You really have to experience the atmosphere to fully appreciate its hideousness. Like jeddy1989 and I are both from comfortably middle class backgrounds. We can speak with a generic Canadian accent on the phone with mainlanders (that's one of the signs here, lol), both of us went to school for a little while it was still denominational but graduated years after they went secular, and we both had Protestant and Catholic friends. We're both from mixed families. Neither of us has been to a church in years or has any sort of religion in our daily lives.
But in Ches', we got into a shouting match over past actions by Protestants (how he was raised) and Catholics (how I was raised). Literal, loud argument. Ches' just brings that out in you. It's like... since moving to my current neighbourhood, Rabbittown, I now feel no shame, I feel nothing at all, when I go to the superette on a Saturday morning in my pajamas. That would've absolutely horrified me just a decade ago.
All my childhood pictures, everyone is wearing socks on our living room carpet at family gatherings and Mom is still in her heels. That's how I was raised.
This should really be Ches' commercial.
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