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You would be surprised by the poo poo I see and hear daily from these chuckefucks
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 06:04 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:You would be surprised by the poo poo I see and hear daily from these chuckefucks But enough about the LPC.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 06:06 |
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PT6A posted:Are the ones in other provinces as completely loving illiterate? How do you make it this far in your life without seeing "coup d'etat" in print? Have you ever been to rural BC and met its people? Or Rural (any province). Same people.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 06:09 |
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Baronjutter posted:Have you ever been to rural BC and met its people? Or Rural (any province). Same people. I grew up in rural BC, but I guess when I moved I always guessed that people kept learning things after age 10. Evidently I was mistaken. I mean... "Kudatah?" Are you loving kidding me? I guess hookt awn fonix reelee werkt four him. Edit: If the RCMP sent undercover officers to "help" this idiot overthrow the provincial government, would it be entrapment? PT6A fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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It's funnier to me that there are people who think Canadian Manufacturing will ever be a real thing ever again than I can really even believe. How loving dumb and totally blind to the realities of the modern world do you even have to be to think that could happen? Honestly It might be dumber than kudatah.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 06:57 |
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ChairMaster posted:It's funnier to me that there are people who think Canadian Manufacturing will ever be a real thing ever again than I can really even believe. I think that's comparing apples to oranges. Thinking Canadian manufacturing is going to suddenly be resurgent is a failure to consider the current economic context and apply logic to it. Misspelling a reasonably common word is evidence you haven't graduated junior high school.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 07:05 |
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The Butcher posted:The invisible hand makes a dismissive gesture and looks away. Not sure that gesture was "dismissive"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 07:22 |
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PT6A posted:Apparently one of the illiterate morons in my province has called for a "kudatah" against the NDP on social media. I can only surmise that Ricky grew tired of Sunnyvale and decided to come out west. Don't worry, the government can C-51 those fuckers for, uh, plotting against democracy. Right? e: I'd hoped he would be from another province, just checked, I'm so sorry Juul-Whip fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Jan 14, 2016 |
# ? Jan 14, 2016 08:21 |
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I have to admit, the fact I can see a headline like this about Alberta and not be filled with dread over it being awful, and then find I haven't been tricked and it is indeed not terrible, is... Strange. Is this what having a decent government is like? Alberta students to define their own gender: 5 big changes in new school guidelines (Bolding is in article) CBC posted:Schools should erase old divides that force students into male and female roles, according to new guidelines released Wednesday by the Alberta government that advise teachers to let kids choose which washroom they want to use and what name appears on their report cards.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 08:50 |
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Moinkmaster posted:I have to admit, the fact I can see a headline like this about Alberta and not be filled with dread over it being awful, and then find I haven't been tricked and it is indeed not terrible, is... Strange. Is this what having a decent government is like? I've started seeing this movement as the last blow against lingering Victorian puritanism in society. Here's hoping we can stop freaking out over naked tits and dongs in a generation or three. Either that or we'll burn as our society loses all cohesion, and implodes like someone kicked the rafters out.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 09:42 |
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ChairMaster posted:It's funnier to me that there are people who think Canadian Manufacturing will ever be a real thing ever again than I can really even believe. At this point I don't even understand why Canada even exists, we should just fold and join the USA already.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 11:42 |
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I've read a couple of articles that argue that certain international treaties that Canada has signed will prevent us from legalizing marijuana, sounds retarded to me, but is there actually anything to that? It sounds like it's pretty simple to just drop out of a UN treaty and say "we're pursuing our own policy on drugs" but whatever.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 11:43 |
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ChairMaster posted:It's funnier to me that there are people who think Canadian Manufacturing will ever be a real thing ever again than I can really even believe. There's more of it than you'd think. The big companies have all outsourced or folded, but there are a lot of small companies out there that still make things, esp. for industrial uses.
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ChairMaster posted:It's funnier to me that there are people who think Canadian Manufacturing will ever be a real thing ever again than I can really even believe. Dude I work in plastics right now, the last industry that should be profitable or even exist in Canada in TYOOL 2016, and we have bought 4 machines in two months because of the number of new clients flooding into us. One has moved 100% of their production from California to us, and another has ceased purchasing from China and made us their sole supplier. Why? Because not everything is an iPhone, and many supply chains require a faster turnaround time than the month it takes to slowboat an order from Shenzhen. Especially when we're talking low volume orders which wouldn't fill a full cargo container, and would thus need to wait to split it with someone else headed to the same port. This can be a huge headache and lead to quite an impressive storage bill. When you're not involved in an industry, or lack any industrial perspective at all, it's easy to just not grasp how many minor players there are in this country which are making bank. Sure, the days of multi-acre assembly lines are in the grave and never returning in Canada, but the small shops? The factories with less than 50 employees bringing in $10m or less net a year? That sector just tossed back an entire box of Viagra thanks to the CAD making GBS threads itself.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 13:11 |
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Number Two Stunna posted:There's more of it than you'd think. The big companies have all outsourced or folded, but there are a lot of small companies out there that still make things, esp. for industrial uses. Oh yeah, I see that stuff shipped through my company all the time. Loads and loads of home manufactured stuff almost universally for the oilfiel... Oh. Yeah, that shits drying up quick. Thankfully, the guy above is correct, but its far less felt here in Edmonton.
