Poll: Canadians most likely to be okay with a Muslim neighbor

[Richard]

I don't have pakis, fags, spics, chinks, or muzzies for neighbors.  But I wouldn't care for numbers 2 and 4.  I wouldn't want to live with the rest.  Too much theft and crime.

[angus]

I'd like to see this poll in Armenia.

I actually thought something similar.  I thought I'd like to see the same question asked in Egypt, for example.  Would it be close to 0%?  Coptic Christian neighborhoods might not be as welcoming I suppose, but otherwise close to zero.

That said, I have Muslims living on my apartment's floor, and I'm fine with it.

That I can appreciate.  I know I've posted about my former roommate Majdi and his brother Sharif.  Majdi didn't drink, smoke, or do any homework.  But he did gamble, and often had his buddies over for late-night gambling/physics study sessions/binge drinking parties.  I remember coming home many times, as a freshman in college, and tripping over Ibrahim and the gang, sprawled out all over the floor sleeping off a drunken stupor.  Sharif was a scary one, as I've mentioned before.  Ibrahim thought he was a mean sonofabitch as well.  Once, after they got into a fight, Ibrahim stole the windshield wiper off Sharif's car, hoping to cause Sharif to have an accident the next time it rained.

I also had a palestinian roomie one year.  I've probably mentioned him before as well.  He developed an American sense of humor quickly after he arrived in this country.  We used to look at Hustler together.  He'd wanted to learn about American humor and, in my opinion, nobody captures the ludeness that is American humor as well as Hustler's jokes and cartoons.  Eventually, he'd come home with one every month. 

I had a zionist Israeli roomie as well.  He had a huge cock, as I recall.  Not that I go around looking, but it was the biggest I'd ever seen on a white boy.  He was generally a nice guy too, but a major drunk.  All the time drinking.  He'd even go to class drunk.  I remember the campus cops escorted him out of the library one time.  Usually when I brought home liquor and put it up in the cabinet, then later I go to make myself a drink it'd be gone because he drank it all.  That used to peeve me.  I suppose that wouldn't happen to college roomies nowadays because they eventually, when I was in my 20s, they raised the drinking age to 21.  Probably to avoid situations like this, having roomies fighting over the booze. 

Anyway, all my muslim and jew and most of my christian roomies were okay.  The only really nasty asshole roomie I ever had, in fact, was none of the above.  He was actually rather irreligious, and filled with anti-religious zeal and bigotry.  That's not what made him a bad roomie, of course, any more than being muslim makes a bad neighbor a bad neighbor.  He was just an obnoxious asshole, inconsiderate and loud and late with his share of the bills.  Anyone can be a bad neighbor or a bad roomie, I think, regardless of their religion or lack thereof.

Never had a gay roomie, but I've had a few gay neighbors.  They were all pretty good neighbors.

[Verily]

I don't have pakis, fags, spics, chinks, or muzzies for neighbors.  But I wouldn't care for numbers 2 and 4.  I wouldn't want to live with the rest.  Too much theft and crime.

You're such a lovely person to be around, I'm sure.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Most liberal arts colleges in the US have now banned fraternities and sororities, too, FWIW.

Really? Not up here. The frat scene is big.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

I don't have pakis, fags, spics, chinks, or muzzies for neighbors.  But I wouldn't care for numbers 2 and 4.  I wouldn't want to live with the rest.  Too much theft and crime.

What about ns, you forgot about the ns.

Such things do not exist in Canada, prude.

[Jens]

I don't have pakis, fags, spics, chinks, or muzzies for neighbors.  But I wouldn't care for numbers 2 and 4.  I wouldn't want to live with the rest.  Too much theft and crime.

What about ns, you forgot about the ns.

They are automatically included. He needs some kaffirs to fetch his G&T

[Verily]

Most liberal arts colleges in the US have now banned fraternities and sororities, too, FWIW.

Really? Not up here. The frat scene is big.

Small schools, not big ones. Places like Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Haverford, etc. It's a growing trend, too, one that started at the top (Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore) and is slowly working its way down from the top-tier liberal arts schools.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Most liberal arts colleges in the US have now banned fraternities and sororities, too, FWIW.

Really? Not up here. The frat scene is big.

Small schools, not big ones. Places like Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Haverford, etc. It's a growing trend, too, one that started at the top (Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore) and is slowly working its way down from the top-tier liberal arts schools.

Aren't those schools all in New England?

[Hatman 🍁]

Ouch. Gabu had a post deleted.

[Verily]

Most liberal arts colleges in the US have now banned fraternities and sororities, too, FWIW.

Really? Not up here. The frat scene is big.

Small schools, not big ones. Places like Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Haverford, etc. It's a growing trend, too, one that started at the top (Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore) and is slowly working its way down from the top-tier liberal arts schools.

Aren't those schools all in New England?

Haverford and Swarthmore are in Pennsylvania. Nearly all of the prominent liberal arts schools are in the North East, though. The only exceptions are Pomona (CA), Washington & Lee (VA), Kenyon (OH) and Oberlin (OH).

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Ouch. Gabu had a post deleted.

Epic fail.

[Gabu]

Ouch. Gabu had a post deleted.

No, actually, I deleted it myself, but they caught it in time, so there it stands.

[angus]

Ouch. Gabu had a post deleted.

No, actually, I deleted it myself, but they caught it in time, so there it stands.

doncha hate that?  I don't have enough fingers to count the times, usually in a drunken stupor, I got all pissed off at someone and said, "You fuçking moron do you even read english what the hell is wrong with you I can't believe they even let you post here how can you possibly say that you believe what you just posted and anyway I'm not even going to try to correct all the grammatical mistakes in the sentence you made let alone the factual errors etc. etc." and then I go back and read the post to which I was responding and figure out that I totally misinterpreted it but by then someone has quoted me in an angry state calling someone else a jackass, usually with a quote that says "Right on angus, that guy's really an asshole, I'm glad somebody called him on it."  So I think I'll delete the post, because I figure by then it was a bad idea, and I'm all like, "yeah, but in this case he wasn't actually being an asshole..." but that's all just in my head and doesn't go down in the aether because by this time the original response is immortalized by capture and quotation and so there's no point in trying to explain that yes I do think he's an asshole, but it's important for you to realize that I don't think he's an asshole just because of this particular post, but rather in the broader scheme of things, etc., etc., ...

Well, you get the point.  anyway, that happens to me sometimes too.  quite a bit, actually.

[Platypus]

Oh angus. You need a sitcom. Preferably set in a magazine publishing office.

[KEmperor]

Oh angus. You need a sitcom. Preferably set in a magazine publishing office.

I see him more as one of those zany talk radio hosts.