60 Replies to “August 5, 2020: Reader Tips”

  1. Oh my, wasn’t Bryan Adams cancelled or me-too’d for deviating from some dumb narrative or other. (Clutches pearls).

    I once shared an elevator with Mr. Adams, he was very pleasant for the minute or so it took to go nine floors. I didn’t think to ask him about Di. Yup, that’s my ‘famous person’ story.

    1. My story about sharing an elevator ride with someone famous was with Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau back in ’88 just after the Space thing and before he became a politican. We never spoke, we just only smiled at one another when I got off the elevator. He must’ve sensed that I recognized him.

      Here’s to Bryan Adams — great voice, lyrics and music!
      (He alledgedly did have an affair with Di)

      Bryan Adams and a very cute Pooch sing ~  “Please forgive Me” 
      https://youtu.be/9EHAo6rEuas

      “Everything I Do”  ~ 1996  Adams at Wembley
      https://youtu.be/La0IJPt0t4Q

    2. Famous names stories:

      1st – was an Air Cadet Seargent (111 Pegasus Sqdn), during the one and only Vancouver Wing Parade…back in 67 I’m thinking it was. The Guest of honour and the guy that inspected the “troops” Was none other than Douglas Bader – WWII Legless Fighter Pilot and Ace..!!

      2nd: Also Air Cadets – Part of an Honour guard of some 16 Senior Warrant officer Cadets for a Dinner featuring Prince Phillip. He was pretty Cool – Came back after the speeches to where we were hanging out, Asked us all our names and where we were from and chatted with us for at least 20+ min.

      And I ran into the great Calgary Moustache – Lanny MCDonald at the shell on 12th and Centre street…back in the 80’s – and we chatted for a bit as well.

      Class Guys all 3.

    1. I was standing in line at a Canadian Tire recently and I was making jokes about the phony plague, particularly the competition between Edmonton and Calgary as to which has the stupidest commie mayor.

      The lady behind me agreed with me…. to a point. She said she would wear a mask “if it made someone safe”. Aaaaaarrrggghhhh!

      1. Our mayor is more COMMIE than yours cuz our mask fines are double yours.!

        I witnessed a dressing down from a youngish man to an older woman, a non-mask wearer. His anger went like this:

        Furiously, he exclaimed: “Excuse me, you just served two people at your position without wearing a mask. You should know that wearing a mask is now the law. You are breaking the law. Thank you.”

        I never heard her reply. He calmed right down after he saw many people staring at him. I didn’t hear her reply but she must’ve told him that she was exempt from wearing one.

        Otoh, at 7:15 am, nobody bothered to address the young drunkard on the C-train who was without a mask, fast asleep, bobbing his head.

        So, what do we call a male “Karen?” Anyone know?

        1. This karening is one thing that truly irritates me about this farce. Current circumstances seem to have instilled in those pipsqueaks a false sense of authority to bully whoever offends their sensibilities.

          I’ve encountered some of them and have been accordingly subjected to their corrosive vitriol. I usually let them have their fun and they go away with an equally false sense of triumph. I could debate with them but, then, I’d be stooping to their level, wouldn’t I?

          Personally, I think they suffer from a low sense of self-worth.

          1. Right, anger is fear.

            I keep thinking one day I’ll have to use the tactic,
            “No speakee English” to someone, someday, but I haven’t tried it yet. Poor liar, my eyes would be dancing and I’d likely burst in laughter!

          2. BA, it impossible to debate with any of them. They don’t suffer from a lack of self esteem, they suffer from a lack of intellect and are terminally stupid.

          3. A few years ago, Conrad Black wrote about the “ghastly Canadian pomposity that thinks we have a national vocation to scold the Americans on their moral infirmities.” I guess this arrogance currently extends to our fellow citizens.

            This farce, as you describe it, appears to have given everyone the right to scold and bully. I, too, have encountered a “Karen” who took great pride in pointing out that I wasn’t following the arrow taped to the floor and proceeded to tell me that we all have to do out part. I just shrugged my shoulders.

