[excon]

Hello:

Yes, I love dispensing all my hard earned info, but I'm here to learn too. You? What have you learned?

I'll start: Canadians are all shoplifters. Ok, OK, that's not so... But, something's funny up there...

What quirks of humanity have you picked up here?

excon

[valinors_sorrow]

I have had something interesting confirmed by traveling the "real" world and the internet extensively that is reflected in this site as well ----- that people are people wherever they are! LOL Cyber space, and the anonymity it affords, changes essentially nothing. I think I just may have travelled enough and met soooo many kinds of people already that I just may have seen the range of what's possible with people before I arrived here? Well at least lots and lots of it anyway. Watches with dismay as my humility flies right out da window, cyber or not. Gawd :o

This is not to say I am done learning. Cultural differences, for instance, are still getting filled in. Such as Canada (I hate to use them again but it really is all that comes to mind easily)... I did not realise there may be a grain of truth to the US joke that in Canada, it was the 90's before the 80's caught on there LOL :rolleyes: So maybe that explains the shoplifting in some really wacked out way? :p Beats the heck out of drug deals and driveby shootings!

[JoeCanada76]

Oh, Amen about Canada. I am so happy that everybody is learning so much about Canada, eh! Lol. Well I am so glad that we are behind the times, but they are catching up to us and I hope that it does not turn into an american state sometime soon. That would be a disaster waiting to happen. Here is one. All of Canadian money has brail on it for the blind. We are blind friendly up here to. Some of the biblical americans, bible belt americans are so so serious. They do not have a sense of humour. OMG it is so scary down there.

Joe

[valinors_sorrow]

Oh, Amen about Canada. I am so happy that everybody is learning so much about Canada, eh! lol. Well I am so glad that we are behind the times, but they are catching up to us and I hope that it does not turn into an american state sometime soon. That would be a disaster waiting to happen. Here is one. All of Canadian money has brail on it for the blind. We are blind friendly up here to. Some of the biblical americans, bible belt americans are so so serious. They do not have a sense of humour. OMG it is so scary down there.

Joe

Not to turn this into a discussion thread on Canada but I totally agree, Joe. Canadians have some really forward thinking going on there too. The US should take notice, I think! My mother's family was from Petersborough and I always liked their vocabulary, eh?

Added in after Excon's post: On a non-Canadian but hopefully more to the original topic note LOL I will admit that two of the strangest people I have ever met are Erhard Werner, founder of something like Scientology called EST who now lives in the Cayman Islands, I think and Benny Hinn, the preacher who fled Orlando for the more accepting Californian culture. No one here at AMHD has even begun to equate to what I experienced with them. I think it was not just them but the fact that they garnered so many followers that fancinated too.

[excon]

Hello val:

Werner Erhard is a nice Jewish boy named Jack Rosenberg. He's from Philly. His stuff is far out there. That's why I subscribe to it. But, he ain't no cannuk.

excon

[valinors_sorrow]

Hello val:

Werner Erhard is a nice Jewish boy named Jack Rosenberg. He's from Philly. His stuff is far out there. That's why I subscribe to it. But, he ain't no cannuk.

excon

Please forgive the confusion I created but... I think that's why it was in a separate paragraph, nyuk nyuk nyuk (gives Excon the Two Stooges handshake!) :p

[Allheart]

Hi there,

Great question excon. Well, first, right out of the gate, I learned that I have NO CLUE what the cockels of my heart are either... ;) Something I need to work on..

In all seriousness, this may sound as though prior to me arriving here, my head was immersed in deep waters, perhaps it was:rolleyes: , but what has amazed me, and still does, is that men feel the same pain and anguish with a break-up in a relationship. Not only that, they are able to express it so deeply.

I guess this is so enlightening for me, as , I mostly heard heartaches from my girlfriends and sisters and of course the lovely experiences I have had. Since I have no brothers, I never witnessed first hand a man's perspective nor saw his pain, as I have, sadly so much on this site.

