The Most Anti-Canadian City in Washington

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  • @pruwyben
    @pruwyben Рік тому +509

    It's pretty funny hearing him say "I'm not obsessed with Bellhingham" for like the 4th time

  • @jackl8025
    @jackl8025 Рік тому +292

    "How does a town with two stoplights even have a subreddit?"

  • @jamesdulak3108
    @jamesdulak3108 Рік тому +621

    My favorite part of NL's Bellingham rivalry is he oscillates between going "I get it just because I'm a tourist doesn't mean they're gonna love me for spending money in their city" to being like "WITHOUT MY DOLLARS THIS PIGSTY WOULD GO INTO COMMERCIAL RUIN, OH FINE GUESS I'LL GO AWAY I DIDN'T WANNA PROP UP YOUR ECONOMY ANYWAY EFF ME I GUESS"

    • @Vario69
      @Vario69 Рік тому +17

      Random fit generator

  • @BrendanFromBC
    @BrendanFromBC Рік тому +618

    As a surrey-born kid, I always loved the trips to Bellingham to (in my fathers words): "fill up the tank, and grab some milk"

    • @knuckle7804
      @knuckle7804 7 місяців тому +27

      Your dad was 100% picking up online parts and took the kids as a front to avoid paying duty on it.
      Source: what my father did

    • @Dafoodmaster
      @Dafoodmaster 7 місяців тому +5

      What are online parts

    • @FemboyValorant
      @FemboyValorant 7 місяців тому +6

      ​@@Dafoodmaster like car parts i assume

    • @Dafoodmaster
      @Dafoodmaster 7 місяців тому

      ah ok yeah that makes sense i guess. thank you!

  • @ladypriere
    @ladypriere Рік тому +250

    Fun things to do in Bellingham!
    1) Leave

    • @machinegunlament
      @machinegunlament Рік тому +11

      1) go to Target
      2) leave

    • @Se7enRemain
      @Se7enRemain 9 місяців тому +1

      Praying to god I don't have to attend western for my BA

    • @jharris9898
      @jharris9898 8 місяців тому +4

      @@Se7enRemainit’s fuckin beautiful man i would love to

    • @Se7enRemain
      @Se7enRemain 8 місяців тому +2

      @@jharris9898 I actually visited the campus recently. Great school

    • @jharris9898
      @jharris9898 8 місяців тому

      @@Se7enRemain the cascades and the skagit river are pretty damn sweet too

  • @rhysuschrist9969
    @rhysuschrist9969 Рік тому +216

    as someone who lives outside of the us/canada, I met an american tourist who said he was from washington at a bar
    said he was from "just below vancouver"
    he was surprised when I instantly clocked it as bellingham, just because of nl, and then upon asking him if it's true that they hate vancouverites, apparently they do not whatsoever, it's just insane redditors it seems

    • @m-baka
      @m-baka Рік тому +33

      They just hate them crowding costco on the weekends

    • @hh0lmes
      @hh0lmes 11 місяців тому +3

      ​@@m-baka100%

    • @JungleScene
      @JungleScene 8 місяців тому +24

      ​@@m-bakato be fair, Canadians clog up the Costco in on our side of the border on the weekends too. It's just fucking Costco...

    • @fedweezy4976
      @fedweezy4976 6 місяців тому +3

      Just moved to Bellingham for college, people literally never even mention Vancouver or BC. I hear about Vancouver Washington more than Vancouver Canada for some reason.

    • @jonesicecream
      @jonesicecream 6 місяців тому

      Literally every person who has ever posted on a local subreddit is as deranged as you can find just look at r/vancouver for five seconds and you will think the website needs to get shut down

  • @wumbojet
    @wumbojet Рік тому +220

    I always love to see someone hate on a city I've never heard of

    • @juljasmah
      @juljasmah Рік тому +10

      Bro really whomegalul'd bellingham

    • @tabula_rosa
      @tabula_rosa 5 місяців тому +1

      i got a job in shipping & was delighted to discover the entire company hates the city of Bethel lol

  • @SemiIocon
    @SemiIocon Рік тому +84

    Best part is chatters coming in at the later segments, not knowing the background lore and being infinitely confused at him going off on some random border town.

