903: What's Yours is Mine

[batlash]

Originally Posted by rodimusprime

How cute. Ya'll even have diet racism. Or do you call it racism lite?

Racism lite? Do you have a government organization put in place just to make sure that you speak another language in the workplace - or that on signs that english is HALF the size of anything written in french?

[DarkKnightJared]

Y'know, I've never quite got this whole thing about how Canada is infinately nicer. It always felt more of a passive-aggressive form of nationalism then an actual declarative statement.

From McNally's rant about New York, when he gets to how "People never litter in Canada!" and "Canadians know about commonwealth property!" it got particuarly annoying. I'm not saying this as a blast to McNally--from the sounds of it, it's more just you letting steam out after a nasty breakup and homesickness and chosing NYC as your punching bag--but I'm certain that if I had the same amount of problems as he did and lived in a major city another country away, I would find plenty of things to bitch about.

Anyway, to get away from me pratically ranting about someone elses rant, one thing on the show I'm surprised wasn't discussed here was the NYU protest. When I heard about this and reactions from the protesters, I remembered an article from a blog I semi-regularly read called Colihouse about the "Protest Culture." Some young people protest because they have beliefs and genuinely want to change things. Some get an adreduline rush fucking with the man and have a good chance at getting laid. Some even think that it's their job as young people in college to do some sort of protesting.

Praying for Rain: Protest Culture's Gnarled Husk -- Colihouse.net

[McNally]

You're definitely on target about the homesickness/breakup angle. However, that doesn't make New York not a rat infested garbage dump.

[revenant]

Even from Chemda and Keith's own descriptions it sounds like a shitty place to live... even though they seem to love it. That whole saga about being a waiter and being treated like shit, etc. was totally new to me as I never got any of that in Vancouver.

Oh, and McNally, here waiters do get a wage in addition to the tips, right?

[McNally]

It's canadian minimum wage, so $8 an hour in BC, but yeah, they do. I had a girlfriend who worked at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Gastown, and in the summer she fucking cleaned up. The tips were insane, and then the paycheck was just gravy. Made my porn store wages look pathetic in comparison. But my stories were better.

[DarkKnightJared]

Originally Posted by McNally

You're definitely on target about the homesickness/breakup angle. However, that doesn't make New York not a rat infested garbage dump.

Oh, I'm not saying it isn't. I just doubt that Canada doesn't have it's garbage dumps, either.

[revenant]

Yeah, I know people like that. I used to work at a Bread Garden in Kitsilano for $8/hr and a share of whatever was in the tip jar at the end of the night ($1-5, we didn't have tipping at the table). It wasn't much, but I was young and lived with my parents at the time so it wasn't bad either - definitely not a negative cheque.

[revenant]

Originally Posted by DarkKnightJared

Oh, I'm not saying it isn't. I just doubt that Canada doesn't have it's garbage dumps, either.

It does - it's called Toronto and it's like a mini-NY. That's why it's such a garbage dump.

[McNally]

I'm curious to check out Toronto. In Canada, you hear a lot of bad things. But New Yorkers seem to have nice things to say about it. Maybe it's a happy middle.

I don't think anywhere else in North America is quite like New York. I didn't understand the magnitude of it before I came. Its population dwarfs other American cities. It's got double the people of Los Angeles. The gross national product of the Tri-State Area alone is on par with all of Canada. The place is a fucking crazy house.

[revenant]

HAHAHAHA, no wonder New Yorkers like it. It's just enough like home, but with enough of a Canadian touch as to seem nice. You might not hate it as much as NY, but you will hate it. It has smog, garbage, rude people... all the things NY is known for but on a lesser scale. That's my perspective having lived only in Vancouver and Richmond in BC, and that of my friends from here.