Lies about Canada you still believe
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2020
- Things that people believe about Canada that just aren't true. Let's look at a few Canadian urban legends about stuff like maple-scented money, the Turks and Caicos Islands, hockey, and more.
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JJ's hair has transcended to the level of hockey hair, and it is glorious.
Helmet hair 🤩
JJs hairstyle is very std for 1970s-80s
Exactly what I was gonna say
Spot on. That’s some gorgeous salad atop his dome.
Now we just need the mustache back.
Canadians probably had maple syrup on their fingers while touching their money.
Probably? All Canadians have maple syrup on their fingers surely.
The bills definitely smelled like maple if you got one that was brand new, I think there some aromatics in the plastic that have a slight maple smell. Then over time all those aromatics evaporate into the air and they lose the smell.
@@ThreeRunHomer Some kind of secretionary thing? Like sweat, but delicious maple syrup?
@@ericcartmann Canadian Money (specifically the polymer banknotes) is actually made in Australia. There really aren't 'brand new' Canadian notes in Canada as they have to be shipped there first.
Also Australia doesn't scent their money, so I dunno why Canada's money would be scented, lol.
Or on their nose
“In Canada everyone rides a moose to school...”
I thought you said urban legends, not facts.
I don't ride a moose to school, I ride a beaver - they take up much less space.
@@dannyboy_m3821 I apologize profusely for presuming.
Canadian students take busses to school. The larger ones are pulled by 20 or so sled dogs.
@@dannyboy_m3821 In ride a Justin Bieber to school :D :D :D
I take a loon to school they’re surprisingly fast
Way back when I was in High School, the mom of one of my girlfriends was Canadian.
She told me when she was a young girl living in rural Canada, what they used to do for entertainment was to spot a moose swimming across a lake. They'd hop in a small boat and intercept it, jumping on its back for a ride.
I asked wasn't that horribly dangerous? She just smiled and said, "Only if you ride too long and the moose gets too close to the shore and can get his feet on the ground."
This middle class kid from Scottsdale Arizona decided right then and there Canadians are not to be messed with.
I would be pretty amazed if that was remotely true. Moose are a pretty territorial and destructive species when threatened and they are also great swimmers being able to dive underwater and move at about the same speed as a typical small non engined boat. If someone were able to jump on its back without it freaking out I would definitely be terrified of their massive balls.
JJ! I'd like to contest the banknote thing! I mean, whilst I'm certain it's nothing the Canadian Government do to the banknotes deliberately, there must be something in the manufacturing process that inadvertently results in a noticeable sweet smell (not exactly maple syrup, but sweet nonetheless). If you compare them to other polymer notes such as the UK's, Australia's or New Zealand's, they undeniably have a sweet smell not present in the others. And having worked in a foreign exchange bureau and handled literally hundreds of thousands of these dollars, I can be certain it's not just the particular note I smelled that smelt sweet, it's all of them! I think this calls for some sort of empirical blind-smell-test-comparison to finally get to the bottom of this...
That's what I was thinking must be it too. Either that or Canadians are just very likely to rub their maple syrup smell onto their banknotes.
Hey Half-Asleep Chris! I love your videos so much, especially ones with your cat :)
I smell another cross-over video in the near future. That would be sweet!
Blind smell test by Steve Mould and Matt Parker: ua-cam.com/video/2KEQCudRqbY/v-deo.html
@@CallieMasters5000 Nonsense. American money smells like freedom. lol
Biggest Canadian Urban Legend: The Toronto Maple Leafs will "get the cup, next year"
Obviously it's a myth, since we all know the Oilers are going to win the cup next year.
The real myth with that, is that most people in Toronto even care about hockey.
AlexR2648 going to win the draft lottery next year*
@@HamishDuh2nd Well, can you blame them?
@@HamishDuh2nd Dear God... My condolences
That Canadians invented the military tactic "The Creeping Barrage". This is a myth. The Brits tried it in the Somme; they were bad at it. Canadians tried it again with the knowledge of the problems at Vimy Ridge; and it did very well. Canadians didn't invent it, they perfected it.
Yeah, Canadians have a habit of taking poorly constructed ideas and fixing them some.
Why they didn’t copy Blitzkrieg?
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@@Tobi-ln9xr Because it worked lmao
@@Nakia11798 Unless that poorly constructed idea was the Ross Rifle. I mean they fixed it a ton. But then abandoned it.
