Canada from Eh to Zed

[Keroin]

Iceland wants to go Loony.

Shhhhhhhhhhh! Don't give away our plans!

Look into the Loony. You know you want it.

 

[Keroin]

 

[Sir_Winston54]

That's somewhat disturbing, I think because of the color motif and the slight appearance of grim-faced goose-stepping troopers...

Especially since I just read that Canada is now considering more mandatory prison time for people who grow marijuana than for those who molest children. Where is Harper's sense of proportion?

 

[Keroin]

That's somewhat disturbing, I think because of the color motif and the slight appearance of grim-faced goose-stepping troopers...

Especially since I just read that Canada is now considering more mandatory prison time for people who grow marijuana than for those who molest children. Where is Harper's sense of proportion?

Harper's an ass. (Did not vote for him).

It's very hard to make a moose look sinister but this artist managed it. And I love the squadron of geese! "We will descend upon your soccer fields and carpet bomb them with our large turds!"

The image is hysterical precisely because it's so NOT Canada.

 

[Keroin]

Harper 2012?

ARRRRRRGH!!!!

Some days you just want to punch someone.

http://thecanadian.org/item/1375-stephen-harper-gutting-fisheries-act-habitat-salmon-rafe-mair

(Punch politely, but...punch.)

 

[DVS]

This, in Canada?

 

[ruby_my_dear]

what concerns me most

Riots such as the one covered in DVS' post are embarrassing but basically come down to the stupidity of a handful drunk students too young and stupid to know better.

The post before and the many many other examples like it are what scares the crap out of me about living in Canada right now.

 

[DVS]

http://www*****isajoke.com/Pictures/dog_sign.jpg
I guess dogs in Canada can read signs?

 

[Keroin]

http://www*****isajoke.com/Pictures/dog_sign.jpg
I guess dogs in Canada can read signs?

We do have a stellar education system here.

 

[Rawhide_101]

http://www*****isajoke.com/Pictures/dog_sign.jpg
I guess dogs in Canada can read signs?

Only seeing-eye dogs . . .

 

[Evil_Geoff]

A quick note

Just one request... Would our neighbours to the north (see, I used the "u" in neighbours! I pay attention!) be so kind as to find some way to muzzle Wulf/Bobby/BLoved? He's off his chain again, and being a bother over on FetLife. I know that many of you are not using that service, but it is hosted on Canadian servers and the owner is a mighty Canuck. So I appeal to you in the spirit of international cooperation to do something. Perhaps several years of corner time? Or maybe a long vacation to Vuntut National Park?

And whenever y'all feel the driving need to invade some poor country half-way around the world, you know we Américains will have your back! (See! I used the French spelling for "Americans" because I'm all multi-cultural like that, respecting the Québécois too, and shit.) That's what Allies are for, after all. It would hardly be cricket if we left you hanging out to dry.

Thank you, my Canadian friends! OH! And do you know any good places to get poutine down in North Carolina? I feel so much closer to Canada since I'm living in a state that has "North" in its name.

 

[Keroin]

 

[Keroin]

Geoff, sorry I missed this. Sorry, sorry, thank you, have a nice day! OK, as Canada's Unofficial Lit Ambassador, let me see what I can do about all this.

Just one request... Would our neighbours to the north (see, I used the "u" in neighbours! I pay attention!) be so kind as to find some way to muzzle Wulf/Bobby/BLoved? He's off his chain again, and being a bother over on FetLife. I know that many of you are not using that service, but it is hosted on Canadian servers and the owner is a mighty Canuck. So I appeal to you in the spirit of international cooperation to do something. Perhaps several years of corner time? Or maybe a long vacation to Vuntut National Park?

Ah, good old BLoved. Hopefully you have driven him off with flaming torches and pick axes by now but if you haven't please let me know and we'll send in a Canadian seal team to take him out.

And by 'seal team' I mean, um, you know...seals.

And by "take him out" I mean take him out with CUTENESS!!

He'll be putty in our hands.

~smiles~

And whenever y'all feel the driving need to invade some poor country half-way around the world, you know we Américains will have your back! (See! I used the French spelling for "Americans" because I'm all multi-cultural like that, respecting the Québécois too, and shit.) That's what Allies are for, after all. It would hardly be cricket if we left you hanging out to dry.

Ooooo! I vote for the Bahamas! I will start packing my sunscreen and fishing rods!

(Bahamas, you know what you did. Yes you do. *stares pointedly*)

Thank you, my Canadian friends! OH! And do you know any good places to get poutine down in North Carolina? I feel so much closer to Canada since I'm living in a state that has "North" in its name.

You are welcome. And thank you for thanking us!

