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September 27th, 2007, 06:39 PM
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IIgnorant, naive Canada still thinks it’s special
Quoting gerryh
Thanks Gerry - I don't know what happened to the link but the topic is still there
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September 27th, 2007, 06:54 PM
What exactly are you telling us. People here put up anti-American posts all the time and then they are discussed. A few of us find fault with them and work to put up logical and verifiable objections to the topics. The people here seem to favor wild accusatory MoveOn.org garbage which the average American is sick of hearing about. I've been reading this stuff from the same people for nine years - it isn't going to be solved here.
If this is a Canadian forum of which you remind your membership - why are we dwelling in the basement about the U.S.anyway? Why is the primary topic here so consumed with the U.S. instead of your own nation? Full out brawl? I thought our discussion was handled pretty well considering some of the ones I have witnessed over the years.
Canadians shouldn't be discussing this? Where did you get that idea? Well Americans certainly aren't being allowed to - they are being put down at the first invitation of an inflammatory post which is put up by FoolsRUs and we are supposed to sit quietly. How about trying to get some information out - information which rarely seems to make it up north.
I don't know why the people who speak up such as TriedIt and Curiosity have to take it in the shorts when there is a whole group of people offering some pretty strong language and getting away with it.
But then I do know why - we're hysterical women... god love us for our passion.
Quoting karrie
Karrie
Curio and triedit.
I get why you guys get pissed off at all the generalizations. And you know what... maybe the board ought to have a system... a little flag we have set aside, with the appropriate country, to post in a reply when we think it was a jerky generalization, so we can register our disgust without having to have a full out brawl.
But fighting intolerant generalization with intolerant generalizations doesn't fly. It just rips things further apart, and alienates the friends you have who try not to use such broad definitions when discussing another country. Saying that Canadians shouldn't be discussing this, when I got to learn plenty of new stuff from this thread, was simply hurtful. Mocking my reasons for wanting to do so, was hurtful.
I have no problem with you being upset with some of the posts on this topic... respond to them. I learn so much when people explain their view on an issue. It's why I'm here. But like you, I'm not here to be lumped in with the ignorant few of my countrymen who make brash statements based on limited scope of argument.
I get why you guys get pissed off at all the generalizations. And you know what... maybe the board ought to have a system... a little flag we have set aside, with the appropriate country, to post in a reply when we think it was a jerky generalization, so we can register our disgust without having to have a full out brawl.
But fighting intolerant generalization with intolerant generalizations doesn't fly. It just rips things further apart, and alienates the friends you have who try not to use such broad definitions when discussing another country. Saying that Canadians shouldn't be discussing this, when I got to learn plenty of new stuff from this thread, was simply hurtful. Mocking my reasons for wanting to do so, was hurtful.
I have no problem with you being upset with some of the posts on this topic... respond to them. I learn so much when people explain their view on an issue. It's why I'm here. But like you, I'm not here to be lumped in with the ignorant few of my countrymen who make brash statements based on limited scope of argument.
What exactly are you telling us. People here put up anti-American posts all the time and then they are discussed. A few of us find fault with them and work to put up logical and verifiable objections to the topics. The people here seem to favor wild accusatory MoveOn.org garbage which the average American is sick of hearing about. I've been reading this stuff from the same people for nine years - it isn't going to be solved here.
If this is a Canadian forum of which you remind your membership - why are we dwelling in the basement about the U.S.anyway? Why is the primary topic here so consumed with the U.S. instead of your own nation? Full out brawl? I thought our discussion was handled pretty well considering some of the ones I have witnessed over the years.
Canadians shouldn't be discussing this? Where did you get that idea? Well Americans certainly aren't being allowed to - they are being put down at the first invitation of an inflammatory post which is put up by FoolsRUs and we are supposed to sit quietly. How about trying to get some information out - information which rarely seems to make it up north.
I don't know why the people who speak up such as TriedIt and Curiosity have to take it in the shorts when there is a whole group of people offering some pretty strong language and getting away with it.
But then I do know why - we're hysterical women... god love us for our passion.
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September 28th, 2007, 01:02 AM
Reactionist hysterics.
No one wants a draft less than those of us in the military.
That would be a disaster, a bunch of the breed of kids today, who don't want to be in the military, actually in it, against their will.
Could you Canadians handle the influx of American teenagers and early twenty types, that would knock the bar gates down at our border on their flight to the great white north?
Reactionist hysterics.
No one wants a draft less than those of us in the military.
That would be a disaster, a bunch of the breed of kids today, who don't want to be in the military, actually in it, against their will.
Could you Canadians handle the influx of American teenagers and early twenty types, that would knock the bar gates down at our border on their flight to the great white north?
