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Good chunks of my mom's total suburbia gets door-to-door delivery (she has a community mailbox and has for over 15 years, whereas two streets away they get door-to-door), while I live in a rural village of 10,000 people that doesn't. It's partly a rural/urban issue, but it's also fairly random.
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Ikantski posted:The best part hahahahahahahaha
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Oct 30, 2015 22:38
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Professor Shark posted:So I guess schools are getting bomb threats from crazy people angry at Unions now in Canada Man, back in my day it was crazy people that didn't study for the math exam and wanted an extra two days before they had to write it (and they still didn't use those two days to study)
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Nov 3, 2015 22:33
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So this has nothing to do with Canadian politics but do any of you guys in Vancouver know if the Pottery Barn has those hydrocotton towels? I'm going to ikea tomorrow for cheap lovely furniture and also meatballs and would like to get some super soft towels, and the internet tells me those ones are the best, but I don't want to go like an hour out of my way and find out they don't have them if I don't have to.
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Nov 5, 2015 04:22
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Kafka Esq. posted:Yeah, alright, you win. It's me, I have the most boring life.
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Nov 5, 2015 05:13
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I use Zenni for mine.
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Nov 9, 2015 04:50
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Kafka Esq. posted:Gyro supremacy. This.
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Nov 16, 2015 04:14
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flakeloaf posted:There's no sense asking for pho recommendations in Ottawa because every restaurant is called Pho Bo Ga La. This is actually to the point where my ex-coworkers would refer to the food as "pho bo ga" instead of just "pho"
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Nov 16, 2015 17:13
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Drunk Canuck posted:Canada, for the large part, is a racist nation If this were true the Conservatives would have won a majority with their attempts at making Canadians scared of brown people. There are a ton of racists in Canada, but the poo poo that works in actual racist countries (ie Australia) completely loving backfired here.
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Nov 21, 2015 08:25
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Everything about Ottawa U is terrible I say that as a person who did their undergrad there. Everything about their business school is even more terrible than the rest.
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Nov 21, 2015 18:46
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Re: Bill 6 my husband grew up on a family farm. There is no way in hell that this bill will stop anything. These laws already existed in Australia when he grew up and it never stopped him from having to work for free on the farm every school holiday since he was six, and he even crushed his thumb in a hydrolic press, which to this day still looks weird and a bit crushed (though you have to be comparing his two thumbs to really notice).
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Nov 27, 2015 22:43
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Baudin posted:I don't think it's apt to compare a province's farming regulations with Australia. Regardless actually having laws around safety in a farming environment is a good thing, especially when your talking about youngsters who die in accidents. A young man died, buried under steel fencing not long ago in my home town. Perhaps there should be greater scrutiny on health and safety and actual labor laws. How is comparing a country that does have laws about farming that families just ignore unfair to compare with Alberta? Farmers in Canada are incredibly similar to farmers in Australia. I totally agree that the laws should be there, and I have absolutely no problem with Bill 6 and think it's a good thing, but people are kidding themselves if they think it's going to stop farming families from using their kids to help around the farm, including using dangerous equipment.
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Nov 28, 2015 02:03
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Kangaroo tastes like strong beef to me. Like, it's quite gamey. It's one of those meats where I didn't really like it the first couple times, but was always close enough that I knew that after a few times I'd like it.
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Nov 29, 2015 02:54
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He might also be referring to the fact that s lot of Muslims tend to be socially conservative. Well I don't know about you but I'd rather have an extra 25k people voting conservative in this country than dying in their own. Sorry I don't think being brought up conservative is worthy of death.
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Dec 5, 2015 07:42
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Vic Boss posted:Do goons generally like or dislike Jenny Kwan? Why? CI is reading this and quivering with rage as he mashes where the "reply" button should be, if he wasn't probated right now.
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Dec 6, 2015 06:36
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Majuju posted:
This made me laugh more than it should have.
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Dec 9, 2015 20:25
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El Scotch posted:Telus is over-priced but they've been good to me performance wise over the last two years, I'll give them that. Yeah, same. I've been with them for just over two years and never had to call tech support once. Also I forgot to tell them when I moved and called literally two days before and was all like "gently caress I'm not gonna have internet or tv for like two weeks" and they were like "yeah ok we can have a tech over to install the stuff a day after you move in"
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Dec 10, 2015 02:54
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I was in Canmore last week and went to La Belle Patate because it is my favourite place and oh god it's so good.
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Dec 10, 2015 05:41
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Scaramouche posted:I can't speak to farms generally, but my uncle owns a sub-100 acre dairy farm who had his three kids work as unpaid labour. One of them does not have a hand any more. Because it got eaten by the thresher. When he was 12. My husband's thumb was crushed in a hydrolic press when he was a kid, working on his family's farm.
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Dec 12, 2015 05:57
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cowofwar posted:Drunk hicks run down cyclists all the time in rural areas. And according to CIBC it's the cyclist's fault when a drunk driver swerves completely onto the wrong side of the road and kills two cyclists and his passenger. PT6A have you ever actually seen a drunk driver? Because even on rural roads, they're incapable of staying in their lane, driving at a consistent speed or doing anything remotely safe.
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Dec 22, 2015 00:39
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apatheticman posted:Wait why is a bank commenting on this?! ICBC*
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Dec 22, 2015 01:19
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Picnic Princess posted:It snowed in Calgary and there's been over 300 accidents in the last 24 hours. 'Tis the Season! From what I saw driving through Calgary that one time I have to assume that's below average.
