Living in USA/Canada pros and cons?

[runnah]

I have often contemplated if my home state of maine would be better off joining Quebec. I usually don't speak of it in public however.. we are probably closer to Quebec in mentality than we are texas.

F@CK THAT!

I'd rather become a Masshole...

 

[astroNikon]

okay, you are less likely to be drafted in Canada and they may ask you if you want to go to war first. If you are gay you have a better chance of getting married. And if you are female you may have a better chance of equality without the underlying schisms.

For the record, I wasn't talking about USA vs Canada, but USA/Canada vs other places in the world that do not follow the same concept of "freedom" that we do.

That example of the police entering a bar, temporarily shutting down business and not letting anyone leave until they checked papers was an experience I regularly had in Turkey.

I preferred when they corralled you at an impromptu airport checkpoint and searched you with their machine guns by their side .. and that was before 9/11.

 

[bribrius]

I think the NIxon administration ended the draft ...
so it would make getting drafted somewhat unlikely

ehh. wouldn't count on that. Notice in our previous over seas fun they pulled right down through the reserves and then stuck them out with no relief. They weren't just sending actives they were yanking right down through and digging deep. And that wasn't even a real war more of a expedition in comparison to some of the countries previous military conflicts in terms of actual troops on the ground. some guy signs up for one weekend a month two weeks a year and got sent to Fallujah and romps around Al Anbar for a double tour through the holidays..
totally off subject, but if we ended up in a major war I have no doubt they will draft. Depending on how bad maybe recalling the previously enlisted under the five or seven and going even down to the teens. Especially if the unemployment rate is low.

 

[astroNikon]

well the armed "reserves" is just that .. reserves
If people sign up for the reserves just to think they get training one weekend a month and college tuition .. they need to rethink that ideology and read the print (not even fine print) on their paperwork.

If Canada got involved in a major war as the primary, say, the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

 

[bribrius]

okay, you are less likely to be drafted in Canada and they may ask you if you want to go to war first. If you are gay you have a better chance of getting married. And if you are female you may have a better chance of equality without the underlying schisms.

For the record, I wasn't talking about USA vs Canada, but USA/Canada vs other places in the world that do not follow the same concept of "freedom" that we do.

That example of the police entering a bar, temporarily shutting down business and not letting anyone leave until they checked papers was an experience I regularly had in Turkey.

I preferred when they corralled you at an impromptu airport checkpoint and searched you with their machine guns by their side .. and that was before 9/11.

I think the thirty mile inland border checkpoints and the oui checks for all the non drunk drivers to get id'd are really neat.

 

[bribrius]

well the armed "reserves" is just that .. reserves
If people sign up for the reserves just to think they get training one weekend a month and college tuition .. they need to rethink that ideology and read the print (not even fine print) on their paperwork.

If Canada got involved in a major war as the primary, say, the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

lmao at the penguins. happy I wasn't drinking it would be coming out my nose.

 

[runnah]

the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

They have remained friendly since the great Moose uprising in 1783.

It's those Canadian beavers you have to fear. Hairy and ill-tempered.

 

[bribrius]

I have often contemplated if my home state of maine would be better off joining Quebec. I usually don't speak of it in public however.. we are probably closer to Quebec in mentality than we are texas.

F@CK THAT!

I'd rather become a Masshole...

we already seceded from mass that is how we became a state...catch up.. geez..

 

[astroNikon]

well the armed "reserves" is just that .. reserves
If people sign up for the reserves just to think they get training one weekend a month and college tuition .. they need to rethink that ideology and read the print (not even fine print) on their paperwork.

If Canada got involved in a major war as the primary, say, the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

lmao at the penguins. happy I wasn't drinking it would be coming out my nose.

the funny thing is, after I wrote that I don't think there are any penguins at the north pole. I think they're all at the south pole and other misc islands.
So maybe .. polar bears ...

 

[limr30 3]

the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

They have remained friendly since the great Moose uprising in 1783.

It's those Canadian beavers you have to fear. Hairy and ill-tempered.

You said beaver.

 

[runnah]

I have often contemplated if my home state of maine would be better off joining Quebec. I usually don't speak of it in public however.. we are probably closer to Quebec in mentality than we are texas.

F@CK THAT!

I'd rather become a Masshole...

we already seceded from mass that is how we became a state...catch up.. geez..

If it were up to me 95 northbound would be barricaded.

 

[astroNikon]

the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

They have remained friendly since the great Moose uprising in 1783.

It's those Canadian beavers you have to fear. Hairy and ill-tempered.

You said beaver.

and he's not talking about the 4 legged variety either ...

 

[bribrius]

I have often contemplated if my home state of maine would be better off joining Quebec. I usually don't speak of it in public however.. we are probably closer to Quebec in mentality than we are texas.

F@CK THAT!

I'd rather become a Masshole...

we already seceded from mass that is how we became a state...catch up.. geez..

If it were up to me 95 northbound would be barricaded.

they do that now and call it toll booths.

 

[runnah]

the penguins attacked from the north pole, they might have a draft too.

They have remained friendly since the great Moose uprising in 1783.

It's those Canadian beavers you have to fear. Hairy and ill-tempered.

You said beaver.

The only sure fire way to tame angry beaver is to spank it.

 

[The_Traveler]

And for the record, of course the police in the USA can walk into a bar, shut it down, and check everyone's ID. They do it, from time to time. Underage drinking is a thing. We accept it as normal and reasonable, because, won't anyone think of the kids? People like limr literally edit it out of their reality, because it's so normal and ordinary. It's not at all like that essentially identical thing in Turkey.

There are too many countries, including Turkey, where judgement from an external viewpoint, is very deceiving. Places that look fairly decent in the media and treat tourists perfectly well but locals and particularly any kind of minorities are in for a rough ride.