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Re: George Bush has legitimised terrorism
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:46:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:
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Here’s an analogy--there are those who notice that the emperor has no clothes
and think to themselves, “Well, that emperor is pretty dense to be walking
around without any clothes--look at how much better I am realizing that I have
clothes and this ‘more powerful person than me’ has none!” and there are those
that, in a private aside, whisper to the guy, “Psst, hey buddy, you may not
have noticed, but you have no clothes on--perhaps you should think about doing
something about that.”
On the one hand, the first is arrogance, ‘holier than thou’, and just all
around pompous. The second one is a friend telling another friend, “Hey, your
fly’s down.”
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The problem is not the analogy, but your misconception that you are the second
guy in that example.
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If someone was perpetually screaming “You’ve got it wrong!”, I’d say, “Hey
Chicken Little! The sky ain’t falling” I think I tempered my comments with
the idea that I like much of what America does. If you didn’t pick up on
that point, eh... ;)
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So....you think I’m wrong? ;-)
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But you’re not wrong all the time--that’s the good bit :) As usual, what we
have here is a failure to communicate :)
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No, I’m just teasing you...well, and illustrating your constant fault-finding.
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“Oh, we have both kinds of chips on our shoulders here in Canada: arrogance
and self-righteousness.” Someone missed the joke.... :-)
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Well, I wouldn’t attribute that to all Canadians, just the ones who post
regularly in o-t.d. Oh wait, that’s just me... (hangs head down, kinda
shuffles foot over ground, acting all sheepish-like)
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And I really didn’t mean that to apply to all Canadians, either, but you have a
tendency to fly off the handle and start frothing at the mouth about America and
Americans (Don’t get me started about “Yankees” again during baseball season)
and basing the entire analogy on something John wrote (hardly an example of the
entirety of America). I was kinda painting with the same brush to illustrate
the point.
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Hence the ‘Sometimes, to be sure, there’s cacophany’.
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Translated: “There is harmony...except when there isn’t.”
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Translated: harmony is better than monotony, even taking into consideration
that sometimes there may be cacophany mixed in with the harmony--or did you
miss that allusion to the Borg--“Resistance is futile”
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Didn’t miss it - it was just plain wrong and I already addressed that
inaccuracy.
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At the very least, if everyone did things as Americans do, where would Hockey
be? And your beer--Ugh!
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We just ship the crap to you (admittedly, lots of Americans drink the same crap,
but lots of Americans voted for Bush - I think there is a connection).
The good stuff is micro-brewed and we keep that here.
Hockey: the less said the better.
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Dang, the Wachowski Brothers will probably include that line in The Matrix
Regurgitated.
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part 4? I’m buying my ticket now.
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Really? I enjoyed the first two, but the third was an obvious attempt to not
resolve anything so that they could make a part 4. Can’t delete the digital
cash cow.
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Toronto, as far as I know, has the most diverse ethnic population in the
world. I don’t need an entire half of a state, I just need to drive to one
city to find it.
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Los Angeles county is what I was refering to which isn’t even a 10th of the
state. If I restrict that to Los Angeles city, I think it is around 100
different spoken languages. Whether or not Toronto is just as multi-cultural,
less, or more, really isn’t the point. It isn’t a contest, it was simply an
illustration that your original assertation was simply wrong. Mentioning
Toronto is neither here nor there.
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further--
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No.....official.....languages....
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Talk all you want about what ethnicity and differing languages that the people
speak--I’m sure Canada could match you (or at least come close) and with
1/10th the population to boot, but how many officially recognized (i.e.
written in law’) languages do you have?
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Answered above.
Can you call up your gov’t agency and demand to
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speak with them in anything other than english? It’s the law here in Canada.
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Most government agencies have provisions for a number of languages - it depends
on the area. I know I can get services provided in Mandarin, Cantonese,
Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean - I’m sure there are others.
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Not that this is a pissing contest or a denegerating thread into “Us (insert
country here) and Them (insert other country here)” ;)
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Ummmm, you turned it into that before I bothered to reply. That’s what I’m
trying to get you to realize - but even when I use plain language you persist.
Oh well....
-->Bruce<--
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| Boy I hate when that happens--get a perfectly good tirade going and something happens with IE! Grr!!! Anywho, this time without the frothing (well, probably not...) (...) I am the second guy. Because you chose to misinterpret my intentions, doesn't (...) (20 years ago, 21-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I would never presume such :) Here's an analogy--there are those who notice that the emperor has no clothes and think to themselves, "Well, that emperor is pretty dense to be walking around without any clothes--look at how much better I am (...) (20 years ago, 20-Apr-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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