# The CanaDoper Café, 2013 edition. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2013, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736 "2013-01-01T03:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 30
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/581 "2013-03-12T17:32:34Z")
I guess that’s the difference between an acacdemic high school and a tech high school. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/582 "2013-03-12T17:47:35Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I guess that’s the difference between an acacdemic high school and a tech high school. Could be, but I went to an academic high school. We didn’t have an auto shop, or any shop for that matter. I’m guessing the coach changed his air filter one day, thought “This old one would be good for floor hockey and it’ll save us a few bucks on our equipment budget,” and that was that. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/583 "2013-03-12T18:08:13Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Could be, but I went to an academic high school. We didn’t have an auto shop, or any shop for that matter. > > I’m guessing the coach changed his air filter one day, thought “This old one would be good for floor hockey and it’ll save us a few bucks on our equipment budget,” and that was that. That, or it was such an underfunded tech high school that it couldn’t afford any shops. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/584 "2013-03-12T19:16:44Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Oh, thank goodness. Sunset an hour later. I will be much happier from here on. > > As CanaDopers, in northern lattudes as we all are, can attest, we look forward to when sunset is an hour later. More daylight! As someone in those latitudes I heartily say; Nertz! I detest DST. It messes up my sleep and during the summer when it ostensibly is supposed to help sunrise is at 5 AM and sunset is around 10-ish. If it had to be done, I’d sooner have that “extra” hour in the winter when I go to work in the dark and get home in the dark. DST blows goats… ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/585 "2013-03-12T19:25:28Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Did anyone ever play broomball? I have not-so-fond memories of a semi-flaccid, crappy soccer ball hitting my face at 20 MPH and wrapping itself half-way around my head like an alien face-hugger. All this at -20. > > Getting hit with the ball caused far more pain than getting hit with the stick. After I snorted coffee out my nose all the suppressed memories came flooding back…\ On the subject of improvised sports equipment my Jr. High used 4 L milk jugs of frozen water for curling on the flooded and frozen football field. The first time we used real curling stones I damn near herniated myself, not to mention sending it rocketing down ice at about 900 kph; just slightly less friction (and grass) than I accounted for. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/586 "2013-03-12T20:17:09Z")
On the subject of winter sports in Canada, I’m taking a powder day at the hill tomorrow – have to do something with today’s [freshie](http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/2633/130312aoliverpaipoonge2.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/587 "2013-03-12T20:44:57Z")
Ah, Spring. Canadian for “eight more weeks of winter” 😃 Shamelessly stolen from RationalWiki ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/588 "2013-03-12T21:26:27Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > Did anyone ever play broomball? I have not-so-fond memories of a semi-flaccid, crappy soccer ball hitting my face at 20 MPH and wrapping itself half-way around my head like an alien face-hugger. All this at -20. > > Getting hit with the ball caused far more pain than getting hit with the stick. I _loved_ playing broomball! I may have been somewhat…liberal with the application of my stick to other players. 😃 > [@hogarth](#): > > What do you wear when you play street hockey? Skates? Stilts? Stilettos? Just my regular golf cleats, like everyone else. > [@Spoons](#): > > We just called it floor hockey. We didn’t use a felt ringette ring though. Not sure why, because our school certainly could afford such a thing. Instead, we played with a car’s air filter. Ah, the good old days. I _know_ you’re old enough to remember actual straps in schools, too. > [@swampspruce](#): > > After I snorted coffee out my nose all the suppressed memories came flooding back…\ > > On the subject of improvised sports equipment my Jr. High used 4 L milk jugs of frozen water for curling on the flooded and frozen football field. The first time we used real curling stones I damn near herniated myself, not to mention sending it rocketing down ice at about 900 kph; just slightly less friction (and grass) than I accounted for. The mind picture of you rocketing that curling rock is making me smile. 🙂 > [@detop](#): > > Ah, Spring. Canadian for “eight more weeks of winter” 😃 Shamelessly stolen from RationalWiki Friggin’ winter. It can piss right off now as far as I’m concerned. Okay, I guess that’s it - I’ve officially hit “Sick of Winter.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/589 "2013-03-12T21:47:55Z")
