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vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

klockwerk posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertFife/status/1071023584150257665?s=19

It's kind of perverse that in our language conservative and conservation come from the same root.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 15:36

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 18:46

HackensackBackpack: Aug 20, 2007; Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

Furnaceface posted:

Wait when did Saskatoon pass both Winnipeg and Thunder Bay? That is... honestly really sad.

According to the Statscan murder rates per 100,000, Thunder Bay was at 5.80 vs. Saskatoon's 1.52 last year.

Regina is typically deadlier than Saskatoon, though Sask does sometimes get over 3.0.

Winnipeg and Edmonton also typically hover around the 3.0 mark.

In 2014, Thunder Bay's homicide rate per 100,000 was 9.03.

Of course, Toronto leads in raw numbers, with north of 80 murders per year typically. In 2017 there were 92, accounting for 14% of all homicides in Canada, but the rate per 100,000 was 1.47

Data here: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510007101&pickMembers%5B0%5D=2.2

# ? Dec 8, 2018 16:25

Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

Does anyone have that old webcomic where a guy said his hate for Harper was tangible.

He then packaged it in a brick and sent it to him. Then Harper ate the brick.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 16:56

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

what happened posted:

Wagner's ring cycle is the original animu epic my weebs

Have you been watching Galaxy Express 999?

Edit:
https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/ontarians-were-all-living-in-a-dukes-of-hazzard-show-now/amp/

Wow, Maclean's with a not terrible article for once. Dougie is Boss Hogg and Taverner is his Rosco P Coltrane.

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Dec 8, 2018

# ? Dec 8, 2018 17:00

helno: Jun 19, 2003; hmm now were did I leave that plane

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

I'd be cool with pulling all Christmas songs from the radio, and especially from store playlists.

Many years ago I worked part time at a Canadian Tire in the fall.

They used to just play the local radio station over the instore PA system.

Then in mid november it all changed.

A single CD was put on repeat. It was kids badly singing popular carols. The CD didn�t even last an hour.

Closest thing to torture I have ever experienced.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 17:49

HackensackBackpack: Aug 20, 2007; Who needs a house out in Hackensack? Is that all you get for your money?

helno posted:

Many years ago I worked part time at a Canadian Tire in the fall.

They used to just play the local radio station over the instore PA system.

Then in mid november it all changed.

A single CD was put on repeat. It was kids badly singing popular carols. The CD didn�t even last an hour.

Closest thing to torture I have ever experienced.

I had a similar experience working at a grocery store back in the early 2000s.

The worst part was there was a skip in the CD and it would bug out for a few seconds at the start of "All I Want For Christmas Is You" every hour.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 18:06

Lars Blitzer: Aug 17, 2004; He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink
He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink...

Dick Tracy's number one fan.

helno posted:

Many years ago I worked part time at a Canadian Tire in the fall.

They used to just play the local radio station over the instore PA system.

Then in mid november it all changed.

A single CD was put on repeat. It was kids badly singing popular carols. The CD didn�t even last an hour.

Closest thing to torture I have ever experienced.

Same thing when I worked a Future Shop as supplemental door security. They at least played Twisted Sister's Christmas album along with others, but it did grate on you after a while.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 18:20

Entorwellian: Jun 30, 2006; ~~Northern Flicker~~
Anna's Hummingbird

Sorry, but the people have spoken.

Lars Blitzer posted:

Same thing when I worked a Future Shop as supplemental door security. They at least played Twisted Sister's Christmas album along with others, but it did grate on you after a while.

Same thing at Real Canadian Superstore some 10 years ago. I absolutely hate Paul McCartney's "simply having a wonderful Christmas time" more than anything from working there. That stupid synth line still stirs up hatred when I hear it. Night-shift employees started sabotaging the P.A. system to save us from the torture, bless their hearts.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 18:37

what happened: Dec 2, 2018; by Nyc_Tattoo

I really hate the loving Beatles

# ? Dec 8, 2018 18:48

Gorewar: Dec 24, 2004; Bang your head

Christmas music is an abomination.

The way people have been talking about "baby it's cold outside," you would think that the government passed a law banning its public airing, followed by armed raids of record shops by police.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 18:59

apatheticman: May 13, 2003; Wedge Regret

Gorewar posted:

Christmas music is an abomination.

The way people have been talking about "baby it's cold outside," you would think that the government passed a law banning its public airing, followed by armed raids of record shops by police.

Its the same bullshit as every year, at least it's not Starbucks cups this time.

