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Moncton ... the nicest city in Canada

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Flash, Oct 19, 2007.

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  1. Pastor

    Pastor Active Member


    Flash, I believe that America’s problem, internationally, began years ago when travel expenses were at an all time high; when the average friendly neighbor couldn’t afford a trip to London or Paris. During that time, you had the uber-wealthy individuals traveling abroad in representation. In exchange, the average friendly neighbor in Paris and London were equally unable to afford a trip across the pond to interact with the better portion of society.

    These wealthy individuals, having believed all their life was one big dish of entitlement, weren’t the best representatives. As such, America’s name was rather sullied. It also didn’t help that years later we voted a trained chimpanzee and Golem’s evil twin to our highest office.
     
  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Pastor,

    In terms of rudeness abroad, you guys are amateurs compared to the Germans.
     
  3. Flash

    Flash Guest

    There ... it's settled. Hate the Germans.
     
  4. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Works for me.
     
  5. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    And don't even get me started on the Dutch. :)
     
  6. Pastor

    Pastor Active Member


    No doubt about it. You will get no argument from me.
     
  7. "Dirty fat Belgian bastards!"
     
  8. HC

    HC Well-Known Member

    Watch it, buddy.
     
  9. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Well, I got your attention. :)
     
  10. Flash

    Flash Guest

    Uh oh, now we've gone and started a domestic.
     
  11. friend of the friendless

    friend of the friendless Active Member

    Sirs, Madames,

    I wouldn't have Montreal or Toronto in my top 10 of Canadian cities. (Like I said, I'm willing to go with national sentiment and not object to excluding Toronto from all "national" topics, though on this one I might apply for a special exemption for the former Borough of East York and, to you JR, Mimico.) Ottawa is sort of passive-aggressive. In Ontario your mid-sized places, Kingston, London or North Bay or Sudbury or the Soo, for instance, would be ahead of them.

    St John's and Cornerbrook in Newfoundland but you could put every little hamlet on there, Halifax and at least one or two other Nova Scotia towns, Moncton-Fredricton a coin flip, Quebec (City) and a town of your choice (Rimouski I've always had an amazing time in, but also likewise places in the Laurentians), Kingston and London though you could go a lot of ways in Ontario, Winnipeg (the level of volunteerism at tournaments and events there is amazing, treated like royalty), Saskatoon (over Regina, just my experience, close call, PA would be ahead of Regina too in my books), Calgary-Edmonton too close to call (not enough experience outside of the cities to form opinions, five days in the Hat but that's that), ditto Vancouver-Victoria but again I found towns either on the mainland or the Island even friendlier.

    To those who want to wave the U.S. flag and claim that they're hard done by in my suggestion about niceness/politeness: First of all, let me thank you for expressing interest in this survey. It warms our hearts that Americans would express any interest at all in the affairs, interests or opinions of such a small country. I'd suggest to you that you visit a NHL dressing room and try to identify the most polite and the rudest players. Or go to a tournament and watch the inter-action of a Canadian team versus a squad from the U.S. (Just think of the American team in Nagano.) Those of us who work in hockey call it the Yzerman-Roenick Syndrome. Not all polite players are Canadian. (The most polite player I've ever dealt with was Igor Larionov.) Not all rude ones are American. In fact for our purposes the U.S. guys usually work out as better quotes/stories because they're brash compared to those in the Canadian Boy Scout mode (No. 87 being just the latest in a long line). But you can ask anybody who works in hockey on either side of the border: Sorting out Canadians and Americans without the accents or passports is pretty basic stuff.

    YHS, etc
     
  12. I guess you should be pissed at fellow-traveler JR, then, since he's the one who posted the picture. I had no idea of its origin.

    I was in Greece a few years ago, and it seemed the locals were less fond of German tourists than North Americans. Although they did make fun of the Canadians for dressing from head to toe in maple-leaf red, so this way they wouldn't be confused with Americans.

    The Dutch were cool. The Dutch are cool.

    And it's nice to see FoF is constantly changing the criteria for "politeness."
     
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