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Vancouver this Morning, in a Nutshell

Sun, 2014/02/23 - 11:37am
Post by Michael R. Barrick.

[Gothic BC] Skinny Puppy Music Used as Torture in Guantanamo

Sat, 2014/02/08 - 1:26pm
Post by Gothic BC.

Still on the First Page

Fri, 2014/02/07 - 9:46pm

Even with the Sochi games in full swing, my addition to the 2010 mascots is still turning up on the first page of a Google image search for "winter olympic mascots".

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Fukushima Bananapocalypse

Wed, 2014/01/29 - 11:43am

Imagine if an average-sized freighter, like any of the ones routinely waiting in English Bay, loaded with about 700 40' shipping containers of bananas were to sink off the coast of Japan. Would you be worried? Based on the amount of radioactive potassium in the average banana, our hypothetical banana boat is the radioactive equivalent to all the radioactive water leaked so far.

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How to Lose a Customer

Sat, 2014/01/11 - 3:38pm

I had a regular check-up booked with my (former) dentist in November. With my whooping cough, I had to cancel that. I explained that it would be *months* before I could lie back with someone poking about in my mouth without coughing myself in to unconsciousness or vomiting. They have continued to nag me about my appointment and I explained again and again and AGAIN the nature of this disease and that I would contact them when I was well enough to tolerate a cleaning without a paroxysmal coughing fit.


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