Should We Start Using Code?
Feb 3, 2005 | 2:48 pm
#76
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Originally Posted by muskoka
Give the current situation, we could be offering up Flames tix for SSWUs,
Canucks tix for NA, Habs for Lounge passes, and Leafs tix for a free newspaper upon boarding. Would this code get by the censors?
Canucks tix for NA, Habs for Lounge passes, and Leafs tix for a free newspaper upon boarding. Would this code get by the censors?
Feb 3, 2005 | 3:29 pm
#77
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Originally Posted by taupo
The mods remind me of chairmen and the executive of many a strata council or home owners association. So often these people have never had any authority or decision making power in their life, so they become the head honchos of the strata, and rule with an iron fist. It is their moment of glory and power they have been waiting for their entire life.
"The fighting is so bitter because the stakes are so small".
Feb 3, 2005 | 3:36 pm
#78
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Originally Posted by Lee A Carney
I recall hearing a quotation that goes something like this:
"The fighting is so bitter because the stakes are so small".
"The fighting is so bitter because the stakes are so small".
Feb 3, 2005 | 4:11 pm
#79
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Originally Posted by shore9
I'm actually quite proud of the fact that I haven't learnt very much french 
You may or may not have noticed that we have been having a tough time around here these past few days to have our "diffrence" 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
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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 5:37 pm
#82
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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.
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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 5:51 pm
#83
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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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 5:53 pm
#84
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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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 6:03 pm
#85
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Originally Posted by taupo
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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 6:07 pm
#86
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Originally Posted by shore9
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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 8:20 pm
#89
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Originally Posted by NordsFan
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.
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.
Feb 3, 2005 | 8:23 pm
#90
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Originally Posted by YOWkid
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, "garons".
To which the will reply (given your eloquence and intelligence) ....
~!@#$%^&
Pass that through your universal translator!
Le PB du Sud!