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TEA & TWO SLICES: On The Hypocrisy Of John Galt & The Province Becoming A Joke

by Sean OrrLocals’ most loathed tourist attractions. I remember The Only did something similar a while back. But yeah: the Steam Clock, the 23 dollar Capilano Suspension Bridge (when there’s one for free down the road), that stupid junk car parked at Robson & Thurlow, The Amsterdam Cafe, Granville Island…

Thank You for Medicating Me. Yes, please.

Ayn Rand’s Weird Creed No Longer a Joke. No shit. Though she lived out her days on government assistance, assholes everywhere still gravitate to her pseudo-pragmatic utopian vision. One need look no further for John Galt wannabes than in our own press.

Exhibit B: If more density means cheaper homes, why isn’t that working? Because there needs to be people actually living in those homes, bro. The Province has become such a caricature of itself. Check out the latest headline: ‘Goat man’ seen in mountains of Utah, witness says ‘it was real creepy’. Yeah, thanks for the heads up.

Unrelated: How the media shouldn’t cover a mass murder.

Unrelated: Congratulations, Canada, On Your Ongoing Housing Bubble.

Unrelated: The Sun inexplicably attacks the local food movement: Over-reliance on local food a prescription for disaster. This might be pertinent if most of all our food didn’t come from California and Mexico, but nice try.

Vancouver may get Nordstrom store. I would now like to direct you to a rough estimate on the amount of fucks I give.

Nudists feeling burned by Metro Vancouver’s lack of official ‘clothing-optional’ beaches. Yeah? Too bad. Try my beach.

There are 14 comments

  1. actually you are disturbing the natural habitat with your personal colonization of the sacred Salish Nation. Not Amused.

  2. That Bloomberg article is wildly presumptuous. Of course Canada has a housing bubble. Because it’s EXACTLY like the USA. No differences whatsoever. Nope. None.

  3. Colonization (or colonisation) occurs whenever any one or more species populate an area. The term, which is derived from the Latin colere, “to inhabit, cultivate, …

  4. Exaclty, which is why personal colonization is a tautology. And if by virtue of my existence I am colonizing any given area, your statement has become a total red herring. Basically you just pointed out that I live here.

  5. to fish like the original people or phish like twirling nabob all depends on your label and yours is PBR

  6. Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) is a brand of beer sold by Pabst Brewing Company,
    The beer experienced a sales revival in the early 2000s after a two decade-long slump, largely due to its increasing popularity among urban “hipsters”.

  7. i am speaking of the cinematic and your comparison to the ham of all hams Marlon Brando’s Col. Kurtz

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