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Why doesn't Canada petition the USA to become 51st state?
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D.D.



Joined: 29 May 2008

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Canadian economy will do fine and the U.S. is going down the tubes. Why join a sinking ship?
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mises



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nonsense.

Canada will match the United States in any decline. Our economy is digging up the country and throwing it across the border to the Americans in exchange for Fed notes. How in the hell would we "do fine"?
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crusher_of_heads



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:22 pm    Post subject: Re: GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! Reply with quote

Geckoman wrote:
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!


I'm sure Svend Robinson will never thieve diamonds ever again.
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gangpae



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kuros wrote:
Oh, OP, be serious.

There are ten provinces and thirteen territories.

Do I hear 60 states?

YES. The Republicans will be in the minority FOREVER.


Thirteen territories, help me out here!
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gangpae wrote:
Kuros wrote:
Oh, OP, be serious.

There are ten provinces and thirteen territories.

Do I hear 60 states?

YES. The Republicans will be in the minority FOREVER.


Thirteen territories, help me out here!


eh, it was obviously a typo. I was about to put in thirteen provinces but then looked it up to check, the number was right but three of those provinces were just territories. Thirteen is like three.

Oh, who cares. Embarassing yourself in off-topic is like soiling yourself in a mental institution, the only people who know are the retards who reside there and the other fools who feel the need to visit them.
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wanderingbear



Joined: 09 Dec 2008

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

50 state capitols is hard enough to learn already, dont need 51+
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vampirepirate01



Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Incheon, Korea

PostPosted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

legalquestions wrote:
Discourse is a good thing - keep it coming, please. It helps me to think outside the box, so to speak.

But, if the US were to become another Canadian province, how could we explain this "queen" thing? We already had a queen and it didn't work out! Remember?

Grammer check: Legal questions meant to say we have a queen now. Queen Bush and her husband King Cheney. Yeah chalk up ten points for the first cross dressing W. joke on this thread.
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wondobern



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One Korean teacher asked me and an American English teacher at her school, what we thought of Canadians, and we both had the same response. Totally neutral.

We don't really have any feelings for or against Canada. It's just our neighbor to the north, and for the most part, a friendly neighbor.

I don't really mind if people here, ask me if I'm Canadian, not being much of a patriot (my true citizenship being that of heaven). I just joke around that I'm insulted, and laugh it off. After all, some of my best friends are Canadian!

Obviously, two totally different countries, two different histories, and such. For better or for worse, the Canadians I know seem alot more liberal/European in outlook than Americans (but that's a generalization, I know).

Anyway, we should be grateful that, for the most part, we have had a really peaceful relationship with our northern neighbors all these years -- besides they have a cute flag and their national anthem is easier to sing than ours!
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supernick



Joined: 24 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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One Korean teacher asked me and an American English teacher at her school, what we thought of Canadians, and we both had the same response. Totally neutral.

We don't really have any feelings for or against Canada. It's just our neighbor to the north, and for the most part, a friendly neighbor.

I don't really mind if people here, ask me if I'm Canadian, not being much of a patriot (my true citizenship being that of heaven). I just joke around that I'm insulted, and laugh it off. After all, some of my best friends are Canadian!

Obviously, two totally different countries, two different histories, and such. For better or for worse, the Canadians I know seem alot more liberal/European in outlook than Americans (but that's a generalization, I know).

Anyway, we should be grateful that, for the most part, we have had a really peaceful relationship with our northern neighbors all these years -- besides they have a cute flag and their national anthem is easier to sing than ours!


Now that was nice.
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joshuahirtle27



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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joshuahirtle27



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gangpae wrote:
Kuros wrote:
Oh, OP, be serious.

There are ten provinces and thirteen territories.

Do I hear 60 states?

YES. The Republicans will be in the minority FOREVER.


Thirteen territories, help me out here!


There are 10 Provinces and 3 territories...
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beast



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Correct me if I'm wrong, but on that so called best health care nations, South Korea wasn't on it either. Yet, how strange is that, because we pay really low tax here and if you do end up going to the doctor, it's not that expensive at all.
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Privateer



Joined: 31 Aug 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canada can't be the 51st state! We, the UK, were first in the queue for that! Wink
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Louie



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So what makes being an American so great?

I am here and I just think of the place as just another third-world country.

I am thinking the only good thing about being "American" is having the passport (even that is questionable) and having a degree from an American university.....other than that, what else is there?


And please lets not talk about the military- the US is about to have its ass handed to them by the Taliban next year......which will be the second most humiliating defeat of US forces since Vietnam........
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Louie wrote:
So what makes being an American so great?

I am here and I just think of the place as just another third-world country.


WTF is a third-world country?

The cold war is over.

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Maybe when we become subjects of the republic (sorry democracy now) of the USA we can share in some of that booming economy of yours too. I mean WOW. I can't tell you how much I want all of the perks of being a citizen of The United States of America.


The entire world is in a recession. It amazes me that any Canadians think that they're insulated from this shit. Or I suppose it doesn't. Kind of figures that your education system would be as bad as ours. Given that there's:

NO SUBSTANTIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

No, health care does not count.

God, you off-topic people need to stop drooling all over yourselves and up your game.
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