The Canadian government fired its first shots ever

Sep 11, 2017 10:58 AM

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Fp edit: thanks for the internet points everybody! You're all awesome.

I absolutely love this.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Meanwhile in the UK "What does Wazy mean?!"

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Errrr.. You've never seen Canadian PSAs before have you? They don't fire shots. They drop bombs!

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City of Toronto and they were banned for copyright infringement.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Need this for America not that any of us rednecks can read but still

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Suddenly interested in littering lettering.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

this post is litterally just trash

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As a Canadian; I approve of this message

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My kids never dared throw anything out my car window. I'd stop and make them (or their friends) pick up 10 pieces of garbage if they did.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This makes me proud to be a Torontonian

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Must be fake, they didn't spell sorry.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Excellent campaign.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is great! Visited Calgary a while back, they need this bad.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

wow! impressive they got producers agreement to involve them in this but on the other hand it's a free advertisement. :D

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I take things like littering and leaving out shopping carts way too seriously. I take at as a big "fuck you" to me and rest of the world.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"I'm too important to take this cart back." I want to hurt that person!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

littering and...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

woohooo Toronto! :D

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8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Username checks out

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I usually look at bus stops in an area. The more trash I see, the shittier I assume that the community is. Either by way of nobody caring >>

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

actually throw away their trash or by nobody caring enough to clean it up.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where's the crying indian commercial when we need it... kinder... softer... gentlerrrr. America's hat needs to see it. We lead by example!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I work for the agency that created this campaign and we got in a lot of shit... apparently the brands we used didn't like it...... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Littering says a lot about you

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

*glittering

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

*clittering

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean lazy and selfish I get, it shouldn't be someone elses job to clean up after you as an adult you should be doing that yourself.

8 years ago | Likes 149 Dislikes 6

You don't get the other ones?

8 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 2

A pig is a noble and handsome creature.

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

And a dipstick is a useful tool for checking fluid levels.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

absolutely agreed. but our massive litter/waste problem is also corporate's fault too. companies need to create solutions that reduce the

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

need to throw away so much junk. and in fact, coca-cola abandoned an excellent recycling program it had with glass bottles in favor the

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

cheaper plastic bottles that everything has to throw away. thus causing a massive increase in waste and litter

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

yeah and when they make a small toy car in 500 pounds of packaging or something

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In Denmark, pretty much all bottles are recyclable. You pay a pant fee up front then get it back when you return the bottle.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's in America and Canada too

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It drives me insane when I see dirty cigarette smokers litter their butts. Usually a garbage to put that shit in near by.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

as a motorcycle driver, when they toss them out the window on the freeway, this upsets me even more.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I've been hit by those before, on side streets a good knock on the window at the next light usually freaks them the fuck out.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sorry... not sorry?

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 6

Soooorrryyy

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sorry

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Sorry

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I was in Canada a few weeks ago and they really do say sorry all the time. It's adorable.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm sorry we must have screwed up enough to say sorry in the first lace

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tim Horton's was out of hash browns. Well, not out, they just ran out of hot ones for like 10 minutes.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That's a pretty good reason, but they need to be hot! They aren't as good cold...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not like room temp. They had cooked a bunch, sold them all, and not put in more. So they were frozen.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If it was Australia they would straight up call you a cunt somehow

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if this was Australia, those words would be censored. And the cigarette boxes would be removed. As if Australians can't handle it. bullocks!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 11

"Only a complete cunt would litter" probably something like that.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

what do you mean, "somehow?" Straight up, that's how

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Can confirm. I'd be something like "Ay cunt, pick that shit up." The Keep Australia Beautiful anti-litter campaign is pretty strong.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

They'd just add cunt onto the end of each picture.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

littering says a lot about you....... cunt.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Eh, I'm used to it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I thought Cunt was Australian for "hello", "yes", "no", and a dozen other things.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Or a mate

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

"Littering is shameful. Don't be a cunt about it."

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There's literally an ad here saying "If you litter, you're rubbish." It shows a guy in bed covered in cockroaches.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There was an illegitimate tourism campaign called C U in the NT, promoting tourism for the Northern Territory.

8 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 1

Sorry to tell you but that wasn't an official campaign.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And that’s what I said. It was never approved of by Tourism NT. Worked better than any claimant they’ve run though.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Littermouth.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"C"oca cola and ????

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

runts

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Aunt Jemima?

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Perfect

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We legit had a marketing campaign calling litterers "tossers".

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Is that a common insult somewhere?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

In britspeak it means one who receives intercourse from a fellow gentleman.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Australia. And it means wanker.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

In Australia, yeah

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cunt is basically a noun and an adjative in Australia.

8 years ago | Likes 205 Dislikes 8

Cunt is a way of life in Australia.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm Canadian and I use it that way...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

In my family it is also a verb

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As in, "stop cunting around the house"?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Something like that yes

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And an actual job title.

8 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 2

Upvote for the username

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8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

An adjative?

8 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 5

Cuntedly pointed out by cunto up here.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

It's Australian, even if there is no c, it's implied.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Without the EC, though, it's just bogan talk.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Unt

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yes, you cunt.

8 years ago | Likes 42 Dislikes 1

Heh

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Noun in this example.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I'm for this. Most people are shit

8 years ago | Likes 343 Dislikes 10

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8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, most people aren't shit and most people don't litter. Either your neighborhood is shit or you need to meet more people IRL.