"It's right there in the name. Paper money."
American cloth bills: *sweat*
Please do another worst election defeats video for other countries such as Australia, NZ etc. I really enjoyed that video!
A please would be nice
Jonathan Railton stfu
Yes!!
+ Ireland and SA , the “EXoTiC” anglophone nations
The 2009 Japanese election is a good example. It's the only time the Liberal Democrats lost an election in Japan.
One of the most common myths I get hit with is, "I thought canadians were nice". I can't make mean spirited jokes without hearing something similar to that. ps love the monocle.
As an outsider to both USA and Canada I can easily say that it’s not that Canadians are nice, but when compared to their neighbour, they aren’t jerks.
Oh heck, I thought it was a jewellers loup!
Polite is our reputation because we say sorry
yeah lmfao the canadians being polite stereotype also goes right out the window on the road. man y'all aggressive as fuck!!!
I have a fitting quote from J. J. McCullough from another one of his videos. “Americans often overestimate how much the world knows about them and the world often overestimates how much they know about the America”. It’s not that Canadians are normal and appear nice because of Americans…it’s actually that you have no clue what you’re talking about because you’re stereotyping and being a bandwagon. 🙄
riding a moose to school is so untrue. I only ever did that ONCE because my snow-dogs were sick.
I love your tongue-in-cheek commentaries about Canadian life. You have a way of making the mundane interesting. Please keep up the good work! ❤
Every time I watch a video of yours about Canada, I'm always reminded of how for some Canadians, their patriotic identity comes from being not American. As an American I always just thought of Canada as our kind, cold, quirky, hockey loving, slightly more British neighbor to the North
Cold and hockey loving are the only adjectives that really apply...
@@HamishDuh2nd I don't know if I consider it Anti-American but it makes sense. In America we are typically very proud to be Americans and insist we have the best country ever, even if I currently despise the man in the White House. It makes sense that the non-rebelious British colonies would want to distinguish themselves from us Yankees. After all, you're not American so you have no patriotic allegiance to our country. It's more just that I didn't think about it as much until I started watching JJ's videos
i mean speaking as a Canadian, i love both America & Canada, but i’m still proud to be Canadian & it’s not about “just not being an American.” there’s many reasons to be patriotic about both of these lovely countries & they’re not all related to each other.
@@lilacsbby4787 Oh yes there certainly are a lot of reasons to be proud to be a Canadian too, no doubt. You guys backed the allies from the start in both World Wars instead of waiting around like us, you have much more welcoming immigration laws than us, plus (despite JJ disliking it) you guys have a Westminster style government which is far less prone to populism than ours is (I mean just look at us right now). I was just referring to folks JJ references that think that way.
@@HamishDuh2nd I gotcha, sorry if my initial comment seemed anti-Canadian, it wasn't intended to be. I was just making an observation about our friends in the North that I hadn't really realized. I've only been to Niagra Falls, so I haven't really spent much time in Canada unfortunately, maybe after the pandemic
2:42
Closest JJ has ever gotten the French accent down without gagging
At least on camera.
As a German living very close to the French border I must say that language is infuriating to hear after a while. If only heard once a month it's fine but when you visit for a few days and hear it nonstop it really gets to you after a while, especially with their snobby attitude and demeanor towards most Germans, even after losing multiple wars against us.
Le CRASAUNTE
Ding Ding The UA-cam Buddy I don‘t wanna comment on the actual issue but we literally started both world wars in some way. Sooooo I personally don’t feel great about wars Germany was involved in
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan I don't give a shit what you think, I am proud of the nation we once were before the world wars happened.
“Hockey isn’t canada’s national sport-“
Me, a 25 year old canadian: “Well yeah its curling”
“-Its laccrosse”
Me: “wtf”
I thought it was NASCAR
Canada has two national sports. Canada's national winter sport is hockey. And Canada's summer national sport is lacrosse.
I believe that Hockey was made Canada's Official Winter Sport while Lacrosse remains our Official Summer Sport.
carlosr_78 shark well i know that now but I grew up being told Curling was our national sport lol.
@@fuzzythoughts8020 I think it was farly recent that hockey was made Canada's national winter sport.
People that say that say american beer is piss and that canadian/irish/english/german beer is way better, because they drank a Budweiser, don't know what they are talking about.
