It's kind of nice being next to you guys. We get many cultural and economic benefits without the guns, crime and uber-right wing politics. Plus we have socialized medicine and a decent social safety net.
We get to be smug and feel superior but we also reap the benefits of proximity. I know your post was humour but I think a better analogy than living next to the Hell's Angels clubhouse was made by our late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau: Living next to the US is like a mouse sleeping next to an elephant. The elephant may intend no harm but the mouse needs to be aware of its every twitch and movement. To lack such awareness might lead to being crushed. Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> Sent: August 25, 2012 8/25/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: OT: A comment on Canada I ran across this amusing description of Canada on the MGs mailing list. Begin forwarded message: > > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Mgs] Seat Belts > > I've seen Canada described as "Those nice people living above a biker bar". > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Imagine what fun it is for us in Canada, living beside a country that has >> the highest per capita number of prison inmates in the world, the highest >> per capita number of guns, and an attitude that no one can tell them >> anything..... Kind of like living next door to a Hell's Angels gang..... As an aside, my sophomore year of college our next door neighbor was the president of the local "outlaw motorcycle club". He was one of the best neighbors I ever had. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
