She had to go in as she left all of her files and what not there yesterday (otherwise she could’ve worked from home). Anyway, on her way there she was going through downtown (Duckworth St.) so cars parked everywhere on both sides. The snow was getting pretty intense and the misses driving in front of her stopped to let someone cross the street.
What a fucking idiot.
Mom couldn’t stop the car in time, so ended up hitting the car in front of her. The girl gets out “What the fuck?!” My mom answered “What the fuck is right! What the fuck were you thinking, stopping in a blinding snowstorm to let someone cross the street?!”
Turns out it was a rental car, misses was from out of the province.
Oh my. Stupid, stupid people.
There’s a group on Facebook called “Fuck Off Newfoundland - Leave Our Seals Alone!” that’s trying to “sell” Newfoundland. They have it listed on Kijiji in two different provinces. This is obviously insanely ridiculous. They are saying that it is Newfoundland and only Newfoundland that is hunting the seals when there are other areas (Greenland, Russia, Norway, etc.) that also practice seal hunting. The majority of the hunting though, is from Canadians.
Many people see that one picture of a guy about to hit a seal with a club, and mark it as barbaric, when in fact it is as defensive as it is offensive. Seals are not just a cute little face, they can indeed tear the fucking shit out of you if given the chance.
Jacques Cousteau has criticized the seal hunt protest, and he himself is a marine conservationist. Of course, Cousteau passed in ‘97 and would not have been able to comment on the rising popularity of this protest like in 2006 when Paul McCartney debated with the Premier of Newfoundland (Danny Williams) about the seal hunt. But the fact still stands that he criticized the protest stating:
“The harp seal question is entirely emotional. We have to be logical. We have to aim our activity first to the endangered species. Those who are moved by the plight of the harp seal could also be moved by the plight of the pig - the way they are slaughtered is horrible.”
Anyway, this group isn’t even being civil about it, they are insulting and stereotyping Newfoundlanders and nothing else. Look at the email, office and location on their page. “mooseburger@mooseburger.com”
This group is fucking ridiculous.
I wouldn’t even care about it if they were actually debating this in a civil way, but to simply attack the people of a province that has some people practice seal hunting, is ridiculous.
Dearest Mane,
Can you please please please please PRETTY PLEASE have a cabin party for your birthday this year? Oh and can you please invite me if you do?
Think about it.
I really want to. I don’t remember enough of last year’s. Hopefully I don’t destroy that table this time around.
GPOYW: The “I’m watching Harry Potter and falling asleep and feeling miserable” edition.
Are you sure? I thought it was the “I’m an extremely hairy fag” edition.
hahahaha, I kill myself.
Sorry, my bad.
Does that seem right to you?
Together - The Raconteurs
You and me forever
We belong together
And we’ll always endeavor
Through any type of weather
You want everything to be just like
The stories that you read, but never write
You’ve gotta learn to live and live and learn
You’ve gotta learn to give and wait your turn
Or you’ll get burned
We wrote our names down on the sidewalk
But the rain came and washed them off
So we should write them again on wet cement
So people a long time from now will know what we meant
You want every morning to be just like
The stories that you read, but never write
You’ve gotta learn to live and live and learn
You’ve gotta learn to give and wait your turn
I’m only concerned
I’m adding something new to the mixture
So there’s a different hue to your picture
A different ending to this fairytale
And no sunset into which we sail
You want everything to be just like
The stories that you read, but you can’t write
You’ve gotta learn to live and live and learn
You’ve gotta learn to give and wait your turn
Or you’ll get burned
The way people were talking about it, I was expecting it to be a comedy, not a movie about a comedian. Which, is exactly what it is.
I’m enjoying it.
When they were buying it, I told them it was too small for our room, that a 50” (which actually wasn’t that much more expensive) would be much better and would definitely fit over our fireplace/mantle thing.
Anyway, the asshole we were buying it from was like “No, no, that’s big enough by”. I wanted to smack him. “How do you know what our living room looks like? Do you live there?” Is what was going through my mind. I said whatever. We were getting a good deal with the 40” (TV, bluray player, 3 blurays, surround sound set up and a free few months of HD satellite), so I figured, what the hell, can’t be too bad.
Anyway, when we brought it home, sure enough, we could’ve fit a 50”. I didn’t care anymore at this point. The excitement of a new TV and shit had gotten to me.
Soon we realize they didn’t give us the shit for the free months of HD Satellite and were quite pissed for a while. Eventually we gave up as it took fucking WEEKS for anyone to even show up at our house to install it, and when they got here they couldn’t do it because futurefags (futureshop) didn’t give us the thing we needed.
The plan was to go out to futureshop and ask about it. But eventually we said fuck it (we are very passive aggressive apparently) .
So, a few weeks ago I had my friends up. We decided to hook up the 360 out in the living room as my parents were not there, and hey, HD/surround sound is better than what I have in my room.
Our necks were killing us (this is slightly due to how we have the television on the wall (its flat on it, not angled) and we couldn’t see what was on the go (due to our television is so far away from where the couches are).
I didn’t really care at first, but, I got to thinking about when we first got the TV again and decided to ask my parents if they were happy with the television set-up.
They are not.
They agreed, we could’ve gotten a bigger screen and probably should have. They also agreed that we definitely should’ve gone for the tilted bracket.
Anyway, TL;DR version:
We may be getting a new television set next year and I’m getting the 40”. Today’s lesson: Passive Aggressiveness pays off and Futureshop is really fucking tangly.
I don’t know why I decided to write about this now, I just did.