  • @nonpondo_
    @nonpondo_ Рік тому +322

    I think my favorite thing about this video is that after going to the subreddit, they don't seem to be that mad at Canadians

    • @Swisskies
      @Swisskies Рік тому +39

      I even searched on their subreddit for "canadians" mostly it seems to be neutral to positive.

    • @rmiah
      @rmiah Рік тому +108

      You gotta find the posts hes referring to specifically. They’re never really going after Canadians by name but hooooly fuck the Trader Joes posts are a gold mine like you just know they’re talking about Canadians LMFAO

    • @rmiah
      @rmiah Рік тому +126

      Personal favorite is a picture of empty spots at the TJ’s with the title of just Border’s Closed Today or something like that

    • @dicksmiggie1137
      @dicksmiggie1137 Рік тому +1

      lmfao yeah i didnt see anything

    • @dicksmiggie1137
      @dicksmiggie1137 Рік тому +14

      @@rmiah oh shit you right

  • @Mishinowo
    @Mishinowo Рік тому +162

    My sister is literally moving to Bellingham TODAY to go to the same school
    Considering sending her this video despite her not knowing a thing about NL or streamers in general
    Edit: SHE SPECIFICALLY BOUGHT A SUBARU LIKE A WEEK AGO FOR THIS MOVE LMAOOOO

    • @pruwyben
      @pruwyben Рік тому +17

      It's honestly a nice town, I'm in Seattle and I like to visit there sometimes.

  • @cattlemantis
    @cattlemantis Рік тому +52

    Someone posted this on the Bellingham subreddit and it's hilarious to see the reaction

    • @puhjay
      @puhjay Рік тому +6

      I cannot wait to see NL find a way to address this I'm already in tears laughing

    • @fledbeast5783
      @fledbeast5783 Рік тому +4

      Seems to have been taken dowm

    • @XionicalXionical
      @XionicalXionical 10 місяців тому +2

      I am looking for the post. Cant find it.

  • @opium9266
    @opium9266 Рік тому +54

    The biggest slander is him saying the tulip festival is in Everett RIP Skagit county

    • @XionicalXionical
      @XionicalXionical 10 місяців тому +9

      True. Also rip all the streets in skagit during the tulip festival. Its like once a year i get to roleplay living in new york.

  • @BensonLe
    @BensonLe Рік тому +79

    Thank you for this. I’ve always heard the anecdotes about the traffic and tourism dollars in bits and banter and never understood it up until now 🙏🙏🙏

  • @DoomOrb
    @DoomOrb Рік тому +42

    I'm 10 minutes in and can't believe this is a 42 minute video about Bellingham. A+, no notes

  • @chan_serv
    @chan_serv Рік тому +165

    wow 42 minutes of pure bellingham hate 🤣🤣🤣

    • @kamrynm9780
      @kamrynm9780 Рік тому +12

      to be fair, the first minute was pretty chill

  • @Audey
    @Audey 5 місяців тому +12

    My great aunt was from Bellingham and every time we'd visit she'd rant and rave about "those goddamn canadians" coming down on the weekends and clogging up the supermarket 😂😂

  • @VeganRoleModel
    @VeganRoleModel Рік тому +77

    As a Vancouverite, this was the best 42 minutes of my life.

  • @SemiIocon
    @SemiIocon Рік тому +54

    He definitely is stealing that milk.