          4. Nancy:

            I have considered reverting back to speaking English with a distinct German accent like I did when I was much younger. The reaction of my detractors might prove to be quite entertaining.

          5. @ 11:08 am — B
            Hahaha! Good one.

            Anglo Montrealers …
            either slur or enunciate words too clearly:
            Words like “Muntrul” for the city name.
            Or, words like, “co-meets” for cold meat or cuts.
            Every now and then, I slip and fall…
            But now, a Calgarian, I am! Ha!

          6. To Nancy Ross and Rupertslander:
            Well, I really did that once.
            I used to play (serious) table tennis at UCLA in the evening for hours, after which I was hot and stinky. I was driving home in my beat up VW, when a policeman stopped me.
            He took one look at me and my car, and spoke to me in pidgin English. So the imp in me said, what the heck, if he expected it, that’s what he’ll get.
            Well, it turned out that I just forgot to put the annual sticker on the license plate, but that might still have been worth a ticket. Anyway, after a lot of exasperating pidgin exchange, with a lot of hand gestures, he got me to open up the glove compartment and get out the registration. He made sure I put the sticker on the right place and just drove off.
            So, the racism of low expectations may possibly have gotten me out of a ticket. I guess that was before the general population knew all us east Asians were geniuses.

          7. At no time in a Grocery or other store have I followed the utter BS of arrows on the floor. I walk where I want in the direction I want. I am simply waiting for some Woke moron to tell me the error of my ways…..bring it on.!!

            Yet there are MIllions of Canadians who would follow those same arrows right into a Concentration Kampf….Millions.

          8. Steakman: I’m with you; it’s bloody insane out there. Arrows are everywhere: LCBO, Walmart, Len’s, etc. And, it’s not just arrows. At Walmart there are stickers on the floor of each aisle stating “Enter” and “Exit.”

            Face masks are for sale everywhere, as well. Walmart recently “rolled back” pricing $10 per box. Costco has skids of them. My local Fortino’s sells packs of 10. ALL are from China! Can’t enter any building now without wearing one. Where I live, we have FIVE active Wuhan Flu cases and NO new cases in last 4 weeks!

            Stop the Insanity!
            (Rant over)

          9. At 1:06 pm O’ Bruin

            Say young man, that was funny, you smelled “ticket” and ran with the cop’s label. That took courage but you won.

            When I started school in grade one, it was bedlam, a regular United Nations. At home, told Mom that I was able to do everything but read and write. Teacher spent the first month yelling at us to sit down, shut up and pay attention.

            Here’s a guy who loves accents too …

            Watch “Don’t Lose Your Accent / Learning Accents” ~ TREVOR NOAH
            https://youtu.be/MhCEdIqFCck

          10. Nancy,
            Speaking of O’Bruin and accents, the only accent I used to do was Irish. It was totally out of respect, as I very much was empathetic with them. But my parish priest told me it was just stige Irish, so with due respect to him I stopped. And to tell the truth, I wasn’t doing his accent. But I did blow a coworker away once when I said Shore and begorrah, and the top o’ the mornin’ to ya. It’s a grand day to be an Oirishman. Erin go bragh. He just stared at me, and couldn’t believe those sounds came out of my mouth.
            My son does a very good FOB (fresh off the boat) Chinese English accent, but I can’t. Maybe I spent too much time trying to get rid of it. With the cop I just sort of slurred and tried to be very ungrammatical, and maybe put a little sing song in it. It wasn’t really FOB at all. But he bought it I guess it was like the pidgin he was trying to speak. You know, I really wasn’t trying to get out of the ticket, and won’t have done it if he didn’t start it. It was more like I thought he deserved to be flustered.
            Your story reminds me of when Mrs. OB was still teaching kindergarten. (A German word!) One year she counted something like a dozen different native languages among the students.

      2. Nenshi and Iverson are having a race to see which one can bankrupt their city faster, using only LRT construction. My bet is on Edmonton. They can’t even cut the grass, much less build and operate a train line.

        1. They can’t even cut the grass

          I’ve seen it knee-high in some places in Edmonton. Across the street from where I live, it wasn’t cut–it was swathed.

