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Canada - Fattest of them all! (pg. 6)
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by loca
Right, well i'm glad you are able to come up with your own conclusions in regards to results of a research that people with actual qualifications in regards to the human psyche have found. Of course you know better though, I mean really, these researchers are just wasting their time, go to Diginut for all the answers! :rolleyes: |
According to you, the researchers claim that it's their way of coping with stress and that it's an addiction. Like drugs, or smoking, or whatever. I wasn't arguing with their conclusions. My point was: wow, what a ing revelation, that they know they shouldn't do it but can't help themselves. :rolleyes: Every addiction that doesn't actually involve physiological withdrawal symptoms is, at its root, a lack of self-control.
People have to work to overcome compulsions and addictions. These people don't want to - they'd rather act like helpless victims. |
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| me@t k@tie |
| quote: | Originally posted by loca
go to Diginut for all the answers! :rolleyes: |
I'm glad you came to your senses! :gsmile: |
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| daves |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by me@t k@tie
I'm glad you came to your senses! :gsmile: |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| can't help myself vs. won't help myself |
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| emonster4life |
| who cares really , if half of you weren't spending your last dollar on drugs you'd be fat too. Canada always ragging on the US. With out George Bush our holy leader your country would be starving. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by emonster4life
With out George Bush our holy leader your country would be starving. |
hahahhahahahahah
we import from USA as much as we export. USA wouldn't feel too great either if its biggest trading partner wasn't playing along. |
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| jchung52 |
| quote: | Originally posted by daves
mmmmmmm
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id kill for that right now... seriously... im so hungry and i just ate fried rice too |
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| emonster4life |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
hahahhahahahahah
we import from USA as much as we export. USA wouldn't feel too great either if its biggest trading partner wasn't playing along. |
You better check your facts there pal. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by emonster4life
You better check your facts there pal. |
You're right. I must be forgetting who USA's biggest trading partner is. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
hahahhahahahahah
we import from USA as much as we export. USA wouldn't feel too great either if its biggest trading partner wasn't playing along. |
That's technically true (more or less), but also very misleading. In 2006 we exported about $230 billion worth to the U.S. and imported just over $300 billion, so the dollar amounts are not far off. However - and you'll have to forgive me for quoting ballpark figures from memory because I can't seem to find the exact statistic I'm looking for - over 60% of Canada's imports come from the USA, whereas not much more than 30% of the USA's imports come from Canada.
That actually should make perfect sense given the fact that we import about the same as we export, dollar for dollar; the U.S. trades on a much larger scale than Canada so the same dollar amount will account for a higher portion of our imports than theirs.
We are, however, a net exporter of oil and petro products, which seems to be very important to the Americans right about now. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by DigiNut
That's technically true (more or less), but also very misleading. In 2006 we exported about $230 billion worth to the U.S. and imported just over $300 billion, so the dollar amounts are not far off. However - and you'll have to forgive me for quoting ballpark figures from memory because I can't seem to find the exact statistic I'm looking for - over 60% of Canada's imports come from the USA, whereas not much more than 30% of the USA's imports come from Canada.
That actually should make perfect sense given the fact that we import about the same as we export, dollar for dollar; the U.S. trades on a much larger scale than Canada so the same dollar amount will account for a higher portion of our imports than theirs.
We are, however, a net exporter of oil and petro products, which seems to be very important to the Americans right about now. |
Yeah, unfortunately, Canada doesn't have Mexico sitting above it, otherwise I'm sure our import numbers would look a bit different too.
I just laughed at emonster4life because that's such typical high-nosed American attitude of "oh, Canada, where would you be without America?", and I hate it cause the two counties are interdependent, and not just Canada leeching off of USA. If anything, USA is exploiting Canada's exports because they have the advantage of knowing we have no other direct border country with who we could trade with. I'm sure Canada's logging contracts with USA would look hella different if we had another huge country bordering us. |
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