I love this city, but I really hate you. Thank God I’m moving. —HQ
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Don’t let the door to the city hit your ass on the way outta town! 🙂
live from the west coast. let’s hear it for martym…i think the op is referring to a bag of skin^^
letting the presence of someone in a city be just cause for you to move?
when you love it here?
wow, you’ve really taken hold of your life there.
might want to tighten up on the reigns a bit…
At least have a donair before you go.
Is it true LS was assaulting people on Barrington St. last night?
-hasta la vista baby, in best arnold voice, or else, fuck you asssshole.
no bluenoser, was too busy hovering in the south end,looking for another neck to feed from.
Yesterday, in the crowd on the wharf awaiting the arrival of the HMCS St. John’s with the Queen and Duke, I overheard a resident Halifax CFA complain that Halifax was soooooooo boring because nothing ever happens here. The irony of IFR Week and a royal visit escaped her.
Getting out of dodge, lol
Buh-Bye! Ever wonder why the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Because someone is mowing that lawn. If you tended your own acreage you would soon have one hell of a decent plot in life rather than expect someone to mow the grass for you.
Hopefully you are moving on to [perceived] greener pastures 😉
I don’t get the dodge reference. Anyone care to explain it for me pretty please? 🙂
Dodge City, Kansas. Wild West site of gun fights and saloon brawls. Setting of tv program Gunsmoke. Slang phrase arose from either history or tv show, but either way, it refers to a pressing need to leave town in a hurry. Marshall Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty, FTW.
Ah, thanks me0w.
I think if the OP could find other cities LTWWB, if they existed, I am fairly sure buses would be a rant, cyclists, boring break ups, roadworks, mayor is a zombie (hum, maybe not), porkers, slow walkers, fast walkers, traffic etc.
I like to read other cities newspapers, the local type not the nationals, and all of the above are common threads.
So OP, good luck – you really are leaving a lovely city for such a foolish reason.
Here endeth the first lesson, let us pray.
No, I’m pretty sure Halifax is the fattest city on the planet, BF, so I doubt there are as many “porker” bitches out there beyond the borders of halifax 😛
Really, statistically the decks are kinda stacked against most of us weight wise — hfx fatties had no chance!
Sort-of-related-side-note: get rid of half the bus stops in the city and make people walk a little more and the obesity rate might go down a bit — even if it’s slight, it’s SOMETHING. Other cities I’ve been to have their stops spaced A LOT further apart. Just sayin’ 🙂
Why are you people so insulted when being told the truth about Halifax.
You know you can accept that there are other nicer and better places than halifax.
Also other people are entitled to their opinions.
I believe, from my experience and the people I met here, that anyone that hates any person that says their true feelings about a place are just racist and ignorant people in general who refuse to accept anything or anyone different from them! Honestly, NS is the most racist place I’ve visited. You can’t deny that, I’m from a different background and experienced it strongly several times.
I was down in porters lake one time and felt like I entered a KKK camp. I though I should get out of there before I get shot.
Lost of places in NS made me feel like that.
In fact, I was warned about entering certain establishments in NS to avoid racial problems.
As much as you hate to disbelieve that, it’s the reality of NS, and you can’t ignore it because it will not go away.
Admit it, NS is not a nice place to live. They burn crosses on lawns here.
They set churches on fire! (the one in the north end a few years back)
oh Randomness…
you’re sounding more and more like Kay every day…
how’s that working out for ya?
I’m sure there are nicer places… but we could be a whole hell of a lot worse off.
besides… OP didn’t say anything really that could be called ‘truth’…
And no, Basil Fawlty, I visited other cities in the world, and none of what you say is true. Some might have poor to no public transit simply because they may not need it or people don’t use it.
I just got back from Costa Rica and that place is mountainous like hell.
You can’t have public transit in majority of the country except in maybe the capital. The rest are small villages and it’s very rugged.
Other modes of transportation are affordable.. like buying a car or taking a small place ride from one place to another.
Car rentals are cheap, $250 a week. Good luck getting that deal anywhere in North America. It’s gorgeous. The weather is amazing. The people are amazing. The only idiots that we had issues with were the tourists. They would insult the locals, degrade them, they even have names for them. What the fuck is wrong with you!!!!
You are a guest in their country and you’re racists still?
I was in Florida and I saw less fat people there than I saw here.
I think people who make such comments to glorify Halifax are people who have never left this place, nor want to.
I never met mayors before but based on the life styles and personalities of other people, they seems to have decent mayors!
