JohnnyCanuck

That's awesome. I remember profs coming into the lecture hall, walking straight up to the board and just talking facing the board and writing equations for an hour and a half straight. Ugh. Tenure must be nice.

It's a can of dehydrated water. Keep it, it will help in one of your quests one day.

“I literally walked the man on over to the police and informed them of the fact that the man had committed a hate crime against me, and I said that I would like to (press charges)

“The officer literally laughed and said, ‘Okay.’ He said, ‘Well, what do you want me to do?’ and I said, ‘Your job!’”

Citizens don't press charges in Canada. I'm not sure if that's a translation error, but if you tell a cop you want to "press charges" there's not really anything they can do.

Now, reporting the crime should lead to a police investigation. But we all know what they say about cops.

OP I responded to looked like they were Aussie, and I feel like I've seen similar comments from other non-Spanish-speaking people, so it just feels like "the rest of the world" in general.

My point is that they seem to be trying to call out the US president for using "America", but in the process are maybe making it awkward for Canadians.

This comes up a lot these days, but it's pretty standard in Canada and the USA to call the USA "America". It's not just a Trump thing, or even just an American (from the USA) thing.

In Canada we would never say we are in America. We would say we're in North America, and maybe "The Americas". But saying we're in America would sound to us like you're saying we're part of the USA. And absolutely, without a doubt, we would not call ourselves "American". That is 100% reserved for people from the USA.

So I understand where the rest of the world hears the word "America" being thrown around by, well, Americans for lack of a better term (USAers?) and thinks it's weird, but in this context, saying Canada is in America is actually kind of insulting to us Canadians.

It's particularly weird when speaking Spanish, where saying someone is Americano is often used for anyone from the Americas. But at least they have "estadounidense" (basically "united statesian" which I've never heard anyone say in English). But they also use "norteamericano" (North American) specifically for people from the USA. Ugh.

I heard it will work the same as Gulf of Mexico.

Americans see Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of America".
Mexicans see it as "Gulf of Mexico".
Everyone else sees it as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".

Americans will see Lake Ontario as "Lake America".
Canadians will see it as "Lake Ontario".
Everyone else will see it as "Lake Ontario (Lake America)".

Maybe he was high on the hog when he died.

Sorry if I over explain anything obvious...

"Whistling Dixie" is a local American term generally meaning not being serious all the way to over-hoping for a good outcome. As in, "If you think the president is going to apologize, you're whistling Dixie."

The term refers to the song Dixie which was basically the anthem for the South/Confederacy in the US Civil War. It's a very catchy tune and can be danced to or marched to because of its meter.

In the comic, the outnumbered soldiers who are hiding are southern confederates, with a northern Union regiment marching on their position. This probably wouldn't be a good time for the losers hiding in the ditch to give away their position by whistling their anthem. But man, it is a catchy tune and that regiment really is drumming a beat.

The actual term "whistling Dixie" probably came much later than the civil war, because it was referring to the southerners' dreams of winning being crushed, but that's classic Far Side juxtaposition.

I think that's probably enough explanation for the comic, but for background:
The song itself was written for American minstrel shows, which heavily used blackface and were often used to push and popularize racist stereotypes about African Americans. The song is basically about a free former slave pining to be back on the plantation, and is pretty much saying that's where black people belong.

You can find some examples of alternative lyrics in other comments, some of which may even come from civil war times and the North turning the song around on the southerners.

Their fruit really sucks. I refuse to buy it. Getting fresh blueberries from the farms this summer was the tits.

You're going to have to get it attention on social media and reddit (puke) if you want it to go anywhere.

Is it unpopular? I really don't know anything about it.

Sometimes things take way longer than we would like. This statement says they want humanitarian law applied, which may mean the case will be taken to The Hague.