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Old 12-19-2017, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Gatineau, Québec
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Toronto was just an example. I am hardly Toronto-centric.


Think about disasters that actually kill lots of people and how often they happen in Canada and how often they happen in the various tiers of the U.S. They're far less common and deadly in the northern tier down there than in the bottom two thirds. And the northern tier contains a huge chunk of the population and some of the biggest cities.
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Old 12-19-2017, 02:46 PM
 
Location: Canada
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Meh. The reason why they're less deadly and there's less deaths in northern tiers is because the people in the northern tiers have more foresight and are more careful and practical about how they build or maintain their infrastructures and resources. Flame me if you will but I have always been a firm believer that the heat in the south effects people's mental capacities and that is one of the reasons why there's more destruction of infrastructures and more deaths in the south.


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Old 12-19-2017, 03:40 PM
 
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Meh. The reason why they're less deadly and there's less deaths in northern tiers is because the people in the northern tiers have more foresight and are more careful and practical about how they build or maintain their infrastructures and resources. Flame me if you will but I have always been a firm believer that the heat in the south effects people's mental capacities and that is one of the reasons why there's more destruction of infrastructures and more deaths in the south.


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Or it could have something to do with the fact that large parts of the US are located in disaster prone areas.
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Old 12-19-2017, 04:01 PM
 
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Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver are not indicative of all of Canada as a whole. Your enjoyment of your trip is what you make it.
What do you like to do? A little excitement car-racing Edmonton (Nascar, Castrol) International raceway, horse track racing, Casinos, world sports events FISE BMX world action sports festival, FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2026, Commonwealth Summer Games, Canada Figure Skating Cup, Canadian Finals Rodeo, NHL hockey, Kart racing, hunting, fishing, canoeing or river-boating on the great Northern Saskatchewan River, Elk Island Park (a refuge for bison and elk), the Tyrell dinosaur museum inviting you to active dig sites in the badlands near Drumheller, a tour of the fur-trade companies and northwest mounted police forts, Fort Edmonton Park (the fort as it was in the late 1800s), ride on a steam locomotive original engine and passenger cars through a park, horseback riding, hike the city trails along the river and picnic there too, bicycle around the city in bike lanes and trails. Attend ballets and symphony at the Winspear, use LRT transit to get anywhere in the city, Muttart Gardens a glass pyramid garden with world species of plans and butterflies. Well I guess by now you get the idea ! Bragging at bit, well, maybe a lot.
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Old 12-19-2017, 05:02 PM
 
Location: Canada
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Meh. The reason why they're less deadly and there's less deaths in northern tiers is because the people in the northern tiers have more foresight and are more careful and practical about how they build or maintain their infrastructures and resources. Flame me if you will but I have always been a firm believer that the heat in the south effects people's mental capacities and that is one of the reasons why there's more destruction of infrastructures and more deaths in the south.


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Old 12-19-2017, 05:41 PM
 
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Or it could have something to do with the fact that large parts of the US are located in disaster prone areas.

I don't agree. ALL of North America is a disaster prone area. The disasters may vary in character from location to location, but they're all predictable in their character and for their locations and no part of the continent is untouched. The only reason the disasters in southern tiers seem worse and may become more devastating is because they're responded to inadequately by sluggish people who refuse to prepare properly for or build their infrastructures and domiciles appropriately for the types of predictable disasters that they get.


I really don't understand how other people can't comprehend this.


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Old 12-19-2017, 05:57 PM
 
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I have always been a firm believer that the heat in the south affects people's mental capacities and that is one of the reasons why there's more destruction of infrastructures and more deaths in the south.


Would you care to take that to its logical conclusion...that certain people groups which originated in northern latitudes are mentally superior to certain people groups from the south?
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Old 12-19-2017, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Canada
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Would you care to take that to its logical conclusion...that certain people groups which originated in northern latitudes are mentally superior to certain people groups from the south?

Nope. Maybe that's your conclusion, but not mine, and I don't think your conclusion is logical.


I know of people of various origins, cultures and races whose mental capabilities have changed either for the better or the worse after they've relocated to new locations in climates that are not the same as the climates that they came from. I've seen some of these changes happen in as little as three months in children, up to two or three years in adults.


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Old 12-19-2017, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Canada
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Saibot, I noticed you changed the spelling in my post that you quoted. This site below is for your information to let you see for yourself that my spelling was correct and appropriate to the context in which it was used:
Affect vs. Effect Grammar Rules


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Old 12-19-2017, 06:44 PM
 
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Saibot, I noticed you changed the spelling in my post that you quoted. This site below is for your information to let you see for yourself that my spelling was correct and appropriate to the context in which it was used:
Affect vs. Effect Grammar Rules


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Sorry, you are incorrect. According to your link, "to affect" means "to influence someone or something," while "to effect" means "to cause something to happen."

So which sentence makes sense:

"The heat in the south influences people's mental capacities" (affect)

"The heat in the south causes people's mental capacities to happen" (effect)

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