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 Jul 5 2010, 12:35 AM
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Ain Soph Aur  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600  |
*shake's Red_Cap's hand*
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Jul 5 2010, 03:27 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 75 Joined: 30-August 09 Member No.: 17,574 |
QUOTE (Daylen @ Mar 28 2010, 07:44 PM)  that's a nasty thing to call someone. Yeah calling someone a Yankee down here will get you punched. |
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Jul 10 2010, 05:08 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Quebec has always been an... "Interesting" part of Canada. Between the Mob, the Bikers, and the FLQ trying to reorganize... And that's just in living memory.
But organized crime is very much in my "Peaceful" home town. In fact, both the Hell's Angels and Satan's Choice were both pushed out of my home town. Luckily, this was done with a minimum of firearms discharges and explosives. Even luckier when you consider that I lived in a mining town where Dynamite is easy to get in quantity and quality! And now I live in what used to be the Murder Capital of Canada. With an exceptional amount of Gangs and Auto-Theft (Insert "Stealing Ford Americars for spare change" joke here). And I moved here willingly. Go figure. |
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Jul 10 2010, 09:48 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,705 Joined: 5-October 09 From: You are in a clearing Member No.: 17,722 |
Wait. There's a lot of car theft in Winnipeg?
Seems like it would be an involved process, what with shoveling the snow away and warming it up for half an hour before you can drive off... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Jul 10 2010, 11:28 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
In the seasons that don't involve snow, smart-hoop. Well, season, "Road Construction". But even in Winter it's a major thing, there's not "Much" snow in Winnipeg. (Note: I base this on what I grew up with, and I grew up on in a Valley.).
And it's serious enough I've heard of at least one Car Thief that's been beaten when attempting to steal a car. And the car wasn't even owned by any of the vigilantes, either. Certainly sounds like something that would happen in Shadowrun, especially in some of the areas that don't get a lot of police support. Most certainly something that would happen if someone tried to break into any PC's ride! Someone jack a Rigger's Ride? I don't think so! |
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Jul 10 2010, 04:32 PM
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Old Man of the North Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 8,705 Joined: 14-August 03 From: Just north of the Centre of the Universe Member No.: 5,463 |
QUOTE (Red_Cap @ Jul 4 2010, 08:45 AM) I'm just amazed that there are Italians in Montreal. I've been there, and all everyone I met was a transplanted Frenchman or fellow New Englander. Montréal has the longest continuous run of the annual St. Patrick's Day parade in North America. (The world?) Something like 140 years running now. |
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Jul 10 2010, 04:48 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,325 Joined: 2-April 07 From: The Center of the Universe Member No.: 11,360 |
QUOTE (Mister Book @ Jul 4 2010, 11:27 PM) Yeah calling someone a Yankee down here will get you punched. I thought they called us gringos.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I think the citizens of the USA are called american, while Canada is for canadians (except maybe the quebecquois (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotate.gif) ), the citizens from mexico are mexicans...are there still some aztech populations that consider themselves seperate from the mexicans? |
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Jul 10 2010, 05:19 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (Warlordtheft @ Jul 10 2010, 11:48 AM) Are there still some aztech populations that consider themselves seperate from the mexicans? Yes, and are they ever angry. Like, Irish angry. And they weren't even kicked off their Island like the Irish were. |
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Jul 10 2010, 05:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 15-September 08 From: Florida Member No.: 16,346 |
To be fair, CanRay, some of us weren't kicked off -- we left to get out from under English thumbs.
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Jul 10 2010, 05:25 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
Same reason my family left.
But the Elves making Tir na Nog did not help matters much. |
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Jul 11 2010, 02:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 490 Joined: 29-August 06 From: Texas Member No.: 9,245 |
QUOTE (Fatum @ Mar 26 2010, 05:27 PM) Afaik, the most fun is to be had in Mexico - it's just as hot, but with less huge crime syndicates and more petty gangs and random violence. Well that is more about narcoterror than anything else., mexico that is. |
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Jul 11 2010, 09:40 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 92 Joined: 20-March 10 From: Around the Ley Lines on the 'moors. Great Britain. Member No.: 18,323 |
Quick question but does any of the mexican narcoterror spill over into the US?
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Jul 11 2010, 09:49 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
In modern day? Yes. There's a reason Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of the US. In the UCAS? Yes. It's called Aztechnology.
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