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Category Archives: Stupidity plain and simple
French is merely a dialect in France
It is now official.
According to Mario Dumont, leader of an opposition party, the language spoken in France is merely a dialect and not an “official” language in the Province of Quebec because
his children were unable to understand the Parisian dialect used in the French version of Shrek the Third. — globeandmail.com
Unfortunately for M. Dumont, the “dialect” that he fears – whether French or English – will limit for generations the ready participation of Quebec citizens in local and world events. Isolation, whether practiced by language in this case, or formerly by religion, can’t be a good thing in the long run.
Keeping them down on the farm keeps them ignorant. But then, that’s the way – whether it be past or present – Quebec has always liked to keep its citizens.
Link to Montreal Gazette article here.
You’re mine for life
Updated May 13, 2010: The Phoenix NewTimes has a more recent article.
Updated March 10, 2010. Go here for a current article from the blog ars technica.
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Remember seeing this? Have you heard the commercial on xmradio?
That guy has a smug smile on his face because he’s taking money from people who believe that he can protect their identity.
Well, I’ve got news for you. He can’t, according to a class action lawsuit. In fact, that guy’s identity has been stolen — using just that information — more than 20 times.
Canadian health care is tough!
Oh yes it is!
An 82-year-old man, a recipient of open-heart surgery and breathing oxygen while in his hospital bed, was tasered three times by the ever-omniscient RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in British Columbia.
…officers resorted to taser use as a last resort, even attempting to knock the knife out of the man’s hand with a food cart.” — RCMP Cpl. Scott Wilson
A freaking food cart? There were two officers in the room. Perhaps it took that many to lift the cart. I would have thought a blanket or a pillow would have been sufficient, but then I’m no RCMP constable. Thank goodness. Because then I’d have to admit to being a big, dumb ox.
Why, you ask? Well, it seems that the 82-year-old heart patient suffering from pneumonia was claiming that there was a dead man in the next bed. The big, dumb oxen — otherwise known as RCMP constables — didn’t even bother to check on the man in the next bed, who was sleeping. Rather, they chose to taser their chosen victim, since pepper spray couldn’t be used for fear of contaminating the entire hospital
Superintendent Jim Begley, head of the Kamloops RCMP, said yesterday that he believes his officers acted properly. — globeandmail.com, Anna Mehler Paperny
It looks to me as though their CO is a big, dumb ox also.
Link to article here.
Recently, at the Vancouver airport, another individual was tasered by oxen, resulting in his death.
Canada, eh? No hand washing allowed
Yet another disgusting and ridiculous ruling by a human rights commission has been shat upon us, this time regarding the washing of hands in a restaurant.
It seems that if an employee is unable for whatever reason to wash one’s hands, such employee may still continue to serve and dispense food to customers. Notwithstanding the latest hospital directives for visitors and everyone else to wash their hands to prevent the spread of disease and pestilence, apparently in British Columbia, courtesy of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, one is not required by law to wash their hands while serving food in a restaurant.
So then, apparently this hand-washing fetish that Lister so wisely promoted in the 19th century has become obsolete. Who could have known that a human rights commission and the fount of knowledge contained within its board members could prove so convincingly that hand-washing is not required to prevent the spread of disease?
Link here.
China handcuffs the world…
in more ways than one.
Toilet paper cheque is flushed
It must have been a FlushabyeTM. Or not.
An upstate New York man embroiled in a dispute over his water bill is not being allowed to pay off his debt with a check written on toilet paper. — msnbc.com from AP
Link to article here.