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From: Curly Surmudgeon on 6 Jul 2010 02:19 On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:14:24 -0700, john <vegan16(a)accesscomm.ca> wrote: > Americans wear Canadian flags on > their backpacks when hiking through > Europe. > That's not a lie. And through Latin America too. > You know why? > > john -- Regards, Curly ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lest we forget: Scooter Libby ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Jeff M on 6 Jul 2010 02:32 On 7/6/2010 1:14 AM, john wrote: [snip] > Americans wear Canadian flags on > their backpacks when hiking through > Europe. > That's not a lie. Canadians have sheltered under the security umbrella America has provided for the past fifty years. That's not a lie. Americans have had to pay a price for being a superpower and the leader of the free world. That's not a lie, either. Canada is the only foreign country that a majority of Americans are willing to personally fight and die for, according to a poll of a few year ago. That's not a lie, either. We were willing to put up a few dozen of our cities and the lives of tens of millions of our civilians as collateral to guarantee our mutual security. Don't sweat a flag on a backpack, dude. It's what friends are for.
From: Twibil on 6 Jul 2010 02:42 On Jul 5, 11:14 pm, john <vega...(a)accesscomm.ca> wrote: > > > Americans wear Canadian flags on > their backpacks when hiking through > Europe. > That's not a lie. Um, it isn't? Because I've been to Europe, I've seen plenty of young Americans toting backpacks there, and I've *never yet* seen one who had a Canadian flag displayed anywhere. While on the other hand I *have* seen quite a number of American flags displayed on hats, backpacks, and shirts; not to mention seeing multiple cars and motorcycles sporting license plates from various American states. > You know why? (A) Because you made it up. (Or were stupid enough to believe whoever *did* make it up.) (B) On the off chance that it happens -or has happened- on occasion, you're stupid enough to think that occasional examples of things like this mean anything. After all, there are currently examples of Americans who whole- heartedly believe in flying saucers, a flat Earth, the "fact" that we never really landed on the Moon, and that the WTC wasn't knocked down by radical Muslim terrorists. But that doesn't mean that flying saucers are real, that the earth is flat, that we never walked on the Moon, or that 9/11 was anything other than an attack by radical Islamic terrorists. It only means that there are a certain percentage of psychotic paranoids in every population.
From: TOG on 6 Jul 2010 08:26 On 6 July, 07:42, Twibil <nowayjo...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 5, 11:14 pm, john <vega...(a)accesscomm.ca> wrote: > > > > > Americans wear Canadian flags on > > their backpacks when hiking through > > Europe. > > That's not a lie. > > Um, it isn't? > > Because I've been to Europe, I've seen plenty of young Americans > toting backpacks there, and I've *never yet* seen one who had a > Canadian flag displayed anywhere. > > While on the other hand I *have* seen quite a number of American flags > displayed on hats, backpacks, and shirts; not to mention seeing > multiple cars and motorcycles sporting license plates from various > American states. > > > You know why? > > (A) Because you made it up. (Or were stupid enough to believe whoever > *did* make it up.) > > (B) On the off chance that it happens -or has happened- on occasion, > you're stupid enough to think that occasional examples of things like > this mean anything. > > After all, there are currently examples of Americans who whole- > heartedly believe in flying saucers, a flat Earth, the "fact" that we > never really landed on the Moon, and that the WTC wasn't knocked down > by radical Muslim terrorists. > > But that doesn't mean that flying saucers are real, that the earth is > flat, that we never walked on the Moon, or that 9/11 was anything > other than an attack by radical Islamic terrorists. > > It only means that there are a certain percentage of psychotic > paranoids in every population. Couldn't put it better myself (snipped the kook ngs). Don't recall ever seeing a Canadian flag displayed by travellers in Europe. A few T- shirts and silly hats, yes. Yanks on holiday seem to go for small Stars & Stripes sewn onto shoulders and breast pockets, quasi-military stylee. It's faintly amusing that US tourists are among the most easily identifiable groups in London, along with the Japanese (for reasons too obvious to mention). They just stand out. Adaptive camouflage isn't in the tourist vocabulary, it seems. In contrast, the Aussies and Kiwis seem to blend in. Until they open their mouths, anyway.
From: * US on 19 Jul 2010 07:47
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:03:55 -0700 (PDT), Iarnrod <iarnrod(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >... can't explain ... Apparently all you can do is spew fallacies. On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:04:26 -0700 (PDT), Iarnrod <iarnrod(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >... can't explain ... have no evidence ... You keep making that obvious about yourself. On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:12:28 -0700 (PDT), Iarnrod <iarnrod(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >... kookers ... You can't explain what PNAC's agenda was, much less how 9/11 helped it along. |