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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 13056810)
Was in my condo's hot-tub tonight, no-one was around thank goodness. Turned off the bubbles and did my impression of the last minutes of Brian Jones’ life. I turned them [bubbles] back on and did other impression of the hopeful drowning of Simon Le Bon but with a dead and suspiciously underage fluffy Persian kitten. I suppose underaged and kitten is rather redundant. Anyway it was a lovely evening.
We bought an inflatable hot tub and it's been the best purchase in a long old while. Himself is off hunting over the weekend so I'm planning a husbandless home in tub alone hour or so. The hunting is to shoot feral pigs in what is a national park . |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BEVS
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Fab stuff.
We bought an inflatable hot tub and it's been the best purchase in a long old while. Himself is off hunting over the weekend so I'm planning a husbandless home in tub alone hour or so. The hunting is to shoot feral pigs in what is a national park . |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 13056795)
MIL neighborhood has been on a lock down for a couple hours after a man was reportdly walking around with a rifle in the area.
I'd think if the RCMP haven't found anyone, and there has been no reports of any shooting, that maybe its not real, or it was just an idiot who is now hiding at home realizing they were an idiot. Turned out to be all made up. Psychiatric evaluation following his court appearance. |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 13055943)
Hopefully the rest of the provinces follow, and hopefully the eligiblity requirements wont be too difficult for patients with CF to meet, but good news for CF patients in Ontario, Alberta, and SK though, this drug is pretty revolutionary for CF and patients and groups have fought a battle to even get it approved, which finally was done in June, and now finally got some provinces to provide coverage for it, as few people with CF can afford the 300,000 a year the drug costs.
Unlike other medications used for CF, that treat the symptoms, Trikafta targets the cause which is a faulty protein that causes people with CF to have thick mucus that clogs up the lungs and digestive system. Science has come a long way with CF and there might be a day when people with it will be able to live a full life, in 1962 average life expectancy for someone with CF was 10 years old, today the average is 37.5 years, and people born today who have CF are expected to be able to realistically live to their 50's. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saska...oved-1.6189824 She died aged 13 .............as you posted life expectancy was low back in the day. |
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One lucky person/s who bought a ticket in Burnaby, BC is 70 million dollars richer.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...ba64f55802.jpg |
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I wonder if this contractor underbid and now can't afford to continue the project, either way sucks for Metro Vancouver and its residents.
Wasterwater plant was supposed to cost $700 million and be completed by end of 2020, its now at $1 billion, wil be almost 3 years behind on completion, and now the contractor has done mass lay offs apparently and work has stopped. Doesn't seem like a good sign, kind of seems maybe the contractor bit off too much and now maybe lacks the funds to continue? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...lays-1.6195813 |
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Always seems to be the US charging Canadians for money laundering and other financial crimes, anyhow some shady Canadians in the pandora papers leak, one while dead was a criminal mastermind, another is in prison in the US for conspiring to launder money, another is facing security fraud charges in the US, also a skater and race car driver in the papers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/pandora-pape...ance-1.6197303 |
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Outdated breast cancer screening guidelines could be costing people their life and delayed diagnoses, some provinces wont even let women book their mamograms without a doctors requisition and Canadian taskforce on preventative care doesn't reccomend women get mammograms until 50.
BC once 40 women can self book mammograms, no need for a doctor requisition but apparently this isn't the case in every province. https://globalnews.ca/news/8239335/b...canada-report/ |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by caretaker
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This wastewater saga is getting interesting, seems the contractor Acciona is also involved in the Broadway Skytrain, Patullo Bridge & Site C.
Metro Vancouver still doesn't seem know know why they laid off most of the workers and appear to have abandoned the wastewater site, Metro says they have upheld all of the terms on their end, and made all payments due on time, but the contractor keeps missing key milestones on the project, Metro even agreed in 2019 to give them an extra 2 1/2 years, and in addition the cost is $1 billion and counting, was supposed to only cost $700 million. |
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BEVS
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Where is that ? We once had a couple of neddies in what used to be the paddock next door to us.
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G'won - away wit choo. I had to google that. :lol: |
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If you can't travel and see the world, youtube is next best option really...
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I heard an interview with Peter Mansbridge in the middle of the night - a repeat of a Sunday morning show and he was talking about being recognised and how it was sometimes an advantage. He recounted an incident where he was stopped by a traffic cop and upon passing out his driving licence and insurance, the cop, in recognition of the name exclaimed "Peter Mansbridge!"
(thinks...I love this job) "We were at such and such school in Ottawa together" says the cop. PM looks up at him, doesn't recognise him but he did go to that school so says "Oh yeah!" So for a couple of minutes the cop says something about remembering camp and they talk about various mutual acquaintances. Then a pause and suspense as to whether he gets a ticket. The cop says - "So what do you do now?" :rofl: |
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