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Mark Twain warned us about politicians a long time ago. Once in office, they just help themselves to your money.

I mean, for me if I'm at anything but fine dining, I'm expecting to pay $16-21 for a modest meal - something like a specialty burger and fries. And I'm expecting to pay under $10 for a true pint of beer to go with it. And basically if the bill comes to under $40 with tip I'm probably not...

Dead opposite here. Everyone in the house had their first two shots. Two weeks after the first one, I got the Coov, then again every couple of months for most of the following year. Just a few days for most of them. In all, I've had Covid 5 times and the first four times were with the...

Maybe. This got a genuine laugh out of me... haha This is why I'm buying top sirloin, Picanha whenever I get a chance. Relatively inexpensive and done right, tastes great. I like rib steaks much more, but not at twice the price. I like reverse sear, 20 mins @ 275 and then sear on cast iron...

I had a caesar wrap with fries and two 8-oz beers at my gig on Friday night. Cost me $48 with tip. Every time I eat out now, I find myself thinking that I'm being an idiot. Good thing the wife and I have really stepped up our game in the kitchen after Covid. I've got a top sirloin steak, a...

Heck, I take 5000.

Seasonal affective disorder. Really common in the colder climes. Mine also goes away when I'm in a warmer clime.

I've had what the KGH calls "the 100 day cough" and on week 7 now. It's nowhere near as bad as the first two weeks, but I'm still coughing up a cheesesteak hoagie at least twice a day.

Oooh ... let me guess. Are the initials MI? Probably not, he's usually more respectful of the rules. But...

Vass Bednar gave a fantastic presentation at our (CanWISP) conference last week in Gatineau and I can't recommend this book enough even though I have some political disagreements with it. It's just impressive. The Big Fix - Denise Hearn & Vass Bednar

I was a kid with extended Smith's Falls family in the Choice; they let us hang around and no harm would ever come to us or there'd be war. And I was there as a kid in Prince Edward County when they went to Mercer's house in limousines and signed over their patches to the Hell's Angels (not sure...

Excellent book and a reference for years, perhaps.

I watched Nosferatu the other day. I liked the extreme creepiness and relative simplicity of it, but it still doesn't "beat" Coppola's Dracula. The idea of an ugly, disgusting vampire does probably fit better with the original concept of them. And man, the story about the original movie and...

Yeah, I really wanted the tech pack for my 1290R after the first 850km of riding (then straight to Deal's Gap). I just like having a quickshifter and having tried the bike without any traction control, I can tell you that it needs some. A super duke will spin that tire everywhere if you're on...

The Gorge was watchable. Katherine and I felt it was a "turn your brain off and just watch" kind of movie for the most part. It felt like a 90s movie to me, if that makes any sense. Now, Section 31, both of us noped out on it about 15 minutes in. K is a major ST fan and we suffered through...

The SDTC scandal is what is holding up Parliament right now. If that gets blown open, I won't be surprised to find a billion dollars or more that were diverted to businesses owned by Liberal MPs and their friends/family/supporters. As it stands right now, they found nearly $500M that...

SNC Lavelin itself also has a part of this, whether they reported that because of the subsidiary or not, I don't know.

Yep, that was me. Lots of burning pain the second time around. I listened to Joe Perry's audiobook that he wrote about Aerosmith to get me through it. My eyes stayed dry for a few months and then stopped... sometimes though, I wake up in the morning and they feel "scratchy" even a decade later.

My first pass didn't take. The second time around is a LOT more painful. They have to peel your half-healed eye flap back again, and man ... like being stabbed in the eyes for day, and got to keep yourself lying on your back for a week. Point being, when I got the "bandage contacts" out, I...

OK wow... I just did a bit of a dive into this high speed rail: $4B estimated cost to JUST plan and "develop," then the actual construction can be started - 5 years from now (probably more) and with a total estimated cost of $80B. Now, ask yourself why I originally posted on this thinking that...