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There was also that one where the kids get pulled over and the officer walking up to the car gets smoked by a speeding drunk person or something. (Or were the kids being pulled over driving under the influence?)
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Mar 8, 2024 19:25
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The kids were being pulled over for driving while high as balls and then the cop gets smoked by someone speeding past. Edit: House Hippo supremacy
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Mar 8, 2024 19:30
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I have to wonder how the Concerned Children's Advertisers feel about how the house hippo thing turned out. "Don't believe everything you see on TV! There's more to life than merchandising!" "Okay but the kids REALLY want some merchandise." "It's twenty-five years later!" "They REALLY want some merchandise, and now they don't need to ask their parents to buy it."
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Mar 8, 2024 19:32
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I can't remember if it was a concerned children's advertisers ad or not but that one where the guy is visiting his brother in addiction recovery while The Hollies play "He ain't Heavy. He's my brother." lives rent free in my head.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:32
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https://twitter.com/CGriwkowsky/status/1766169763083067698
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Mar 8, 2024 19:36
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Good news, those Chinese 'police stations' are suing the RCMP for almost 5 million dollars. Now I can't remember the details about this police station stuff but I remember thinking it's a bunch of bullshit. Also the RCMP is very much 'we get sued all the time, nbd' https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-chinese-police-stations-1.7138022 I wonder how that's going to go
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Mar 8, 2024 20:09
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It'll source back to an email from Five Eyes (Langley), which will never be released for national security reasons. CSIS leaks of American intelligence are how this unruly country is governed, it's what POGG is all about.
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Mar 8, 2024 20:28
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Seems like they were trying to go after people absconding with money from China? Idk, there’s a whole Wikipedia about them operating in other countries as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations
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Mar 8, 2024 20:56
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Oxyclean posted:oh my god both of those things. I don't even need to click to remember them. The House Hippo PSA is the best thing ever made by CCA.
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Mar 8, 2024 21:49
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Mad Hamish posted:Edit: House Hippo supremacy That's a thread title
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Mar 8, 2024 22:33
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So it's Andrea Reimer vs Christine Boyle to replace my Zionist MLA George Heyman. They're good candidates, but after what the BCNDP did with Anjali I'm still likely to vote Green. Not that it would matter.
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Mar 9, 2024 00:42
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Randalor posted:Mr Dressup and Fred Penner's Place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4f3wryMU5M
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Mar 9, 2024 03:33
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I switched to Bell because my phone died on me when I tried to factory reset it as it was getting slower on me and not charging consistently. And I notice they had a promotion to waive the 60$ setup fee if I applied online and also a special discount that's 20$ cheaper for the phone I got (albeit I would still need to pay the difference at the end of the 2 years); anyone have any experience with getting Bell to credit back that fee and whether its worth it for a cheaper bill over two years now vs having it all paid off in 2 years?
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Mar 9, 2024 04:59
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I don't trust them for poo poo. Bell regularly dicked up my bill in ways that always benefited them and sent me to collections for a debt that wasn't mine. I didn't catch them all right away so I paid more than I should have and spent hours on hold trying to fix their fuckups. gently caress Bell forever, national them and liquidate anyone who has ever been part of their the C suite, I would rather have no phone than be with them again.
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Mar 9, 2024 16:19
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Guest2553 posted:I don't trust them for poo poo. Bell regularly dicked up my bill in ways that always benefited them and sent me to collections for a debt that wasn't mine. I didn't catch them all right away so I paid more than I should have and spent hours on hold trying to fix their fuckups. gently caress Bell forever, national them and liquidate anyone who has ever been part of their the C suite, I would rather have no phone than be with them again. Yeah every carrier has been bad at some point, I had generally fond opinions of videotron because at my parents place in rural gently caress off Nowheresville near like Hudson they seemed reliable and I've never heard of my parents having any issues with them and any service outage was like once, a year. That seemed pretty good to me. But downtown Montreal it seems like either service ping pongs in outages and issues and I just switch based on whenever I see a shiny promotional offer and dig out the router for the other guy if it hasn't been replaced yet.
