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Would You Be Happy If A Nuke Went Off in Canada?
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Would You Be Happy If A Nuke Went Off in Canada?
Yes
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No
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JeJuJitsu



Joined: 11 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:13 am    Post subject: Would You Be Happy If A Nuke Went Off in Canada? Reply with quote

This would show whether people hate Canadians, hockey, or maple syrup.
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Octavius Hite



Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OMG, I can't believe you would say something so horrible, you ba#tards. Blah blah blah blah see how easy it is to feign indignation!
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do not know about nuking Canada, per se. But I would support seizing all the Canadians' Canadian-flag-bearing backpacks, putting them all in one place, and nuking them, once-and-for-all.

And if it meant never having to encounter a flag-bearing hypernationalist Canadian abroad, I would push the button myself...
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Octavius Hite



Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

FYI Gopher, I dont have one on my backpack. Nothing, nary a flag to be found. Maybe I should get a rainbow flag though.
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gang ah jee



Joined: 14 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Voted "yes". I would dance on Canada's grave.
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thepeel



Joined: 08 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

GAJ why?

I hate the Canadian flags on backpacks. My coworkers were making fun of about that just yesterday. It is embarrassing. Those of you who have one, take it off. Nobody cares where you are from. Also, the types who have the flag are typically unkempt, fat and, well, smelly. Not exactly who I want representing my country.

As a side question, have any of you ever seen a non-white with the flag on a backpack? I haven't.
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gang ah jee



Joined: 14 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BJWD wrote:
GAJ why?

Why not? I mean, you guys can take it, right?

Not about the backpacks as such, but I saw a guy in town the other week wearing a t-shirt that said in Arabic and English "I am not American". That kind of stuff really pisses me off. Apart from anything else, why would an Arab terrorist assume that a random white guy on the street in a New Zealand city is from the US?

Also, I used to get a kick out of seeing Koreans at anti-American protests wearing clothes incorporating US flag designs.


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thepeel



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been told many times that NZ is one of the least friendly places for Americans on earth. Dunno why.

And yeah, I guess we can take it. Ugh, I hate using "we". They. They can take it.
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gang ah jee



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BJWD wrote:
I've been told many times that NZ is one of the least friendly places for Americans on earth. Dunno why.

I don't know if that's at all true. There's a certain ambient level of antipathy towards US foreign policy here, sure, but hostility to individuals? That would surprise me. If anything, I think most people are quite fascinated and impressed by real-life Americans after having spent so much time watching them on TV. We think they all talk like movie stars, and secretly we want them to approve of our little country.
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thepeel



Joined: 08 Aug 2004

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Then I guess the moral of the story is to not believe everything you are told. Speaking of, hows global warming doin today?


Kidding, of course.
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NAVFC



Joined: 10 May 2006

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

WTF?!! PEOPLE! You shiuldnt be saying yes about this to any fucking country!!!
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it could be arranged for the hole to be deep enough and the water warmed enough so that the blizzards that come down from Manitoba would be a tad bit less severe, I don't see anything wrong with it. Somehow I don't think Alberta would become overpopulated if 600,000 people moved in and raised the population to 4 million.

I don't think New England would mind if Hudson's Bay were blocked off and heated up, either.
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Wrench



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Octavius Hite wrote:
OMG, I can't believe you would say something so horrible, you ba#tards. Blah blah blah blah see how easy it is to feign indignation!


You post more anti Canadian crap then anyone else.. Your the perpetual wienner.
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Octavius Hite



Joined: 28 Jan 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its called humour, you humourless troll.
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gang ah jee



Joined: 14 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BJWD wrote:
Then I guess the moral of the story is to not believe everything you are told. Speaking of, hows global warming doin today?


Kidding, of course.

Tell you what - if it were the case that Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Royal Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Kiwis being Dicks (IPKD) and so on all agreed that New Zealand is one of the least friendly places in the world for Americans, and most dissenting voices were being funded by the Bungee Jumping Industry, then I'd admit that you have a point here. Wink

edit: out of curiosity I decided to check out what teh interweb has to say about New Zealanders being dicks to Americans. There are a few articles about the mildly chilly US-NZ relationship post-ANZUS nuclear warship disputes, and a couple that talk about a certain level of latent anti-Americanism. I could only find one article that talked about personal attacks - and I remember this because it was actually national news here last year.

It turns out this middle-aged Californian dude took a job as a highschool teacher in a small town in the central North Island. Apparently things started out pretty well, but his students started verbally abusing him based on his nationality to the extent that the guy ended up filing a lawsuit with our Human Rights Commission (which didn't do anything for the stereotype of Americans being excessively litigious). Of course, this is not at all acceptable, but having been a highschool student in New Zealand I remember all kinds of terrible things said to teachers based on the flimsiest of reasons - I mean, being from Auckland was grounds for abuse if we didn't like the person. However, the same article talks about one guy who has vowed never to return because he was the target of anti-US graffiti, and his children were taunted by their classmates at school, which is pretty shameful for us. Honestly though, it would blow my mind if the people responsible for the graffiti were over the age of 17.

Here's the article: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0620/p07s01-woap.html

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