funkyhelix
2003-10-31 04:50 am UTC (link)

Gah, so much clicking. Why can't it be a threaded message board. Bah. I give up. My instant gratification button isn't getting hit. Must wander off and avoid protection from porn.

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	sairalinde 2003-10-31 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Heh. I know. It's a big annoying and somewhat confusing after a while. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pipssister 2003-10-31 05:27 am UTC (link)
	ICON! GAH! @_@ (I do like it though.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kerrikins 2003-11-01 03:50 am UTC (link)
	Actually, if you choose advanced view, it takes you to a page (which has frames, but oh well) and you can see the whole thread. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2003-10-31 04:57 am UTC (link)
	canadians are gayy... Yay! Which ones? avril ruined it for you Avril ruined "it" for the world, man. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sairalinde 2003-10-31 06:13 am UTC (link)
	Avril is...so bad. Every country has a bad apple, right? And see, I think it's very unfair that they didn't name which ones were gay. I would love to know that. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amakath 2003-10-31 07:36 am UTC (link)
	And see, I think it's very unfair that they didn't name which ones were gay. I would love to know that. Well, there's Scott Thompson. I'm sure there are others, but come on, once you've got Scott Thomspon, he's all the gay you need, really. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2003-10-31 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	Scott Thompson is a God. And he always did say he was "the fag". Maybe that means he's the only one in Canada. Hmm. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-10-31 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	Buddy Cole = good times. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	amakath 2003-10-31 09:26 pm UTC (link)
	Actor. Singer. Dancer. Model. Canadian. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-10-31 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	purrrrrrrr Now all I need to do is find one who bats for my team, and I'll be set. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tempslut 2003-11-02 08:28 am UTC (link)
	You forgot Rufus Wainwright. Also, there's this other comedian, Elvira Kurt, who's been on Comedy Central before. Oh, and Rick Mercer from This Hour Has 22 Minutes. I know that, and yet the most I've seen of the show's been clips from the 'net. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	panthea 2003-11-02 09:39 am UTC (link)
	ELVIRA KURT! ::lusts:: Man, if I could track her down and ~~make her my bitch~~ offer her flowers.... Well, I probably wouldn't. Because that is stalking, and Stalking Is Bad. But man, sexy and funny? Be still my, er, heart. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2003-11-02 10:41 am UTC (link)
	Iiiii'm a happy fella-girlie! Rick Mercer is so my snarky gay Canadian boyfriend. A friend of mine in Montreal made a 22 Minutes marathon tape for me a while back, and I've adored him ever since. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: amakath 2003-11-03 05:58 am UTC (link)
	I forgot Rufus was Canadian. Shame on me. I should have remembered Elvira Kurt. And I did not know Rick Mercer was gay. The only work of his that's filtered down here to me was The Industry that used to air late Sunday nights on my local PBS station. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sagralisse 2003-10-31 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Whassa O.C.? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sairalinde 2003-10-31 06:14 am UTC (link)
	That new tv show lots of people have been talking about. The "new" Beverly Hills: 90210 as some have said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2003-10-31 06:17 am UTC (link)
	Ah. Thanks. ::wanders away:: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nitro 2003-10-31 05:58 am UTC (link)
	Are they actually saying Canadians are jealous because they don't have an actual Orange County? Not just the show? I submit that no one who has lived in or near O.C. would ever claim it was something to be jealous of. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sairalinde 2003-10-31 06:18 am UTC (link)
	It would seem like it. Can't you see the jealousy coming from me? I'm very amused that the come back to this was "You're jealous we invented hockey." Yes, same thing dear. lol To me, it all sound like a big arguement over who's dad is stronger. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	diamonde 2003-10-31 09:37 am UTC (link)
	Dunno about Canada, but from what I saw of Orange County Australia already has one. It was bizarre, I travelled all the way across the Pacific to get somewhere that looked just like Logan. And I can get to Logan in like half an hour. By bus. Although why I'd WANT to get to Logan, I have no idea. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	zannechaos 2003-10-31 02:02 pm UTC (link)
	Although why I'd WANT to get to Logan, I have no idea. My first thought was that it sounds like a Wolvie Fangirl's dream come true to me. ^_^ (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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diamonde
2003-10-31 04:05 pm UTC (link)

Um. Okay, this is how I normally explain Logan. Brisbane and Logan used to be seperate, but they both grew and kind of smooshed togther in the middle. So while it's all one big city-like mass, there's technically two cities.

