Oh, piss off. It is not constant. 
I'm not sorry if you don't like the mirror I occasionally put up to the whole concept of "American Exceptionalism". 
I remember when I first heard of the whole idea that people would actually pump gas and drive off without paying... I was a teenager and I was aghast. Theft is theft. 3 decades later, and up here it has just now gotten bad enough to actually be a problem. People have started locking their doors too and not just in the city, which in case you didn't know, is also a recent development up here, even tho it was how I grew up in the country. Locked doors were just not neighborly.
mnem
No, I won't piss off. You rarely if ever have anything good to say about the US, and instead seem to delight in putting it down and being holier than thou. It's predictable with you, and tiring. Someone mentions thieves and you jump on it as an opportunity to bad mouth and blame the US for something happening in Canada. Do you have any kind of actual data to back up your "Guess all those 'merican punkass kids are bringing their "it's only bad if you get caught" fuckhead culture up here with them" statement, or did you just pull it out of your ass to let you say something negative about the country? The US isn't perfect, but there seem to be a whole hell of a lot more people from all over the world who want to come here than who want to leave, so we must be doing something right.
-Pat
Newsflash Pat...
It's not all about you. Your righteous self-indignation is entirely misplaced, and nobody needs the rancor.
The completely disproportionate level of aggression and vitriolic nature of your response; the inherent assumption that I was attacking America displayed here is literally the definition of the term "ugly American".
And as is often the case, it is clearly because you don't like the mirror it represents. Well, tough.
Just to make it clear:
There was no attack intended in the comment which started all this. What I said was an honest understanding of the fact that something precious had been lost here. And the apology was honest, and heartfelt, because I was part of that punkass culture, and did nothing to stop it from taking over most of the civilized world. 
Be offended by that all you like, Pat. Your response was childish and completely disproportionate to any insult that could have been made by my words. Even if it weren't directed at me, I'd think you were an over-reacting a-hole. And if I were still modding in Dominion chat, it would be
you that I'd be telling to tone it down.
And yes, I understand the irony here, particularly in light of my recent blowup with Ian. That's the difference: I do try to learn from my mistakes. As for "everybody wanting to move to the US"... you are so
very wrong. That may have been true decades ago; but not now. I am not "the weirdo moving to Canada"; I one of millions. There are so many people wanting to get away from the crazy down there that they had to close down immigration altogether; why do you think we've had such a hard time making it happen? It's not because we're rotten people... it's because we are American.
Look up "American Exceptionalism" and read some of the actual sensible discussion (ie, not bloviation and trolling on reddit) and you may understand. But I doubt it.
I know. I'll come up to Canada and piss in his Wheaties. But only occasionally. 
Please do. I would welcome the interaction. We may not always see eye to eye, but we have always been able to come to an understanding.
And I'll eat those cornflakes if that's what it takes to prove I'm serious.
mnem
I grew up on the farm. I've eaten worse. 
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