Molson's Canadian vs. Foster's Australian

[Platypus]

Which do you prefer?

Molson "I am Canadian" ad:

http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-72891/CanadianClub/CCsales/ad.html

Hey.
I'm not a lumberjack,
or a fur trader...
and I don't live in an igloo
or eat blubber, or own a dogsled...
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,
although I'm certain they're really, really nice.

I have a Prime Minister,
not a President.
I speak English and French,
NOT American.
and I pronouce it ABOUT,
NOT A BOOT.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.
DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,
AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
A TOQUE IS A HAT,
A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH,
AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!

CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS!
THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY!
AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!

MY NAME IS JOE!
AND I AM CANADIAN!

Foster's "I believe" ad:

I don't have a kangaroo for a pet
I don't wrestle with crocodiles And I don't wear a cork hat
I fight wars but never start wars I would rather make peace
I can wear my country's flag with pride
I am a rock I am the ocean I am the island continent
My neighbours are the Smiths, the Wilson's, the Santerellis,
the De Costis, the Wong's and the Jakamarras
I play football without a helmet
I like beetroot on my hamburger
I ride in the front seat of the taxi
I believe it's a prawn not a shrimp
I believe the world is round and down under is on top
I believe Australia is the best address on Earth
And Australians brew the best beer.

Of course, the REAL Aussie ad would be:

I ate my pet Kangaroo
I am sh**t scared of crocodiles And I wear a baseball cap
I love star wars And the wookie is my favourite
I would rather get pissed
And watch someone else carry the country's flag with pride
I like to rock to Billy Ocean
I am blind to my incoherance
My neighbours are the Smith's, the Wilson's, the Wogs, the Lebs,
the Ching-Chong's and the Abo's
I watch football with a tinnie
And have never played badminton-but I know we'll win gold.
I take the beetroot off my hamburgers...
And throw Macca's pickles on windows
I do runners from taxis
I believe the world is flat And Australia is f******g miles away from anywhere
I believe Australia is the best address on earth
And Australians brew the best beer
And that's why we never touch Fosters...
We export that sh*t.



Personally, I must admit, I prefer the Canadian version Although the second Aussie version is better then that.

[Platypus]

wow, this was successful...

[Hatman 🍁]

Wow, I didnt know the Aussies had a version. Did you steal the idea?

[Platypus]

I yhink we were first, but if we did steal it we did a sh**te job of it, eh?

[Hatman 🍁]

I yhink we were first, but if we did steal it we did a sh**te job of it, eh?

According to this, WE were first

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_Canadian

Personally, I like the Quebecois version though:

    I'm not unemployed, or smuggling cigarette [sic] across the border.
    I don't eat Pepsi and Mae Wests for breakfast.
    I don't watch the hockey game doin' it doggy style.
    And non, I don't know Claude, Manon or François in Abitibi - Témiscamingue;
    but I'm sure dey all 'ave nice teeth.

    I smoke in church.
    I speak Québécois and Joual; not French or h'English [sic];
    and I pronounce it 'turd', not 'third'.
    And eating french fries with cheese makes sense, mon esti;
    I believe in distinct society – as long as someone else pays for it.
    I believe in language police, not equal rights.
    And, calice, I believe that "Club Super Sexe" is an appropriate place for my wife and me to celebrate our anniversaire!
    What da hell, she goes on at ten, anyway!

    In Québec, the Stanley Cup actually comes round more often than Halley's Comet.
    I can get beer at the dépanneur, not at the convenience store.
    And maybe I can't turn right on a red light, but, tabarnac, I can go right through it!
    Because Québec is the world's largest producer of maple syrup, the 'ome of Céline Dion and Roch Voisine;
    The land where everybody is shackin' up, and the legal drinking age is just a suggestion.
    Je m'appelle Guy - and I am not Canadian. (Mautadit tabarnac esti...)

    Merci salut la visite!

[Gabu]

I don't even like beer, and I love that ad.

