people you thought were Canadian but aren't

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trent reznor

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 04:47 (one month ago)

Rufus Wainwright

― ceral con cloro, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 05:11 (one month ago)

Rufus Wainwright may not be fully Canadian, but he is at least substantially Canadian.

As a Canadian myself, the nomination of Trent Reznor for this category is surprising. What led you to this belief?

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 05:52 (one month ago)

something about his eyes and probably getting confused with skinny puppy or something

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:10 (one month ago)

Canadian eyes is a thing?

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:18 (one month ago)

no, it's not a thing, what are you talking about?

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:19 (one month ago)

oh wait i see. can a mod please replace Canadian with Kardashian?

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:20 (one month ago)

LOL

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:21 (one month ago)

It’s interesting. My Canadian (American-born) stepfather renounced his US citizenship, and he described the process as like “being shuffled into a room and ordered to suck the dick of a papier-mâché sculpture of Benedict Arnold”, and reading the forms required, he’s not entirely wrong:

https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds4079.PDF

― it was the worst feeling i’ve ever heard (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:22 (one month ago)

Canadian eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_fVnE3xHY

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:44 (one month ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOGrHqhymNQ

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:45 (one month ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3QiD99jPAg

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:47 (one month ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xLvXPky-4

― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:51 (one month ago)

And perhaps the most iconic Canadian eye

https://canadamodern.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CM_Main3_Content_GB_NationalFilmBoardCanada_TM13-1300x953.jpg

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:53 (one month ago)

Name a more iconic Canadian eye.. I'll wait

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:56 (one month ago)

https://bordercrossingsmag.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/snow6_1000_948_90.jpg

Michael Snow
Conception of Light, 1992, 2 circular colour photographs, each 188 cm diameter, installed on opposite walls, facing each other. Collection: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 06:59 (one month ago)

https://kitleyskrypt.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/donald-sutherland-rip.jpg

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 07:07 (one month ago)

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/people-and-stories/leo-major

The one eyed Rambo of Quebec

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 07:54 (one month ago)

They Might Be Giants

― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 07:59 (one month ago)

Greg Rusedski

― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 08:48 (one month ago)

Hughie Green
Kent Walton

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 08:51 (one month ago)

80s AOR band Zebra, who it turn out are from New Orleans

― brian of britain (Matt #2), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 10:40 (one month ago)

Andrea Martin

― cryptosicko, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 11:27 (one month ago)

Just big inventors co-opted for national pride:
Alexander Graham Bell
James Naismith
Charles Best

― ed.b, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 13:30 (one month ago)

They Might Be Giants

really? they used to bill themselves as “Brooklyn’s Ambassadors of Love” and famously settled in pre-gentrification Williamsburg in the early 80s.

― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 13:33 (one month ago)

Maybe it's their faint scent of barenaked ladies that caused the confusion?

― Strait of Merzbow (Eazy), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 13:36 (one month ago)

xp living in England I knew nothing about this, and could not have told you which country Williamsburg was in. They just have a very Canadian vibe to them.

― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 13:44 (one month ago)

Alexander Graham Bell

As Scottish as the day is long.

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 13:57 (one month ago)

xp living in England I knew nothing about this, and could not have told you which country Williamsburg was in. They just have a very Canadian vibe to them.

yeah fair enough

― Brenton Wood Conference (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 May 2026 14:07 (one month ago)

For a brief period of time I thought Rihanna and Sean Paul were Canadian, mostly due to Kardinal Offishall popping up in their early videos.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, 6 May 2026 15:55 (one month ago)

the lad anthony edwards

― brimstead, Thursday, 7 May 2026 02:39 (four weeks ago)

Andrea Martin did become a Canadian citizen a few years ago

― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 7 May 2026 02:44 (four weeks ago)

brett hull (lol)

― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 May 2026 02:47 (four weeks ago)

like 1/3 of all stand up comedians from the 1990s

― brimstead, Thursday, 7 May 2026 04:26 (four weeks ago)

i regret this thread

― brimstead, Thursday, 7 May 2026 04:27 (four weeks ago)

absolute midwestern shaming thread

― My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Thursday, 7 May 2026 05:33 (four weeks ago)

damn i so didn’t mean it that way, i have much love for Midwestern and Canadian folx <3 just some ill advised shitposting.

― brimstead, Thursday, 7 May 2026 05:47 (four weeks ago)

Ed Bishop

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 08:46 (three weeks ago)

I thought Cutting Crew ("I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight") were Canadian until only a few years ago. No reason, only vibes.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 11:31 (three weeks ago)

Queensryche

― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 22:45 (three weeks ago)

Close, though!

The idea for ("Operation:Mindcrime") came to Geoff Tate after moving to Montreal, Canada

That album was recorded partly in Quebec, too. And for that matter, the band formed in Bellevue, Washington, which is just a couple of hours from British Columbia.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 23:07 (three weeks ago)

It's just two notches away from being a GY!BE album

― Strait of Merzbow (Eazy), Tuesday, 12 May 2026 23:50 (three weeks ago)

I just learned that Marshall McLuhan *is* Canadian

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 12 May 2026 23:54 (three weeks ago)

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