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Mar 9, 2024 16:39
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MNIMWA posted:The concerned children's advertisers stuff still resurfaces in my brain at random. Mainly this one:
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Mar 10, 2024 01:42
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Albino Squirrel posted:I was explaining the "Don't You Put It In Your Mouth" PSA to younger co-workers and I think they're worried I have brain damage Just send them the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AuLkMBAFZg
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Mar 10, 2024 01:47
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McGavin posted:Just send them the original:
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Mar 10, 2024 02:08
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Guest2553 posted:I don't trust them for poo poo. Bell regularly dicked up my bill in ways that always benefited them and sent me to collections for a debt that wasn't mine. I didn't catch them all right away so I paid more than I should have and spent hours on hold trying to fix their fuckups. gently caress Bell forever, national them and liquidate anyone who has ever been part of their the C suite, I would rather have no phone than be with them again. Rogers deserves the same honestly. I think I remember a time where they charged 2$ per gig in overage charges.... for home internet. Absolute and total scam bullshit. I will never not be mad about the time where there was basically no option (or no reasonable option) for unlimited data, and so I took a plan with 200 gigs since that was essentially more then enough for me for 11 months of the year where I was regularly 20-80 gigs under cap. December rolled around and I blew through my cap downloading games I got for christmas, and was threatened with the aforementioned 2$ per gig over. I think I managed to bitch my way out of it, but what a loving clown show of consumer rights that it's not just some kind of standard practice to be allowed to carry over unused data caps or be refunded the "excess."
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Mar 10, 2024 02:43
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All this talk about TVO and Canadian media have me thinking... What happened to all the original puppets? Somebody has to have the original Casey from mr. Dressup, or Camille from Passe-Partout, or even the original uncle Matt from Fraggle Rock. (Speaking of uncle Matt, here's a clip from Canada's wonderland. Interesting looking at all that empty greenspace as they crest the roller coaster.) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UfshYPU-WIU
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Mar 10, 2024 19:57
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Guigui posted:All this talk about TVO and Canadian media have me thinking... What happened to all the original puppets? Somebody has to have the original Casey from mr. Dressup, or Camille from Passe-Partout, or even the original uncle Matt from Fraggle Rock. Pretty sure I saw them at the Museum of Civilization as a special exhibition last year
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Mar 10, 2024 20:20
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I remember seeing the puppets from Mr Dressup and Under the Umbrella Tree at a museum in the CBC building in Toronto, but that was around 2001 I think.
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Mar 10, 2024 21:02
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Guigui posted:All this talk about TVO and Canadian media have me thinking... What happened to all the original puppets? Somebody has to have the original Casey from mr. Dressup, or Camille from Passe-Partout, or even the original uncle Matt from Fraggle Rock. Where are the Freaky Stories puppets!
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Mar 11, 2024 01:45
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6C3WwxVkFE
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Mar 11, 2024 02:23
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run on sentience posted:I remember seeing the puppets from Mr Dressup and Under the Umbrella Tree at a museum in the CBC building in Toronto, but that was around 2001 I think. I think they're still there in an area just off the lobby. Casey's treehouse definitely is, and I eat lunch there sometimes.
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Mar 11, 2024 03:24
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Guigui posted:All this talk about TVO and Canadian media have me thinking... What happened to all the original puppets? Somebody has to have the original Casey from mr. Dressup, or Camille from Passe-Partout, or even the original uncle Matt from Fraggle Rock. I think the actress for Casey took Casey with her when she was fired because she literally made Casey (and Ernie backed her up on that) and according to the Mr Dress-up documentary, she does shows with Casey now.
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Mar 11, 2024 04:04
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flashy_mcflash posted:I think they're still there in an area just off the lobby. Casey's treehouse definitely is, and I eat lunch there sometimes. I was around 12 and I remember that whole building being cool as hell. We went on a tour of one of the radio studios there, and then seeing the treehouse and those puppets was almost spiritual. I'm have to go back sometime.