[Hatman 🍁]

I don't even like beer, and I love that ad.

Of course. Blind Canadian patriotism rocks!

[The Dowager Mod]

Molson is much better than Fosters.

[ATFFL]

Fosters:  it's Australian for crappy beer, mate.

[KEmperor]

BTW, the Fosters we get in the US is brewed in Canada.

[The Dowager Mod]

Fosters:  it's Australian for crappy beer, mate.

I was trying to be polite but that pretty much sums it up.

[Richard]

Molson is much better than Fosters.

Molson was a company, not a beer.  They make many beers.  Molson Canadian is piss water.  I've not tried Foster.  The best Molson beer by far is Rickard's Red.

[KEmperor]

I like Molson XXX.

[12th Doctor]

The problem with "Canadian Patriotism"  and the Candian sense of national identity is that it can only be defined as being one thing... "not American".  That comes through in this ad where pretty much every line is a stab against Americans.  Without the US, Canada would have absolutly nothing to hold it together, but then again, if Canada was beside any country other than the US, it woul dhave been conquered a dozen times over by now.

Can anyone here acctually tell me what it means to be Canadian, as opposed to being "not American"?

P.S.  This is all very interesting coming from a company that I am certain does far more business in the US than in Canada.  Here in Erie, they have a billboard saying "Molson: Saluting Erie, a great American baseball town.  How ironic, eh?

P.P.S  Good thing we are here to seperate you guys from Mexico, or you guys would all have been speaking Spanish 100 years ago.

[ATFFL]

Can anyone here acctually tell me what it means to be Canadian, as opposed to being "not American"?

I believe it was a Canadian politician who said that the Canadian nation identity was based on a "love of hockey, beer and not being American."

[Gabu]

Can anyone here acctually tell me what it means to be Canadian, as opposed to being "not American"?

Honestly, I've explained it before, and nobody cared.  Whenever someone did care, it was only because they wanted to make some snide comment about how the reasons are stupid and how Americans have so much more to be proud of.  I've basically given up defending it, because there really is no point.  So, sure, go ahead, assume that Canadians' whole meaning in life is hating Americans and that they have nothing to be proud of.  I won't stop you.

I will, however, say that it has often seemed to be the case that those who criticize Canadians for allegedly defining their entire identity on "not being American" are often those for whom a great part of their national pride is based off of "being superior to every other country", which is not exactly all that nobler.

[12th Doctor]

Can anyone here acctually tell me what it means to be Canadian, as opposed to being "not American"?

Honestly, I've explained it before, and nobody cared.  Whenever someone did care, it was only because they wanted to make some snide comment about how the reasons are stupid and how Americans have so much more to be proud of.  I've basically given up defending it, because there really is no point.  So, sure, go ahead, assume that Canadians' whole meaning in life is hating Americans and that they have nothing to be proud of.  I won't stop you.

I will, however, say that it has often seemed to be the case that those who criticize Canadians for allegedly defining their entire identity on "not being American" are often those for whom a great part of their national pride is based off of "being superior to every other country", which is not exactly all that nobler.

I claim no superiority.  I am just offended by Canada's incesent anti-American attitude.

[Richard]

The problem with "Canadian Patriotism"  and the Candian sense of national identity is that it can only be defined as being one thing... "not American".  That comes through in this ad where pretty much every line is a stab against Americans.  Without the US, Canada would have absolutly nothing to hold it together, but then again, if Canada was beside any country other than the US, it woul dhave been conquered a dozen times over by now.

Can anyone here acctually tell me what it means to be Canadian, as opposed to being "not American"?

P.S.  This is all very interesting coming from a company that I am certain does far more business in the US than in Canada.  Here in Erie, they have a billboard saying "Molson: Saluting Erie, a great American baseball town.  How ironic, eh?

P.P.S  Good thing we are here to seperate you guys from Mexico, or you guys would all have been speaking Spanish 100 years ago.