That's like saying america has shit food because of Macdonald's. America has some of the highest rated restaurants and chefs in the world, but yeah your irish grandmother can cook better than all of them, because...uh...MacDonalds.
Yeah, its like comparing a product from their home country of the highest of bars to USA's lowest. I'm pretty sure at the end of the day Budweiser and Beck's (Germany) will still taste like piss if you compared them together in an anonymous test.
@@naveygill1793 I was a teenager in the '80s and we thought it was the height of sophistication to spring for a case of St. Pauli's Girl or Lowenbrau.
I’m Canadian and Bud light lime is my favourite beer.
I have only good things to say about American beer. Culture!!
What with increased popularity of micro brews, and with it customized production of beer- This debate has kind of become obsolete.
It's not out fault that they buy our crappy stuff. More of the good stuff for us.
I went to Quebec a few years ago and I was legit disappointed when I found out that money didn't smell like syrup :(
I wish they did smell like maple syrup!
@@saw7191 Well you can always dip 'em yourself.
I live in Quebec and if that's what maple syrup smells like I am no longer a fan!!
I also went to Quebec a few years ago, but the money I got actually _does_ smell slightly sweet! It's probably just the plastic smell J.J. mentioned, though.
@@HamishDuh2nd true and I always clean it down with a disinfectant wipe before I hand it over to anyone. Maybe a little extreme but I do the same with coins. Many merchants here tell us not to tip delivery but I still do. They make little as it is and any extra helps especially in these times.
The true false fact is that the Habs' logo is a CH. It's clearly a sideways smiley face.
I only ever see a toilet seat
Some wise guy said it stood for "Center Hice".
Or if you turn head sideways to the left, you will see a bald boy doing a split midair.
Can turn it 90 degrees counterclockwise and it looks lile an emoji smiley face with a red sweater cheering... but lets be honest its a toilet seat
Nah its a toilet seat
My (American) 7th grade geography teacher told us that Toronto is often used as a stand-in for New York in TV and films (which is true), but that when producers dirty things up to make the streets look more like the Big Apple, they find the sets clean when they come back from lunch as everyday Canadians thoughtfully pick up and clean the litter. That seems a little urban-legend-ish to me, but just believable (at least to a class of 12-year olds) to be true.
I remember there was an episode of That 70's Show where they go up to Canada to get beer because they think it's better and cheaper. While the legend may be false that episode is still very funny.
For us it was less about better beer, but that the drinking age (18) was three years lower than in the US (21). But in the 70s American briefly had a similar drinking age before we were deemed too immature to handle our alcohol.
No house hippoes?
I totally ROLFed at this comment. I forget about tv add from the 90's until you mentioned it. lolz
What's a house hippo?
@@patrickmurphy8222 It's a miniature hippo that enters your house looking for food and objects to build it's nest, they are found in Canada but are a rare sight
@@HolyLegendz also found in parts of the Eastern US as well, but are even rarer there
I feel like the sense of smell is easier to "fool" than the other senses
I've heard it's also the sense we have the weakest memories attached to. It's very difficult to vividly remember a smell.
@@JJMcCullough I've heard the exact opposite (along with the evolutionary explanation that smell has developed earlier than other senses).
@@JJMcCullough For me it's kinda hard to remember a smell out of nowhere, but when I smell something I always have a very vivid memory associated with it, especially if it's a less common smell.
It isn’t called the NOSE or en español, NARIZ, because it ISN’T “naïve....” LoL, I’m a FRENCH CANADIAN, and speak and understand FRENCH, ENGLISH, DANISH & Dutch/Deutsch.
J.J. McCullough No no. Depends on who, but, I’m maybe even overly sensitive of smells, so even though I love to go all French Canadian at home and cook the best things from scratch as a form of therapy, I can’t stand to small things inside my home on a regular basis as a rule or it makes me sick feeling.
One myth/stereotype I find very funny about Canada is that every cop and miltary corporations members dress up the same as Mounted Police all the time.
Rcmp in dress uniform that is!
The Rangers do. Maybe during parades or other celebration.
the famous uniform is only used during formal occasions
I've never smelled new Canadian notes, but the CD-Rs and DVD-Rs of the time had a distinct odor, and I heard the Canadian money used a similar same dye process, so it smelled similar. Not because of the plastic, and not deliberately scented like maple syrup, but if you expected to smell maple syrup, you might.
