Hudson said:
Damien said:
I swear, this backwards country drives me crazy. I'm watching shows up here that are being advertised as "New" - - shows that I remember watching a year ago in Massachusetts. Sheesh!
Whoa! Canada is a backwards country?! Why? Because some channel shows an old show it did not run in a regular season as a summer replacement. That is a bit much. We have free healthcare, and keep the churchies away from our Charter of rights and freedoms. Canada backwards. That is really something else.
I just got back recently from a cruise that stopped in New Brunswick and then Nova Scotia. Had a great time. Beautiful country. And the people were friendly, too. Went on some nice tours that always seemed to end up in pubs- it was great 'cause it came with some complimentary samples of Moosehead beer brewed right there in St.john's and- booya- numerous ladies on the tour didnt drink so they gave me their beers. Needless to say by the time i got out of there i was nicely buzzed. However, and here i'm getting to my point, the sample glasses of cool, refreshing Moosehead beer werent actually complimentary: they were paid for by those of us who purchased the shore excursion. Similarly, you hardly have free healthcare: You pay thru the nose for it- in the form of oppressive, confiscatory and ubiquitous taxes. You may like to think its free, like the tour guides telling us we get complimentary beers at the pub, but its not. The taxes you are forced to pay every day out of every dollar you earn and spend is a high price to pay for something thats free.
And your silly jab about "keeping the churches away from your charter of rights and freedoms" is amusing. You just couldn't resist some kind of a weird jab at the US and its Christian community, could ya? Been watchin' the CBC a bit, have we? Might want to lay off it for a while...
Well, okay, two can play that game. Here's a jab back at ya:
I'm sure the girls that were on video tape being tortured, raped and murdered by Karla Homolka are big fans of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, now that this seriel rapist, murderer and torturer has been released after, ahem, twelve years in prison...
We know Canada has no military to speak of, now apparently their justice system has had it's nuts cut off as well...
There, we're even. The cosmic balance has been restored.
In short, Canada is a nation blessed with tremendous natural beauty. And its a country blessed with a strong, prosperous, and democratic nation to it's south with which it can trade- kind of like a modern day Aquilonia to the South except with elections every few years and Conan is only a Governor, and not it's king. So yeah, Canada's not backwards; its a nice place to visit. But I wouldn't want to live there.