      3. If other people are so confident that their mask works, why do they care if I wear one?

    2. How odd that she is threatening years of wearing masks. They are not even requiring wearing masks in China. Tam needs to call her boss to get straight on what’s what. Actually, I think a lot of the medical people have gotten themselves into a box where they cannot see the forest for the trees. They completely ignore natural immunity and the normal rise and fall of a virus. We are all being forced to wear largely ineffective masks well after the virus has peaked.

    3. Let’s wear masks with customized embroidery (plagiarizing the Hong Kong student) saying “Don’t trust _____. _____ is a$$hole!”
      Mine would reference the purple princess.

      1. My husband and I watched “The Patriot” the other night and saw the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag during the battle scene. I said to my husband, “THAT is what I should put on my mask!” Stupid Canadians wouldn’t understand it.

        1. I prefer “Live Free Or Die” or “Sic Semper Tyrannis”, though I have considered using “Don’t Tread On Me”, complete with a snake. Unfortunately, many people would think the first slogan refers to a Bruce Willis movie but, at the same time, wouldn’t have a clue what the second one means.

          1. Or, if they did have an inkling of the second slogan, they may think it refers to John Wilkes Booth, rather than Brutus.

  2. I have two predictions for the remainder of the year.
    First: the Wuhan flu will cease to be an issue by December. If Biden wins there will be a miracle cure with credit taken by Democrats; if Trump wins Wuhan will be replaced by impeachment trials.
    Second: November 3/4 will see massive riots throughout the States. If Trump wins there will be a near civil war for several days perhaps weeks. See 2016. If Biden wins there will be celebratory riots similar to the riots after a major league final win. Except they will be worse because of Democratic governments having encouraged the rioters for all of these months.
    Wuhan gone. Riots worse. November. Wait and see

  3. The Canadian Museum For Human Rights is closing its doors on August 5 and 6 so that its staff can study a review of the institution’s “systemic racism and discrimination.” Turns out the concrete physical embodiment of Federal government Wokeness and Political Correction is an actual cesspool of racism, sexism, and misogyny. It’s only been open for FIVE YEARS. Did they hire Don Cherry to run the place? Are there stacks of yellow vests in the staff lunch room?

    The CBC report says… “Laurelle Harris, a Black, Jewish, queer cisgender woman, and experienced mediator and lawyer with expertise in women’s studies and black studies, was consulted to lead the review of the museum’s policies, practices and culture.”

    The Onion or The Beaverton couldn’t make this stuff up, even if they tried.
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-museum-for-human-rights-closed-racism-review-1.5672831

  4. Blackie’s bought and paid for media are warning us not to spread false information that the China virus was made in a Chinese lab. Remember, we are relying on wonderful China to provide Canada with a vaccine. Don’t piss China off. I wonder if they are making the vaccine in the same lab that they made the virus?

  5. It appears from his official schedule, that our Great Leader Kim Sung WE Trudeau is spending the rest of the summer at his Harrington Lake resort.

    1. He’s all tuckered out from doing SFA in Ottawa…. or anywhere else, for that matter.

  6. This seems to be an authoritative article on the unreliability of COVID tests. The author concludes that a strong immune system is our best defense (Not surprising). So there is a lot of hammering on Trump for high numbers in the States, and some observation that Blacks are more affected. Certainly the old folks (80+) most with conditions do not have good immune systems. The article finished with a comment on the importance of exercise and diet for effective immunity to disease. Now I know this does not surprise anyone, but could it be that Trump is being attacked for his poor handling of COVID, when the real culprit is the North American diet. Makes sense to me. Interesting article: https://aislec.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/the-test-set-another-brick-in-the-covid-19-disinformation-game-plan-global-research/

  7. Apologies! Where to put this (up there) with you guys? The ‘Mask’ topic is fluid and changing. With this wordy piece, a wide berth is needed. So, here goes:

    Yesterday’s thread, “The Libranos, There They Go Again” we’ve been told that a new Liberal scandal has come to light regarding the mask wearing business. With all the fuss about them, first “no”, then “yes,” now, in some places, it is the law, while in others, it’s not. Is it any wonder that it’s not about the science but about the cash money and who gets it? This latest scandal involves a quarter of a BILLION bucks to be spent in Montreal, no less.

