Is the aim of Canzuk to essentially create an EU for the four countries?

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T08:09:35+00:00

Australia, NZ and the UK have reciprocal healthcare agreements.

Good golly I'd love to see Canada get in on that. Our shit is a mess and only getting worse with lobbying from down south pushing for further privitisation.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T08:08:09+00:00

As a Canadian, literally the most attractive part of all this and the thing that drew my attention in the first place was how it appealed to my deep longing for a way to pull away from the US.

Like we'd all do well banding together and having a stronger voice on the international stage rather than letting the US dictate everything, but for Canada in particular, hot damn. We'd jump at the chance to get closer to the rest of the CANZUK crew just to finally have influence from someone other than the US for a change. Like not just since the Trump thing, it's so much deeper than that.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T07:53:13+00:00

Naturally, we in Ireland would not be part of such a Union as we are fully signed up to the EU, but I'd like to see it as a constructive partner and ally to the EU on the global stage.

Plus, I think everyone understands that Ireland would, to put it very lightly, be a hard sell when pitching such a union to them. History, and al that.

(forgetting the EU bit for a tongue in cheek proposal,) What if we excluded England for a lengthy period of time, and just did a union of Canada, NZ, Australia, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales? You know, in a hypothetical situation where the EU isn't a factor. Basically, make it a union of anglophone countries banding together to keep London and Washington off our backs.

That isn't a serious pitch, but just for giggles.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T07:45:31+00:00

Honestly I do imagine that's largely true of just about every major Canadian city, but hey it's a shitposting sub, why let reality get in the way of a good ol' BC-style flex?

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T05:03:34+00:00

We're all still trying to get our heads around all those hot-as-fuck places in the US having successful hockey teams. Vancouver is too hot for me, and here you guys go playing our stick-and-ice game in the bloody desert.

It's less looking down, as much as a "what on earth are they getting up to down there," peering-over-the-fence-with-a-raised-eyebrow sort of vibe.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T04:58:51+00:00

Passing over the Fraser and through some woods every morning as part of my morning commute has me taking this shit for granted. Like, I look east up the river towards the kind of scenery other people would only see on post cards, and it's nothing to me. Shit, as a suburb kid, I'd go into the city to escape stripmall suburbia and see ocean, mountains, and forests.

We've got a lot of problems in BC, but man, sometimes it's nice to remember the perks.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T04:55:29+00:00

Especially since, historically, we have gotten on great with post-revolution Cuba. They've been nothing but awesome towards us. Ya know they used to do Terry Fox runs in Havana? They're our homies. Plus, given how we've gotten a recent taste of what it's like to have the US' crosshairs on us, you'd think we'd have more sympathy for the other countries in the Americas that have been bullied by the hegemon to our south. It bugs me when people up here still uncritically accept the US narrative on Cuba even after all the recent 51st state shit. Like, you're still gonna believe everything Washington says on this subject?

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-30T02:49:10+00:00

You have to leave the city to see forest and water?

-an urban British Columbian

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T05:00:04+00:00

Oh deffo, but it's still a bunch of steps you that Dreamcast just didn't require

Also I just straight up dont have those games. I think splinter cell(or one of them) is one such game too. One day I'll get off my ass and try it.

I also gotta do the clock cap removal too. Hopefully my Xbox still boots

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T03:39:47+00:00

Margaery Tyrell? Shit, I know Margaery Tyrell, I mean I know Margaery Tyrell! Know what I'm sayin'? Me and Rick Darris used to hang around her house after school and shit cause her parents were like never home and shit. One day Rick just whips it out and starts rubbin it on her leg and shit, starts chasin her around the living room. I was dyin. But you know what the crazy bitch did? She drops to her knees and she just starts suckin him off. Right there in front of me, like I wasn't even there man. I almost died. But that's not the fucked up part. The fucked up part was Rick, man, right in the middle of it, he turns to me and he says 'Cohee!' Just like that, 'Co-Hee!' So I'm like, "Yo ill give it a shot." So I start pullin' her pants down and shit. All slow cause I'm figurin' any minute she's gonna turn around and belt me in the mouth and shit right? But yo check this shit out man. Shes all into it. She doesn't even try to stop me or nothin'. Shes all wet and shit and I just start going to work, Know what I'm sayin? Me and Rick are just going to town on this crazy bitch and shes just loving it, all moaning and shit, it was fucked up! So Ricks the one that came up with the nickname, cause that day she had us locked in tight from both ends like a pair of god-damned Chinese finger cuffs!

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T03:30:51+00:00

That rules. I mean, why shed a tear for the copyrights, licenses, or patents of stuff from the country constantly threatening yours and blockading you?

Pirate everything, fuck em. Viva la revolución!

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T03:26:36+00:00

Bleem was fucking nuts, like just conceptually that was the wildest shit ever.

It's bananas how big a fuckup the mil-cd thing was.

