I wish we had the gifs of the batters just throwing their bats down in frustration.

I feel like this kind of "anti-pc" editorial is unfortunately pretty standard these days though. You see it alot in even otherwise respected newspapers publications, where they just have one or two crazy people who write victim-blaming articles or anti-immigration articles, or just annoying contrarian opinions to news…

Isn't "Eskimo" generally considered a pejorative?

The Russian internet is heavily censored, and even if some people are bilingual, guess which language most people will consume media in (especially media with complex subject matter like economics and politics).

China has the same problem- even though their direct net access is censored it's not incredibly difficult to…

Poor decisions regarding equipment for the average grunt have always been made. They figured out pretty quick too that German helmets which covered the neck were more effective than the British kind, but they thought their troops might mistake each other for the enemy if the helmets looked too similar. Same reason in…

Then you also escape the lovely views. Hey-oooo.

We're not going to buy you- we're going to slowly continue to culturally absorb you until one day you wake up and realize that you're basically already Canadian.

Then you need to fix it or you will be unable to play bumper cars.

In a time of increasing missile ranges too, you wonder if large boats are a good idea especially if your doctrine at its heart depends on swarm tactics and sheer numbers.

I also wonder what kinda ocean weather these things can handle.

Rather than run a team of stressed commandos with rifles onto a plane full of passengers- I feel like it this could have been better handled by one or two cops discretely coming from the back of the plane and just dragging the guy off. This whole thing just seems like a performance.

That's kinda fucked up... like I understand the worst case scenario is where they are filming an attack- but that's a heck of an assumption to take someone's life over.

Yes, but you will never (ever) hear a Canadian who refers to themselves as "American" or coming from "America" because to them both those things imply the United States (though yes, we all realize that Canada is apart of North America, in the continent of the Americas), and likewise Canadian aboriginal groups have…

I get what you're talking about, but this always seemed like a petty point to me... yes perhaps the correct technical terminology is a "suppressor" but in legal documents it's referred to as a silencer, and in colloquial use by 99% of the population that isn't ex-military or involved in gun culture then "suppressor"…

I just gave you an example where the government of Canada does subsidize groceries, because under particular geographic circumstances it makes sense.

As I also outlined in my first response to you, given the government track record on efficiency, I don't foresee a slippery-slope slide into government-store-everything,…

Look, the federal government already subsidizes fuel production, to make it cheaper for consumers. We've already agreed as a society that fuel is something we all use (for everything), and we're willing to spend our collective tax dollars on it.

But what exactly are you arguing, that the government should never enter…

I this topic has topic has been done to death in all these comments, but to answer your question "if the city city came in and said..." : yes.

If there are services the government could provide (especially essential ones, like gas) better than private companies, I think they can (and should). I understand that a…

My folks had some suburban neighbours who were police officers, and they had a few big dogs, and the dogs were loud but whatever- the problem was they had various water fowl which ran around their swimming pool (ewwwwwww), and the untrained dogs barked at and threatened the birds, and on one occasion ate one: cloud of…

Can you talk in confidence to someone who is an administrative role, like a secretary you are on good terms with? They would know the official policies, so that when you tell the program director the news you can frame it the right way.... I think medical leave (perhaps they might require a note) is generally in it's…

It's actually somewhat of a cultural myth too about the Germans.... FKK (Free Body Culture in German) was an Eastern thing, and while many Germans do swim naked it's by no means a universal thing on every beach, and it really depends on the beach (and also the crowd, and location: at your cottage vs Berlin beach)...…

As a Canadian I thought we had licensing issues badly... but set your Hola to "Germany" and then go on Youtube. The German music regulatory agency has insane laws that treat the internet like radio... which sounds good in that it expects artists to be compensated for plays, but in practice it means that you type in…