Visual Allergy, I hope this is fake.

[undercoverbrother]

http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/20...ual-allergies/

Heard this on the radio today, audio on the link.

Emily Stuart is a third-year student at the University of Nanaimo who claims she suffers from "visual allergies." She is currently in a legal battle with her school because of their failure to provide visual allergy friendly "zones" like they do for people who suffer from food or scent allergies. According to Ms. Stuart and her legal team, these spaces would prohibited the presence of patterns, tall people, the colour mauve, and other sights that cause her to have allergic reactions.

[Brannigans Law]

Is it April 1st? No? FML.

[Knut]

University of

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Hesla

University of

reckon you are right

[ricosuave]

all the 'stories' on that page look fake. like some sort of social experiment

[getbak]

http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/about/

This Is That is a current affairs program that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them. Nothing is off limits--politics, business, culture, justice, science, religion--if it is relevant to Canadians, we'll find out the "This" and the "That" of the story.

Each week, hosts Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring introduce you to the voices and stories that give this country character in this 100% improvised, satirical send-up of public radio.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

reckon you are right

Haha. Was going to comment and got sidetracked. Must have hit send by accident. I will leave it as is.

[Canuck-Hater]

Its all comedic satire/absurdity. This is That isn't real, I was also confused the first time I listened to this program.

As soon as I saw "University of Nanaimo" I knew it was fake. It's called Malaspina University.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

As soon as I saw "University of Nanaimo" I knew it was fake. It's called Malaspina University.

I can see Malaspina from my kitchen, that's Strait.

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by Hesla

Haha. Was going to comment and got sidetracked. Must have hit send by accident. I will leave it as is.

... and I thought it was some sort of optical illusion from our resident optometrist.

[CaptainCrunch]

I'm waiting for the first person to sue their workplace because they claim they're allergic to fat woman and wins.

[FlamesAddiction]

My sister-in-law gets itchy when she sees certain patterns. Two occasions in particular were when we went to see the snow geese and the site of row after row of geese made her so itchy, she couldn't keep looking. The other time was when we were watching the movie "Chicken Run" and the pattern of the feathers on the chicken's butts made her itchy.

[doctajones428]

Ugh.

This reminds me of a teacher from a few towns over, she's allergic to the particles released when peeling an orange, so now the entire school of 200 can only bring in oranges if they are already peeled. The same applies for grapes. No peeling of the oranges and zero grapes for 200 some people because of one person

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by doctajones428

Ugh.

This reminds me of a teacher from a few towns over, she's allergic to the particles released when peeling an orange, so now the entire school of 200 can only bring in oranges if they are already peeled. The same applies for grapes. No peeling of the oranges and zero grapes for 200 some people because of one person

Peeling grapes aren't we posh!

[handgroen]

this is that is one of the best comedies going right now. would strongly recommend the podcast. best part of the show is the little filler drops. "Canada, better with a buzz. this. is. that."