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Dec 25, 2015 21:27
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There's like a foot of snow on the ground here in Whistler for the first time in well over a year, winter is awesome.
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Dec 26, 2015 05:51
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You guys have such rude relatives. My weirdass relative is my dad who is somehow jealous whenever his children have success (as opposed to most parents' reaction, which I imagine is pride) and so whenever I tell him about something awesome that I did he just goes "oh" and changes the conversation to something about him.
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Dec 26, 2015 22:33
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Baudin posted:Whenever he brags say "oh" and talk about how awesome your mom is? I prefer to make up fake awesome stories about how great my life is and have him have his terrible reaction and laugh at how bad a parent he is later.
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Dec 27, 2015 02:09
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My favourite part of the Chilliwack video other than the raccoon couple and the deer couple was the kids doing the classic "put the car in neutral, get out and run around it to get back in before it hits anything" game. Also did the pedestrian that got full on nailed at the beginning die? That was a loving hardcore hit.
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Dec 30, 2015 04:31
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Yeah Swiss Chalet roast chicken meal was like my go-to in university when I wanted to pretend I'd kinda cooked a home cooked meal but didn't actually want to cook anything.
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Dec 30, 2015 06:01
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Ikantski posted:We fixed the bridge. It's just such a perfect analogy for Ontario right now, I love it. Building Ontario Up. 5 concrete barriers at a time until we get the bridge unheaved. Infrastructure! This is my favourite picture on the entire internet. Cultural Imperial posted:If one of you dumb SJW weedlords put a gun to my head an forced me to choose between BCNDP and BCLIB I would just let you blow my brains out We were laughing about it in a sad way, he's like "I never thought I'd get to the point where I would vote for a party that thinks wifi is giving me brain cancer thanks BC"
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Jan 12, 2016 19:38
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vyelkin posted:For the record your sister in law's husband is your brother, so Ikantski posted:Hookshot could have a husband who has a sister who is married to a dude, excuse the cisheteronormative presumptions. This, exactly.
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Jan 12, 2016 20:17
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El Scotch posted:1 million is a fart in a hurricane, but good job Kev. But seriously this is so much better than in 2008-9-ish when I watched the AUD (where I lived at the time) go from $0.65 to parity.
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Jan 12, 2016 20:23
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol that you think Canadian politics are interesting. Don't forget Christy Clark! BC itself is only kind of a laughing stock, it's politicians on the other hand are like the worst people in the country.
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Jan 12, 2016 20:24
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Cultural Imperial posted:lol hunting are you some obese retard When I was in Alberta I saw some hunters getting ready to start their day on the side of highway 40 one morning at like 7am so I sat on my horn for the next kilometer or so. Saw them flipping me off in the rearview.
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Jan 13, 2016 05:11
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Ikantski posted:How do you know they weren't first nations people trying to exercise their traditional hunting rights while you're driving the wedge between our two cultures even deeper? I have eyes, they were two fat loving white dudes that basically parked their F-350 in the middle of the highway.
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Jan 13, 2016 05:26
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Rime posted:Also, highschool curriculums in rural British Columbia might as well be stuck in the 1960's. Our education budget is a loving joke.
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DariusLikewise posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/dogs-shot-manitoba-first-nations-1.3408167?__vfz=tc%3D14W28bPhRA_ My local animal shelter regularly goes up to the native community north of here and help them with things like spaying/neutering, help with vet services, and they take any that people can't care for and choose to surrender and adopt them out. I agree that preventative measures need to happen. Maybe a mobile vet van or something, a way to send a vet from community to community to take care of animals that need help...
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Jan 18, 2016 19:34
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Math You posted:This thread is shockingly hostile to the cyclists for a bunch of people who complain about car culture. You don't have it coming but jesus christ is it ever risky. I don't ever ride my bike on the S2S because it's sketchy as poo poo, and as much as I have the right to not get nailed by some random moron who's driving drunk/texting/just not paying attention that's sure as poo poo not going to mean much if I'm dead. I had to drive along Hwy99 for like 200 meters last year once because I took a wrong turn on the valley trail and was too lazy to walk back up a giant hill, and I was terrified the entire time.
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Jan 18, 2016 23:01
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When I was in grade 11 a 9th grader got hit by an old person on the way to class... to leave the staff parking lot (the dude wasn't staff so who knows why he was in there) you have to go through a crosswalk that linked both sides of the school that kids always used, it was in between classes, he tried to stop but pressed the gas instead and went right into her. Luckily she got away with just a few broken bones. Just before I left Australia an old dude did the same thing to a lady pushing her 1-year-old baby in a mall parking lot, pinned her against the wall and she died. You haven't truly lived among the old people until you've seen someone literally driving on the white line separating lanes doing 30 in a 60 zone.
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Jan 19, 2016 01:48
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St. Dogbert posted:Devil's advocate: How many of us currently find ourselves in a similar situation and fully understand that a Conservative government would be more lucrative for ourselves, but still vote for the NDP or Liberals on principle? I'm one of those people. My taxes go up under Trudeau. Still would have rather stabbed myself in the voting booth than voted Conservative.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Cangoons, who wants to live out their charlie chocolate factory drug addled hullucinations? Canadian manufacturing is back, baby!
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Cultural Imperial posted:That said Canada has the most lol worthy border policy of searching it's own citizens for consumer products. You've obviously never travelled anywhere with a somewhat sensitive ecology, Canada has some of the most relaxed customs agents on the planet. Just lie about how many goods you're bringing in like literally everyone else does and they won't give enough of a poo poo to search your bags.
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