tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post1918071701159124426..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Canada, monarchy & national unityJim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-33702965546413622802011-10-26T11:00:36.898+11:002011-10-26T11:00:36.898+11:00Actually, anon, your comments are interesting and ...Actually, anon, your comments are interesting and deserve a fuller response. Still, one small immediate correction.<br /><br />I am Australian, not Canadian!Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-67701892860882322942011-10-26T09:26:26.233+11:002011-10-26T09:26:26.233+11:00I'll take you up on that, e.g. staying in USA ...I'll take you up on that, e.g. staying in USA "next time". I'll also leave you with a grocery list of Canada's failings before signing off--<br />• Canadians act like they are "environmentally responsible blah blah blah--but then there's the Alberta "tar sands": one butt ugly ass crack spewing massive amounts of pollution and run-off into the world's atmosphere, rivers, and groundwater;<br /><br />• Proof Immigrants think Canada sucks: from Statistics Canada no less, we find this astonishing quote: "Among male immigrants 25 to 45 years of age who landed in 1981, about one-third are inferred from their tax filing behaviour to have left the country within the first 20 years after arrival...About 6 out of 10 of those who leave do so within the first year of arrival. This suggests that a large fraction of immigrants who leave choose to do so within a relatively short period of time after arrival." Facts are facts: they didn't want to clean toilets, and drive taxi cabs with their PhDs and Masters degrees in Engineering, Law, Medicine, etc. Can't blame them really. Of course the native Canadians make sure to take care of their own ;-)<br /><br />• Hypocrisy, like passive-aggressive behavior, is a classic Canadian characteristic. Take for example USA/Canada immigration: there is a huge amount of Canadians (especially senior citizens) who move permanently to USA for retirement--understandable as the weather anywhere in Canada is shit for 9 or 10 months of the year. Can't blame them there. Are they hassled by Americans if they move to USA? No. They are welcomed and treated as any other immigrants. Is the same true for Americans who move to Canada? NO! Not only me, but many other American immigrants to Canada have told me many ugly stories of the passive-aggressive shit they had to put up with from native Canadians. No welcome, no acceptance: to the contrary "why are you moving here?" is a common (passive-aggressive) refrain from nasty Canadians who definitely, definitely DO NOT want Americans moving to Canada! But of course its perfectly fine for these same hypocrites to come down to USA and shop...live....buy a home in Arizona or southern California. Or go to Vegas and party down (since Canada doesn't have anything comparable). Soooo hypocritical! I cannot keep track of the countless times I listened to Canadians smugly bitching about how they hate USA and Americans...and then glibly remark a moment later "oh yeah I'm going to Wenatchee next week for a little get-away, can't wait for some sun!" since the weather has been shite here in Vancouver blah blah blah. Or off to the Olympics for a week in July (since the parks on Vancouver Island are fully booked as usual, etc). But "America sucks and they're a bunch of assholes...oh how I hate dumbshit Americans blah blah blah." How arrogant, just outrageous this kind of crap I listened to time and time again over my 3 year visit. <br /><br />....just giving you a little reality check. Yes: I will definitely, DEFINITELY not visit your shit country again (nevermind you and your ilk will be swinging down to my neck of the woods very soon for the usual shopping spree....booze...cigs....new laptop...etc.). God HOW ANNOYING you people are! Hypocrites!<br /><br />You are...and will remain...."America's Hat".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-5650188729610903442011-10-22T01:27:13.876+11:002011-10-22T01:27:13.876+11:00Hi anon. I might curtsy if I was a women, although...Hi anon. I might curtsy if I was a women, although protocol no longer requires it! Sorry you didn't like Canada. Perhaps you might stay in the US next time?Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-82556436814629783962011-10-21T23:43:13.375+11:002011-10-21T23:43:13.375+11:00Having just left Canada after 3 long, very dull ye...Having just left Canada after 3 long, very dull years, and much disappointment, I can say that...erm....Canada sucks. And one reason may be Canada's, and evidently your--clinging to the Royals of the UK. Pathetic and embarrassing, really. Like the Royal family itself, Canada wreaks of smugness, complacency, and a denial of the mediocrity of the country in general: over-priced and overly taxed everything (little wonder all the major cities are next to USA's borders--so Canadians can buy affordable goods), waves of immigrants lured into the country--only to find jobs as toilet cleaners and taxi drivers. No real democracy to speak of here, as Canada has been, and always will be a possession of the Royal family UK. Canada: a mediocre, complacent, dumpy little country with crappy weather. Yep that about sums it up LOL :-D. Go curtsey before the queen you shmucks LOL :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-74298538340245829852011-07-07T17:07:52.930+10:002011-07-07T17:07:52.930+10:00Actually, KVD, I should see that doctor myself. It...Actually, KVD, I should see that doctor myself. It was just William. I must amend the post to disguise my blushes. <br /><br />Can we still sing that song?Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-28224503404600219752011-07-07T16:50:28.568+10:002011-07-07T16:50:28.568+10:00"While William and Kate were warmly welcomed ..."While William and Kate were warmly welcomed in Australia and New Zealand to the sometimes despair of republicans"<br /><br />Shows how out of touch I am. I honestly don't remember this at all?<br /><br />I'm off to see the old timers doctor immediately.<br /><br />kvd<br /><br />Ha! word verification is "rexcips"<br />They're coming to take me away..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com