"90% of the beer in the world is under 5.5% ABV"
Laughs in Belgian
I'm sure the Belgian 12% (or whatever) beer isn't drunk in same quantities as milder beers.
lol Yeah, but by the time your Belgian waiter brings it to you the Canadian has had time to drink 3.
@@seneca983 Well we have beer around 8.5% and they're drunk in quantities of 33cl. It depends on the drinker, but normally by the time you finished one of those 8.5% beers someone else finishes 2 milders beers. These beers are also reserved for more special occasions. At a party you're not going to find these but for instance at a wedding you'll find them.
@@seneca983 At least in the german south 1 normal beer (5-5,5 %) is usually served as 1l (1/4 Gallon) and strong beers (8-10%) are usually served in 0,5l doses.
People usually drink 3-4 of them.
@@FrogsterLP Wow, that's a lot!
I remember there often was an annual parliamentary “fact finding” boondoggle to the Turks and Caicos. In the middle of winter.
Yeah. I can just see a bunch of MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee going on a publicly funding holiday down there and then producing something called "A Report on Conditions Favourable and Unfavourable As They Pertain the the Potential Annexation and Incorporation of the Turks and Caicos Islands into the Dominion of Canada" which is really just a bunch of beach photographs and Yelp Reviews of their hotels.
"Especially from (internal sigh) Lacrosse players..."
I don't know why, but that got me laughing hard.
The fact people say Canadians are nicer than Americans in my own personal experience isn't very true! I've found that as a tourist Americans were always more curious and friendlier than Canadians, (speaking mostly about British Columbia, Alberta and Southern Ontario)
I live by the border in 🇨🇦 I find Americans most likely to talk to strangers and Canadians most likely to be friendly to strangers.
JJ being official with his trusty monocle xD
Thomas Jefferson never said, prior to the War of 1812, that conquering Canada would be "a mere matter of marching." He just said it about taking Montreal.
It wasn't Canada that Voltaire dismissed as "a few acres of snow," but Acadia. (I'm from the Maritimes, but still...)
It's also a myth that the USA declared War in 1812 out of a greedy desire to annex Canada. The US Congressional record shows that prior to the vote to declare war on the British Empire, the goals of ending the British practices of impressment and arming the natives on the frontier were debated. There was no debate on annexing Canada. That's not to say that annexation wasn't a possible outcome of the war, just that it wasn't the reason that Congress voted to declare war. It's also worth noting that the congressmen who voted for war were overwhelmingly from the southern and western United States. Adding more free states in the north wasn't something the southerners would want. At the time the US was much more interested in expanding westward, where the land would be easier to acquire, more valuable for farming, and more likely not to upset the delicate balance between free states and slave states.
@@electricpizza5774 Annexing Canada seemed to be a PROBABLE outcome!
@@Blaqjaqshellaq The goals of the war as evidenced in the Congressional debate record were ending impressment and the arming of natives on the frontier. The status of British North America following the war wasn't part of the debate.
Saying that the USA went to war against Britain in 1812 out of a greedy intention to annex Canada while Britain was fighting France is like saying that the USA went to war with Japan in 1941 out of a greedy intention to acquire islands in the Pacific while Japan was busy fighting China. In neither case did the declaration of war by Congress have anything to do with possible territorial acquisition following the war.
The fact that northern states voted against the declaration of war in 1812 while southern states voted for the declaration of war in 1812 illustrates this point. If the war was about territorial acquisition, one would expect that the northern states would have voted for it and the southern states would have voted against it since adding more northern states would have decisively changed the balance of power regarding the hotly contested slavery issue.
@Electric Pizza It's almost like you don't push your best case scenario intentions before you're in a position to do so militarily when you attack one of the greatest powers in the world, something ATT they all expressed fear about. Curious how that is. Next thing you'll tell me is that the Mukden incident was the reason Japan declared on China and totally not fabricated by the Japanese army as a reason to declare, I mean I am sure the records all state it was an attack on them, so why would you question it? Statements made when the going seemed good is more reliable than "congressional records", i.e politics: General William Hull and Alexander Smythe issued proclamations to Canadians and their troops that assured them that annexations would actually occur during the war. Smythe wrote to his troops that when they entered Canada, "You enter a country that is to become one with the United States. You will arrive among a people who are to become your fellow-citizens." This was the mood in general when the war seemed good, keep all of it to push out a fear of Britain getting interests on America again and using Canada as the staging ground, and that this annexation would hinder British ability to mess with America's trade on the sea like they were doing for future wars Britain might have, the former being one of the stated reasons America declared and a problem that could as well be remedied this way by territorial concession. This kind of double speak is a common strategy to sell unjustifiable or unpopular but desired aims on paper through a technicality that implies something else. Though you'd kind of have to be blind to think America wasn't going to push and at least go for territorial concessions in this war despite it not being "the stated reason". Of honoring treaties, Britain had already signaled that their desired concessions for a buffer state that went back way before 1812 would violate the treaties, so there would be justification to expand up for the US.
