12-19-2022, 05:20 PM
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#521
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I'm seeing more of it in the psychedelic space than I would have expected.
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12-19-2022, 05:39 PM
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#522
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Apr 2015
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Worked for a company recently that refinished cabinets and other interior millwork in some of the more upscale parts of town and the Q follower nutcase foreman we had found more than a few fellow travelers to banter about it with among that set. Again, anecdotal and all but it seems like this isn't an x class or y profession. It's everywhere.
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12-20-2022, 06:53 AM
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#523
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by #-3
purely anecdotally again, I know a guy who is a contractor visiting business's, got the first shot so they would let him in to do his work, Wife told him he was out if he got the second shot.
They somehow navigated the waters. But basically choosing between being removed from his work place and the crazy BS his wife got into, tough place to be sitting.
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Sounds like he should divorce his wife.
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12-20-2022, 08:01 AM
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#524
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Retired
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I work in a white collar office and I never hear it from staff but I consistently hear convoy/fake vax talk from the blue collar office movers who are shifting furniture around.
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Anecdotal as well...
I went to the lab the other day to get some bloodwork done and everyone was wearing masks, because it's still required in a healthcare setting for obvious reasons. There was about 30 or so of us in the waiting room. A woman in her 40's came in and refused to wear a mask, and she made a big scene of it and got into it with the workers at the lab. She kept telling the rest of us in the waiting room tom "be strong" and stand up for our rights. Anyways, her actions inspired 3 other people to take their own masks off in the waiting room. These 3 people then carried on a long conversation about the "plandemic", "rights", Trudeau, WEF, etc. It was gross to watch and I felt awful for the workers who had to deal with this BS.
Also, there are still plenty of vehicles around me with the Convoy "swag" on their vehicles. (Canadian flags on hockey sticks, F Trudeau stickers/flags, "Member of a small fringe minority" stickers, etc.)
Last edited by b1crunch; 12-20-2022 at 08:09 AM.
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12-20-2022, 08:03 AM
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#525
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Retired
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Last edited by b1crunch; 12-20-2022 at 08:06 AM.
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12-20-2022, 08:06 AM
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#526
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Retired
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12-20-2022, 08:47 AM
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#527
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: North America
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12-20-2022, 09:10 AM
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#528
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Retired
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Originally Posted by Yoho
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Here is the list since 1946 of newsmakers.
https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pm...ear-since-1946
Some notables:
2021: The children who did not come home from residential schools
2019: Jody Wilson-Raybould, politician
2018: Humboldt Broncos hockey team
2017: Gord Downie, musician
2016: Gord Downie, musician
2014: Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, slain soldiers
2013: Rob Ford, politician
2012: Luka Rocco Magnotta, killer
2010: Russell Williams, sex killer
The recent picks on the list seem to focus on tragedies or wrongs in our society. So, the Convoy is right up there with serial killers, a crack smoking mayor, the death of a beloved Canadian icon, the tragic death of a hockey team, a scandal for the PM, terrorist acts that involved the deaths of Canadian soldiers and the tragedy of residential schools.
So yeah, the Convoy was a tragedy for Canadian society. Great insight Yoho! You continue to marvel us with your wisdom. lol
It should go without saying that just because something is 'news making' doesn't mean it was positive for society.
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12-20-2022, 09:14 AM
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#529
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Looooooooooooooch
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Originally Posted by Yoho
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And about to be repeated in 2023! Let's gooo!
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12-20-2022, 10:26 AM
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#530
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Yoho
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Or you 25,000 times from your basement in Siberia.
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12-20-2022, 11:07 AM
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#531
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by Yoho
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Must be blue collar who voted? What are you even saying? You do understand that newsmaker of the year is not like an award for best person/people of the year, right? 
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12-20-2022, 11:08 AM
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#532
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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Other than the media spectacle have there been any long term ramifications?
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12-20-2022, 12:56 PM
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#533
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by jayswin
Must be blue collar who voted? What are you even saying? You do understand that newsmaker of the year is not like an award for best person/people of the year, right? |
Are you trying to say 1938, 1939 and 1942 Time "Persons of the Year" weren't the best people? 
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12-20-2022, 12:59 PM
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#534
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Other than the media spectacle have there been any long term ramifications?
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I would argue that leadership changes in both the CPC and UCP were accelerated by the convoy/blockades and the Reform/Wildrose wings of each party. The replacements have moved each party farther to the right and deeper into conspiracies, populism, and freedumb libertarianism. Key ingredients of the convoy.
The shift is a global phenomenon, of course, and things were trending in that direction since each party "unified" the right. But I think that the pandemic culminating in the convoy/blockades signals the point where the CPC and UCP went from trying to contain the fringe as useful idiots, to both parties being consumed by it.
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02-13-2023, 05:56 PM
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#536
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Cape Breton Island
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Holy #### this guy is ####ing loony tunes
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02-13-2023, 05:57 PM
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#537
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Faust
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I am not even going to click on that in the vain attempt to determine if there was any context because it doesnt really matter.
That guy has taken far too many hits to the head.
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02-13-2023, 06:01 PM
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#538
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Red Deer
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That one could land him in hot water.
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02-13-2023, 06:04 PM
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#539
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Scoring Winger
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It was a response to this tweet:
Julia Loon @BambinoJalapeno
Calgary mayor threatens to fine protesters after drag event cancelled
City will leverage street harassment bylaw for ‘hate-motivated’ protests
https://twitter.com/bambinojalapeno/...927901702?s=21
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02-13-2023, 06:15 PM
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#540
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by Faust
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Yup, that’s mental illness buying into online nonsense alright.
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