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This is terrible...did you know it is a Canadian custom to put elderly people onto ice-flows and let them die of exposure? This horrendous custom was practiced by Inuit peoples long before Europeans settled Canada, but apparently the Canadian government thought it was an acceptable way to deal with an aging population! Please, contact your Canadian embassy to protest this horrifying and inhumane practice!

Rick Mercer, I love you.

Ha Ha nice try!

Poo on you Canuck!

Ha Ha nice try!

Poo on you Canuck!
I see you do not take this atrocity seriously. I weep for your inhumanity.

Well when it comes from this hour has 20 (?) minutes in a segment entitled "Talking to Americans", I tend not to believe it!

Almost as funny as when some Canadians say: "Well, we invented insulin!". :p

Well when it comes from this hour has 20 (?) minutes in a segment entitled "Talking to Americans", I tend not to believe it!
When I have seen saintly grandmothers pushed to their doom for the crime of being aged, when I have watched the throngs of excited onlookers chanting, "Ice-cube Granny, Ice-cube Granny" and watched her tears of rejection....

You sicken me, you really do.

Very silly post as we send seniors to our elder processing plants. Once one turns 79 or has a terminal disease they are sent to one of many elder processing plants. In this clean humane industrial factory our elder are quickly "put down" and the various tissues of the body are used in various animal feed and oil based products.

Everyone knows this of course!

Very silly post as we send seniors to our elder processing plants. Once one turns 79 or has a terminal disease they are sent to one of many elder processing plants. In this clean humane industrial factory our elder are quickly "put down" and the various tissues of the body are used in various animal feed and oil based products.

Everyone knows this of course!
You fool of a fellow Canadian...have you no heart? Making a mockery of a serious issue...they don't go to any 'rendering plant'! They are trucked up the Mackenzie Highway all the way to Paulatuk or Tuktoyuktuk where they are then placed onto flows, one or two at a time and pushed out into the Arctic Ocean! THE HUMANITY!!!

Well perhaps thats what they do in the east but I can assure you we do use these industrial methods here in alberta.

Want not waste not!

Well perhaps thats what they do in the east but I can assure you we do use these industrial methods here in alberta.

Want not waste not!
I live in Alberta too...and I assure you....you have been duped...trucks, flows, not sausages.

And they say Canadian humor is dead!

I guess they are right.


Nice try at making fun of my stupid save the seals thread. If you honestly believed that I was outraged by some stupid seals, then I feel sorry for you. I just like making fun of Canadians, and their silly ways!

Here in Quebec we don't need to worry about it because whatever the rest of Canada decides, the Seperatists won't have any part of it.

Hey, here in the wild wild west, they just legalized staplers! This means we can get high on medicinal marijuana, and then staple things! I mean, I care for the elderly - I really do, but lets just stick to one victory at a time here! :)

I live in Alberta too...and I assure you....you have been duped...trucks, flows, not sausages.


Hmmm I think you are wrong as alberta is land locked. Therefore we use these factories, very high protein feed products.

Alberta Processing here in calgary using this practice. i worked at this facotry and the only problem was the terrible smell of vicks vapour rub and old teeth....

And they say Canadian humor is dead!

I guess they are right.


Nice try at making fun of my stupid save the seals thread. If you honestly believed that I was outraged by some stupid seals, then I feel sorry for you. I just like making fun of Canadians, and their silly ways!

this coming from the guy with "wadd" in his name! :rolleyes:

And they say Canadian humor is dead!

I guess they are right.


Nice try at making fun of my stupid save the seals thread. If you honestly believed that I was outraged by some stupid seals, then I feel sorry for you. I just like making fun of Canadians, and their silly ways!
Your topic may have inspired mine, but I'm not making fun of yours per se. You think too highly of yourself. I am just expressing my undying love for Rick Mercer, who, if I ever decided to leave my husband, would be my first choice for sugar daddy.

this coming from the guy with "wadd" in his name! :rolleyes:

Hehe...

You said wadd...

