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Category Archives: Wee Bit O’ Humour
Pronouncing Sikh
When I was young I swear the news media as a whole used to pronounce the name Sikh as seek. It’s only in the last number of years that the whole of the news media changed to pronouncing members of … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged asking groups what they self identiy as, bad slang, could black mean smart, could indigenous mean beautiful, English, Gypsy, Jewish, negative connotations, new trend?, political correctness, seek, sick, sick means wonderful, Sikh, slang, the news media, Welsh
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Dystopias Over Utopias?
It seems to me there is a predilection in modern science fiction to discount all utopias but not to do the same with the dystopias. While I agree that utopias are generally out of reach for societies, there seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged cynicism, cynicism=realism?, Don't provide a blueprint to dystopia, dystopias, failing society, fixing problems, getting big brother and the handmaid's tale at the same time., I want dystopian SF wiped out, impossible fluff?, improving society, intellectualism, modern science fiction, pointing out problems, too imperfect, too perfect, utopias
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Don’t Believe We’ve Been on the Moon?
I could try to lead you to that revelation. Like saying we can easily see satellites circling and the International Space Station, if you cared to actually observe. Getting to the moon is only a couple steps beyond this. But … Continue reading
Posted in Pseudo Science, Science, Sports, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 12 Moon walkers, 400 attempts to climb Everest in year, air too thin, ditching spent oxygen tanks, Edmund Hillary, Everest, Hillary knighted, International Space Station, made up story, Moon, Moon unbelievers don't tell me about your climbing adventures, Moon walkers, need to carry oxygen tanks, partied at base camp, plan saved many lives, satellites, scaled since 1953, Tenzing Norgay, There are way more Everest climbers, true believers go up and never come down
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When ‘Champion of the World’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Champion of the World’
For ease of understanding, let’s look at the champion of the 100 meter run or what is known as ‘the fastest man in the world’. Usually the winner of the world championships or, if it’s in the correct year, the … Continue reading
Posted in Sports, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 100 meter race, 100m cyclist, 100m downhill skier, 100m hurdlers, 100m speed skater, 14 Canadian golds in Vancouver Olympics, 7 billion competitors, Ben Johnson, champion of the world, cycles, false starts, rock/paoer/scissors, running shoes, skates, skis, starting blocks, steroids, strong headwind, strong tailwind, the fastest man in the world, the Olympics, world championships, Zero Canadian golds in Montreal and Calgary Olympics
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Lessons in Geography
Let’s look at the continents starting from south to north. There is Antarctica. Then comes the currently joined plates of America. Then comes Australia. Then there’s Africa. Certainly not least is Asia. Last of all is Europe. One of these … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, California, Canada, Canada will never have the nice temps of California, colonisation, continents, end in A, Europe, Hollywood North, indigenous exposed to old world viruses and germs, Montreal, North America South America, plants rely on California wildfires to procreate, Prairies, start in A, Toronto, vancouver, wildfires, wildfires all over Canada
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Shenanigans at Walmart
Self Checkouts were brought in as a business model at Walmarts a couple years ago. After all, this high tech method of checkout, only demanded a couple people to oversee about 6 self checkouts so it was more efficient. It … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Politics, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged cashiers, faster for a couple items, fewer employees, five finger discount, less staff hours, more cashiers, more staff lurking, self checkouts, smaller self checkout area, test of the full service experience, theft, Walmart, Walmart pays customers nothing for work, Walmart store putting back full service, win for customers, win for staffing
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Swift Quake
Did you hear about the Swift quake at the Taylor Swift concert in Seattle? That’s right, Swifties’ dancing combined with the sound system are believed to have caused tiny earthquakes, the largest of which was 2.3 on the Richter scale. … Continue reading
A Partial List of Rock Bands that are Better than the Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are overrated. Some people in my area might disagree. The nearby city, Toronto, in order to declare that the risk of getting SARS was over, had a festival to declare that illness gone. They got the Rolling … Continue reading
Posted in History, Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arena rock, Bastille, Coldplay, Electric Light Orchestra, Faith No More, Foreigner, funk rock, Genesis, grunge, Imagine Dragons, INXS, Journey, Kitchener, Led Zeppelin, Men Without Hats, moss, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, pop rock, progressive rock, queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rolling Stone, Rush, SARS, Styx, Supertramp, the Beatles, the Cars, The Cure, the greatest rock and roll band in the world, the Police, The Rolling Stones, the Who, Toronto, U2, Yes
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Heated Skate Blades
When I first heard of heated skate blades I thought, well there’s a way of skating that sounds like it is cheating. You see, skating is a way of putting all your weight on two small skate blades. All this … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Sports, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 15 year old story, 5 players - one liked it, 50 players - no available results, cheating, extra slipperiness, falls in figure skating., faster acceleration?, figure skating, heat makes water on ice, heated skate blades, hockey, less energy?, patents only last 20 years, pressure makes water on ice, speed skating
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Stampede!
I don’t know what people were thinking out in the old west of North America with the cowboys and their giant herds of cows. It being the old west, everyone had guns. Sure that’s okay if you use yours. Then … Continue reading