I guess what I have learned is that it is not always the girl whose heart gets broke, or is cast away for another, men go through the same difficult and painful experiences. Sounds so incredioulis now that I type this that I should have realized this, but as I said, I never truly witnessed a man's pain and from where I sit, the hurt cuts just as deeply for men. It is a sad realization, as I never like to see anyone in pain, but also did give me a great deal of insight and compassion for the male population who experience the same levels of pain.

[valinors_sorrow]

Does a little happy dance all over Allheart's post as it really thrills me to pieces and warms all my cockles and then some (oops that didn't come out right LOL) to see anyone anywhere at anytime... close the gap on any kind of "them v. us" deal.

BRAVO! with a standing ovation. I mean it.

[Allheart]

Awww thanks Val. It does feel good to learn and grow and I am so amazed or should I say slightly embarressed that I never even knew that men suffer just as much. I didn't think they didn't, it was more so I just was more exposed to young ladies broken hearts.

Thanks for the standing O... and boy you sure can cut a rug :)... Keep dancing :)

[Thomas1970]

Hello:

Yes, I love dispensing all my hard earned info, but I'm here to learn too. You? What have you learned?

I'll start: Canadians are all shoplifters. Ok, ok, that's not so.... But, something's funny up there...

What quirks of humanity have you picked up here?

excon

Robin Williams once described Canada as "a loft apartment over a really good party." Frankly, I'll hang out in the loft any time. I'm not really the partying type most of the time. :)

[Thomas1970]

This is not to say I am done learning. Cultural differences, for instance, are still getting filled in. Such as Canada (I hate to use them again but it really is all that comes to mind easily) .... I did not realise there may be a grain of truth to the US joke that in Canada, it was the 90's before the 80's caught on there LOL :rolleyes: So maybe that explains the shoplifting in some really wacked out way?? :p Beats the heck outta drug deals and driveby shootings!

As far as the shoplifting goes... They did call the eighties the "me generation." Unparalleld greed on an unprecedented scale. Anyone remember the bumper sticker, "The one who dies with the most toys wins"? Not everyone can afford expensive toys. :)
By the way, got any "yuppies" up there yet?

[MaverickSS]

Oh, Amen about Canada. I am so happy that everybody is learning so much about Canada, eh! lol. Well I am so glad that we are behind the times, but they are catching up to us and I hope that it does not turn into an american state sometime soon.

Joe

Behind the times? I'd hate to argue that point lol. But if the jist is to imply that Canada is behind the United States, that is wrong. Canada is up to speed with the US. We are fully Americanized, Westernized, whatever you want to call us.
Ironic thing is, on a global scale (developing countries aside) North America as a whole, is behind the rest of the world, at least technology wise.
Ever notice that all the new little gadgets that come to North America from Japan have already been in Japan for ages?
A friend of mine is from South Africa. He has been here for three years. 8 months ago he returned to South Africa for a few weeks. According to him (no I don't have any reason to believe he is making this up) North America is just beginning to get the electronics - cell phones, mp3 players, PDA's, etc - that have been around in South Africa for months already.
Kind of funny to think about the "most powerful nation on earth" being behind half the world in these matters. :p

[Thomas1970]

Yeah, but much of South Africa is Dutch. The Dutch have been trading with the Japanese for centuries. They were giving them guns when Samurai were still in existence. They've always been a bit ahead of the curve there. :)

[Nez]

We used to have a commercial in the UK,produced by the Canadian tourist board,that said "arrive as a tourist...leave as a friend" :)
Just one point,which I hope someone can clear up.If you have US dollars,and travel to Canada,you can spend them,but Canadians cannot spend their money in the US?

[J_9]

Oh, Nez. I haven't thought about that for a long time. When I lived in Michigan Canadian money was very spendable. When I moved to Tennessee and had some Canadian coin, they looked at me like a was strange because I tried to spend a Canadian quarter!