There is no better spectator sport in the universe. None. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Apparently the honey badger mascot is not getting the warm reception the organization had been hoping for. Before the Roughnecks’ first home game was even finished, campaigns to get rid of the badger and bring back Derrick had been started on Facebook and Twitter. At the start of this past weekend’s game, when the honey badger showed up on the floor it was greeted by a chorus of boos from the fans. I suspect most of the votes in the naming contest are things like “Lamey,” “Stupid,” and “Honey Badgers Suck.” As far as I’m aware, however, the Roughnecks have no plans to get rid of the badger and bring back the mascot people actually like.
mnemosyne, I happily accept responsibility for your being stuck watching lacrosse. It’s not quite as good on TV as it is live, though, I will admit – you don’t really get a sense of the energy in the stadium.
Twenty five years for those murderers seems awfully short. Hopefully they try honour killing some of their fellow inmates and get that time extended a bit.
In Toronto, I at least have a chance of being able to take my kids to see the Rock. The Maple Leafs? Forget it - I could buy an home theatre system for what I’d have to spend for tickets.
Our reactions to this whole situation are an excellent example of why emotion can create bad public policy. When we’re emotionally bound up with something–hating, loving, whatever–we can’t see everything about it. Which is really bad when trying to guide a country.
I think part of the reason we’re having such a strong emotional reaction to this case is because the Shafia killers basically did what a lot of Canadians are afraid of - they brought the worst parts of their culture with them and exercised them, resulting in four dead, innocent people. I don’t think the murderers feel they did anything wrong even after their guilty verdict, and that does bother me.
It’s not a sentence of 25 years - it’s a life sentence, with no right to apply for parole for 25 years. Even then, there is no guarantee of parole ever being granted.
Love that video! I can only assume some genius in the Flames/Roughnecks head office heard about honey badgers and said, “Hey, these things are totally bad-ass! Let’s change the mascot to one of them, even though they have nothing whatsoever to do with the oil industry in Alberta! Fans will LOVE it!” :rolleyes:
I haven’t really cheered for the Flames since the early 90s. Recently I’ve gone back to cheering for my original favourite team, the Canadiens. :smack:
This may explain why I’m kind of off the hockey thing and onto lacrosse since my beloved Roughnecks have made the playoffs nine straight years and won two championships in that time as well.
I was going to argue with you about the Faint Hope clause, but scanning up that link I see that, as multiple murderers, they aren’t eligible for a reduction. So that’s good news.
What on earth is a honey badger, and why are they suddenly everywhere?
Now, I admit that I found Derrick just a touch creepy - and that’s as an adult. A small child would probably be terrified of his giant head.
But still. A honey badger?
My reading of Northern Piper’s link above suggests that the bill tightened the restrictions on faint hope cases to disallow some people, such as multiple murderers, but that it wasn’t eliminated entirely. IANAL, however, so I may be missing some key piece of information
Appropos of nothing at all, I have to grudgingly admit, after watching tons of reality shows with Canadians in them, we really do say, “about” funny. Only a few people say it funny in the way US Americans think we do, though - we have about 15 different ways of saying it funny.
But I’m standing firm on the Canadian bacon bullshit. :mad:
Yep. Listening to hockey commentary and player interviews, you really get a broad exposure to the various Canadian accents (and other countries) and, yeah, about is definitely said differently by Canadians than most Americans. Chris Cuthbert stands out, but he has a particular voice to begin with.
The one I notice the most with the Canadian about is JoshGorges- he’s from Kelowna, BC. He raisesmost of his vowels - words like know, fight, more, zone, about, to,. In the first video…what Carey’s all about is pretty funny.
It does vary, though - people from out East sound different to my ear. I don’t notice it much in Quebec, though that might be due to a francophone influence. Southern Ontario has another accent, IMHO. It’s a big country - hard to ensure we all speak the same
Every time I watch the news, it’s a whole bunch of knees jerking wildly about our pensions. The message I’m getting from everyone they interview on tv is that they don’t want the government re-visting pensions, no way, no how. We’ve gone through a serious recession since pensions were last re-visted and there is a huge mass of people just set to go through their retirement years; it would be irresponsible of the federal government to not look at the pension plan and see if tweaks need to be made. Crossing our fingers and ignoring the problems and hoping that things just magically turn out okay is ridiculous, but that seems to be what everyone wants. Let’s keep an eye on Greece and see how refusing to be realistic about pensions works out.
I think that some people are wildly excited about pensions, and others less so.
I never worked for a company with a pension plan–they are, to me, unusual. No high-tech company I ever worked for gave a pension plan, and that’s who I worked for in the 80s and 90’s. When you get right down to it, I got nuthin’.
Thankfully, I am in a career where I can work for the rest of my life (as a lawyer). I may be ancient, but I intend to keep my license to practice; and I’ll practice util I die.
