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Proud to live in the States...

Toastmaker said:
"Proud" ? Well, not exactly. . . I can see being happy, content, even excited and pleased to be Canadian (or American or French or, etc., ect. ) but "proud" is not quite the right term.

One may be proud of an accomplishment or a creation but the accident of your birthplace and resulting nationality is nothing you had anything to do with, other than surviving childbirth. It's like saying that you're "proud" to be a human being. . . as if you had some choice - and made the right one.

I don't mean to irritate or minimize the great things about being Canadian (or anything else) and I realize this is a bit pedantic - but it's accurate.


Ok. . . I'll get me hat - :running:
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You'd best be careful Toastie ... I think she'd throw you out for the night with the other cats after that ... :icon_lol:

And we're proud to have you as part of our family here too C9G!!
 
Toastmaker said:
"Proud" ? Well, not exactly. . . I can see being happy, content, even excited and pleased to be Canadian (or American or French or, etc., ect. ) but "proud" is not quite the right term.

One may be proud of an accomplishment or a creation but the accident of your birthplace and resulting nationality is nothing you had anything to do with, other than surviving childbirth. It's like saying that you're "proud" to be a human being. . . as if you had some choice - and made the right one.

I don't mean to irritate or minimize the great things about being Canadian (or anything else) and I realize this is a bit pedantic - but it's accurate.


Ok. . . I'll get me hat - :running:
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Good point Toastmaker! Thank you for providing us with a different perspective :)

And I agree 100% with it being pedantic :wiggle:
 
Oh You Canada!

I always love visiting and training with the Canadians.

Here's a picture of me with the regimental colonel of the Princes Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment (PPLCI) and one with some of the boys from the Royal New Brunswick Regiment.
 
The air is always fresher in Canada. The women take car of themselves and always look great.... at least 80% of them do. the other 20% haven't learnt any of the important stuff from their Canadian sisters yet, or they're too young. ;)

If I was ever to date again or just chase women, I would definately be in Canada.
 
Panther_99FS said:
I thought Lacrosse came from Native Americans....
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Panther you are correct the origin is traced to Native Americans, but what most folks do not realise is that Lacrosse is actually the National Sport of Canadians... it's NOT Hockey!

I have seen references in recent years where Lacrosse is listed as the National Summer Sport and Hockey is the National Winter sport, but in my years of schooling we were always taught Lacrosse is the National Sport.

I played both when I was a kid, and like the true fool that I am I played nets - I know all those pucks and hard rubber balls to the head explains a lot! I have to tell you Lacrosse is without a doubt the toughest sport I know of, it's downright brutal. There is or was little or no fighting in our leagues, no need, if you got mad at another player you just "passed" in the general direction of his brain bucket, if you were a good shot and his reaction time was not 100% he would get a nice little nap... like I said brutal.
 
gigabyte,
Since I grew up in northern Illinois, we had a high school Lacrosse team....and Lacrosse was also actually a PE sport for us in high school too....:mixedsmi:
 
Jagdflieger said:
Oh You Canada!

I always love visiting and training with the Canadians.

Here's a picture of me with the regimental colonel of the Princes Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment (PPLCI) and one with some of the boys from the Royal New Brunswick Regiment.
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Jagdflieger the pic with the Royal New Brunswick Regiment, is that at Gagetown? I know the look of the backgorund is very much like some of the training grounds I have seen there.

If you happen to get back this way - I travel past Gagetown weekly, we have to grab a "Timmy's".
 
Well, not too surprising, it's the adjective for a person suffering from "a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging."

Hope you don't mind... :ernae:

Cheers,
Markus.
 
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