Knew a pilot who’s nickname was über. Last name? Guay.

Average 3rd Age user of 2nd age artefacts.

It means it gives off middle child vibes. What more do you want?

People round these parts say the day first, then the month. Anything else is attention seeking middle child vibes.

No. But 2024, the 25th of July is clumsy both spoken and written.

July 25th, 2024 is okay but gives off middle child vibes.

25th of July, 2024 is ordered small to big, rolls off the tongue and when written nicely seperates both sets of numbers for ease of readability.

The only other alternative I will accept is Julian dates. Today is Day 26 of 2025.

Don’t you mean: “Right there! Stop you, I’m going to.”

Yoda-ass date structure.

What day, of what month, of what year is it? It’s ordered by importance dammit!

So… About that. We were going to do that.

The government fast tracked the order of 80 F-35s because they fit our needs perfectly. There were complaints and lawsuits.

We cancelled the project (that we helped start with the US), lost like 100bn, did our contract hunting then settled on half the amount of F-35s for nearly double the cost.

All because we broke contract and lost our early purchase deal.

It’s all very short sighted and to be honest I can’t blame them for their brainwashing most of the time.

They hear if places with 30, 40, 50% tax rates and are appalled but they don’t realize that the combined income of a nation can more than subsidise education, healthcare and so much more while still affording an amazing quality of life.

They call Europeans poor because they don’t own 50 acres and a McMansion with 3 mud crawlers in the garage.

My buddy’s wife just doesn’t understand how far out tax money goes and thinks our government is just as corrupt as hers.

Significantly less so when you don’t have to worry about copays, premiums and other services.

Civilised countries ask everyone to chip in and take care of one another. Your kid’s booboo tomorrow and your neighbours cancer the next. All taken care of because we can. No medical poverty.

Typo on the F-16. Meant to write F-18.

As for F-35s we have a few lent to us at this time for training with 40(?) more on the way.

With about a $70bn trade deficit in Canada’s favour mostly due to oil and energy exports. Which are very likely to get very expensive should we enter a trading war.

Most likely serving to make that deficit worse for America.

Tell me about it. Buddy of mine married an American, a texan, she’s fairly liberal as far as they go…

She just had a baby and was granted 18 months maternity leave, didn’t pay a dime, had an in home nurse due to complications. All for free.

We just talked about how she would prefer to have to pay her employer for health insurance rather than “Lose so much to these crazy taxes.”

If a liberal minded, young person thinks like this, how many of them think like this? Stay to the south. Please.

You realise Britain survived both world wars because of Canada right?

Canada exited that era with the second largest navy in the world.

Canada fought hard enough in Korea that the Chinese feared Canadian soldiers.

Canada was one of the first Nations to enter the war in the middle east with the US. Sending tens of thousands of soldiers from the years 2001-2016.

Canada currently operates Leopard 2a6 MBTs, F16s, f35s and possesses what is largely considered one of the most defensible and inhospitable geographies. Has several shipping yards in northern territories that would be untouchable by ground offensives and a population of small town hicks that hate Americans.

Canada has a standing army of 100k soldiers largely trained in small party tactics, ambushing and booby trapping.

It won’t be pretty, I’ll tell you that. But you think Canadians or any other nation allied with Canada would stand for American aggression?

EDIT: Meant to write F-18. Wrote F-16 instead. Point still stands. Canada has a small yet capable military when we need it.