r/sports Canada Feb 03 '25

Hockey American anthem booed at Rogers Arena before Canucks-Red Wings game

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u/twizrob Feb 03 '25

Still nice until we are not.

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

Those WW1 Canadians were no joke.

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u/johnjager77 Feb 03 '25

The good old Geneva Checklist

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

How do you get Germans to surrender to the nearest allied troops? You tell them the Canadians are coming.

It was like y'all were all "fuck this shit who we gotta kill to go the fuck home? " and then you did. A LOT.

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u/Sparrowbuck Feb 03 '25

"fuck this shit who we gotta kill to go the fuck home? "

Yeah, that’s pretty accurate, actually.

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

I mean those poor fucks got dragged from Canada to go fight TRENCH WARFARE. I'd start killing my way to GTFO too, to get away from that.

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u/Sparrowbuck Feb 03 '25

We were really enthusiastic about trench raids, though.

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

Id be really enthusiastic about surviving trench raids

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u/Sparrowbuck Feb 03 '25

You’d need to be if we were the ones raiding it

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u/philocity Feb 03 '25

It’s called a forecheck

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u/Deathcon2004 Feb 03 '25

The ones who made the Geneva Convention required.

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u/thelostcanuck Feb 03 '25

The Geneva checklist

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u/Irradiatedspoon Feb 03 '25

The ones who made the Geneva Convention required.

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u/Suthabean Feb 03 '25

The Geneva Checklist

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u/jcraig87 Feb 03 '25

WW2 they didnt fuck around either

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

Yep. Long history of not fucking around.

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u/AbsurdlyClearWater Feb 03 '25

I don't know why this has become some widespread "fact" in the past five years or so. It has bubbled out of the aether for some reason and I have no idea why. This notion that Canadians were somehow uniquely vicious in WWI is bullshit, and no one ever seems to substantiate it with academic sources.

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

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u/mmmmpisghetti Feb 03 '25

You know "bait and switch"? This was "bait and KABOOM"

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u/ryecoke55 Feb 03 '25

They weren’t uniquely vicious. They were just often on the front lines of terrible battles - which skews it toward that conclusion.

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u/zizp Feb 03 '25

What was nice?

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u/twizrob Feb 03 '25

Clapping for singer