I work with someone who is so backwards he refuses to visit any other country because he doesn’t like outsiders!!! How fucked up is that mentality.
I’ve never met so many fucked up people in one place.
Randomness…how do you feel about UFO believers ?
You point out that people burn crosses, & churches around here.
Which means to me ,that you consider these things to somehow be of value, or at least you believe the ideas & symbols of religion have meaning, & you’re one of those who have taken, the all powerful, all knowing, invisible guy in the sky scam into your life.
WHich hopefully means you believe in UFO’s..after all statistically there’s a better chance the UFO believers are right about aliens, than the chance the particular religion you’ve picked is ‘right’ about god.
Randomness – none of what I say is true?? you’re deluded (I checked and that isn’t a racist word, as everything you whine about always gets flipped to be racist) – sooo if we follow your “rational” reply there aren’t any porkers in any other cities, no boring break ups, everyone lives in lovey-dovey land, cyclists?
The sooner you go to Costa Rica the better – maybe the local rum will smarten you up.
Insulting someone with a line like “maybe the local rum will smarten you up” does not help you look smarter. Just saying.
More, your comment reminds me to this video I watched the other day. http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=HUj8hg5CoS…
I think it is okay to believe in imaginary things. But when you try to force that belief onto someone else, then I have a problem with that. Suggesting is okay. Forcing through discrimination, harassment, threats, violence, etc…not cool. Not cool at all.
Ok More, so I guess you’re one of those ignorant racist Nova Scotians who refuse to see that God has nothing to do with anything I said and I was referring to the cross burning as a racial event, and the church as a racial thing. The church belonged to a black community and the cross was burnt on an interracial couple’s front lawn. (KKK burns crosses to signify their hatred towards other cultures and background) If anyone doesn’t think Nova Scotia is a racist province you’re obviously blind and deluded.
Also I love how now there’s the term Ex-Pat (Ex-Patriot) labeled to people who choose to live outside of their native land. You people have a derogatory name for everyone don’t you. I’ve been called sand nigger so many times here.
You people are in so much denial that it will never ever change.
Has anyone even lived or visited any places outside of Canada?
More, that’s your comeback, insulting God?! This discussion had nothing to do with religion and this is your come back? That’s weak man, that’s just weak and pathetic! Basil, go visit other places then judge. Weak fucking arguments.
People like you with such mentalities are what’s wrong with this place!
zZz, no the OP didn’t, but people who know this place well for what it’s worth know what he’s talking about and why he’s leaving. He doesn’t need to say more.
Some people here say they hate other parts of the world. I don’t get offended.
Maybe they don’t like the life style. It doesn’t cater to them. They have their opinions about it. They’re entitled to their opinions. I don’t sit there insulting, judging, and labeling them with derogatory names! Unlike most of the replies I see here. Obviously the OP sees something about this place that the rest of you refuse to see. Maybe because you just want to go on your merry life without fixing what’s broken. Too much work.
Has anyone gone to prison for the spending scandal? No. That was the biggest heist in Nova Scotia. This is now, Imagine if they start opening the books of the past. you’d be astonished with the billions of your tax dollars that have been stolen. What’s wrong with that picture. If you get caught shoplifting, that’s on your permanent criminal record. Why don’t you stand up for yourselves?!
Every place you go would have racists, it is just a matter of how many, and whether you belong to the majority or the minority mattes too.
ok, first of all there’s no indication it’s a ‘he’
second of all, (s)he explicitly states that (s)he loves this city.
“Obviously the OP sees something about this place that the rest of you refuse to see.”
like the person (s)he is referencing.. I’m sure other people know that person but it’s hardly the whole city…
and spending scandals aren’t unique to NS either…
anyone remember the Liberal’s hey day with Martin sweating his balls off a few years back??? that’s, in part, why we’re now dealing with Harper…
Randomness – FYI I’ve travelled extensively. I take back the comment about the rum smartening you up – I don’t think anything will.
I was starting to get confused why this had anything to do with racism. The OP hates someone so much that he/she is leaving the beloved city. I think that “someone” may be a close relative, in which case leaving the city makes a lot of sense.
Randome…First let me say the church burned in Halifax a while ago (the round one)…the fire was set by black children.
Does this then make it a racially motivated event ?
As a racist…I guess a guy with a black sister in law, Korean & Native family members… if that makes you a racist, then I’m racist.
But then again its people like you who see racism behind every rock, tree or tall patch of grass.
Every act between people ,who just might happen to be different of color or religion doesn’t automatically mean RACISM.
