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Tea & Two Slices: On Vitriol For Nothing And Money For Free…

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by Sean Orr | B.C. electoral officer Craig James getting death threats from anti-HST activists. Oh dear god, it’s happening here. These knobs (shit, there I go polarizing the debate with vitriol) could care less if the BC Liberals dish out favours and tax breaks to the corporate sector, swing back room deals that we may never know about, sign away all our rights with TILMA, close schools, cut welfare, freeze minimum wage, unfreeze tuition, spend billions on megaprojects like the Canada Line, Convention Centre, Olympic Village, give themselves raises while shutting down the legislature half the year; but as soon as there’s a tax it’s like some weird Pavlovian response to start knuckle dragging and mouth breathing.

And while we’re thumping our collective chest, let’s take that Dire Straits song off the air. It’s high time that high-fallutin, devil-talk will no longer corrupt our good Canadian kids. OK, so it says “little faggot” a bunch of times, but it’s supposed to be through the eyes of a working glass guy watching MTV.

More than one gay man to seek NDP leadership. Wait, I thought the next leader of the NDP had to be a woman, not a queen. Oh relax! I’m only making fun of the party’s gender rules.

Angry Asian UBC condo owners to protest ‘bad luck’ hospice. “It’s a cultural taboo to us and we cannot be close to so many dying people”. That’s weird, because Chinatown is right next to the DTES…

City continues to conduct very public campaign of slum crackdowns. Sorry to borrow Martha Stewart’s vernacular but, this is a good thing, right?

With all the talk of bike vs. car, another pedestrian dies, this time a 17 year old.

Target Coming to Vancouver. Our goal to slowly become Bellingham is progressing!

Remember my Blame Tim Hortons campaign? Well..hey Main Street, Deal With It. Ha ha! When memes go hyperlocal!

Music Waste looking for originators.

There are 24 comments

  1. like flies to gin rummy, sure a original thought ought to be a birth rite, but alas the placenta omelet was scarfed like a slider at Burgoo. Sean hestory is rite behind u, Read any good books lately, it has and alway will be, your chain is paper and that paper makes a shitty rattle even shitter when your paper is 1010010101010101. A good solar flare and the worth of your words is validated as disposed.

  2. I’d love to read Scout and Beyond Robson more often, but you poison both with your awful partisan writing. Nobody reads a fucking event/restaurant blog to hear you ramble about your political views.

  3. Sean Orr’s deep and honest bias is comforting to me and I come back frequently for it.

  4. Ripley; My mommy always said there were no monsters – no real ones – but there are.

    If u call a 9 word sentence and a link to a daily writing, you have a bigger heart than eye. Ripley. Its all 0 and 1 and not alot them to huddle around when the power goes and you need to burn something entirely disposable.

    Oh shit I stopped rambling ….like most of our lets go steady losers Sean envidioso is all cool and attentive at first, this is because he wants you so badly. But there is a sinister suprise hiding in little Sean’s wood pile Soon enough the green manilishi has appeared and turds of generic and predictable twenty something angst are flung like monkey crap the whole ride in from king george to the brdwy station on the rail known as the banal expresso.

  5. Sean Orr is the main reason I come to this site, and the main reason I don’t read Beyond Robson any more.

  6. Hi Sean. I guess saying “little faggot” does not offend you. Think of the people it does when writing. I have a hard time believing you would write “little niggers” without starring out some letters. I have been watching this unfold on other blogs and too many writers are quick to whip out the whole F word without thinking about what they are actually wiriting. Its a pretty filthy word.

  7. The use was in reference to the banning of a hit song from the 80’s that depicted a common attitude of uneducated, working class American men when confronted with things they did not fully understand. So don’t be silly.

  8. Sorry dude, I didnt want to come accross as silly but I dont wanna come to Scout to read shit like that. Im pretty hard to offend, I just think this is the incorrect platform for ‘news’ like that. That’s all.

  9. That same “news” was covered by just about every major Canadian news outlet. No one ever wants to come across as silly, but when you manufacture outrage from a petty pittance, it’s the very definition of silliness. What’s more, I whiff an ugly, self-righteous inference to your comments that makes me wonder if you’re not three inches away from calling Sean homophobic. Now that would make for “shit” reading. I nevertheless thank you for visiting and participating, and hope that you might take a step back and look at the whole board for as long as it might take to remember that the suppression of art is a celebration of frail understanding.

  10. Way to take it to the next level. I simply made reference to the fact that people slang around the F-word a little to easily without thinking about it’s meaning.

    Whoever wrote this last post is just about as dramatic as dramatic can be. Scout is not a ‘major news outlet’ nor am I ‘manufacturing’ outrage nor am I even close to saying someone is homophobic. Everything has a time and a place. I didnt think ‘that news’ had a time or place on this website, and I still dont. That’s all I was getting at.

  11. sean bore is the main street raison I offend this web establishment. Such lunacy and defenders of the mighty flame to burn books. Ban everything you ignorant puss magnets, your minds are less and less your own and more and more a putrid self loating excuse for failure and lack of personal hygiene do not a gate keeper make thee.

    I salute Messr Orr on this one., failure gto comply will result in federal ban on your right to your own salvation through microwave ovens custom ikea kitchen back door deliveries.

  12. The only thing worse than saying faggot, to borrow from Louis CK, is the “the f-word”. Just like the only thing worse than nigger is “the n-word”. They are still saying the word, only they make your brain spell it out instead when you hear it! It’s just a way for straight white people to feel good about themselves. It gives more power to the word. Again, to quote Louis CK on his masterful treatise on the power of words, “I would never call a gay person a faggot, you know, unless they were being a faggot”. I also could’ve took the easy and more offensive way out by saying that the censorship of Money for Nothing is, like, totally gay.

  13. Thanks for saying it Sean. Not all of it all of the time, but whatever, shit happens.
    Maybe I’ll start branching out and reading about all the restaurants I can’t afford/don’t want to go to. We’ll see.

  14. a gay boy dreamt of a planet full of unicorns planet full of unicorns unicorn planet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZtDxy1B6Ec

    Ilike to watch my mtv, cadillac – tom cruise- feathers all are down with Sean Orr and his stand in the sand of free speech!

    come to the unicorn meadow and fly your flags or should I say

  15. Dude I don’t know what kind of drug you are on but I will buy a gram off you. I would love to go to the unicorn meadow with you. I think…

  16. Lady Adams could it be that you pine for the totalitarian state ?
    Paranoia strikes deep into your life it will creep it starts when your always afraid step out of line the man comes takes your right to free thought away

  17. I can’t believe everyone’s recklessness here. Clearly our benevolent censorship commisars are doing God’s work when it comes to protecting our children and families from such filth. Bundles of sticks are incredibly offensive and so are hand rolled cigarettes. God hates bundles of sticks.

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