All the "KING'S" Men

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Maybe, there are exeptions. I have sailed all around Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundlanders are kind, generous folk that will adopt you for the briefest of time. I have no problem at all believing the premise of "Come From Away". Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEi ... more of the same, maybe a little less do but still kind and generous to a fault. Rural Quebec even can be like that, too. A bit of French always helps. Quebec City has always been nice to me. You will get attitude in Montreal. They have a different history, there but it is neither friendly nor unfriendly. Southern Ontario is polite and civil. It is a stretch to considering warm and friendly. Northen Ontario is a bit more like Atlantic Canada. Move West and friendliness falls away into a general suspicion of strangers, dislike of other goes up and the surity of moral superiority increases. Where the Newfoundlander might greet a total stranger like me with heart felt friendliness, a rural Westerner is more likely to view me as something suspicious. If my skin were any darker that it's current Celtic lobster shade, I fear that I might be staring down the barrel of somethingorother if my car broke down.

It just goes to show that money and prosperity do not buy happiness, friendliness, community spirit or generosity.
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It seems like us westerners see through you .
 
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Curious Cdn said:
Maybe, there are exeptions. I have sailed all around Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundlanders are kind, generous folk that will adopt you for the briefest of time. I have no problem at all believing the premise of "Come From Away". Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEi ... more of the same, maybe a little less do but still kind and generous to a fault. Rural Quebec even can be like that, too. A bit of French always helps. Quebec City has always been nice to me. You will get attitude in Montreal. They have a different history, there but it is neither friendly nor unfriendly. Southern Ontario is polite and civil. It is a stretch to considering warm and friendly. Northen Ontario is a bit more like Atlantic Canada. Move West and friendliness falls away into a general suspicion of strangers, dislike of other goes up and the surity of moral superiority increases. Where the Newfoundlander might greet a total stranger like me with heart felt friendliness, a rural Westerner is more likely to view me as something suspicious. If my skin were any darker that it's current Celtic lobster shade, I fear that I might be staring down the barrel of somethingorother if my car broke down.
It just goes to show that money and prosperity do not buy happiness, friendliness, community spirit or generosity.
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Hmm. . . note to self: Stay out of the Canadian west.

I don't have that lobster thing going on.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Hmm. . . note to self: Stay out of the Canadian west.

I don't have that lobster thing going on.
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Not many lobster out this way , although a friend caught a huge one in his prawn trap 10 or so years ago . It made the evening news and front page of the Sun . A good seafood meal from the Pacific North West beats kissing cod and drinking Screech any day . IMHO.
 
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Not many lobster out this way , although a friend caught a huge one in his prawn trap 10 or so years ago . It made the evening news and front page of the Sun . A good seafood meal from the Pacific North West beats kissing cod and drinking Screech any day . IMHO.
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Your crabs are quite fantastic, though.

You need a big billboard by the T-Can out in Chilliwack: "Visit the Indian Arm and Catch Crabs"
 
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Curious Cdn said:
As you can tell, I'm very fond of Newfoundland and Newfoundlanders. I had the privilege of visiting real outposts when there fishery was still happening in the early-mid 1970s while in the Navy and it was a very poor but very special place.

God bless 'em all, I sez.

If I ever experience those kinds of people in the fjords of BC, I will re-cant fully and wear sack cloth for a week.

I know that I won't because even the fishermen there have times more money than a family in Red Bay would ever have seen in a lifetime, back then. It was 500 years of subsistance while clinging to a garden rock near the edge of the Arctic Ocean and the simply HAD to be good to each other in order to survive.
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I envy your experience and exposure.......The furthest east I have been is Montreal. (in CDA._The furthest south is New Orleans.) But yes.....such a positive experience with a people.......would leave a lasting warm memory.One might even generalize that folks who have to or have had to struggle........are warmer, more compassionate, "genuine"and empathetic Money does weird things to some people. When Alberta was doing well under the blue eyed shiek .........they were quite arrogant.......and S. Alberta was and probably still is highly US influenced.
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
I envy your experience and exposure.......The furthest east I have been is Montreal. (in CDA._The furthest south is New Orleans.) But yes.....such a positive experience with a people.......would leave a lasting warm memory.One might even generalize that folks who have to or have had to struggle........are warmer, more compassionate, "genuine"and empathetic Money does weird things to some people. When Alberta was doing well under the blue eyed shiek .........they were quite arrogant.......and S. Alberta was and probably still is highly US influenced.
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Alberta is Texas north. I have no warm experiences in that province except when I was on the Indian reserves.
 
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Cliffy said:
Alberta is Texas north. I have no warm experiences in that province except when I was on the Indian reserves.
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Lived in Calgary for a few years......and could not wait to get to get to the coast ;-) Quite a cowboy town. Not my thing. Bella Pacifica..;-)
 
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Ocean Breeze said:
I envy your experience and exposure.......The furthest east I have been is Montreal. (in CDA._The furthest south is New Orleans.) But yes.....such a positive experience with a people.......would leave a lasting warm memory.One might even generalize that folks who have to or have had to struggle........are warmer, more compassionate, "genuine"and empathetic Money does weird things to some people. When Alberta was doing well under the blue eyed shiek .........they were quite arrogant.......and S. Alberta was and probably still is highly US influenced.
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Alberta was settled from South of the border, originally (See that big Mormon Tabernacle in Cardston?) and joining Confederation back in 1905 was certainly controversial and not at all what the American settlers had intended to happen. It lingers to this day. Texas North is more than just an expression. It is an historic reality.
 
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Attorney general books President Trump��s D.C. hotel for holiday party that could cost more than $30,000

U.S. Attorney General William Barr is paying for the December "family holiday party" himself, and federal officials determined no ethics rules prohibit him from hosting the bash at the president's hotel, a Justice Department official told The Washington Post.
Barr��s decision to book the Trump hotel is noteworthy because Justice Department attorneys are defending the president��s business in lawsuits over foreign spending at his D.C. hotel.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1


Now THAT is loyalty.
 
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Attorney general books President Trump��s D.C. hotel for holiday party that could cost more than $30,000
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is paying for the December "family holiday party" himself, and federal officials determined no ethics rules prohibit him from hosting the bash at the president's hotel, a Justice Department official told The Washington Post.
Barr��s decision to book the Trump hotel is noteworthy because Justice Department attorneys are defending the president��s business in lawsuits over foreign spending at his D.C. hotel.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
Now THAT is loyalty.
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I admit, I was surprised.

I expected a higher standard of grifting.
 
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