I would like to point out that in every story I have been able to read on the ‘cross burning’ at no point have i seen anything about the individuals involved being members of the KKK…if you have a link to that I would go & read it. (thanks in advance)
Also unlike you I see humans as one race, ever since I found out in elementary school, no matter what color your skin is, your blood is red. So the Human race is how I look at all people.
I perfer none above another, although I do make distinctions of those religious folks I come into contact with. After all its not nice to pick on the mentally challenged. So while I may point it out, that they are delusional & couldn’t they provide just one iota of proof…instead of the usual religious dogma…I try not to be too judgemental .
But again I ask you, with your radical racism opinion… do you believe in UFO’s & the possibility of extraterretrials elsewhere in the cosmo ?
Should we as a species put them at the very top of our racism hit list if they bleed another color ?
newtohalifax, oh believe me, I agree with you. Every place on earth has racism in it.
You go down to the Caribbean, you’ll meet lots that are racist against anything that’s not black, but generally it’s avoidable. I personally have been down to those areas and realized it except they don’t come to your face nor do they deny you services. Generally the people are friendlier than here.
In Central and South America, they actually don’t bother you and I’d say the majority smile at you and greet you properly and try to help you as much as possible. But I’m sure tourist won’t keep that going! Put a broken down car with someone in it here and see how many people stop to help. Very slim.
You just can’t sit and claim that Halifax or NS is all high and mighty when you (the general public not directly you newtohalifax) haven’t even been out of NS in your life. You can’t just sit here, mouth off to people, insult them, degrade them and call them names just because they have a different views of Halifax than yours. For God’s sake that’s how wars start.
Do you still live in NS Randomness? I’m just wondering. And believe me, I would love to just go to another country and live there for a bit but not everyone has the cash to just go and do that. My friend lived in London, UK for 7 months and he loved it the first few months then slowy grew to hate it. He’s back in Halifax now and he’s loving it. So am I after travelling to other places. I visted London and a few places in Ontario and I prefer Halifax to any of them. I’m sorry I haven’t been to Costa Rica or any of the other places you have been, but like I said before, I have to pay for everything myself. Calling somebody racist every chance you get does not help you in a debate/discussion. From what I read, nobody on here said anything negative about your race (which you haven’t mentioned) or anyone else’s race. I’m sorry you have been a victim of racism in Halifax but you honestly can’t believe racism only exists here. The whole cross burning thing was a one time thing. Unless you can think of another time this happend? And that wasn’t Halifax it happened it. It was a more rural town and usually people in rural towns are less accepting of inter-racial or even same-sex couples. I’m sure if I lived in any other country for an extended period of time, I would encounter a lot of racism too. Frig, even in London I was called a “Stupid American” and such just being there a few weeks. I came back with “I’m Canadian” and they say “it’s the same thing”. Ignorance is everywhere!
“You people”
What do you mean YOU PEOPLE?! Racist!
Ex-patriot is not a derogatory term. It is used to define someone who has chosen to live outside their country of origin. It is not a put-down, although lesser educated people may be inclined to think so. Don’t be one of those Randomness.
I’ve been called names too, and not only in Nova Scotia, but hey, ‘sticks and stones’. And don’t use the actions of one crossburning idiot to define a whole province. Not everyone in this province falls into the racist category you so easily have labelled them with. Oh, and by the way, I have lived and visited outside this province and country. One thing I have learned is that racism is a ridiculous concept. We are all of the SAME race. The human race. We ALL evolved and descended from dark skinned people from that cradle of humanity known as Africa. Live and let live. Peace…
More, if that’s that case, why did you throw the first comment?
Shouldn’t people have the right to believe in what they believe?
How is someone’s belief affecting you? What are you losing when someone believes in God? It doesn’t make it wrong because you don’t believe in it.
Same as opinions about Halifax. It doesn’t make them wrong because you don’t see it the same way.
Basil, sounds like you have. Would be nice to list where you traveled!
newtohalifax, that’s one fact, aside from many others.
Why would anyone burn a church or destroy a mosque or any temple?
Not for pure pleasure. Racism is one form of hate. Ignorance is another.
A bunch of stupid people being ignorant and hateful. These are other things that maybe the OP saw.
But for some reason, halifax is a fine and dandy town without any of that in it.
For God’s sake I was called a sand nigger to my face and I was warned not to enter certain establishments in a province I live in, due to my background.
What else entertainment to the subject should I add?
How about the crap I went through after 9/11?
