herbie

You're not. That's the problem! It is, in every aspect of the definition. FFS no state is so different from any other as to be as distinct as Quebec is as a province in Canada. Whereas Europe is many distinct cultures and languages formed over millennia. You're trying to claim nationhoods over more cowboys here. more loggers there, more surfers in the next state.... like claiming Alberta and Saskatchewan are separate 'nations' or for that matter BC and NS. Slight differences don't make a nation, huge ones do.

Oh we so F***ING WISH that were true!

You an I are nothing but mammals so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel -to get away from the His Lordship Pompousass tone of discussion

He FFS still snivelling about Covid shots. Did you get yours? NO? Then nobody made you get one, did they! You seem to be of the mind the lip service support to the Convoy Idiots helped, and you're gonna whine like hell when the minute he takes his seat as leader he drops the subject. PP no longer needs the support of the fringes, he wants to win an election and needs the support of average voters to do that, not you. You can all run off and change your tune as soon as the roads change to no abortion debates, pro-immigration policies, being forced to spend money to keep the public content and coming up with a viable, actual Climate policy.

There's no bottom to the cesspool of lies when you call out a narcissistic lying sack of shit like Trump. But True Believers will keep eating the shit hoping to eventually get to the bottom of it.

You want to argue that? They didn't nearly bleed to death to become just that? If you picked out any random citizen they wouldn't identify themselves as an American? Like the whole 'melting pot' thing! WHACK ( with 2x4 )!!! Do you get it now?

I'm not a big supporter of the Monarchy but I've become very Churchillian about it. When someone invents a system better than our Constitutional Monarchy we can look at it. Lived my whole life under the reign of QE2 and can't think of anything bad to say about her. Other people petty enough to have said enough already.

Just came back from a wedding reception for an old friends daughter. Her daughter introduced me to her big brother who was once her big sister who worked for me years ago, and his trans spouse who used to be a he. The hosts daughter sat with us, she's gay. Her spouse looks very butch but identifies as a gay woman. The host pointed out another guy, who was with a woman at least 20 years older than him. She did so because HE was wearing fishnet stockings, and my brain just assumed by the way they were standing that those were her legs, not his. Big brother and his gf were so thrilled when I said I still had a paper mache dragon 'she' had made in Grade 10 they hauled me outside to check out their new Tesla and we spent half an hour talking and being shown all it's features. They'd driven way farther than me to get to the party in it. FFS it's 2022 the world is different. From me and the Mom, once an item and both single again being more interested in the damn 11 o'clock news and nodding out, to the 'kids' of all identities who'd wear out the words censors on this forum within 5 minutes into a flaming heap to a 62 yr old host that skipped out to a 'more fun' party until dawn. Nobody cares if you 'don't like it', that's the way it is.

Seem to recall a GG causing a shitstorm for saying she was the Head of State when in all reality but paper, she was. Or to be more exact the Acting Head of State... also seems to me young people don't want to live in Soviet era blockhouses or ghetto zones like some US cities, they want an affordable single family dwelling like they grew up in. One that has that greenspace nearby. Which needs space that ain't available in Toronto/Vancouver. Sweet F.A. to do with climate change, carbon tax, environmentalism. With the absurd value of land near the city, industry and jobs will move. Just too damn slowly. Too bad, judging by there's never any bread on the shelf at SaveOn that Alberta, Sask & Manitoba just up and disappeared. Was lots of liveable space there once.

It's actually improving them. Your whole gripe is about you having to use money from your pocket too.

3 distinct statements and you can't even reply to one, just pretend their about something else. My dog can do better.

I wanted to buy a Trumpy bear because it would make a good camping pillow and even had a secret compartment with emergency toilet paper in it! BTW you forgot "what about Benghazi" in your distraction and diversion campaign.

No he won't because only you butt stubborn deniers think Climate change and environmental issues are a partisan issue. You've staked your claim to that ignorance. Bullshit. Only Quebec and native territories have any claim to nationhood. Nobody else has a distinct ethnicity, culture or language. To the Commonwealth countries 'celebrating' the death of a colonialist': QE2 was the one who presided over your de-colonization you effing half wits. Kicked Rhodesia out of the Commonwealth, supported ant-apartheid efforts in S Africa... duhh!

Driving is a joy and you'll always be able to. It will just cost you more. It's 2022 and you can't ski all weekend at Whistler for $20 anymore either. Think about current stupidities. Why can I fly to Amsterdam cheaper than to Toronto or Halifax?

Trump once said he could shoot someone in front of the cameras and get away with it. Guess what? 44 pages of arguing with his hand picked jury....

Knees and puckered arseholes aren't good at 1st thoughts let alone 2nd... was gonna remind city hall to set their flag at half mast, the thought would've never crossed their blockhead minds. But they don't even have a Canadian flag flying.....

So if she slept with Andrew because he was a Royal, she was just a f***ing groupie. If she felt she couldn't say no because he was a Royal he was a rapist. If Epstein paid her to, he was a pimp. If she actually got paid to do him, she was a hooker If you think 17.5 is jailbait and 18.0 is just fine, you're an intransigent blockhead. Go supply your local High School with chastity belts to give out with the free condoms. The thread's about the Queen's passing not anyone else.

Remove the location from your profile lest your racist BS give other Albertans a bad name. You've just made your opinions worthless to normal people with them.

You're going out of your way to be disgusting or what? And keep in mind by everywhere else in the world's age of consent rules, he's not.

That I agree with, no Charles on the money. Put the beaver from the old penny back on coins and the $20 And when there's enough opposition to the Monarchy avoid the use of Republic completely, elect the GG with zero additional powers. Sign off on shit, go to international parties and wave from the convertible, that's it.

You seem to have missed my point entirely. The USA is one nation, Europe is many. Even your Austria-Hungary analogy was off as the ethnic groups were in specific areas with nationalist desires. The USA resolved it's national issues in 1865 and they were not of ethnic or cultural issues. But how do you associate 'sophistication' to a nation where (mostly) - utter fascination with guns? - insistence that everyone else in the world's medical system is 'socialist' - insistence to the creed that the rights of individuals exceeds the interests of the whole - stubborn clinging to an antiquated system of measurements that is little more than a form of hidden trade protectionism - massive political ignorance, the inability to distinguish the many levels of political views other than "left" or "right"

New oval shaped coins to accommodate Chuck's big ears? I agree the thread title is inappropriate for such a solemn event. She was a damn good Queen as far as matters of Monarchy and the state go, her personal family issues were MYOB

The trees around you are burning, the neighbour's house is getting washed away, your money buys less and less, your kids will never afford a home, wages are stagnant and there's shortages of labour everywhere, But the same blockheads steer every discussion on anything into hot air about gender pronouns, who's behind the bathroom door, McCarthy era red-bashing, etc. as if those are the important issues, while utterly denying everything happening around them. There is no surplus they're lying, it's a quarterly surplus so it's not real, etc. We should be discussing what they should DO with the surplus and my two cents says nothing. No pay down anything at this time, no spending it just because there is one.