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I think all that passive-aggressivenes finally became aggressive.

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Exactly.

That's what I was saying when I admitted earlier that if I was there, the crowd was 'right,' was 20, full of alcohol, etc... I could have easily been one of them, even though otherwise I'm a decent person.... which I am but I'm also aware that people aren't so black and white and people do **** up.

<off to kick canes out from under the local cotton-tops>

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Yep - my words exactly. In fact I said something like "well, this is what happens when they run out of passive" as I was filming the events from my apartment. Still, looting sears - seriously no taste

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Yes I should clarify that I am not making comments about EV. Not lived in EV long enough, although had nothing but good experiences. Frustrating that it has a bad reputation, yet no doubt made by others who don't live here. Yet it has a fair number of drop-outs, tramps, street people, whatever you want to call them. Unlike most in my apartment, I do not enter / exit East Van in an armoured Hummer, but often on foot, often at night with my kids. I have yet to feel threatened. There is ample police presence but not overbearing, just about right. Plenty of less fortunate who just blend in. Quite a few beggers congregate on the intersection immediately beside my place, but having seen them a few times, they've dropped the request for cash, and sometimes even exchange a greeting.

I was up in a park on Wall Street, and there were a group of adults sitting on a bench, chatting and drinking. My kids started playing with a jack russell belonging to one of them. The guy introduced himself and to his friends. Certainly a pretty friendly and totally harmless bunch. Of course drinking in public is more of a taboo here, but I was thinking afterwards how I'd have judged the same in Britain. Just a bunch of adults having a drink. Completely tolerated but the same thing in essence, apart from the complete disregard for the law, but it's a silly one so I'll drink to giving silly laws the finger.

Coming back to my original point, my worst experiences as a parent relate to North and West Van. Actually life got a lot more boring, and social interaction took a nose dive when I moved out there. Became more interesting in a good way now I've moved back. Oh, also the weather is infinitely nicer in downtown area. It really does rain more on the North Shore.

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:thumbsup: Finally someone else who gets it!

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Not sure why Toronto papers are being quoted on a Vancouver story. :thumbdown:

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The Globe isn't a Toronto paper. It's a good a "Canadian" paper as exists.

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But, from a BC point of view, it's still a Toronto paper.

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How curiously parochial.

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Haha... you always find a way to add a dig.

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Cos it's a valid article with very good points that shit all over some of the stuff you say :thumbup:

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I quoted this article because I thought it was the most honest one written so far. Who cares where it's from? HOw do you know the author isn't a Vancouverite? That is taking parochialism to a ridiculous level.

:thumbup:

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I believe the G&M is gathering fans here...

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yeah and that too! :wub:

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It appears that the reaction to the riot is now swinging to the extreme and is just as worrying if not more so than the riot itself.