Now, if Brisbane was New York? Logan would be New Jersey. Every celebrity who comes from Logan says they're from Brisbane. As as soon as they're famous, Brisbane happily agrees. They move to one of Brisbane's nicer suburbs (Logan has very few of the nicer suburbs in the area, but amost all - okay, all - of the crappy ones) and nobody ever speaks of it again.

Amusingly, back when it was a small town in 1941 Logan's population was substantially increased by the addition of an American military base. Named Camp Cable.

Camp Cable! Man, military history cracks my shit up.

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	stubbleglitter 2003-11-01 02:11 am UTC (link)
	warbling Iiiiii've been to Wooool-ve-rine, but I've never been to meeeeeee! ...ah, nothing like a little Charlene to make the heart thump. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2003-10-31 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	Although why I'd WANT to get to Logan, I have no idea. A question many a Bostonian has asked him or herself while stuck in traffic on the way to the airport. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: diamonde 2003-10-31 04:58 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly. There's nothing really worth seeing and if you're more likely to get your stuff stolen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-10-31 05:05 pm UTC (link)
	Which, for the record, could just as easily apply to Logan Airport. Did I mention it has the worst security of any major airport in the United States? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	darkrose 2003-10-31 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	Still. That should have been "...still has worst security of any major airport in the United States," despite the fact that two of the four planes hijacked on 9/11 originated at Logan. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-10-31 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	Logan Airport: We Just Don't Give a Shit. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	darthfi 2003-10-31 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	Definitely no problem swanning through in the worst days of foot and mouth. They stopped everyone on the UK flight I was on, but I had an Irish passport, so they didn't bother checking which flight I'd been on and just waved me through. And I didn't bother reporting myself because I'd been religiously avoiding all agricultural areas since they announced F&M in the UK. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	melange 2003-10-31 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	Heh, once I got onto a plane at Logan with six leg razors in my bag. They didn't even notice. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-10-31 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	You know, I first misread that sentence as, "I got on to a plane at Logan with six razors in my leg." Guess it's Caffeine O'Clock for me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	melange 2003-10-31 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	You know, I first misread that sentence as, "I got on to a plane at Logan with six razors in my leg." Bwah! No, it didn't work quite like that. Although I doubt security would have noticed even if I had a long trail of blood behind me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2003-10-31 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	Sadly, you're probably right. (Reply to this)(Parent)

electricchick
2003-11-02 05:38 am UTC (link)

I'd just like to say that almost every member of my immediate family has been stopped at least once in Logan, made to take off their shoes and put them through the X-ray, had their bags checked, or has been pulled aside for a 'special' X-ray. my dad holds the record at eight times being stopped and x-rayed... four of those were on the same flight. And I was talking to some girl that worked at Hot Topic once and she said that she'd worn almost six inch high black boots covered in metal chains to the airport and wasn't stopped... well, I had to take off my one inch high blue strappy sandals and put them through the X ray. XD

Lots of security... it's just being misplaced.

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	rogue 2003-11-02 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	I submit that no one who has lived in or near O.C. would ever claim it was something to be jealous of. Agreed. I mean, I don't go to LA every other weekend because I really like being stuck in traffic, or something. It's because in this city is making me lose my fucking mind. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	parabolic 2003-10-31 06:35 am UTC (link)
	...And I'm still wondering what that Kobe Bryant crack was about. Eh? (Reply to this)