Now you can believe that statement, or that Americans invaded to occupy it "temporarily" to stop Britain sinking ships and disrupting trade, y'know, in a time of great American nationalism and expansionism when Britain just so happens to be fighting a dude who seems unstoppable. You can believe that American expansionism threatening British interests in NA is a "myth", despite the British repeatedly demanding the creation of an Indian buffer state to curb expansion west in their peace deals. That Americans went to at least SEIZE territory is not disputed, which leaves you with a very obvious question. What is more likely to you, that if they are in a position to annex it that an expansionist America will return Canada? You'd have to assume Americans were ran by absolute morons if that was the case. America had long eyed Canada as a potential threat to their experiment, Britain (Canada in those days was basically just British West) on the border sitting like a thorn to American expansionist ideals by arming natives and a constant fear of invasion. Any chance the British would concede this territory and they would have taken it, no question.
@@LetsGoGetThem The discussion is regarding *why* war was declared. Congress is the only body with the power to declare war. The congressional debate record is quite clear on why war was declared.
Any statements made by generals (who have no political power) or hypothetical discussions of what a peace settlement may have looked like after the war started are irrelevant to the discussion of *why* the war was declared in the first place.
JJ casually stuffing a monocle back into his shirt is what I needed today
Love hearing/watching your historical recording of current pop cultural items!
The beer one exists in Australia too, you can't convince the more parochial Aussies that there can be good and high alcohol content American beers.
I've dealt with Aussies, Europeans and a number of other cultures that insisted American beer culture was just sex in a canoe (fucking close to water). And that they could down a dozen of them no problem. Sure drink a dozen double IPAs in one sitting. It usually doesn't end well for them.
Congratulations on 200k jj 🥳🥳 you deserve it love ur vids!!
I'm from the Turks and Caicos Islands. I heard that we almost became part of Canada...
It's come up a few times in Parliament but never really gone anywhere. www.visittci.com/nature-and-history/history/canada-proposed-union
@@Vlasov45 It "came up" because fringe people with interests in tax havens were tying to push it. It's never been anywhere near the agenda of anyone with actual power.
J.J. McCullough isn’t that how most things start really? From fringe interest to coinciding with national or personal interests. It’s absolutely a fringe thing for the moment. But if it keeps hanging on in the popular imagination as a misremembered thing it always has the potential to spring to life.
Same 🇹🇨
@@Vlasov45 It's true that many mainstream ideas started out as fringe ideas, but most fringe ideas never enter the mainstream even after hanging around on the fringes for centuries.
It's survivor bias that makes it seem like fringe ideas have a certain respectability. They do not.
I love the whole sheeple reference.. It applies to so many conspiracy theory people. I've definitely heard several of these urban legends. I didn't realize American's actually had good tasting beer until my 30's due to always saying to myself that Canadian beer was so much better.
The past 15 years has been a revolution for American beer.
Fun Fact: The Canadiens just beat thé Penguins.
What?
AHM M yeee
torrestheman _ ohhh nvm
Why did I read penguins in a French accent?
As a Caps fan, this has brought me much joy
I have learned from educational UA-cam channels that “official” means diddily squat.
Official portrait of Bowser?
“Official means diddily squat” I first heard that phrase in Jay Forman’s channel. Seriously, J.J. Should make a collab wit him about I don’t know.. how to destroy the monarchy or something.
@@reginatang9310 Yeah, that was intended to be a Jay Foreman reference
I am a Bahamian viewer who has been a fan for a few years now and will be moving to Vancouver shortly. In anticipation I have been rewatching alot of your vids and I wanted to thank you for all the work you put into them.