  • @puhjay
    @puhjay Рік тому +27

    By the third "Spirit AND Allegiant" mention I was crying laughing. Oh my god

    • @davidr2421
      @davidr2421 Рік тому +2

      I had my buddy who is a Delta pilot staying over while I was playing this, and that got him chuckling

  • @subressor1
    @subressor1 Рік тому +25

    I love the fact that I didn't know the Bellingham jokes from the recent Geoguesser, I can just type in "Northernlion Bellingham" and get filled in on the jokes
    You're doing the fanbase a huge service brother

  • @colehanna4040
    @colehanna4040 Рік тому +48

    As someone who lives elsewhere on the Canada-USA border, the relationship between the two border cities is exactly like this

  • @tristanhutchins4800
    @tristanhutchins4800 Рік тому +28

    Your inclusion of tweets and visual aid is incredibly helpful, thank you very much king

  • @salsamonkey65
    @salsamonkey65 Рік тому +60

    I find that no matter where I am, people believe whoever lives across their border are horrible drivers

    • @Psycho5275
      @Psycho5275 Рік тому +17

      That's because most places don't border New Jersey otherwise they'd say New Jersey. They're not even allowed to pump their own gas for Christ's sake

  • @YukonJon
    @YukonJon Рік тому +13

    i always listen to these in the background so i kept forgetting this vid was about bellingham until it came up every few minutes

  • @beveragist
    @beveragist Рік тому +13

    I grew up in Lynnwood but have been in Bellingham for 7 years: Canadian drivers speed and tailgate, Bellingham drivers flip their cars on 25mph residential streets. there are so many crashes on Iowa Street because the on and off ramps are way too short.

    • @chriss4855
      @chriss4855 5 місяців тому +3

      and then on the flipside you have people going 30 northbound on i5 before the exit onto sunset/highway 542 when there's still another 1/8th a mile til the stoplight
      personally i don't tend to notice much of a distinction between canadian and washington drivers though, both tend to be equally as likely to be utterly clueless or incompetent in my experience
      don't even get me started on how poorly they programmed a solid 3rd of the stoplights here; lakeway is a mess, sunset is atrocious, and lucky for me those are the streets i have to drive on most frequently lol

    • @BrynnDawson-m4c
      @BrynnDawson-m4c 4 місяці тому

      Literally no one here drives normal it’s the twilight zone

  • @nonpondo_
    @nonpondo_ Рік тому +10

    I thought this was all just gonna be the clip from yesterday and was losing my mind at the video length

  • @NeoBoneGirl
    @NeoBoneGirl Рік тому +89

    this subreddit is living rent free in his head 24/7

  • @Jimjammcblamblam
    @Jimjammcblamblam Рік тому +11

    I knew the Bellingham vid would be a banger but it's so much better than I could have possibly imagined

  • @0The_Farlander0
    @0The_Farlander0 4 місяці тому +3

    I'm an american who was born here but moved to Washington about 7 years ago. Anyone complaining about bad driving in Washington should be aware that the call is coming from inside the house.

  • @Yakutie
    @Yakutie 5 місяців тому +4

    14:21 people on the east coast drive like they’ve been blindfolded and are also all racing each other to see who can crash first

  • @eggd0g
    @eggd0g Рік тому +20

    another incredible entry in the library, love the bellingham vs canada feud

  • @josht130
    @josht130 Рік тому +20

    As a man who lives in vancouver, has met NL, yet was born in Bellingham...I feel conflicted

  • @Neotenico
    @Neotenico Рік тому +8

    ODESZA was one of my introductions to EDM and finding out they're from Bellingham was the most world-rocking, life-altering piece of information I could have received.

  • @Discostick55
    @Discostick55 Рік тому +7

    Hahaha there's quite a bit of backstory I missed. My god the climax is epic.

  • @mojitosuave
    @mojitosuave 2 місяці тому +1

    "it looks like a water hazard on a golf course" is the most accurate description of any flag I've ever heard that wasn't just a few stripes

  • @ChickenTeller
    @ChickenTeller 2 місяці тому +2

    As an american, flag code is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of in my life. I remember being in middle school and one of the kids who put the flag up on the pole every morning wasnt there, so the other kid asked me to help him. I let my end of the flag fall onto the ground while hooking it up to the pole, and the kid started going off on me about how you never let the flag touch the ground so on and so forth. Im not confrontational so im just like "oh sorry I didn't know." But in my head I'm like "it's just a flag who cares?"

