... copyright which is a fixed time. Unless you're a big corporation (think Disney), in which case you make some large donations to the right politicans and just keep getting your copyrights (like 75+ year-old Mickey Mouse) extended -- a total perversion of the intent of copyright law.
You politically-correct idiot!
From EnglishPlus.com - In standard written English the possessive pronoun his is used to refer to a singular indefinite pronoun...
If you don't like English, choose another language. But don't bastardize my language with your silly PC-speak.
If you live in Toronto and go to a pub is pretty easy to spot the American's over the border for the weekend because they tend towards rude, pushy and snotty.
Those aren't Americans, they're Yankees. Or, as we call them here in the South, Damn Yankees. It's Canada's misfortune to border the North and, thus, to have to interact with so many Damn Yankees. It's my misfortune to have to share a country with them. (Actually, we offered to split it, but they preferred war.)
Unfortunately, it seems that Yankees travel abroad more than the rest of the country, so the world thinks all Americans are like them (rude, obnoxious, arrogant, ignorant, etc.). When I travel, I invariably get called a 'Yank.' Of course, I object, but doing so is usually pointless, as:
Most of the world is ignorant of American history, geography, culture, etc.
Or they don't care to be disabused of their stereotypes, because hating America and Americans is so fun.
I did however, after a number of years, get my Australian girlfriend to understand the difference:
Recently she attended the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin. She and her friends arrived shortly before the parade was to begin, which meant they had to stand behind several rows of people who had arrived earlier. Then a family with young children arrived. The parents asked the people ahead of them if their children could move to the front. Everyone agreed except for a bunch on the front row. One of those women, in an American (New York) accent, exclaimed that she had arrived at 6 a.m. and that "no one is getting in front of me." The rest of my girlfriend's entourage (Brits, Irish, Australians, Spanish, etc.) cursed Americans, but she, correctly, cursed the 'Damn Yankees.'
By the way, the workplace, not to mention office Christmas parties, used to be a lot more fun in America, but over-legislation by our politicians and over-suing by our lawyers killed it. From the corporate perspective, better to be boring than to risk lawsuits.
One last anecdote:
A few years ago, I went to Vancouver for a week and stayed at a H.I. (Hostelling International) hostel. Every night there were hostel sponsored events at local pubs. I had a lot of fun drinking and flirting with foreign young ladies. Next I went down to Seattle and stayed in another H.I. hostel there. I arrived in the evening and was in the mood to go out for a drink. So, not knowing anyone there, I figured my best bet would be to go on a hostel sponsored outing. I dropped by the front desk and asked if there were any pub-crawls, etc. planned for that night. The guy working at the desk said, "No, not tonight nor any other night. This is America; we would end up getting sued if we had anything like that."
-R.L.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
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... copyright which is a fixed time.
Unless you're a big corporation (think Disney), in which case you make some large donations to the right politicans and just keep getting your copyrights (like 75+ year-old Mickey Mouse) extended -- a total perversion of the intent of copyright law.
From EnglishPlus.com - In standard written English the possessive pronoun his is used to refer to a singular indefinite pronoun
If you don't like English, choose another language. But don't bastardize my language with your silly PC-speak.
Those aren't Americans, they're Yankees. Or, as we call them here in the South, Damn Yankees. It's Canada's misfortune to border the North and, thus, to have to interact with so many Damn Yankees. It's my misfortune to have to share a country with them. (Actually, we offered to split it, but they preferred war.)
Unfortunately, it seems that Yankees travel abroad more than the rest of the country, so the world thinks all Americans are like them (rude, obnoxious, arrogant, ignorant, etc.). When I travel, I invariably get called a 'Yank.' Of course, I object, but doing so is usually pointless, as:
I did however, after a number of years, get my Australian girlfriend to understand the difference:
Recently she attended the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin. She and her friends arrived shortly before the parade was to begin, which meant they had to stand behind several rows of people who had arrived earlier. Then a family with young children arrived. The parents asked the people ahead of them if their children could move to the front. Everyone agreed except for a bunch on the front row. One of those women, in an American (New York) accent, exclaimed that she had arrived at 6 a.m. and that "no one is getting in front of me." The rest of my girlfriend's entourage (Brits, Irish, Australians, Spanish, etc.) cursed Americans, but she, correctly, cursed the 'Damn Yankees.'
By the way, the workplace, not to mention office Christmas parties, used to be a lot more fun in America, but over-legislation by our politicians and over-suing by our lawyers killed it. From the corporate perspective, better to be boring than to risk lawsuits.
One last anecdote:
A few years ago, I went to Vancouver for a week and stayed at a H.I. (Hostelling International) hostel. Every night there were hostel sponsored events at local pubs. I had a lot of fun drinking and flirting with foreign young ladies. Next I went down to Seattle and stayed in another H.I. hostel there. I arrived in the evening and was in the mood to go out for a drink. So, not knowing anyone there, I figured my best bet would be to go on a hostel sponsored outing. I dropped by the front desk and asked if there were any pub-crawls, etc. planned for that night. The guy working at the desk said, "No, not tonight nor any other night. This is America; we would end up getting sued if we had anything like that."
-R.L.
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."