:D

Hmmm I think you are wrong as alberta is land locked. Therefore we use these factories, very high protein feed products.

Alberta Processing here in calgary using this practice. i worked at this facotry and the only problem was the terrible smell of vicks vapour rub and old teeth....
The Mackenzie Highway starts in Alberta. It's a long, long journey to the Arctic Ocean.

I thought we agreed, as per the bill 75 to never speak of our barbaric practices with outsiders...

The RCMP will be knocking at your door as soon as they find the time to read the jolt forums.

You've been warned...

:p

I thought we agreed, as per the bill 75 to never speak of our barbaric practices with outsiders...

The RCMP will be knocking at your door as soon as they find the time to read the jolt forums.

You've been warned...

:p

OH my god your right :headbang: im soooo stupid

So they're on the path of pure utilitarianism. Kill the elderly. John Stuart Mill would be proud.

this coming from the guy with "wadd" in his name! :rolleyes:

Well would you rather spell Wadd or Waddisky? When every pal of yours always calls you Wadd, then it usually sticks!

Your topic may have inspired mine, but I'm not making fun of yours per se. You think too highly of yourself. I am just expressing my undying love for Rick Mercer, who, if I ever decided to leave my husband, would be my first choice for sugar daddy.

I'm more of a man then he'll ever be (well except for my missing limbs). Think of me as a pogo stick! ;)

I'm more of a man then he'll ever be (well except for my missing limbs). Think of me as a pogo stick! ;)


WTF? :confused:

You are one strange little monkey dude

Hey, I think we should all forget about what happens to old people and take a nice drive across the Peter Mans Bridge. :D

Hey, I think we should all forget about what happens to old people and take a nice drive across the Peter Mans Bridge. :D
Or protest the Russian invasion of Chechnya and Saskatchewan!

Or the fact that too many Canadian kids can't name all of the Canadian states!

Or the fact that too many Canadian kids can't name all of the Canadian states!
Or name all our past Presidents!

Well when it comes from this hour has 20 (?) minutes

22...

in a segment entitled "Talking to Americans", I tend not to believe it!

I miss that segment... now you've made me feel all homesick.

Or name all our past Presidents!

Though to tell the truth, I probably couldn't name ALL of our Prime Ministers. :( I fail at life! (or my History exam anyway)

Though what we REALLY need to do is congratulate Prime Minister Tim Horton on getting a double-double.

Though to tell the truth, I probably couldn't name ALL of our Prime Ministers. :( I fail at life! (or my History exam anyway)

Though what we REALLY need to do is congratulate Prime Minister Tim Horton on getting a double-double.
Yes, and Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky for, well, just being swell!

(I know...I can name every damn US state, but not all our PMs...shows what our schooling focuses on)

One PM I'm sure everyone remembers is Jean Poutine.

One PM I'm sure everyone remembers is Jean Poutine.
Ah! Good ol Jean Poutine! I think he was the first one to let Canadians drive cars instead of dog-sleds - I can hardly remember though - since that was waaaay back in the 90's! :D

Talking to Americans was kick ass.

"Are you aware that the Canadian prime minister Tim Horton just got a double-double?"
"'Congratulations Canada on founding a new state.' 'Mommy, Canada has provinces not states'"
"Congratulations Canada on legalizing staplers."

And we all must worry about keeping that National Igloo preserved!

Is our only road finished yet?

Is our only road finished yet?
Not yet - theyre having trouble making it over the icebergs where the ocean cuts through Saskatchewan's seal hunting territory. :p

Not yet - theyre having trouble making it over the icebergs where the ocean cuts through Saskatchewan's seal hunting territory. :p
Not to mention the trouble we have with the moose migration from Vancouver to Halifax...

