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Title: British told how to treat visitors � including Canadians � to the 2012 Olympics
Category: Funny
Posted By: DerbyX
Date: 2010-08-11 11:28:16
Canadian

[saturn_656]

$1:

Lining up, or queuing: People normally line up or queue according to the principle of ‘first-come, first-served.’ They will be angry if you push ahead in a line-up instead of waiting your turn.

This is uniquely Canadian?

[2Cdo]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

$1:

Lining up, or queuing: People normally line up or queue according to the principle of ‘first-come, first-served.’ They will be angry if you push ahead in a line-up instead of waiting your turn.

This is uniquely Canadian?

In most of Europe it is unheard of. Push, shove and act like you're entitled to be an ignorant asshole is extremely common in Europe.

[saturn_656]

I'll admit it... I don't travel much.

[2Cdo]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

I'll admit it... I don't travel much.

Don't get me wrong, I love Europe but some of the people are in need of a punch to the face on a regular basis!

[Newfy]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

I'll admit it... I don't travel much.

Don't get me wrong, I love Europe but some of the people are in need of a punch to the face on a regular basis!

Tell me about it! I was queing in the bank a little while back when an elderly man came in and quite accidently jumped the line because the couple he had overtaken had stopped to fill in some paperwork and left quite a big gap in the line. Now the man realised his error and apologised also pointing out the large gap they had left. Now what was their response? "Shut up old man!" and verious other abuse. I was actually in uniform at the time and felt like letting them have it with both barells but stopped myself as I knew i'd probably end up worse off.

[Dragom]

The "How to treat Canadians" sounds fairly accurate.

[Brenda]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

I'll admit it... I don't travel much.

Don't get me wrong, I love Europe but some of the people are in need of a punch to the face on a regular basis!

That's why the pushing and shoving


I often get asked if I am "in line" because I always leave a (small) gap between me and the person in front of me. When I say "yes", most get pissed, and tell me to "get in line then" to which my response is: "you know I am in line now, you are behind me. Your problem?"
(yes, 2Cdo, here in Canada...)

[2Cdo]

Brenda Brenda:

2Cdo 2Cdo:

saturn_656 saturn_656:

I'll admit it... I don't travel much.

Don't get me wrong, I love Europe but some of the people are in need of a punch to the face on a regular basis!

That's why the pushing and shoving


I often get asked if I am "in line" because I always leave a (small) gap between me and the person in front of me. When I say "yes", most get pissed, and tell me to "get in line then" to which my response is: "you know I am in line now, you are behind me. Your problem?"
(yes, 2Cdo, here in Canada...)

Of course it happens occasionally in Canada but in Europe it is more the norm.

[Brenda]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

Brenda Brenda:

That's why the pushing and shoving


I often get asked if I am "in line" because I always leave a (small) gap between me and the person in front of me. When I say "yes", most get pissed, and tell me to "get in line then" to which my response is: "you know I am in line now, you are behind me. Your problem?"
(yes, 2Cdo, here in Canada...)

Of course it happens occasionally in Canada but in Europe it is more the norm.

Especially in countries where they haven't found out yet that a number system solves this problem.

[EyeBrock]

You don't have to go to Europe to see queue pushing. Most immigrants in the GTA are quite adept at pushing in and being generally rude, especially the Chinese and East Europeans.

I guess accomodation towards the host culture isn't working out that well, our they collectively couldn't give a fuck what we think.