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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The New Canada Guide |
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:02 pm
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Very nice!
I remember as a kid finding out that Americans *didn't* buy their milk in a bag, and then transfer said bag into a plastic pitcher for dispensing. I just assumed everyone did it this way. Very Canadian! |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Parliament Fighter II (Round 2) |
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:46 am
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Comments: 12
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| The article said that Trudeau trained 3 days/week for 6 months, Brazeau 5 days/week for 5 months -- that's a fair bit of commitment for "just charity". I totally agree that this is was a pissing match between two dudes. Whatever Brazeau says to the media, he's pissed that he lost. |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Justin's least favourite PM |
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Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:20 am
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| And so what if we like to follow our own sports? All your examples involve hockey, a national sport of Canada, and not an easily accessible sport to the vast majority of the world's athletes. That's just it -- you have more diversity in sports you love, so just *one* of them can't have the same hol... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Justin's least favourite PM |
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:19 pm
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| I think it's a legend that's getting harder and harder to relate to in any sort of modern nationalistic context, especially for anyone born after 1972. I mean, taking pride in beating Commies? Isn't that kind of.... American? I would agree -- maybe because my father was born in the former Eastern B... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Justin's least favourite PM |
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 6:09 pm
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| The US can't really use sport as a rallying call since so many of their's are national level only o_O You have some nice examples, but sadly (and I say with a great deal of regret because I've played for 20+ years) football (or "soccer") isn't on the radar of many, many Americans. I serio... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Justin's least favourite PM |
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:25 pm
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| The only reasonable example I can think for a Canadian narrative is hockey. 1972 and the Summit Series particularly, but also 2002 Olympics (loonie at centre ice) and 2010 in Vancouver. The US can't really use sport as a rallying call since so many of their's are national level only (despite the Yan... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Keeping up with political labels |
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:28 pm
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| ^ Nice post -- the rep. system won't let me give you more points -- I would if I could. The whole spirituality of the American people is something I find a bit disturbing -- I have nothing against religion per se, but it's the *implication* that I'm somehow *immoral* because I don't ascribe to any p... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Keeping up with political labels |
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:05 am
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| You know I really miss the days when you could be a conservative that cared about fiscal responsibility, smaller less beaucratic government, free market and low unemployment as priorites. Nowadays if you are running on any of those platforms you also have to be pro-life, anti-gay rights and Pro Isr... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Liberals: Party of the Future |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:00 pm
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| And the Greens have a seat now, in spite of themselves. Because the Green Party put the bulk of its efforts into one riding just to get Elizabeth May into Parliament. Their share of the popular vote in 2011 was only 3.9%. That's my point -- that's the way forward in a FPP system. Get all of your su... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Liberals: Party of the Future |
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Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:57 pm
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| And prop-rep was thought up by someone who belongs in a mental hospital. Never quite understood why FPP supporters think proportional representation is such a bad idea. I used to live in a riding which was staunchly right-wing -- a colleague once joked that the local Tories could put a dog up for e... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Gay marriage gossip |
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:19 pm
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| There's more than one Liberal supporter I've met who is *convinced* that Harper and his devious conspiracy to highjack Canadian values is "only around the corner". It was supposed to happen when he first became PM, then when he got a majority... they're still waiting. It's as if they *want... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The political preferences of professions |
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:23 pm
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| Even though the UK military (non-commissioned) is 99% made up of working-class kids from the more depressed areas and the very same areas were and are hotbeds of socialism and left-wing ideology, I rarely met a Labour voter in any areas of the Army, Navy or RAF. I seem to recall Michael Moore sayin... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The political preferences of professions |
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:19 pm
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Comments: 29
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And JJ: real programmers/hackers thumb their collective noses at Ubuntu -- Gentoo or even Linux from scratch is for the hardcore.
(Package manager? Bah -- code your own!)
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: The political preferences of professions |
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:15 pm
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| That's an interesting theory regarding Islamic terrorists and engineering -- it's actually one I've read before in an engineering journal. I thought at first it was just the increased prevalence of engineers in those countries -- but upon reading the slate.com article they accounted for this. One th... |
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Forum: Filibuster Cartoons Topic: Santorum the Horrifying |
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:03 pm
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| Not the most popular position? Understatement. You Yanks are loony. Funny - I seem to recall you saying that Psudo was nuts because he's taking a socially conservative position with regards to the "traditional" view of marriage. And now Kjorteo is a loony because he's taking an (extremely... |
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