Vancouver just instituted a tax on unused housing and the owners are scrambling to sell or rent those properties before the tax goes into effect. That housing could have been used, but wasn't, because it was more profitable to purchase it, leave it empty for a year or two, and then sell it at a pro...

Looks like it's gonna get toad away.

This thread is Perfect

And it's amazing to me just how many people are like ".. wait, shit, what?" when you point out that he takes over Be Prepared for the final verse because by that point you're so wrapped up in Scar's terrifying, fascist hellscape of a song that you're not paying close enough attention to r...

Some of them are grandmas, Brentai, jeez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQTlT8-qYUk Peter Capaldi reading the reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire. You might remember it as the subject of a famous painting by Ilya Repin: https://thevelvetrocket.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/repin-reply-of-the-zaporozh...

I had my fill at Pride, thank you very much.

Thad wrote:That's actually the point, at least according to the people making the show.

Except a show like this might also normalize the problem.

Lesley Goldman, the network's senior vice president of development and original programming, said the "intention" is to show that student loan debt is a "ridiculous crisis." "The best way to address the issue is with a ridiculous game show," Goldman said. "Coming ...

mharr wrote:Also the occasional wooden signpost explaining that you shouldn't be here and if you could bugger off back to the game, that'd be great.

"If you can read this, you blinked too far."

Greyhound cancels most of its routes in Western Canada I know this is sort of a minor news item from a global perspective, times change, etc. But I suppose it hits me personally because this was what my grandad did for a living after WWII, driving the Greyhound routes between Winnipeg and Western O...

Speaking of, there seems to be a lot more shooting deaths happening in Toronto lately. :(

My diagnosis: too much Blue Curaçao.