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Tag Archives: Kitchener
To a Quieter Future
I will not be sad when motorcycles become quieter electric vehicles. Too many times they have loudly shaken the street I’m on, just to get from point A to point B. My entreaties to make them use mufflers that actually … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics, Science
Tagged a quieter future, airshows, Canada Day, Diwali, electric vehicles, EVs, fireworks are tough on animals, fireworks day, If you must be loud use private tracks, Kitchener, lit up drones, May long weekend, motorcycles, mufflers that work, noise pollution, silent drone shows, sportscars, trucks, Vroom, Woosh
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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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The Nuclear Bunker That Became a Death Trap
On the Grand River in Kitchener, Ontario, they built a nuclear bunker that was supposed to keep 40 Regional staff alive for a few months in the event of a nearby nuclear strike. It was built in 1966 and mothballed … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged asbestos causes mesothelioma, cold war, community center, deadly mould, film location, Grand River, Kitchener, last publicly owned bunker in Canada, lead causes brain damage, museum, mutually assured destruction, night club, nuclear bunker, nuclear war, place for cheese to mature, reality show, restaurant, suit up to go inside, suit up to go outside, underground farm
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Are We In Napoleonic Europe?
Last Sunday, I heard from London, that Paris had burnt Berlin, only to meet its Waterloo and be detained since. Shades of the Napoleonic wars. Napoleonic France (whose capital was Paris), conquered Prussia (where Berlin is the capital) (Napoleon didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour
Tagged American football, arson, Austria, Berlin, Britain, Brussels, Dublin, Europe, France, Kitchener, London, Napoleon, Napoleonic Europe, Paris, Prussia, Russia, Southwestern Ontario, Stratford on the Avon, Walmart stores, Waterloo
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LRT Collisions
There are things that no one ever tells you about LRT or light rail transit until you get it in your city. My twin cities of Kitchener-Waterloo are rather small so there are only 14 vehicles or trains. There have … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Politics
Tagged 10 car accidents so far, all the trains may have problems with structural integrity, by years end all trains should have been hit, car costs $30 000, cars, damage to trains is usually the cost of a car, Ion, Kitchener, Light Rail Transit, LRT, LRT vehicle costs almost $7 000 000, only 14 trains, structural integrity is important to a vehicle, Waterloo, we just can't have nice things
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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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A Letter to the Editor of the Kitchener Post
I have written this letter to the editor in response to a letter in the Kitchener Post (a newspaper local to me), Climate Change Gurus Have No Evidence published on January 11, 2018 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I think you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Politics, Science, Wry
Tagged .4 m ocean level rise, .8 degree celsius temperature increase since 1970, Al Gore, Antarctica, average surface temperature of earth, better hurricane projections, big oil, big tobacco, board up house because of hurricane, climate.gov, Europe, flee hurricane, global warming, Greendland, Kitchener, Kitchener Post, leading climate change advocate, Lloyd Fex, more hurricane deaths in early 1900s, NOAA, severity of hurricanes by deaths, severity of hurricanes by unadjusted dollars of damage, spot hurricanes by satellite, US Weather online, we're supposed to notice a .03 sq. mi. increase in the total polar ice cap., YouTube
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Canada’s Cultural Prosaic
For those who don’t know, prosaic means boring. Canada has long been smug about its cultural mosaic. This differs from the American melting pot. Instead of people from different cultures changing to fit in, the official line in Canada is … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Humour, Politics
Tagged America, Canada, Caribbana, Caribbean, cultural clubs, cultural mosaic, excitement can sure be scary, genocide, German, Irish, Kitchener, melting pot, nuclear powers, Oktoberfest, prosaic, St. Patrick's Day, Toronto, Utopias are boring, war
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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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Kitchener-Waterloo, Now With Only One Season
There is a long standing Canadian joke that goes something like this. There are two seasons in Canada, winter and construction. Things happen to a city when it gets big. It’s often said that the biggest cities never sleep. Well … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, Politics, Wry
Tagged big cities never sleep, Canada, construction, high rise work continues in winter, K-W construction no longer halts in winter, Kitchener, Light Rail Transit, LRT, LRT work proceeds in winter, roofers continued in the winter, Waterloo, winter
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