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DariusLikewise: Oct 4, 2008; You wore that on Halloween?

It's a study about immigrants not the Government's official stance on your current status of being an immigrant you loving chud

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:12

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Legit Businessman fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Sep 9, 2022

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:12

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

I just read the gamut of 1st, 1.25, 1.75, 2nd and 2.5 generation definitions. Holy poo poo

DariusLikewise posted:

It's a study about immigrants not the Government's official stance on your current status of being an immigrant you loving chud

There's no need to be rude about it! Maybe I'll just read the ARTICLE?

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Sep 9, 2022

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:16

odiv: Jan 12, 2003

Up here the government classifies me as indigenous non-aboriginal (for the purposes of affirmative action).

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:17

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

My mom was born outside of Canada and I still absolutely have ties to France, and so should be considered somewhat an immigrant, even though I was born here.

I speak fluent France-French (despite having lived my whole life in BC), I have a French passport, regularly visit family back there and am allowed to vote in their elections. Why shouldn't there be a word for someone like us, who have ties to multiple countries, despite being born and living in the same one?

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:18

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

I'm actually pretty fascinated by all these immigrant generational classifications now.. Never something I thought of beyond first-generation immigrant and second-generation Canadian. Never realized or thought of all sorts of different classifications one might need for different scenarios.

Interesting way to start my day.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:23

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

HookShot posted:

My mom was born outside of Canada and I still absolutely have ties to France, and so should be considered somewhat an immigrant, even though I was born here.

I speak fluent France-French (despite having lived my whole life in BC), I have a French passport, regularly visit family back there and am allowed to vote in their elections. Why shouldn't there be a word for someone like us, who have ties to multiple countries, despite being born and living in the same one?

There is. It's traitor

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:26

mashed: Jul 27, 2004

I didn't see this linked about soylent guy https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/op-ed-how-i-gave-up-alternating-current/

It pretty much is one :stare:

after another.

quote:

"The walls are buzzing. I know this because I have a magnet implanted in my hand and whenever I reach near an outlet I can feel them. I can feel fortresses of industry miles away burning prehistoric hydrocarbons by the megaton"

"I have not set foot in a grocery store in years. Nevermore will I bumble through endless confusing aisles like a pack-donkey searching for feed while the smell of rotting flesh fills my nostrils and fluorescent lights sear my eyeballs and sappy love songs torture my ears. Grocery shopping is a multisensory living nightmare. There are services that will make someone else do it for me but I cannot in good conscience force a fellow soul through this gauntlet."

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:26

PT6A: Jan 5, 2006; Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

HookShot posted:

My mom was born outside of Canada and I still absolutely have ties to France, and so should be considered somewhat an immigrant, even though I was born here.

I speak fluent France-French (despite having lived my whole life in BC), I have a French passport, regularly visit family back there and am allowed to vote in their elections. Why shouldn't there be a word for someone like us, who have ties to multiple countries, despite being born and living in the same one?

((( globalist ))), pejoratively.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:31

mojo1701a: Oct 9, 2008; Oh, yeah. Loud and clear. Emphasis on LOUD!
~ David Lee Roth

mashed_penguin posted:

I didn't see this linked about soylent guy https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/op-ed-how-i-gave-up-alternating-current/

It pretty much is one after another.

Motherboard did a "I tried Soylent for 30 days" video, and it includes meeting him. Worst part is he's a terrible interviewee (he talks bad is what I'm saying).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8NCigh54jg

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:42

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

wow guys it's almost like we should ignore dumb assholes with severe autism

hold on let me check my give a poo poo account

Yep zero

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:46

DariusLikewise: Oct 4, 2008; You wore that on Halloween?

Wirth1000 posted:

I just read the gamut of 1st, 1.25, 1.75, 2nd and 2.5 generation definitions. Holy poo poo

There's no need to be rude about it! Maybe I'll just read the ARTICLE?

Sorry you're mad that you are not an Old Stock Canadian like myself

# ? Oct 26, 2017 17:51

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

namaste faggots posted:

There is. It's traitor

# ? Oct 26, 2017 18:16

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

HookShot posted:

My mom was born outside of Canada and I still absolutely have ties to France, and so should be considered somewhat an immigrant, even though I was born here.

I speak fluent France-French (despite having lived my whole life in BC), I have a French passport, regularly visit family back there and am allowed to vote in their elections. Why shouldn't there be a word for someone like us, who have ties to multiple countries, despite being born and living in the same one?