I had a close call today, in fact. At our neighbourhood dog park, the only bit that’s still remotely clean is the bit by the bocce courts. In fact, the bocce courts still have a nice coat of ice on them. “Ahh, a good place for Benji to run without getting his paws too muddy”, thought I. I went to step into them - my left foot was on the ice, and when I lifted my right, WHOOSH, everything goes right out from under me. Luckily, I had the instinct to pull my chin to my chest as hard as I could. As it was, I landed on my back and shoulders with my full weight, with the boards that _just_ behind my head. If I hadn’t tucked my head in like that, the top of my spine/back of my head would have hit those boards 8 inches sooner than the rest of me. I’m stiff and sore, and I think I’ve done something unpleasant to my left wrist again, but at least I don’t have a concussion. Or worse. Never thought of bocce as a dangerous sport before… ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/590 "2013-03-12T22:00:46Z")
Ouch. Glad it wasn’t worse. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/591 "2013-03-13T03:47:25Z")
Me too. Falling on ice is so damned dangerous, and so damned easy. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/592 "2013-03-13T04:12:33Z")
Glad it’s just bruises and soreness, **Le Ministre.** ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/593 "2013-03-13T04:46:52Z")
Same here. Hope you’re feeling better soon! (I took a nasty spill on the ice in my driveway last fall, so I know how you likely feel.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/594 "2013-03-13T04:57:07Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Ah, the good old days. I _know_ you’re old enough to remember actual straps in schools, too. Missed this. Yes, I went to elementary school when the strap was present. I never experienced it myself, but a classmate did, numerous times. I cannot remember when they did away with it (when I was in Grade 2? Grade 3?), but they did do away with it while I was at elementary school. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/595 "2013-03-13T05:06:28Z")
I got shown the strap in about grade 7. This would have been 74/75. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/596 "2013-03-13T12:39:09Z")
In grade 7 I was caned once for forgetting a teacher’s name. I did not think that was right. Later that year the junior school headmaster tried to cane me for allegedly taking another student’s hat (I didn’t). It did not go well for him. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/597 "2013-03-13T13:00:44Z")
and in other news: [Controversial free speech defender Douglas H. Christie, lawyer for Canada’s most prominent hatemongers, dead at 66](http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/12/controversial-free-speech-defender-douglas-h-christie-lawyer-for-canadas-most-prominent-hatemongers-dead-at-66/) ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/598 "2013-03-13T13:38:08Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > and in other news: > > [Controversial free speech defender Douglas H. Christie, lawyer for Canada’s most prominent hatemongers, dead at 66](http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/12/controversial-free-speech-defender-douglas-h-christie-lawyer-for-canadas-most-prominent-hatemongers-dead-at-66/) There was an interview with him on As It Happens last week. He sounded pessimistic about the chances for someone else to step up and take those kind of cases. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/599 "2013-03-13T14:00:56Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > There was an interview with him on As It Happens last week. He sounded pessimistic about the chances for someone else to step up and take those kind of cases. Oh please. :rolleyes: Where there’s sufficient money, there will always be a lawyer ready to take the case. Now if hatemongers are all poor, that could change my answer… ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736/600 "2013-03-13T14:40:30Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Missed this. > > Yes, I went to elementary school when the strap was present. I never experienced it myself, but a classmate did, numerous times. I cannot remember when they did away with it (when I was in Grade 2? Grade 3?), but they did do away with it while I was at elementary school. When I lived in Longlac in the late 70’s the strap was still in regular rotation. My grade 5 teacher was the vice principal (he had been the principal, then he broke his leg seriously and another teacher stepped in.) But the VP gave the strap. I had the desk right beside the interior door from classroom to Principal’s office, and I could hear the thwack and the kids begging for mercy. It was horrible to hear. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-canadoper-cafe-2013-edition/645736.md?page=31)