Meanwhile, I’d like to see some og the supposedly great debaters here take on a spirited discussion of how illegal immigration in Korea is the same or different than illegal immigration in the USA. Gang violence, depressed wages, unemployment among citizens and legal residents, etc…

If there were any actual “great thinkers” here capable of presenting the subject in a rational, objective fashion, that is…

(though they might want to change the channel from curling to soccer/football)

Brendon remains invited to what sounds like an excellent opportunity for cross-cultural communication, augmented by great beer and various explanations of the soccer/football rule minutiae.

(Colin Powell, eh? Why isn’t stuff like that better publicized?)

problem is, you can bait as much as you like, but we Canadians won’t get upset when you mock our country

We’d gladly take Brendon in, offer him a Canadian beer

Eww… By ‘Canadian beer’ I assume you mean some sort of piss-water like Molson or Labatt… Y’all need to learn how to drink real beer.

Unless it comes with a guarantee that NCAA basketball won’t be turned off in favor of curling, he’s unlikely to accept the invitation.

Given the venue, the possibility of a riot is not unlikely.

From one hoi pollus to another (now that we know gbnhj isn’t one).

69. notlob - problem is, you can bait as much as you like, but we Canadians won’t get upset when you mock our country. We make fun of ourselves better than you ever could, and nobody laughed louder when the Southpark people burst into “Blame Canada”

Now if you start calling names at KOREANS, you might get somewhere.

Slur Koreans, and you’d think the world was gonna explode. Slur Canadians, and we snicker and say, “good one, eh?” Might be that I just summed up the difference between pot-smoking tree-huggers and soju-drinking workaholics. . .but what do I know?

We’d gladly take Brendon in, offer him a Canadian beer (east coast) or a doobie (west coast), and breathe clean air and drink clean water until we’re all relaxed again.