Gilliam esc

Gilliam-esque? Gibson-esque?

Oh! Like “we with you” and “we not you” ?

… like a Jim Jones ‘light’ ?

This is the worrying part. It’s all but a “stop hitting yourself” kind of situation and I really hoped there could be some learning.

fun how you didn’t respond to a single one of my points. because you can’t.

I stopped reading almost at ‘full stop’. I really stopped at ‘literally’. At that point I’m making too many assumptions and it’s nothing I can touch objectively.

He did about 4 walls of text after, and it sounds like you went down some serious rabbit holes. So you think you may have drifted a little into the paranoid ‘othering’ lane?

Anyway, cut him some slack and try with someone else. Next time for sure!

That makes logical sense, but what about the numbers? They can’t go up if we keep spending the money we promised to spend on the 69th most effective and absolutely most expensive healthcare system in the world. What is this, an essential service? Rubes.

Ohhhhhh, tricksy hobbitses. We hates them.

I went to a bar in Nanaimo once. It was the Tally-ho. It was really divey when I was there. But it was that or go back to Cedar and hang out, and there was NOTHING to do in Cedar.

The baked treat is wayyyy better. Har har.

But it’s true – we’ve acquired a lot of different foods from people as they moved here, without a real image of our own. At least we can create mishmash of cultures and pick and choose some winners.

• dim sum with truffle oil and foie gras sounds a little posh
• street vendor $7 hot dogs with teriyaki and seaweed
• the iconic nanaimo bar
• candy-smoked coho

I guess someone’s gonna have to barbecue a gooeyduck street-side and call it iconic. I’m at a loss

mashed Swedes

what is a ‘mashed Swede’?

the american word is rutabaga

Ah! It’s called ‘swede’ because it’s short for ‘swedish turnip’! I’ve never heard it called that. It was a complete surprise (and my nephews are Swedes, so…) ;-)

I’ve never heard it called Rutabaga either. We call it just ‘turnip’, and up to this moment I never knew what a Rutabaga tasted like, despite having turnip just the other day. Wow! So it’s a Yank word?

My dad would make mashed turnip with a little nutmeg or cinnamon. It was awesome.

Anyway, I’m learning SO MUCH today. Thanks!

All y’all : collective.

Each y’all : individuals

;-)

Not “all yous”?

Yes, we’re really proud of our long distance telecommunication. It’s like the sound of jungle drums, one ping only.

Sorry, which truckers are we defending?

Please tell me you don’t mean the Flu Trucks Klan that belligerently blocked trade routes over a need to act like responsible grownups, to vaccinate, and to act like there was an actual pandemic. The ones who started fires in homes through letter boxes, who sounded their horn all night while people were sleeping, who blocked emergency vehicles - and there’s a special place in hell for that - and attacked tow operators ordered to keep routes clear?

Those truckers? Because those guys can eat shit all day.

I use both daily.

It’s sad that Skype is more reliable and usable.

The Dems fielded a candidate with potential, in a binary race against the absolute worst candidate ever.

Voters chose a felon with a pattern of grifting and lies.

Those are facts.

Here’s the opinion: stop blaming the party for the people’s mistake. Just secede and be done with it.

Colour + noun:

• redbug
• bluecar
• yellowboat

This concept of ‘deficit’ is just a construct for them to make it look like waste … and then kill it.

Do we run similar profitability metrics for the army? For transportation and infrastructure? For water filtration and waste processing? No.

Someone decided the mail wasn’t as important as a highway and set about gutting it intentionally.

Like a - ha ha ha - friendly and light cross-check into the boards. The lightest of taps with the stick to the calves when the ref’s not looking. All clean fun, like the oilers playing the bruins, all polite and calm.

You know: friendly.

Ouch. Definitely not all of it.

Yes. I think you did think that. Glad to answer your question.