And it's "multicultural", which makes the CBC-types feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Now if only you could find some way of making Albertans look like assholes, you could slot it between Little Mosque on the Prairie and Wild Roses and we'll have another show that nobody watches but gets government funding.
The guy from Little Mosque on the Prairie could meet up with some chick from Wild Roses and then he could cut off her head as a pay-per-view event, but still no one would watch. As with all CBC programming, it would be culturally realistic enough, but as with all CanCon, it's all bad lighting, all bad acting, all bad concept, all horribly written, and all horrific direction. Welcome to Canadian television. No wonder I have an illegal satellite dish.
The people petitioning the CRTC to expand CanCon are just bitter that they weren't talented enough to get a Green Card.
Rem,ember this is one country without a domestic car concern...the only such country in the entire so called G8! Canada? Give me a break!
No, Canada has the Bricklin, and we all know how well that turned out.
You are right, you speak hard truths, but you're right. The Canadian market isn't big enough to support a car industry, except through reciprocal agreements with our best friends, the USA. As for the Japanese stuff, it's ASSEMBLED in Canada, much like Ikea furniture is ASSEMBLED in your living room - it's not a product of your innovation, testing, or manufacture: its factory is a slightly larger Allen key, that's all.
Detroit/Windsor builds some of the most innovative and technologically amazing cars of the day, and had historically done so. The Model T. The Cord. The Hemi cars. The Omni/Horizon. The Chrysler minivan. US leadership and design for a US market, but MANY American cars were built in Canada.
US/CDN cars are well-designed and very innovative. The killer for The Big Three is that when you have a poor quality intake manifold casting built by someone with a 9th grade education making $40+ an hour, you can't afford to scrap it. (Case in point: intake manifold on my Dodge Ram was full of bubbles; it looked and sealed like Swiss cheese. No wonder the truck never had any power and had burned out three sets of exhaust valves.) You have to deal with it - put it on the car and pray it doesn't come back under warranty. The unions have driven the Big Three into their current state. A sock filled with mashed potatoes could make a better brake piston than some of the work I've seen the UAW's people turn out.
You need to kill the unions to save the Big Three.
Pull a Reagan. Fire them all, replace them with a bunch of pimply high school kids who like to ask questions, and I promise you the cars will be better.
As for me, I continue to drive domestics. It's easier to fix bad manufacturing than it is to fix bad engineering.
The police using an IP Number to locate my address is no different than if they did a Reverse Phone Number lookup. If the latter does not violate my rights, then the former does not violate my rights either.
I disagree. If your IP address is by DHCP, it may change even more often than a teenager's cellphone number. How good is the ISP's record keeping?
The most sensitive nerve cluster in the male body is at the base of the foreskin - and you don't have it.
Really? Ever had it? Ever had sex with it?
How about the frenum. All you guys jump up and down about that being the most sensitive part of my penis.
Neither one is sensitive. They're just *there*, in the way of the head and the shaft.
Well, I had 'em both cut off - the frenum, the mucosal end - and the only thing I regret about the whole thing is that it wasn't done at birth.
Your crappy sex life has to do with whatever whacked-out psychology you have. Blaming circumcision for your erectile dysfunction or your premature ejaculation is pure idiocy.
I wish I'd been circumcised at birth in your place, so I could have enjoyed its benefits all my life, and you could come to terms with whatever your failing is.
Evidence suggests that there is no significant reduction in sensation.
Oh, I'm so glad you cited the works of a recipient of a Bachelor of Arts degree as scientific evidence! That just clears everything up. Her background in poetry or some other basket-weaving crap makes her well-suited to statistical analysis.
She can't even differentiate a fucking polynomial and you're citing her as a reference in a scientific discussion?
Once again, the anti-circ whackos lose credibility.
It is a mutilation to reduce sexual pleasure and has no other purpose.
Really? My penis has had oral, vaginal and anal sex both before and after circumcision, and I think my penis would disagree with you.
And I know there are glans sensitivity studies which prove the (albeit counterintuitive) fact that a circumcised man's glans is no less sensitive than an uncircumcised man's glans. But you're apparently as oblivious to this as you are to the medical evidence. Another poster cited studies. I shan't bother, you're another one of those anti-circ wackos who blames everything from his baldness to his latent homosexuality on the fact that his glans is bare.
I did a shitpile of research because I was dissatisfied with having to go to the hospital every three months with my foreskin ballooned out to the size of a beach ball. I wanted to know what I was gaining and losing before I elected to the surgery.
The only thing I lost was my first 22 years enjoying the benefits of being a circumcised man. And that I resent.
The foreskin became a liability when man decided to wear clothing. You want me to stop being a proponent of circumcision, either you make mankind give up pants, or you make my circumcised penis more unreliable than the Chevy Vega it previously was.
If I'd known you in 1996 and you'd wanted my foreskin, I would have cheerfully given it to you.
Sit down, shut up, and enjoy the fact that your parents allowed the medical profession to give you an advantage in the world.
I wish I'd been circumcised at birth.
Gomco, Mogen, Plastibell...
Guess where I consulted once.
The Venetian boy's choir?
Good one! Agree or not, that was intelligent.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.