WAAAY OT: Superbowl Weekend & Sin City

[Hammer Bart]

See my post above.


BTW, the Netherlands is one country I'd love to visit. Not so much for the pot & prostitutes, but for the Historical aspect.... I'd love to see some of the memorials.
I've read that Canadians are rather popular in your country.

LOL read it and I can imagine Windsor residents going "WTF?"

Reminds me of the euthanasia thing going on in the states a while ago. Dutch television showed part of an American show: an anti-euthanasia spokesman was warning US citizens for the Dutch situation where helpless people were supposedly being killed by lazy doctors all the time. Some people are just completely unhindered by knowledge. The Dutch ambassador even felt he had to make some public appearances to counter the weird stories that were starting to spread around.

I guess people over here think of Canadians as peaceful and tolerant, so there could be some truth to what you've read. I don't think many foreigners would come here mostly for the memorials. Do they have special significance to you or is it just your general interest for things like that?

 

[Glenn Fricker]

I don't think many foreigners would come here mostly for the memorials. Do they have special significance to you or is it just your general interest for things like that?

Well, actually, a lot of Windsor boys were directly involved in the liberation of Holland from the Nazis. I've read & heard a lot of stories... so yeah, I'd like to see where all that stuff happened. Actually, I'd love to do one large historical trip thu Europe. Go see some of the old airbases in England, the landing site at Dieppe (again, Windsor regiment) Juno beach, Holland, Belguim, etc...

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Speaking of which, if you take the time to think about it, you'll notice several uncanny similarities between my country right now and Germany circa 1930-33.

(No offense, my fine German brothers!)

 

[Disconnekt]

And, for those of you who haven't figured it out, the only reason that pot is still illegal in the US is because the pharmaceutical giants would lose billions. Because unlike thier products, pot actually works.

I don't smoke pot, but I don't give a shit if people do, and I think it's ridiculous and contrary to the spirit of freedom for such a harmless substance to be outlawed and so aggressively prosecuted as it is here in America. Besides the pharmaceutical companies, I think the tobacco giants would be shitting bricks if marijuana were legalized, since their product would no longer be the only "acceptable" smoking product, and on top of that, it would become the inferior one. Big tobacco has quite a bit of pull in Congress.