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Hate littering as much as the next guy, but an edgy teenage attitude does bugger all to help ether. Grow up.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Thank you for your input. I will continue to be jaded and brood

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Have you driven down a road ever? Litter everywhere. At least in US. Humans are the only species that destroys where it lives so yes, shit.

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 8

Viruses do it too.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Yeah, there's just cigerattes everywhere. ~15% of people in the US smoke. Assuming every one of them litters, that's still not a majority.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 6

How do you define destroy? We don't destroy where we live at all. Being messy is not destroying.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Issue compounded over time.

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I think it's a small % making that big mess though. It is disgusting any way you look at it.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Fine. Touché. Although I'm fairly positive you knew what I meant. We litter, we destroy nature, we pollute and we do little to stop

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This isn't the Canadian government...this is the city of Toronto and they most definitely don't represent the rest of us.

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I was about to make a comment about city of Toronto not being the government of Canada ...thanks!

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8 years ago (deleted Sep 11, 2017 5:28 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Oh wait. We are.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ITT : Toronto Hate from other Canadians, I love this advertisement because it gets people talking, that is the goal

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Fuck Toronto. (I've lived there all life)

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 11

*Unless it's baseball teams, basketball teams or tallest freestanding structure.

8 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

Thank you for not mentioning hockey. The wounds are still fresh.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm pumped for this year, hopefully Marleau has some youth left in him

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Me, and rest of Canada are ok with these ads. Don't worry people we're cool, don't let this nay-sayer speak for the rest of us.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

I agree with you, but don't speak for us, either.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Yeah because littering is subjective! #freetolitter

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

They're a bit too extreme huh?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 8

Also their a year old

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But did you upvote it? that's the question here, lol

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

this is too bad for me to upvote

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

TBH, if you've ever gone to the UK the whole country is a landfill. I've been on the QEW and not seen a single piece of litter. UK is shit

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 6

Thats because the UK is filled with chavs, who sponge off the government, shag their sisters, and throw their trash anywhere and everywhere.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Really? I see trash on the QEW all the time.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

He doesn't mean the people.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

What's wrong w/Toronto? It sounds like you're putting it on the same level as Windsor or something

8 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

Oh snap

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Canada is a nation united by a hatred of Toronto. Even Torontonians.

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And we equally acknowledge that we are the only place in Canada that matters :)

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

Toronto is the city Canadians love to hate.

8 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

nice place to visit wouldn't want to live there. and I did for a year.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

I didn't grow up in Toronto but I live there now. Traffic sucks and obviously house prices but at least there are things to do.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Literally the only people that say that are the ones that can't afford a proper life the expensive city of Toronto

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

You're a rich Daddy's-little-brat too? We should be friends!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

My mom says it, because she doesn't like the hustle and bustle. Big cities don't suit everyone, which is fair. But if you live here you /1

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

From what I know from a Canadian friend, it's a shitty place to live and the people are shitty by Canadian standards

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

I've lived in Sydney, Melbourne, Atlanta, Lisbon, Barcelona, and Toronto. And although both Sydney and Melbourne were close: Toronto wins.

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Wins for being shitty? Or you liked it?

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I love it, I decided to stay.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

Some of us have taken to calling it BeijingV2

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 11

Just got my grad degree from Vancouver. Hongcouver is an apt name for that city as well.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

Like I'm Asian and my first thought when I went through campus was "goddamn it's like The Great Wall here".

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Only the racist ones.

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Is Toronto the San Francisco of Canada or was it Vancouver? Can't remember.

8 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 4

I live in Toronto. We're the New York City of Canada. Huge theatre culture, and the largest economic engine in the country.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

What did San Francisco do to you?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

From what I understand, Toronto is more like a smaller NYC

8 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 1

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8 years ago (deleted Sep 11, 2017 6:41 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Hey, what's wrong with Boston? Eh, I think I know after the marches recently :/.

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I mean. It is in a pile of movies.

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It's a smaller LA.

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Not even close.

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The rest of us refer to Toronto as the center of the universe.

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Most important city in Canada.

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Because it is.

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8 years ago (deleted Jul 30, 2018 5:10 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Yes.

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They frowns on Toronto so even good things Toronto does, they want to distance themselves from us.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

This gets posted often, usually with wholly supportive comments. This time the guilt got the better of the comments.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Hate litter. I was really calling out OP for calling it the Canadian Government...

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

It's more an issue of, you're not gonna convince people by calling them names and treating them badly. Littering is still wrong though.

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Lol, Canadians don't support name calling.

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I'm surprised this got downvoted as much as it did. It's true, when you call someone a name, they ignore you most of the time :/.

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+1 bro

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I've made people pick up their litter by pointing out they're being assholes and fucking up nature for everyone. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Isn't that pretty much what people tried to do to Republicans?

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 4

Why am I getting upvoted when I just give an example of what the guy above is getting downvoted for?

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Lol, Canadians don't support name calling.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

As a Canadian, name calling is easily our third official language. How else are we going to make fun of hosers?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That's also what Republicans tried to do to everyone else.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Kind of? I feel like Republicans will call you immoral but let you speak, Democrats just want you silent completely.

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