Things that are different in Canada

[Bambooza]

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Ya, go tell those filthy affiliates they need to get off the fence.

 

[LoicFarris]

I'm gonna say one last thing on this topic that I think we can all agree on. I am TEST Squadron, just like you all are. We all Rally behind our leader and we all cover each others backs. So let's the first bas

$1600/mo and $5k deductible?
Have you ever considered getting a dual citizenship so you could just fly to some other country and get treated there? Because I think that would only be the fraction of the cost.

Yes, as a matter of fact my wife and kids have dual citizenship and they have flown to Europe several times for dental work. The issue with me is that I need to live there for 6 months w/o working before I can get citizenship through my Wife.

 

[Bambooza]

I skipped all the stuff about Health Care, to get down here, and say, as a Canadian, I love Murica, and I have had so many adventures there. Also, there is a hilarious series of videos @Montoya can watch that will help him understand his new country.

At the end of the day, this is so true. Many adventures the world over. Unless you're in Australia then it's just fear all the time.

 

[Sraika]

There is a series of Labatt Blue commercials featuring Voyager's dodging the British, and commenting on how much better Canada will be once it discovers Beer.
Unfortunately, I believe they were taken off the internet because they were products of their time.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwLIkwsP0w


this is the only one i could find :(

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwLIkwsP0w


this is the only one i could find :(

Yeah me too.
I sent Labatt an email asking for all 6 to be put on YouTube or mailed to me

 

[Phil]

Lmao that Front fell off video, classic!! I was going to make a Boeing comment but felt it was to insensitive.

 

[Tealwraith]

I guess you stopped paying that social security and medicare to eh? The car insurance your required by law to have? There are many state laws that require you to have or do something you may not want to do, does that make your state a socialist state? Some states require helmets when riding a motorcycle I guess that's a socialist state lol. Its amazing people have been paying social security for damn near a century and here we are demonizing healthcare as if it would make the country a socialist country by simply adopting one aspect in thousands that would make a country a socialist country, by many standards the fact that people toss that word around so lightly you in fact lessen the manner in which people who are and were socialist and had to actually live in a socialist country.

There are many reasons why everyone should have access to healthcare, one example is why should I or anyone else have to pay higher premiums because some loser (presumably you) decided not to get healthcare and gets run over by a truck and lives in a coma for 10 years on the tax payers dime that I pay??? Or the dumb answer the uninsured usually come up with is (pull the plug) but that's not how the real world works, every time some non insured or underinsured drip walks or gets driven in an ambulance to the emergency room the people who actually pay for insurance rates go up to fill that gap, but I guess if people actually did research instead of beating the I am American, freedom, independence drum you might actually get the point.

:)

Well, here's the thing. You are not required to have a car so you don't have to buy insurance for your nonexistent car. The government doesn't say, "You have to buy car insurance as soon as you are legal age to drive even if you don't own a car." If you don't like helmet laws, don't drive a vehicle that requires a helmet. Social security and medicare ARE socialist and should be scrapped. NO ONE has a right to medical care. The government doesn't have a right to tax you for breathing, but that is what the PPACA is.

 

[Phil]

Well, here's the thing. You are not required to have a car so you don't have to buy insurance for your nonexistent car. The government doesn't say, "You have to buy car insurance as soon as you are legal age to drive even if you don't own a car." If you don't like helmet laws, don't drive a vehicle that requires a helmet. Social security and medicare ARE socialist and should be scrapped. NO ONE has a right to medical care. The government doesn't have a right to tax you for breathing, but that is what the PPACA is.

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Lmao oh boy he went there....

The government doesn't say you have to have a job either, you could technically live in the woods and never work if you can sustain yourself...… is that where this is headed now??? lmao

P.S. Something tells me we got a Libertarian in our midst!

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Citizens, calm yourselves.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and is of course entitled to express it. You, in turn, are entitled to agree or disagree.

But remember while It is true that no one is exempt from the consequences of expressing their opinion, it is also true no one is exempt from the consequences of disagreeing with another persons opinions.

Feel free to express yourselves but retain civility.

