Quoted from websherpa

Man you Anglos are sensitive.

ROTFLMAO!!! Hey... at least this thread is funny...

and let's top it off with Hitler himself!!

I cant see that pic at work, is it the bacon Hitler??

Quoted from wbradley

I cant see that pic at work, is it the bacon Hitler??

Nope. It's the one where he pisses and moans about the company owning the movie rights to "Downfall" (the movie people all use for the skits)having all the parody videos removed.

But in fact, all the Hitler parodies are funny as hell...

Quoted from websherpa

nor did I make a direct comparison to A.H. except that the word Fuehrer means "leader".  Man you Anglos are sensitive.

I call bullshit. If you were not directly making a comparison to A.H, then which "Fuehrer" were you making a comparison to. The work "Fuehrer" may translate to "Leader", but to my knowledge it has only been connected to one leader.

Quoted from Kingston Pete

I call bullshit. If you were not directly making a comparison to A.H, then which "Fuehrer" were you making a comparison to. The work "Fuehrer" may translate to "Leader", but to my knowledge it has only been connected to one leader.

Just let him save face in peace. No need to fight it out. He obviously didn't mean any harm or offence by it. He isn't the first one to compare Harper to a dictator (and that's all he meant).

Quoted from Kingston Pete

I call bullshit. If you were not directly making a comparison to A.H, then which "Fuehrer" were you making a comparison to. The work "Fuehrer" may translate to "Leader", but to my knowledge it has only been connected to one leader.

No, no, no...  the original thread is about a Nazi reference no?  The Wiki changer was making reference to the Quebec Language Police using Nazi tactics, I alluded to the current Fuerher of the role of bilingualism in Canada.  You draw your own inference to twin Harper with A.H. ... that's called dark humour. Be offended if you want, but I never meant to offend anyone. Well except the Quebec Language Police.    Oh, and Harper and his reformed ilk.   Gotta love politics in a non-face-to-face forum.  It's all tongue in cheek my friend, I'm sure Harper hasn't persecuted anyone personally, he has his SS cabinet do it for him!  (ANd I don't mean Solid State....)  Ba da dum.  

I'll just exit quietly stage left now as no one seems to like ironically dark political humour any more.

And I was in no way offended, I'm not a big fan of Steven Harper or Adolf Hitler. Just pushing a few buttons. One thing I will say is I do love culture; mine and others. We get so touchy when we get outside our comfort zone; be in English if Quebec, French in Canada, or chinese/middle eastern/etc in any setting we don't feel it should belong.

I have tried and will continue to try to be open minded when faced with this. Not because I'm such a great person, but because I find there is always something new to learn. As a kid I grew up in the Maritimes. French was offered, but never stressed. A common attitude was (and may still be) that French is something not needed. That may be true in certain circumstances, but is very shortsighted. I have heard of people actually carrying gas cans when heading from the Maritimes to Ontario just to avoid stopping in Quebec.

Thus far I have been very lucky in life; I've travelled to every province in Canada, and to one of our territories. I have also been given the opportunity to travel to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. On each and every trip I've taken the time to try the local foods, learn at least a few phrases in the local language, and try to grasp something of the culture. On each and every trip I have been more than satisfied with the experience. Of note, as it has a bearing on the previous paragraph, is that contrary to everything I was informally taught as a kid, you should never try to avoid Quebec. I have yet to met a overly rude person there (people are just as rude in Winnipeg or Fredericton), and it has a lot to offer a person passing through.

One thing that has never really interested me though is government influence on culture (I feel the influence should flow the other way) I like my chinatowns displaying chinese signs, just like I like downtown Montreal wrapped in French. Don't get me wrong. Canada was founded by two distinct cultures, so I do believe at a Federal level we should be Bilingual and only Bilingual. At a municipal level though, the functioning language should be based on the local population's requirements.

Don't fool yourself, the government of Canada IS what defines our culture, as we are not a predominantly aboriginal people (even the aboriginals of this continent have a relatively short history here from an evolutionary perspective and share more in common with Asian ancestry than anything), nor do we have a relatively long history here. Bilingualism in Canada was an invention of the Trudeau Liberal era, along with a new flag to try to Unite Canada, and damn near succeeded too, but you can't please everybody.  Multiculturalism was born out of Liberal immigration policies that have ballooned our population in an attempt to create cross-global/cultural ties for better trading to compete with almighty America. This country was carved out by the sweat of immigrants. This country does not belong to the English, nor the French, the Aboriginal, the Chinese, nor any other culture, it belongs to whomever lives here and wants to be different from everyone else.

Our political, philosophical, and cultural differences within this forum are vast and varied - what does tie us together is our love of the coin mech.  The pinball and the video arcade game.  Heck, by Canadian standards that's enough culture to start our own country and succeed from Canada.  Afterall, no one understands what we're talking about when we say that our switch matrix is wrecking havoc with our solenoids because a diode is shorted, we even have our own language (and several dialects).  I say we attempt to annex Turks and Caicos again and start the world's largest Amusement Arcade there.

I'm open minded as much as the next guy.  It's just when it gets crammed down my throat is when I get pissed.

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One thing that has never really interested me though is government influence on culture (I feel the influence should flow the other way) I like my chinatowns displaying chinese signs, just like I like downtown Montreal wrapped in French. Don't get me wrong. Canada was founded by two distinct cultures, so I do believe at a Federal level we should be Bilingual and only Bilingual. At a municipal level though, the functioning language should be based on the local population's requirements.

I totally agree, but to outlaw English on a window is silly when we live in a bilingual society.  Hell if someone wants to post French here let them.  I walk into a Chinese market and see signs written in Chinese and I don't get offended and run around screaming where's the English and call my local MLA.

P.S. I was born and raised in Vancouver, we were taught to think that BC was all there was to Canada; if you crossed the mountains you would fall off the edge of the earth.

Quoted from websherpa

what does tie us together is our love of the coin mech.

Cheers to that.

Quoted from Sparky

ROTFLMAO!!! Hey... at least this thread is funny...

and let's top it off with Hitler himself!!

My vote for the best lines in this parody:  "They're doing nothing while these F#@*#@# Nazis start destroying the world!"  "Don't worry, he'll realize the irony soon."