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It would seem wierd hearing that from a single lingual nation. Out of 1.2 mil people in Canada's capital region, approx. 40% are french speaking, the rest english. Crazyness!!!!!! "Ah, tabernacle, I gota nudder god dam flat taiy-errrrrr!" "Elp me git dis spare aout of ma-car eh?"

High drunk same thing, get out of this threda!

lol, I don't how differently you'd functyion when high and not drunk for this thread, if you know what I mean.. Unless the world being roung and like a mario game. or, yoes hehe.dinmner.

I don't want to piss anyone off Shhhhhhh ;)

My friends and I borrowed my mom's van, went around at 1am and stole Conservative signs off people's lawns. We got about 35 :P

Yeah, Cat Scratch Fever. :)

Canada must really suck. For example, I live there. :P

Vote for the Bloc, and I'll come to your house and beat you to death. Merry Christmas! :)

Hank Hill

Yes, but sadly highschool students don't care.

If you honestly think that will work, good luck. I know more about how they think than you do, and there is no "better crowd." "Come on guys, lets all stand and show how much we love our country." *pause for laughs* *realizes how horribly "corny" that statement sounded* There are no people that age in a school of almost 2000 students that will get upset if someone decides to talk to a friend during the national anthem. There's no point to get all pissy at people who don't stand for the anthem every morning, that still doesn't mean they don't respect their country. It just means they have more important things to do or would rather do something else at the moment. I'll tell you this, I, or any other student my age, would not put off say good grades, or the chance to tell a friend a spur of the moment joke for the national anthem. Sure we love our country, but it's not like a groupe of teenagers are expected to be as patriotic as, say, war vets, they fought and died for their country, we didn't. We respect them for their sacrifices, and we show it when ever the subject arrises. But it's not a daily habit. Win a gold at the olympics, then we care. Get the #3 spot on the U.N.'s list of best cities to live in, then we care. A war vet. comes in to talk to us about his experiences, we have respect for him and our country. The very idea that any of you should expect a group of teenagers to be daily obsessive patriotic nation loving people is laughable. Understand the mind of a teenage high school student. I guarantee you that at least 98% think the national anthem, every single day, every year of school is a waste of time. A lot of you are in your 20's, 30's, 40's and older, and you think that it doesn't sound like a bad idea. But you're saying that after not experiencing it for several years, you almost have a desire to try it again. But I'll assure you, one you get into a routine of it, day after day, week after week, month after month, for years, it just becomes annoying. Basically, it's forcing these student to show a minimum amount of patriotism. Why take people who already love their country, and force them to show it even more, even when they don't feel like it. Be happy that we're all not nation hating anarchists. It's our choice if we want to stand for the national anthem, and thankfully we do have that choice legally. And in class, everyone stands for it, every morning, every week. Either because they're too stupid the realize that they have the right to stand or not, either that they're standing because they want to avoid confrontation with the professor, or they're standing because they love their country and are trying to set a good example. And not to mention, that they still continue what ever conversation they were having with a friend into the begining of the anthem. Use common sense, think, which of those three do you think a teenage highschool student would be standing for. It's no use to complain about how much kids these days don't show enough love for their country everyday. It's pointless to complain, and makes you sound like a whiney b*tch. Try to recall your highschool years, I highly doubt you were the model A nation loving saint of a student who stood tall and proud for their nation every morning because they just loved showing their pride and waving it around in people's faces. Be thankful highschool students don't excersize their right to not stand. They stand by their own will every morning, because it's routine. That's how it works. I'd say that's pretty good. But the fact that you're expecting them to stand because they love their country. It's a nice pipe dream, but I'm sorry to say, it's not going to happen. We stand every morning because it's routine, we show our national pride in large numbers during special events. You're talking to the guy who sat out the car sunroof downtown in the middle of February with no gloves, holding a Canadian flag attached to a hockey stick after Canada won the gold in men's hockey in 2002. When there was a huge parade or cars and flags by Parliament Hill. I love my country, and I'm damnn proud to be Canadian, I'm just not in the mood to express it every single day on someone elses schedule.

We do have pride for our country, but only express it in all glory on say Canada day, or when someone from a different country all of a sudden decides to give their opinion and explain how their country is "better." Then all of a sudden we care. You should see people around here on Canada Day. I've been in Boston twice and New York once on the 4th of July, and it's nothing like here. Hundreds of thousands of people running around screaming with Canadian flags as capes, some have faces painted. Public drinking, smoking weed, just everyone going crazy. I remember being on the bus heading downtown that day, and a group about 20 people about 18-19 got on the bus, screaming, laughing, then they started singing O-Canada as loud as they could. Their pitchwas way off. All holding beer bottles, freshly opened, they weren't even drunk yet. Downtown was pretty much the same, but instead of 20 people, there were half a million. A large amount of them teenagers sporting the red and white. As a teenager, you have more important things in life to worry about than, "Are you giving enough respect, and devotion to your country every morning." Am I going to be shot if I don't? Grades and girls are more important at that age... So we just end up saving everything for Canada Day, or as I said, when we feel somewhat threatened or insulted by another nation. At this age it's much more fun to turn your national pride into one big a** even't where you express it to the highest degree. Rather than stand up in a classroom every day and sing the national anthem, which may sound like a great idea, but when you're having a bad day, you really have more important things to worry about. We still do it anyway, it's just not as fun as one may think.

Listen, do you honestly think a room full of hormone raging teenagers really give a crap about the national anthem? Understand the workings, they don't....

I couldn't live with the health care system being a private sector. I'd rather be taken care of by a doctor working for the government, not some dude who decided to open a practice in his basement. Yes in Canada the taxes are much higher, but they're well worth it, the health care system is great. Paying 15% tax on almost everything sounds like a s**t deal, but I've grown up with it, and don't notice or care as much as someone who is new to it would. My only complaint is emergency room waiting. I remember I once got hit square in the eye with a squash ball and ended up waiting for over 6 hours in the ER before someone could see me, since it wasn't that much of an emergency, I wasn't bleeding and convulsing on the floor or anything. In much more serious cases they would take you right in. In all, I'm happy with the way the health care system in Canada is, despite ER waiting times. If we were to go private like the U.S., well we'd all be screwed....

Canadian national anthem every f**king morning in class. Stand up, shut up, arms at your side, and either listen or sing along. No one sings along....

I want a Volvo Limo S80 Super Stretch 120" Limo Black, Lowered with 18 Pegs B)

Me In a few years ;)

I don;t care about my post count here, I've already got post counts in the tens of thousands in other forums, so I'm good. :)

It's funny how you don't gain posts when you post in the off topic forum. I have 231 posts now, and 171 posts in the off topic torum.

If you post a few times per day, you're active. that's for sure.

# 8001 speaking here. Out of 9000 members, like 8800 aren't regulars, or even post.