At Least The View Is Nice.

At least the view is nice.

That feeling when you've got 90/10s and still insist on driving off road because why the heck not.

Most of the mud got scrubbed away on the Parkway but I'll take my "chicken strips" with pride.

PS: Judging a rider's skill by the edge of their tires is stupid and you know it.

The massive downside to meaningful action on climate change is that if global warming is false were left with a clean environment and a sustainable economic model. What a bummer

-teeth grits- Plaid overshirts in the 90s and early 2000s.

Durable. Versatile. Hide damage and stains well. Warm. Soft.

And then the hipsters came along.

I suffered through mockery and humiliation just for these damn posers to grow a neckbeard and buy a newsie cap and call it their own unique fashion.

Selling it at godsdamned Hot Topic.

In MY day you had to hunt the thrift stores because the only NEW shirts at Zellers were orange and purple patterned!

And then everyone now just presumes I'm one of them.

I don't even LIKE vinyl!

does anyone else secretly have that “i liked it before it was cool” complex but wont admit it

Good points. IATSE Toronto got kicked out of the CNE last year, after 100 years of service. "Too expensive" and some other bureaucratic bullshit. Because experience and precision and safety cost too much?

And then the city had the GALL to ask the union NOT to picket until AFTER the Ex was over?

"We just locked you out and got scabs to come in, but would you mind not letting the public know until after it matters?"

Apparently they had to bring in riggers from Quebec and America, and didn't tell them it was because of a strike that they were needed. So they got here, saw the line, and refused to cross it.

Sure, the city got it up. Yes, they had under skilled people who didn't know the spaces, who made several horrific rigging errors, who had to get everything up in even less time due to these other delays, and happily opened to the public.

Could everything have collapsed? Sure. And the buck would have been passed around. And I don't doubt the union would have been blamed, for not just accepting the city's bullshit negotiation terms and returning to the job.

Were people who filled those work calls just making a living? Sure. But they were also under skilled, under qualified, inexperienced, and having no real clout to hold the city accountable in event of injury or improper labour. Which very much did occur.

So I guess that could add to the list.

6. Never take a scab job providing work labour for a company who's union employees are on strike.

We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.

1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.

2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking

3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.

4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.

5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.

Yay!

Damnit.