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de_dust posted:At this point I don't even understand why Canada even exists, we should just fold and join the USA already. Canada exists because not everyone was 100% on board with the American Revolution, a war which created two separate countries. It just took longer for our side to realize it, because we didn't know the foreign power we had been relying on for support had more or less written us off once it didn't go their way. While it is a historical construct, we are still of two different polities. Besides, Canadian Manufacturing *was* indeed a thing, before globalization happened about 20-ish years ago. It just turns out that globalization is a scam. Not everyone has realized that yet.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 13:26 |
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Moinkmaster posted:I have to admit, the fact I can see a headline like this about Alberta and not be filled with dread over it being awful, and then find I haven't been tricked and it is indeed not terrible, is... Strange. Is this what having a decent government is like? I'm pretty sure Alberta was always surprisingly ahead of the curve on gay rights, at least back in the 70s and 80s.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 14:31 |
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Number Two Stunna posted:I've read a couple of articles that argue that certain international treaties that Canada has signed will prevent us from legalizing marijuana, sounds retarded to me, but is there actually anything to that? It sounds like it's pretty simple to just drop out of a UN treaty and say "we're pursuing our own policy on drugs" but whatever. There could be. You can't withdraw from a treaty unless the treaty says you can withdraw from it, as NK learned when they tried to withdraw from a nuclear weapons agreement or somesuch. I read a bit of the three that were mentioned earlier in the thread, but stopped after noticing that the Netherlands is also a party to those treaties and so far they haven't been Panamaed over it
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:19 |
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What would they do if we broke the treaty? Arrest Trudeau?
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:27 |
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You got me there. Trade sanctions maybe? Or nothing. My money is on "nothing".
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:31 |
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The clarion call of the weed intelligentsia: "International treaties don't matter"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:40 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:The clarion call of the weed intelligentsia: Unless the US plans on invading Canada, they don't. I hope the UN doesn't write us a stern letter.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 15:58 |
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More like "international treaties based on wrongheaded thinking from the 1960s don't matter enough today for people to make a big deal about enforcing them as long as nobody breaks rule #2" Doing this in a way that will avoid pissing off a plurality of our useful trading partners is more of a priority than sticking to the letter of a law that may very well never be enforced to any meaningful extent.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:00 |
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Ex-Dragon Kevin O'Leary considerers run at Tory leadership My gut tells me that he's only doing this for attention, but that's what I said about Trump too. Of course the key difference between Trump and O'Leary is that Trump has built at least one successful business.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:07 |
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http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/charlie-hebdo-alan-kurdi-cartoon-1.3403085 Charlie Hebdo has done a thing again and Canadians are once again proving they've got no idea what satire is. I'm starting to think all of the support of their earlier work really was Islamophobia because it's pretty clear that satire is way over the heads of pretty much everyone in this piss-ignorant country.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:08 |
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PT6A posted:http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/charlie-hebdo-alan-kurdi-cartoon-1.3403085 Haha @ the majority of comment saying children are off limits for satire, they are probably fuming at articles claiming that Trudeau will make spanking child abuse. Children are sacred my rear end. Whiskey Sours posted:Ex-Dragon Kevin O'Leary considerers run at Tory leadership Trump inherited millions of dollars and basically grew it with the rate of inflation while selling his name to make more money. The best thing Trump does is act like a clown to make the name Trump worth more money. O'Leary for the most part is as much of a clown, but he didn't have the millions in inhertance or the name recognition when he first started out. DariusLikewise fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Haha @ the majority of comment saying children are off limits for satire, they are probably fuming at articles claiming that Trudeau will make spanking child abuse. Children are sacred my rear end. No, I get the feeling that it's leftists getting pissed off because they think it's anti-refugee and/or racist. Satire is very poorly understood by both sides of the political spectrum, unfortunately.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:23 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Haha @ the majority of comment saying children are off limits for satire, they are probably fuming at articles claiming that Trudeau will make spanking child abuse. Children are sacred my rear end. oleary was financed by his father in law at the start of his career but he didnt start nearly as big as trump
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:25 |
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You guys are right. Canada has the international gravitas, influence and respect to ignore treaties. Best country on earth oh Canada!
