Comments by "Stephen Hendricks" (@stephenhendricks103) on "" video.

  1. Just one more piece of evidence (of many) that Canadians are SO weird....uh, well...so "unique." Living currently in the Pacific Northwest and years ago near Detroit, I've had the opportunity to see a lot of Canada over the years. What I've learned is that it's like being transported to a parallel universe which seems at first glance to be largely indistinguishable from the US but on closer and more extended inspection seems, well there's no other word for it, "alien." Canadians are almost unfailingly polite compared to "US'ers. (I won't say Americans because we're all (North) Americans.) Not in the southern US sense of "friendly," but in a sort of reserved way that recalls the good manners your parents taught you and you abandoned years ago. No doubt there are xenophobic Canadians but they don't hold huge rallies where foreigners and immigrants are denounced by their political leaders. In fact, much of the population of Hong Kong moved to Vancouver over the last few decades. And Toronto has been transformed from a sleepy, parochial city to one of the most international cities on the planet. Canadians have a different vocabulary. They punctuate every two sentences with "eh". They mispronounce "about" as "aboot." They have an entire province where speaking English makes you an outsider. But they also have an entire city (Victoria) that appears to have been transported brick by brick from Great Britain. Their version of the Rocky Mountains is more gorgeous and far cleaner than ours. (Apparently, Canadians consider littering to be a capital offense except that they don't have capital punishment.) Many Canadians hunt but they don't hunt one another nearly as frequently as we do. Canadians adopted the metric system with few issues in the 1970's while the US reacted as if it was a commie plot. The put gravy on their french fries. And some guy named Tim Horton supplies coffee to the entire country. Now it appears there's a thriving Plymouth Prowler cult of which I was completely unaware. Perhaps I just haven't paid attention but the closest corollary I can think of is the hardy band of Pontiac Aztek owners in the US. There may well be a Canadian version of that, as well. I wouldn't be surprised. Congratulations, Yuri. Your new car looks like a hoot, eh...
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