Alceste...He has written several replies to my posts some of which I've never seen.  The most recent, a somewhat "personal" reply which I did get to read, accumulated several dislikes/sads before it disappeared.  I for one wish that those behind its disappearance had given other readers here the same opportunity to see it and take measure of his reply themselves.

You may feel the same way as I as you read, "Didn't like my mundane comment, Alceste, and had it rejected?"

Much of his shtick of whether it is the imagery of cross border Canadian shoppers littering mall parking lots with labels and packaging or that service staff/waiters have told him we are notoriously poor tippers remains fascinating to me because he has posted here more than once that his wife is Canadian and yet he doesn't seem capable of comprehending the irony or the appearance of insult...of course then sadly maybe she doesn't either.

But don't dare comment on Americans at a buffet, heads under the sneeze shield :)