Canada, My Canada - What's Next?

[Gurm]

Ok, I have to second what Drizzt has said.

- Gurm

[Paddy]

aye, unusually profound and coherent

Drizzt

[The Rock]

Since I detest any and all religion, what Drizzt says gets the thumbs up from me too.

[az]

Yes, absolutely! In fact, I was going to post just that, only longer (of course... )

AZ

[Joel]

The only thing I dislike about some gays is how they feel that they should somehow get special treatment just because they are gay.

Joel

[az]

Most of them just want to be treated the same as everyone else, with the same rights and duties. The problem is, of course, that the loudest ones are not necessarily the wisest ones, and not the majority, but they are the ones you notice the most.

AZ

[Wombat]

Originally posted by az
Most of them just want to be treated the same as everyone else, with the same rights and duties. The problem is, of course, that the loudest ones are not necessarily the wisest ones, and not the majority, but they are the ones you notice the most.

AZ

That's true of any group, unfortunately, whether social, career based, ethnic, political, or anything else.

[Joel]

Equal rights I don't have a problem with but special rights I do.

I had one gay fellow tell me one time that since they were born that way that they should have minority status just like blacks and special laws that give them hiring perferences over hetros.

But then again like you said, "the loudest ones are not necessarily the wisest ones".

Joel

[az]

Alas it is.

AZ

[EDIT: This was in response to Wombat's post]

[Tjalfe]

Going by that logic pretty much everyone is a minority in one respect or another.. I should get hired before short people, as I am a minority which happens to be tall...

[paulcs]

Originally posted by tjalfe
Going by that logic pretty much everyone is a minority in one respect or another.. I should get hired before short people, as I am a minority which happens to be tall...

And you probably do. Statistically, you probably have a better chance of getting laid as well.

Paul

[omegaRED]

Originally posted by paulcs
And you probably do. Statistically, you probably have a better chance of getting laid as well.

Paul

LOL

[Paddy]

grrr... so is that my problem then?????

[KvHagedorn]

Yeah Paddy.. the only thing you can do is build up Schwarzenegger type muscles so people will take notice and stop kicking you around.

What's really stupid is when a 5'0" girl tells me I'm too short for her (I'm 5'9"). Felt like picking her up and drop-kicking the little punkass bitch..

[Hati]

posted by Joel :
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I had one gay fellow tell me one time that since they were born that way that they should have minority status just like blacks and special laws that give them hiring perferences over hetros.
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Heard this too from a guy/gay at work.
Unfortunately I once had him as a co-worker.

One example:
At that time I was member of a DBA team and had to take care of some ADABAS databases and COM-PLETE TP-systems running on several IBM mainframes.
One morning when I checked the systems I saw nothing was working / everything was messed up.
So I took care of the production systems telling this guy to check the systems for application development and test.
After working for some time I turned around and saw my co-"worker" reading the newspaper. I asked him "Hey - what's up with the development/test systems?" (because I saw they were still down.)
He slowly looked up from the paper, looked at me very reproachful (how could I dare ...) and told me : "Hey, I can not work under stress !!!" then he continued reading the paper without making any attempt to check/fix anything.
Worst thing : When I complained about this, my boss told me that I could not treat this guy like everyone else because he was so over-sensitive/special.
In fact this guy was just lazy and not interested in doing any kind of work at all. (He considered himself being an artist for doing some painting in his spare time)
Finally this smart*ss managed that I was removed from the team because he constantly complained about how bad I treated him (I do NOT accept such an attitude!).
Although I got a better job as some kind of compensation (my boss knew where the problem was) I still find this totally unacceptable!
But you better do not dare to say something against this guy ! Or you are automatically considered being biased / homophobe.