People I worked with for 3 and 4 years all of a sudden show their true colors!
It’s all hate regardless. And the media here breeds it like crazy.
Oceanlady, so I guess that makes them less patriotic than you?
Please explain to me what the term actually means in plain english because last time I checked, ex-patriotic means used to be patriotic and not anymore. Means that person is not patriotic to their country because they found less expensive living somewhere else and chose to do that! Yet you already judge them for doing that by labeling them ex-pat, and claiming their less patriotic than you are. Mind you they might jump at the first chance to defend their mother country before you even think about it! Does that still make them ex-pats because they chose to live else where? Isn’t that the true meaning of labelling someone based on their actions and background? Isn’t that just plain hateful and derogatory? Doesn’t that term, when you give to someone make you appear as if you’re saying that you’re better, higher and mightier than they are?
Please, humour me!
Sodeypop, I mean YOU PEOPLE, Nova Scotians, of all shapes, sizes and colors, people who burn crosses on lawns, people who label others, people who refer to Africans as niggers, people who refer to middle easterns as sand niggers, people who refer to muslims as terrorists, people who want to ban the head scarf, people who don’t want others to have the freedom they should, I guess you’re pissed off by that because maybe you’re just one of those people?!
I love the whole head scarf thing. Last I checked, the hoodie is the same exact thing, if they want to ban that, shouldn’t they ban the hoodie?! of that doesn’t signify a religious belief? and if it does, where’s the freedom you speak of, where’s the friendliness and tolerance you speak of?
Germany, France, Malta, Gibraltar, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sweden, Spain, England (I’m English) Israel (honeymoon) Turkey – all courtesy of HRH, I was in the Royal Navy.
Actually I think the couple from the cross burning case was also on TV about their car being torched not so long ago.
Anyway, we are all just a piece of meat, whether you prefer your steak blue, rare, medium, or well-done, a steak is a steak. Race is a socially constructed notion and if we all lacked 5 senses we wouldn’t know who’s what race.
Randomness: when the bodies of our war dead are ‘repatriated’ does the fact that they were living, working and dying for their country off Canadian soil make them any less patriotic to their country? Patriation refers to being within one’s country of origin. Ex-patriation refers to physically being outside one’s country of origin. It has nothing to do with pride of nationality in one’s heart. National boundaries are an invention of man. We are all the same race. We are all citizens of the same planet.
BTW: Racist Nova Scotians of all colours exist, but thankfully they are in the minority. (Name one place on the planet where racism does not exist.) Blanket statements about the huge degree of racism here only serve to illustrate one’s own lackings. Way to play the racism troll card though.
Basil, Awesome, Germany (WWII), France (non-muslim friendly), England (I guess you haven’t heard the term fucking packi several times) not to mention the crap their governments caused in the world based on pure hate (Who created Israel?). Israel, I guess you’re pro-Israeli so we’re not gonna get into that one. Sweden, they have fucking camps for immigrants like concentration camps, actually france too I think. Turkey, I guess you don’t read the news much about that one! Australia, worse than England, they beat you up on the street for being different, Even english people are being discriminated against there, I work with an english guy and he tells me all about it. He will never go to Australia again due to it! I guess people in Shelburne here do the same. Spain, well notice native central and south americans are rare. Gibraltar, It belongs to spain and not britain, Let it go. Kinda like south Lebanon, it’s called SOUTH LEBANON for a reason, not North Israel. You see the trend here. All places of oppression, Why not something different. All that you mentioned have the same exact qualities as here. Not one ounce of difference. I’m not saying all people in those areas are like that, but generally same governments, very close mentalities. I’m not saying there’s a perfect place in the world. I’m just saying that Halifax isn’t and it’s not high and mighty like you guys claim! End of story.
So don’t judge other people who think otherwise.
Oceanlady, so if someone chooses to live on the moon are you going to label them as aliens? they’re still human!!! I see your logic, I’m glad to see you’re english is great too since you have no Idea what Ex-Patriotic means, since it actually means someone who is no longer patriotic to their country and decided to abandon it. Check what Patriot means, actually i’ll do it for you!
a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.
When you’re putting ex- beside that definition, you’re making a claim that that particular individual is no longer fitting for that definition because they chose to live elsewhere! To me that’s demeaning and derogatory. Maybe not to you, but I see how that comes about! And the whole dying for our country comment. I’m assuming you’re calling the military as ex-patriots!! I’m not really very clear as to what the military has to do with any of this! But once again, weak return. You have no argument because you have nothing to back up your argument with.