  • @countryhat5531
    @countryhat5531 Рік тому +3

    The bit at 23:00 reminds me that someone once described me as "California Ugly": Ugly in California, but would be hot anywhere else

  • @lukefenster6886
    @lukefenster6886 Рік тому +11

    i've lived in bellingham, and i've felt the hate from my friends about people from canada.
    but i'm like, 'there are more washington plates than canadian plates in your trader joe's parking lot.'
    canadians pay the sales tax, and the weirdest thing they do is order tomato juice in their coor's light.
    sorry for all the hate the city gives you, i don't get it

    • @m-baka
      @m-baka Рік тому +3

      only sane hamster

  • @BanzaiBasher
    @BanzaiBasher Рік тому +17

    I live in Washington and have friends in Canada. I don't mind Canadians coming to visit. When I visit Canada everyone feels cordial like he said. Normally feels like an alliance XD but I guess Bellingham hates it lol

    • @vepply
      @vepply Рік тому

      you know what, FUCK bellingham

    • @m-baka
      @m-baka Рік тому +1

      Bellingham hates everything. I saw Dick Dale play there once, and he mentioned he was playing Seattle the next night, and someone yelled out "OVERRATED"

  • @Kswaf706
    @Kswaf706 Рік тому +8

    The rants have been S tier lately. TY for the gr8 clips Librarian

  • @jadonprewitt8280
    @jadonprewitt8280 Рік тому +11

    as a washingtonian this is outstanding

  • @juhbellz
    @juhbellz 6 місяців тому +2

    for a bald man to take his hat off, that means more than covering my heart, okay?

  • @juicebassmusic
    @juicebassmusic Рік тому +5

    As a red blooded American and lost time resident of Bellevue WA, this checks out. Can confirm.

  • @westonparker5940
    @westonparker5940 Рік тому +8

    Man the walls of Costco! The Canadians are coming!

  • @stinkybuttrat
    @stinkybuttrat Рік тому +15

    Chess is back on the menu?!? No nvm this is a compilation lmao
    Rip chess

  • @johnteds4761
    @johnteds4761 Рік тому +14

    I live in Bellingham and this hurts my feelings.

  • @Mystery_Meat
    @Mystery_Meat 6 місяців тому +1

    This is hitting close to home as a long time watcher WWU senior just now finding out NL is a Bellingham observer

  • @PvtPuplovski
    @PvtPuplovski 4 дні тому

    19:45 Ive frequently driven 4 hours on the same highway, I'm camping the left lane the whole time when I know its 1/6th of a day between the on-ramp and off-ramp.

  • @JaxonUm
    @JaxonUm Рік тому +6

    Wait there was an NL + Toph collab? That's a crazy pair

  • @crow1535
    @crow1535 Рік тому +11

    As a student in Bellingham I love hearing him complain because everything he says is true

  • @midknight1339
    @midknight1339 10 місяців тому +2

    Dude holy shit 28:50 is quite possibly the best NL bit I've seen

  • @ianterada6821
    @ianterada6821 8 місяців тому +2

    LOL as someone who lived in Bellingham for years, it's hilarious to hear about people mad about Canadians visiting. Oh no, they're gonna be polite and friendly at me! Idk how I missed the NL Bellingham lore but ty for this video.

  • @nnm711
    @nnm711 Рік тому +1

    27:43 - the moment VTEC kicks in

  • @NorthernlionLP
    @NorthernlionLP Рік тому +3

    Shoutout to lets_get_high_135 for being in almost all these clips

  • @esteban9504
    @esteban9504 Рік тому +3

    I love the timestamps btw

  • @Justin-ee1mv
    @Justin-ee1mv Рік тому +1

    Absolutely beautiful addition to the library

  • @iannsinger5760
    @iannsinger5760 8 місяців тому +1

    Being an American abroad feels a lot like being a Canadian in Belingham I think. Immediate suspicion and/or hostility, not based on anything you’ve personally done but rather on what you represent. And the more you complain, the less respect you will ever receive😢

  • @StIdes-wb3ir
    @StIdes-wb3ir Рік тому +6

    omg it's Toph!

