I would hope that your definition of “conspiracy nut” does not include people who don’t believe that Hussein had anything to do with Sept. 11…
Hang on!!?!?! Didn’t we give Canada to America in 1982?
American-Canaadian antagonism is so so boring :?
Canadians share 90 percent of the characteristics that Americans have. Canadians would be 100 percent American if they:
- were richer
- were more interesting
- liked baseball and football more than hockey
- relied less on government
Chewy
( a transplanted Canadian
[quote=“Chewycorns”]American-Canaadian antagonism is so so boring :?
Canadians share 90 percent of the characteristics that Americans have. Canadians would be 100 percent American if they:
- were richer
- were more interesting
- liked baseball and football more than hockey
- relied less on government
Chewy
( a transplanted Canadian[/quote]
- were fatter
6.were more arrogant
7.liked our guns more than human life.
8.relied on a war-mongering, stolen administration to ruin any pocket of good will remaining towards me and my countrymen.
As I stated in an earlier post, I like my American friends…until they try to tell me I too am an American or just like one. Damn, such statements make me see red. I am nothing like an American. CC your statement is as naive as that kid who sees you walking on a Taipei street and sez “Baba, kan ni meiguoren…”, the only thing we have in common is our variety of skin colors. But we don’t hang, jail or persecute those of us that are not so hue-challenged.
Ok, so Canada has a less adventurist foreign policy, and maybe the average Canadian has a slightly wider spectrum of knowledge than the typical yank. However, like my previous message suggests, these differences amount to only 10 percent of everything. On 90 percent of things whether its American television, movies, music, love of cars, sports. etc Canadians and Americans are identical. Convince me otherwise.
If more Americans could read, and if the ones that can read could read above a sixth grade level, I would suggest reading Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
P.J. O’Rourke once said that, “Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.” I second that for patriotic Amuricans.
Hans
jamesgordon wrote
If more Americans could read, and if the ones that can read could read above a sixth grade level, I would suggest reading Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
As an American who can read, and who has read Gibbon’s book, I would like Mr. Gordon to give specific evidence showing a parallel between the Roman Empire and modern America. C’mon, James, and enlighten everyone with actual support for your comments rather than trying to impress people by suggesting we read a book that you clearly have not bothered to read yourself.
Actually, America is much less advanced in terms of bread & circuses a la decadent late-period Rome (i.e., the dole & the welfare state - you do know what free bread was, don’t you, you well-read non-American?) than the over-socialistic states of Europe and Canada, crumbling because of excessive taxation (read your Roman history on the importance of this one) and aging populations. I mean, even with Bush’s fucking up the economy, it’s still twice as easy to find a job in the States as it is in more ‘civilized’ (i.e., snooty) countries.