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I actually find McDonalds coffee better. But I wouldn't know behind the scenes of McDs, so I have NOOOOO idea. Being a "baker" in Timmies wasn't fun, especially in the bullshit store they put me in. Dangerous conditions...[/quote]

Ok we may be on the same side politically but McD's coffee is the worlds worst. The only coffee worse than McD's was the crap they served us in the field from the hay boxes.

I happen to have worked at McD's and think the same about their coffee. But I love Timmies coffee. And believe me I am a coffee conneseur, although I can't spell it.
But I just want to bomb the Baldwins anyway. Especially that twit Alec. [/quote]

Lol go ahead. We all got our tastes. How was my Canadian culture rant

   

Thats OK, this is where a Platonic Kiss-Kiss smilie would come in handy

   

I always enjoy your posts but think we can hold off on the hating and just feel sorry for the people that haven't gotten out of the house per say.

Do you live in the US or have you?

   

Jesus Brenda get off the cross. All I said was I was surprised because most of us were led to believe otherwise. I don't believe I ever said you were wrong.

   

If you think I was not talking to or about you, why respond?

   

Actually yeah, I'm living in the US now, but I was born in Montreal...Actually my life has consisted of moves.

And yeah I got a bit tempered, mehhh....it was late for me

   

   

Everyone, no matter how proud and long and amazing their history, are only ever known by their tacky stereotypes.

Ask most people about America, and I guarantee you that most people will say that America is known for McDonald's, President Bush, and obesity.

Ask people about Canada, and they will tell you about maple syrup, beavers, and snow.

Britain? Tea and funny accents.

France? Wine, cheese, mimes.

Germany? Oktoberfest, leiderhosen and Nazis.

Mexico? Cheap labour.


It's incredibly sad, but incredibly true; people in general just don't give a shit about other people.

   

Fine, I am nuts, and a jew hating muslim, Lily. Whatever. Go and see for yourself, okay?

ONE parade, 2 minutes of silence. That is ALL... Check your facts, instead of others opinions.

   

I posted the fact of liberation day and remembrance day as a fact.

General? That opinion, and mine? Why don't you just say you called bullshit on my FACTS?

If you look for it, you will find gratefullness, I told you that before. But did that poster say: Ohhhh, LILY! You are Canadian! Thank YOU personally SO much for being there 60+ years ago!

No that poster didn't. You had to ask. And THAT is what I am talking about.

   

Granted, there are many Dutch who remember the sacrifices Canadians made for them in WWII, but if you were to just go around Amsterdam all day with a camera and ask people on the street what they know about Canada, only a minority of them would reference what we did for them in WWII...

   

Only the white elderly. If you can find them at all...

   

Yes, it is. Do you know how many people who survived the war are still alive? Not that many. Do you have ANY idea how much has changed since?

Of course my opinion is not everybodies. I never claimed it to be. But when you ask people in Holland about Canada, their first thought might not be your work during the war. That is ALL I tried to say. Just like your thought on Holland probably is not immediatly what YOU did there, or how gratefull we still should be.

Whenever I talked to people about emigrating to Cananda, the general answer was (and I don't make that up...): ohhhh, wayyyy too cold! What are you gonna do there? No summer, only winter!
(sorry, but nothing like: Oh, good for you, say hi to my dad, I am a liberation child, or: oh, now THAT is great: Tell them how grateful we are...)

I assume you asked on that forum what people think about Canadians and the war. That was NOT what was going on here.

   

this whole crime thing is stupid. canadians always point out crime in the US as why canada is better. Crime is not inherantly American. We have a shitload of epople in small spaces. if you put 2 fish in a fish bowl, they will get along. if you put 20 fish in a fish bowl, they will fight and kill eachother. you cannot compare canada which is bigger but has 1/10 the population to the US crime rates. it's ilogical and dumb. Also America is FAR more diverse than canada, and has FAR more immigration. it is human nature to seperate into groups, and fight with groups you peceive as different. Also most crime happens in areas of poverty. America was founded on the idea of taken the world's impoverished, so ofcourse when you amass millions of poverty stricken people you will have more violence. America has never claimed to be a PERFECT country, just the BEST. You don't have to be GREAT to be the GREATEST, you just have to best less crappy.

   

Don't you understand Brenda? Nobody here is asking anything of you or anyone else in the Netherlands. I don't know why you seem to think we are asking for eternal gratitude. All we've been saying is our perception is that Canadians are thought of in high regard by the Dutch because of the liberation. I repeat, we are not asking you to do anything, that was merely our perception and perhaps our perception has been overblown. I still however don't believe that the Dutch "don't give a shit about Canada" as you say, but I don't live there and I wouldn't know the general opinions of the Dutch. Once again Brenda we are not asking for anything just expressing what we thought was a common belief. If what you say is true it really doesn't change anything, except our reality of how we are viewed by the Dutch.

   

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