An intolerant people named Québec

The thing you have to understand about Québec is that the people here are basically rednecks. The French, anyway.

Montréal is relatively civilized.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I think it's kind of funny that your Liberal party leans to the right.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

All in all pretty fascinating.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Lord Styphon

If you'd be so kind as to edit it into English, please?

He's calling me a bastard and telling me my opinion is intolerant, stupid and rare. He says I don't know what a redneck is; that I've met a few retards who happen to be francophones so I'm lumping them all together.

He's mostly wrong, but I don't blame him. French Quebec is a very isolated culture.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

I didn't call you a bastard or stupid. You read and see what you want.

Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

Bâtard, c'est intolérant et imbécile rare ton opinion?

Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

Then the English came here and kicked the French Quebecors' asses and they said "Speak English or die!" and some said "Fuck You" and got killed.

We didn't say "speak English or die" and we didn't kill you. I'd like to know what the hell you think you're talking about.

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Then time passed. Then a little law passed and asked English bussinesses to advertise in French then in English, then everyone freaked out.

Now that's trivializing it. The Official Language Act (that little law):

• made French the only official language of Quebec
• made it necessary for companies to adopt the French language to communicate with the government
• forced all immigrant children to be educated in french-language schools (even if they come from an English speaking country!)
• forced all business signs to be 2/3 or more French (meaning English and any other language combined must collectively be 1/3 or less!)
• made French the dominant language in court proceedings, meaning that in the case of any ambiguity in the law, the French language translation of the law is to take precedence over the English text.

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Idiots from Quebec's French community screamed "You speak English I hate you!" and then Idiots from Quebec's English Community replied "Oh yeah? Well we hate you too!!"

Oh please.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

Once again...

'Bâtard' is used commonly as a way of saying one is surprised, like 'damn!' or 'shit!'. Learn a culture before dissing it.

Also, after the insurrection of 1837, 800 patriots were arrested and locked in a prison of Montreal for resisting the English governement. Most of them were killed by hanging. Stay in school.

And it shouldn't really have gone any other way. We're talking about an armed uprising here. It's serious shit.

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As for that law, I'm not even gonna go there since you're simple-minded and think that everyone should speak English because you're English.

No, you're not gonna go there because you really can't defend it. I think we should be allowed to speak English because we are English. This is an English country.

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Can't you see we have a whole different culture here in Quebec? If everyone speaks English, then we lose most of that beautiful language we have up here!

Just because everybody is allowed to speak English does not at all mean that all of Quebec will speak English. It's clear enough from your hardline (dare I say fascist) attitude on language that the French language is not in any danger.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SketchTheArtist

I'll bet my life savings that 90% of your opinion came from your parents which was given to them by their parents and so on.

My parents have nothing against francophones. And my mother is from Nova Scotia by the way.

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When I was young, I used to get beat up by the English kids down the block where I lived just because I spoke French. Where did they get that hatred? Probably their parents who got it from theirs. You see, a big chain of intolerance.

How old were they?

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Also, the thing with French here is that LAW 101 protects it. Imagine this okay? English is the most talked language in the world right next with Chinese, if the law didn't exist, the majority of shops, bussinesses and others would advertise in English only since the majority of the world and the rest of Canada speaks it, so why bother with the French?

Because more than 90% of Quebec is francophone.

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Then a dozen years later, only a handful of people will be speaking it and we'll just get eaten by the rest of it.

Not bloody likely. You'll keep your language just fine, out of your own convictions. You don't need the asinine law.

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I'm getting a bit tired of all that since you're pretty hard-headed and you don't want to see the other side of the coin.

I'm hard-headed? That's rich! This coming from the guy who calls Bill 101 a "little law" "ask[ing] businesses to advertise in French then in English" and who doesn't discern between "patriots" and armed rebels. And for your information, Les Patriotes weren't only French. There were many English among them.

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you seem to think that Quebecers and Separatists will go 'Witch-Hunting' English people when we'll get our country.

I never said such a thing.

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Poor brain-washed kid.

Speak for yourself.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by loyalist

The federa; government requires all of its employees and military offciers to be blingual in order to accomodate the French minority, however, Quebec has no such accomdation for the English minority.

True. In fact, the OLF (Office de la Langue Francaise, Quebec gov't agency that enforces the french language laws) does some pretty underhanded things to try and shuffle English speaking public service workers out of the province.

For example, nurses are required to pass a french language comprehension test every couple of years or risk losing their license. Recently the OLF made the test for nurses to include a lot of mechanical-related things such as asking for the french word for a car's bumper. These were the sort of things that even the best anglo-born nurse would be highly unlikely to know. Not surprisingly, hordes of nurses failed the test.

They were able to reach media outlets and bring attention to what was going on and retake the test. They were also able to get french tutoring tailored specifically for the test. So then the OLF threatened that they would fail them all a second time for cheating.

I shit you not.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?