I didn’t realize Canadians had a reputation for anger. War crimes, yes. But they are conducted in the most calm and businesslike manner possible.
I think its typically up until there’s a war on, then suddenly its “Jesus Christ dude, settle down”.
My favourite “wtf, Canada?” anecdote is during the famous WW1 Christmas peace. A group of Canadians crawled close enough to hurl canned ham into the German trenches. Once a large number of German soldiers had gathered to try to nab a can, they switched from ham to hand grenades.
Holy shit. That’s basically how the Canadian airborne murdered Shidane Arone.
Not only are we war crimey, we’re uncreative.
Not really the same, according to the linked wikipedia article Arone was beaten, burned and raped with broomstick. So basic torture, which is still uncreative though.
Edit typo
OBJECTION! Norway is just a colonial province of Denmark, which, for tax purposes only, appear to be a separate country, thus I must demand that Danes be recognized as both sober and discreet.
There was a vote in a Danish newspaper a few years ago about what to call us.
I think “Fjellaber” won. Mountain monkeys for the rest of you.
We did a separate vote in a Norwegian newspaper shortly after. The answer “Being danish is embarrassing enough” won by a landslide.
Just a little fun fact to brighten up everyone but @BigDanishGuy’s weekend!
That’s “fjeldaber” with a silent “d” because of… Well I don’t know why, it’s fancier with silent letters, sorta like French.
TBH Norwegian pronounciation is a bit simpler, do you even have silent letters? Kinda sounds like a west Jutlandian drunk.
One thing that bothers me though, is how you decline your nouns. What I mean is the phrase “Den bilen” is silly. The noun is “bil”, if we’re specific we go “bilen” were the English would go “the car”, we can all agree on that. But “that car”? Why do you need both a “den” and a “-en”? “-en” is a pleonasm, we already know it’s that car and not those cars, you don’t need to tell me that were only discussing a single car…
And don’t get me started on the word “slike”, having had to read Sentralnervesystemet by Per Brodal made me really confused, I mean why did he mention candy all the time in an anatomy text book?
Yeah lots of silent letters.
My name even has one.
For your question regarding the use of “den bilen”: we use do it to confuse the Swedes. As you probably know, they are not the brightest bunch. I’m glad we caught a Dane too.
Thanks to De Gaulle, “Humble” is not the word I would use to describe us, the French nation 🤣 .
Isn’t American doctrine incredibly flexible? Maybe our rules of engagement are fairly strict, but commanders have a lot of choice in how they achieve objectives.
Inflexibility is more a stereotype of Americans in general than of American soldiers, also these stereotypes are from quite a while ago so they have shifted
