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1000 Reasons not to vote for GW
mmmPeanutButter:
On the lighter side... the Vice Guide to Canada. It's amazing.
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: mmmPeanutButter on August 22, 2004, 06:52:44 am ---On the lighter side... the Vice Guide to Canada. It's amazing.
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Thanks mmmPB, that was a good, funny read.
(I guess I'm an American Canadaphille - I blame Kids in the Hall, SCTV, and Rush for that.)
(EDIT #2: My 400th Post - woohoo. I'll catch up to Floyd soon).
Zakk:
I'd just like to say, as a Canadian, with very good friends and even family on both sides of the border, that this thread is ridiculous. Well, at least the parts where "Canada sucks because it isn't the US". Wow. You know, you guys would probably come by the house, sit down, and I'd mix you whatever drink you'd like (as long as you don't get violent when you drink, as you might find out we don't need guns since we can kill just fine with our hockey sticks and snowshoes), and we'd have a great chat. You'd find that I'm at least as well schooled as yourself, perhaps even more so since I know that dieing is really not a word, and that the US doesn't have a King or a Pope or even a shmoo for a leader. In fact, we'd probably get along just fine, since I have no political aspirations, so don't consider myself a republican or a democrat. Don't like Quebec? GREAT! Want to compare us with Mexico, umm, okay... I don't know many Mexicans but maybe we're just like them. You think American beer is better than Canadian? Cool, I'll grab you one out of the fridge.
What I don't get is hating someone you don't even know. I mean, we could have grown up together in houses side by side, only separated by the (once) invisible Canadian/US border, and we might be like brothers. I think if we knew each other like that it would be more difficult to say "you're Canadian/Mexican/Russian/etc, you live on the other side of that invisible line, so I hate you". Well, that, and the fact that if you lived next door and kept insulting me, I might just set your house on fire.
Another example: A single loony US citizen did myself or my family harm, I sure might hate that one guy...hell you might find bits of him covered in lye in my wine cellar... but I wouldn't run around going "gaaa Americans suck" since generally, they don't! We've all got our collection of loonies, so let's relax and chill a bit. All these threads are doing is turning us against each other (which I suppose is the point of some of the posts). I was a bit surprised Saint didn't lock down these threads, but he's right, free speech is a wonderful gift. I just don't know if enough thought is being put into what is being said...
hunky_artist:
...the most sensible thing I've read in this whole thread. well done :)
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Zakk on August 22, 2004, 03:09:11 pm ---...since I know that dieing is really not a word
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:) true that