    This small thing took the “Kielburger Scandal” off the news as the topic du jour. Now, today, the “Mask Scandal”  is yesterday’s news.

    What’s tomorrow’s scandal gonna be?

    Let’s see, how about the Dictator’s tracking device ankle bracelet? We definetly need more info than this:  ( here, we go again, Steakman…)

    “Trudeau & Wife Under House Arrest?”
    https://youtu.be/KzTal1rg_Wg

    Where’s the right wing Websites when you need them?

    Also,  ever notice how Justin is not going anywhere that we know of lately except for the Lake? Sure COVID!! Right, yeah. Get this:

    One thing I noticed about our extremely vain Prime Minister is that he recently had a wide gap removed from in between two front teeth. His broad smile during the Keilburger Money Laundering Inquiry revealed his new look.

    I’d say he snuck into the dentist’s office late at night, mid-week, after hours. The dentist’s handy work looks like either veneers or crown work. We, the taxpayer, likely were charged for that. With a tooth whitening job at $500 a shot, and likely anywhere from @ $1250 per crown, at the least, the bill was a measly $3 K plus 5% GST. The charge to HRH, flush with cash, you can double it or triple it. I don’t know what veneers would cost. “Look Ma, the gap is gone!”
    Baby will never, never, ever get voted out, now, for sure.

    Meh, yesterday’s scandal, fuggetaboutit …

    https://nationalpost.com/news/local-news/quebec-company-with-no-factory-snags-133m-contract-to-make-ppe/wcm/80650ebd-0967-44cd-a14b-bc4b8d46404a/

    P.S. For the male “Karen”…thanks for your suggestions guys, how about Kovid Kojak?

  8. I just read an article whose major point was that a psychiatric journal retracted an article which claimed that transgender surgery made the patients psychologically more healthy. Well, it is something worthwhile to quote, I guess (though I hate quoting someone whose politics I generally disagree with) but we all knew that.
    What interested me was finally finding concrete numbers on the proportion of people with “gender dysphoria.” The authors reviewed a dataset comprising 9.7 million people, 2,679 of whom were diagnosed with gender dysphoria, with 1,000 the latter having surgery.
    Well, there you have it. 0.0275% of a very large sample size were diagnosed with gender dysphoria, that is, were considered transgenders. Just above 0.01% opted to have surgery.
    I couldn’t find data on Target. But each week, nearly 265 million customers and members visit approximately 11,500 Walmart stores. That works out to 23,000 per store per week, assuming no repeat customers. Of those, statistically SIX would be transgender. And surely Target has much less in store customers per store. (Walmart averages 2000 employees per store, Target 200. If the employee/customer ratio is about the same, then the average Target store has 1/10th the customer of each Walmart store.) That would mean on the average, less than ONE transgender will visit a Target store each week.
    Does that make sense that for sake of that ONE potential customer per week, Target puts the whole store in a turmoil? Obviously the point is not that. The point, just as in the post-Floyd riots, is destruction of traditional morality, as part of the Marxist agenda.
    It goes on and on. The NCAA and the Olympics are letting transgenders destroy women’s sports. Look at that ratio again. How many real transgenders should you expect? It isn’t even 0.0275%. Sports is a usually testosterone dominated activity. It is the modern outlet in lieu of hunts, raids, and plunders. (There are exceptions such as rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming, but I don’t hear of any male-to-female transgenders opting for them.) Males do them much better than females. It is hard to even envision a female entrapped in a male body which is diligently prepping for track and field, say. But it is easy to imagine a male saying he is a female entrapped in a male body to get down to easier competition, especially when the rules declare you only have to say so, you don’t actually have to undergo hormonal treatment, let alone surgery.
    Almost forgot the link:
    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/a_psychiatric_journal_made_a_big_mistake_about_transgender_surgery.html

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