by Sean Orr | Burnaby lagoon snakehead caught on tape again. If you think about it, this is the perfect metaphor for Vancouver. There is an invasive species pushing out a native species, only the snakeheads are these mouth-breathing, hyper-sexualized creatures that can sometimes move across land (or bridges and tunnels). Now imagine fishing and catching a crowd of Axed-out roid freaks wearing Parasuco jeans and Snakehead Gym hoodies!
Also, I really don’t think that we are taking this Scottish Broom threat seriously at all. They’re as miserable as their Pictish namesake. They’ll make you a Presbyterian and your life will forever be like Breaking the Waves.
By Jove, the jock-cum-journalist gets it right! Cities deserve bigger share of tax dollars. This is what I was saying just the other day to Jordan Bateman. The cities take most of the province’s most marginalised people. And then we have to pay when the suburbs destroy our city. Is anti-urban rhetoric like Bateman’s just thinly-veiled anti-intellectualism?
Oh, plus we can’t even afford to transport ourselves. TransLink property sell-off plan startles region’s mayors. Weird. It turns out that by hitching transit to gas funding you actually lose money when people start using it. It’s like the infamous Factory Records deal with Happy Mondays that saw the company lose money with every record sold.
Shaking in their boots: Prospect of ‘free-enterprise coalition’ scales back B.C. NDP’s lead. Keep dreaming, you crazy dreamers. You think all those fired BC Libs are going to be allowed back in? They hate each other more than they hate the NDP! Hell, the NDP hates itself (or least they should) more than the two combined.
Speaking of hate: Vision’s ideology makes them ‘mean,’ ‘divisive’. Vision’s vision is way too Vision-y.
B.C. needs more immigrants to address looming labour shortage: task force. Oh, the south of the Fraser is not gonna like the sound of that.
Rat count underway on DTES. The number of ratgoofs, however, remains undetermined.
The following is actually an opinion piece from The Courier: From Napoleon to 20-sided dice.
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and the invasive species is unemployed stoned slacker hipsters?
Always good to see a Factory Records reference. Whereas the Happy Mondays were the last nail in the coffin, you may have been thinking of this story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(New_Order_song)#Sleeve_notes
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No Darcy McGee. The invasive species has a habit of taking their shirts off at any opportunity, saying ‘bro’ & ‘buddy’ too often, and they hang out in Yaletown drinking Jager bombs, waiting for Voda to re-open one day
I also recall that a lot of them have barbed wire tattoos on their forearms from the days of yore (late 90’s, early 00’s).
Now if we can only get the self righteous, hypocritical, pseudo-intellectual too cool fascists to stay in Surrey… all our problems will be solved.