r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation who are those little dinosaurs PETAH ?

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u/Global-Discussion-41 9d ago

Where are the Canadian dinosaurs?

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u/TonySperguson 9d ago edited 9d ago

Remember when Americans made the movie Argo and stole credit for the Canadian Caper and attributed it to the American CIA while falsely claiming that Britain and New Zealand refused to help them. Then gave it the Oscar for Best Picture. Just like how they removed the British and Canadians from D-Day in Saving Private Ryan a decade earlier.

American's taking credit for the achievements of Canadians is one of their longest running traditions at this point. You guys really gotta stop letting them get away with it.

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u/Nukemiller84 8d ago

You know there was more than one beach landing on D-Day right? Canada took Juno. US took Omaha and Utah. UK took gold and sword.

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u/needsmoarbokeh 5d ago

Not just that, the British prepared with a lot of specialized vehicles that the Americans dismissed as stupid novelties and their disembark was extraordinarily effective, with very little losses.

Also the intelligence efforts of the British cannot be undermined in the preparation for D-Day

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 8d ago edited 8d ago

"Longest running traditions"

Examples are two hollywood movies lol, one of which was specifically about omaha beach that the canadians weren't involved in

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u/TonySperguson 8d ago edited 8d ago

the telephone, basketball, peanut butter, the lightbulb

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 8d ago

Every american I know can't shut up about how they invented peanut butter, constant point of conversation ugh

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u/TonySperguson 8d ago edited 8d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

really thought you had something here huh?

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 8d ago

Was the point of this link to point out it's an aztec invention and not Canadian?

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u/TonySperguson 8d ago

hahahah jesus christ

really grasping at straws here

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u/JalapenoPopPoop 8d ago

I just don't think Canada should be taking credit for Aztec inventions

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u/Global-Discussion-41 8d ago

man, did you even read the link you posted?

"Carver has been given credit in popular folklore for many inventions that did not come out of his lab"

"Carver is often mistakenly credited with the invention of peanut butter. By the time Carver published "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption" in 1916, many methods of preparation of peanut butter had been developed or patented by various pharmacists, doctors and food scientists working in the US and Canada."

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u/TonySperguson 8d ago

Carver is often mistakenly credited with the invention

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they taught it in schools.

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u/SchumacherIsMid 8d ago edited 8d ago

American's taking credit for the achievements of Canadians is one of their longest running traditions at this point. You guys really gotta stop letting them get away with it.

And only a Canadian gets this offended over dumb people in Hollywood doing dumb shit.

Just like how they removed the British and Canadians from D-Day in Saving Private Ryan a decade earlier.

Bullshit. There is one single example of this, and that is that the driver who has one line and three seconds of screen time should have been British. The 2nd Ranger Battalion was dropped off by a British driver on a British LCA landing craft. That's it. History Buffs will say it better than I.

Other than that one tiny error, if you're really surprised that a movie, that frankly isn't even about d-day, doesn't feature British and Canadians when they only show the Omaha Beach landing, that's on you. It is the equivalent of people bitching that one of the 300 Indian soldiers that were at Dunkirk weren't featured in the movie of the same name.

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u/RacoonOnMyShoulder 8d ago

Found the American.

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u/ChampionshipMean5756 8d ago

Uh, so what if he is. That doesn’t make his statement wrong.

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u/Stumblerrr 8d ago

Found the other american

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u/ChampionshipMean5756 8d ago

Uh, like I said, that doesnt do anything for your argument. Its like pointing out a spelling mistake an acting like you auto win.

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u/Stumblerrr 8d ago

Burger burger gun fries schoolshooting maga oil!

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u/Wuz314159 8d ago

I remember the British in Band of Brothers.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dix0neXckt8

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u/I_wash_my_carpet 4d ago

Yeah Canada! You should... idk, invent some more war crimes and invade north-east US? That'd show us! I mean... them! Or just take it. We'll consider it payment for stolen valor. What justice you deliver to the denizens of the area, none of our concern.

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u/Echelonaz 2d ago

Bro, Saving Private Ryan was set on Omaha Beach. There were no Canadians, they were at Juno Beach miles away, with Sword Beach in between. It’s not erasure if you were never there.

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u/Leading_Resource_944 8d ago

Plus taking credit for German Technology: 

  • "USA invented Cars", 
  • "USA went to the moon!"

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u/VociferousCephalopod 9d ago

with the ANZAC dinosaurs

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u/Horror_Appearance_26 9d ago

Scrolled way too far for this comment.

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u/redditcasual6969 9d ago

Adding chapters to the Geneva Conventions /s

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u/NeutralArt12 8d ago

Canada was a decent producer in WW2! They were small potatoes though. To compare to someone like the USA they had roughly 1/11th the production, had 1/15th less enlisted men, and 1/10th the overall casualties.

Still what a heroic effort to march across the sea in a war that had nothing to do with them to aid the allies. Maybe all the other nations that participated- like Canada, India, Yugoslavia ECT could make a new bi-racial rainbow dinosaur

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u/DoubleExposure 8d ago

Drumheller badlands.