This Canadian is actually STUPID!

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Please have a look at this exchange regarding an eBay transaction and let me know who's smarter: ME OR HIM?

First message from me(regarding Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey LP):

Hello, thanks for winning my eBay auction!
The total for your auction is: $14.99
The total if you are overseas is: $24.99
If paying by cash or money order, please send it to:
Keith Memerson
216 S. Halsted
Chicago, IL 60608
If paying by PayPal, send it to: kmemerson@yahoo.com
If you want insurance, please ask what the total is. It's optional, but I can't be held responsible if your item is lost or damaged by USPS.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Keith

His first response:

Keith,

I see your a member since September 2, 2004. Maybe to you, Canada is overseas, but for those that understand the concept of geograophy, Canada is actually intercontinental. In case you didn't know, Canada is right next to you. This attempted charge is an attempt at over-charging. I have never and never will pay $10.00 for shipping from Chicago to Calgary for one lp. The cost is more like $6.00 so please review your charges and re-submit your invoice.
Sincerely,
Robert

My next response:

Robert,
Wow, such a confrontational message!
First off, the spelling of the word 'your' in your first sentence is wrong.
In fact, you've used the word incorrectly as well. No matter.
Second of all, did I state that you would have to pay $10 for shipping and
handling to Canada? No. That's a stock quote. I usually get bidders from a
lot of different countries when selling LPs on eBay. I'm happy to charge
European customers $10 rather than look up each cost to save myself time. If
it exceeds the cost of $10 (which at times it does), I pay for the rest.
Lastly, why don't you just simply ask if it's $10 to Canada and if maybe you
could have a reduced rate? Why does your message have to take a tone that I
must be stupid because I'm new and that I'm obviously trying to rip you off?
Because that's not the case, sometimes you have to work out details.
You're correct that Canada isn't overseas, so you could have just sent
along $5.00 for shipping and I'd have been happy to send it.
Please send $7 for Air Mail shipping and handling to Calgary, Canada in a
heavy corrugated LP shipper.
Do your best to have a good day,
Keith
PS. If you see Tim Horton, tell him I said, "Wasssssssuupppp!"

Here's his next message:

Yeah, maybe i'm just pissed off at you stupid americans for electing the moron
again. We await the next country you will arbitrarily invade and occupy. We
also await the next 100,000 murders your country will commit in the cloak of
freedom. Your message is not clear, and spare me the nonsense about spelling.
America is the most illiterate civilized country on the planet. I am happy to
repatriot this album back to it's homeland, Canada, the land of the free and we
don't need to kill babys and mothers to prove it.
Robert

And then from me:

Robert,
You're probably aware that the voting isn't up to one person in America. A
select group of officials didn't show up to my door last night and ask me
who I'd like to have as the next president.
Here's the breakdown from Illinois, where I'm from:
Bush 44% electoral = 0
Kerry 55% electoral = 21
I'm not exactly thrilled with John Kerry, but I was happy to vote for him to
be rid of Bush.
Also, if you're going to accuse somebody as "illiterate" and "stupid", you
should work harder at your spelling and sentence structure.
I'll be sending your LP tomorrow.
Have a maple day!
Keith

And then from him:

Keith, glad to hear your on board. okay, i'll work harder or my spelling and
sentence structure, whatever your incorrect sentence actually means. Go Osama.
100,000 innocent dead and counting. We anxiously wait for the days of revenge.

DUDE, WTF?

Keith Memerson, Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Go Osama?

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago)

Put a bigass scratch in that LP.

Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago)

dude i really wish you wouldn't publish our private correspondence on a message board.

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Well, he is a Calgarian...

Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Post your feedback here forthwith.

Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:47 (twenty years ago)

You should just put 'Republican'

Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:47 (twenty years ago)

We anxiously wait for the days of revenge.

OH NO THE CANADIANS ARE INVADING I'M SO SCARED

Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

otoh, maybe it's not such a bad idea

Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Thursday, 4 November 2004 05:50 (twenty years ago)

When invade bring socialized medicine & multiple Rachel Perrys.

David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 November 2004 06:09 (twenty years ago)

fuck socialized medicine we got a whole big bag of socialized HEALTH CARE!

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

You should send him a DILDO along with the LP.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm not really sure why though.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Why the fuck is a Calgarian buying a Maple Leafs record? This guy's a fucking traitor. Ask him why he keeps voting for Ralph Klein, who's basically a GWB who never stopped drinking (though he may have lately).

Huk-L, Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Canadiand have such a great natural sense of humor. Are any of them NOT funny? No, it isn't possible.

adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Canada: Alberta Premier berates homeless in visit to shelter

By Lee Parsons
22 December 2001

World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org

Ralph Klein, the premier of Alberta and darling of Canada’s right, made a disgusting display of his contempt for the poor in a drunken, midnight visit to a homeless shelter in
Edmonton last week.

