🚀 go-pugleaf

In <4f68nn$7j4@hobbes.cc.uga.edu> Alex Bunker <bunker@dcs.uga.edu>
writes: 
>
>nemecj@mit.edu (Joseph Edward Nemec) wrote:
>>In article <4en4v3$cgo@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, dalel@unixg.ubc.ca (Dale
Lum) wrote:
>>
>>
>>>        Canadian culture is alive and dynamic, and sophisticated far

>>>beyond than what your pitiful American intellect is capable of 
>>>comprehending. 
>>
>>Yeah? How? Hockey riots when you losers lose? Bob and Doug MacKenzie?
>>Drinking alot of Molson and hitting each other?
>>
>>Give me a break. Canada produces nothing. Not music, not film, not
art,
>>not science. Zip.
>>
>>>American culture is fast food, conservative politics, and t.v.
>>>shows like "A Current Affair" and "Oprah Winfrey". 
>>
>>It's also Jazz, Blues, great film, great theater, great
writers....the
>>list is endless.
>>
>CINEMA:
>Canadian cinema is vastly superior to American Cinema.
>Denis Arcand and Atom Egoyan are among the greatest directors
>IMHO Atom Egoyan is the greatest director EVER and people
>will be watching his films hundreds of years in the future and
marvelling
>at them the same way people marvel at the works of Beethoven,
Michaelangelo,
>and Shakespeare today. Hollywood is a pulp factory of Lowest common
denomenator
>shit. Yes there are some good Directors in the U.S.A. but their works
get
>made in SPITE of the dominant culture not because of it. Stanley
Kubrik had
>to run away to England in order to be allowed to exercise the full
extent of
>his genius. Brazil, one of the greatest american movie ever made was
almost
>strangled by its producer who wanted to dumb it down so stupid
semiliterate
>culturally moronified Americans would like it. Terry Gilliam allways
has
>problems anytime he wants to do anything daring. Robert Altmann is
virtually
>a parahia in Hollywood. Independent Cinema is encouraged daring wierd
and
>Avant guard in Canada and generously subsidized. Independent cinema in
the
>USA is neutered by threats from the Christian right and other
primitivists.
>
>Great writers:
>HA! Mordeccai Richler, Robertson Davies, Margeret Lawrence, Margeret
Atwood
>come to mind, if you take into account that Canada has allways had
>a population 1/10 that of the USA we rate quite well.
>ART:
>The Group of 7 kicked the butt of all their contemporary American
artists.
>
>Science:
>HA! HA! HA! HA! 
>John Polanyi, Gerhardt Herzberg, Bert Brockhouse, all won the Nobel
Prize
>thats 3 in the last 25 years for a country with 30- million
inhabitants!
>If you have any friends with Diabetes they owe their life to two
Canadians.
>
>>>Hey, when you 
>>>vacantly stare at Rush Limbaugh on tv in that characteristically 
>>>American way, does your jaw hang open, and drool run down your
cheek?  
>>>Just wondering.
>>
>>No, but the drool does run down the cheek of Jean Chretien. 
>
>Jean Chretien Is a very intelligent man born with a neurological
disorder.
>This is a Cheap Shot.
>
>>By the way, has he lost the country yet?
>>
>>>        Not exactly.  Canadians carry maple leaves when travelling 
>>>because they don't want to be mistaken for Americans.  U.S. foreign 
>>>policy doesn't exactly endear people in, say, Central or South
America to 
>>>Americans.  
>>
>>Yes, and you know what? If you idiot canucks would actually learn
french
>>(one of your official languages) or German, you would hear what they
say
>>about you. They laugh at you. As one of my friends from Paris said
"Joe,
>>why do these people wear that stupid leaf?"
>>
>>"They don't want to be mistaken for Americans."
>>
>>"But that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard! I mean, Americans
have
>>power. Canadians are just Americans with even less culture and
nothing."
>>
>Ignorant people are everywhere SO?
>>>----
>>>
>>>Dale.  (A proud Canadian)
>>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>Nothing more pathetic...
>>
>>--
>>.sig under destruction...
>
You my small brained northern cousin had better grow up.  Because your
argument sounds a lot like ones I had in kindergaten  my dad could beat
up your dad.  There are stupid dumbfuck inbred hicks everywhere and you
have just proved that Canada has one more than we knew about before. 
The biggest problem with Canadians is thier inferiority complex.  
                         c-ya eh