What do you mean Lounge passes for the Habs? ;)

I recall hearing a quotation that goes something like this:

"The fighting is so bitter because the stakes are so small".

I think it was Henry Kissinger, and it was about university politics :(

shore9, that may very well be the ultimate all-time worst thing you have written on this board in the 1,374 posts you have made.

You may or may not have noticed that we have been having a tough time around here these past few days to have our "différence" respected on FT and that in that context everyone seems to have rallied 'round the flag, even people who otherwise differ on just about every other issue there is.

Your comment, if made by anyone else, would be taken as divisive, insulting, hurtful and totally disrespectful. As it comes from you, I guess I'll just have a big shrug of the shoulders and throw in a couple of heart-felt :rolleyes: :rolleyes: for good measure.

Read some of the replies in reaction to your post and try to understand why what you said makes absolutely no sense in so many ways. :(

Moderator please move this to the Air France Forum. :)

Moderators please move Shore9 to France! :p

Monsieur PB

You know, I honestly don't get how a supposedly university-educated person could be proud to not learn something, language or otherwise. Ignoring the location of Shore9's University for a second, that comment still shows quite a lack of education.

Shore9: What if I said that I were proud of the fact that I hadn't taken a course in microbiology? It's still pretty bad. And although I am not particularily interested in microbiology, that doesn't mean that I wouldn't have wanted to broadened my horizons should I have not had other time constraints.

But give me a break, insulting the dominant language in the part of the world that you're in: honteux.

this is more a case of not thinking before posting. I'm not really proud of the fact that I can't speak french. I do have an opportunity to speak the language, it's more that everyone usually speaks english as well, so it makes it easier for both of us. I admit I should make an effort though. Sorry this came out the wrong way, and I'm going to leave it at that.

I seriously thought of flying to YUL for the event that Parnel organised so well. The primary reason for me not attending, is my inability to speak or understand french. Am I proud of this, no. Would I like to change it, yes. Will I do anything about it, one day.

Presumably the main language spoken at this event was english no?? One of my reasons of coming to quebec other than the school, was to learn in a different culture, even if I don't speak French very well when I leave.

And the language belongs to the culture no?? Apparently it seems you didn't learn the culture very well did you? Hmm...what a shocker.

That wins post of the day! I am crying!

Actually, send him to Paris and attach an American flag on his back. By the way, shore9, here's a lesson in French, you should be calliing waiters, "garçons".

I totally agree. And for this, he should receive a timeout.

And you just want to leave this shore9? Yeah right! You're not getting out of this one.

Too bad Canada can't separate from shore9.

To which the will reply (given your eloquence and intelligence) ....

~!@#$%^&

Pass that through your universal translator! :p

Le PB du Sud!