Nagging ‘All Canadians are plaid-wearing lumberjacks’ stereotype finally proven true

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We Canadians are frequently stereotyped. Whether it’s jokes about our over-apologetic nature or the usual teasing about our apparent inability to correctly pronounce the letter “O,” people seem to enjoy making fun of us.

Often those stereotypes are undeserved, but a photo recently posted to Imgur strongly reinforces one nagging stereotype — that we’re nothing but a bunch of plaid-wearing lumberjacks.

The image in question depicts four random individuals standing at what looks like an ordinary Canadian bar. All four are wearing red plaid shirts. It’s pretty clear it’s not a uniform as all the plaids are slightly different, and they don’t appear to be in a group. One even has a plaid jacket hanging off the back of his stool. Plaid on plaid: always a bold look.

Titled, “Fashion at my small town Canadian bar,” the picture was posted just over 13 hours ago, and has already accumulated more than a million views.

So, okay, maybe we Canucks do love our plaid shirts and jackets a little too hard, but come on, what is more cuddly and shapeless than a humungous flannel plaid jumper? Answer: Nothing.

Perhaps even more amusing than the photo are the comments that follow.

Puns proved the most popular, with “Well plaid” getting the most up-votes, closely followed by, “As a Canadian from a small town, this checks out.”

Others were eager to jump in with pop culture references. Who can forget the Monty Python lumberjack sketch? Not Imgur commenter hellooodolly, who chimed in with, “THEY’RE A LUMBERJACK AND THEY’RE OK.”

And children of the ’80s will likely recall that epic line from the Mel Brooks classic Spaceballs, as did DipStickPaddyWhackPeePeeGoogaleeGee when they wrote “They’ve gone plaid!”

Of course, Canadians aren’t the only ones rocking the plaid these days — hipsters hopped on the plaid bandwagon a long time ago, appropriating the small town Canadian look with great gusto.

As commenter “AMartianPotato” noted:

“When hipster culture came to Canada we barely noticed.”