A Tribute to a Great Canadian (913 hits)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (View user info) at 2008-01-20 14:59:28 EST
No, not Wayne Gretzky, Pierre Trudeau or Alexander Graham Bell. I'm talking about Peter Lymburner Robertson.
Who you ask?
Why PL Robertson has affected the lives of blue collar people everywhere way more than the aforementioned great Canucks, even more of an effect than William Shatner! Mr. Robertson was the inventor of the Robertson head screw driver. The idea was simple, like guys everywhere P.L must have fucking hated dicking around with flat head screws. The screw driver always slipping out of the notch, pissing you off and wasting time. His only other option was that American invented Phillips head screwdriver, which decent would wear out easily and often become stripped, making you even more pissed off when you had to go find your pliers to pull that fucker out.
So in 1908 Robertson invented the square head screw driver that still holds his name to this day. And any working man (or working lady...) will tell you which screw they prefer, no pun intended.
And for this, we salute Pete Robertson, for one hundred years of satisfying screwing! Thank you sir!
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-23 15:07:50 EST (#)
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mccallum below
Submitted by mikeylikesit (user info) at 2008-01-23 14:45:07 EST (#)
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and cal's a perfect example of the whinny little bitches that are Canadian
Cal = faggoty bitch
Submitted by mikeylikesit (user info) at 2008-01-23 14:43:04 EST (#)
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Canada sucks Ass! Canadian's are boring conservative whinny fucks who are one step removed from commies. USA should invade that shitty country and stop the communist revolution.
Submitted by William_Q_Percy (user info) at 2008-01-23 10:48:55 EST (#)
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I am still impressed with how well Caul writes in english. Now THAT is a true Canadian achievement!
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2008-01-22 02:30:34 EST (#)
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Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2008-01-20 19:32:46 EST (#)
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those are nice. i prefer torx screws though.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 22:22:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 19:13:22 EST (#)
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Caul - you are not 'critical' of Canada - you are just plain contemptuous.
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i'm contemptuous toward the shithead attitude that pollutes this country
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2008-01-21 19:27:22 EST (#)
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I created this post about such an irrelevant topic because every Canadian knows that we invented penicillan or the telephone, big deal. Plus I was working with flat head screws the other day and i cut myself and got pissed off. As it turns out it was the Robertson screws 100th birthday, so it seemed a fittingly dull topic for Uber.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2008-01-21 19:27:07 EST (#)
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in other news, did you know you can't edit nickelback's wikipedia page? You can logon and edit other crap bands' pages like creed's for example, but not nickelback's. which pisses me off. Mind you, the edit police are all over me lately, I think I need a new username...
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2008-01-21 19:24:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:24:12 EST (#)
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I'm proud of Canada's relative irrelevancy.
I mean look - we invented a fucking square-headed screw! Personally I hate that god damn thing - yet possess an inexplicable pride knowing that one of 'us' invented such a useless, redundant tool for screwing.
It's all perspective, really.
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You also invented nickelback, knowing that for some reason, provides me with a constant source of mirth and merriment. I mean *nickelback* - jesus.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 19:14:00 EST (#)
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ps. I just took an oily shit.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 19:13:22 EST (#)
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Caul - you are not 'critical' of Canada - you are just plain contemptuous.
It crushes my very soul that you hate Canada.
WHY CAUL?
WHHHHHHY?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:55:32 EST (#)
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who am i fooling, you were born in alberta.
a backward province that got rich buy digging dirt up with tonka trucks.
OILY SHIT!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:54:16 EST (#)
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i never said canada sux.
i said this particular attitude does.
you're such an emotionally fragile weirdo that you mistake critic for attacks against your super duper country. kinda like those toothless inbred rednecks in the bible belt do.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:44:49 EST (#)
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Nope!
I did skim it though... a lot of BLAH BLAH BLAH - CANADA SUCKS ...and something about bum sex.
The normal fare.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:41:41 EST (#)
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you know you read it.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:39:30 EST (#)
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Wow. You put a lot of effort into that response. I'm not reading it - just out of spite.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:37:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:15:09 EST (#)
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there's nothing funny about the embarassment that comes with our place of birth. neither about the fact that you consider what i said hyperbolizing.
*sob*
help!
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Why would anyone be ashamed of their birth country?
America is great, and has never done anything wrong.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:36:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:24:12 EST (#)
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an inexplicable pride knowing that one of 'us' invented such a useless, redundant tool for screwing.
