Don’t let the title confuse you; I love Canadians. Their peace-loving nature, congeniality, and disproportionate amount of beautiful women all endear them to me, but sometimes I just have to laugh at stuff they’ve come up with. The Political Party system of Canada has always been a source of laughs, specifically because of outfits like the Marijuana Party. Recently I was reading up about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and came across what is perhaps one of the greatest Canadian Inventions of all time, nicknamed the “Fruit Machine”.
The Fruit Machine, which “worked” by measuring pupil dilation in people when shown erotic pictures of the same gender, was used by the R.C.M.P. Security Service during the 1950s to root out alleged homosexuals in Canadian society. Back then homosexuality was illegal and also considered to be a character flaw by the Canadian government, and as a result of the Fruit Machine dozens of people lost their jobs. The sheer brilliance of the plan overwhelms me.
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