Archive for 'Canada'
Fuzzy Math: Oh, Really, O'Reilly?
Right here, you can witness the magic of fuzzy math. Peter Gilles of Victoria, Canada writes to Bill O’Reilly, asking, “Has anyone noticed that life expectancy in Canada under our health care system is higher than the USA?” O’Reilly attempts to claim that this is because we are a more populous country. (He also claims [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Canada, Canadian, health care, math.
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America, I Love You, But I Think We Should See Other People
Ok, so the funniest part, to me, is that I found this video with this comment: “would this tick you off? [] thinks it’s hilarious. clearly, it’s mostly funny because of a stupid american stereotype. it’s mildly clever and funny, but don’t you agree that the stereotype is a big part of it?” What stereotype? [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2007 under American, Bush, Canada, Canadian, Comedy, Earth, United States, americano, americans, citizen, estadounidense, funny, humor, i love you, idiot, intelligence, other people, register, spanish, stereotype, stupid, vote.
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Metrosexual: Frogs turn to Prince Charmings, Anarchy Ensues?
So I was cleaning out my desk this weekend for the first time since third grade, because I was hoping that somehow my ticket for Rock the Bells would be in there, and I came across some ugly ass wrapping paper. It was graced with snowflakes and the visages of mid-nineties pop stars – [...]
Posted: August 1st, 2007 under America, American Indian, Bavaria, Beer Boob, CVS, Canada, Canexico, Coors Twins, Foster's, Gay, Indian, Indians, JTT, Kenmen, Labatt's Blue, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Miller Lite Cat Fight, Milwaukee's Best Automotive Girl, Native American, Rock The Bells, Rolling Rock Ape Babes, St. Louis, St. Pauli Girl, Troegs, Usher, Vanna White, Wall Street, Will Smith, YM magazine, advertisement, aggressive, anarchy, ass, assertive, babe, bank, beer, beer drinker, belgium, boob, burping, camera, civil war, commericial, cultural, culture, direct, dominant, dominate, fantasize, fantasy, farting, foreclosure, gloss, government, happy, heterosexual, hottie, lesbian, lip, lip pencil, machismo, macho, magazine, make up, makeup for men, metrosexual, mexico, mid-nineties, mind, model, mortgages, objectification, passive, personal income tax, pop star, porn, power, power dynamic, powerful, rawkward, revlon, sexual attraction, sexual objectification, sexy, shoplifting, skin tone, snowflakes, stella artois, straight, stripper, teen magazine, truce, viewer, virtual bartender, war, wrapping paper.
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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There’s A First Time For Everything, but todavia no for Graciela
I just stumbled across this story from the BBC about Graciela Yataco, a Peruvian model-cum-actress who at the age of 18 has been working to support her mother and brother for 10 years and out of school for 3. The article’s about her decision to sell, and then not to sell, her virginity for 1.5 [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under BBC, Canada, Catholicism, Christianity, Genesis, God, Graciela Yataco, Judeo-Christian, Peru, Pornography, Sex Roles, Women and Gender Studies, objectification, pimp, porn star, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexual advance, virginity.
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