Vancouver puts theirs in a tunnel, it always terrified me. Some guy went head-on with a bus the other day because he didn't realize the counterflow lane was in effect.

I'm no expert on Yoga (the few times I've tried it I'm either hopelessly bored, completely dying, or both) but it's absolutely a myth that cardio is the only way to lose weight. Some would argue it's not even the best way.

Yes, and no. Even when played on North American-sized rinks Olympic hockey is less contact than the NHL. I've also seen Midget B games get super rough on international-sized rinks. But you're right that plays a part in it.

Ya but it has Bluetooth. BLUETOOTH 4.0!!!

Interesting. I think the other 15 cities are largely the result of the tail end of a the gender-gap distribution (a suggestion backed up by the fact that 8 of them are in CA or NY, two states with relatively low gender wage gaps), but there has to be something weird going on in Jacksonville beyond just that. I mean,…

But that's just because that's what the rules say. There's less hitting in international hockey than the NHL even with the exact same players, because that's what the rules are. There's no reason it needs to be that way aside for tradition.

Belle Pro is awful. Like really bad. I never understood the praise it gets, I think it must be a patriotic-Quebecois thing. Smokes, while a little overpriced/overhyped is solid. It's also a concept that lends itself better to American expansion I'd say. My favourite chain poutine place is Frite Alors.

So you think it's an absolute coincidence that, in any sport, the countries that care the most about it and funnel their best athletes into it are the most successful? You're really trying to argue that the US (and Canada, the South Asian countries, Australia/New Zealand, and Scandinavia) have all their absolute best…

TS3's best (and most memorable) scene was Andy giving the toys to the little girl down the street. All of the tears. All of them.

Patience is an understatement. The movie (or first arc, depending on the format you watch it in) is as bad as some of the worst moments of the live action film. I started the series three times before making it a decent chunk of the way into the first season, at which point I was totally hooked. And it's not just…

But when we talk about pronouns it's "gendered" pronouns, not "sexed" pronouns, and gender is most certainly not a binary. I'm not sure her decision served the story as well as she'd hoped, but it is an interesting thought experiment, especially in a culture where the default is (white straight) male.

That's one of the hardest things about Baseball. In hockey if you fuck up at least you can go out there the very next shift and skate even harder, try to throw a hit, get into it. In baseball if you fuck up you have to just stand there waiting for a shot to make up for it, and it has time to get in your head.

In 2006, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allowed women to attend soccer matches in big stadiums so long as they sat in a separate section, but the ban was promptly reinstated by Iranian clerics.

I stand corrected. I have not seen ParaNorman so perhaps that was a better flick.

Off the Hook on the Danforth?

Well 2012 was a pretty weak year for animation. I see you praising FrankenWeenie downthread, I was not that much of a fan of that movie, and although I have not seen Pirates! I'd say Brave is as good as anything else that came out. Furthermore I think Pixar may have deserved a break one that one since their previous…

Seabrook really isn't in the same league as the others. You have to consider Suter though.

Not a classic line, but Melissa McCarthy ad libbing her rant from This is 40 was the best part of that movie. This is just the parts that didn't make the cut...

From friends in the industry that's what I've heard too. I'm not sure if it's motivated by margins or by profits, but the typical complaint is that every job is understaffed, all the employees are overworked, and everyone is miserable except the boss who's raking in the dough.

I think it's (unfortunately) so rare in TV and movies that well-written female friendships are often glaringly obvious. And I mean that in a good way, the way Bo and Kenzie interact on Lost Girl is one of the most appealing things about that show.