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- curiouscat-3
canada
Yay. Another 4 years of a shit economy to add on to the already 10 years of shit ecomony. Can't wait until the Mexican Peso surpasses the Canadian Dollar.
- The economy was shit under Harper too. It's almost like there are fundamental flaws and just doing the same thing won't get different results...i_monk
- Indeed he was dog shit, but a better pile of shit than Trudeau and his Liberals have been. New leader now, yes, but the same shit feeding up to him.curiouscat
- the economy is shit because they printed money and watered down our currency so everyone in the country is making 30 - 40% then five years agoeveryangle
- *30 - 40% less than five years ago. You can see that at the grocery store or look at car prices. That will continue, it's in the 'costed budget'everyangle
- Fun. Go Libs!curiouscat
- The CAD dollar value surpassed the US dollar value in 2010 (coincidentally under Harper) just to add some clarityprophetone
- That was related to the crude oil value not any Harper policy or governanceSalarrue
- Hence the carefully-placed word "coincidentally"prophetone
- The valid point is/was that our dollar was the strongest in that moment in decades for better or for rabid beaverprophetone
- A rabid beaver ate part of my nose once.Akagiyama
- yikesprophetone
- and you think the economy would have been better with PP? lol fuck that_niko
- I bet @canoe welcomes it. He gets to talk about how great Canada is the same way Canadians do when they visit Cuba. 'everything is so cheap'hotroddy
- bainbridge3
- Love this guy and all he produces. I saw a doc recently in which he was interviewed by Melvin Bragg, he may look old but by christ he has a youthful spirit.Morning_star
- ^+1PhanLo
- steve zahn aged terribly!sarahfailin
- @M_S - I've recently started Bragg's 'in our time' from the beginning, again. It's interesting to see how much more conflictory it was :)Nairn
- Smokes more than me at 40, a brazen bugger, his energy unmatched Davids in art always winnersgrafician
- @garbage. In our time is magnificent. There’s a particularly notable episode about Peter Pan, absolutely fascinating. Enjoy.Morning_star
- @nairn. So sorry about the misidentification.Morning_star
- I'll look that one out. Thanks! I've been listening to it on/off for a decade or more now, but jut recently decided to start from scratch. It's so different!Nairn
- The show in question...
https://www.bbc.co.u…
Fill your boots people. Stimulating conversation from knowledgeable folk.Morning_star - We should cherish Hockney while he's around and hope for many more works, should it be on ipad. Def one of the greats.spl33nidoru
- I am currently back in my home town and drove past the house he and his mum lived in. A lot of the later iPad work is painted in these parts.MrT
- Bridlington FTW!MrT
- grafician4
- pretty cool when you bump up the levels a bit: https://i.imgur.com/…_niko
- lol nikofadein11
- lol nikoKrassy
- Ahahaha!!!Akagiyama
- lolpango
- Dear lord!palimpsest
- niko ftwgrafician
- Nothing says I'm a dork more than wearing sunglasses when they're not needed. Boys having beers looks exactly like a nerd herd.canoe
- turns out the dude is blind.pango
- PhanLo19
- yuekit2
- It's Pierre Poilie-overyuekit
- guess we avoided trump litepango
- Dodged hoser #1 for hoser #2prophetone
- ya that's the silver lining. Not hoser #1pango
- Fuck conservative thinking and doing; we’re on the brink here (Canadian) and have dodged another bullet here...ideaist
- ...a liberal financial dude isn’t my first choice BUT he’s sound minded and ONLY 60 SOOO good NOT great.ideaist
- I voted green because I’m a good active hippy; 1 seat won! Lolz.ideaist
- Game over for CanadaRaybandana
- yes totally. should have voted for the marxist-leninist communist party.pango
- Nothing is perfect, eh?ideaist
- Chimp2
Europe is Fucked
Just got power back in Madrid. Everything was down from the mobile network to the traffic lights.