At around 1am December 12, a visibly intoxicated Klein had his chauffeur drive him to the Herb Jamieson Centre, a government-supported shelter for homeless men. Witnesses say
that soon after entering the 249-bed Centre, Klein began shouting and swearing at a number of the homeless. Slurring his words, the Tory premier yelled repeatedly at them to get jobs,
then threw money on the lobby floor and stormed out.

Tammy Tuttle, a woman who happened to be at the shelter at the time with her boyfriend reported that Klein “put them down like they’re worthless. They do what they can to help
themselves and maybe if he’d help them a little instead of cutting back on everything, they wouldn’t be here.”

Mark Shea, who recently moved to Alberta from Nova Scotia, told the Edmonton Journal, that he walked into the confrontation after finishing a work-shift at a gas station. “Lo and
behold, there he [Klein] was in the middle of six or seven guys, yelling at them at the top of his lungs.”

“I don’t drink or do drugs and he’s telling me to get a job when I already have one. If I wouldn’t have gotten arrested, I would have slugged him.”

Initially, the premier’s office made a feeble attempt to gloss over the incident, offering its own implausible version of events. Klein’s chief of staff, Peter Elzinga, said the Premier
was not drunk and “out of the goodness of his heart” had stopped at the shelter on his way home from a private dinner. Elzinga added that Klein had merely asked the men if they had
jobs, then handed out some $70 to them.

Later Klein made a public apology for the “commotion” he caused at the shelter, but denied he had been drunk. He said his interest had been piqued by recent reports of a rise in the
number of homeless in Edmonton. (Alberta’s capital has a vacancy rate of less than 1 percent and many of the homeless are people who have jobs, but cannot find accommodation.)

“The purpose of my visit,” claimed Klein, “was to chat with residents and find out what their situations are like. During my time in politics, I have periodically made such
unscheduled visits because they give me the opportunity to chat privately and honestly with people from different walks of life.”

Klein’s bizarre and callous behaviour was at first treated by the media as little more than an embarrassment, and one that might even enhance the premier’s reputation as a straight
shooter. This attitude is itself politically significant, for it reveals the extent to which the establishment now accepts homelessness as inevitable and views the abuse of the poor with
indifference. “It’s hard not to have at least a sneaking admiration for Alberta Premier Ralph Klein,” began a Globe and Mail piece on Klein’s escapade. Opined another journalist in
the country’s largest national daily, “When the dust settles... the now-infamous trip seems destined to become the stuff of political legend in the province rather than scorn.”

And what would have happened had the roles been reversed? Had a drunken homeless man invaded the premier’s home late at night and verbally abused Klein, he would in all
likelihood have been set upon by police and at the very least now face home invasion charges.

With Klein making a public confession that he does indeed have a drinking problem at a press conference this past Tuesday, the media focus has again shifted. Any discussion of what
happened at the shelter and what it says about Klein and the politics of his government has been dropped. Klein is now being praised for having the “courage to confront his demons.”
Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien and several provincial premiers have reportedly phoned Klein to voice their support. According to the Alberta Premier, Chretien told
him to “keep your chin up, hang in there, and gave” him “words of encouragement.”

The truth is Klein’s verbal tirade against the clients of the Jamieson Centre was only a cruder rendition of the anti-working class politics his government delivers on a daily basis.
Oil-rich Alberta is Canada’s wealthiest province, but the Klein Tory government has spearheaded the downsizing of public and social services across Canada, winning praise from the
likes of the Wall Street Journal. Under Klein, Alberta became the first province to drastically cut welfare rates and embark on a systematic campaign to drive people off welfare. In a
16-month period in 1993-94, the province’s welfare rolls were cut almost in half. One tactic used was to offer recipients a one-way bus ticket to leave Alberta. During the course of the
1990s, the province’s housing budget was reduced by some two-thirds. Having made Alberta the first jurisdiction in North America to replace a progressive income tax with a flat tax,
Klein is now pushing for the dismantling of Medicare, the universal public health insurance scheme.

Klein’s actions at the Jamieson shelter are a measure of the man. What the big business media has passed off as Klein’s popular touch is demagogy, anti-intellectualism, and an
appeal to people’s baser instincts. What the media has characterized as his strong leadership is his craven adherence to the reactionary agenda of big business and penchant for
bullying the poor and the vulnerable.

Huk-L, Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago)

!!!

adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

oh YES. Also, be sure to drop the name of Stockwell "Doris" Day. Albertans as a whole have no right to complain about anyone else's elections, when they've inflicted so many horrible pols on their own country.

wait, except for Joe Clark, who I still love.

derrick (derrick), Thursday, 4 November 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago)

what am i sposed to say
it's just another stupid day in this....
pointless life

froetoe bilbinson, Friday, 12 November 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)


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