Now that said, time for a song:

View: https://youtu.be/yq4uCWtQE24?t=15

 

[Blind Owl]

Feel free to express yourselves but retain civility.

Concur. We can all play nice.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

Concur. We can all play nice.

That we can. Not aimed at anyone inparticular, these are subjects that run in to the very core of peoples values and things like that can cause feeling and reactions to them to run hot.

We are the best, because Test Squadron, Best Squardon!

 

[Blind Owl]

That we can. Not aimed at anyone inparticular, these are subjects that run in to the very core of peoples values and things like that can cause feeling and reactions to them to run hot.

We are the best, because Test Squadron, Best Squardon!

Amen to that brother. This is why things like politics and religion are best left at home. No matter the intentions, these discussions can easily escalate into territory that is unhealthy for a group as large and diverse as ours.

 

[Bambooza]

Amen to that brother. This is why things like politics and religion are best left at home. No matter the intentions, these discussions can easily escalate into territory that is unhealthy for a group as large and diverse as ours.

How about you can talk politics and religion so long as you continue to buy everyone a round of beers?

 

[Blind Owl]

How about you can talk politics and religion so long as you continue to buy everyone a round of beers?

Jesus man, I'm a soldier, how much money do you think I have so fuck yeah, let's drink!!

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

So i got an email back from Labatt. Turns out they do not own the rights to their commercials from the 1995 run of "Voyager Explorers Avoid English Troops After Relations with Noble Lady". Or something. I made that title up. But that was what happened. There was cliff jumping and angry Brits. It was glorious, and so will the future be, once we establish the Labatt Blue Brewery.
Or something like that.
You guys were mentioning politics?

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

So HOW do I delve deeper? I want those commercials!
Should I email back and say "Who owns the rights?", and see what lawyer jargon I get?
that's my first inclination, and I encourage you all to give me advice on how better to recover a 90's beer commercial quintessential to Canadian Citizenship Exams.

 

[NaffNaffBobFace]

So HOW do I delve deeper? I want those commercials!
Should I email back and say "Who owns the rights?", and see what lawyer jargon I get?
that's my first inclination, and I encourage you all to give me advice on how better to recover a 90's beer commercial quintessential to Canadian Citizenship Exams.

If it was as awesome an ad as it sounds it may have been bought by the British Government and destroyed.

I reccomend you get some drunk mates, a Cam-Corder and recreate it in it's entirety and put that on YouTube. Before too long the original will come out of nowhere to show you how bad you did in recalling the ad in its entirety.

 

[Blind Owl]

So HOW do I delve deeper? I want those commercials!
Should I email back and say "Who owns the rights?", and see what lawyer jargon I get?
that's my first inclination, and I encourage you all to give me advice on how better to recover a 90's beer commercial quintessential to Canadian Citizenship Exams.

If it was as awesome an ad as it sounds it may have been bought by the British Government and destroyed.

I reccomend you get some drunk mates, a Cam-Corder and recreate it in it's entirety and put that on YouTube. Before too long the original will come out of nowhere to show you how bad you did in recalling the ad in its entirety.

This sounds like a totally viable plan!

 

[Sraika]

So HOW do I delve deeper? I want those commercials!
Should I email back and say "Who owns the rights?", and see what lawyer jargon I get?
that's my first inclination, and I encourage you all to give me advice on how better to recover a 90's beer commercial quintessential to Canadian Citizenship Exams.

i suspect that'll have to be the next step.
i've done a bit more research and discovered that the commercial series was aired in 1994, but i haven't had an luck finding who filmed them or who might actually own the rights

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

If it was as awesome an ad as it sounds it may have been bought by the British Government and destroyed.

I reccomend you get some drunk mates, a Cam-Corder and recreate it in it's entirety and put that on YouTube. Before too long the original will come out of nowhere to show you how bad you did in recalling the ad in its entirety.

This sounds like a totally viable plan!

i suspect that'll have to be the next step.
i've done a bit more research and discovered that the commercial series was aired in 1994, but i haven't had an luck finding who filmed them or who might actually own the rights

So what I plan to do is drink more beer and hope someone else fixes the problem.
hey @Blind Owl you got some spare time?