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150 or more to see, to be a [Canada Day] is my destiny
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Happy Canada Day motherfuckers
150 years ago Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were first joined into a nation. Though the colonialism that created this nation is a mixed bag (to put it lightly), on this day I celebrate that this occurred and lead the ground to the country I now live in. We've got no shortage of problems but we've got a damn cool mix of people here, and I'm happy to be a part of them.
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The weather's so bad that the city around here has delayed all Canada Day Celebrations until tomorrow!
Whoo!
Some of my classic favs:
Anyway, since this was such a bomb-ass comfy shirt, it was always first in my rotation after laundry day, and wearing a CANADA shirt in rural New Mexico was sufficiently wacky that I was eventually known as "Canada" to a significant fraction of my high school. I even used "Canada Clay" as a pen name in my freelancing days, for the kind of bottom-of-the-barrel Demand Media sites I didn't want showing up in my writing portfolio.
So thanks, Canada. You made me faintly interesting for a few years in high school, helped mask me from the shame of writing eHow.com articles for fifteen bucks a pop, and gave me a t-shirt that I still dream about.
Happy birthday.
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I'll just binge on these Nanaimo Bars and maple sugar cookies thaaaaaaanks
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I dunno why I find this super interesting! I woke up to late or I woulda headed downtown to the lakefront on rice lake for the multinational food festival
Missesd out on perogis and curry dangit
I like fireworks and drinking a lot, so this is a good holiday for me!
Good canada day
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But I want to watch fireworks.
But I don't really want to stand in the rain for an hour to do it.
That sounds like it would have been a very good time.
We would go to Rice Lake because at the time there was no limit on the number of panfish (blue gill, crappie, etc.) you could catch. They were considered a pest and the populations were huge. We could catch over a thousand between all of us over the week. We'd clean them and then pack them in ice to take home and deep freeze.
I think that technically we weren't supposed to bring that many back across the border but the guards never checked beyond a quick flip of the coolers.
Have you always been around Rice Lake? It seemed like a pretty rural and quiet area back in the mid/late-90s. But maybe that was just me being a kid in a foreign place. Everything felt a little mysterious at that age.
In my experience, fireworks are best on a picnic blanket besides a river.
Also you should be really fucking drunk.
I actually asked my dad about it and he said their used to be tournaments and a lot of Americans used to show up, he remembers going down and watching the starts of em/any boat launch where you got these big ole bass boats all tearing into the water heading for a good spot
and I totally looked at a map just now and I'm actually thinking of little lake, it connect to rice lake through the Ontonabee but you also totally just cleared up some geographical confusion I had
so I'm less local then I thought but still the most populated town (>100000) within a hour of the lake
still cool as hell but you also blew my sheltered mind
I suppose he meant to be threatening or something, but I just thought he was ridiculously impotent.
Also came upon one of those pickup truck drivers (again american) who jury rigged his truck so that it billowed a thick black cloud whenever he accelerates, and I guess his intentions were to offend environmentally conscious people, but again literally all I thought was that he was just another peacocking asshole.
Welcome to Canada, where I think american drivers are assholes.
On the bright side, most of that black smoke is uncombusted fuel, which means that it's a sign that the engine isn't putting out as much power as it could be otherwise. To the kind of guy who would A. drive that kind of truck and B. modify it to belch big obnoxious clouds of smoke, sacrificing horsepower to roll coal is like artificially shortening their dick to make some kind of statement about tort reform.
So that always kind of cheers me up.
Rolling coal is super dumb! As you said, that soot is unburned and partially-burned fuel, they're literally pouring diesel onto the ground, and likely even losing a bit of power. And if they haven't removed their catalytic converters and particulate filters, those will be coked up and completely worthless very quickly, at a not-inconsiderable cost to replace.
I know this because I was trying to sleep at the time as I had to get up for work in like 6 hours.