Dual-citizen.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 18:19

Risky Bisquick: Jan 18, 2008; PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.; Buglord

DariusLikewise posted:

Sorry you're mad that you are not an Old Stock Canadian like myself

Unless you trace back to indigenous you are a imperial invader squatting on my peoples land

# ? Oct 26, 2017 18:36

InfiniteZero: Sep 11, 2004; PINK GUITAR FIRE ROBOT; College Slice

mashed_penguin posted:

It pretty much is one after another.

My favourite part is how he has a magnet implanted in his hand so he can "detect industry burning prehistoric hydrocarbons" but also he's made sure that he can still play League of Legends.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 18:44

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

lol what

quote:

Police are dealing with a possible hostage situation at a King Street West marijuana dispensary.

According to Const. David Hopkinson, a person was reportedly seen entering the establishment with a weapon at around 1 p.m.

Hopkinson said that reports suggest the suspect may have taken someone inside with him at the time, though it is unclear whether there is an active hostage situation.

http://www.cp24.com/news/police-responding-to-reports-of-person-with-gun-inside-marijuana-dispensary-1.3650520

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:08

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

Oh boy I hope he's not psychotic :smugdog:

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:15

DariusLikewise: Oct 4, 2008; You wore that on Halloween?

Risky Bisquick posted:

Unless you trace back to indigenous you are a imperial invader squatting on my peoples land

I have a M�tis card so there I guess?

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:16

Risky Bisquick: Jan 18, 2008; PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.; Buglord

DariusLikewise posted:

I have a M�tis card so there I guess?

Good good, our people are represented. We may get status soon :lol:

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:19

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

Wouldn't be surprised to see this in other provinces.

drat, Lake Huron was one happenin' place back then.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:20

Reince Penis: Nov 15, 2007; by R. Guyovich

Wirth1000 posted:

lol what

http://www.cp24.com/news/police-responding-to-reports-of-person-with-gun-inside-marijuana-dispensary-1.3650520

About that...

https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/923646247470292993

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:26

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

So what kind of free poo poo do you guys get? Is it true your tuition is all paid for?

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:29

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

Reince Penis posted:

About that...

https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/923646247470292993

hahahaa

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:30

Arivia: Mar 17, 2011

Reince Penis posted:

About that...

https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/923646247470292993

So what PTSD coverage are the poor people victimized by the police during this going to get?

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:38

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

Um excuse me, only honourable and courageous members of the cf are allowed to get free poo poo for :airquote:

PTSD

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:53

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

Stop stealing valour pls

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:53

Arivia: Mar 17, 2011

Lol sometimes you�re alright CI.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:54

Reince Penis: Nov 15, 2007; by R. Guyovich

The only stolen valour I want to talk about is Valour-ie Pringle, who stole my canadian heart.

# ? Oct 26, 2017 21:57

yellowcar: Feb 14, 2010

always steal valour imo

# ? Oct 26, 2017 22:18

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

yellowcar posted:

always steal valour imo

Our Boys didn't stain their uniforms with bunker oil while torching the white house so that you could prance around on internet forums spewing this treasonous drivel

# ? Oct 26, 2017 22:28

Rust Martialis: May 8, 2007; At night, Bavovnyatko quietly comes to the occupiers’ bases, depots, airfields, oil refineries and other places full of flammable items and starts playing with fire there

I think the preferred term is 'mischlinge'.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Sep 9, 2022

# ? Oct 26, 2017 22:36

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

Lobok posted:

Wouldn't be surprised to see this in other provinces.

drat, Lake Huron was one happenin' place back then.

Rail's good poo poo.

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:14

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/oct/26/revealed-oil-giants-pay-billions-less-tax-in-canada-than-abroad

Canada is a corrupt petrostate

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:20

HookShot: Dec 26, 2005

Reince Penis posted:

About that...

https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/923646247470292993

hahahahahaha

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:32

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

Reince Penis posted:

About that...

https://twitter.com/goldsbie/status/923646247470292993

Live images of the scene:

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:36

EngineerJoe: Aug 8, 2004; -=whore=-

Apparently the opioid epidemic is getting out of hand in Southern Ontario, Cambridge in particular.

