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Canadian flag on the backback myth
Haximus wrote: I hear American reporters in Iraq have been identifying themselves as Canadians. Liar. "Xomicron" wrote in message news:G%Ouc.4190$1L4.1364@okepread02... I was just wondering, is it really true that most Canadian's believe the myth that people in the rest of the world will treat them better if they know they are Canadian. I've had some people tell me this and I can't believe that intelligent Canadians fall for that bunk. I've traveled a lot and most of the world sees one rich foreigner as pretty much the same as another rich foreigner. One Canadian woman in Turkey told me Canadian flags ensured better treatment, and I noticed Turkish men were in the habit of coming up to her and grabbing her tits in the street (she wore 2 Canadian flags), and a guy in Beijing who was being threatened by a cab driver who wanted $50 US for a 10 minute cab ride (he had a big plastic Canadian flag on his back). Whenever I ask a Canadian about this every one has held that it is true. One English teacher said there was some famous Canadian comedian that Chinese knew. I pointed out that the most popular person on Earth was an American. He repeated with total conviction that anywhere in China average people will treat you better if they know you are Canadian. Is this some kind of Canadian folk legend and if so is it true that most people believe it. Where does this strange belief (that a rich foreigner who is Canadian is more your friend then an American) come from? Is it a little misplaced nationalism (entirely harmless) or is it from a deeper desire to make up for Canadian inferiority? -- Chris F Long Island, USA. Euro fat league. http://img33.photobucket.com/albums/...UFatLeague.jpg Prime Minister Helen Clark fights for Maori rights. http://img33.photobucket.com/albums/...sbug/maori.jpg Pizza Express Man and his pizza eating cat Gayrab. http://www.geocities.com/libassbug/expressman.jpg http://****france.com/ http://www.fark.com/ |
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Bogart wrote:
What don't you understand about the creation of the Black House? More revisionism, perhaps? Or just blindness on your part/ I'll make this simple, Pisichko. Xomicron has already told you two moose****ers he's not an American. Check his headers. And what does my statement have to do with his header and citizenship? Eh? |
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Bogart wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:47:58 -0500, Ken Pisichko wrote: Bogart wrote: Who flew the Enola Gay? Over Europe?/ In WW II? If you're going to post edit do it to enhance your position, not to make yourself look like a complete fool. So tell us you nutcae hoiw flying the Enola Gay helped win the war in Europe. I mean WW II you stupid fool.. We was asking about Europe in case you don't understand. |
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Following up to Padraig Breathnach
The US troops? Yes, they were fighting in Afghanistan when the US was not at war with Afghanistan. So? My God! Mixi has metamorphised. No, Mixi would have wanted to define "legal" and "combatant". -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 23:11:46 +0000, Bogart wrote:
Really? Where is Saddam? Saddam, Rummie, what's the difference? I am sure they would rather pick a homegrown thug, given a choice. Where are the Sunni thugs who ruled that country with an iron fist? Are they any worse than American thugs/torturers/military? (Synonymous, I guess :-(.) |
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On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:05:31 -0700, PTRAVEL wrote:
I wonder, though, whether the tonal subtlties of Cantonese almost mandate speaking more loudly than in western languages or, for that matter, Mandarin. Mandarin uses 4 diferent tones, and they're fairly easy to recognize. As I recall (though I may be wrong) Cantonese has 7 or 8. My point, though, is that there may not have been conscious rudeness on the part of the Cantonese ladies. My wife does find them embarrassing. |
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"Ken Pisichko" wrote in message ... Bogart wrote: What don't you understand about the creation of the Black House? More revisionism, perhaps? Or just blindness on your part/ I'll make this simple, Pisichko. Xomicron has already told you two moose****ers he's not an American. Check his headers. And what does my statement have to do with his header and citizenship? Eh? I checked his headers: He's posted from 2 Canadian ISP's in the past month, posted from a Cox ISP (USA) within the past 3 months and several other locations in the US over time. He's either got an impersonator or ****s around a lot. I doubt if he's actually based in Canada. Just sample a few of his posts on Google Groups and check the random headers over the past 6 months. |
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 02:13:19 +0000 (UTC), Xomicron
wrote: Scott Willing wrote in : On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:30:16 +0000 (UTC), Xomicron wrote: (sneakysneak) wrote in m: Xomicron wrote in message ... You may hate us but you're still our bitches. Your ID handle is from some Futurama episode No, it isn't, but yours is from a well known homosexual. When USA is self-sufficient in terms of their energy demands, yes. The US has the potential to be, but we prefer to use up everyone else's oil first. Don't look now sonny, but you actually used up your *own* first. And, things have been looking dicey in Saudi Arabia for quite some time now. That's why Bush is over in Iraq making a lousy show of ramming democracy down peoples' throats. The liberals seem to believe that Arabs are not genetically capable of democracy and think it would be better if we just let them kill each other and threaten the rest of the planet. It would appear that the right wingers seem to believe that Arabs are not genetically capable of democracy either, since they apparently need bombs, missiles, tanks, 15000 dead civilians and an occupying force to "free" them and "help" them to determine their own future. Do you actually believe the US is in Iraq to do a big favor for the Iraquis people? If so I have some bad news about the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. Iraq has major strategic significance for the US. That's why you're there, and to believe otherwise is dangerously if not terminally naive. -=s |
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Following up to Scott Willing
15000 dead civilians and an occupying force to "free" them and "help" them to determine their own future. I hadn't realised US bothered to count dead arabs, things are looking up! -- Mike Reid "Art is the lie that reveals the truth" P.Picasso Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" -- you can email us@ this site Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" -- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap |
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