As much as I pretend to hate Canada

[Primo]

There seems to be alot of Canadian girls on this board.

[girl68]

Vancouver is one of the livable cities in the world last year, according to economist.

I heard from my friend that it rain 24/7 in Vancouver ..

Your friend is wrong. We have 4 seasons: like scorching hot summers where we don't see rain for more than 5 days in about a 4 month period. Your friend is exaggerating. Mind you, did she also tell you we all live in igloos?

[AdminOnline]

Mind you, did she also tell you we all live in igloos?

lol...!!

[IndiReloaded]

On the other hand, there have been winters in Vancouver where it rained pretty every day for 3 months straight. Pretty hard on those used to the sun, even in winter.

It rains a lot in Vancouver. Whoever told you that was right, LA. But summers are nice.

[misombra]

i want to visit canada.

[DoesntMatter]

Your friend is wrong. We have 4 seasons: like scorching hot summers where we don't see rain for more than 5 days in about a 4 month period. Your friend is exaggerating. Mind you, did she also tell you we all live in igloos?

lol, is that a joke? Vancouver is extremely mild. Your RECORD high is 94F and your record LOW is 0F. It has NEVER been scorching in Vancouver and NEVER been cold in Vancouver

[DoesntMatter]

I just don't like the ones that are like "Yeah, we kick ass, we're so much better than everyone else!!!" It kinda sounds redneck.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M"]YouTube - America **** yeah-team america[/ame]

[IndiReloaded]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LysxbVZ1DNM&feature=fvw"]YouTube - Why People Hate The USA[/ame]

[Junket]

I still don't see why so many people bash us for not knowing who their leaders are, or how their governments run, or know their languages, or know their history. I doubt Europeans are as "wordly" as they think. By default they're surrounded by dozens of other very different cultures and countries so all the information that comes with that may be more common knowledge to them.

But do any of them know about the US's governors, mayors?

What about how laws can differ greatly between states?

I can bet you quite a few Louisianians have gotten into trouble because they had a loaded gun sitting on their dashboard driving across state lines. It's even too much for us to keep track of.

[url]http://goeurope.about.com/b/2007/03/01/so-just-how-big-is-europe-compared-to-the-us-anyway.htm[/url]

[ecojeanne]

i had a thing about canada years ago and russia. i had a choice so i went to russia a few months before the wall came down. maaaan it was an experience. tbh i have no real interest in canada coz in many ways it's not that unique in comparison to anywhere else in the western world. i might go someday for the scenery..maybe.

[IndiReloaded]

Only ignorant people make judgments about a place they've never been. Of course, I can say definitively that I would never want live in Ireland. Its a pretty country, but not as nice as Canada. We have way more variety. We have rolling hills, green, rugged ocean coast covered by our maritime provinces but also have desert, alpine mountains, forest, rainforest, vinelands, big-sky prairies, world-class urban cities like Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal. Anyway, Ireland is shite for anything related to technology or education. Dumb as a sack of potatoes. I don't think they've invented a single useful thing.

[ecojeanne]

^^lol, ignorance is an epidemic on here

[lastwish]

Irish Inventions and Inventors:

Vincent Barry (1908-1975), led a team that discovered a treatment for leprosy

Francis Beaufort (1774-1857), hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength

John Stewart Bell (1928-1990), atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities'

John Desmond Bernal (1901-1971), X-ray crystallography

George Boole (1815-1864), inventor of Boolean algebra

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), pioneer scientist, 'Boyle's Law'

Louis Brennan (1852-1932), principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo

Pádraig de Brún (1889-1960), scholar and mathematician

Lucien Bull (1876-1972), high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ), discovered pulsars

Nicholas Callan (1799-1864), inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle of the dynamo.

Aeneas Coffey (1780-1852), heat exchanger, inventor of the Coffey still

Nicholas Comins, binaural stethoscope

William Monad Crawford, entomologist

William Dargan, railway engineer

Frederick G. Donnan, chemist

James J. Drumm, chemist, inventor of the Drumm nickel-zinc battery

Henry George Ferguson, engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch

George Francis FitzGerald (1851-1901), theoretical physicist, 'Fitzgerald-Lorenz Contraction'

John Robert Gregg (1868-1948), Gregg shorthand system.

Sir John Purser Griffith (1848-1938) Chief engineer for Dublin port and Irish Free State senator (1922-1936)

William Rowan Hamilton, quaternions; mathematical physics

John Phillip Holland (1841-1914), submarine designer

Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815), botanist

John Joly (1857-1933), photometer, colour photography

Richard Kirwan (1733-1812), meteorologist

Arthur Leared (1822-1879), binaural stethoscope

Robert Mallet (1810-1881), seismology

Sir James Martin (1893-1981), aircraft ejector seat

Andrew McDaniel (1983-), Chemical Engineer

Alexander Mitchell (1780-1868), lighthouse and marine engineer

David Murray (1983-), beep club

Richard O'Keefe, computer scientist

Frank Pantridge, Inventor of the mobile defibrilator

Francis Rynd (1811-1861), doctor and inventor of the hypodermic needle and syringe

George Stokes (1819-1903), mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations'

George Johnstone Stoney (1826-1911), atomic physicist, named the 'electron' and measured its charge

John Lighton Synge (1897-1995), mathematician

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), physicist

John Tyndall (1820-1893), physicist

Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics

Mary Ward (1827-1869), microscopist

John Walker (1841-1910), principle and forerunner of the caterpillar track

John Richardson Wigham (1829-1906), inventor and lighthouse engineer

[IndiReloaded]

Bwhahahahaha! Lord Kelvin? LOL, he's from *North Ireland*, which according to Eco, isn't Ireland. Smart British lord, yes, but noone denies the inventive capabilities of the British. Can't have it both way now...

Anyway, I didn't say 'scientists', I said inventions. Tho, yes, the induction coil is a good one. Still, for such an old country that's a pretty small list once you remove the generic 'famous' scientists. If you did a similar list for Canada or US, including famous scientists + inventions the list would be much longer.

Here's the real list of Irish inventions:

1. The water-proof towel
2. Solar powered flashlight
3. Submarine screen door
4. A book on how to read
5. Inflatable dart board
6. A dictionary index
7. Ejector seat in a helicopter
8. Powdered water
9. Pedal-powered wheel chair
10. Waterproof tea bag

[ecojeanne]

^^you're pathetic because you are literally a simple hypocrite, read back on your comments simon