White people are the worst.

Anyway, Scott Moe and Doug Ford both look like used car salesmen with fetal alcohol syndrome.

Thats my hot take for the day, thank you for reading.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:07

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

I haven�t seen any internet hate mobs wanting to ban that stupid Christmas song. I have seen 8000 articles about how banning songs is bad followed by a 5 paragraph explanation about the song. It�s not even a ban, some radio stations took the song off because they want to be woke. No one would have even noticed if they didn�t immediately run and tell every media outlet.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:25

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

Would there be an uproar if the songs had been pulled for the sanity of retail workers?

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:29

SilverMike: Sep 17, 2007; TBD

Arcsquad12 posted:

Would there be an uproar if the songs had been pulled for the sanity of retail workers?

Yeah, because hardly anyone gives a single poo poo about retail workers.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:36

klockwerk: Jun 30, 2007; dsch

lol loving Brad Wall just shared this on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2022367097786504&set=p.2022367097786504&type=3&theater

jfc

edit: paste:

quote:

Dear Justin Trudeau,

I am a 26 year old waitress who worked in one of the biggest oilfield hubs in Alberta, Grande Prairie. I worked in a pub during the evenings. We were open 7 days a week. Pretty much every night we were packed with these �construction workers� and �oilfield lowlives.� You want to know what kind of social impact they had on me? I am a female in this social setting you are referring to after all. Because of these men, I was able to go grocery shopping and get everything on my list. I didn�t have to stand at the check out line and figure out what to put back. I was able to fill up my tank at the gas station, not just $20 to get by. I was able to live comfortably in an apartment knowing my bills were paid on time and I wouldn�t have to worry about choosing between the water or electric bill. I was one of the waitresses, cooks, drivers, hotels, grocery stores, local business owners etc who are impacted by these men. Everyday. When these men leave, we have to cut staff. We have to tell someone they can�t help support their families, they have to tell their kids they can�t afford extra curricular activities such as hockey, soccer, etc. Local business owners are then forced to close their doors. Shame on you for demonizing these men AND women who take time away from their families to provide for them. For working 12+ hour days only to go to a hotel room at night hoping to catch their kids before bedtime for a little FaceTime. We are not all cut out for white collar office jobs. They love what they do. They love getting their hands dirty, the job satisfaction is bar none. These men do this so that their families are taken care of, and in turn, that waitresses like me can do the same.
I do hope you read this so you know first hand what kind of social impact these �construction workers� have on us women in rurual areas.

Oh, and by the way, those construction workers were also some of the most polite and well mannered customers I serve.

Sincerely,

Sarah Michel, waitress at Crown & Anchor Pub, Grande Prairie Alberta
#JustinTrudeau #pleaselistentous #oilfieldproud #proudalbertan #supporttheoilfieldtrash #constructionworkers #2019elections

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:37

Arc Hammer: Mar 4, 2013; Got any deathsticks?

Alberta is poo poo, news at eleven.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:41

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

klockwerk posted:

lol loving Brad Wall just shared this on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2022367097786504&set=p.2022367097786504&type=3&theater

jfc

edit: paste:

Grande Prairie is a town of 63,000 people, not exactly the remote, isolated location Trudeau was talking about

also, apropos of nothing, can we change the thread title to this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkY88kvkdvU

# ? Dec 8, 2018 19:46

Syfe: Jun 12, 2006

The more time that goes on and the more it gets used, the more I feel the word "proud" is gross now.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 20:21

apatheticman: May 13, 2003; Wedge Regret

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1071405227675394048

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1071449528493137925

SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES

# ? Dec 8, 2018 20:22

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

klockwerk posted:

#thankaman

# ? Dec 8, 2018 20:23

Wistful of Dollars: Aug 25, 2009

apatheticman posted:

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1071405227675394048

https://twitter.com/globalnews/status/1071449528493137925

SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES

Canada really is stuck between a rock and another rock on this one.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 20:45

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Hypothetically, what if we just didn't arrest or detain people for the Americans?

# ? Dec 8, 2018 20:53

bunnyofdoom: Mar 29, 2008; THE HATE CRIME DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Then the extradition treaty we have with them will probably be broken

# ? Dec 8, 2018 20:58

Helsing: Aug 23, 2003; DON'T POST IN THE ELECTION THREAD UNLESS YOU JOE BIDEN

I'm glad the thread finally got off that climate change derail.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 21:05

Furnaceface: Oct 21, 2004

Helsing posted:

I'm glad the thread finally got off that climate change derail.

