Random Raves VII: I liek ma gun, liek ma gun!!

[eastsidebagel]

It is neither. It is a clarification of something somebody else did wrong, and an admonishment that they are not representative of a general population. Nowhere did Bigfoot say that he was sorry about it, or that he regretted it, or anything of that nature.

Well fine, whatever.

Fox News are dumb and bigoted, just wanted to demonstrate that a little bit further.
They shamelessly mock an ally which sent troops to help a friend in a very unpopular war on the other side of the globe. That's just ********, period.

 

[Antilogic]

For the last time, Fox News is not America...

Quick, where is that smiley?

 

[Bugfatty300]

BTW I'm also making a move to another country. In a week or so (after months of delays) I'll finally be driving back to Mexico for another long but temporary stay in the Pacific Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico.

I'm getting married there.

I have procured a fully furnished house which will cost me $400 pesos a month ($28 USD) where me and my wife will live. Complete with a motorcycle which I can ride if I want to but I'd have to learn how.

 

[eastsidebagel]

You sound like a robot, man.

Actually Dachs, I'm still wondering what you meant by that. Care for a short elaboration about it?
Why is patriotism and the love for a country considered as thinking like a mindless robot?

 

[salty mud]

Congratulations Bugfatty! Look forward to pictures of you and your bride.

 

[Bigfoot3814]

I had a soulful afternoon and evening. Tower of Power, WAR, Eddie Floyd, James Brown, all that. I'm not ashamed to tell you all, I was movin' and shakin' all over the house, funky like a bow-legged monkey. Soul power, Stax, it'll get you where you live. Papa Don't Take No Mess.

 

[Narz]

I cooked dinner for a bunch of people & stand to make almost $100 for just a couple hours of work that's enjoyable to me anyway. I got a # of compliments also, especially on my sauce.

 

[Shekwan]

I rave about work tonight. I couldn't kick someone out of the pub I worked in. Imagine if your granny drank a bottle of vodka every day for the last 40 years. Thats what this woman looked like. She wouldn't leave and was starting to fall asleep, so I had to call the guards. She was calling me a c*** and told me to f*** off numerous time, then she called me an ar** bandit and I laughed at her. When the guards came she pretended to be sleeping despite her ranting and raving at me less than a minute before that. I'm pretty sure she'd pissed herself too. Meh, at least work was interesting.

She had no money to call a taxi and basically she uses the guards as a taxi service.

I was asking a question, what culture does Canada have that's all that different from just being America lite.

I said "as opposed to the US".

I would consider neither country to have a particularly deep culture. I wouldn't go on holidays to either if I wanted to take in history, new customs, unique music art etc.

Same goes for Australia, New Zealand.

Basically European culture on a different continent.

 

[Imperialmajesty]

Continental Philosophy is a bunch of crap interspersed with little nuggets of corn that look rational and logical until it is discovered that they are in fact simply grammatical flourishes and pseudo-religious ravings covered in a hard shell of obscurantist malarkey. I mean, what the hell is "Différance"?

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I am happy. So that's a rave. But mostly a subscription post.

 

[choxorn]

I rave about work tonight. I couldn't kick someone out of the pub I worked in. Imagine if your granny drank a bottle of vodka every day for the last 40 years. Thats what this woman looked like. She wouldn't leave and was starting to fall asleep, so I had to call the guards. She was calling me a c*** and told me to f*** off numerous time, then she called me an ar** bandit and I laughed at her. When the guards came she pretended to be sleeping despite her ranting and raving at me less than a minute before that. I'm pretty sure she'd pissed herself too. Meh, at least work was interesting.

She had no money to call a taxi and basically she uses the guards as a taxi service.

Continental Philosophy is a bunch of crap interspersed with little nuggets of corn that look rational and logical until it is discovered that they are in fact simply grammatical flourishes and pseudo-religious ravings covered in a hard shell of obscurantist malarkey. I mean, what the hell is "Différance"?

I think you two should both post in this thread.

 

[salty mud]

I rave about work tonight. I couldn't kick someone out of the pub I worked in. Imagine if your granny drank a bottle of vodka every day for the last 40 years. Thats what this woman looked like. She wouldn't leave and was starting to fall asleep, so I had to call the guards. She was calling me a c*** and told me to f*** off numerous time, then she called me an ar** bandit and I laughed at her. When the guards came she pretended to be sleeping despite her ranting and raving at me less than a minute before that. I'm pretty sure she'd pissed herself too. Meh, at least work was interesting.

She had no money to call a taxi and basically she uses the guards as a taxi service.

I think you two should both post in this thread.

I think it's a good rave. You have no idea how entertaining I'd find something like that, especially with a pissed Irishwoman. It must have been great seeing her getting dragged away.

 

[Shekwan]

Yep it was the most entertaining thing I've seen at work in a while. She did a really good job pretending she was asleep as they carried her out the door. Completely limp. They even checked her pulse.

 

[Synobun]

I rave that I am getting good marks in my classes (even the one I slack off in!)

English - 88%
Math - 91%
Geography - 87%
Business (the one I slack off in because it's so mind-tearingly boring) - 75%

Exams are in a month and a half though D:

 

[Gooblah]

BTW I'm also making a move to another country. In a week or so (after months of delays) I'll finally be driving back to Mexico for another long but temporary stay in the Pacific Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico.