Please, Canadians at this point is identical to Americans with an inferiority complex.  There is simply nothing that Canada has to be pround of.  There is nothing that distinguishes us from say, the rest of the world except that we constantly like to remind everyone that we are "not American."  We don't define ourselves by stating what we are, we define ourselves by stating what we're not.  And instead of boldly stating that we're not say, British [we have a Queen, afterall], it has to be American, precisely because the rest of the world always confuses us (and rightly so) with Americans.

For most part, Canadians are Americans, except we have an inferiority complex, cannot define ourselves, have a country that is going down the toilet, take a backseat to everything, think hockey is the most important thing in the world (nevermind that we've not won the Stanley Cup in more than a decade), and have a very narrow-minded view of what life is like and what is going in the world.

I would not recommend becoming Canadian, unless you go back to 1945 when Canada actually had something to be proud of.

[Chiahead]

Here is a page of famous canadians, http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/people/

JAMES DOOHAN ROCKS

But i think family guy puts it best...

Griffin: Yeah which is more than we got from those free loaded Canadians.
[blank screen appears]
Peter Griffin: Canada sucks.
The more you know

[12th Doctor]

Here is a page of famous canadians, http://www3.sympatico.ca/taniah/Canada/people/

JAMES DOOHAN ROCKS

But i think family guy puts it best...

Griffin: Yeah which is more than we got from those free loaded Canadians.
[blank screen appears]
Peter Griffin: Canada sucks.
The more you know

Over half of these people live in the US now, BTW.

[Richard]

Canadians with ambition are called Americans.

Americans that are cowards (draft dodgers) and lazy (liberals) are called Canadians.

[Hatman 🍁]

Canadians wouldn't hate Americans so much if people like Supersoulty and Richius didn't say the things they did. There really is no need to be cynical about it. America is a great country, full of great people, but it's people like you guys that can really piss us off.  Canada does have a lot to be proud of, but as Gabu mentioned, there is nothing any of us can say to change your thick headed minds. Shame on you both.

[KEmperor]

Canadians wouldn't hate Americans so much if people like Supersoulty and Richius didn't say the things they did. There really is no need to be cynical about it. America is a great country, full of great people, but it's people like you guys that can really piss us off.  Canada does have a lot to be proud of, but as Gabu mentioned, there is nothing any of us can say to change your thick headed minds. Shame on you both.

Um, Richius is one of you guys.

[Richard]

Canadians wouldn't hate Americans so much if people like Supersoulty and Richius didn't say the things they did.

Canadians, in general, are very jealous of Americans and all their success. The problem comes with us wanting to be as successful.  It is exactly the same problem as Europe is having.  In order to be so successful as the United States, you have to adopt capitalism like the United States.  But then, how are we different from them?  We're not.

In order to maintain the illusion that we're unique (like everyone else), we refuse to go the way that was proved to be succesful.  And that will be our downfall.

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Had.  Not have.  Had.  In 1945.  I am sick and tired of reading about that damn space arm.  Yes, we built it.  But SO WHAT?  In 2050, the government is still going to remind us that we built the space arm.

Canada is so unimportant these days it may as well drop off the world and no one would notice.  We don't even have an army to do what we supposedly do best: peacekeeping.  What has Canada done for the world recently?  Anything?  Anything at all?  Please.  All the Canadians with the potential of becoming great end up as Americans.  Like me.  I'm not staying here because I'm not wanted.

Moron-boy upstairs in Ottawa is proof of that.

[12th Doctor]

Canadians wouldn't hate Americans so much if people like Supersoulty and Richius didn't say the things they did. There really is no need to be cynical about it. America is a great country, full of great people, but it's people like you guys that can really piss us off.  Canada does have a lot to be proud of, but as Gabu mentioned, there is nothing any of us can say to change your thick headed minds. Shame on you both.

I never had any problem with Canada until it became obvious to me that they had a problem with us.  The fact that a majority of Canadian school children think the US is "evil" while a majority of Americans see Canada as a "friend" does not speak well for your possition.