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Re: Why Canadians Are Sup

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From: Joseph Edward Nemec
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:00
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Dave Beynon wrote:

> Not nececarily bigger but definately better. 

Hey Dave, check your spell checker. It isn't working.
 
> Why dont americans realise
> that no one actually likes them.  

Because it isn't true. 

> American politics is taken seriously by
> no one as all american presidents are apparently insane. 

If this were the case, then you demonstrate your own stupidity (as if
that were really necessary) in not taking them seriously. We do, after
all, have alot of atomic bombs, and are willing (and some of us are
planning) to use them on foreign countries.
 
> American food
> is largely quite disgusting, 

This, coming from a limey?

> American tourists are loud, annoying arseholes

This, coming from the nation that introduced the world to  neo-nazi
football hooligans?

> and US tv stations are just pathetic.  

Which ones? The ones you buy half your programming from, or the good
ones?

> At least most third world countries
> are trying to improve their standard of 
> living and not just sitting on their
> sweaty backsides trying to tell the rest of the world what to do.

Yes, they are. And most of them are in the mess they are in because of
English imperialism. But you've been kind enough to show sympathy by
turning into a third-world country yourselves, so I guess it's okay.

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From: Joseph Edward Nemec <nemecj@mtl.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Why Canadians Are Sup
Date: 1996/02/19
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