Honestly...?
If you're spouting off about Canada being a "totalitarian regime" lead by an "authoritarian dictator", what you're actually spouting is: "I have no sense of world history, reality, or what big words mean!"
Stop acting like pandemic mandates are a tyrannical attack on your "freedoms" & "rights".
You aren't free to drive drunk or smoke in restaurants. It's not "your right" to take a dump on Main Street. When you live AMONG OTHERS there are rules to protect the group.
This is not new.
I had an eye exam today and you can't convince me that little "puff" of air they blast right onto your eyeball tells them anything.
That's some inside gag they do for their own sick jollies.
Ever since I tweeted a joke about "Beiber being Tim Horton's second choice after I said 'no' to their Butt Holes idea", the graphics have been swirling fast and furious. Each one better than the last! It'll be hard to beat this one by
@JeffQuigley
.
Ordering breakfast in Saskatchewan this morning...
HER: How would you like your eggs?
ME: Over easy.
HER: White toast, rye, or multi-grain?
ME: Multigrain.
HER: Hash browns or perogies?
ME: ...?
HER: Hash browns or perogies?
ME: Hang on, I just have to tweet this.
Our garbage bin sits on a sloped alley and it always rolls away or tips. So I cut a hockey puck in half and screwed the 2 sides to the bottom. Join me next week for more "CANADIAN SOLUTIONS".
My dad would've turn 105 today. And he would've said something like "I don't look a day over 103". He fought nazis, raised 7 kids, built our house, played harmonica & step-danced, told stories, wrote poems, kicked ass at the gameshow "Definition" and I straight-up idolized him.
I don't think journalism is supposed to be "balanced". It's supposed to be true.
Honest.
Factual.
Relevant.
If candidate A is an arsonist, report they're an arsonist. You shouldn't have to follow up with a story about how candidate B once burned the steaks at a family BBQ.
I feel like 99.8% of people who rage against socialism should end every comment with “...bearing in mind, I clearly don’t understand what socialism actually is.”
Someone replied to a tweet of mine by calling me an "ex-CBC comedian trying to remain relevant" and I can't stop smiling. Even beyond the fact neither of my TV series were on CBC (solid research sir!) I love the idea of someone associating "relevance" and "Canadian showbusiness".
This video breaks my heart in the warmest, loveliest way. We're so lucky that such a giant part of his work was recorded for us to enjoy over and over and over.
Seeing more and more of this. Dipshits just tossing used masks/gloves onto the street or sidewalk. If you’re someone doing this, would you please (a) stop, and (b) put a boot in your own ass for me?
My dad fought in WW2. He was funny, gregarious, loved to talk & tell stories. About the only thing he didn’t like to talk about was his time in the war. It would quiet him like nothing else. Can’t imagine what military members go through when the chips are down.
#lestweforget
The year is 2034. Your feet aren’t really feet, they’re big spotty bananas. Your apartment is constructed of pencils and gum. An angry Kodiak bear is your government-mandated spouse.
Is this the future you want?
Shouldn't have to say this, but some people need to hear it. So, this tweet is ONLY for you if you didn't know this already...
Don't throw rocks at anyone, you dim brainless crapsack! Not at people, not at animals, not at birds. If you do, you're an asshole.
Okay, carry on.
Saddened to hear about Anthony Bourdain. And before him Kate Spade. And before them thousands and thousands and thousands of others who were all pushing their way through something many of us will never understand.
Always remember that "health" includes mental health.
Imagine being so fuelled and blinded by partisan hate, so jacked up on the ceaseless trough of curated bile being funnelled into your personal online algorithm that you'd try to spin & downplay an ACTUAL dictator's full-scale military invasion of YOUR country's European ally.
If you're blaming Asians for this pandemic, or anything else, that's racism. If you can't recognize that it's racism, then on top of the racism you're being a base and simple dipshit.
You need to grow up, wise up, and until you do... shut up.
You gotta admit... Trump raging about his scene in HomeAlone 2 being cut from Canadian TV broadcast, blaming it on Trudeau - saying it’s revenge for the new NAFTA deal (when the scene was part of 8 mins cut out in 2014 to meet broadcast time) is a pretty bang-on way to end 2019.
Terry Fox ran "the equivalent of 143 consecutive marathons - one each day" while battling cancer, knowing the money he raised would not benefit himself, but might help others after he was gone. Absolute hero.
April 12th-On This Day in BC Sport History: 1980
Dipping his prosthetic leg into the Atlantic Ocean, Port Coquitlam’s Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope in St. John’s, Newfoundland to raise money & awareness for cancer research. Fox captivates Canadians across the.../2
I’m not a legal scholar, and not great at math, but we should probably stop fining corporations a million dollars as punishment for stealing a billion dollars.
They bent 5 needles and had to haul out the diamond-tipped titanium jabber to drill into my pipes, but I finally got my first shot!!!
