The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers (2018)

Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by redis_mlc on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:24PM (#20489376)

> Is the ‘polite Canadian’ (“Sorry!”) trope

Canadians are polite. But they're not apologetic. Your comment misses the mark.

> a country big on marketing itself but ironic in its realities

Add up all the clubbed seals and exported asbestos, and a single ICE automobile is worse.

It seems like anybody can have an extreme opinion with no supporting logic.

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Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by asveikau on Saturday July 20, 2019 @09:45PM (#20489456)

I think the "sorry" thing comes from the the fact that many Canadians pronounce the first vowel of "sorry" differently from the rest of North America. So it becomes a default "quaint Canadianism" joke.

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Re:The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers... by dang on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:51AM (#20490008)

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

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