So, by “electro” I guess you meant electronica? Like, doesn’t electro still properly refer to electro-funk in the vein of Zapp and Roger? Like, Duff doing that would have been interesting. This, while not bad, is less so.

Maybe the difference is I was living in Calgary during my time in Canada and I basically just heard from a lot of homesick BCers.

Ah. I’m in aviation. Saw the mention of having a commercial airport and assumed.

Yeah, this makes perfect sense to me. A reminder of mortality can remove hesitation.

You’re in the middle of Saskatchewan. Like, where would they even drive it to?

I’ve only visited, but I’ve only heard the “Hongcouver” label used affectionately. That you’re describing otherwise is intriguing.

It’s Michigan, dude. It’s got problems, but at this point if ISIS themselves showed up and said they were going to fix Detroit, people might be inclined to let them give it a shot.

Nonrev commuter I take it? Pilot? FA?

Yeah, in the daytime Calgary’s definitely warmer than Minneapolis, and I imagine Southern ON patterns like Buffalo or Detroit.

As a Minnesotan who spent two years in Calgary, I mean, to an extent, but Canada turns it up to 11. I definitely had culture shock. There’s a politeness/shame culture that’s really more like East Asia than like the US, and in a lot of other ways (the secularism, the social democratic ethos) Canada can come off very…

I washed out. It’s harder than it sounds. Couldn’t find “skilled work” after my two years of grad school up in Calgary. Would have loved to stay.

Expect more culture shock than you’d think, though. The politeness stuff, it’s like Japan with white people.

Exactly. It’s about impostor syndrome.

It’s like a cosplay convention for people who aren’t nerds.

Ah, so it’s the usual smear campaign. May She forgive me for doubting Her.

Welcome to the Internet

She’s been thirtyish for like my entire life and I’m 27. I don’t understand it at all.

I guess I wasn’t under the impression that charitable giving was a common practice in the douchebag community.

I’m usually the first to defend her, but like, does she know Bryant is a rapist?

This. That’s not to say the racism isn’t out of control now, but it’s not like they softballed Bill. That’s an incredibly revisionist take. For you 18 year olds out there, the Lewinsky era, the GOP was trying hard to sell it as the new Watergate.

I mean, this is showing my naivete, but I thought he was supposed to be a good guy, all about donating to Africa and stuff?