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SternSkipper -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:07:01 PM)
quote: LMAO!! You are a cruel, but brilliantly cruel man. Can you just imagine what would happen when the newly arrived American fascists encounter the Quebec language nazis? "I have the right to speak English!" "Pas ici" Beautiful! Simply beautiful! Okay, so how about this? I leave off the page with directions to Montreal, that way none of our morons find out about the possibility that other provinces exist (Montreal having highways pointing to Ontario and Ottawa ). I'll try and keep it fair, yet still entertaining. Personally, I think the neo-american-right-wing landing in Quebec City would be a real pants pisser... You folks should make sure Chateau Frontenac has plenty of Maps to that beggar's alley where the kids climb all over the car (it's been a VERY long time, I want to say rue soullivac or something like that... course, by now, it's probably gone, to 'tidy things up').

SternSkipper -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:09:30 PM)
quote: Yeah, I know.. it just should be our Canadian anthem played and our Canadian flags waving at the end! Oh well, as long as there arent any major riots... SINCERELY - Good luck with that[8D]

tj444 -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:11:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Arpig quote: it just should be our Canadian anthem played and our Canadian flags waving at the end! That would be nice. And riots?....thank God it isn't the Habs playing, eh? Those buggers riot when they win, God knows what they'd do if they lost! There have been riots in Vancouver too. The cops were totally and embarassingly unprepared for that, so I expect they will be on alert this time around.

Lucylastic -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:13:21 PM)
If the maple leafs ever win, there wont be riots, just mass dropping dead with shock

SternSkipper -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:16:28 PM)
quote: On the surface this appears to be so, but when you factor in health care costs it doesn't hold up so well. And the real reason why our economy is doing so well and didn't tank is because our financial sector is heavily regulated, they just simply cannot engage in the crazy practices that led to the melt down. I realize this is an unpopular idea south of the border, but it is so. We're very much in agreement on this. I think it was almost homicidal that US financial 'gurus' let shit slip by like "derivatives" ... they should have busted that BS in it's proposal stages. Policies like that actually created an incentive to build faulty lending practices into the newly de-regulated system. They KNEW they were killing the US Consumer and the middle class in the process. But they were taking their profits out early, so it ju8st didn't matter to them. And THIS is the kind of horseshit economic policy the TeaPartiers and neo-cons IGNORANTLY protest and want to turn us back to.

tj444 -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:21:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SternSkipper quote: On the surface this appears to be so, but when you factor in health care costs it doesn't hold up so well. And the real reason why our economy is doing so well and didn't tank is because our financial sector is heavily regulated, they just simply cannot engage in the crazy practices that led to the melt down. I realize this is an unpopular idea south of the border, but it is so. We're very much in agreement on this. I think it was almost homicidal that US financial 'gurus' let shit slip by like "derivatives" ... they should have busted that BS in it's proposal stages. Policies like that actually created an incentive to build faulty lending practices into the newly de-regulated system. They KNEW they were killing the US Consumer and the middle class in the process. But they were taking their profits out early, so it ju8st didn't matter to them. And THIS is the kind of horseshit economic policy the TeaPartiers and neo-cons IGNORANTLY protest and want to turn us back to. But the US consumers didnt have to be sheeple/lemmings and so easily manipulated to go along with it. What ever happened to common sense?

juliaoceania -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 12:21:56 PM)
My favorite Canadians [image]local://upfiles/269948/AE67825855E54920996AB1EABE65FBEA.gif[/image]

HannahLynHeather -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 1:01:08 PM)
quote: If the maple leafs ever win oh come off it. lets keep this discussion in the realm of what could be, there's no point discussing impossibilities here. hannah lynn

HannahLynHeather -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 1:02:56 PM)
quote: What ever happened to common sense? its astoundingly uncommon hannah lynn

Lucylastic -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 1:11:36 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: HannahLynHeather quote: If the maple leafs ever win oh come off it. lets keep this discussion in the realm of what could be, there's no point discussing impossibilities here. hannah lynn LMAO I did say if..... my daughter would call me a traitor if she read this, according to her I should support the home team, LOL

tj444 -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 1:45:31 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic LMAO I did say if..... my daughter would call me a traitor if she read this, according to her I should support the home team, LOL That is only as long as your team is winning, once your team is out, then the rule is that you switch your allegiance to the NEXT Canadian team. [:)]

HannahLynHeather -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 1:57:48 PM)
quote: That is only as long as your team is winning, once your team is out, then the rule is that you switch your allegiance to the NEXT Canadian team. as long as its not the fucking habs! but they aren't really from "canada", so i guess the rule still applies. we really need to bring back the no dicks, so we have another quebec team to belittle. hey! speaking of bringing teams back, how about winnipeg getting one again? fucking great stuff eh? anybody heard a definitive answer as to what their going to call the team? hannah lynn

Lucylastic -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 2:06:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tj444 quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic LMAO I did say if..... my daughter would call me a traitor if she read this, according to her I should support the home team, LOL That is only as long as your team is winning, once your team is out, then the rule is that you switch your allegiance to the NEXT Canadian team. [:)] Half the penguins are canadians, Thats my argument anyway and Im sticking with it, lol

HannahLynHeather -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 2:21:38 PM)
quote: Half the penguins are canadians, Thats my argument anyway and Im sticking with it, lol half the fucking league is canadian. hannah lynn

Lucylastic -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 2:24:44 PM)
good point too