  • @itsokiie
    @itsokiie Рік тому +1

    I lived in ferndale almost all my life. love that papa NL lives in the lesser realm next door

  • @TheWatchfuleye1
    @TheWatchfuleye1 7 місяців тому +2

    I can understand both sides of this argument, I live in Southern Maine and I love a good Quebec trip, but when the quebecois come down and act like we're gonna speak French 300 miles away in a different country it's a little bit annoying. Although, they aren't the worst visitors we get, that still goes to the flatlanders (derogatory) (people from Massachusetts [fuck them])

  • @Zarule31
    @Zarule31 7 місяців тому

    Did not expect to be catching strays as a dark blue Subaru driver lol

  • @MemeSupreme69
    @MemeSupreme69 Рік тому +18

    Someone already posted this video on the Bellingham subreddit. Predictably, all of the comments are from humorless losers.

    • @Trevalion
      @Trevalion Рік тому +16

      As someone who moved to Bellingham a couple years ago, this tracks. Getting out this summer.

    • @TheLibraryofLetourneau
      @TheLibraryofLetourneau  Рік тому +13

      AINTNOWAY

  • @LtBerryJF
    @LtBerryJF Рік тому +1

    Rosasharn would beg to differ about the milk situation in the U.S.

  • @richardsmith3021
    @richardsmith3021 Рік тому +1

    Hot damn an outro. Love a fellow Etho enjoyer.

  • @algonquintraveler
    @algonquintraveler Рік тому +2

    33:58 "get a therapist"

  • @kataarifox
    @kataarifox Рік тому +9

    Damn this comes out immediately after I apply to western washington university now I'm second guessing

    • @Suzume900
      @Suzume900 Рік тому +3

      If you like hyper progressive values it'll be a good fit

    • @greasemachine42
      @greasemachine42 Рік тому +4

      I'm a freshman there rn, the city is pretty meh but the college itself is nice. consider it!

  • @obviouslyanonymous
    @obviouslyanonymous Рік тому

    Omg the Sunflower Parody is brilliant

  • @lycos94
    @lycos94 Рік тому +6

    US flag rules sound like something straight out of north-korea
    same with the whole school pledge thing they do

  • @Chris-zs6fd
    @Chris-zs6fd Рік тому +2

    I have watched this video 6 times all the way through

    • @TenseiCho
      @TenseiCho 7 місяців тому +1

      It's actually so good.

  • @nickolasmazzara127
    @nickolasmazzara127 Рік тому +1

    Ryan with the based take on Subaru owners. Shit literally happened to me four times in one-and-a-half hours of driving in the Metro Detroit/Ann Arbor area. Like, come on, it is 10:30am on a Wednesday: there is no need for you to be splitting lanes as 90mph in your riced-out, base model Impreza.

  • @Rcmike1234
    @Rcmike1234 Рік тому

    23:03
    Currently in naples Florida. Had something similar but it was more like, holy shit im young. Had to look up the median age. It's literally 30 years more than where i live lmao.

  • @fidelis13
    @fidelis13 Рік тому

    as an east coaster, yeah... we kinda do drive like that

  • @shai4129
    @shai4129 Рік тому

    this reminds me a lot of the giant bombcast's australian beef saga

  • @FalcoMaster.
    @FalcoMaster. 29 днів тому

    Damn dude didnt know about toph and NL colabs, SOOO SICK

  • @Ginronmaster1994
    @Ginronmaster1994 8 місяців тому +1

    As a Bellinghamster it's surreal hearing someone talk about it. There's plenty to do here, we have like 10,000 breweries 🙂
    Also stay out of our Trader Joe's reeee

  • @knightlunaaire1087
    @knightlunaaire1087 Рік тому

    no way this long video is just about Bellingham
    ...
    Cereal

  • @georgecastaneda1779
    @georgecastaneda1779 Рік тому +6

    Hamsters been real quiet since NL called them out

  • @micalishis
    @micalishis Рік тому +1

    I feel like complaining about the skills of other drivers is like that saying where if you smell shit everywhere you go then it's you that smells like shit.

