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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 5:07 am Post subject: Escape to Canada- Movie Trailer |
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Escape to Canada- Movie Trailer
10/30/2005 2:05:33 PM
Canada - not the U.S. - is North America's pre-eminent freedom-loving country. Document maker Albert Nerenberg's "Escape to Canada" is a proud, benevolent, mischievous and altogether winning portrait of a country where same-sex marriage and public dope smoking is O.K. Where young Americans have gone to avoid military service since Vietnam.
By the same film maker that made "STUPIDITY".
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/5803/Escape_to_Canada_Movie_Trailer.html |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:37 am Post subject: Re: Escape to Canada- Movie Trailer |
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blah blah blah.. america sucks.. canada #1.. blah blah blah..
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| By the same film maker that made "STUPIDITY" |
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| a country where same-sex marriage and public dope smoking is O.K. |
Same-sex marriage is OK.. ever been to San Francisco?
Public dope smoking is OK.. ever been to Ann Arbor?
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Cthulhu
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| Ann Arbor is a beautiful town. Lots of nice tree-lined streets. |
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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.
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Watch out IGotThisGuitar here come the Americans in hiding from the Marine recruiters and the Canadians who couldn't get laid in Canada and their "I hate Canada schtick!" |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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The Great Escape is a fun old movie.
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Pligganease
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Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: Escape to Canada- Movie Trailer |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Same-sex marriage is OK.. ever been to San Francisco?
Public dope smoking is OK.. ever been to Ann Arbor? |
Of course not... That wouldn't fit into their "All Americans fit nicely into my stereotype" line of thinking. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2005 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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That wouldn't fit into their "All Americans fit nicely into my stereotype" line of thinking.
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Stereotyping would not happen on a board like this one, with educated, thoughtful posters. It might with a bunch of uneducated hicks, though. |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 1:37 am Post subject: |
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| Cthulhu wrote: |
| Ann Arbor is a beautiful town. Lots of nice tree-lined streets. |
True. And with smoking pot.. its EVERYWHERE in the U.S. Absolutely everywhere.
Ann Arbor celebrates their nearly non-existant public pot-smoking lack of a law. Bands from all over the States come in and everyone smokes pot walking around the streets and U of Michigan campus.. its called Hash Bash. Its all year around.. but the Big Hash Bash is an annual celebration going back a good 30+ years or more.
I never get why Americans have the stereotypes of being ignorant of Canadians, when it seems overwhelmingly to be the other way around.
Different states, different laws, different everything. But according to Canada, the entire 50 States is all the same all adhering to the worst possible stereotypes that a Canadian is able to dig up somewhere in some newspaper article in regards to whichever is the worse city/state for whichever negative stereotype they can negatively promote as being 'typical' for all 50 States and 200+ often times extremely different cities. |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Different states, different laws, different everything. But according to Canada, the entire 50 States is all the same all adhering to the worst possible stereotypes that a Canadian is able to dig up somewhere in some newspaper article in regards to whichever is the worse city/state for whichever negative stereotype they can negatively promote as being 'typical' for all 50 States and 200+ often times extremely different cities. |
So true. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
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Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Different states, different laws, different everything. But according to Canada, the entire 50 States is all the same all adhering to the worst possible stereotypes that a Canadian is able to dig up somewhere in some newspaper article in regards to whichever is the worse city/state for whichever negative stereotype they can negatively promote as being 'typical' for all 50 States and 200+ often times extremely different cities. |
According to all Canadians? Every last one? Aren't you generalising just as badly? |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Cthulhu wrote: |
| Ann Arbor is a beautiful town. Lots of nice tree-lined streets. |
True. And with smoking pot.. its EVERYWHERE in the U.S. Absolutely everywhere.
Ann Arbor celebrates their nearly non-existant public pot-smoking lack of a law. Bands from all over the States come in and everyone smokes pot walking around the streets and U of Michigan campus.. its called Hash Bash. Its all year around.. but the Big Hash Bash is an annual celebration going back a good 30+ years or more.
I never get why Americans have the stereotypes of being ignorant of Canadians, when it seems overwhelmingly to be the other way around.
Different states, different laws, different everything. But according to Canada, the entire 50 States is all the same all adhering to the worst possible stereotypes that a Canadian is able to dig up somewhere in some newspaper article in regards to whichever is the worse city/state for whichever negative stereotype they can negatively promote as being 'typical' for all 50 States and 200+ often times extremely different cities. |
You don't remember the Trudeau years where Canadians were being called communists by many Americans for having social programs and universal health care? The resentment stems from there. But nowadays, it can probably be attributed to the American governments apparently deliberate attempts to undermine the relations between the two countries. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| You don't remember the Trudeau years where Canadians were being called communists by many Americans for having social programs and universal health care? |
I (at least vaguely) remember the Trudeau years and I don't remember anyone tossing the word 'communist' in a northerly direction. I do remember a lot of magazine covers and an exhausting amount of coverage of him when he dated Barbra Streisand and then married a reasonably good-looking chick. (Women were chicks in those days.) |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
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| You don't remember the Trudeau years where Canadians were being called communists by many Americans for having social programs and universal health care? |
I (at least vaguely) remember the Trudeau years and I don't remember anyone tossing the word 'communist' in a northerly direction. I do remember a lot of magazine covers and an exhausting amount of coverage of him when he dated Barbra Streisand and then married a reasonably good-looking chick. (Women were chicks in those days.) |
Oh, you know, he wasn't only an aloof playboy. He was also a very brilliant man. He was one of the first to encourage democracy and human rights in China through economic partnership (China had already established diplomatic relations with western countries before the idea even came to Nixon). In fact, he was one of the few academics who had been kicking the idea around for over 20 years, ever since some of them traveled to China in the 50's (and for this reason, the FBI already had a very thick file on him as a suspected communist long before he even got into politics (something he was quite proud of)).
It's a shame his likeness doesn't appear on any Canadian currency because he embodies a very important period in Canadian history. |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Escape to Canada- Movie Trailer |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Public dope smoking is OK.. ever been to Ann Arbor? |
When I used to do stand up comedy in Seattle, there was this one comedian who had a funny joke about being from Yakima (eastern Washington). "In Yakima, you rebel by NOT smoking pot." |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| You don't remember the Trudeau years where Canadians were being called communists by many Americans for having social programs and universal health care? The resentment stems from there. But nowadays, it can probably be attributed to the American governments apparently deliberate attempts to undermine the relations between the two countries. |
More steroetypes again.. Americans are against universal healthcare and social programs. While DC might not promote it nationwide, it doesn't mean that all kinds of differnet states don't have all kinds of different social programs - because they do.
Northern states in the U.S. have social programs up the ying-yang. Michigan was strongly more labor-related and everything else to such strong measures, jobs actually moved to Ontario where the labor laws (for the poor people) were a lot more lenient and could be exploited a lot easier. I guess Ontario didn't protect their people enough, so jobs and plants were moved there a lot more easily. Some communist system that was, huh?
Would be funny to hear Michigan people calling Canadians the commies.. but okay.. yeah, if you read some newspaper way down in the Deep South somewhere.. maybe someone once referred to Canadians as communists causing a social uproar throughout Canada and triggered this mass resentment and anger towards individual Americans wherever they may live and regardless of their individual beliefs or commie city - Seattle, Boston, New York, San Francisco, wherever. |
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