Steve Fanning

Canada does corporate collusion really well I'm afraid.

Dear Canadian journalists, it's spelled "defence", not "defense", "centre", not "center", etc., etc. All you need to do is change the default settings on your phone and computer from "US English" to "Canadian English", ask a kid if you don't know how to do that.

Scrooge in window

You, boy, what time is it?

If it's any comfort, crypto is getting kicked in the balls.

Thank goodness it’s whiskey Friday with whatshisface

Why did British TV, which does mysteries so well, redo Law and Order, where the stories were the same as the US original, just with British accents?
(The answer is, of course, lazy and risk averse producers and a very risk averse modern TV industry generally.)

Rubio: “Let me tell you, Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics.”

I don't like to revel in the misery of others, but I will make an exception for Spurs fans.

Meghan McCain does a great job of being a cranky old man when in fact she is a woman in early middle age. Frankly, it is the only job she does well.

The average American drives a big vehicle in insanely sprawled population centres, where 50 miles plus driving per day is quite common. That is a one solid reason why Americans are obsessed with the price of gasoline.

I'm really starting to think countries that have laws regulating what you can name your child are on to something.
(Also, A Little House on the Prairie remake? Hollywood execs really hate original ideas.)

The West has become weak because it is run by nepo babies.

by Mojtaba Khamenei

Let me guess, wealthy people who moved to Dubai to avoid paying taxes now want the countries they moved from to protect them?

"sky scrappers (sic)"

The irony being that the Communist world of the 1960s was far more prudish than the USA of the same era.

The lawless impunity of an all too large percentage of drivers in the city makes four way stops rather unpleasant. Niagara and Wellington has so many near misses.

Washed down with *one of the worst* bottled waters.

He was certainly one of the most colourful figures in Toronto politics. Not a fan, but 64 is awfully young.

I have much confidence that city council will make the same disasterous decision as they did in the 00's, probably with more ads and worse street furniture.

Sorry to say, but this isn't surprising, polling suggests that pro hockey players are the most conservative group of pro athletes in North American sport, and that US players are more right wing than Canadian ones.

In my next screed, I'm going to expend far more energy on hating people I mostly agree with than I ever do with people I disagree about everything.

English Canadian TV does a lot of cheap remakes of American shows that make the US originals look like works of art commisioned by David Attenborough when he was controller of BBC2. Looks like Paramount + found a few dollars worth of change in the couch to buy the rights.

News item: "new SpongeBob movie streaming now." Photo of a live action blond lady in winter clothes with a sniper rifle in a snowy tundra looking bleak.

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

English media always pile unrealistic expectations on England teams. The pressure that brings is, IMHO, a major reason why England rugby union and football teams underpreform so consistently.

Channeling Ontario's inner scold, a provincial tradition for over a century.
(Seriously, it's one [weekend] day, relax, it's not the end of civilisation as we know it.)

Twelve years after opening, Cumberland Terrace was recorded in the Domesday Book.

The pearl-clutching of Ontario's chattering clases, vis-à-vis alcohol, is quite something. Almost one hundred years after the end of prohibition in the province, the teetotalers still like to whine about "booze".

Sir David Jason as the fictional character, Thames Valley Police DCI "Jack" Frost, G.M..

If this is the Thames Valley Police lead investigator, I can see why Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is looking so worried.

Andrew Montbatten-Windsor in the back of a vehicle being driven away from Aylsham Police Station after being released after being arrested and question by Thames Valley Police. Mountbatten-Windsor's face has a shocked expression.

The look on the face of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, as he learns at age 66 that being a shitty human being has negative consequences.

Actually, a 7 to 8 hour flight is possible on a B737 MAX. But, that bed really is over the top.