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Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Kafka Esq. posted:

Stephen Harper, King in the North.

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Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I worked with a dude a couple years back who was adamant that our system of government requires a monarch to function, that the power of State cannot be embodied in anyone else no matter what, GOTTA BE A MONARCH.

It was the most bizarre conversation. He would acknowledge that having the Head of State be officially someone in another country who never interfers was simply tradition and that the GG was effectively the real power, but he just wouldn't acknowledge that meant we just don't need Lizzie at all :psyduck:

That being said, I enjoy having the Windsors around. I like the tradition and the link to the past. We're a nation built off immigration, and since my background is mostly British I find it comforting that they're there. But I totally understand why the Quebecois and many others do not feel the same way.

# ¿ May 31, 2013 06:23

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Baloogan posted:

Our form of government requires a monarch to function because our form/system of government is a constitutional monarchy. Its a tautology.

Oh, I get that. But if we rewrote the constitution to not require the monarch? This is where it was sticky, because he would reply about the Divine Power of God or whatever. This guy was hyperconservative and got really excited for Dominion Day, for instance.

He also got super-excited for Budget Day, but I think that has less to do with being a Tory than with being a dullard who had absolutely no life. :v:

# ¿ May 31, 2013 12:30

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Freudian posted:

Are you the guy who posted about their Tory friend in the Ask Me About Anime Husbands --> Crazy Toxic Friends thread? I really hope there isn't more than one of these guys.

I may very well have done that, yeah. I wonder what happened to that guy somedays. Did he make to England for university? Did the British curbstomp him for being an insufferable anglo-phile? The world will never know :allears:

# ¿ May 31, 2013 16:32

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

As a Canadian of, ultimately, homo erectus ancestry, I find it offensive that Lucy is not on our money. She's the only historical figure we need.

Or just throw more illustrations of hockey and oil derricks on there, whichever, nobody gives a gently caress *hops in a jacuzzi filled with crude oil, drinks gasoline from a flute made of Canadian diamonds, towels off with a Flames jersey*

# ¿ May 31, 2013 19:53

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Imperator Justinium Trudeaux, First of His Name.

Ave!

# ¿ May 31, 2013 23:00

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

BGrifter posted:

The big upside to Trudeau as leader in 2015 is the possibility of Warhammer 40k style Trudeau fan art.

You have no idea how disappointed I am the two pretty-boy Primarchs do not wear red :smith:

Hey, bunnyofdoom, can you put forward a motion at the next Liberal Party meeting to change the colours to either purple or gold? I'd appreciate it to save myself some colour-masking time in photoshop a couple years down the road, thanks.

angerbot posted:

I still think "The Dominion of Canada" is a pretty sweet name for a country

I suspect our bureaucrats would have issues with that branding.

Blade_of_tyshalle fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jun 1, 2013

# ¿ May 31, 2013 23:56

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Sanguinius wears gold. Only common Blood Angels wear red. Don't you know anything :eng101:

# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 00:23

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

My grandpa, rest his creepy soul, would have called metis tieflings :v:

"They're half-devils! :byodood:

# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 15:55

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Mycroft Holmes posted:

I currently live in the United States, but I'm thinking of moving to another country. Would you advise I move to Canada, or is it not worth the effort? I think it is, but you're natives.

Is this because Obama won reelection? :rolleyes:

# ¿ Jun 1, 2013 19:23

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Garlic Sauce is a human right!

This is why I love Ottawa. More shawarma places than Lebanon. :kimchi:

Wait, drat, talking about food again! Uh, uh, Rob Ford should be into fracking not cracking!

# ¿ Jun 3, 2013 02:56

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I hope you're supporting Canadian breweries.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2013 18:15

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I got a bottle of that stuff a couple years back. Tasted like hairspray, it made disgusting screwdrivers. Oddly, the best tasting vodka I've ever had was bottom-shelf stuff, plastic-bottled Russian Prince.

loving Dan Ackroyd. Maybe his wine is good, but his vodka sucks.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2013 19:19

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Don't they have to print up a whole french set of stuff anyway? Like cups and wrappers to have french all over them? I have no idea if the cups are bilingual or not already, honestly, I never eat at Tim Hortons. Not since my childhood spent as a boy named Tim with a last initial of H :qq:

# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 17:50

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

When I realized that about the Liberal logo, I thought it was pretty bitchin'. None of the other logos come close, especially not this turd.

What is that? It looks like a big ol' V with a C hidden behind it, and the leaf is just kind of jammed in there like they forgot to have one in the first place. This could be a nifty space agency logo, but a political party? :iiam:

I like the CPC logo, too, it's just a big ol' C with a red leaf inside. Looks nice.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 18:01

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Raenir Salazar posted:

Because its an anti-small business measure that makes companies not want to do business in Quebec and is especially harmful to start ups.

You're gonna have to explain that assertion. Fledgling companies (ones which aren't run by morons, anyway) aren't going to randomly expand into Quebec without a strategy for it, or they're already there in which case the language law stuff is second nature to them.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 18:18

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

drat, that's a classy McDonald's, Zeeboi. Wanna go to Salzburg for a cheeseburg. :stare:

Also, I just threw a dart at a map of Canada to determine which other region we could poo poo on, and Mr. Pointy recommends we be upset at Cut Knife, Saskatchewan.

# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 20:14

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I think we can all agree that the stupidest, least laudable region of Canada is, in fact, all of it. :angel:

# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 20:29

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Taking it a little personally aren't you, ~~Elizabeth~~ Arabidopsis?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 17:44

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Scratching the surface of the Green Party leads to sadness.