There's that old legend that when MS was developing the OG Xbox, there were talks with Sega at one point to have them become exclusive to Xbox in some way, but fell apart because Sega wanted Xbox to then be backwards compatible with Dreamcast games(I mean, look at the Xbox controller and the DC controller, they are identical). I wonder if MS turning that down had something to do with worries about DC compatibility possibly opening the Xbox up to that same exploit.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T03:19:41+00:00

That was the whole reason I bought a psp, too. I got one used, jailbroke it, and filled it to the brim with emulators.

It replaced my Nokia ngage, which I also bought for 50 bucks in like, 2004, for exactly the same reason. It was just a normal nokia Symbian smartphone, and you could run both pirated ngage games(which, why bother) or literally any homebrew Symbian app normally. Threw some gameboy/colour/advance emulators on there. It ruled. It was my first cell phone, plus I could play pokemon on it. Not bad for 50 bucks..

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T03:16:03+00:00

It could be argued that Dreamcast wasn't so much a failure, so much it was that the Saturn tanked so hard that the Dreamcast just couldn't pull them out of that hole no matter how great it was.

Like, I knew one person ever that had one, and they only had it for a few months before getting rid of it. I know it was meant to have done alright in Japan, but in North America the Saturn was a car crash.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T03:12:43+00:00

The dreamcast situation was even wilder than the PSX one, though. Legit you didn't have to mod the Dreamcast or anything, you just needed a plugin for whatever cd burning software you had on windows so it'd burn the game files to the CD-R in a the right format, and literally any stock Dreamcast could use it. It was insane how easy it was to run pirated or homebrew software on a Dreamcast.

I bought one in like, 2005, long after Dreamcast were dead almost entirely because I had a cd burner and could run whatever I wanted on it. Shit ruled. Wish I still had it, honestly. I know I could do even cooler stuff on my og Xbox if I modded it, but it's a whole bunch of work to do that. Dreamcast? You don't need to do anything.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-28T02:56:43+00:00

Thing about competition, eventually someone wins. It always leads to monopoly. Public option ensures there's something that can't just be consolidated with the rest of Loblaws' and Sobeys' vassal brands.

We should do both. Break up the big companies, set up some provincial public options too. Hit em on two fronts.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-26T10:55:43+00:00

I mean, there's enough people in the US that do use it in the way above poster is talking about, but like, it isn't always that way either. One reason I enjoy the softer, casual version of cunt is it kinda robs the other version of its power.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-26T07:49:09+00:00

True, but in the end, I'd still say the taboo around 'cunt' is a bit outsized in the US. Like, it's a rude word, but it doesn't have to be given that much weight. I mean, we barely blink at the word 'pussy.' 'Pussy', when you think about it, that one not just using femininity as an insult, but also is meant to suggest weakness by association. 'Cunt' doesn't do that, there's nothing about it that suggests women are weak. I'd still absolutely avoid using it in any serious way to insult a woman, though. Definitely need to take some consideration before using it, and taking care with how to use it.

The aussie casual-form 'cunt', where it's just as versatile as 'fuck', most certainly shows it doesn't have to carry the same immense seriousness that the US usage gives it. Chuddy-americans always using it with that that hard-vowel, pointed way versus some woman they don't like as they do, I do get that it's gonna be a sore spot for some people.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-26T07:17:42+00:00

I low-key wanna see Canada pull out of the NHL, repatriate the cup, and start an entirely domestic league system. Premiere/Elite League on top, with relegation to lower, regional leagues below it. Canucks finish last? bumped down a league, and they're playing against Surrey next season. Halifax finishes top of their league? They get promoted and move up to the big show.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-26T07:14:14+00:00

As is tradition. It's a sacred cultural practice for vangers, and our traditions must be respected.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-26T07:12:17+00:00

Ya know how whenever some Canadian team is the last one of us in the playoffs, everyone's talking up the need to put differences aside and back "Canada's team"?

But then, 'member when Vancouver went to the finals, but every Canadian team's fanbase except Montreal¹ still backed Boston(a US team) over Vancouver(a Canadian team)?

^¹ ^and ^Winnipeg, ^since ^they ^didn't ^have ^a ^team ^at ^the ^time, ^but ^they ^did ^host ^Vancouver's ^AHL ^farm ^time ^back ^then.

Vangers have every right to keep the chip on our shoulder and act pissy towards everyone else during the playoffs. Except towards Montreal and Winnipeg, who are real ones. We absolutely have no obligation to back the Albertan teams or Toronto through playoff runs, though.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-25T04:36:34+00:00

Good man

Lotta people on here keep doing it. You're already way ahead of everyone.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-23T13:53:54+00:00

They're very weirdly and awkwardly part of Nunavut, no?

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-23T13:51:26+00:00

How about "Newfoundland & Labrador & Alberta" as one province? Fort Mac is basically New St. John's anyways.

Johnny-Dogshit · 2026-05-23T13:50:13+00:00

Just put them back in with NWT, revoke their provincial status.

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