Is it just me or does it seem weird that Russian tankers can go there but Venezualan tankers can’t?

Awesome. Great church service today. The Chinese members cooked an authentic lunch for everyone. Incredibly delicious. The temperature has finally risen above freezing so the snow is starting to melt.

You might try the Anitques Roadshow.

What? Who frowns on people who think they’re above average intelligence? People around here get frowned upon if they are a jerk about it, but not otherwise.

A lot of people here are turning green with envy.

Great. A womb with a view.

It’s hard to picture an accident where pig semen was put in mice eyes.

I would have loved to be in the office when the lab guys pitched it to their supervisor. “Hey, boss. You know what we’d like to try…”

Yeah, that’s what made me remember this joke.

If I’m in a puble washroom, I knock it against the side of the urinal.

I’ve seen this before. Give it a little time and it’ll wilt.

How about hockey? Yeah, I still don’t think we’re in the same league. Their high schools have stadiums that would make our universities jealous.

We went to the Novosibersk (Siberia) winter festival in the main square thinking it would be lame, but it was actually really cool.

I’m guessing 2026 is going to be a whole lot higher due to oil prices.

The quotation that every Canadian is worth two Americans refers to the statistic that the average Canadian spends twice as much as the average American. No need to get riled up.

This is in Japan. They are respectful of property.

Yeah. I got two posts mixed up. It was supposed to be the moon landing.

Yes. When I was there, I was amazed by the public toilets in Tokyo.

I’ve heard a U.S. person call another person aggressive as a compliment. In Canada, it’s an insult. Also, there are fewer individual rights and more group rights. It’s obviously more socialist than the States. Government hospitals, universities and schools. Private schools are rare. Even the Conservative Party supports abortion, same-sex marriage, and universal health care. People are more reserved and more polite.There’s a common joke about holding the door open for the next person and saying sorry for everything. We are not as fanatical about sports. We are not really patriotic (unless we are travelling or someone mistakes us for a United Statesian). We are a bit insecure, having lived beside a powerful and dominant country all our lives. People from the U.S. who have moved here have told me there’s an absence of a pervasive, background fear that they didn’t realize was there until they moved to Canada.

Yeah. Irony on steroids.