12-01-2012, 11:43 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Visual Allergy, I hope this is fake.
http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/blog/20...ual-allergies/
Heard this on the radio today, audio on the link.
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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.
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12-01-2012, 11:47 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Calgary AB
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Is it April 1st? No? FML.
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12-01-2012, 11:51 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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Originally Posted by Hesla
University of
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reckon you are right
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12-01-2012, 12:14 PM
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Threadkiller
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: 51.0544° N, 114.0669° W
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all the 'stories' on that page look fake. like some sort of social experiment
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12-01-2012, 12:17 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/about/
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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.
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12-01-2012, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
reckon you are right
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Haha. Was going to comment and got sidetracked. Must have hit send by accident. I will leave it as is.
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12-01-2012, 01:56 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Its all comedic satire/absurdity. This is That isn't real, I was also confused the first time I listened to this program.
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12-01-2012, 01:59 PM
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As soon as I saw "University of Nanaimo" I knew it was fake. It's called Malaspina University.
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12-01-2012, 02:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Originally Posted by Puxlut
As soon as I saw "University of Nanaimo" I knew it was fake. It's called Malaspina University.
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I can see Malaspina from my kitchen, that's Strait.
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12-01-2012, 03:34 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Hesla
Haha. Was going to comment and got sidetracked. Must have hit send by accident. I will leave it as is.
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... and I thought it was some sort of optical illusion from our resident optometrist.
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12-01-2012, 06:34 PM
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Norm!
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I'm waiting for the first person to sue their workplace because they claim they're allergic to fat woman and wins.
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12-01-2012, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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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.
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Last edited by FlamesAddiction; 12-01-2012 at 07:30 PM.
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12-02-2012, 12:53 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fort St. John, BC
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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
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12-02-2012, 11:25 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sylvan Lake
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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
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Peeling grapes aren't we posh!
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12-02-2012, 12:18 PM
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First Line Centre
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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."
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