US Destroyer T-boned - Again

[Smitty-48]

The Guys I work with up there told me it's far less of an issue than it used to be.

Nah, it's even worse, because like I said, Mafia; of one sort or another, just because the Eye-Talians don't have the market share they used to, doesn't mean there is less Mafia in Montreal, as even the cops are a Mafia unto themelves. Why do you think they are being such dicks? Just collecting the vig.

[Viktorthepirate]

The Guys I work with up there told me it's far less of an issue than it used to be.

Nah, it's even worse, because like I said, Mafia; of one sort or another, just because the Eye-Talians don't have the market share they used to, doesn't mean there is less Mafia in Montreal, as even the cops are a Mafia unto themelves.

I certainly don't know one way or the other. Makes sense it is just less conspicuous. The irony is that people say the snow plows ran better under mafia control.

Montreal PD seems universally disliked, at least among Anglos. Which is odd because the law abiding middle class usually likes the cops.

[Smitty-48]

The Guys I work with up there told me it's far less of an issue than it used to be.

Nah, it's even worse, because like I said, Mafia; of one sort or another, just because the Eye-Talians don't have the market share they used to, doesn't mean there is less Mafia in Montreal, as even the cops are a Mafia unto themelves.

I certainly don't know one way or the other. Makes sense it is just less conspicuous. The irony is that people say the snow plows ran better under mafia control.

Montreal PD seems universally disliked, at least among Anglos. Which is odd because the law abiding middle class usually likes the cops.

Well that's because the PD's in Quebec target the Anglos for special attention, while letting them Frenchies mostly run amok, it's ye olde Montcalm v. Wolfe dynamic, still in effect, you drive in Quebec with Ontario plates, you're a target the moment you crossed the border, bet dat.

Quebec is Canadian Dixie, and in their territory, we Anglos; we're them Yankees.

Which, from the French point of view, technically, we are, we're just the Loyalist Yankees.

[Viktorthepirate]

Nah, it's even worse, because like I said, Mafia; of one sort or another, just because the Eye-Talians don't have the market share they used to, doesn't mean there is less Mafia in Montreal, as even the cops are a Mafia unto themelves.

I certainly don't know one way or the other. Makes sense it is just less conspicuous. The irony is that people say the snow plows ran better under mafia control.

Montreal PD seems universally disliked, at least among Anglos. Which is odd because the law abiding middle class usually likes the cops.

Well that's because the PD's in Quebec target the Anglos for special attention, while letting them Frenchies mostly run amok, it's ye olde Montcalm v. Wolfe dynamic, still in effect, you drive in Quebec with Ontario plates, you're a target the moment you crossed the border, bet dat.

Makes sense. A lot of the anglos seem a bit resentful of all the French laws. Nothing boiling, but a simmer. My perception at least.

One thing I've been trying to figure out is if most Canadians are leftys (compared to us) or if it's the city.

Manufacturing is usually full of conservatives but my Canadian counterparts are leftish. Not radicals or anything but left by US standards.

It's fun talking politics with them though. They are thoughtful about their positions and don't get mad about political disagreements. Our gun culture seems beyond their comprehension.

[apeman]

sorry I meant how did you lose your passport in a foreign country>?

[Viktorthepirate]

sorry I meant how did you lose your passport in a foreign country>?

I was a dumbass, carried it around instead of leaving in the hotel. Fell out of my pocket when I was drunk.

I go to third world spots a lot and you're better off not leaving it in the hotel. But Canada, I had no reason to be carrying it around.

[Smitty-48]

Makes sense. A lot of the anglos seem a bit resentful of all the French laws. Nothing boiling, but a simmer. My perception at least.

One thing I've been trying to figure out is if most Canadians are leftys (compared to us) or if it's the city.

Manufacturing is usually full of conservatives but my Canadian counterparts are leftish. Not radicals or anything but left by US standards.

It's fun talking politics with them though. They are thoughtful about their positions and don't get mad about political disagreements. Our gun culture seems beyond their comprehension.

Well, Montreal is the Federalist Loyalist stronghold, in an otherwise nationalist republican Quebec, so Montreal is where you find your Liberal Party of Canada types in Quebec, mostly the Anglos.

Now, as to being "leftish", that's because the Liberal Party of Canada wiped Canadian history off the record in the mid 1960's, and replaced it all with the Liberal Party of Canada, to the point where even the Tories became liberals for all intents and purposes, Hanoverians like me and Capps, we are rare birds in the flock now, we've been largely driven to the edge of extinction, by Liberal Party of Canada Uber Alles.

When Canadians say they are nationalists, they mean Liberal Party of Canada, unless they're in Quebec, at which point they mean the Marquis de Montcalm.

[Okeefenokee]

sorry I meant how did you lose your passport in a foreign country>?

I was a dumbass, carried it around instead of leaving in the hotel. Fell out of my pocket when I was drunk.

I go to third world spots a lot and you're better off not leaving it in the hotel. But Canada, I had no reason to be carrying it around.

Put this in Viktor's file too. Look into his Russian connections.

[DBTrek]

Our gun culture seems beyond their comprehension.

Sounds like a good time to export.
Obviously our friends in the north haven't heard the gospel of the great equalizer of humanity, Sam Colt.

[Smitty-48]

Our gun culture seems beyond their comprehension.

It's not beyond their comprehension, they get it, it just doesn't seem like a good idea to them. Mind you, your gun culture as it is now, is actually a relatively recent invention, before 1994 it wasn't like it is now, it was the 1994 AWB which incited what used to be a fringe culture, to move to the center to become the norm, prior to 1994, Americans wouldn't have comprehended the gun culture as it is now.