#wooooo
(...and yes, my arms don’t see much sunlight.) Feeling hugely grateful to the scientists and healthcare workers who made this possible.
If you’re the dim backwardassed ignorant shallow dipshit who wrote this letter to this family, please be advised; we don’t like YOUR kind around here. So piss off back under your rock.
FINISHED! I've been hunkered down working hard on something I've always dreamed of doing - writing a novel. First draft is now complete and I'm proud & excited & generally sort of pumped. Wanted to share the moment.
Just had someone come into my Twitter timeline to tell me what bits of my language need "correcting" so as to conform with their religious beliefs.
Please don't do that.
Thanks in advance.
I can't spend much of the day with her (😔) because she's on set shooting a new TV show (😃) so I am therefore Twittering a GIANT HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GROOVIEST CHICK I KNOW, my wife, the wondrous and talented
@nancyRtweets
, who I happen to be in love with❤️!
I keep trying to think of what to say about the horror in Nova Scotia - the nightmare those families are living through now because of one person’s evil actions - and I come up blank every time. No words even begin to get there. Just sending my love and my sympathies.
34 years ago today (first Thur. in Feb. 1988) I nervously stepped onstage at a comedy club for the very first time.
I've been literally living my dream ever since.
Really hitting me this year, for some reason, and I'm feeling powerfully blessed and deeply grateful.
So thank you.
There are now grown adults ATTACKING children who survived the Florida school shooting.
Smearing them.
Telling them to shut up about their experiences.
It's unbelievable. And it's unconscionable. And it's happening.
The most confused chanting I've ever seen. "Stop the count?" Not a great message during an election. Don't get me wrong - if you're outside Dracula's castle, it's solid!
This is my dad in WW2. Fought to liberate Europe and slap down a fascist dictator whose political allies allowed him to incrementally gain more and more authoritarian power until he could ultimately rule without answering to the people.
#LestWeForget
Thanks Dad.
If YOU get pregnant, YOU decide how YOU proceed and everyone else should keep their nose out of that incredibly personal situation until they're invited in.
I have zero time for anyone who thinks they or a government should dictate otherwise.
(zero time=not arguing online)
Main criticisms of Biden speech:
1. Didn’t sniff his way through like a coked-up warlord.
2. Didn’t say which actresses he thinks are ugly.
3. Provided no anecdotes about people telling him how smart he is.
How can any reasonable adult align themselves with a political party that screams "Every election we won was clean and good, and every election we lost was rigged and fixed"?
It's the basic operating procedure of a poorly-raised 4 year old.
My sister-in-law told me that she wanted to learn how to bake bread like my Mom, so she asked mom for her recipe. Mom said "Ok...you start with 7 or 10 cups of flour...."
My sis-in-law said "Wait...7 or 10?"
Mom said "Depending on how big a cup you grab from the cupboard."
Seeing
@jannarden
deal with a few dinglenuts on here, telling her to "watch your language"..."keep your opinions to yourself" (on her own twitter feed...that kills me!) Don't like the language? Tough shit, shitheads. (Oh...and good luck getting Jann to zip her opinions)
#goofs
VOTE TODAY!!!
Because you know your sexist, xenophobic, homophobic uncle who thinks “all millennials need a swift boot in the arse” is probably going to.
A guy once complained to me about closed captions on Corner Gas. He angrily said "Why'd you do it? We don't need it, it's distracting, it ruins the show, just so you can look all sensitive and inclusive!"
I said "That's a setting on your TV."
He said "I don't care! Stop it!"
This should piss off any reasonable adult. When a government uses brainless, embarrassing playground tactics to prevent journalists from asking questions, you know you've elected folks with no answers. Any leader who doesn't step in to stop this is a con artist and/or coward.
Mike MacDonald has passed away. I can't wrap my head around it. Part of me wants to yell IT'S NOT TRUE!!! The rest of me is numb. Spent so many nights (late80s/early90s) into the morning, playing cards & laughing ourselves sick. And fighting. Then laughing more.
Goddammit.
I guess IN THEORY a world leader could say they’re going to impose a 10% tariff on Chinese goods, causing stock market to plummet, then they & their rich pals could buy a ton of deflated stock, then lift the tariffs & watch their new stock value skyrocket.
But that’d be cheating.
I'm hoping the news about Betty White passing is some weird "end of year" prank and she'll still pop out of a cake or something at midnight. I don't want it to be true.
She was just so goddamn good.
Having your staffers clap on cue to drown out questions from journalists is a pretty efficient way of letting the public know you don't have sensible answers to any significant questions.
This isn't about how healthy YOU are
How strong YOU are
How "ain't scared" YOU are
You can be all that & still carry it
You can pick it up, spread it around - feeling fine, oblivious
However YOU feel, this is about slowing the spread
Not overflowing health systems so OTHERS die.