The owner of a retro video game store explains his reasons for moving his store to Waterloo. It really shows how the downtown core has gone to poo poo over the past few years:

Mike Romagnoli posted:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1510450602325267/permalink/1527659250604402/

Hey everyone. My name is Mike and until September I owned a business in Galt called Retro Replay. I've wanted to kind of tell my story as to why we have moved, but until I found this group the other day, have felt that what I have to say would of fallen on deaf ears. This is kind of just a rant and release of ideas and thoughts I have had building up for over 4 years in business in downtown Galt.

My store is called Retro Replay. We buy sell and trade retro video games. I'm sure some of you guys have heard about it before, or have driven by, or maybe have stopped in over the years. Before we moved to Waterloo Town Square in Waterloo, we were located at 20 Ainslie St S. So right across the street from the Armoury and Bus Terminal. It's a pretty busy spot.
When I first was looking for a place in 2013 I had to have some criteria on location and this place fell perfectly into all the little slots I had. All the requirements for my type of business. The location was great! When I was opening up I did the vast majority of the work on my own. There were many many days working that went into the early hours of the morning.
For the first year we didn't have air conditioning so the door was open all the time. This included when I was working alone until 2, 3 or even 4am. In those months of late nights I had one person randomly come into the store and ask what I was doing. That was it. I felt safe and didn't have a single concern about the area at all, no matter the time or day or night nor the time of the month.

I remember the first person who came in with 'problems'. Now let me say when I mean problems this is a generalization of people with disruptive mental and addiction problems. She was talking to herself. Asked to use the bathroom (of a video game store), asked for free stuff, asked to charge her phone, then took off her clothes because it was too hot. I asked her to get dressed and leave again. We laughed and laughed about it for months. How crazy is that? Someone coming in acting all crazy and then getting naked. We thought it was pretty funny and a good story to tell.

Little did we know that 4 years later things like this wouldn't be a very oddball and obscure experience, but something we would deal with on a daily basis.
We used to get a person with 'problems' in the store maybe once every 10 days. Fast forward 4 years later and we would easily get 10-20 of them every single day. You need to understand this was EVERY SINGLE DAY. We're talking about 15 minutes each person on average. So on a bad day that was 5 hours a day out of an 8 hour shift where I was trying to deal with a person, or many times multiple people, with problems. It's really hard to explain unless you dealt with it personally. Imagine trying to be a social worker, a PSW, a therapist and a security guard all at the same time, oh and you have no experience in doing any of those things. Also imagine that the police and core patrol keep saying stuff like "That guy is contagious" or "if he touches anything just throw it away". How do you deal with someone like that if you're afraid to even get close to the person causing the problem?

Calling the police was a waste of time. They usually took an hour or two to show up. We were only able to successfully trespass a person 4 times in 4 years because the police took so long to arrive. Not blaming them at all. They have more problems to deal with than a guy laying on the floor of a video game store screaming about meat cutting money and bouncing trucks (this really happened) for 10 minutes before he gets up and wanders off. If you were a customer in my store and saw this happening and you were with your kid, or even by yourself, the chances of you ever coming back no matter how nice I am, how good my service is, how fair my prices are, are about 0%.

I'm sure that none of you guys are surprised by this, but the amount of needles, condoms, garbage, human feces, gobs of spit / who knows what, etc etc that I would have to clean off my storefront weekly and daily was getting revolting. The amount of foot traffic of people out shopping throughout the week had dropped off to almost nothing. Weekends were still solid, but during the week, if the customer didn't drive they didn't come. Especially if they knew the area. I was all of a sudden getting requests over the telephone and messages online to the store asking me to deliver to places like Kitchener, Guelph and Brantford, or to meet up somewhere else because Galt was too scary, dangerous or sketchy and they didn't feel safe.

I have hundreds of stories. I could tell you about the guy who just straight up started to trash my store because I asked him to leave after he started threatening little kids in my store. Or about the dozens of people who fell asleep on the floor, counters, or just standing up because they were so high on fentanyl. Or the guy who punched a cop in the face in my store. How about the buck naked 55 year old man who was pressing pickle on the front of my store for 20 minutes with a young guy and two young girls in my store. How we had to lock the store as this guy was out there naked for 20 minutes with his junk against the front glass. I could tell you about how when I started maybe once a month someone would try and sell me blatantly stolen stuff without ID and how at the end it was 5-10 people everyday.
I could tell you about the guy who overdosed and died in front of my store. Or the other guy who overdosed and his friends decided to chop him up and put him in garbage bags instead of calling the cops or ambulance to help him. Those things happened within two days of each other and all that happened was a story in the paper a few days later from the coroner saying that we might have a bigger problem than people want to admit. Who would want the truth in the paper about what happened? How do you think the movie industry would take that if they found that story while researching where to shoot their next episode of Murdoch Mysteries?

