So JFK is coming back before Jesus?

Newsweek - QAnon Believers Claim JFK Jr. Will 'Reappear' in Dallas, Declare Donald Trump President

Guess they made a monkey of everyone huh?


Jesus Christ, they have their own language, don't they? About fifty percent of that article means nothing to me! KYC? Air drop? AMA? I wonder what our own Cryptocurrency Baron, Mindfulness, thinks of it all?

Air Canada CEO says he's lived in Montreal 'without speaking French' for 14 years


One of the biggest news stories in Canada at the moment.

I used to despise anglos living in Montreal and refusing to learn French but these days my gf is an American who I've accepted is never going to learn a foreign language and I still want her to live in Montreal with me so I guess that means my stance has softened.

Ah you're a weird Quebec nationalist. That's a puzzle piece falling into place.

On some definitions I guess I am: language is a crucial element in most nationalisms, though it also happens to be the only one I care about in this case.

The vast majority of Montreal anglos (there are distinctly working class Anglophone pockets in Quebec where it's not the case) have every opportunity to learn French yet choose to preserve their parochial monolinguism because they're damn proud of it. To me that's a much weirder choice than making the effort to learn a language that gives you access to both plenty of jobs and the prose stylings of Marcel Proust.

What makes Montreal special is the linguistic situation, a majority Francophone city on the margin of the most culturally hegemonic empire the world has ever known. That would be a shame to lose. Who needs another Toronto etc.

So you're an effete university intellectual heaping scorn on the common folk who don't talk good. Charming.

This makes no sense if you know the first thing about Anglophones vs Francophones in Montreal but knock yourself out with this "material analysis"

I have to be honest, I don't speak French but whenever I watch a movie in Quebecois French, it hurts my ears. Sounds like some kind of bastardized peasant version of French. I imagine the French are not very happy with how that turned out. :/

I'm going by your analysis, bud, but if they're not poor then I guess they don't need to learn French to get a decent job. They still need to if they want to read some Frenchie writer, cause learning a whole 'nother language for the sake of casual reading is a reasonable expectation to have.

Effete university intellectual is absolutely accurate though. Little tip if you don't want to out yourself as an undercover alien preparing the way for an invasion: don't use "parochial" while looking down on us ignorant humans.

Yeah it's very rarely singled out for its beauty and the peasant bit is not wrong... Though the irony is that its sounds are actually closer to French as it was spoken in certain regions of France in the 17th century compared to the Parisian French of today, which is the more recent evolution. Colonies are always more linguistically conservative than the metropolis, so if you want to hear some of the vowels that were part of various regional dialects in earlier French and have since disappeared in standard French, Canada is where you want to go (certain parts of New Brunswick too: Acadian French has some things in common with the French of Rabelais).

The vocabulary is of course way Americanized (despite inordinate pride in not saying le parking and le weekend like the French do) and you have varieties of both Quebecois and Acadian French that have been derided as bastardizations by speakers of both dialects.

You're just butthurt because you're an ignorant American who doesn't speak a second language. :)

Interesting, something similar happened with Spanish and Portuguese. Although Brazilian Portuguese is one of the rare examples where the colonial version is actually significantly more beautiful than the original. :love:

You're just butthurt you had to learn English cause we own your bitchass.

I'm not butthurt at all, I love English and languages in general and was lucky enough to live in a small and insignificant country where everything is subtitled which helped a lot in learning a few... :)

Vice Media - Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data

Lolwut

All you did is make guesses and form assumptions about a reality you know nothing about based on a post containing brief references to said reality (“analysis”). I would suggest trying to suspend your judgment more often because that’s how you learn new things as opposed to projecting your preconceptions on everything, but tbh it’s hard to do this in a conversation with someone you dislike.

I love listening to their football commentators. The player everyone knows as Ronaldinho for them is Hooonalzheeeeenio

Well when you call a group "parochial" and impugn their job prospects how is one supposed to interpret that?

And I don't know you well enough to dislike you. Right now you're just a digital windmill to tilt at.

Maybe the following analogy would be helpful:

Imagine if you will that there was a majority-Hispanophone US state (let's say on the Mexican border) and in it you had enclaves of Anglophones who were too proud of their historical status as the dominant group to deign to learn Spanish. Things have definitely changed since they were fully in control of the financial and education sectors and the Hispanophones were downtrodden factory workers whose education system was ran by the Catholic church. Many Anglophones are still very gainfully employed in private firms in the financial sector, but cushy government jobs are no longer accessible to them after a law was passed that you need to show a level of proficiency in Spanish to work there. There are fewer and fewer schools where their children can study in English and you need to jump through hoops to get in.

Now the state authorities are going out of their way to encourage the Anglophone minority to learn Spanish. Language courses are free and you get welfare while you're taking them. And of course there's the added bonus: culture. If you know Spanish you gain access to a world of cultural riches, to one of the world's most widely spoken languages.

And yet there's still a significant proportion of Anglophones who refuse to learn it because they have an idea of "heritage" that includes being superior to those who speak Spanish.

Of course there are many nuances I've conveniently left out, but the people I described as "parochial" share certain traits with those in the deep south who fly the confederate flag today. Their idea of the supremacy of anglo protestantism is very stupid and exclusionary.

Sounds like you'd be better off seizing the means of production from them rather than just being dumb nationalists right back at them.

Why use so many paragraphs when you can just use whatever the n word is for Quebeckers and be done with it?

Snow frogs?

I do not want to believe that....what fun is a copse for heaven or hell's sake..where is the sick bucket when you need it....

Ask Jimmy Savile :(

Also I assume you meant a corpse not one of these
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although that "wood" ( ;) ) be much easier on the eye...

:love:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...00-drug-cases/

Disgusting that she's only got 3 years inside.

That news story is from 5 years ago!

Did you hear about the WTO riots?

So is that member! Hi Vanilla! :love:

https://i.ibb.co/V2Kh8FC/d6e18d0e-77...5-1140x641.jpg
COMING SOON: Funding Secured for Train Service Between Quad Cities and Chicago
https://www.wqad.com/article/enterta...=snd-autopilot

See ya in 15 years :wavey:

lol

I feel bad for Galesburg,Ill now because no one from the whole quad cities area won't need their train station anymore.
I am wondering where these train tracks and station will be in quad cities too.
guess i should probably read the article lol

wtf lol
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