Edit:
I was taught The Bahamas once tried to become Canadian after leaving the uk. Moderately fun fact; in The Bahamas we consider Turks and Caicos part of The Bahamas that stayed with the UK. They have a simular culture and accent (substantially more so than the us and Canada if you ask me).
Amazing video, I think you'd be fantastic at making a series of this, about other countries
have you or will you talk about the tourism in British Columbia or the entirety of Canada? I feel like thatd be an interesting topic.
What’s interesting about tourism? 🤔
Oh hey, you made the video!
Hey KhAnubis! I love your videos!
Hello!
hello kh anubis
Me: Falling in love with this channel.
JJ: *calls my home country obscure*
Me: why must you hurt me in this way.
Which country
I kept rewinding back to the part with the weird meme where you hear the word that you were thinking of and it worked several times that is so freaky yet so fascinating!
Someone seriously needs to give JJ an award for his videos
I loved being one of the first schools to start having a lacrosse team in my part of the US. Our middle school team got pretty good, then when we all went to different high schools my old friends were usually the opposing team captains because we were the only ones with any experience. Made the whole state feel pretty small. :P
the stowing of the monocle killed me XD what a good small joke!
I am moving from the UK to Canada next month and have come across your videos while looking for content to best prepare me for my move, instead I have been solidly watching everything you have posted about... well everything! Loving the videos! I have decided to try and post videos about my move when it happens!
Oh and my first guess, the H stands for Hockey... for once my simple mind comes in handy.
to be fair, most americans think most US beer tastes like water too
because it does, both our beers suck.
most mass market beer does. i find a lot of the people that complain about beer tasting like water are the same people that mock any beers that cost more than 35$ for a 2-4. They drink molson canadian, coors light, budweiser, etc. exclusively. If they were to actually buy beers that were worth anything, they would realise u can find good beer from almost anywhere, regardless of whether its from Montreal or Milwaukee.
Portland knows its beer
James Watson yup. Westcoast best coast! 🙈
James Watson you forgot about good ol berta
Will you be covering the WE charity scandal?
What scandal
@@Birb728 Trudeau's scam
UPDATE...Catharine Tunney · CBC News · Posted: May 13, 2021
"The federal ethics commissioner has cleared Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of wrongdoing in last summer's WE Charity scandal." - CBC
Subscribed! Loving your content form Vancouver BC 🇨🇦
One of these days, your referenced award-winning videos really will win awards
I know what you mean about smug Canadians, JJ. It's especially annoying considering how humble and reserved Americans are. We never hear them bragging about being superior to other countries.
Not the way Canadians do. There’s no contest.
@@JJMcCullough Do you have some kind of scientific survey to confirm this? And have you ever heard Donald Trump and his supporters speak?
@@stephenwodz7593 Donald Trump's entire inaugural address was literally about how shitty America is. I cannot imagine a Canadian politician ever giving a speech like that.
I never knew about most of these!
You have an ugly eagle for a profile pic
Dr. Velociraptor it’s a pelican
@@saw7191 it looks like a rip off eagle of the hre.btw do your u remember me from somewhere ?
Dr. Velociraptor I know you got banned from the JJ discord 😁
@@saw7191 yes lmao,I was then banned on my alt for saying to a mod to not advocate for cis genocide
The monocle is amazing. I love when you bring that out to read official documents.
Enjoyed this... well done
I watched your video a couple of days ago on a milk bag. It was interesting.
im in ontario and all the milk i drink and buy at the store comes from a bag . its the cheapest option 4 L - 3 bags
I’m from Manitoba and never seen a milk bag in my life. I didn’t even know it was a thing.
Question about beer. Back when I was drinking, some 20 years ago, I remember that certain American beers were barely 3% (i am thinking Coors Light, and Miller lite) whereas Blue Light was 4.5. If there even was Blue light. Or rather the "lite" beers seemed to be more popular than the "full" beers. At least in the US.
So I'm from Oklahoma and until recently we had a law that limited our gas station and supermarket beers to 3.2 abv(alcohol by volume) and the light beers that are so popular around here has to do with calories not abv Miller and Miller lite both have the same alcohol content but the lite has less than 100 calories per can
Nice monocle JJ! Very dapper
Very fun. Thanks
If your maple syrup smells like plastic, you might want to rethink your maple syrup buying habits.
Gotta stay away from that aunt jemima garbage.