I cannot help you with poutine, alas. I do not eat foods that sound like "poo". But for living in a state with "North" in the name, I will send you a crate of maple syrup, eh!

Thank you!

 

[JMohegan]

Very odd choice of art for your public libraries up there.

 

[Dianthus]

Very odd choice of art for your public libraries up there.

"I didn't know Stephen Harper had a dog," said one 10-year-old boy, when asked what he thought of the painting.

 

[JMohegan]

"I didn't know Stephen Harper had a dog," said one 10-year-old boy, when asked what he thought of the painting.

Apparently, he's really a cat man. First thing I've heard in a long time that makes me think less of Canada. This guy is running the country!

 

[Dianthus]

Apparently, he's really a cat man. First thing I've heard in a long time that makes me think less of Canada. This guy is running the country!

I know. It helps keep us humble. Or something.

 

[Keroin]

Apparently, he's really a cat man. First thing I've heard in a long time that makes me think less of Canada. This guy is running the country!

That's the first thing about Stephen Harper that's actually made me smile.

What a douche bag. (No, I did not vote for that party )

 

[Keroin]

"I didn't know Stephen Harper had a dog," said one 10-year-old boy, when asked what he thought of the painting.

*snort*

 

[waaitg]

Very odd choice of art for your public libraries up there.

From the article:

Titled Emperor Haute Couture, the portrait hanging in a Kingston, Ont., public library shows a full monty Stephen Harper, leaning back on a chaise lounge chair surrounded by a doting team with a terrier at his feet, about to sip a steaming Tim Hortons coffee.

“We were pretty upset when we saw the painting,” David Morelli, spokesman for Tim Hortons, told QMI Agency. “We'd never flip the tab on a hot coffee before serving a naked customer. Obvious safety hazard.”

Members of Parliament were equally stern.

“It's probably the only double-double in the picture,” said Liberal MP Scott Brison. “Nudes have been part of art for hundreds of years, so I don't find the painting morally offensive. Perhaps aesthetically offensive. This is a case where we need a Conservative cover-up.”

The artist's agent, Mary Sue Rankin, said one federal government ministry — she wouldn't say which one — contacted her with an offer to buy the painting.

Brison said he doesn't care who buys it. “I am sure it will be well hung somewhere.”

Even the Prime Minister’s Office piped in on the painting on Twitter.

“We're not impressed. Everyone knows the PM is a cat person,” said Andrew MacDougall, Harper's director of Communications.

I think it is quintessentially Canadian. Can you imagine the same type of reaction from the US equivalents?

 

[Keroin]

I think it is quintessentially Canadian. Can you imagine the same type of reaction from the US equivalents?

I think JM was being a little...tongue in cheek. That's my guess anyway.


But, yeah, my writing partner (a Texan) made the same comment. He said he shuddered to think what the US reaction would be to something like that, lol.

 

[midwestyankee]

I think JM was being a little...tongue in cheek. That's my guess anyway.


But, yeah, my writing partner (a Texan) made the same comment. He said he shuddered to think what the US reaction would be to something like that, lol.

In fact, there's a perfect example of this: the painting of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington called Mirth and Girth. The painting, which was put on display at the Art Institute of Chicago (not a tiny little gallery, btw), showed the then recently deceased mayor dressed only in underwear more commonly worn by women. Several city officials objected very strenuously and, I should add, rather embarrassingly for anyone who believes that the First Amendment actually applies to all of us.

Here's the whole story.

 

[JMohegan]

In fact, there's a perfect example of this: the painting of former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington called Mirth and Girth. The painting, which was put on display at the Art Institute of Chicago (not a tiny little gallery, btw), showed the then recently deceased mayor dressed only in underwear more commonly worn by women. Several city officials objected very strenuously and, I should add, rather embarrassingly for anyone who believes that the First Amendment actually applies to all of us.

Here's the whole story.

Nelson is a fucking asshole.

Free speech means he's got the right to paint whatever grotesquely insulting trash he wants to, at whatever obscenely inappropriate time it strikes him to paint it. But shame on the Art Institute of Chicago for displaying that shit.

 

[JMohegan]

From the article:



I think it is quintessentially Canadian. Can you imagine the same type of reaction from the US equivalents?

There would be no reaction, because no public library in this country would put a painting of a public official's genitals on the wall.

I don't have a negative reaction to the painting itself, but I do find the chosen venue curious. Apparently they keep taking it down when school groups visit! Seems a bit inconvenient, to say the least.

 

[waaitg]

As someone has mentioned to me in the past, Canada has always come across as the US's younger brother who happens to be likable and laid back.

The older I get, the more apt this seems to me.