Oh well, guess I'm voting straight Leninist next election again.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 21:26

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

So you're saying we should conspire to elect a single Communist to Parliament so the Americans will kill Keystone forever? This is a good plan, who's our Marxchurian candidate?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2013 21:36

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Who here's shilling for the Greens? :tinfoil:

# ¿ Jun 6, 2013 23:36

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Screaming about becoming a tradesperson is better than what it was when I was getting out of high school which was more or less "if you do not spend the next several years locked into university, you will die homeless and alone in a cardboard box, covered in roaches and lepers". Boy, did that mentality ever work out well for my age cohort, I cannot tell you how many people I know who have absolutely useless degrees because they all rushed into the system without any thought for what they wanted to do with their expensive paper when they had it. PoliSci, Women's Studies, and English majors, ahoy!

Of course, I chose a different way, a better way to gainful income and a decent standard of life. I chose... RAPTURE. :swoon:

e: I have nothing against any of those degrees, btw. If I had to go into university, I would almost certainly shove my nose into a linguistics or classics textbook and not come out until I was fluent in ancient greek.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 04:40

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

O Dealer, Where Art Thou? (I'm Jonesin')

# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 18:13

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I don't know much about him, honestly, but it seems like everytime I see MacKay come up lately, I've been impressed with him. He opposed this jet repaint, he put himself through the new fitness test for the Canadian Forces (and owned it), and I kind of wish maybe he had wound up Prime Minister instead of Harper just because he seems a lot more likeable. Stephen Harper is just so... unfriendly and wooden, like he was built by a cheap Hollywood fx house.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 18:20

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Yeah, I knew there was something lovely in his dossier. Goddamn it. Can't we just have one single glimmering drop of heroism in the government? :qq:

# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 18:43

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Fine-able Offense posted:

In his defense, that was pretty much the worst public dumping in Canadian history, rivaled only by Trudeau's wife giving handies in the back of Studio 54.

S'why you don't dip your pen in parliamentary ink. :heysexy:

e: so yes, Pete MacKay is also a poo poo. Lest We Forget. But I'll grab a beer with the fella sometime, sure. Team Theology, set me up, brother. I hope he drinks Quebec microbrews, some of them taste like raspberry.

Blade_of_tyshalle fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jun 7, 2013

# ¿ Jun 7, 2013 19:29

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Eej posted:

To be more specific, homeopathy works by taking a given medicinal ingredient, diluting it down multiple times by orders of magnitude, shaking it to impart energy into the solution and then drinking it. The more you dilute, the more potent it becomes. If the "quackery" alarm bells aren't firing off at full volume by now...

Not just diluting, but diluting it so much that the chances of the original substance being present at all are vanishingly small, because the idea is water has "memory" and will remember the properties of, say, milk of ipecac, so ~~even~~ especially if this glass of water contains literally no ipecac at all, because the draught is more potent the further diluted it is, the water will remember how to be ipecac and (even though drinking milk of ipecac makes you vom) cure your nausea.

It's like the most batshit crazy interpretation of vaccine theory possible.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 00:08

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Diluting with a Bible? I don't think you're talking about the same fake medicine as we are.

e: acupuncture is a big ol' bag of crap which has been shown to be no more effective than being poked with sharp toothpicks. It's a placebo methodology. At least chiro might give you a nice massage, until the practitioner decides he's going to snap your neck because your bad vision is being caused by a subluxation he just has to correct before you develop testicular cancer. :tinfoil:

Blade_of_tyshalle fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jun 10, 2013

# ¿ Jun 10, 2013 01:32

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I would imagine the Senate is essentially invisible when functioning properly, and thus "all those times you don't hear about it are good times".

# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 21:04

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I judge the fitness of Senators-elect by, well, their fitness.

If you can't look good in an orange and silver jumpsuit while racing for your freedom through a desolate hellscape (Scarborough), you don't get appointed to the Red Chamber. You get hacked into pieces by a man covered in chainsaws, or perhaps an opera singer wearing Christmas lights.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 23:01

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

My dad married his girlfriend so at least she wouldn't get deported when her visa ran out.

It's been a couple of years now, I assume that worked out okay for them.

# ¿ Jun 11, 2013 23:54

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

The Klondike Days are Edmonton.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 13:55

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Sounds like the kind of guy who just throws overpasses and cloverleafs all over his cities in Simcity instead of just adding a few bus stops and commuter trains.

They're not that expensive, just put the bus stop on that empty square, you putz! :argh:

# ¿ Jun 13, 2013 17:05

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

If Jack Layton had done the same thing, you guys would be clapping like dazed seals and shouting ORANGE CRUSH ORANGE CRUSH as the wheels of his immaculate stretch smartFortwo ground the pedestrians into a milky gruel.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 00:59

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

Giant Goats posted:

It really isn't. When you factor in the taxes and other fees, it can cost about that much just to fly someone one way from Victoria to St. John's.

$300,000? One way across Canada? For one person? Are you considering getting a Concorde out of mothballs just for your personal use one time? :stare:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 16:03

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I guess I'm not voting for NDP next time :mad:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 18:58

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

It's not exactly a feeling, though. More a fact.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 20:13

Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

I just got phone surveyed about the Ontario political landscape!

They seemed pretty loving concerned about what my opinion of Dalton McGuinty is.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2013 01:15

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Blade_of_tyshalle: Jul 12, 2009; If you think that, along the way, you're not going to fail... you're blind.

There's no one I've ever met, no matter how successful they are, who hasn't said they had their failures along the way.

We have lots of uranium, why not just orbital-drop big rods of it from space like in GI Joe: Retaliation? It would work, clearly, that was a very grounded and reasonable film. It would help the economy, too!

# ¿ Jun 15, 2013 22:12

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