I'm getting married there.

I have procured a fully furnished house which will cost me $400 pesos a month ($28 USD) where me and my wife will live. Complete with a motorcycle which I can ride if I want to but I'd have to learn how.

Congratulations, dude!

Edit: Oh right, random drunk guy story:

At SciOly States @ Michigan State University, some drunk guy came up to us the night before the competition in our hotel's lobby. He cussed out everyone, then told us that we weren't worth anything since he was a '4-year bachelor mechanical engineering degree', then proceeded to hit on a teammate, calling her the most beautiful person he had ever seen. She replied that he was more like a pedophile (the worst part was, this girl isn't very attractive, leading me to conclude that you truly have to be wasted to see her inner beauty. And, she's incredibly socially awkward.), and he was about to cuss her out when our coach (an old guy with a Santa Clause 'stache) told him he wasn't worth s*** then called the cops.

 

[Virote_Considon]

"London Calling" is a wonderful album

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Neil Young
Rush

We listen to them in the US.

Lacrosse

We play that in the US, too.

Hockey

We play that in the US, too.

Smarties (instead of M&M's)

We eat them in the US. And they're hardly a counterpart to M&Ms.

the guy who invented Basketball was a Canadian

So?

same thing goes with figure skating

So?

Nickelback (although they have many haters)

Damn right. But people like them here, too.

Canada is a monarchy unlike America

Miss Jean is overrated.

Nunavut, a territory larger than Europe, solely dedicated to the Native Americans. It sure beats the lame State of Oklahoma, am I right?

They only got it because no one gives a crap about that area.

Jim Carrey was born in America

So?

no wars

Troops in Afghanistan, member of NATO.

no enemies

Same enemies as the US.

a very good reputation worldwide, I don't see Muslims burning on a steady base the Maple Leaf Flag

Canada is not the leader of the West. They don't burn French flags, either.

Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto, three very diversive and beautiful cities

Fair point.

the multilinguality

America probably has more French-speakers than Quebec does. And, of course, is as much multilingual as Canada.

no president, but a prime minister instead

So?

legal weed

Not completely, no.

a (much) lower crime rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada

Historically, the violent crime rate in Canada is lower than that of the U.S. and this continues to be the case. For example, in 2000 the United States' rate for robberies was 65 percent higher, its rate for aggravated assault was more than double and its murder rate was triple that of Canada. However, the rate of property crimes is lower in the U.S. than in Canada. For example, in 2006, the rates of vehicle theft were 22% higher in Canada than in the US.[5] Since violent crimes are a small fraction of all crimes, this means that the overall crime rate is actually lower in the U.S. than in Canada (see Crime in the United States).

Furthermore, in recent years, the gap in violent crime rates between the United States and Canada has narrowed due to a precipitous drop in the violent crime rate in the U.S. For example, while the aggravated assault declined for most of 1990s in the U.S. and was 324 per 100,000 in 2000, the aggravated assault remained relatively steady throughout and was 143 per 100,000 in 2000. In other cases, the U.S. had a faster decline. For instance, whereas the murder rate in Canada declined by 36% between 1991 and 2004, the U.S. murder rate declined by 44 percent. [6]

The homicide rate in Canada peaked in 1975 at 3.03 per 100,000 and has dropped since then; it reached lower peaks in 1985 (2.72) and 1991 (2.69). It reached a post 1970 low of 1.73 in 2003. The average murder rate between 1970 and 1976 was 2.52, between 1977 and 1983 it was 2.67, between 1984 and 1990 it was 2.41, between 1991 and 1997 it was 2.23 and between 1998 to 2004 it was 1.82.[7] The attempted homicide rate has fallen at a faster rate than the homicide rate.[8]

By comparison, the homicide rate in the U.S. reached 10.1 per 100,000 in 1974, peaked in 1980 at 10.7 and reached a lower peak in 1991 (10.5). The murder rate dipped below 6 for the first time since 1966 in 2004. The average murder rate between 1970 and 1976 was 9.4, between 1977 and 1983 it was 9.6, between 1984 and 1990 it was 9, between 1991 and 1997 it was 9.2 and between 1998 and 2004 it was 6.3.[6]

Approximately 70 percent of the total murders in the U.S. are committed with firearms, versus about 30 percent in Canada

Molson Beer
etc.

So in other words, you're going to Canada because its not the US

 

[eastsidebagel]

So in other words, you're going to Canada because its not the US

To answer you very briefly: I'll be going to Canada next summer because that's what I was dreaming of to do for the last three years. :shmaltzoverkill:
Why is that so hard to accept? I certainly have no grudge or animosity against the States, but I just don't like them as much as I like Canada.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

To answer you very briefly: I'll be going to Canada next summer because that's was I was dreaming of to do for the last three years. :shmaltzoverkill:
Why is that so hard to accept? I certainly have no grudge or animosity against the States, but I just don't like them as much as I like Canada.

Relax, I'm just chiding you. Canada is a great place.

 

[Synobun]

Another rave (Dutch folks will know this the best )

Smaar Kaas from Maredsous is the greatest cheese on Earth.