Originally posted by loggerbomb: well like i said previously, madman here doesnt speak for most of the candians on this site, but I had to say that bashing all of us because of one guys statements is a little ludicrous. Actually a canadian did invent the electric lightbulb. His name was Henry Woodward, and he sold the patent to Edison in 1874. Alexander Graham Bell was the first to patent the telephone, but he was neither American NOR canadian, he was born in scotland. moved to Canada and than a year later to america. The Pacemaker was invented Dr. John A. Hopps in 1950. Insulin was discovered by Dr. Fredrick Banting in 1922. The programming language JAVA was in invented by James Gosling in 1994. Odometer was invented in 1854 by Samuel McKeen. Plexiglass was invented in 1931 by William Chalmers. Portable Film Developing was patented first by Arthur Williams McCurdy in 1890 but sold the patent to George Eastman in 1903. The first Quartz clock was developed by Warren Marrison. My point is canada has contributed alot of wonderful things, the list goes on, all i did was google "canadian Inventions" Im also sure america has contributed alot of amazing things too. I think its pointless to debate wether my country is better than yours, its a biased argument on both sides and nothing would ever be solved. I will also say again that if the US/Canadian border were closed both countries would suffer as each other are the opposites number one trading partner. And as for the germans or english ruling us if it wasnt for america? I find that funny because Canada became its own country on its own, we didnt need any other countries help.
One of the more sensible voices in this topic. I did enjoy Canada, and wouldn't hesistate to move up there if not for the cold temperatures. (New England's below-0 Fahrenheit cold spells are bad enough!)
I feel that Mad_Medeiros has never set foot in the States. If that is true, then his comments are null and void. Most of them are nullified by stupidity anyway. I won't touch other points except for geography: FWIW ... I live in the middle of *several* farms (most of which have their own vegetable or dairy stands, including delicious ice cream and milk in glass bottles ... and all that green tubing running from maple tree to maple tree along my road each spring). You can see the stars clear as day from my house, even though there is a small city (population 175000) not ten miles north. And New York certainly doesn't shut down for two inches of snow ... but Maryland does.