	mariagoner 2003-11-01 07:08 am UTC (link)
	Have these touchy Canadians ever been to this guy's incredibly evil anti-Canada page? http://www.negativepositive.org/fuck-canada.html So cruel. So evil. So... hilarious. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sairalinde 2003-11-01 07:20 am UTC (link)
	Ah damn, they dissed the poutine! How could they? It's so good. I probably should be offended by this page but nah. I guess I'm not that touchy. I always knew there was something wrong with me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	echolalia 2003-11-01 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Dude, who could possibly diss poutine? Morons, all of them. Mmm. Now I want some. Damn you, Canadian! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sanguinary 2003-11-01 09:10 am UTC (link)
	See, pages like that only make me more proud to be Canadian. Why? Because I don't need to spend x many hours compiling reasons why someone else's country sucks. ::waves her little "yay Canada!!1!" flag:: (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	diamonde 2003-11-01 10:20 am UTC (link)
	Canada: We have better things to do. Like, Australia: We're too busy having fun. Now shut up and get me another beer. (Reply to this)(Parent)

The Hell?

wickedripeplum
2003-11-02 09:43 pm UTC (link)

That could be, in part, because the Canadian grading scale makes it MUCH EASIER to pass. In the US, a 64% or below is an F. In Canada, a 49% and below is an F. In Canada, a 60%, which will fail you in the US, will get you a C+. An 80%, which is a C in the US, is an A- in Canada. This explains a lot when I think about the quality of hatemail I get.

Those numbers aren't right for the US or Canada. And speaking as someone who goes to McGill (the school they sourced for the grade info) and has gone to schools in the US it's way harder to get a good grade here since all the professors are on a mission to make sure no one gets a A - ever.

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Re: The Hell?

azusa
2003-11-04 01:28 pm UTC (link)

In Canada, a 60%, which will fail you in the US, will get you a C+. An 80%, which is a C in the US, is an A- in Canada.

Um. WTF? *blinkblink* Where is this person's information coming from? Last I checked, a 60% is a D at the University of California, and an 80% is a B (or an A-, if your teacher is lenient). Anything below 60 is an F. There are some classes here where they inflate the grades and a 60% can be a C+, but the only ones I've seen are physics and upper-level math courses, because it's fairly close to humanly impossible to make above a 70 in some of them, in which case I do think it's justifiable.

Of course, I'm sure it varies from university to university, but I thought A=90 and above, B=80 and above, and so on, applied pretty much across the board in the US, from my experiences at the schools I've been to. I DID once have a teacher who insisted anything below a 64 was a failing grade, but I think said teacher also kept a little dog at home who she'd taught to do the Nazi salute.

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	rogue 2003-11-02 08:04 am UTC (link)
	Dude, I live in Orange County. That shit's all filmed in Malibu. is sooooooooooo not impressed Oh, and, the wank requires too much clicking for my brain this evening. implode (Reply to this)(Thread)

	redmoose 2003-11-02 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't even attempt the forum, but the show? Like I've said a dozen times, the people who star on or work on the show have probably never set foot in Orange County (other than maybe Disneyland). It sure as hell doesn't look like any part of Orange County I've ever been in/driven through. :) I can't believe some people are buying into it. Argh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

rogue
2003-11-02 08:45 pm UTC (link)

I watched a few minutes of it, and it made my head hurt. They were on a beach, and in the background was a large cliff that IS in OC, but the beach they were on ISN'T the one infront of that cliff. Then they went to a big house that looks exactly like the ones all over the inland like in Laguna Niguel or Aliso Viejo, but it was overlooking the water, which NONE of those things do. All the houses overlooking the water are like, the size of an apartment because they're from the 50s. Or they fell down. Or they have a freeway or hotel infront of them now.

And they made it seem like there's no grungy bad kids in OC - which, interestingly enough, makes up like 50% of the teenage population here. Yes, there are rich people - but we also have our share of ghetto cheap areas that breed such children (like me!). For example: my mother and I live in a ghetto fabulous apartment building with no heat from the 1940s in Dana Point directly across the street from a multi-billion dollar custom home. O.o So while WE have to worry about the drug dealer across the hall, THEY have their own security team and gaurd dogs behind the gates. Okaaaay.

Er.. yes. [/rant]

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	flax 2003-11-02 02:49 pm UTC (link)
	Hell yah Canada Kicks A$$!!!!!!!!! I AM CANADIAN!!!!!!! No shit? I would never have guessed. (Reply to this)