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A senior Conservative cabinet minister has made my Monday by dropping one of the most hilariously WTF statements ever uttered by a Canadian politician who wasn't the Honourable Wife-Beater.
There is no response worthy of such a statement but a stream of Psy gifs.

That's right, kids! You wouldn't have K-Pop if Canadians hadn't battled communism.

Wait, were we even in the Korean War? And, um, didn't that one kind of end in a stalemate?

Anyway, it's a statement worthy of some of the DPRK's more hilarious moments. Also, where are the Tories keeping their stash of crack, and did they bring enough for the rest of the country?
(The Star responds, cheekily: "There was no word either on whether Canadian veterans would be saddled with responsibility for the current free fall down the musical charts that the South Korean artist’s follow up song, “Gentlemen,” has experienced in recent weeks.")
In "Things Canadians Actually Did Do," news, we are totally complicit in the brutal murder of a Chiapas anti-mining activist. So there's that.
“We talk about Gangnam Style. There wouldn’t be a Gangnam Style if we hadn’t had the sacrifice of Canadians, members of the United Nations who came together with a resolve to ensure that we repelled communism,” [Veteran’s Affairs Minister Steven Blaney] said.
There is no response worthy of such a statement but a stream of Psy gifs.

That's right, kids! You wouldn't have K-Pop if Canadians hadn't battled communism.

Wait, were we even in the Korean War? And, um, didn't that one kind of end in a stalemate?

Anyway, it's a statement worthy of some of the DPRK's more hilarious moments. Also, where are the Tories keeping their stash of crack, and did they bring enough for the rest of the country?
(The Star responds, cheekily: "There was no word either on whether Canadian veterans would be saddled with responsibility for the current free fall down the musical charts that the South Korean artist’s follow up song, “Gentlemen,” has experienced in recent weeks.")
In "Things Canadians Actually Did Do," news, we are totally complicit in the brutal murder of a Chiapas anti-mining activist. So there's that.
Yes, we were there
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Date: 2013-05-07 12:16 pm (UTC)Perhaps ...
Date: 2013-05-07 12:59 pm (UTC)To play devil's advocate (because my knee jerks in favour of history in schools, and plenty of it!), it occurs to me that there might be a strong correlation between a strong sense of history in a nation's population, and a tendency towards the harboring of grudges unto the 7th (if not the 70th) generation.
Could it be that historical amnesia has its place?
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Date: 2013-05-08 06:12 pm (UTC)Let me rephrase ...
Date: 2013-05-08 06:23 pm (UTC)Could it be that some historical amnesia has its place? Sometimes?
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Date: 2013-05-08 06:30 pm (UTC)Re: Let me rephrase ...
Date: 2013-05-08 06:42 pm (UTC)I applaud and second your proposal and, further, note that we have never been at war with Oceania.
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Date: 2013-05-09 07:01 am (UTC)Criticizing my deliberately lazy-ass English? You'd make a good teacher.No, I have a better one. Living in exile from the anglophone community, I come here for the sole purpose of maintaining my language skills, which even at their best left much to be desired. Of course, I stutter, stumble and occasionally babble, but I really am doing the best I can. Please, 99th linguistic skills percentile management, show some understanding and compassion to those who've never risen above the 98th.
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Date: 2013-05-07 03:24 pm (UTC)South Korea had 600 000.
USA deployed 325 000.
The remaining UN contingent was 35 000.
So we did participate, but our force commitment wasn't large enough to have a material impact on the outcome.
(By comparison, China deployed 1 350 000, N. Korea 270 000 and USSR 25 000).
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Date: 2013-05-06 08:55 pm (UTC)(I like it too. I'm sorry the fad is over; I found it far more enjoyable than most.)
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Date: 2013-05-06 09:40 pm (UTC)Although I'm kind of sad that the follow-up is so similar in style, and not like Psy's other work. /things pretentious white K-pop fans say
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Date: 2013-05-07 03:47 am (UTC)It's not over in Ottawa!
Date: 2013-05-07 01:02 pm (UTC)Of course this is Ottawa, so perhaps the fad is only starting here in this god-forsaken burg on the edge of the Outaouais.
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Date: 2013-05-10 04:27 pm (UTC)Here, have a Todd in the Shadows* review of it, because it's pretty entertaining.
Aargh, LJ coding. Let me try something... Well, if I can't fix it, here's the link to it, anyways.
Also, dear LJ, having a gorram preview button on the comments again would save poor Sabs from having like ten almost-identical email versions of this sent to her while I try to get the coding to work. just saying.
*His One Hit Wonderland series is pretty entertaining too, and a heck of a lot more in-depth than one might expect from an Internet reviewer.
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