In lovely Eastern Ontario, one of the largest construction companies was called “Karson Kartage and Konstruction” for waaaaaaay too long for it the owners to not know that their abbreviation was KKK. They used to buy one of the billboard ads at Senators games, prominently featuring the Ks.

Anyhow, I think they finally…

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Congrats to Russell Westbrook’s little brother for receiving the most overshadowed master’s degree in the history of higher ed.

I can say that my four years of high school + club rugby were some of the most fun times I’ve ever had in my life, and gave me life-long friends forged through blood, snow, rain and mud.

I can also say that I am thankful as all fuck that I stopped playing as soon as I got to men’s leagues because I truly enjoy having…

Not that I have first hand experience with meth, but I understand that it does lead to extreme horniness.

Also sex. Lots and lots and lots of sex.

So, this is more or less a page straight out of Canada’s last prime minister, Stephen “Stephen, definitely not Steve” Harper. The press gallery here had, like, 8 years to get its shit sorted out re: how to counter a comms office that was hell-bent on never fielding questions or doing anything but the…

Sadly, Marc Methot of the Sens is a beloved local boy, good friend of Swedish God Erik Karlsson, a swell dude, easily a top-3 dman on 90% of teams in the league and the best hip-checker in the NHL.

I WISH he had a similar story to David Clarkson.

No, I signal, using these things called blinkers. Bikes don’t have them, nor do they have rearview mirrors typically, so an audible notification is typically used instead. It’s courtesy. It’s not going to ruin your life to ring a bell when you’re passing a group of cyclists.

Uhh... yes, I signal every single time that I change lanes when I’m driving. Pretty sure that’s the law just about everywhere. I expect the same when I’m cycling.

You are the hero I wish I could be more often! I usually just yell “buy a bell you jackass” after they’re well past me. Your method strikes me as more effective.

Plus, you get to have excellent “best route to x” conversations with other cyclists. I add a couple minutes of my commute to go through one of the few big parks in downtown Toronto, but like you said, the added mental health benefits can’t be beat.

Your last point is the most important, if you ask me. Finding out which routes offer you the most protected cycling (bike lanes, paths, etc) go a lot further to build confidence than any amount of gear will. Plus, if you’re commuting to work, you can really shave off the minutes if you know exactly which side streets…

Better yet: have a friend who does bike maintenance for fun. Buy him a couple beers once a year and let him tsk tsk over your improper brake cable maintenance and you end up with a perfectly tuned bike at a fraction of the cost.

Since the comments here are rapidly devolving into the usual complaints of cyclists in urban areas, I’ll add mine to the mix:

Fellow cyclists: if you’re passing me—either in a bike lane or in an open road—FUCKING SIGNAL to let me know that you’re about to be right next to me. If I’m about to dodge around a pothole, I…

I can’t say I’m a big boxing fan, and I care even less about MMA, but I do always love your writing about these subjects (which, again, I have very extremely little interest in, outside of the aforesaid spectacle of it all). I guess that’s a compliment?

Can confirm ours loves to lick the water off our legs after showers. Maybe this lip balm/leg licking thing is a dachshund trait.

Our lil’ monster is a 3-year-old mini dachshund who for the most part sticks to organic materials when eating, with the exception of chapstick. Not lipstick. Just chapstick. Burts, Blistex, the fancy stuff, it doesn’t matter. If that shit is on the floor, she’ll be on it in seconds. Makes her breath smell really weird…

Stupid Costa Rican government being far too sensible (and small) to ever try to do something like host a World Cup. I’m sure they’d run the table, at which point they’d have bragging rights over the rest of Central America for the next millennium or so. It’s the least they could do for Navas.

(I mean, not that the…

I, too, am an Authentic Fan of the successful local sport franchise.