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IR5FORMUMSIE Grand Master

IR5FORMUMSIE   850

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This isnt really weird, just appalling, so we might as well laugh...

The Border Patrol officer who gave me a secundary interview at customs in Texas asked me what currency we use in Canada!!

That's easy: beaver pelts. Everyone knows that! :D

Um no it's canadian tire money duh. :D

Indeed. :thumbs: I remember delivering newspapers as a kid and being offered Canuck Tire dollars as payment. This neighbour once asked to borrow toilet paper and then wanted to return the unused portion of the roll. :wacko:

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I remember when I first moved here and was calling my health insurance company to ask a question and I told the lady I didn't understand a part of the policy because I was new to the US and she said: "Well you sure don't sound new to the country, you speak well"

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I remember when I first moved here and was calling my health insurance company to ask a question and I told the lady I didn't understand a part of the policy because I was new to the US and she said: "Well you sure don't sound new to the country, you speak well"

:lol:

I'm surprised that she didn't use the word "good." :lol:

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I always get such funny looks when I call it Amex in the US... I've always had to correct myself and call it American Express so that the cashier/my in-laws/fiance know what I'm talking about. :(

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I always get such funny looks when I call it Amex in the US... I've always had to correct myself and call it American Express so that the cashier/my in-laws/fiance know what I'm talking about. :(

Really? While I've never heard anyone actually say "AMEX" instead of "American Express," I've seen it abbreviated as "AMEX" on paper tons of times.

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Why do i always feel like americans are always correcting my speech?

the other day, my coworker and I were talking about Veterans... and right after I said Veterans (just like how its spelled) she corrects me and says "Vetrans". :mellow: ....

ok i am done with the speech correction thank you

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This isnt really weird, just appalling, so we might as well laugh...

The Border Patrol officer who gave me a secundary interview at customs in Texas asked me what currency we use in Canada!!

That's easy: beaver pelts. Everyone knows that! :D

:bonk: canadian tire money!

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Why do i always feel like americans are always correcting my speech?

the other day, my coworker and I were talking about Veterans... and right after I said Veterans (just like how its spelled) she corrects me and says "Vetrans". :mellow: ....

ok i am done with the speech correction thank you

That's happened to me several times and I wish I had an example off the top of my head but I don't.

It's more how they think their way is the only way and the right way.

A couple of weeks ago I spelled humor as "humour" by accident and my coworker pointed it out. I apologized and told her I grew up spelling it that way and she basically told me: "I think you're spelling it the stupid way"

That kind of stuff gets to me.

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Why do i always feel like americans are always correcting my speech?

the other day, my coworker and I were talking about Veterans... and right after I said Veterans (just like how its spelled) she corrects me and says "Vetrans". :mellow: ....

ok i am done with the speech correction thank you

That's happened to me several times and I wish I had an example off the top of my head but I don't.

It's more how they think their way is the only way and the right way.

A couple of weeks ago I spelled humor as "humour" by accident and my coworker pointed it out. I apologized and told her I grew up spelling it that way and she basically told me: "I think you're spelling it the stupid way"

That kind of stuff gets to me.

Awww, that's horrible, and makes me want to cry!

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Really?

Because inside I laughed and said to myself: "It's you a$$holes that butchered the language to bits... who's stupid now?"

That made me feel better. :P

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