I know you try to make yourself feel good about that term.
It’s ok, that’s how people feel good about certain things. They keep convincing themselves that something is good when it isn’t!
Anyway, this whole column reconfirms reasons why a lot of people feel the same way I do about here!
Paranoid much? You shouldn’t leave home as you see racists everywhere.
why don’t you enlighten us as to where exactly you are from, your ethnicity.
Lol. Wow. Where to even begin here…
The term is not ex-patriot, it’s expatriate. Check out a dictionary and you’ll see that it is merely defined as someone who no longer resides in their native land. It’s not an offensive term, and many people who live abroad refer to themselves as expatriates. However, Randomness, you strike me as someone who, because you have encountered a few valid reasons to take offense, are now looking for reason to take offense in everything, and even further, hoping to offend.
Frankly, I find it absurd that you expect people to list the countries they’ve travelled to in order to attempt to refute your assertions that they’re racist and ignorant. Doesn’t that make you the one who is trying to appear “better, higher, and mightier”? I also find it absurd that you insist that there is little or no racism in Costa Rica. As a traveller, you may not have experienced it, but black Costa Ricans face discrimination on a regular basis, and Nicaraguan migrant workers encounter the same derogatory attitudes that migrant workers the world over deal with.
You have every right to be angry over racist encounters you have had in Nova Scotia, but by painting all Nova Scotians with the same derogatory brush, you become the thing that you’re raging against – a small-minded bigot. Stereotyping entire groups of people is harmful and ignorant no matter what side you’re coming from. No one denies that racism exists here, but it’s not unique to this province, and it’s hardly the accepted attitude in most social venues.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate
Randomness, you need to calm down! You’re the exact thing you hate! You’re saying negative things about ALL of us based on where we’re from. No one on here is saying anything racist to you! We are trying to have a discussion with you and you are completely flipping out.
*remembers jerry maguire flipping out*
thanks! I needed that
“Sodeypop, I mean YOU PEOPLE, Nova Scotians, of all shapes, sizes and colors, people who burn crosses on lawns, people who label others, people who refer to Africans as niggers, people who refer to middle easterns as sand niggers, people who refer to muslims as terrorists, people who want to ban the head scarf, people who don’t want others to have the freedom they should, I guess you’re pissed off by that because maybe you’re just one of those people?!”
Right. Accuse me of burning crosses. Idiot. I get along fine with people of any race or religion. I’m tired of people assuming that I MUST be a racist redneck in the KKK just because I’m from Nova Scotia. It’s a horrible assumption. You know nothing about me besides what you assume.
As a born and raised Nova Scotia I would have to agree that racism is alive and well in Nova Scotia, but I’m also not stupid enough to believe it doesn’t exist outside of Nova Scotia as well. I would be curious to know Randomness which venues you were warned about?
I’ve actually seen it written out as Ex-Patriot, no one is flipping out here.
All I’m saying is there are a lot of weak arguments trying to glorify Nova Scotia over any other place in the world when it’s not what it’s cracked up to be.
There are even Nova Scotians who don’t like other Canadians, you have no idea how many times I’ve heard “oh you’re from Alberta, go back west we don’t want you here”. Or the people that went out of province in search of work because you know, as some of you represent how glory life in NS is, there are plenty of jobs, they’re automatically told not to come back and to stay there because they worked out there for so long and didn’t pay any taxes, they shouldn’t get the same privileges as the rest of us. Why, we’re all one country, one people aren’t we?
My beef is with most of the comments that refuse to admit that these things exist here. Go back to the rest of the comments. First one says: Don’t let the door to the city hit your ass on the way outta town! 🙂
Second one: live from the west coast. let’s hear it for martym…i think the op is referring to a bag of skin^^
If you don’t want people to generalize about Nova Scotia in that manner, why do you act like this?!
Another one posted: -hasta la vista baby, in best arnold voice, or else, fuck you asssshole.
Is that how Nova Scotians view outsiders?! AS ASSHOLES?
If I’m wrong, you’re comments aren’t!
Another comment: Buh-Bye! Ever wonder why the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Because someone is mowing that lawn. If you tended your own acreage you would soon have one hell of a decent plot in life rather than expect someone to mow the grass for you.
Hopefully you are moving on to [perceived] greener pastures 😉
Like really.. no where else is greener than Halifax?!
Oh I see, everywhere else is garbage but Halifax is all high and mighty.
You don’t want the entire world to view you like this, don’t put such comments.
I love the “Freaking Americans” comments. Why.. what have they done to you?!
