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Thread: CANADA
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05-15-2009 #21
Re: 1 more thing
Originally Posted by Pinzely
And what's with this "we" crap? I seriously doubt you had anything to do with it. Brave Canadian, British, and Americans soldiers fought and died on those beaches, you had nothing to do with it.
Originally Posted by suckseed
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05-15-2009 #22
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Originally Posted by altarica
Btw, Innocenzo Manzetti, Tivadar Puskás, Philipp Reis and Elisha Gray have been succesful with building functional phones before Alexander Graham Bell, so he can´t be the inventor but for sure on of the few pioneers. Everything in technology today has come a long way before the ideas were born many centuries earlier. The predecessor of the car can be recognized in the invention of the wheel. The English monk Roger Bacon who lived during the 13th century wrote:"One day we´ll build rides that will move and stay in motion without being pushed or pulled by animals."
Da Vinci designed some kind of a tank on wheels in 1490 but it was never built. Nothing was invented over-night.
Canada is a cool countrybut some of skullyjcm´s points are wrong and ridiculous. Insulin and penicillin were not invented but discovered...... but not by Canadians. The Hudson Bay Company was an European company founded by the English king Carl II. Washington D.C. was burnt down by British troops during the British-American War in 1814. There was no Canadian nation during these events nor a Canadian state because Canada becamed independent in 1919. And still most of the Canadians consider themselves French or English.
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05-15-2009 #23
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Originally Posted by Coroner
What the hell are you smoking? Canadians consider themselves Canadian. We have anglophones and francophones here and also people from a myriad of other countries and we all live in peace and harmony.
Canada is a proud but humble country. Just don't mistake our kindness for weakness....
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05-15-2009 #24Originally Posted by Legallylarge
And maybe its easier to withdraw from life
With all of its misery and wretched lies
If we're dead when tomorrow's gone
The Big Machine will just move on
Still we cling afraid we'll fall
Clinging like the memory which haunts us all
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05-15-2009 #25
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Originally Posted by Legallylarge
I never said you´re weak. Canada is a young but still interesting country. You should just stop that seal murdering.
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05-15-2009 #26
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I'll give one for the "against" side...
Celine Dione
... we're truly truly sorry for this. We'll never be able to make up for it.
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05-15-2009 #27
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Originally Posted by jaycanuck
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05-15-2009 #28
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Originally Posted by Coroner
THe US is a melting pot and they don't generally have the 'hyphenated American', wheras Canada is a mosaic, although more and more I see people dropping the hyphen and just saying they are Canadian.
Originally Posted by Coroner
Too many people see Canada as a push-over nation because we're polite and nice. But look at our history in war and you'll see our fighting men and women have a fine history of being ferocious warriors who are feared by their enemies.
Plus... we hold the world's largest concentration of fresh water among other natural resources. As the world continues to effe up it's drinking water, guess who'll be king.
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05-15-2009 #29
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"12. Canada has the largest French population that never surrendered to Germany ."
I think the Swiss Romands would argue with you on that one!
At least the Canadians have the metric system, one sure sign of civilisation!
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05-15-2009 #30Originally Posted by BeardedOne