Itll come back once we hear the stupid reasons Ford and Wall give for skipping out on the climate/environment meeting.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 21:15

Femtosecond: Aug 2, 2003

John Manley really dropping the veil here.

https://twitter.com/stevenchase/status/1071460341001936897

quote:

...
During a panel on CTV�s Question Period airing Sunday, Manley said that Canada in his view has never been "as alone in the world as we are now," and that Canada needs China for economic reasons because of how unreliable the United States has shown itself to be as an economic partner.

"China is the way we validate the policy of diversification or trade and economic interests. There's no other choice," Manley said.

Canada has moved towards formally engaging China in free-trade talks, though they stalled late last year, with little movement since. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has engaged China in a trade war and added in a controversial clause to the new NAFTA deal that requires those in the deal to notify the other countries should they enter into a free trade agreement with a "non-market" country. This has largely been called the "China clause," and has thrown into question how it could impact a future trade deal with the Asian nation.

The arrest happened last Saturday, the same day Trump and China's Xi Jinping announced a temporary trade truce.

"China is the second largest economy in the world, we need to have our own China policy driven by our own national interests. And unfortunately we've got ourselves caught in a situation where our China policy is being very much fashioned by some hardliners in Washington," Manley said.

"The Trump administration takes a very different very hard line view and we're caught in the middle of it and that's not good for us."

Manley said that in accordance with international obligations and Canada's extradition treaty with the U.S., Canada had to act, though he questioned whether it would have been a good time for some "creative incompetence."

"This woman was not residing in Canada, she was simply transferring flights in Canada, and we might have just missed her," Manley said.
...

# ? Dec 8, 2018 21:35

sitchensis: Mar 4, 2009

The Iranian sanctions are dumb and the arrest of the CFO is even more dumb. Just a whole bunch of idiocy all around.

sitchensis fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Dec 8, 2018

# ? Dec 8, 2018 21:45

Furnaceface: Oct 21, 2004

sitchensis posted:

The Iranian sanctions are dumb and the arrest of the CEO is even more dumb. Just a whole bunch of idiocy all around.

I just dont understand why you would change flights in Canada knowing we have an extradition treaty with the USA. She had to know the USA had warrants or whatever out for her.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 21:49

apatheticman: May 13, 2003; Wedge Regret

Femtosecond posted:

John Manley really dropping the veil here.

https://twitter.com/stevenchase/status/1071460341001936897

He's right though.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 22:28

McGavin: Sep 18, 2012

So now Canadian law enforcement needs to be creative as well as incompetent?

# ? Dec 8, 2018 22:29

apatheticman: May 13, 2003; Wedge Regret

McGavin posted:

So now Canadian law enforcement needs to be creative as well as incompetent?

If we do not strive for greatness then we will never achieve it.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 22:31

JawKnee: Mar 24, 2007; You'll take the ride to leave this town along that yellow line

It's refreshing to have it reconfirmed that everyone, at every level of any power, is either corrupt or a coward

# ? Dec 8, 2018 22:39

upgunned shitpost: Jan 21, 2015

guess you could make an argument that extradition should only be applied to codified law, not those that can be in/revoked by sun-setting act or executive order... but that's some silly 5d chess bullshit on top of a terrible argument.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 22:52

Entorwellian: Jun 30, 2006; ~~Northern Flicker~~
Anna's Hummingbird

Sorry, but the people have spoken.

Femtosecond posted:

John Manley really dropping the veil here.

https://twitter.com/stevenchase/status/1071460341001936897

Wonder if that is what they did with the B.C. Casino Laundering charges. If that's the case :murder:

# ? Dec 8, 2018 22:55

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

Iran sanctions are dumb but locking up the executive class of any corporation is good no matter the reason.

# ? Dec 8, 2018 23:03

TheKingofSprings: Oct 9, 2012

JawKnee posted:

It's refreshing to have it reconfirmed that everyone, at every level of any power, is either corrupt or a coward

We are slaves to China and the US and let's not pretend otherwise

# ? Dec 9, 2018 00:15

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

TheKingofSprings posted:

We are slaves to China and the US and let's not pretend otherwise

Yeah, if finding a crafty way out of a no-win dilemma is "cowardice" now, then perhaps we ought to consider cowardice as a viable option.

# ? Dec 9, 2018 00:18

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

We are Canada, cowardice is literally our only option in international affairs.

# ? Dec 9, 2018 00:35