Thread: Stampede 2012
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Old 07-13-2012, 10:44 AM   #474
Ne7en
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Originally Posted by J-bo09 View Post
Finally, I like to address the red neck and hill billy comments. Comments like this expose you and your argument quickly. Nothing destroys an argument quicker for me then some plug that read a headline in the paper pulling out the red neck comment. You know what? I'm a born and bred Calgarian, and proud to be one. I find that this comment is used by losers trying to take up a soap box, and if you actually understood this city or culture, rather then sterotype everybody, you would be ahead.
My intent was not to stereotype everyone in Calgary as a hill-billy, and if you go back and read my comments I believe I made no reference to that. However, the Stampede for putting it on and the Chuckwagon event are in my opinon Hill-billy. The mentality to continually do the same event with the same risks year after year. Anyone would be foolish to think the drivers don't push these horses well-being beyond what would be considered humane, money and enteraintment is on the line.
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