Now that you’ve read this discussion, maybe you’ll see how it feels to be branded.
And yes, you are one of those racist, hateful people if you don’t admit that such things exist here and stand against them.
So far, I haven’t seen anyone stand against anything hateful or racist or derogatory here! Not one single person in any of these comments said: Yes, these things exist here, they are terrible and they shouldn’t be happening and we don’t agree with them” Review them all, not one comment like that!
Instead, all you did was bash who points out the things that are destroying this place and making people leave! People love Halifax for the nature and the water. People hate Halifax because of what they go through and what they see happening here. Because of some people’s actions.
Sodeypop, oh is it? isn’t it a horrible assumption to racial profile at airports pulling aside anyone that’s different for a search and having a no fly list full of none North American names?
Isn’t it horrible that CSIS comes to my house, interrogates me for a couple of hours for just being different and living in NS, or it’s ok for you to assume and not for me? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Live with your own medicine and see how it feels!
Don’t speak badly of other places when yours is littered with problems! That’s all I’m saying. When someone points out the obvious, which are events that actually took place, you all get upset and sensitive!
Bluenoser: THANK YOU.. Finally someone recognizes than NS isn’t perfect. No place makes itself, the people that live in it are what makes it.
I can’t remember the names but one was in kings county and the other was just outside of New Minas. I don’t want to even mention the ex-copper penny, in fairview. you don’t want to be of a different background and enter that place.
They’ll make you feel uncomfortable. I’m not sure if it’s the same now but that’s how it used to be. Went once and never went again. As I mentioned in the past, just outside of Porters lake was a swap meet, I swear I felt like I was in a KKK camp. It was really uncomfortable. I actually felt more comfortable traveling to the US.
If anyone covers their eyes and turns the other way and pretends none of this is happening, you’re encouraging it which makes you a part of it.
Bluenoser is the only one admitting to it so he’s saying something about it.
Just acknowledging it makes a world of difference to anyone of different backgrounds
ahem, just to clarify
martym lives in bc so i refer to him as our west coast talk show host
bag of skin=human
i didn’t hear the term n___r or c____n til i moved here
i speak up and very loudly when i encounter stupid bags of mostly water(human) lest they think i agree with them
this is a very large playpen and we tend to try to keep it light
so some of us do stand up
CSIS come to your home ha ha – sure they did, sure it wasn’t the guys in the white coats who asked you to try on that lovely new jacket where the arms tie around the back. And quit picking on the goose and gander or PETA will be knocking on your door too.
I’m taking a wild guess here, but I bet you were ticked off when a Danish newspaper published some cartoons?
Randomness, stop acting like you’re the only person of a different ethnicity on this message board. It’s offensive. You’re walking around with a giant chip on your shoulder, trying to tell other people who and what they are. Your arguments are totally ridiculous and mostly irrational. If you bothered to read my last post, I stated that there is indeed racism in NS, just as there is everywhere, and that you have every right to be angry for facing discrimination. No one in any of their comments has tried to say that NS is the best place in the world, they’ve just said it’s not the worst place either. Your rants resemble the flailings of a child throwing a temper tantrum, they contain no logic or rationale, and are not winning you any allies. Give it a rest.
Basil, yes if you must know, they came asking questions back in 2001. One of the questions was if I attended a mosque regularly (I guess people are not allowed to freely practice their religion here), and another was if someone was trying to recruit me into faith or something of that nature. Really, where’s my freedom of going to a mosque or church or place of worship without being branded?
Paingirl, thanks for pointing out what I have been speaking about the entire time: “i didn’t hear the term n___r or c____n til i moved here”.. I rest my case.
I went to BC and the people there as so much nicer for some reason!
Moncton was great, riverview on the other hand, not so much. QC they refuse to even talk to you just for speaking english. As you mentioned paingirl, you only heard the terms when you came here, so we’re not all perfect, every place has it pros and cons so no need to glorify NS as if it’s only pros and no cons!
If people here don’t want to be branded, man up and stop glorifying this place as if it’s completely innocent because that’s all that’s been happening here. And stop insulting and branding people who don’t like living for such reason or leave here because the life style and the society here doesn’t cater to them. Same as other places might not cater to you. If you don’t want to be labeled, don’t do it to anyone else, that’s all I’m saying! Just because I agree and see why the OP is leaving doesn’t make me a bad person.
Now that you have absolutely no argument against it, you start recognizing that Yes, maybe the stuff that’s happening here is true!
randomness, if you’re going to take a few comments (like LS for instance) and assume that of the province then it’s no wonder why you think we’re fucked.
