Re: stupidity galore
 

I'd just close up the shop and leave the province...

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if she could, she would

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...sses-1.2555997

Lalancette says sometimes drivers don't believe the warning signs.

“They are crossing their fingers, because they know the truck is that high.”

Re: stupidity galore
 

The equivalent in a car is driving along a narrow street with cars parked both sides and praying you don't scrape.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...ches-1.2556387

The Quebec Soccer Federation chose to enforce a ban on turbans on the soccer pitch last April, causing outrage in the Canadian Sikh community.

i think everyone should be outraged

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I agree, why are they playing soccer when they could be playing hockey!

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FIFA have only just ruled that they are officially allowing religious headwear after a 20 month trial!

http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/mon...tory/1.2556387

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http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-la...page-1.1712554

see post 81

sanity prevails at last

(until the next round of predictable BS)

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Yes.

That was ludicrous. Chelsea and the communities near it are heavily anglophone. You'll hear more English than French in the pub there, as you will in most of the shops.

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ludicrous is putting it mildly

you are too polite

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Polite is not normally a word associated with me. Try phoning me up pretending to be from the Microsoft Computer Company Technical Department and you'll find out just how not polite I can be.

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Homework for tonight
Compare and contrast the Language police of Quebec and the Morals police of Iran

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http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/sleep-m...tudy-1.1711309

sleep machines?

how on earth did i manage 70 years ago?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-26431417

This is one way to keep kids quiet in the classroom!

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I hope the teacher gets sacked.

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shard

i think not

i agree with you though

but if the unions over there are like those over here teacher will be protected and all that will happen is a slap on the wrist

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:goodpost:

And about the sellotape teacher - yes i hope she gets sacked! Just an example of how the school systems in our world today are making kids not like school!! And for good reasons

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http://ca.reuters.com/article/entert...A2324Z20140304

Bieber police video may be released, minus genitalia -judge

which begs the question why would anyone in their right mind bother to film his privates?

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Oh trust me, kids didn't like school back in the 80's and 90's when I was in school either..

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Or the 70s and Christian Brothers weren't known for their easy going mannerisms either.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilt...ment-1.2559809

Dead soldier gets 1-cent cheque from federal government
this is amazing

don't these well paid bureaucrats look at the cheques being mailed out or is that too much to ask?

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Doubt it. Gov't doesn't seem to check and verify much before sending things out.

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that is exactly the point

what if the cheque had been for a million dollars?

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...ults-1.2550308


10 years in the clink


how did he ever imagine he would get away with it?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26464490

The programme called "Jjak", which means partner, features seven men and five women contestants who compete for dates in a guesthouse, known as "Lovetown", which is fitted with cameras in all rooms except the bathroom.

South Korean newspapers say the show has a reputation for creating emotional tension and that contestants are required to eat meals alone when rejected by their dates.

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That's sad, but being over-pressurised obsessive Korea, somehow it doesn't surprise me.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26476977

A top prosecutor of sexual assault cases in the US Army has been accused of groping a female lawyer colleague, military officials say.

Lt Col Joseph Morse has been suspended amid allegations he targeted the woman at a 2011 sexual assault legal conference in Virginia.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26476983

On Wednesday, the state's Supreme Judicial Court found the existing Peeping Tom law did not apply to "photographing (or videotaping or electronically surveilling) persons who are fully clothed and, in particular, does not reach the type of upskirting that the defendant is charged with".

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Hopefully the politicians will act quickly and pass an updated law to include modern day technology.

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yes it is in the works

quote:

Massachusetts lawmakers have approved a bill targeting those who take photographs of "the sexual or other intimate parts" of people in public.

I would have thought this would have been dealt with a long time ago

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http://www.bbc.com/news/education-26481098

Hundreds of trainee teachers wrongly passed literacy and numeracy tests because of a series of marking errors.

More than 700 candidates were incorrectly awarded marks which meant that they passed papers they should have failed in the last academic year

what is truly hilarious is that these people will go on to teach, having failed literacy and numeracy tests

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-c...shire-26480334

Peterborough referral unit allows pupils to smoke

the path of least resistance it seems

get them hooked early

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I think the "hilarious" part is that the test that is meant to check literacy/numeracy is itself incorrect. That's somehow a greater incompetence than that of those talking the test.

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on second thought, you are absolutely correct

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...peal-1.2563227

In the summer of 2006, Hutchinson thought he could save his flagging relationship by getting his girlfriend pregnant. He surreptitiously poked holes in her condoms.

poked holes?

I wonder what he used?

a needle maybe?

this kinda a gives a new meaning to the word 'prick'

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26501460

idiot and despicable

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A bit silly to be worked up over that. Has the Italian official not seen any Monty Python! This thread appears to be the "Montreal Mike Internet venting thread"! Nevermind. A good roundup of the nonsense that is out there.

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shard

actually that would have been a good title for this thread :)

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-26515236

A man has been spared jail for keeping his mother's dead body in a freezer so he could claim her benefits.

even more idiotic was that he was spared jail

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I think you will enjoy this..

http://www.reddit.com/r/NewsOfTheStupid/