Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> >I'm in Canada, and  we all resent how Americans think they are superior
> >than us. I got flamed for being a "gay Canadian" in a chat room once
> >because I mentioned I live in Toronto. Shocking, but not very suprising,
> >sadly.
>
> Doesn't sound like much of a flame to me...
>
> Matt.
> the (expatriate) gay Canadian
Well, reading this thread, there does seem to be something if not derogatory
then at least dismissive associated with calling someone Canadian. Something
to do with universal healthcare and funny diphthongs, apparently.

In British humorous cliche, Belgium is the paradigm example of the place
nothing and noone remarkable comes from, except for chips eaten with
mayo. We of course have a surfeit of funny diphthongs from all over the place
and also have universal healthcare, though for us it is Scandinavia that
serves as the paragon of insufferable amounts of equitability and social
justice (for me personally, the epitome of this is Ikea, a Saturday spent
in which is the closest I have come to hell on earth; the basic principle
behind this store is to distribute suffering and misery equally, by ensuring
that the wage-slaved proletarian staff provide no service whatever to the
bourgeois clientele who sovietly herd in lumpen mass through labyrinths of
progressively designed swedishry, obediently hauling like volgaboatmen wagons
laden with flatpack pineveneered chipboard wardrobes. Have a nice day? No
way; when you leave, it's Fuck Off and Think Yourself Lucky for Having
Visited an Outpost of our Nordic Utopia).

--And.