Not to mention the trouble we have with the moose migration from Vancouver to Halifax...
Isn't that something! Why just today I had to wait at a moose controlled crossing for over twenty minutes for them to make their way around the number 99 highway! This enrages me almost as much as the fact that Canada has only 11 states! meanwhile our neighbors to the south have like 50 of them!!! not fair!! :p

meanwhile our neighbors to the south have like 50 of them!!! not fair!! :p
You can borrow some of ours. Nobody'll miss them.
:p

I vote in favour of the practice! We even do it down here in southern Ont - makes winter tolerable! *snicker*

I vote in favour of the practice! We even do it down here in southern Ont - makes winter tolerable! *snicker*
*gasp!* You're probably one of those facy new age folks what let thum brang in those new-fandagled jet aero-planes! Sheesh-a-marie! :eek:

Ah, Rick Mercer...

Or the fact that too many Canadian kids can't name all of the Canadian states!
or our govornors!

lol.


oh, and did you know that the parliment buildings are just a giant igloo and we just got electricity last year?

Did any of you catch last night's Monday Report? This week's Celebrity Tip was by Margaret Atwood, on "How to Stop a Puck". Not as good as Pierre Burton's "How to Roll a Joint" tip, but still pretty durned good.

I don't know why, but an "elderly terminating factory" seems a little farfetched to me. It would have had more media coverage, and protesters would be rallying like crazy. :) Your pathetic attempt at insulting Canada disturbs me, however, I stand unaffected.

I don't know why, but an "elderly terminating factory" seems a little farfetched to me. It would have had more media coverage, and protesters would be rallying like crazy. :) Your pathetic attempt at insulting Canada disturbs me, however, I stand unaffected.

YOu sir are clearly a fool if you do NOT support elder processing plants

Almost as funny as when some Canadians say: "Well, we invented insulin!". :p

OOH NO RUN FOR THE HILLS! WE CLAIM TO HAVE INVENTED INSULIN0RZ!!!111
Glad that :p was there, else I should beat ya down. ;)

Just send all the Inuit elderly to us in Brazil, and we will send them off on our own local icebergs. Shame the ocean temperature is about 27 celsisus most of the time.

More seriously. Many different peoples have had many different ways of dealing with the problem of the elderly. The Inuit tradition is no more cruel than some others.
DAR ES SALAAM, July 3 (IPS) - Human rights activists have decried the deaths of over 500 elderly women, suspected of being witches, who were stoned, hacked to death or lynched in northwest Tanzania last year.
source (http://www.thelizlibrary.org/brett/brett010.htm)

While this may not be a traditional form of euthanasia, as the Inuit case seems to be, the cruelty is far higher.
As I understand things from my comfortable tropical paradise, life in the arctic is pretty tough. Under extreme circumstances is it not a sign of intelligence that the elderly, who can no longer provide a contribution to the society, should be the first to be sacrificed for the benefit of the rest of the society. A very harsh, but ultimately pragmatic solution.
The point about the Canadian Government permitting this practice has to be placed in the context of the overall policy toward the native ethnic cultures and traditions. If it is just this one practice that is allowed, then there is a serious problem, but if the Inuit are allowed to maintain all of their traditional practices then this just comes with the package. You get to keep the traditions, good or bad.

Your topic may have inspired mine, but I'm not making fun of yours per se. You think too highly of yourself. I am just expressing my undying love for Rick Mercer, who, if I ever decided to leave my husband, would be my first choice for sugar daddy.

Ummm, no to defame him or anything but I heardthat Rick walks the other side of the fence if you get whatI mean.

This is terrible...did you know it is a Canadian custom to put elderly people onto ice-flows and let them die of exposure? This horrendous custom was practiced by Inuit peoples long before Europeans settled Canada, but apparently the Canadian government thought it was an acceptable way to deal with an aging population! Please, contact your Canadian embassy to protest this horrifying and inhumane practice!

Rick Mercer, I love you.
I knew that there was a dark secret lurking up there in the land of Dudley Doright and the MacKenzie brothers.

We really are better! We give our seniors subsidized Viagra.

I knew that there was a dark secret lurking up there in the land of Dudley Doright and the MacKenzie brothers.

We really are better! We give our seniors subsidized Viagra.
Well, I'll bet that they die from that too! Hey - at least they die happy! :D