WTF? … I felt like I did drugs … without doing any drugs.

That was amazing … disturbing … funny … disturbing … neat … disturbing … interesting … disturbing … did I mention disturbing?

Does that go in the cornhole?

whhhhhirrlllllllll … plink, plink … AHH, MY TEETH (in some Asian language)

I don’t know … but I think they are now

That was the thing with these old heavy CRTs … they could take a beating … they could also give a beating.

In 2000, at around the point when most well off people were transitioning to flat panel TVs, I inherited a large 32" CRT from a friend of mine. They were upgrading and wanted to get rid of their old CRT.

I said I’d take it and use it for my treadmill so I could watch TV while I walked.

The thing weighed 100lbs!!! I had to build a reinforced stand to lift it up in the air and I nearly killed myself hoisting it up and having it nearly fall on me multiple times! And the thing took up so much room … I think it occupied almost the same amount of floor space as the treadmill.

The dangerous thing about these things is that they were big and lopsided … it’s like lifting a huge kettle ball but all the weight of the ball is only on one side and the rest of it is empty air. It was really easy to just drop the thing because you lost balance with it. Or even worse, throw your back and some muscle because you were trying to save it from falling over while you held it.

Driving everything to crisis levels … then the US government will try to save everyone from absolute ruin

But none of them admit that it was the stupid fascist US government that caused all of this to happen in the first place!

Just because they have mandatory French in Canada … doesn’t mean that people go on to learn the language. I’m in northern Ontario among a lot of Francophones. Lots of people went through school around me that had French but they went through the programs and never bothered to learn beyond that and then forgot it all as adults because their families looked down at the French language and French culture.

Many people don’t get to go to post secondary school unless you or your family have a bit of wealth … so they don’t bother learning another language for any reason. So being poor and from an anglocentric culture that looks down at other enthnicities usually ends up with people not learning or wanting to learn another language.

The sad part is that I’m Indigenous Canadian … my first language is Ojibway/Cree, it was the first language I learned and spoke fluently until I was about ten years of age - I learned English in school but it was more or less a foreign language to me until later in life. The sad part is that this was all about 40 years ago and now the majority of people being born into my family almost all of them speak only English and know little of our Ojibway language.

When you are poor and don’t have the means … you almost have no choice but to get stuck in one language because you don’t have the time, energy or resources to have the luxury to learn another language and poverty has the double edged sword of taking away any language you or your family already had.

How many languages do you speak?

Most North Americans are shocked that a human can learn more than one language

A glacial ice sheet has formed over Highway 17 and it is now 100 feet deep and compacting at the bottom into solid ice … all animal life is freezing to death in the minus 60 degree weather … but if you’re careful, you can still make it to Walmart before closing

Unless your grandma was Marie Curie

I’m in northern Ontario and no matter how terrible and blinding snow it is outside … we’ll still have people on social media in our area asking things like … ‘How are the highways today? I want to go to Walmart’

It will be rain, sleet, snow, solid ice on the highway, blinding snow, no visibility and there will always be a dozen people asking … ‘How are the roads? We need to get to grandma’s for a party’

I happen to be one of the people who weren’t severely affected by the virus but I chose to instead believe I was superhuman … and I went on to infect 400 people, 100 of which died because of me.

ASS HOLA MIO!!! OH SODEM-MIA!!!

Can’t find a duck … but I see your mom … and my neighbor

The dumb part is that the world has gotten to the point of allowing Nazism into our collective conversation again.

Hunger is a normal part of life … I keep trying to remind myself of that

Just because you are hungry, it doesn’t mean that you are starving or dying … sometimes it’s just your dumb greedy biological system wanting to eat everything in sight because it still thinks that you live in the African savanna and there’s no food around.

I grew up poor and as a kid, hunger was just a normal part of life. We weren’t starving, mom and dad gave us enough nutrition every day to be comfortable but not to live in complete luxury where we could eat any time we wanted. I remember wanting snacks during the day and there were none … so you just drank some hot tea to satisfy the craving and then went on with your day. By the time we were teens, we were lean, built and none of my friends were overweight (this was in the 80s and early 90s). It wasn’t until we all had free access to cheap snacks and sugar water that we all started having problems with our weight. I’m middle aged now and I constantly have to battle my urge to want to eat any and everything in sight.

The best part of this comment is that I’m snacking on a tube of pringles as I’m writing this.

I’d rather vote for these robots instead

Usually when I meet people who say they travelled to Europe … I’ll ask them a million questions about what they did there, what they saw, what they thought about it, the food, the weather, the people … which places did they go? what are your recommendations? what did you like? what did you not like? any weird things that happened? any great things that happened?

It’s usually a source of a ton of information.

Hell of a lot better conversation starter than to ask the person what they’ve done in the small town you’ve both lived in all your lives and know every single detail about.