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I think I read somewhere that if you did a poo on the moon it would not deteriorate and it would still be just as smelly and brown if you visited it years later. I'm not a physical scientist but there are some on this forum who are, so is this true?

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Apparently so
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Here is one I made earlier:cool:

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I suppose so but for a lad from Essex, I don't mind the politeness, even if it's fake as ****

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Me too, though it can be confusing. Here in Cayman, there is deep, deep resentment among the native-born of all expats here (from dozens of countries) - but you would never know it from the courtesy of individuals. We British are (as a species) high on the list of the unwelcome - second only to Jamaicans. Canadians are highly regarded, for some obscure reason!

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Probably because of their natty dress sense.

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There is a woman at the center I work at - she is very repressed and she does seem rather passive aggressive. Most are just polite though, not invested but polite.

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It's reputational. Politeness = non offensive like Switzerland

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Is anybody here old enough to remember The Stan Freberg Show, back in the '50s? On it, inquiries into the nationality of any foreign-sounding character were answered (often in a stage-Mexican accent) with: "Sweess. Zat way we don' offend nobody."

My son - forty years old - has adopted from me that and several other Freberg goodies: "It makes a difference to the sheep", and "I come tru de window", and "Don't stop me now, man, I got to where I like it!" Oh, don't get me started...

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My children have Swiss and Canadian passports. They don't use the Canadian ones, "too confrontational".

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I think his strategy was not to get yelled at, I've never seen a guy with so many big muscles and tattoos look so worried before.

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Canada Syndrome: Good People Supporting Mass Internment, War, and Genocide | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

Of course there's always the back-side of any picture, unfortunately.

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There's always confusing the topic at hand with historical contradictions, easy to do with almost any country in the world. Rather than try to blame 2/3 of it on British colonial attitudes and the other 1/3 on American Manifest Destiny nonsense we just accept it as our dodgey history and make apologies and reparations when we have to the same way every other nation does, and rightly so.