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Mar 11, 2024 04:50
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Randalor posted:I think the actress for Casey took Casey with her when she was fired because she literally made Casey (and Ernie backed her up on that) and according to the Mr Dress-up documentary, she does shows with Casey now. The puppets are on Hornby Island in BC. Judith Lawrence wasn't fired, she retired because she thought children's television was too commercial. She is leaving the puppets to the CBC museum in her will.
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Mar 11, 2024 06:02
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Not quite as cool as real puppets but when I went through a Blender/Unity phase during lockdown I re-made Dot's Diner from ReBoot and wound up finding what I think must be the original models for Mike the TV and some of the citizens of Mainframe, given how detailed and articulated they were. Wonder how they preserve that kind of thing, all the stuff from ReBoot and Beasties and such should be saved (and somebody should make a fully walkable Mainframe)
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Mar 11, 2024 06:46
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That's a good point - even though the original models are now a bit simple compared to today's standards, its worth having all that data stored someplace. Speaking of storage - during middleschool I met a kid who could draw an almost perfect pencil replica of Sam the guard from "today's special" on school desks. A few of them were family-friendly... most were not.
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Mar 11, 2024 13:45
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Pleads posted:Not quite as cool as real puppets but when I went through a Blender/Unity phase during lockdown I re-made Dot's Diner from ReBoot and wound up finding what I think must be the original models for Mike the TV and some of the citizens of Mainframe, given how detailed and articulated they were. Ah well, this came up before and I saw it again a few months ago when it was revealed that the master tapes from ReBoot had been found. https://twitter.com/GlitchBob452/status/1025656485299331072 Almost everything from ReBoot is already gone.
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Mar 11, 2024 13:51
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McGavin posted:Just send them the original: Does anyone else remember the version that had lines that accidentally taught kids not to eat thier vegetables? The sister said "Yuck! I don't even like beets!" and the brother replied "Then don't put them in your mouth!"
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Mar 12, 2024 00:23
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Fidelitious posted:
I already believed this but seeing it confirmed still makes my heart sink
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Mar 12, 2024 01:04
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Fidelitious posted:Ah well, this came up before and I saw it again a few months ago when it was revealed that the master tapes from ReBoot had been found. That fuckin sucks. I went and checked the old models and I have Mike the TV, Cecil the sassy waiter robot, and the Binome citizen model. I will protect them for all-time.  https://i.imgur.com/99Mr7AZ.mp4
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Mar 12, 2024 01:43
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run on sentience posted:I was around 12 and I remember that whole building being cool as hell. We went on a tour of one of the radio studios there, and then seeing the treehouse and those puppets was almost spiritual. I'm have to go back sometime. It is pretty cool! I think they run tours through there fairly often. My kid's Girl Guides troop is doing one next week. If you ever get a chance to see something in the Glenn Gould Studio it's a gorgeous room. I used to pop into Sounds of the Season every Christmas during work breaks and it's always fun.
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Mar 12, 2024 01:53
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Pretty amazing that the Canadian media somehow missed the fact that the big new pharmacare program is more of a pilot project that the Liberals will likely bail on at first opportunity.quote:
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Mar 12, 2024 04:29
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Canada's ruling class would sooner hang itself than do something remotely popular with people because it materially improves their lives.
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Mar 12, 2024 09:58
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I'm sure both the Cons and Liberals have had the private insurance companies screaming in their ears for 40 years talking about how damaging a single payer healthcare system would be to their existence. Despite a single payer healthcare system being generally good for a person's day to day existence.
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Mar 12, 2024 15:45
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Femtosecond posted:Pretty amazing that the Canadian media somehow missed the fact that the big new pharmacare program is more of a pilot project that the Liberals will likely bail on at first opportunity. It was always the NDP negotiating strategy to seek a limited number of medications as long as they were covered on a truly universal basis. Two kinds of pretty important medication, is definitely half a loaf but the Liberals at least aren't going to rip insulin or contraception away from people if the program gets up and running. The Liberal pharma care "pilot" is less than nothing, most people would not notice if it was instituted nationally, which pointedly they have not done, they just need something to run on that doesn't make the lobbyists mad.
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Mar 12, 2024 19:30
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Let's hear it for the half-measures.
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Mar 13, 2024 01:40
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