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google the web for "list of canadian inventions" "things invented by canadians" "canada invented"..and so on, you will probably get more results than american inventions and notice how people obsess about this [very short] list.
i think you need retake the pulse of the canada's image. we went from irrelevant and nice to annoying and smug under a decade.
back then, this post would've made me smile. now you know that canadians are just so pride on the inside...OMG! YEAH, THE AMERICANS WERE TOO DUMB TO WORK WITH A REAL SCREWDRIVER SO WE INVENTED...YEAH, WE ACTUALLY INVENTED SOMETHING!
it's so pathetic.
it's just like you and your bizarre sense of pride in canada for which you offered no explanation other than, "i feel it inside me, it gives me goose bumps and make my heart races" as if a nigger was ass-fucking you with a 10 incher.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:24:12 EST (#)
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I'm proud of Canada's relative irrelevancy.
I mean look - we invented a fucking square-headed screw! Personally I hate that god damn thing - yet possess an inexplicable pride knowing that one of 'us' invented such a useless, redundant tool for screwing.
It's all perspective, really.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:15:09 EST (#)
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there's nothing funny about the embarassment that comes with our place of birth. neither about the fact that you consider what i said hyperbolizing.
*sob*
help!
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:12:47 EST (#)
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Caulaincourt is the king of pointing and laughing.
It's art.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:10:35 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:03:05 EST (#)
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my statemenent was inclusive of french-canadians whereas yours excludes you and only I know that in regard to what I was hyperbolizing below, I'm one of the worse offenders.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 18:03:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 17:52:36 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 17:25:53 EST (#)
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One thing is for sure, French Canadians invented the collective small dick syndrome and unjustified smugness.
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my statemenent was inclusive of french-canadians whereas yours excludes you and we both know that in regard to what i was discussing below, you're one of the worse offenders.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-21 17:52:36 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 17:25:53 EST (#)
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One thing is for sure, French Canadians invented the collective small dick syndrome and unjustified smugness.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 17:25:53 EST (#)
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Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2008-01-21 16:59:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 21:41:01 GMT (#)
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canadians...bragging about the most irrelevant things ever since 1867.
imagine if canada had put a man on the moon.
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His name was William Shatner.
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Is there a moon in Star Trek?
One thing is for sure, Canadians invented the collective small dick syndrome and unjustified smugness.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 17:21:53 EST (#)
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Submitted by mikeylikesit (user info) at 2008-01-21 16:08:21 EST (#)
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You couldn't think of any other invention better than a type of screw? Fuck your lame!
Telephone, """
-> It's still disputed who invented the telephone. Italians and Americans also claim their comptatriot invented the telephone. Plus, Bell though a canadian, invented it in America. Let's just say a lot of people contributed in that invention.
Penicillin"""
-> Last I heard it was by invented by scottish scientist and put to medecinal use by an australian.
Hockey, """
-> Ice hockey maybe. Field hockey is fucking ancient.
Basketball """
-> The guy was canadian. But he invented it in Massachussets.
New solar panels """
-> Ok and?
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I am so fucking embarassed to be canadian when I see people like you or the author of this post. Little kids coming from the Buttfuck, Canada who brag about random shit they saw on Heritage Minutes.
Ads made by the minister of Heritage, which by some coincidence was created in 1996 (I WONDER WHY!?). That's just one of the many dubious tactics that followed 1995, such as plastering flags all over the place, subsudizing patriotic marketing, encouraging anti-americanism...
The sponsorship program was a lot more heavily invested in the east (quebec mostly) than the rest of the country and it backfired there. I wonder how weak you have to be in the head or mentally predisposed to be a pompous canadian douchebag to be brainwashed by the remainings of some shitty self-described propaganda program created to keep a nation together.
So much for going back to school, eh?
THANK GOD I LIVE IN A NEW SOLAR PANEL INVENTING COUNTRY!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2008-01-21 16:59:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 21:41:01 GMT (#)
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canadians...bragging about the most irrelevant things ever since 1867.
imagine if canada had put a man on the moon.
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His name was William Shatner.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-01-21 16:41:01 EST (#)
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canadians...bragging about the most irrelevant things ever since 1867.
imagine if canada had put a man on the moon.
Submitted by mikeylikesit (user info) at 2008-01-21 16:08:21 EST (#)
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You couldn't think of any other invention better than a type of screw? Fuck your lame!