LS does not a province make.
Randomness, wtf do racial profiling in airports and CSIS have to do with NS? You’re obviously an idiot, and I’m sure people would treat you badly regardless of your race simply due to that fact. Your posts are barely coherent and border on schizophrenic. Get a grip on reality, man.
zZz I don’t think randomness is fucked.
I know he(or possibly she ) is.
Like God would give a shit one way or another…I know the Flying Spagetti Monster who is invisible & sees all , knows all, an omniputent all powerful god of mine (& a great many others as well) never interfers with us… & cares not one bit.
Seeing stupid comments about head scaves & hoodie’s.
That countries are banning FACE coverings has absolutly nothing to do with head scarves.
Hoodies by the way are banned from some schools & some shopping areas will ask you to put your hood down or leave…& they should. We as humans are preprogramed to remember faces. People IMO have no business interacting with others in shopping malls, banks or other public places with their faces covered & i personally don’t care if its a veil, a hoodie, a full face motorcycle helmit or a baclava. Sure they have their place, riding a motorcycle down the highway, its a law you wear protection,& many prefer full face helmits. Skiing… the weathers cold, wind chill, it makes sense to have face covering, eye protection etc.
No where is any of this needed in public. How is a ban of face coverings racist ?
What I find with randomness’s posts is he’s a racist, but because he is from another part of the world (or at least his ancestors are) he feels justified in his racist outlook…because we’re all racists against him L M F A O.
Which for me couldn’t be any farther from the truth.
Supposedly Mohammad wrote (although it passed throught the digestive tract of of a goat…but thats a story for another time.
10- Do not be arrogant in ones claims or belief’s: And pursue not that of which thou hast no knowledge; for every act of hearing, or of seeing or of (feeling in) the heart will be inquired into on the day of Reckoning…. dum, duM, dUM, DUMB !
So sayth the Preacher…so sayth the FLOCK !
While all us FSM believers, just bow our heads & eat another lovely helping of pasta knowing that all tomato based sauces are red…just like every person on the planets blood is. ~;)
OMG, I never realised that Carlos Mencia was from Nova Scotia but he must be cause he certainly uses the term sand nigger in his act. And Achmed the Dead Terrorist must a Nova Scotian as well, but he’s just racist towards his own people in his act.
Not that I believe either of these characters are from NS but according to Randomness they’d have to be.
I guess it is an issue of generalization. I wouldn’t say NS is racist, or Nova Scotians are racists. I would say NS has its own history of racism, just as any other province (and pretty much all countries in the world), and racism continues to be an issue affecting many Nova Scotians today. I think that’s pretty safe to say. But I didn’t think what people have said on this thread towards the OP was racist. At least, I didn’t take it that way. Besides, a lot of the times people on this board aren’t 100% serious about what they are saying anyway.
I didn’t see any posts in particular that glorified NS, but I think what people are saying is, you generalize too much, Randomness. Try using verbs instead of nouns or adjectives to describe, and add qualifiers; you can avoid a lot of backlash towards what you say. Oh, and don’t forget to add things like “I think that” or “in my (humble) opinion”. It never helps when you are trying to argue your point by saying “I am right, you are wrong”. People never take well to that.
I just love the fact that a couple of years ago the South African Advertising Standards Authority banned a ringtone commercial that featured Achmed TDT on the grounds that it negatively portrayed Muslims as terrorists who silence people they disagree with by killing them. At the same time Danish embassies around the world were spontaneously combusting, Legoland was at Threat Level:Red and madrassah students from Karachi to Manchester could watch videos of teddy bears being beheaded, on their cellphones. Salman Rushdie, Benazir Bhutto and Theo Van Gogh were unavailable for comment.
I love Achmed. I also love Sweeeeeeet Daddy D and Walter. I am not too sure about Peanut, but he has his moments. I also like Russell Peters comedy. Guess my race, anyone?
Enjoying Jeff Dunham is the equivalent of showing up at your NDPer brother-in-law’s fund-raising Vegan Barbecue with a couple of porkchop wrapped filet-de-mignons and a 2-4 of Miller Genuine Draft. Largely harmless to yourself and hella good fun in the bargain.
You have a brother-in-law who is NDPer and Vegan? Sounds like you have done this before.