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:27 |
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PT6A posted:http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/charlie-hebdo-alan-kurdi-cartoon-1.3403085 With this and the kudatah thing, I'm so much more annoyed that I'm paying CBC to troll and repost social media. The kudatah guy is a moron but think of the guy who graduated high school, did four years of undergrad to get a journalism degree and now has to sit there refreshing reddit every 10 minutes. Crazy to see them on this international story so fast, it took them 5 days to report the actual attacks on Cologne, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cologne-sex-attacks-new-year-s-1.3391349 In real news for Ontarians, holy poo poo. Everyone knows that any kind of foliage or distance screws up these meters, they just send random numbers to hydro (or hydro makes up a number out of thin air). We paid $2b to have them installed, they never actually affected people's usage patterns and they're finally starting to give up on them after years of complaints and letting some people go back to two tier (manual readings and first X kw a month at discount).
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:27 |
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Ikantski posted:With this and the kudatah thing, I'm so much more annoyed that I'm paying CBC to troll and repost social media. The kudatah guy is a moron but think of the guy who graduated high school, did four years of undergrad to get a journalism degree and now has to sit there refreshing reddit every 10 minutes. Crazy to see them on this international story so fast, it took them 5 days to report the actual attacks on Cologne, http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cologne-sex-attacks-new-year-s-1.3391349 They gave a poo poo about the stupid cartoon right away because Alan Kurdi's aunt made a fuss, and she's Canadian, as far as I can tell.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:30 |
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Whiskey Sours posted:Ex-Dragon Kevin O'Leary considerers run at Tory leadership This makes his $1 million offer to Notley look even worse. Imagine the headlines if Rona Ambrose offered Trudeau $1 million to resign as Prime Minister.
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PT6A posted:They gave a poo poo about the stupid cartoon right away because Alan Kurdi's aunt made a fuss, and she's Canadian, as far as I can tell. Nah, someone was talking about this here the other day during the political correctness thing. The CBC sees it as harmful to society to stoke the right wing narrative and it probably is. If all they did was report on ISIS and violent refugees, idiot canadians wouldn't be as receptive to bringing in 25,000 refugees which even I think would be a bad thing. They know they have a real power to affect perceptions so stories about muslims being persecuted like this one are great, stories like the one about Cologne are bad. I just think it'd be sweet if we had a state news corporation that focused on news and not narratives. I actually think that cartoon was supposed to be a meta joke. The guys at Hebdo are pretty liberal and there's been a lot of anti-refugee sentiment in Europe since Cologne? They're saying "You idiots really think it's worth having children drown because you actually think they're all going to grow up into sexual predators?", it's an illustration of what the xenophobes are thinking. Maybe the real racists are the ones who take that cartoon at face value.
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Ikantski posted:I actually think that cartoon was supposed to be a meta joke. The guys at Hebdo are pretty liberal and there's been a lot of anti-refugee sentiment in Europe since Cologne? They're saying "You idiots really think it's worth having children drown because you actually think they're all going to grow up into sexual predators?", it's an illustration of what the xenophobes are thinking. Maybe the real racists are the ones who take that cartoon at face value. That's exactly what it is. I didn't think the message was that cryptic, but evidently I was wrong. I didn't mean "stupid cartoon" as "the cartoon is stupid" so much as "the cartoon is, at worst, insignificant, why are people whining about it?"
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PT6A posted:That's exactly what it is. I didn't think the message was that cryptic, but evidently I was wrong. I think it's a little cryptic. If you're ever looking for work, you should apply to be the CBC's bullshit filter because their article's tagline is "Cartoon suggests drowned refugee boy would have grown up to be a 'groper'"
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 17:11 |
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Cultural Imperial posted:You guys are right. Canada has the international gravitas, influence and respect to ignore treaties. Best country on earth oh Canada! The exact opposite, actually. In terms of international law, these treaties are effectively a set of golden rules pinned up by the vice principal in your elementary school hallway. Even if you were going to get called into the VPs office for not "working together prayerfully", he's not going to affect your permanent record.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 17:14 |
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Word on the street Trudeau is touring Waterloo today, stopping by Googles new office and Blackberry.
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 17:31 |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cellphone-privacy-ruling-1.3403550?cmp=rssquote:Judge rules cellphone 'tower dumps' violate charter right to privacy
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# ? Jan 14, 2016 17:36 |
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I have a somewhat modest idea for how we can deal with both rising food costs and burdensome CBC commenters. (Eat them.) * Original idea, please don't steal. *
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The JP should've known that, good grief. On the other hand, it's Peel, so...
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