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Quebecers are the biggest frickin whiners

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MMike said:
Would you? That would be AWESOME! Especially the french....so sick of them...
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Enlighten me a bit...........

Why are les quebecois considered french when many (most?) of them have never even sat ped on france?

Just because I wish with every fibre of my being that I was british columbian doesn't make it so. And why are they born like that? I didn't develop my longing till I started riding mountain bikes.
 
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That's not a Quebec thing... you should have heard all the wailing and gnashing of teeth here when they enacted that law. Bar owners were whining so loud that you would think every bar in the state would be belly up within a week. Yet now, years later, all the bars are still open, people still go party, and hey, I can play a gig without feeling like I smoked a pack of Camels.
 
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Mani_UT said:
May be you should move out of Quebec. After all you're on THEIR turf.
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As they said, I was born here. As was my 100% anglo mom. It ain't THEIR turf.

nbd kidwoo, calling them french (or me english for that matter) is a misnomer...round here we're anglophone and francophone (or allophone if you don't speak either)...or better still "estie d'blokes" and "peppers"

Where the hell is Zoro...he's always good for this stuff....
 
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MMike said:
As they said, I was born here. As was my 100% anglo mom. It ain't THEIR turf.

nbd kidwoo, calling them french (or me english for that matter) is a misnomer...round here we're anglophone and francophone (or allophone if you don't speak either)...or better still "estie d'blokes" and "peppers"

Where the hell is Zoro...he's always good for this stuff....
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anglophone, francophone.........I choose bannaphone!:banana:


Yeah where's zoro...........that guy rend le funny.
 
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Their proof of harm was that 10 of 8000 bars closed in the last six months. And 70% had the same or higher sales? A .2% business failure rate per year is pretty good. Overall those are pretty good business stats. Looks like the law is actually a boon, not a harm.
 
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kidwoo said:
he was born there
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Doesn't matter. His hate of the French Canadians is what's really bugging me especially that the are the nicest most welcoming people I met anywhere I travelled to (sure it spent only 8 month in Montreal but it's long enough to get a pretty good idea of who lives there).

Everytime he has something to say it is about how much he despise them. He should leave.

(**** I was sick of the French people in France. I did not just moan and bitch. I left.)
 
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Mani_UT said:
Doesn't matter. His hate of the French Canadians is what's really bugging me especially that the are the nicest most welcoming people I met anywhere I travelled to (sure it spent only 8 month in Montreal but it's long enough to get a pretty good idea of who lives there).
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french canadians suck, get over it.
 
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As a bloke it's my job to hate french canadians. Even my french friends...and I even have friends who are separatists... They get a piece of my mind almost daily....

The ones really ACTUALLY hate are the ones who work in stores (a SERVICE INDUSTRY), who refuse to speak english to me. If I'm the customer, I expect to be addressed in the language of my choosing. (I lived in the US too long. my expectations of service have gone WWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYY up.)
 
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Reactor said:
Their proof of harm was that 10 of 8000 bars closed in the last six months. And 70% had the same or higher sales? A .2% business failure rate per year is pretty good. Overall those are pretty good business stats. Looks like the law is actually a boon, not a harm.
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In the bar and restaurant business, that's a tiny amount of turnover. Pretty laughable argument they are making there...
 
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Mani_UT said:
Doesn't matter. His hate of the French Canadians is what's really bugging me especially that the are the nicest most welcoming people I met anywhere I travelled to (sure it spent only 8 month in Montreal but it's long enough to get a pretty good idea of who lives there).
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In my experience, 90% of French Canadians are indeed as you describe them. The other 10% are pricks of unimaginable magnitude.
 
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MMike said:
The ones really ACTUALLY hate are the ones who work in stores (a SERVICE INDUSTRY), who refuse to speak english to me. If I'm the customer, I expect to be addressed in the language of my choosing. (I lived in the US too long. my expectations of service have gone WWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYY up.)
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The other way around also exist you know... It happened to me quite often to have to deal with someone working in a store in Mtl who refused to speak french to me. Since I'm a nice guy and bilingual, I usually talk in english in those cases. Still, it pisses me off when the guy/girl can't even have the decency to tell me "Merci!" if I buy something.:rant:

The english Québecers are equally as annoying as the french Québeckers....
 
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FlipSide said:
The other way around also exist you know... It happened to me quite often to have to deal with someone working in a store in Mtl who refused to speak french to me. Since I'm a nice guy and bilingual, I usually talk in english in those cases. Still, it pisses me off when the guy/girl can't even have the decency to tell me "Merci!" if I buy something.:rant:

The english Québecers are equally as annoying as the french Québeckers....
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While I agree that you should be served in the language of your choice, there's no way we're more annoying. Things like l'Office de la Langue Francaise are proof of that.

...or the fact that you can theorectically request the communcations from the gov't be sent in english. However only 10% of the documents EXIST in english...so you're SOL.

OR that on the St. Hubert website, you can click on "English" but if you try to orcder food on-line, it's only in french!

Anglos are so very much second-class citizens around here. And to deny that, (as my very quadra-lingual, yet very separatist friend does), is just plain wrong.
 
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Plus all the queeb (or "queebie," if you're going to be PC about it) snowboarders sit down in the middle of glades at Jay Peak and Tremblant.
 
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De quoi tu-parles? Jshui pas si agassant q'ca! chalis!

I dunno, being immersed up in the north of quebec with a bunch of uniligual french quebequers softened me up to them... Just an isolated bunch of folks who have no idea what is going on outside the province...up there anyway. There were people from quebec city, the gaspe, abitibi, chicoutimi, lac st jean etc... 99.9% of 'em didn't speak a breath of english. Even people from the Montreal area. Pretty sad. They're pretty much doomed to stay in the province due to their inability to speak only one language, unless of course they leave the continent.

Ah well, more jobs for me!

As for being in a store, I can pretty much tell if the guy can speak english or not, and just speak to them accordingly. If I'm in the West Island, I expect to be served in English. If I'm on St-Denis street downtown, I'll presume that French will just be easier. If I should forget, and speak English to a service person who would prefer to speak French, and get any sort of 'tude from them, I get irate.

Just get me my pitcher and STFU Jean-Claude.

Oh yeah, as for sitting in the middle of the glades...I don't do that. And I'm pretty sure that Canyon land was most often traveled by snowboarders before it was actually turned into an official run. I could be wrong...
 
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