    • @saysoother71
      @saysoother71 2 місяці тому

      clearly youve never been to dallas

  • @benmalatin5237
    @benmalatin5237 8 місяців тому

    Flag code hack: Burn the flag in front of a building of public office instead of disposing of it according to the code.

  • @Inhake
    @Inhake 7 місяців тому +1

    Is the thumbnail a reference to Die Hard 3 and the n-word sign

  • @embr54
    @embr54 3 місяці тому

    I actually saw NL steal milk from my American small town.
    Completely cleaned us out.
    We’ve since put up his picture in preparation for his next visit.

  • @imangry1
    @imangry1 Рік тому +2

    Nl bringing up ann arbor made me laugh they drive so fucking slow there
    Now Detroit? Yea we got places to be

  • @gracehelberg880
    @gracehelberg880 7 місяців тому

    As someone who grew up in Northern Washington, NL is kinda spitting, people are legit prejudiced against Canadians up there

  • @joemama2737
    @joemama2737 Місяць тому

    I’m going to Bellingham in like a week this is hilarious

  • @patrickbattle232
    @patrickbattle232 9 місяців тому

    holy shit Ann Arbor referenced

  • @I_EAF_19882
    @I_EAF_19882 5 місяців тому

    Holy, the size of his head

  • @AlexK-jp9nc
    @AlexK-jp9nc Рік тому

    Looks like the video on the subreddit got deleted

  • @sccrboy30
    @sccrboy30 7 місяців тому

    Residents of Bellingham are called Bellinghamsters

  • @Vario69
    @Vario69 Рік тому

    The Chronicles of Bellingham: Chapter One

  • @ClassicBentobox
    @ClassicBentobox Рік тому +1

    Yo was that Toph in the intro?

  • @dominicholmes5528
    @dominicholmes5528 Рік тому

    was born in Bellingham. pogging up rn

  • @ninjacolin7982
    @ninjacolin7982 Рік тому

    Toph and NL ? Goated mix

  • @trivane626
    @trivane626 Рік тому +1

    How do you find all these clips about Bellingham?

    • @TheLibraryofLetourneau
      @TheLibraryofLetourneau  Рік тому +21

      i had a lot of marked clips in the bits and banter called "bellingham slander", i also pulled all the 2021/2022 subtitles from his YT videos to find the early mentions of bellingham

    • @trivane626
      @trivane626 Рік тому +3

      @@TheLibraryofLetourneau thank god the bellingham slander collector is out here, also pulling all the subtitles from his videos is genius but sounds like a ton of work

    • @puhjay
      @puhjay Рік тому +2

      ​@@TheLibraryofLetourneau this is so high tech, truly the archivist of our generation

  • @SmoothieD00d
    @SmoothieD00d Рік тому +2

    This is awesome

  • @Taylor-bw4zg
    @Taylor-bw4zg Рік тому

    as far as i know the bad drivers on the east coast are mostly just from Massachusetts they even have their own nickname lol

  • @usermnm1104
    @usermnm1104 8 місяців тому

    LYNNWOOD MENTIONED LETSGO

  • @snifffffff
    @snifffffff 8 місяців тому +4

    I love how supporting the local economy is: our shitty mall, costco, tj’s, mod pizza, and none of the hundreds of excellent and kind small businesses we have lmao

  • @Trevalion
    @Trevalion Рік тому +2

    I live in Bellingham, born in Vancouver BC
    Yeah, they hate us so much lol

  • @HiIh76
    @HiIh76 5 місяців тому

    Yo is that toph? Wtf what a weird cross of intersts.

  • @s3anp4ul
    @s3anp4ul Рік тому

    he loves the number 17