guess i need to join a gym
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Wasn't one of the points of Bowling for Columbine that you do receive guns willy-nilly in Canada?
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I'm seriously considering moving to Canada once I get my degree. It just seems nicer up there all around.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
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ironically, i was just called into an emergency meeting where i found out that they are totally 'restructuring' my agency. which translates to ten times more work for me with no raise. i am considering quitting.
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what, the majority of you need a workout for your little fingers? so you can hit 'shift' with more force?
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Every gun in Canada has to be registered and you need an extensive background check to get one so I don't think that was the point. The point was that it was not that much harder in Canada to get a legal gun, the difference is that in the US they are offering them everywhere... anywayxfer said:Well, yeah, it was.
Willy-nilly means all over with little regulation.
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His point wasn't about the availability of guns, but the gun culture. The gun-in-the-bank scene was one of the dumber scenes in the film because it was more about the availability than anything else. But Moore knew that and played the scene for laughs, rather than to make a legitimate point. I think he must have realised it didn't really make one, so he didn't try too hard.
the last time i was in school i went insane. i'm not so sure what exactly to do with myself either. since i just told MIT to fuck off about 5 months ago.
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I did not say it was his main point. His main point in my opinion was not the gun culture but the fear of everything. As he shows quite clearly in the movie, american culture is afraid of everything ("Tonight on the 6 o'clock news: how the water you drink can hurt your children and actually kill your dog.") And the result of the fear is to stock guns to "protect yourself". The most important part of the movie was when he walks in the Toronto neighborhood and open doors that are unlocked, this shows the difference in culture.xfer said:
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Ironically, no one is a bigger purveyor of fear than Michael Moore.
And that walking-around-opening-doors is meaningless. I could make a film where I do that in the U.S., but I don't think it would make the point any more.
And that walking-around-opening-doors is meaningless. I could make a film where I do that in the U.S., but I don't think it would make the point any more.
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Sure you could do that, lost in Iowa or Omaha (no offense to citizens of those two states). I don't think you could do that in any of the major cities in the US, at least not in the ones I have been in (Boston, NY, Philly, Miami probably more but I can't remember right now). Toronto is the biggest city in Canada, 5 millions in population, should not be considered a small friendly city...xfer said:
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You could do it in any American city that's as significant as Toronto, and even some of those that are more significant. Boston, for example.
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Well, I guess we'll have to meet and do that. No way to finish this in any other fashionxfer said:
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Well, my point is it doesn't matter whether you can do it or not. I like Moore, but he's an activist-leaning entertainer, not an entertaining activist.