You think I could make up shit like that? Well, I might, just perhaps, sometimes, occasionally stretch the truth a tad and jazz up the story just a smidge for maximum comic effect but the core truth remains. Like a Michael Moore mockumentary. But he is a fartcatcher for the provincial party and I have been known to attend family get-togethers wearing a “Support the Troops” sweatshirt and bringing the cheapest ,foulest American suds I can find; if only to hear the oh-so-subtle jibes and unfavorable comparisons to whatever micro-brewed artisan-bok is his fad of the week.
Good Times, Good Times.
You tease people like that too much and they will implode.
“Sodeypop, oh is it? isn’t it a horrible assumption to racial profile at airports pulling aside anyone that’s different for a search and having a no fly list full of none North American names?
Isn’t it horrible that CSIS comes to my house, interrogates me for a couple of hours for just being different and living in NS, or it’s ok for you to assume and not for me? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Live with your own medicine and see how it feels!”
YES. Racial profiling is bad. But you are stark raving insane. When did I ever say I supported profiling? You are the one making assumptions about me. And then you have the nerve to say “don’t make assumptions”? Hypocrite!
Yeah I don’t really think there’s much point in trying to reason with him anymore. You say “Apples are red” and he sees “I hate your race”. Whatever race that may be, because he hasn’t even mentioned what his race is or where he is from, other than the racial slurs people have called him. It’s pointless! He will continue to believe whatever he wants no matter what anyone says. The end.
If the OP sees himself as a victim, he will always be a victim of something or another regardless of where he chooses to live. There is no place to escape many of the harsh realities of life. Race, age, gender, sexual orientation, size, education, occupation….. people judge, people criticize, people condemn….. the human race is no better in one corner of the world than another. If the OP “really hates” Halifax, then he has hate in his heart. The same hate that he claims to abhor. Ironic.
I really don’t know how all this got on a racism/ “everybody hates different people” swing. It sounds like the OP just has a problem with someONE. That’s one person.
I love how everyone is trying to tell Random not to hate ppl and that he/she is becoming what he/she hates … while little to no one has said yes, I acknowledge it exists.
In no way do I believe that all NScotians are racist but boy some of the things I’ve seen. The scowls. But whatever it doesn’t hurt me one bit. I am of the milk chocolate variety and have had people ask me “why I dress soo white” “why I don’t sleep around, cause it’s typical” and once had a woman spit her gum in my face and have had multiple yell at me at work, but talk much friendlier to some of my counterparts …
These things only serve to make us stronger and I try to treat people as they come.
So whatever. Just deal day by day.
FunkyMunky, this turned into a racist rant because Randomness was the first to toss in the racist card. Until then, this thread consisted of the OP’s love of this city but desire to move on to escape their feelings about a certain individual (which I interpreted as a former love interest) and various comments from bitchers about that situation. Randomness’ initial comment is not in context with the subject matter. It is clearly a ‘troll’ post designed to flame.
Dizzy, some people here HAVE (sorry, not shouting, improvising in the absence of italics) stated that racism exists here, but it isn’t specific to Nova Scotia alone. It exists everywhere on the planet perpetuated by people of all ethnicities against each other.
Racism is a rather silly concept, isn’t it? We are all the same race. Homo sapiens.
Me? I’m an asshatist. I’m against asshattery, no matter which ethnicity it is being practiced by.
Live and let live. Peace…
thanks for the plug paingirl:) I’ll be broadcasting my “special” take on things from TO for a couple of weeks as I’m visiting my dad for his 80th b-day 🙂
sweet…wish him a hb, wait no, there is far too much splaining to do^^^
Many Happy Returns Marty and please treat your Dad to a cold one from your East Coast fan base. Maybe you could have a gag picture taken in one of the “Temporary Holding Facilities” (if they are still standing); providing of course that they’ve hosed out the smell of patchouli, monkey cage and CS gas.
yea shit i thought the patchouli factor would be way less in the big smoke as compared to Gayliano isle; but noooo 🙂
Randomness – once you find your racism free Shangri-La I suspect it will be full of people much like yourself.
I was at the Multicultural Festival y’day and don’t recall seeing any KKK tents or Racist NS tents, just people enjoying themselves and admiring the different cultures and superb food. Lighten up.
Pow-wow on the Commons, visiting warships, the Centenary of the Navy, The Multicultural Festival and the Tattoo. All within a 7 day period. Halifax is a fuck-of-a-lot more diverse and accepting than it’s detractors are capable of acknowledging. The fact that any one of these things sticks in the gullets of pissmidget extremists on the left and/or right makes enjoying them all the sweeter. Plus, the beer, lots and lots of sweet, sweet beer.