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Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:03 am

Also, if I was Mike Pearson and I was alive today, I would want to distance myself as far as I could from "bilingualism", which was a hidesously expensive (and failed) attempt to appease a separatist Quebec by making everyone in Canada sound like an assistant deputy minister in the Federal Government.

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:33 am

Hedley wrote:Also, if I was Mike Pearson and I was alive today, I would want to distance myself as far as I could from "bilingualism", which was a hidesously expensive (and failed) attempt to appease a separatist Quebec by making everyone in Canada sound like an assistant deputy minister in the Federal Government.

Yes acknowledging the French heritage of this country as well as the largest French speaking population in the world outside of France by ensuring that every government office in this country provides service in English and French and teaching everyone French until grade 9 is truly the worst thing this country has ever done to its citizens.

Also you did not answer my question.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:37 am

It would appear that you fail to realize that Quebec being unilingually french would certainly appear to constitute a complete failure of the bilingual dream

Also, I'm not as bright as you, niss, so I fail to realize the importance of providing government services in BC in french. Cantonese or Wu might appear to be more useful choices, at least to people who don't ride mopeds in Barrie.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 5:47 am

I'm lost.

How does bilingualism prove that Harper is the best pm?

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:18 am

Hedley is arguing the fact that, a French mission settlement and hospital in the north west territories, that was location to a mounted police fort, later re-named after a place in Scotland. That thanks in part to a brewry, the train and later Oil, became a rather large English speaking city.

Partially proving Mike Pearson's hope to provide service in French isn't working out.

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:34 am

Hedley wrote: Also, I'm not as bright as you, niss, so I fail to realize the importance of providing government services in BC in french.

Clearly you aren't as you seem to be unable to directly answer my question. But I won't hold your lack of reading comprehension against you. But before you go on and try to impress me with your Engineering degree from Queens, your laundry list of software you have personally written, your boat, ferarri, motorcycle, and vast array of aircraft flown with your Godlike grace that would rival that of the blessed offspring of an unholy union between . Yaeger and Bob Hoover, I understand that you are an incredibly accomplished and intelligent guy.

You just almost never come across as one. Your failure to answer a direct question makes it seem like your intelligence does not match your resume, and then when called out on something you just post the above mentioned list of look what I have and what I have done.

Your insecurity seems to be directly linked to your arrogance, no better exemplified by when you stated you would laugh your ass off at me after I crash an airplane simply because I joked about you missing a post that was right above yours.

But please don't mistake this for me thinking I'm better then you at flying, or at life. I still respect you a whole bunch as a stick & rudder pilot and I do look forward to learning from your experience. I just respect you far less now as a person.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:46 am

That's crazy niss. It's more fun to point out the fact that he went to school before this Mike Pearson guy mandated French classes to grade 9.

I only had them until grade 5 and none of it stuck. Though to be fair to the teachers, I tried to learn some later and it's not going well at all. Then again here in the former "Fort Brisbois" it's pretty tough to find people to practice with.

I don't know if Harper's doing much else but I'll take that 2% off on GST. I still wish it would go away. I don't mind paying rediculasly high taxes for my reduced services. Just hide it so I don't have to recalculate everything at the cash register unless I'm travelling.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:23 am

niss wrote:
Hedley wrote: "... you stated you would laugh your ass off at me after I crash an airplane.

That's class.

Darkwing Duck · Post by **Darkwing Duck** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:37 am

Dash-Ate wrote:You like taxes, bankruptcy? Harper just spent 35b on jets, 1.2b on G20, 9b on new prisons, I'm guessing 1b/month in afghanistan, and now how much is this libya invasion?

Oh the HUMANITY, think of the children. The only thing I agree with you here is the G20. A bit excessive for the lake, a paddle pool would of been cheaper. Other then that every dime spent on fighters, PRISONS, Afghanistan and now Libya is worth every bit.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:31 am

I just respect you far less now as a person

Honestly, niss - why would I care what you think?

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:37 am

You'd be better off answering that for yourself Hedley. You may even be in denial that you do like you claim but if that were true I don't believe you'd be responding to him.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:43 am

How does bilingualism prove that Harper is the best pm?

Sorry you joined the conversation late, bmc. Since you didn't bother to read the preceding posts, I will kindly summarize them briefly here.

niss doesn't like Harper personally - got that - and pointed at the "accomplishments" of some previous PM's which proved, in his opinion, that they were all better PMs than Harper.

I chuckled when niss mentioned Canada's expensive, demented and doomed sociological experiment in "bilingualism" as one of Mike Pearson's "accomplishments".

This would be on par with a biologist trying to take credit for the invention of herpes as one of his "accomplishments".

I suppose that humour was too sophisticated for you to grasp. I will try to keep it simpler for you, in the future, because I do care what you think, bmc

PS Ferraris are junk. Don't waste your money on them.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:56 am

Hedley wrote: I suppose that humour was too sophisticated for you to grasp, bmc. I will try to keep it simpler for you, in the future, because I do care what you think, bmc.

If you did care what I thought, you wouldn't resort to cheaps shots at people. It's stuff you hear from 13 year olds. You know what I mean.

At the risk of offending a lot of people on this forum, many people look up to you as an impressively skilled, professional aviator. When I read posts you've put in other threads, you've impressed me. You really have. And, your accomplishments are something to be proud.

What fails to impress is the way you talk down to people. I think your arrogance is unjustified and uncalled for. This is a great place to hang out with fellow aviators. Listening to a loud mouth bully walking around, beating his chest at every turn gets boring.

Be the bright guy you are. I like the bright, switched on Hedley. The name calling is juvenile and alientates you for no good reason.

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:58 am

You really think Ferraris are good cars? Hm.

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:33 am

Hedley wrote:You really think Ferraris are good cars? Hm.

The new ones are. Old ones had to have cambelts changed too frequently, they were cramped and uncomfortable. Older 250GT California spiders from 60-61, are nice. LWB more so than the SWB. 62-66 250GTO's give me a stem, but I'm not the only one that likes the 39 that were made and change hands for $$$$$$$.

The newer ones don't do much for me.

niss · Post by **niss** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:57 am

Hedley wrote:
I just respect you far less now as a person
Honestly, niss - why would I care what you think?

If you didn't why would you post pictures of all your toys and all the super cool aerobatic pilot stuff you do?

Hedley wrote: niss doesn't like Harper personally - got that - and pointed at the "accomplishments" of some previous PM's which proved, in his opinion, that they were all better PMs than Harper.

I asked what has Harper done to leave his mark like the other PMs have. What is his legacy.

You never answered me.

Brewguy · Post by **Brewguy** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:34 am

Damn it Niss, will you stop pushing his buttons?

Now we'll all have to scroll through the 'standard' package of over-sized photos that Hedley is sure to re-post to once again prove his superiority over us mere mortals.

And of course, you're sure to get a PM, something to the effect of:

Hedley wrote:Maybe some day I will be able to fly an airplane as well as you can, [insert your name here].

I look forward to you stopping by my airport and giving me some
instruction on surface-level tumbles, and surface-level outside
formation loops flown line abreast as #2.

Let me know what dates work well for you and I will make sure
I schedule it.

In the meantime, please do feel free to post pictures and videos
of you flying low-altitude tumbles, and surface-level outside
formation loops flown line abreast.

I'm so sick of reading this crap. Can't we all stop picking on Hedley, and learn to accept his opinions as indisputable fact? That would make life so much easier on all of us!

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:24 am

Somehow I knew this tread would turn to bilinguism... It always does.
We are not the only country that can prides itself in functionning in two languages. There are many others. Speaking two languages or more, is proven to make use of more brain space, to keep the brain cells from drying and dying too early. So whatever prime minister better supported the idea that Canadians could, and should know two languages, should be thanked for making us smarter, and more open.
As I get older, this becomes more evident.

Working in a multi national, multi cultural environment is a good way to verify this hypothesis.

Your culture comes through the languages that you know. Knowing only one is akin to looking at the world through a single pipe. Like listening in mono...

We could compare the difference in cultures, for instance in Utah, and California...

My point...

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:27 am

Tabernack! If it weren't for the fact that I grew up in a bilingual country I would never have learned to swear in french.

iflyforpie · Post by **iflyforpie** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:55 am

I learned to swear in Cantonese and Tagalog long before I learned to swear in French...

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:03 pm

A lot of people like Porsches, and while I admit they have incredibly precise steering, I can't help but feeling I'm driving a chick car when I'm in one, regardless of how much horsepower it has (to try to compensate for being a chick car).

Everyone raves about German engineering, but yesterday I was trying to get a Carrera 4S going, and the battery was dead from sitting over the winter. No big deal, except the hood latch (where the battery is) is operated ... electrically. Hmmm.

It never gets any respect, but the Honda (sorry, Acura) NSX makes the rest of them look like junk.

I'm so sick of reading this crap

Another thing we have in common! I feel the same way, when I read anything you write.

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:09 pm

Hed,

You set your standards too high! (Accura)
My first sport car was a 69 Jaguar XK-E 4.2. After that, everything was OK...

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:12 pm

69 Jaguar

Ack!

I'm sure it will enrage the weiners here, but IMHO english cars are junk, with the exception of Aston Martin. I really liked the DB9.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:12 pm

Huh, what's your take on BMW?

bandaid · Post by **bandaid** » Mon Mar 21, 2011 12:15 pm

We're a "little" off track here so why don't I just add to the derail. Hedley I just bought a new vehicle and when I was a kid I could lift the hood on most makes and figure out what was what, this new one, I left something on and the battery was dead in the morning. I couldn't find the battery to jump the thing. Turns out they have a special add on for that purpose. GM came and jump started the car and when I saw what they did I felt really dumb. Can't add to the whole Ferreri/ Porche argument. I don't make the wages you pilots do, could never afford one

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