Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Courtesy (was Oh ... It's COMING SOON! :-)
From: Simon Lamb <simon@sclamb.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:52:13 +0100

Just as well not all English people live in London, England then!  However,
90% of the UK is exactly as you describe Canada.

Oh, and as an aside, the only time I ever got mugged in the street was in
Ontario.  Hmmm, maybe Canada is not all such a utopian place after all.

Simon

On 27/5/03 9:08 pm, "Johnny Deadman" <lists@johnbrownlow.com> wrote:

> Well, I'd like to point out that charming but crusty old codgers like
> Ted have been complaining about these kinds of things since the times
> of the Greeks, as any student of classical literature will know. It's
> in the Bible as well, and Shakespeare, as well as lots of C19th
> literature including Dickens.
> 
> So either things have been steadily getting worse since, ooh, I dunno,
> about 5000 BC, or (more likely, I submit) the older generation always
> perceives the world as going to hell in a handbasket, even though it
> really doesn't change that much.
> 
> Which is not AT ALL to say we couldn't use more civility. Ted and I are
> both lucky to live in one of the most civil western societies going,
> namely Canada. I am continually astonished how pleasant people are to
> one another here. And it rubs off. We clear each other's drives of
> snow, move furniture for each other, pass beer over the garden fence. I
> even see people walking down the street with smiles on their faces,
> occasionally whistling. Children play in the streets. Cars drive
> slowly. People are not, as a rule, angry at you for no reason. You do
> not wonder if they are carrying guns. All of this is very unlike, say,
> London, England, where I lived from 1989-2001.
> 
> On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 03:44 PM, Ted Grant wrote:
> 
>> I hate bringing up the past because many younger people go, "Oh hell
>> here he
>> goes again." ;-)
> --
> John Brownlow


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