Telephone,
Penicillin,
Hockey,
Basketball
New solar panels
too list just a few.
Go back to school you dumb shit!
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2008-01-21 15:11:27 EST (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-01-21 09:58:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2008-01-20 16:05:25 CST (#)
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If I give you a +2 will you take back Shania Twain?
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I'll give you a +100000 to take back Celine Dion.
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I second that motion.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-01-21 14:47:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-01-21 10:43:12 EST (#)
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XM Radio has a Canadian comedy channel. Celine Dion's name pops up regularly in punch lines on that station a lot more often but in the same context as Barbra Streisand's in American comedy.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-01-21 09:58:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by loki (user info) at 2008-01-20 16:05:25 CST (#)
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If I give you a +2 will you take back Shania Twain?
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I'll give you a +100000 to take back Celine Dion.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2008-01-21 08:08:11 EST (#)
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My big-don't-fucking-look-at-me-fence is made with those screws.
Submitted by Socialist_Joe (user info) at 2008-01-21 02:06:19 EST (#)
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i thought ya would of gone with shitfuck
at least i think that dudes canadian if not hes at leat great
(no i am not a shitfuck alter)
just have to put disclamers on things ppl always think im an alter
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2008-01-21 01:56:24 EST (#)
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erm.....this isn't about bryan adams, or that guy from nickelback. when are you going to do them?
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2008-01-20 21:44:56 EST (#)
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Bob Villa?
That is a wicked looking yard though.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-01-20 20:32:39 EST (#)
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I built the cedar deck in The Coolest Backyard in Greenwood, Indiana® (http://www.ubersite.com/m/77976) using stainless steel Robertson screws because they work better than Phillips or Slotted or Torx or Star or Allen or Ex-Hex, and you can buy them collated for your auto-loading screw gun which make installing deck boards fast and easy.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2008-01-20 19:47:34 EST (#)
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best screw I ever had!
that makes no sense...
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2008-01-20 19:42:46 EST (#)
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I was hoping this post would be about me. :(
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2008-01-20 19:32:46 EST (#)
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those are nice. i prefer torx screws though.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2008-01-20 19:27:12 EST (#)
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And any working man (or working lady...) will tell you which screw they prefer, no pun intended.
Haha, torx or Allen are a wee bit more used.
The Robertson is like the special olympics for screwdrivers.
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2008-01-20 18:56:24 EST (#)
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Yah it's far and away the number one screw in Canada, but the reason it's not big anywhere else is:
Robertson had licensed the screw in England but the party with which he was dealing intentionally put the company under and purchased the rights from the trustee thus circumventing Robertson.[citation needed] He spent a small fortune buying back the rights. After that he refused to ever allow anyone to make the screws under license. When Henry Ford tried out the Robertson screws he found they saved considerable time in the production of cars but when Robertson refused to license the screws to Ford, he realized that the use of the screws would not be guaranteed and stopped using them.
Submitted by BritishBeef (user info) at 2008-01-20 17:50:19 EST (#)
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"And any working man (or working lady...) will tell you which screw they prefer, no pun intended."
Everyone goes with phillips over here
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2008-01-20 17:05:25 EST (#)
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If I give you a +2 will you take back Shania Twain?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-01-20 16:14:17 EST (#)
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More of an effect than Shatner? Imo kill myself!!
Submitted by Bundaberg (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:49:12 EST (#)
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Screw you!
Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:45:08 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:38:58 EST (#)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2008-01-20 14:26:26 CST (#)
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Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:21:12 EST (#)
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Phillips is better.
Mostly because people really use phillips.
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Good logic, more people use it so must be better. More people also shit in the streets than have central plumbing, must mean it's better.
ubiquity is handy.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:36:49 EST (#)
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Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:28:05 EST (#)
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But Henry Phillips had a bigger cock, of course.
He was an American.
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:26:26 EST (#)
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Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:21:12 EST (#)
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Phillips is better.
Mostly because people really use phillips.
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Good logic, more people use it so must be better. More people also shit in the streets than have central plumbing, must mean it's better.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:21:12 EST (#)
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Phillips is better.
Mostly because people really use phillips.
Submitted by littledan (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:20:57 EST (#)
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Every other screw manufacturer should have been shot on site.
Submitted by Linus (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:20:26 EST (#)
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-01-20 15:18:36 EST (#)
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CANADA! FUCK, EH!