Tag: humour
Tattered Sleeve: Top Ten Other Things Andrew Scheer Didn’t Lie About, But Was Never Asked
“I’ve never tried to hide that (I am a dual US-Canadian citizen),” he said in a scrum with reporters in Halifax. “I’ve never been asked about it by Canadians. My father has always been open about where he comes from. I haven’t been asked about it.”–Andrew Scheer 10. Being a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Given The World’s Dire State
… it’s time for a bit of a laugh. Enjoy. Recommend this Post
Continue readingwmtc: thank you megan rapinoe!
I have a list of topics I want to write about, and I’m not finding any time when my brain is working to write. So on this topic I’m taking the easy and totally lame way out and posting a Facebook share. And that’s fine, because no matter how much
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Women: Know Your Limits!
Recommended to me by John Zande. Funny, but less so given the recent uptick in the assault on women’s rights.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How to Avoid the Kiss of Poseidon – Smarter Every Day
Science is *everywhere*. “I was reading a pretty intense paper on Worthington Jets and thought about how awesome it would be to create a video with a Fecal Simulant to relate this scientific phenomenon to every man’s problems. I find Worthington jets fascinating. They are very similar to what’s happinging
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Is Saskatchewan Leaving? Not That Way
If you're not from Saskatchewan you may not realize that no one here talks seriously about separation (from Canada). If we talk about it, it's because the local shock jock on the talk radio is horny for people to talk about it, and we're making fun of people who think
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Video Of The Day
Someone stole a package from me. Police wouldn’t do anything about it so I spent the last 6 months engineering up some vigilante justice. Revenge is a dish best served fabulously. Vid link- https://t.co/9OjD6ETdbZ pic.twitter.com/u4o0doWglr — Mark Rober (@MarkRober) December 18, 2018 I happened upon this video about an engineer
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Videos Of The Day
Busting a scammer: Busting a gut, as someone tries to put gas into a Tesla: Boring a Tunnel: Back in Time, to 1929: Busting your pants: pic.twitter.com/2bZMjC4AaW — Microfrost (@Microfrost_) December 19, 2018
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Banff Is For The Birds
While the family was picking out candy in the shop behind me, I was watching the birds, and the people go by. Then the birds started going, on the people. Bye! Magpie 1, Man’s jacket 0.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ford and Trump and Moe Peas In a Rotten Pod
That movie about the incapable political leadership from the future is actually already here, it won’t take 500 more years. Ontario has their Harper-style Fake News now too https://twitter.com/OntarioNew…/status/1026965194243751936 Some of it is due to this bad man. A host of the Ford videos, Lyndsey Vanstone, presents as a news
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Your Sorting Algorithm Has A Bad Day…
Workable, functional AI seems a touch more in the distance today. 🙂
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Very Model Of A Very Stable Genius
Randy Rainbow updated this song, and it’s genius. Really.
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Girls Just Want to Have Fun…at the Calgary Stampede
“When the working day is done. Oh girls, they wanna have fun.”—Cyndi Lauper After a rough few weeks Ms Soapbox and her family dug out their cowboy hats, found some denim shirts and went stampeding. Ms Soapbox decided to retrace the steps of the all-time Stampede champion, Premier Rachel Notley,
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Attack Ad: Yes or No?
Just for the record progressive voters really don’t care where Jason Kenney lived when he served in Harper’s government or whether he visited Alberta often enough or whether he’s using Alberta as a stepping stone in his quest for the Prime Minister’s office. What progressives care about is Kenney’s track
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Paris!
Ms Soapbox and her daughter have gone to Paris for a week. Take good care of the province and the country until we get back. What pops into your mind when you see this: Louvre or Da Vinci Code?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “That’s their business, not Canada’s”
Is Jim Carr, Minister of Screwing Up Industry talking about Bombardier or Kinder Morgan? It’s a trick question, he said that about both. Last year McParland wrote the following hilarity that he got so very wrong: The most ludicrous assertion offered in the wake of TransCanada’s announcement was Natural Resources
Continue readingScripturient: Brian’s new campaign slogan
Brian Saunderson needs a new campaign slogan, now he’s officially filed papers in his ill-fated race to become mayor against the hard-working, well-liked, ethical, community-minded, former police chief, John Trude. It’s not good enough for Brian to run on his slogans from last election – “I’ll Show ‘Em Who’s Boss!”,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bridge For Sale
Government Buys The Bridge. size / dimensions: 36″ Diameter; 980 Km long For sale: one pipeline project, in fair condition. Comes with federal approval. (subject to 15 legal challenges, but it’ll be fine). Also comes with a vintage 1950s pipeline. The vintage pipeline is a handyman’s dream project. It has been
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