February 1988:
First time I stepped onstage at a comedy club.
As of this month, I've been out here cracking wise and mugging it up for 35 friggin' years. And loving (damn near) every minute of it!
Not to be schmaltzy...but thanks to everyone who's ever chuckled at any of it.
Here's my Dad, Herb, in WW2. He was the toughest most upbeat guy I ever knew, so when mom told me that for the first 3 yrs of marriage he woke up almost every night from a war-related nightmare, it made me wonder what horror they went through. Respect & gratitude.
#RemembranceDay
I can’t even...
My big brother sent me this pic. 15 sticks on his porch. I said “That’s awesome. I’m sorry I don’t have a stick to put out.” He said “The little goalie stick out there is yours - I took it from the basement at Mom’s.”
#humboldtstrong
#putyoursticksout
We grew up in the same neck of the woods. Mind-blowing to see a kid my age doing sports on our local TV feed. We were proud to see him go on to become one of the best in the entire country. His cameo on Corner Gas is one of my favs. Such a talented and truly good guy.
#RIPDutchy
SCIENCE: "We know how to vastly reduce and almost eliminate the spread of this global pandemic that is killing hundreds of thousands of humans worldwide."
SOME PEOPLE: "Ok... but the solution better not involve me being mildly inconvenienced for portions of my day!"
THANKS SO MUCH for all the kind and loverly birthday wishes today, folks. You've warmed my ticker and tickled my tuchus. It's past 5pm now, so I'm pouring a whisky, firing up the BBQ, and counting my blessings.
Today would've been my Mom's 91st birthday! She's been gone almost 7 years now, but still, once a week or so I think about picking up the phone and calling her to tell her something, then remembering. She's missed everyday. You would've liked her... she was a riot!
NANCY: The people in North Carolina must be scared with the hurricane headed their way.
ME: I don't know...they named their hockey team after it.
NANCY: Their hockey team is called 'Florence'...?
#Otd
The Tragically Hip Corner Gas episode aired on TV ⛽️🍁🎶📺
~ Gord and The Hip play the ‘local kids’ band renting Brent’s garage to practice. Brent quotes a Hip song saying, “Don't tell me what the poets are doing” 😊
#TheHip
#GordDownie
#Throwback
📹
Throughout history (ours included) whenever a government decides to systematically remove children from their parents it proves to be horrible and monstrous and GLARINGLY WRONG! Yet there’s always a new pack of cruel assholes to shout “this time it’s righteous!”
It’s not.
My dad passed away just after I turned 16. Taught me a lot in that short time.
Been without him almost 37 yrs, but I still think about him and talk about him fondly almost every day. Says something about what kind of dad he was. I lucked out BIG TIME in the pops department.
If you hire a greasy amoral criminal to do greasy amoral criminal things for you, don’t be surprised if that greasy amoral criminal turns and shines a light on your greasy amoral criminality to save his own greasy criminal skin.
That’s all part of the greasy amoral criminal life.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was George Reed.
I idolized him. In 2013 I was soooo happy (can you tell by my face?) that I got to meet him!
They say "never meet your heroes"...but I met mine, and he was every inch as great as 10-year-old me imagined.
#RIPGeorgeReed
When you hear...
#BlackLivesMatter
#IndigenousLivesMatter
...don't respond with "ALL lives matter!" Like it's clever, or relevant.
You KNOW it misses the point.
You see who is targeted and who isn't.
Don't pretend it's otherwise.
We all need to work to change this.
Get on board.
First off, I have serious doubts regarding the song's claim that The Flintstones was "a page right out of history". In fact, several aspects of the show flagrantly violate known history and, frankly, strain credulity. In this thread I will--
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random suburban dad at the grocery store, wearing his Tactical Flip Flops, accosts another shopper as an “illegal alien” and threatens to place him under citizen’s arrest. great times
If you're looking for a place to be told to "shut up about world events and stick to comedy" while simultaneously being told "now is no time for jokes, there are serious problems to discuss", then oh baby, is Twitter the place for you!
NEW RULE: Saying that no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, and children killed in school shootings are a hoax, and forest fires are caused by space lasers, and supporting the execution of public figures AUTOMATICALLY gets you removed from any position involving education.
If you hear someone say “I KNOW MORE ABOUT WAR THAN THE GENERALS, BELIEVE ME!” and then “I KNOW MORE ABOUT SCIENCE THAN THE SCIENTISTS, BELIEVE ME!” you should absolutely not believe that person.
There are only 2 things keeping me from becoming a chess master:
1) I’m not very good at chess
2) I can’t look at the bishop piece without seeing Grover from Sesame Street.
"I'm not gonna listen to these main stream media hacks, they're all BIASED!!! I'm going to get MY news from a website that feeds me selective stories that support what I already believe as determined by an algorithm based on my previous likes and shares!"