What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

There's a general joke in the States for a loser guy to say he has a girlfriend in Canada, which is why you've never met her, but he's totally got a girlfriend.

Totally got to third base with a Canadian girl during camp when I was in the seventh grade. You wouldn't know her, but she was the hottest girl in camp.

She was like blonde-ish, with the biggest boobs ever and lips that seemed to be covered in a dusting of Strawberry Kool-Aid. Every dude wanted to make out with her, but one night during a bonfire her boyfriend pushed her, so I kicked his butt while Use Your Illusion II played until the counselors broke up the fight. It was epic.

Can't remember her name cause it was all French-Canadian, but even the older male camp counselors were giving me high fives like all the time and the lady camp counselors kept spreading rumors that I was a better kisser than a first chair trumpet player.

...

Funny thing is, my actual "camp story" is much, much, more interesting.

[TSTR]

Canadian Girlfriend sounds like some depraved sex act.

It's another name for that thing you told me you do with Canadian bacon.

mmmm bacon

[BoringSupreez]

Canadian Girlfriend sounds like some depraved sex act.

It's another name for that thing you told me you do with Canadian bacon.

mmmm bacon

Not after he's done with it.

[laurenhiya21]

There's a general joke in the States for a loser guy to say he has a girlfriend in Canada, which is why you've never met her, but he's totally got a girlfriend.

Oh ok, I haven't heard that before

[KalessinDB]

Canadian Girlfriend sounds like some depraved sex act.

I had a Canadian Girlfriend for a little over a year (western NY, they're also not terribly uncommon) and there was definitely some depraved sex acts going on, I tell you what

[mjmjr25]

Homey homey homey, being deprived of is not the same as depraved.

[Exhuminator]

I claim laurenhiya21 as my Canadian girlfriend. Without any of the depravity involved.

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I am ticked off at the weather lately. To say I'm not a fan of the summer would be putting it mildly. Living in the south east of the USA, it's extraordinarily hot here and ridiculously humid. As in yesterday it was 101 degrees F with a humidity over 80% where I'm at. To say that makes going outside miserable is like saying dangling your toes in a volcano is a bit uncomfortable. Sweet sweet fall and lovely lovely winter can't get here fast enough.

[Luke]

I am ticked off at the weather lately.

I'd go 3/4's in on a four bedroom house in Iceland. I did my lawn maintenance this morning, and although I was equipped with Gatorade aka sugar water I was sweating like meatloaf.

Not sure if I was sweating like meatloaf, the food, or meatloaf, the artist, but either are accurate to the amount of sweating that occurred.

Recently I bought a Black & Decker LTS420 lawn trimmer/edger, and I must say that if you have a yard that is under an acre and only want to dolly up your edges, it's pretty great. It's under a hundred bucks, comes with two rechargeable batteries, and so far has been very reliable. Makes me wish I would have purchased a blower with the same type battery as instead I lug around a 200 foot cord.



Smile: Even without football, Sunday has been becoming my favorite day of the week. Got the yard in good shape, bought groceries for the week, will have lots of qt with the wife, and will hang out with my crew as usual later tonight. Tonight we're making friend chicken as the main dish, and as side dishes:

sliced cucumbers with shallots and cherry tomatoes
buttermilk biscuits (made with lard)
roasted red potatoes with cumin (think healthy french fries)
cole slaw (vinegar based. Screw that mayo based carrot and cabbage shrapnel)
roasted mac & cheese (the kind with crumbs on top)
spinach with bacon

For drinks I'm making "Arnold Palmers", but with Oolong tea and a homemade limeade. We'll also have lots of Summer Shandy's to pass around.

Also toying with the idea of making my own Ginger beer. I love Vernor's. A lot. But around here it's going for over a dollar a can. That's ridiculous.

Something about Sundays that I really love. They make me feel look back at my weekend and realize how great that time was. They also make me look forward to Mondays and getting back to work.


Frown: Why are we not talking more about this?

Not just this case, but the murder rate in Chicago as a whole. Why isn't our President not losing his $#!T over this? Why aren't we all losing our $#!t over this?

This is no random act as people living in the South Side of Chi-Town are being slaughtered almost every night. This could provide a litmus test for gun control and gang activity. Yet it is treated as "That's how it always was, that's how it always will be".

Might sound like a dumb answer, and perhaps it is, but you know what America needs? Chuck D. Or someone like him.

Fuck kanye kardashian. Right in his bum.

We need a hip-hop activist that doesn't hold concerts, but rallies, in the streets. We need a voice of reason, and that voice needs to be LOUD. Not a political figure, but an artist who means what he says and says what he means.

[Ack]

A couple of reasons, Luke.

1. Chicago already has very restrictive gun control measures in place.
2. Rahm Emanuel is a huge ally to President Obama. Criticism of ongoing events in the city will appear to be a criticism of him and the local Democratic Party. Obama is not about to hit the people who helped him get into power.

You want to save Chicago? Stop the gangs. You want to stop them? Hit their revenue streams so they eventually run out of funds. How are they funded? Illegal activities, particularly the sale of drugs and narcotics. You want to stop the flow of drugs? They're coming from the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.

There is your problem. You beat the Sinaloa, you fix a big part of Chicago's problem. But the Sinaloa are well-trained, well-armed, and well-funded, backed by corrupt politicians and keeping the Mexican people under their thumb. We can't even keep their leaders behind bars.

[Luke]

A couple of reasons, Luke.

I know (or pretend to), but I'm frustrated.

So many of the answers seem so dog-gone simple, yet are so convoluted that it's hard to figure out "Where do we start?". I get upset when I can't find a solution, and this is an issue that literally keeps me up at night. We have gangs that require you to kill an innocent pedestrian just to show "what you're about". It's disturbing, it's brain-washing, it's disgusting, and it drives me nuts.

Shutting down a cartel won't stop fiends from wanting to use.

Take one out, another will move in.

SS of CHI is a microcosm of a much larger issue that may have a societal equation that could and would fix things, but I don't know where to start.

I don't think removing drugs or drug cartels is the answer. Chaos will continue to ensue.

...thinking out loud here, so don't take my words literally, but what if we had some kind of socialist program where people were issued a limited amount of narcotics? I don't agree with drug use, I'm simply trying to think of ideas that would limit the amount of innocent people being murdered.

That's a BIG can of worms to open, but I also think that assisted suicide is a grand idea that may stop people from shooting innocents.

That said, you can't cure crazy.