- Everyone is having a beer and chilling.Chimp
- Portugal was out too?PhanLo
- @phan... Dmay knowsOBBTKN
- “Rare atmospheric phenomenon” apparently.Chimp
- Swamp gas.monospaced
- Just back in Barcelona. What a mondaymaquito
- Yup, Portugal and Andorra as well. Train stations having worst day in decades.maquito
- At least we had a great spring day, around 25° C, the cafés (the ones with beer) were packeddmay
- It was a good day to take off and have a glass of wine on the terrazaChimp
- Good to hear that. Cheers!sea_sea
- palimpsest6
- Realitypalimpsest
- For real! I went to put gas in the car, and I had to go back home... but on the way, all the terraces were packed! LOLOBBTKN
- Also this in Portugaldmay
- in The Netherlands we would be fucked since everything will go by a digital system to pay or take orders...milfhunter
- Umm what am I looking at here? What's it supposed to say/mean?HAYZ1LLLA
- millions of people... just, living out their lives. oblivious... to the truthsarahfailin
- mort_2
Car of The Day
Cadillac XP-840 Eldorado Fastback, 1965. A V16 two-seater coupe designed under Chuck Jordan which was the culmination of Cadillac’s experiments with multi-cylinder concepts (12 and V16). There was no back window, instead a reversing camera replaced the interior rear-view mirror, 60 years later this is now used by Polestar and others.
- Sporty hard top take on the Tex Avery Wolf Car.garbage
- bit of a stingray look to it too.mort_
- Love it!OBBTKN
- Lovely, remindful of a Hot Wheels style car I had as a chid.utopian
- I'm also getting some DeTomaso Pantera vibes from the profileContinuity
- Looks great but knowing how Cadillac thinks I bet there's no manual transmission.CyBrainX
- Nairn3
- hahaha. Keep on it. The stinging will soon end and you'll be blinded by the sheer beauty of those piss tearsIanbolton
- why do people do this shit? Or maybe I'm the naive oneIanbolton
- Ian, I'm relatively certain this isn't for real. At all.Continuity
- RFK approvedPhanLo
- its from the new jackass series...neverscared
- my recommendation is switching to a different prescription, I recommend semen drops, 4 out of 5 doctors agree_niko
- Tiktok trend for sureSalarrue
- @conty It sadly is real, from the Urinetherapy fb group. Not for the fainthearted.garbage
- WTF, seriously??Continuity
- Yeah, this one has made the rounds a few times. Other topics from that FB group include "aged urine footbaths" and collections from unflushed public toilets.garbage
- Just tried this one simple trick and it works.Ianbolton
- we all went through this... its worth it... we can all agree to that...neverscared
- Why is everything around me turning yellow?dbloc
- utopian4
Elon Musk
New York Moves to Shutter Tesla Dealerships in Blow to Musk
Lawmakers in New York state are moving to shut down Elon Musk’s Tesla dealerships in yet another blow to the billionaire CEO.
New York State Sen. Patricia Fahy and other lawmakers are fighting to remove a waiver that allows Tesla to operate five in-person dealerships in New York, instead forcing the company to sell their vehicles through dealer franchises, The New York Times reported Sunday.
- Why do they need a waiver to open a dealership?bainbridge
- some places (like New York, evidently), have laws that forbid automakers from also owning dealerships to prevent competing with independent dealers/franchisors.monNom
- I think dealers originally came about to prevent consumers from suing manufacturers directly (no contract with manufacturer, the contract is with the dealer)monNom
- But laws changed over time to give consumers some recourse against manufacturers, so the dealer concept is a bit of an anachronism now.monNom
- Nairn10
Russia-Ukraine Invasion
“You've no clue what you're on about. Post proof of those imaginary North Koreans in Ukraine”.
—MilanAside from all of the photographic and video evidence, which you'd no doubt smear as synthesised propaganda, about straight from the horse's mouth?
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/7f7e…
Or are you going to err on a technicality with them having fought in the Kursk region?