Visits from the police used to be a "Hey man! I was walking by do you happen to have any PS4 controllers? Ok cool! Ill grab one after my shift!" to the police coming in looking for thieves and others who assaulted people every other day.

The final straw was when we were robbed. I don't want to get into all the details regarding it, but needless to say we were open. One of our employees was just doing her job and helping who she thought was a good customer. He instead assaulted and robbed her and left her kinda standing there like what do I do now? I am very lucky though that she is stronger than 99% of people out there and even after that horrible experience she stayed on and worked there on her own, pushing through any anxiety of negativity the situation caused her.

As horrible as that is for her to deal with at the time and still now it gets even worse. We were robbed at 6:20pm. We found out who he was and told the police. They arrested him at The Bridges at 10:30pm the same night. They released him at 12:15am that morning and he walked by my store the next day at noon.
If you are not familiar with what getting kicked in the nuts feels like, seeing that is pretty drat close.

Galt is full of amazing people and Cambridge is in total too! However there is a serious problem taking place that is pushing tons of people and businesses out of the area. Rent for a store in Galt is less than 1/3 of what it is in Waterloo. It is 1/2 of what it is in Kitchener and stores are still totally vacant. The ones who are there quickly seem to disappear. I can think of about 25 stores who have come and gone within a 5 min walk of the bus terminal in the 4 years I was there. The funny thing is when you talk to them they all say the same thing.

I miss a lot of people from Cambridge. I miss a ton of my regulars. I miss talking to John at Main Variety, or the guys at Forches record shop. Graham and Monica at Monigrams. However right now it is not safe. It is not safe for kids to come into my store in that area. It is not safe for my employees or family. That is why I left.

Before I end this I just want to say that I have family members with addiction problems who I have seen suffer just like the people I am referring to in this post. Please do not imply that I am not sympathetic to their situation or addiction problems. That is the furthest thing from the truth. I just wanted to explain why we left. What the reasoning behind it was.

I hope that everyone stays safe out there and maybe, just maybe, someone who gives a crap about the city who is in power might do something about this, listen to the ideas of the business and local communities on solutions to this problem.

The group has lots of pics of scary needles and condom packs and they collected 100 needles during a 3 hour cleanup on October 21. That's probably quaint by Vancouver standards but Cambridge is a really small town

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:46

Reince Penis: Nov 15, 2007; by R. Guyovich

If you thought people were salty about Maher Arar, lookout!

https://twitter.com/PeterAkman/status/923622149256040448

# ? Oct 27, 2017 00:59

MatchaZed: Feb 14, 2010; We Can Do It!

EngineerJoe posted:

Apparently the opioid epidemic is getting out of hand in Southern Ontario, Cambridge in particular.

The owner of a retro video game store explains his reasons for moving his store to Waterloo. It really shows how the downtown core has gone to poo poo over the past few years:

The group has lots of pics of scary needles and condom packs and they collected 100 needles during a 3 hour cleanup on October 21. That's probably quaint by Vancouver standards but Cambridge is a really small town

I mean, being from KW, this isn't surprising really. it's like as you move southward from Waterloo, to Kitchener, to Cambridge you can see society start to unravel. I used to get offended by kids from Toronto coming here for school talking about how downtown Kitchener is sketchy, but honestly, they probably have at least some of a point. gently caress.

MatchaZed fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Oct 27, 2017

# ? Oct 27, 2017 01:15

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# ? May 18, 2024 01:26

EngineerJoe: Aug 8, 2004; -=whore=-

WilliamAnderson posted:

I mean, being from KW, this isn't surprising really. it's like as you mouth southward from Waterloo, to Kitchener, to Cambridge you can see society start to unravel. I used to get offended by kids from Toronto coming here for school talking about how downtown Kitchener is sketchy, but honestly, they probably have at least some of a point. gently caress.

I work in downtown Kitchener and it has some level of sketch to it. Our landlord recently had to lock one of the entrances to our office building because a vagrant kept walking in and causing trouble. Apparently, this he can't figure out how to enter from the other side of the building because it seems to have solved the problem.

Edit: Also, Kitchener is sketchy compared to Waterloo because that's where the support services are for the sketchy people. That's really the only reason.

# ? Oct 27, 2017 01:21

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