Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html