- Kursk is not in Ukraine, idiot.Milan
- Yes, hence erring on technicalities, idiot.Nairn
- Shift the goalposts, go on.Nairn
- What's your point? North Korean boys got some training in modern warfare while helping completely cleanse Kursk. Again, they never entered Ukraine, retard.Milan
- The point is to highlight how fork-tongued an utterly unreliable you are. They're 'involved in the conflict', you implied they weren't. You are deceitful.Nairn
- Or, perhaps, just utterly credulous and a bit stupid.Nairn
- https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
- You said they were fighting in Ukraine, reliable one.Milan
- Where did I? I specifically allowed for your interpretation. I just wonder how you'd howl if there were EU/US boots on the ground, near the front lines.Nairn
- You are a regurgitating shill with questionable mores and a proclivity for targetted bullshit. Transparent as all your kind.Nairn
- Sorry - "EU/US boots on the ground, near the front lines. IN UKRAINE herself". I double-dare you to suggest you'd not consider them part of the conflict.Nairn
- Let's ignore the fact that NATO countries sent most of their military equipment and ammo to Ukraine along with intel officers, trainers, mercenaries...Milan
- Using the U.S. satellites for all targeting and Starlink for communications.Milan
- And they still lost.Milan
- Gardener1
- Guess who Herc! Guess who Herc!_niko
- ^ https://i.haasie.com…Continuity
- iWoodutopian
- hung like a horsesothere
- futurefood2
UFO of the day
Another recent animated sequence. This one has an interesting horseshoe shape. Like I mentioned previously, there seems to be many different types of UAP in the sky at any given time. I can photograph numerous airliners coming in for landing and get a mix of different UAP. Helicopters get buzzed by these things too, but airliners can get buzzed/tagged multiple times at once.
- Could it be of interdimensional origin?utopian
- That is one of the current theories. The way they move and the speed? It wouldn't surprise me.futurefood
- They seem to travel thousands of ft through the air in fractions of a second.futurefood
- Looks like dust or little tiny flies.monospaced
- Gardener9
blog
I've had a ridiculous day booting today, up early I hit a new boot in Arbroath next to the football ground at 7.15am, late I know TELL ME ABOUT IT. So I left home picked up a black McD coffee en-route and sauntered into the field to have a wander. The fruit & veg man was there, always a good sign, and I got about 3/4 the way along a row and there's a bloke kneeling down in the familiar digging pose. I stood behind him to see what he was looking at as he flipped by original Mothers of Invention, Kevin Ayres, John Martyn albums, picking out the Genesis, Tull, Hendrix and Floyd, all originals in super clean nick (as far as I could tell by the sleeves). He got up asked how much they were, the woman said her husband, who was standing next to her, wanted a pound each, but I'll let you have them for 50p each (!!) Jeez, god knows what he got tbh as I got down and pulled 25 in under 25 seconds including pink Island John Martyn, Andwella, unboxed Harvest albums by Kevin Ayres, BJH and others. But best of all the Omega Red Star album, I never even checked condition of any of them but when I got back to the car most look hardly played, just incredible for a collection like this to come out so cheap. I paid £15 for the lot as I was hardly going to give her £12.50 and she even gave me a canvas bag to put them in, crackers.
So happy as a clam but with a tinge of what I must have missed by minutes, curse you McD and your reasonably priced coffee! I headed home for breakfast and after porridge (I have a very Scottish wife) I headed out to the lunchtime boot that kicks off on a village green about 20 miles from me at 1pm. Arriving early so I could wander about and see what was out as they do like to tell the sellers here that there is NO SELLING BEFORE 1pm. So strict, but for me it means I can see where the records are and hit those stalls first. One bloke had an incredible amount of 70's African & Indian albums and singles, I spent £60 with him, another lady had obscure labelled 7" from the 80's at 50p each so I basically spend all the money I had on me except for a fiver. As I was leaving a woman came up to me asking if I was still looking for records to which I replied erm, yes, "well go to the charity shop on the village high street it's open today and they have loads of records." So I did and they did indeed have more bleeding records albeit weird folk stuff, I spent £6 as I found a pound in the car and I came home and played many of them, cleaned some and watched my team win 5:1 and The Championship. So it has been a tiring but rewarding day but unfortunately this doesn't happen every weekend.
- And Arne's song to Jurgen...just the icing on the cake!stoplying
