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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      8. You wouldn't thing that sexual perversity could be made boring, but then you've probably never sat through an Anglo-Canadian movie.

      7 replies 21 retweets 30 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      9. Where does this boringness come from? What are the roots of this profound Canadian love of stultification?

      14 replies 8 retweets 13 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      10. Imagine a British colony where the piquant colorful features of Britishness (eccentricity, visible class friction) were discouraged.

      4 replies 7 retweets 15 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      11. And of course, as Canada formed as a state, it looked to the USA as an anti-model. We don't want to be like them, with their Civil Wars

      2 replies 5 retweets 16 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      Jeet Heer Retweeted

      12. A thought from Robert Frost: https://twitter.com/noahmccormack/status/609208684586135552 …

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      2 replies 4 retweets 11 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      13. Boredom is never all encompassing, it is always punctuated by outbursts of violence just to remind us we're alive (i.e hockey).

      2 replies 8 retweets 10 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      14. Countering me @EricKleefeld says many Canadian politicians have been interestingly insane, like William Lyon Mackenzie King. Yes & no.

      6 replies 2 retweets 4 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      15. True, in private WLM King was batty (held seances, talked to dead mom & his living dogs) but in public he was staid & sober: boring.

      2 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      16. The King example is proof that Canadian boringness isn't intrinsic: it's something we work at, cherish and reward.

      6 replies 9 retweets 11 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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      17. There's an entire cultural infrastructure to reward oatmeal novels ("angst on the farm" as Russell Smith described it).

      6 replies 5 retweets 13 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Adam

      18. Irvine Welsh weights in, saying the Scots have exported their boring people to Canada:https://twitter.com/AlphaInvictus/status/609213142913028096 …

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      Adam @ChalicothereX
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      @HeerJeet @irvinewelsh offers an opinion on the subject in Skagboys: pic.twitter.com/lkWunZLc9I
      9:21 PM - 11 Jun 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        1. GaryJRussell‏ @GaryJambo 11 Jun 2015
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          @HeerJeet @AlphaInvictus @IrvineWelsh Of course, he lives in Chicago now, so is that Scotland beginning to export nutters?

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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          19. (Should have said this before but everything here is only true of English Canada which has never assimilated Quebec into its boringness)

          3 replies 6 retweets 17 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Jun 2015
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          Jeet Heer Retweeted Dr. Robin Mazumder

          20. This is very much worth pondering:https://twitter.com/RobinMazumder/status/609215271312592896 …

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          Dr. Robin MazumderVerified account @RobinMazumder
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          @HeerJeet coming off as boring is a great cover for perpetrating a lot of racial injustice. Canadians racist? Nah, too boring for that.
          4 replies 10 retweets 12 likes
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