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Category Archives: Social Science
The Statutory Rape Generation
I was angered after hearing that the Millennial generation’s new cut off was being born in 1995 and not 2000. The whole point to being called Millennials is that certain important dates like graduation and schooling and of course births … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Humour, Social Science
Tagged average generation is 25 - 30 years, baby boomers, Center for Generational Kinetics, child/parent separation, for millennials early important years are on the millennium, gen X, generation definition, generations, generations seem to use first born to parent stretch of time, men can have children when 60, millenials, The Improbable Generation, The Statutory Rape Generation, The Unlikely Generation, two 11 year olds not likely to have children
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The Flatulator
Are you tired of your present love interest and wish to drive her away? The answer might be the flatulator. Are you immune to beans but want to keep up with your friends in the inevitable fart off? The flatulator … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Social Science
Tagged driving people away, fart, fart off, fart scent spray, flatulence, high tech whoopie cushions, might always be the champion of bean night, might even be able to light up stinky flatulator farts, Morse code, randomizer, Russian roulette with farts instead of bullets, squishable bulb and hose, the flatulator, the flatulator rarely empties out an elevator, when someone scrunches up face then use the flatulator, whoopie cushion, winning a fart off
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You Have Rights But Maybe Not Car Driver Rights
Myself and a group of partiers were walking home after drinking one night. There was no place to eat on the way that was still open. Except a Wendy’s drive thru. We knew that there was a hose that the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged bad area of town, black hose, can stomp on black hose to initiate drive thru order, car driver rights, carding pedestrians, Chandler Ave. pedestrian bridge, drive thru, good area of town, Kitchener, lots of pressure on a high heel, NIMBY, not in my back yard, pedestrian rights, racial profiling, showing ID, Toronto, Toronto police, Wendy's
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Irrational Bias in the Guardian
This recent Guardian article whines about today’s children not being able to use a pencil properly because all they do with their hands is press buttons and screens. But of course they had to make a large point of holding … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Social Science, Writing, Wry
Tagged "x"es and a check, 5 fingered grasp exercises 5 fingers, Bass, crokinole, dynamic sounds positive, dynamic tripod, dynamic tripod only exercises 3 fingers, fine motor skills, five fingered grasp, get a grip - The Guardian, grasp sounds negative, guitar, I can get likenesses of people while not using the dynamic tripod method, keyboards, musicians and precision games don't need the dynamic tripod method, neatness is probably in the wrist, people who hold their pen in other ways are just as fast and have as much stamina and are just as neat, recent Guardian article, The Guardian, today's children can't hold a pencil properly
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KO Wynne for Wind?
People are attracted to their own names. Many Dennises become dentists and many Lawrences become lawyers. I think Ontario’s premier, Kathleen Wynne is no different. Wynne went into politics which contains clear winners and losers. It’s no surprise that she … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Humour, Politics, Social Science
Tagged Canada, Dennis the Dentist and Lawrence the Lawyer are disproportionately common, electricity generation, first-past-the-post system, K. O. Wynne, Kathleen O'day Wynne, Kathleen Wynne, Liberals, New Democratic Party, Ontario, opposition parties whine, politics has clear winners and losers, Progressive Conservatives, renewables, renewables are now one of the best bets, solar, the puns - my god - the puns, wind bag politicians, wind power
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How to Increase the Number of Canadian Hockey Stars
I was first pointed out the selection bias in the NHL by the writings of Malcolm Gladwell. He noted that more NHL caliber players were born in the first three months of the year than any other three months. The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Social Science, Sports, Wry
Tagged 14.5 % of players were born in last quarter of year, 36 % of NHL players were born in first quarter of year, any community with 2 teams the same age should divide by half years, birthday in first quarter of year, birthday in last quarter of year, if we don't start this some other country will, long time for pay off, Malcolm Gladwell, NHL caliber players, not a hard sell to parents of kids born in 2nd half of year, players start at 4 or 5 when months matter, selection bias, should lead to more good players, two hockey systems
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Fewer Colds, Coughs, and Flus?
I have now heard people my age and older mocking the young for sneezing into the inner elbow part of their sleeve. What? Are you serious? Are you so intent on mocking the young that you don’t realize that this … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged cold, cough, coughing into your inner elbow, dip to taste, double dipped finger, face masks, fist bump, flu, germaphobes, hand sanitizer, hand shake, hospitals, hygiene, ick factor, kids today, licking finger to turn page, millenials, public places, retirement homes, SARS, sneezes can be clocked at 100 mph, sneezing into your inner elbow
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The Trillion Dollar Family
Let’s start out with the definition of a million dollar family. This is said to be composed of a family with a mother and father that has a mini-me for each sex. I.e. there is a mother, father, daughter and … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Science
Tagged 2 million dollar family, 20 billion dollar family, 25% occurrence of two mini-mes in gay or lesbian family, efficiency, gay, heterosexual, identical twins, lesbian, million dollar family, million dollar family has a 50% occurrence in 2 child families, mini-me, single birth, single fertilized egg that split, transgender, trillion dollar family, twins, two billion dollar family
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Greetings From the Left End of Toronto
It’s angered me at least three times this year that Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and Brantford have all been included in maps that were said to represent the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I have always felt that these cities were just … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Humour, Politics, Social Science
Tagged Blackberry, Brantford, Cambridge, Central Park, GTA, GTA has 6 million people, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener, left end, left end of Toronto, maps showing the cities west of Toronto as part of the GTA, Mississauga, New York, Oracle, Silicon Valley, the Green Belt, the left end of Toronto has shy of a million people, Toronto, Waterloo
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