Those damn Canadians are really screwing up things for the US.
First they want to legalize marijuana, now it's same sex marriage.
Time for a invasion.
Those damn Canadians are really screwing up things for the US.
First they want to legalize marijuana, now it's same sex marriage.
Time for a invasion.
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
i guess you mean the military kindOriginally posted by clocker@27 June 2003 - 14:31
Those damn Canadians are really screwing up things for the US.
First they want to legalize marijuana, now it's same sex marriage.
Time for a invasion.
Well yeah.Originally posted by myfiles3000@27 June 2003 - 07:40
i guess you mean the military kind
They are sitting on the world's third largest supply of snow...
"I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg
Well yeah.Originally posted by clocker+27 June 2003 - 13:53--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 27 June 2003 - 13:53)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-myfiles3000@27 June 2003 - 07:40
i guess you mean the military kind
They are sitting on the world's third largest supply of snow... [/b][/quote]
And dont forget the forests....
An It Harm None, Do What You Will
5-1 they'll claim they're gonna "liberate the Canadians from that evil government"
I wonder what terrorists Canada harbours
I have no problem with your noting of these circumstances, but others may wish your language had been properly filtered, PC-wise.....Originally posted by myfiles3000@27 June 2003 - 08:20
(in round about, back door fashion, so to speak).
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
Well yeah.Originally posted by clocker+27 June 2003 - 14:53--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 27 June 2003 - 14:53)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-myfiles3000@27 June 2003 - 07:40
i guess you mean the military kind
They are sitting on the world's third largest supply of snow... [/b][/quote]
funniest thing i've read on this board so far, i think...
I have no problem with your noting of these circumstances, but others may wish your language had been properly filtered, PC-wise..... [/b][/quote]Originally posted by j2k4+27 June 2003 - 15:53--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (j2k4 @ 27 June 2003 - 15:53)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-myfiles3000@27 June 2003 - 08:20
(in round about, back door fashion, so to speak).
yeah, the same people who seriously need to get a life (and, as often as not, aren't gay and don't have any gay friends....)
in a similar vein, one time i was living in res, talking with someone about a guy that lived in the building, and she absolutely refused to mention the salient fact that he was black when describing his APPEARANCE. So i finally said, Oh, you mean the black guy? (ie, the only black guy in the building), and she said, Well, yes, but I didn't want to describe him that way.
a century ago we had to contend with unthinking racism. now we have to deal with unthinking anti-racism.
sorry, had a bit of a rant there...
edit: appearance (not experience)
yeah, the same people who seriously need to get a life (and, as often as not, aren't gay and don't have any gay friends....)Originally posted by myfiles3000+27 June 2003 - 10:07--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (myfiles3000 @ 27 June 2003 - 10:07)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Originally posted by j2k4@27 June 2003 - 15:53
<!--QuoteBegin-myfiles3000@27 June 2003 - 08:20
(in round about, back door fashion, so to speak).
I have no problem with your noting of these circumstances, but others may wish your language had been properly filtered, PC-wise.....
in a similar vein, one time i was living in res, talking with someone about a guy that lived in the building, and she absolutely refused to mention the salient fact that he was black when describing his experience. So i finally said, Oh, you mean the black guy? (ie, the only black guy in the building), and she said, Well, yes, but I didn't want to describe him that way.
a century ago we had to contend with unthinking racism. now we have to deal with unthinking anti-racism.
sorry, had a bit of a rant there... [/b][/quote]
Some rants should be required reading.
I am confounded, non-plussed and disconcerted by the success the PC crowd enjoys-meanwhile the textbooks get thinner, the vision narrows.....
"Researchers have already cast much darkness on the subject, and if they continue their investigations, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
-Mark Twain
this is veering way off course, but i was just having a conversation with someone yesterday about why creating a new vocabularly is important from a 'psycholinguistic' perspective. According to this guy, the brain doesn't just transfer all information associated with word X to new file folder for word Y when people start using a new term, for example when we talk about African-americans instead of negroes or physically disabled instead of crippled. Rather, a new neural pathway is created, largely free of all the connotations and associations of the old word. So during WW2 we talked about the krauts and the japs, but we used different words post-war which didn't have all of the negative baggage -- even though semantically we are referring to the same group of people.I am confounded, non-plussed and disconcerted by the success the PC crowd enjoys-meanwhile the textbooks get thinner, the vision narrows.....
so i don't have a problem per se with PC and the new vocabularly....what I have a problem with is the well-intentioned but not very bright and/or not endowed with much a sense of humour people, who take PC to absurd levels that defy logic and common sense.
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