That's how it was for me in Ontario as well, pretty much word for word. Except that the lunch ladies in high school made a pretty great poutine until the school changed course and contracted out with Aramark for my senior year. Then it all went to shit.

He was so consistently fantastic that even his small role in Punch Drunk Love is worth of mention. He turned the Mattress Man into one hell of a villain. He was so good.

I think he's pretty clearly being sarcastic.

Not sure why this double posted.

Someone had the idea on Shark Tank to sell an alarm clock that woke you up with cooking bacon. It wasn't a successful pitch.

I know the rivalry was heated, I'm an Avs fan. Your son's loss really, an Avs jersey with Roy's number on the back would be a pretty awesome gift.

I don't get it. Did he not actually like the Avs? Was he just trying to rile you, and you called his bluff?

It's one of the few days they're guaranteed off work... so the answer to that is to make sure there's increased demand for more people to have to work on that holiday to serve them. How self-absorbed could such a hypothetical person be? Nearly everyone who gets Christmas off "guaranteed" doesn't work 7 days a week…

I don't actively celebrate Christmas and don't participate too much in it because my family is in another country and spouse's very limited family is across the country. But I'm also capable of staying home for a day rather than trying to ruin the Christmas of service workers who (statistically) likely celebrate…

It might vary depending on the student, but this is certainly the case for me. I went to a university that included 'free' e-texts of the same expensive Pearson published textbooks that cost $200 a pop. I had to go out and buy text versions of them anyway because little was being retained. I can read fun stuff on my…

The school I work at has those Chrome computers for the kids at the middle school level and has them do a lot of their work on Google Drive. The students have their own individual accounts that the teacher has admin access over and can share assignments for them to complete in Docs or Presentation or whatever. Not…

My birthday is in late November, and it still got roped in with Christmas (and I was born/raised in Canada so it wasn't a case of Thanksgiving overshadowing it either). My brother's birthday is in early January, and it was always the same thing. "You just got things for Christmas."

Need is a pretty far reaching term. I am solidly middle class and have no particular health issues, but I don't want kids. I am not going to go through a 9 month pregnancy as a busy teacher, affecting my ability to do my job and my health, and have the whispers told about me because I gave the kid up for adoption.…

Sometimes people in Pittsburgh shit directly in buckets and then throw it out behind their house. Psycho drug addict ex-marine who lived across the road from me used to do that because the plumbing was fucked in the house, so they just shit in buckets and threw it outside. Good times.

Education should be funded at the state and federal levels, absolutely, with the goal of equal funding. But even if there was equal funding per student, middle class and rich parents would still flee any school districts with 'too many' poor kids.

Yeah, because only white people get cancer (and all white women are rich or middle class soccer moms), and only people of colour use WIC or other similar programs. Every individual matters, this woman matters, and someone of any colour dying of an extremely rare cancer who cannot get treatment anywhere else is more…

Thanks for perpetuating the stereotype that teaching degrees are attained by the lower achievers among us out there, and that the profession is full of morons. Please get out of my profession. Thanks.

African elephant populations are vulnerable due to poaching, the ivory trade, cunts like this, and habitat loss. Asian elephants are endangered. In short, shut up.

No, but depending on income, they might get enough of a subsidy to be able to afford something (especially if they're young) or might be eligible for expanded Medicaid.

No. Penn Hills. So technically not "Pittsburgh" but a first-ring suburb. Not the nicest part of Penn Hills either, though to a lot of people around here, all of Penn Hills is bad due to the school district, if nothing else. I used to live in Knoxville/Mt. Oliver though, and really had no problems there either other…