto several times, and the only rude person I ever met there was an American. From a town not far from where I live, actually.
So maybe the worst thing about Toronto is that us midwesterners can get there too quickly and cheaply?
;)
…It’s spelled ‘Aaron.’
I shall attend Otafest on Saturday to meet you guys! I had long since tried to arrange my schedule so I could see you at any con, but the fact that Otafest is a few hours away from me means this works perfectly!
The WorkBytes.net crew
Try not to judge Canadian conventions based on Otafest, I’ve heard the Edmonton/Calgary cons can be erm… underwhelming.
really?
well Animethon > 15000 people in 3 days
and Otafest isn’t much smaller
They both are great cons. (attend before you make up your mind. )
15,000? Or did you mean 1,500? It’s closer to 5,000 for both cons, though they count attendance differently. Also, @Ferguson; man, I ran Otafest a couple years back. Don’t knock it ’til you’ve attended.
nope animethon averages 5k a day for 3 days…
15k
The fallacy in that count is that it counts repeat visitors. Otafest counts ticket sales only.
Hmmm. No, not quite. Calgary has a lot more literature and better public… well, everything. And no toll roads. Just closed ones. Oh, and our public transit probably sucks in comparison.
Hey, it’s that place I reside!
Try a Tim Hortons, you just gotta while you’re up :P
Your going to Calgary. I live in Calgary so here are some tips.
Your going to be driving everywhere, no matter what. The city is not built for pedestrians.
Go to Banff.
Go to MEC (Just enter MEC in google for address) (do this before you go the banff)
We aren’t country people, we are oil people hence why there is a ridiculous number of high end cars around.
Buy your maple syrup at grocery stores not at the airport. Oh and don’t buy ANYTHING in banff other than like ice cream.
The crime rate is pretty low but avoid Forest lawn after dark.
That’s all I got for important stuff. I’ll try to make it down to visit and buy some of your stuff.
Fun Fact: Forest Lawn is the name of a really high-end cemetery in California where lots of famous people like Humphrey Bogart are buried. Google it sometime, it’s almost creepy. It’s almost ironic that the name is shared with a Calgary ghetto…
Where is Canada again? Is it a state or something? I’m confused, I never heard about it in school…
Kidding Kidding! I can name all the capitals of Europe! Please don’t hang me!
Boy, the thin line you have to walk these days to be an internationally responsible American. Don’t know if I can do it much longer ;-).
‘internationally responsible American’ - i am not sure there is more then one or two of those in the world…..
There is, well… Hawk, Kirk and maybe Spiderman but that is all that i can name ;)
Don’t forget batman!
Welcome to my country!! I hope it treats you well!
Welcome to Canada, land of the overly nice people. ._.
This here be Canada guy,
Welcome to Canada, EH! Calgary/Alberta forgot to mention they have the Calgary Stampede.. you ARE country! If you go far west to BC its not hippie town.. it’s just the best marijuana in Canada. Have a good one AG
I loved your Webcomics Panel at Otafest
Saw you guys at your booth today at otafest, sadly I missed your panels because went to a gaming thing, but it was awesome that I got a signed poster. I was the asian guy cosplaying Ouran High, and I’ll just reiterate what I said last time. You guys have a kickass comic
You guys should go to Anime North next time!
It’s 5 days away, not sure if you guys could still make it ;P
I agree!
It would be awsome seeing you guys at Anime North.
Next year, perhaps?
Nice meeting you folks at the Con, was a definate pleasure.
Hey. I hope you guys got home alright. Thanks for coming to Canada, it was a blast to see you, and I hope you two will be back soon.
-Chibi
P.S. Someone found my Baby-T I lost, and returned it to me. So a happy ending for me.
Wow… you didn’t hit your bed asap when you arrived Edmonton Chibi??? 2:30am… Oo
anyway Otafest was great.
Having the Applegeeks there was brilliant.
Thanks for Attending - it was a blast.
Sorry about the Imperial March (aka my phone) in your photoshop panel.
Learn a great many things about fast shadow creation…
the polygon tool skills demonstrated are truely breath taking there.
I’m From Port Huron and as long I’m with in about 20 miles or so I really can’t tell the Diff not counting Funny money.
Hey guys, it was really awesome having you guys there at Otafest. Just wanted to say thanks.
Also a special thanks to Hawk for doing that sketch for my girlfriend (of her character). I know it wasn’t your style, but it really meant a lot to her. The only problem is she won’t be quiet about it now. :)
Anyways, I hope you guys had as much fun as we did in Calgary.
Glad you guys enjoyed your trip.
I’ve been more or less banned from Canada for the next couple years or so trying to earn an honest living there. The result is: Canada is on my shit list until they cough up about 10 grand.
Uhm…I’m sorry but I think your own personal problems are your own. What makes you think the rest of us care? D: