Was Queen Big In Canada?

written_in_the_stars wrote:

scott__mercury wrote:

Nobody cares what you think

The saddest thing is that you do believe someone cares what YOU think

You dont want to be in canada cause you know. All the Quebecs that I met in Florida last year hate canada. They know Canada is a freeloader loser full of cowerds.
Nobody cares what YOU think

"You dont want to be in canada cause you know. All the Quebecs that I met in Florida last year hate canada. They know Canada is a freeloader loser full of cowerds.
Nobody cares what YOU think"

That could quite possibly be the worst sentence in the history of written English. You must be proud.

Queen was bigger in Canada per capita then they ever were in the US....so certainly BIG....but obviously not as BIG as they were in the UK....

QUEEN ROCKS!! CANADA ROCKS!!

And not to mention the album "The Game" went 5x Platinum in Canada, as opposed to the U.S. where I think it only went platinum once or twice

Inu-Liger<h6>-a.k.a. Richard Guilbault- wrote:

And not to mention the album "The Game" went 5x Platinum in Canada, as opposed to the U.S. where I think it only went platinum once or twice

Depends on how many records you must sell to get Platinum, in different countries - numbers are different.

scott__mercury wrote:

You dont want to be in canada cause you know. All the Quebecs that I met in Florida last year hate canada. They know Canada is a freeloader loser full of cowerds.
Nobody cares what YOU think

I can't believe I missed this post! I sifted through the grammar, or lack thereof, and got the general idea of what our beloved Scott was trying to say (has Scott ever contributed anything to this forum that isn't in the form of a bigoted insult towards someone or some group?). His post above made little sense, so in reply, here's my attempt at outlining an average *aware* Canadian's impression of life in Quebec:

Most Quebecers (with the exception of half of Montreal and natives living on Quebec soil) are not true Canadians, for many reasons: 1) They have almost completely different laws. 2) They consider themselves French first, and Canadian second (even though they use our currency and OUR resources), 3) They don't have a clue about national pride, and 4) They don't have a clue about multi-culturalism.

This group of tightly knit catholics have made it clear that all they want is to separate from our country of acceptance of all religions, without even considering the repercussions of doing so. I have spoken to many of these Quebecers in my day, and they were so far off to the right that it makes Canadians like myself feel ashamed that this kind of mentality exists in my country which I am proud of.

If Quebec separated, the rest of the country would suffer as much as (or probably more than) they would. I won't go into that, as it'll be pages of writing. A passable analogy: far-right republicans are to the US like these Quebecers are to Canada (it's interesting how the majority of Canadians who support Bush live in Quebec). Thank goodness we are a peace-keeping country. If we had the US's mentality when it comes to dealing with a group of people with different values than ours, we would have been at war with them ages ago, and perhaps still at war today.

Serry... wrote:

Inu-Liger<h6>-a.k.a. Richard Guilbault- wrote:

And not to mention the album "The Game" went 5x Platinum in Canada, as opposed to the U.S. where I think it only went platinum once or twice

Depends on how many records you must sell to get Platinum, in different countries - numbers are different.

In Canada it's 100,000 for platinum, and in the US it's 1 million. The US has roughly 10x as many people as Canada, so mathematically, it's the same feat either way.

One of Shania Twain's albums went platinum 10 times here, so if you assume there are an average of three people at each residence, that means about 1 in every 10 homes has that album in it.

scott__mercury wrote:

Queen hates Canada

you back out on parole then? damned medication isn't working tho is it

They were really big in the 70's but were less popular in the 80's.What a shame because some of thier best stuff was from then. I think alot has to do with the U.S banning some of thier videos and playing them less on radio.After all we do tend to follow them unfortunatly.

Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote:

scott__mercury wrote:

You dont want to be in canada cause you know. All the Quebecs that I met in Florida last year hate canada. They know Canada is a freeloader loser full of cowerds.
Nobody cares what YOU think

I can't believe I missed this post! I sifted through the grammar, or lack thereof, and got the general idea of what our beloved Scott was trying to say (has Scott ever contributed anything to this forum that isn't in the form of a bigoted insult towards someone or some group?). His post above made little sense, so in reply, here's my attempt at outlining an average *aware* Canadian's impression of life in Quebec:

Most Quebecers (with the exception of half of Montreal and natives living on Quebec soil) are not true Canadians, for many reasons: 1) They have almost completely different laws. 2) They consider themselves French first, and Canadian second (even though they use our currency and OUR resources), 3) They don't have a clue about national pride, and 4) They don't have a clue about multi-culturalism.

This group of tightly knit catholics have made it clear that all they want is to separate from our country of acceptance of all religions, without even considering the repercussions of doing so. I have spoken to many of these Quebecers in my day, and they were so far off to the right that it makes Canadians like myself feel ashamed that this kind of mentality exists in my country which I am proud of.

If Quebec separated, the rest of the country would suffer as much as (or probably more than) they would. I won't go into that, as it'll be pages of writing. A passable analogy: far-right republicans are to the US like these Quebecers are to Canada (it's interesting how the majority of Canadians who support Bush live in Quebec). Thank goodness we are a peace-keeping country. If we had the US's mentality when it comes to dealing with a group of people with different values than ours, we would have been at war with them ages ago, and perhaps still at war today.

It's true, what GH wrote.


And I myself used to live in Quebec for 2 years, when I was younger. Worst experience of my life, I'll tell you guys that much.

They don't give people with disabilities (including myself) much respect, as I was physically abused on a number of occassions, and I never went to the police about it cos I didn't know my rights back then (it was after I moved to Edmonton shortly afterwards that I learned about the laws and stuff regarding this kind of abuse, and I now regret not knowing that, because I would have loved to have taken my teacher and bus driver to court).

And having been born in Quebec originally, I am ashamed as a Canadian to have been born in the worst province out of all 10 in Canada. The Quebeckers make Ralph Klein and his gov't (who lead Alberta, where I currently reside) seem like lovely nice folk (which is saying a lot).

I feel sorry for those people who live in Quebec that DON'T want to live there in the first place.

No offense, but those frogs can go to hell.

Inu-Liger<h6>-a.k.a. Richard Guilbault- wrote:

And not to mention the album "The Game" went 5x Platinum in Canada, as opposed to the U.S. where I think it only went platinum once or twice

The Game went Quadruple Platinum in the US as did News Of The World and both albums each sold 4 million copies a piece!