SternSkipper -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 2:27:44 PM)
quote: But the US consumers didnt have to be sheeple/lemmings and so easily manipulated to go along with it. What ever happened to common sense? Same thing that happened to common sense in the Maritime provinces from what I can see. I am not disagreeing with you but it's a wider issue than just pointing a finger at consumers. And it sure as hell hasn't just happened here. And contrary to your belief that this is something that could be headed off with a consumer movement, it's like everything else to do with food production GLOBALLY. Just about all populations got sucker punched by globalization, tech-farming, fish wars, etc. These practices slipped in under their noses. And in some cases, information was even suppressed. It started with mishap regulatory practices in the fisheries which were seized upon by foreign fleets, fishing just outside territorial waters. While it became MUCH more costly to maintain a fleet towards the inland waters, floating canneries began taking ground fish more than the tuna and other school fish. And the big international fish companies got the edge over local fleets. And frankly, it's next to impossible to sell slightly more expensive, better quality fish to Americans who have a wall street-esque mentality of bottom lines and "tough luck if you can't compete". it's times like those when your local industrial mainstay (Like Gorton's Of Gloucester), becomes Japanese or whatever-ese. It's easy to offer a late to the table solutions like 'the consumers did it' ... of course they did. But middle men set the suckers up. Quickly and QUIETLY. And the fact of the matter is we here locally HAVE put solutions in place. They're just not enough to solve the problem (case in point): http://gloucesterseafooddisplayauction.com/

tj444 -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 2:59:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SternSkipper quote: But the US consumers didnt have to be sheeple/lemmings and so easily manipulated to go along with it. What ever happened to common sense? Same thing that happened to common sense in the Maritime provinces from what I can see. I am not disagreeing with you but it's a wider issue than just pointing a finger at consumers. And it sure as hell hasn't just happened here. And contrary to your belief that this is something that could be headed off with a consumer movement, it's like everything else to do with food production GLOBALLY. Just about all populations got sucker punched by globalization, tech-farming, fish wars, etc. These practices slipped in under their noses. And in some cases, information was even suppressed. It started with mishap regulatory practices in the fisheries which were seized upon by foreign fleets, fishing just outside territorial waters. While it became MUCH more costly to maintain a fleet towards the inland waters, floating canneries began taking ground fish more than the tuna and other school fish. And the big international fish companies got the edge over local fleets. And frankly, it's next to impossible to sell slightly more expensive, better quality fish to Americans who have a wall street-esque mentality of bottom lines and "tough luck if you can't compete". it's times like those when your local industrial mainstay (Like Gorton's Of Gloucester), becomes Japanese or whatever-ese. It's easy to offer a late to the table solutions like 'the consumers did it' ... of course they did. But middle men set the suckers up. Quickly and QUIETLY. And the fact of the matter is we here locally HAVE put solutions in place. They're just not enough to solve the problem (case in point): http://gloucesterseafooddisplayauction.com/ Ok ya got me on this one, I dont see what the US mortgage debacle has to do with fish. [sm=cactus.gif] When I talk about commonsense, I am not advocating a consumer movement, just people to be responsible for themselves and their own actions.

SternSkipper -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 3:49:14 PM)
quote: Ok ya got me on this one, I dont see what the US mortgage debacle has to do with fish. Unless you mean the mentality of the business man trying to manipulate the market behind the scenes.. you're right. But I didn't mention mortgages in my response to you, so you're reaching a bit there. quote: When I talk about commonsense, I am not advocating a consumer movement, just people to be responsible for themselves and their own actions. Yeah, well consumers everywhere (even California) are bottom liners and if it means a dollar a pound difference to buy locally/regionally, only the ones wealthy, enough, who want to crow about the 'good' they bring will buy in. Which isn't the worst thing in the world, it's just comical to me at the level where they look at the poor sap buying chilean anything, and questioning their stewardship, without a thought to whether they can afford to feed their kids the organics. And that's great so long as they aren't playing commodities and futures out of the other side of their face.

tj444 -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 3:58:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: SternSkipper Unless you mean the mentality of the business man trying to manipulate the market behind the scenes.. you're right. But I didn't mention mortgages in my response to you, so you're reaching a bit there. Well, in my post that you responded to, I was talking about US mortgages, not fish and that is what my post was about. It never had anything to do with fish. So no, I was not reaching at all, you were fishing in the wrong pond. [>:]

DeviantlyD -> RE: Lets Talk about Canada... (6/12/2011 5:19:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic If the maple leafs ever win, there wont be riots, just mass dropping dead with shock The Canadian Temperature Guide The Temperature Conversion Guide (degrees are in Fahrenheit): 50 above - New Yorkers turn on the heat. * Canadians plant gardens. 40 above - Californians shiver uncontrollably. * Canadians sunbathe. 35 above - Italian cars won't start. * Canadians drive with the windows down. 32 above - Distilled water freezes. * Canadian water gets thicker. 20 above - Floridians wear coats, gloves & wool hats. * Canadians throw on a t-shirt. 15 above - Californians begin to evacuate the state. * Canadians go swimming. Zero - New York landlords finally turn up the heat. * Canadians have the last cook-out before it gets cold. 10 below - People in Miami cease to exist. * Canadians lick flag poles. 20 below - Californians fly away to Mexico. * Canadians throw on a light jacket. 40 below - Hollywood disintegrates. * Canadians rent videos. 60 below - Mt. St. Helens freezes. * Canadian Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door. 80 below - Polar bears begin to evacuate the Arctic. * Canadian Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough. 100 below - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. * Canadians pull down their ear flaps. 173 below - Ethyl alcohol freezes. * Canadians get frustrated when they can't thaw their kegs. 297 below - Microbial life survives on dairy products. * Canadian cows complain of farmers with cold hands. 460 below - ALL atomic motion stops. * Canadians start saying "Cold' nuff for ya, eh?" 500 below - Hell freezes over. * The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.

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