JJ is the only youtuber I click that bell for
1:10 that sheep sound legit surprised me to much, I took off my head phones and looked around (to me, it sounded too human and I was not looking at the screen at the moment). I thought one of my roommates was playing a prank on me. Well played JJ, well played.
I previously spread the maple money myth a lot, as an American. There's an air of whimsy to the story that helps when times aren't so great; looking to another culture that's so close to your own, yet slightly different in an almost silly way.
I think the beer thing came from a time when the selection of beer; both domestic and imported, was very limited in many parts of Canada. Where I grew up, there were maybe 6-8 labels from 2-3 brewers and anything else was only available if someone you knew went on a trip and brought it back.
Also, the craft beer "revolution" was still a long way off. Add in the fact that people tend to be biased toward that which they are familiar with and you can begin to grasp why we Canadians tended to favor our own.
JJ, are you trying to grow a mullet? Cause this Australian approves 👍
Business up front......Party in the back....
Could be he may be transitioning.
It’s very “Steve” from Stranger Things
Hockey hair
Ratchet4647 ummmm.... I’m pretty sure you meant to reply to the person who commented before me. I’m not sure how me bringing up a likeable male character with great hair has anything to do with gender or orientation. I’m just saying his hair reminds me of someone else’s hair. 🤷♀️
Probably my favourite Canadian faux-fact is that Canadians like Tim Hortons
One that isn't a myth is the Newfoundland (nearly) exclusive flavours of Crush- Pineapple and Birch Beer
Thanks for clearing my mind of these myths...
Here's a myth about Canada that I was actually asked about in England. We do not live in igloos. I told them that only the even numbered houses are igloos. And since I live in an odd numbered house, no igloo :)
😭😭😭😂
Another one is assuming that everyone from Canada knows each other. "Oh, you're from Canada? Do you know a girl named Mary? She's from Canada too!"
No one assumes this.
Do u know Drake
@@JJMcCullough au contraire!
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@@ravenlord4 This is a phenomenon that occurs with any place that is sufficiently foreign to the person asking. In the US, it is not unusual for people who migrate from one state to another that is far away to be asked if they know someone else from there. This happens even more with towns. I grew up in a town of ~18,000 people, which is certainly small, but everywhere else I have lived I have been asked if I know so and so from there or from that region of my state. I never know that person because I cannot reasonably know 18,000 people.
I was in Darwin and met a dude named Dave from Tasmania and whose accent wasn't quite Australian and wasn't quite North American. I guess he didn't pick up on my accent. He mentioned Kingston, so I started talking about Ontario. He says, "The way you talk about Ontario, it's like you've been there." I told him I was born and raised there.
Turns out we were born in the same city. He told me his last name. I said, "Are you related to Todd from Espanola?"
"Yeah, he's my cousin."
"I went to university with him! He stole his roommate's girlfriend and married her!"
"Yeah, that's him!"
So that's how I met Dave from Canada
As a new subscriber I love going through all these videos. Based on the thumbnails on the sidebar I always think "Hey, JJ has a guest on this episode". But its always "just" (sorry about that , eh) JJ with a different hair style. Classic!
I was at a convention in the US last year and a very rude woman was talking to me. She thought she knew everything about Canada from our Healthcare to our politics. She was very much misinformed. She was talking to me about our new polymer bills and said they smelled like Maple Syrup. I told her that was an urban myth and she got VERY angry with me saying "the news went into detail. I know this since I watched the whole special on TV. You're wrong and lying!". I pulled a 20 i had in my wallet and said "smells more like leather to me" with a smirk. She got so angry she yelled out loud and left. Lol
Oh I wonder if JJ has uploaded a video recently?....OH
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2:54 It's incorrect to call French Settlers in New-France "feudal serfs". They were not serfs. They were free to leave their land (though if they lived elsewhere, the land could be taken for disrespecting the contract they had with the seigneur) and could buy or sell their lot to other settlers. They weren't owned by the local seigneur and were not subject to the intrusive laws serfs were subject to. Seigneurs were basically the equivalent of township governments, based on the rules of the Ancien Régime where public offices were given or sold to people who then owned the office same as they would a piece of land.
Best moment from this video? 1:32 JJ: “That’s right! SPORTS” *puts on monocole*
We couldn't afford a moose to ride to school, or a polar bear or even a pack of sled dogs, I had to go to school being pulled on a wooden toboggan by a family of beavers. Wood chips were all we could afford to pay so it was mutually beneficial.
