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Article #17239Re: Why Canadians Are Sup
From: Alex Bunker
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 00:00
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Joseph Edward Nemec <nemecj> wrote: >cs95469@wolfcreek.cs.ualberta.ca (Jon Martin) wrote: > >>>Yeah? How? Hockey riots when you losers lose? Bob and Doug MacKenzie? >>>Drinking alot of Molson and hitting each other? >> >> You really believe this stereotyped image? > >Yes. I've lived in Canada. Well I live in the states and am Canadian So I kind of have the reverse perspective. I find Americans for the most part to be extremely ingnorant, deluded, and utterly deluvian in all their Christ-bashing puritanical nonsense. Violence for kids, theaching children that violence is an apprpriate means for problem solving but nudity, OH NO! Having lived a number of years in both I can Judge both societies, and trust me my stay here is certainly temporary. >>The MacKenzie brothers were _satire_ you idiot. > >Really? Personally, I thought they were a bit more "Kingston, Ontario". > >>Which illustrates an important point. Canadians can >>laugh at themselves. > >I laugh at them, too. But your sense of humour is so blunt and moronic. Americans completely lack a cynical sense of ironic wit which is what I classify as the pinnacle of intellectual humour. American black Comedies are SO tame... >>Not just what they do, but who they are and what this >>country really stands for. > >That is something else I laugh at. > >>We can look at what we are honestly. And >>sometimes we have to laugh. > >Yes, I know the feeling. As I said, when I look at you honestly, I have to >laugh, too. If Canada is such a pathetic place then why does the U.N. continue to rate it as the #1 best quality of life and most developed nation on the face of the earth while the U.S. languishes as little more than an extrememly rich third world nation with old fashioned conservative politics, vast destabilizing differences between rich and poor, murder rates more than 10 times those in truly developed nations, and the only "Developed" SMIRK! nation with no universal healthcare (When you say "Socialized medecine ooohhh, yuck how radical! WE HAVE THE BEST MEDICAL CARE IN THE WORLD" we in the truly developed world say "HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!") >>In the states you cannot look at yourself honestly. >>Those who do and find something they do not like are considered >>"un-American". > >This is nonsense. Anyone who has seen such films as "Don't drink your juice in >the hood", etc. knows that we have a very good sense of humor about ourselves. >We also are able to laugh when other countries insult us, something Canadians >are incapable of. They have too big a chip on their shoulders. > >Hey fuck-face, I am acutally from Canada. I got out because I didn't want to >have to fuck a moose, like the rest of you. Still, I go back once in awhile, >and I laugh at your pathetic lives. Not only is there no such thing as Canadian >culture, there is really no such thing as Canada. Face it, canuck, you are all >just Americans with no jobs and bad accents ands safe clean streets no stress over fear of getting bankrupting medical bills, lower infant mortality rate, and longer life expectancy. >>>Give me a break. Canada produces nothing. Not music, not film, not art, >>>not science. Zip. >> >> That shows you have never even bothered to look. There is more Canadian >>music, film, art and science around you than you know. > >But I'll bet you can't name it. > > >>>It's also Jazz, Blues, great film, great theater, great writers....the >>>list is endless. >> >> The list is endless. Yeah right. I can only think of two great >>yankee writers; Poe and Hemmingway. > >James, Faulkner, Eliot, Pound, Buck, Steinbeck, Whitman...the list is endless. > Robertson Davies, Margeret Atwood, Margeret Lawrence, Moreccai Richler... Maybe not the greatest authors ever but I think we do ok from our pool of 30 odd million... >But I am not surprised you can't name more than Hemingway and Poe. I know how >bad your education system is. > >>>No, but the drool does run down the cheek of Jean Chretien. >> >> Going for the old Kim Cambell tactic, eh? > >Me? No. I sort of figure that the best leader for Canada is Bill Clinton. > > >>>By the way, has he lost the country yet? >> >> As popular as ever. Whereas people continue to shoot at the White House >>to kill your leader. > >*many laughs* When I was up in your shitty country in December, the people >seemed pretty bitter about Chretien's inability to quell the seperatism in >Quebec. > >As for killing leaders, what about that little knife attack, hmm? Lucky >Chretien's wife is a light sleeper. Too bad the mounties meant to guard him >aren't. Sheesh, typical canadian competence.... > Here, write a ration of assasinated Canadian Prime ministers to the AMERICAN counterpart: see! >>>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?" >> >> A lot more Canadians know French and German than yanks. Most Canadians >>speak at least two languages. You yanks think you can get by with that >>language you call "English". > >This is absolute nonsense. Est-ce que tu parles francais? Je ne pensais pas... > >Fact is, Canadians are even less bilingual than Americans. Me, I am not >bilingual. I am quadro-lingual. I find alot of Americans like me. > >> More compassion towards other nations, > >Except while torturing somali children to death... > >>a more civil society, > >Except for members of the paratroopers, and the entier citizenry after loosing >yet another Stanley Cup to the US... > >>a more >>consistent foreign policy, > >"Run away, run away" Canadians have bravely donned the Blue helmet and performed their peacekeeping duty for the U.N. and layed down their lives for it under the U.N. colours (many many in Cyprus) across the world with none of this "Never serve under foreign command" bullshit. We posess a true internationalist spirit of loyalty to the U.N. and pay our dues promptly, and give generous foreign aid. Our U.N. ambassadors have been great leaders of peace who have proudly represented progress social-justice and fairness from Lester Pearson to Steven Lewis a man hailed and loved by people across the developing world. Ok Ok the somalia thing, every country has criminals and mishaps but to focus on it is to rediculously overlook the big picture. >>real commitment to world peace and the environment, > >Yeah, that's why you have such strict environmental standards...much stricter >than California... And hurray to us for it too! >>and a much better attitude towards the countries we travel in. > >Hey, eh, like, we're not Americans. That means, eh, we can drink Molson in >public and cause trouble, because no one hates us.... > > >> Oh sure, it is okay for all those inbred yanks to be pretend to be >>patriotic (while in reality they are just brainwashed), but God forbid there >>should be a patriotic Canadian. > >Exactly. Because even if an American patriot is inbred and brainwashed (all >three of them) he still has something to be proud of. What does a Canadian have >to be proud of? "Hey, eh, we produced the great Wayne Gretzky...but he went to >the US...but we have 'Kids in the Hall'...but they've all moved to the >States..." A history of peace law and order, The Mounties partolling the west so it was never wild, a peaceful confederation without bloodshed, no genocide of native americans after breaking their treaties. >>Canadian patriotism is at least more sincere, >>we actually know what we are patriotic about, whereas you yanks are just >>patriotic to whatever the government tells you. > >Yeah. I've seen Canadian patriotism. It usually begins with the sentence "We >aren't like those Americans because we are XYZ", where XYZ are lies and >half-truths. We, on the otherhand, are patriotic because we have a proud >history. We took control of our own country, and bent it into the greatest >nation the world has ever seen. You're just leating yours float down the >Saint-Laurence to oblivion and disillusion.... Still rated #1 by the U.N. HA HA!!! >-- >sig under destruction... >
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