cliche americans

Lady Dame · #1 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

so everybody knows some cliche joke about americans....either it being about serviettes (napkins) or about how they think canadians live in iggaloos.....(spelling!?)

so contribute to the humour.

on drive through banking machines, they have brail for the blind people.

*KeLLnEsS* · #2 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

We can cut our finger and go to the hospital for a bandaid and not have to pay $200!!

prozac · #3 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

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Originally posted by revolvers_angel

on drive through banking machines, they have brail for the blind people.

they have those in canada too.

Lady Dame · #4 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

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Originally posted by prozac

they have those in canada too.

what location.
i've never seen it in canada

miss.myra · #5 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

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Originally posted by *KeLLnEsS*
We can cut our finger and go to the hospital for a bandaid and not have to pay $200!!

hah!

I just had to tell some poor sap he had to pay for all of his emergency hospital bills when he got kidney stones while visiting the states with his family...

OUCH.
hated being the messenger on that one

NeVeRLooKBacK · #6 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

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Originally posted by miss.myra

hah!

I just had to tell some poor sap he had to pay for all of his emergency hospital bills when he got kidney stones while visiting the states with his family...

OUCH.
hated being the messenger on that one

kidney stones hurt like a fucking bitch!

miss.myra · #7 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

^ so do US healthcare costs!
night in hospital in BC doesn't exceed $74 canadian (yay subsidized helathcare!)
in the US it averages at about $1000

C_squared · #8 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

They'll ask for tuna fish sanwiches. We just assume it's gonna be fish.

They also use ink pens...we already know that there's ink in them.

prozac · #9 (**permalink**) Feb 27, 04

lots of locations...take a look next time. I remember noticing it at TD and Royal Bank in Abbotsford a couple years ago.

I think it's just a standard keypad that they make for all machines, walk-up or drive-thru, they end up with braille on them.

*sigh* anyways.......

ryantron · #10 (**permalink**) Feb 28, 04

i think the america-bashing is getting old. must we really resort to stereotyping in order to feel better about ourselves?

Mr.Wrong · #11 (**permalink**) Feb 29, 04

^yes

It cost the Americans around 1 million dollars to develop a pen that worked in space... the Russians used a pencil.