2:06 they did Canadian football dirty
Oh I wish money smelled like syrup. Canadian maple syrup is the best. When I visited Canada I was in love with Tim Horton's maple Donuts... so much better than Dunkin' Donuts here in the states.
Tim Horton's has fallen from grace in Canada, they ditched their high quality suppliers to save on costs, so everything they makes just tastes mediocre now. McCafe Canada partnered with Tim's old suppliers, so if you want a taste of classic Tim's coffee you have to go to McDonald's.
I'm so sorry that u went Tims
Here in the Great Lakes Region of the US, we have both Tim’s and Dunkin’ Donuts.
@@donnaroberts281 only michigan, there's no tim Hortons in Illinois or Wisconsin. Indiana only has a few. Most of the US locations are in New York.
@@ProdigyCoins And Ohio.
These days I only know the day of the week from when JJ uploads
I love the way you say “about”👍
I see that Suomi flag on that... thing over your laptop
Fun Fact: Justin Trudeau didn't actually do blackface. He's black, but does white face most the time to further his political career.
I want to believe
@@Speederzzz you don't believe, you know
I was thinking about bagged milk and you mention it at the end. FYI, Wisconsin has convenience store chain that sells milk in bags... Kwik Trip.
The H in the Habs logo was a genuinely new fact for me. Thanks.
When I was a kid, I legitimately thought that Canada didn't exist
Where are you from?
@@mattjohnston2 yeah
Same here, but I was born in Quebec.
I see ur drip but I grew up in Portugal and when I was like 5 we moved to Canada since my family is half Canadian half chinese
1:04 Today I’ve learned that Canadian lacrosse players are conspiracy theorists
The sound effect of annexation at 7:33 is amazing
Whrn prohibition ended in the US, the Volstead Act permitted beer production to resume with an upper limit of 3.2 percent. This restriction ended a while ago but for some time, Canadian beer really was stronger by any measure. But the belief persisted long after the law and alcohol content changed.
Wait Canadians don't ride moose to school???
Yes Lionel Messi
My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Canadian Myth: Joe Shuster created Superman. Only partially true as he was the artist, but writer Jerry Siegel was the real creative driving force behind the Man of Steel.
And Canadians still claim Superman is Canadian or partially Canadian. Shuster's family left Canada when he was 9 or so -- they were living in poverty in Toronto. Shuster never visited Canada again after 1941.
One pronunciation I've never heard Canadians use is "a boot" instead of about and I'm originally from Scotland lol.
What I find very hilarious was the fact that the one hockey team JJ mentioned with the h in it's center, I thought about what the h meant after he asked the question and I thought "the h might stand for hockey, nah too easy," then he said it actually meant hockey!!!!!
As a Pittsburgh Penguins fan
Okay, Canadiens won, they can't hurt me anymore
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CANADIENS
At least you know their name is stupid
@@JJMcCullough Stupid? I’m surprised that a history buff like you would say that!
I wonder how the Canucks and the other Canadian NHL teams feel about calling themselves Canadians considering that their opponents have claimed the term "Canadians" as thier team name.
Not to mention the team being from the province whose loyalty to Canada is the most... shall we say, delicate?
Kind of like how the cowboys call themselves America’s team for some reason
Well at least the team name is written in French, Montreal's team is called "Canadiens" with an E, whereas people from Canada are called Canadians in English, with an A.
@@evanbritton5098 True
@@JJMcCullough Maybe they should be renamed the Quebeckers
When you count bills the scent comes out when they rub against each other.
The maple syrup money myth drives me insane!! I remember everyone saying they were maple scented, I even remember the smell, but a couple years ago I looked into it and I couldn’t believe we collectively made it up! That new money smell was SWEET!
Also .. can we just annex Point Roberts? Can we just take it? Please?
One Canadian fact that people think are true
If you compliment at a Quebecker, you will find spilled Maple Syrup on your bathroom walls
never heard that one and I lived in Quebec my entire life. I would not waste my maple syrup this way lol
I like your channel and video! There is one thing I am curious about, where did this idea about the money smelling maple syrup come from?! I have never heard that before in my life! Is that for real that people actually thought that? I find that really hard to believe, that can't be an actual thing.
I flew to and from Alaska several times in the '60's and we deliberately avoided Canada - I think they thought "nice" was contagious.