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Originally Posted by donk. (Post 9088038)

Butt chug bro, gets you drunk quicker. Get the wife to help

This is why Honda installed a bench in his :ifyouknow:

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Originally Posted by punkwax (Post 9088041)

I played hockey with a guy who would have a smoke and a beer in the dressing room shower after every game. Can’t do that anymore lol

Fuck that guy for real lol

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Originally Posted by Badhobz (Post 9088036)

Confiscating your chinky mcchink card right now evo. :rukidding:

I so sowwweeee

Did you know with our mcChink card you get unlimited social good will at libraries and shopping centres ?

p.s. we get negative social credit at ICBC licensing centres and Costco Parking Lots.

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/...w/original.png

I already lost my chink card long ago when I barely scraped by calculus lol. I can't math.

Man, I love good beer, and I love good showers. Never have I thought to combine the two. Must try.

Come on, I'm not as soft as E-SPEC.

This is how you deal with nuisance customers in your store. This idiot was heckling at customers in a guitar shop. :lawl:

This video is gold hahaha.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/video...62668304b2d91d

Belligerent Man Thrown Out of Guitar Shop

Occurred on January 12, 2023 / Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA: "This man was heckling customers and being a nuisance in the store. Guitar Center employees confronted him, voices escalated, the man repeatedly refused to leave the story, he got louder

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Originally Posted by MarkyMark (Post 9088033)

How long are your guys showers where you have time to enjoy a beer in it?

Tankless hot water heater = unlimited hot water. :accepted:

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Originally Posted by pastarocket (Post 9088084)

That guitar was not made in chinar............. if it were, it would have broke when dropped.

Also, burly men with guitars...................... damn. New Mexico and Texas........... no skinny asians allowed. Hee hee

Bugs Bunny reference........... "I knew I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque."

Spoiler!

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Originally Posted by Hondaracer (Post 9088022)

Lol that’s kind of like those people who are like “I only eat for fuel!!” You can’t just have a non-functional shower? Lol

I guess if you’ve got a shitty uncomfortable shower, but fuck a nice hot shower with that rainfall head, and a nice cold beer, bam.

When I designed my showed I even put a bench in it, almost never use it but sometimes keep the steam going and have a little sit and finish the beer lol

I call those bath showers. You sit in the tub while the shower is going at high heat, if you wanna be spicy throw the plug in the drain and let the tub slowly fill.

Hella relaxing.

How do you guys feel about this?

https://www.cloverdalereporter.com/e...r-in-shooting/

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Prosecutors announced Thursday that actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer who was killed in 2021 on a New Mexico movie set.

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies issued a statement announcing the charges against Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who supervised weapons on the set.

Halyna Hutchins died shortly after being wounded during rehearsals for the Western “Rust” at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021. Baldwin was pointing a pistol at Hutchins when the gun went off, killing her and wounding the director, Joel Souza.

Authorities said assistant director David Halls has signed a plea agreement for the charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza, who led the initial investigation into Hutchins’ death, described “a degree of neglect” on the film set. But he left decisions about potential criminal charges to prosecutors after delivering the results of a yearlong investigation in October. That report did not specify how live ammunition wound up on the film set.

Baldwin — known for his roles in “30 Rock” and “The Hunt for Red October” and his impression of former President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live” — has described the killing as a “tragic accident.”

He sought to clear his name by suing people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that was handed to him on the set. Baldwin, also a co-producer on “Rust,” said he was told the gun was safe.

In his lawsuit, Baldwin said that while working on camera angles with Hutchins during rehearsal for a scene, he pointed the gun in her direction and pulled back and released the hammer of the weapon, which discharged.

New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator determined the shooting was an accident following the completion of an autopsy and a review of law enforcement reports.

New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau has levied the maximum fine against Rust Movie Productions, based on a scathing narrative of safety failures, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires of blank ammunition on the set prior to the fatal shooting.

Rust Movie Productions continues to challenge the basis of a $137,000 fine by regulators who say production managers on the set failed to follow standard industry protocols for firearms safety.

The armorer who oversaw firearms on the set, Gutierrez Reed, has been the subject of much of the scrutiny in the case, along with an independent ammunition supplier. An attorney for Gutierrez Reed has said she did not put a live round in the gun that killed Hutchins, and she believes she was the victim of sabotage. Authorities said they have found no evidence of that.

Investigators initially found 500 rounds of ammunition at the movie set on the outskirts of Santa Fe — a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what appeared to be live rounds. Industry experts have said live rounds should never be on set.

In April 2022, the Santa Fe Sheriff’s Department released a trove of files, including lapel camera video of the mortally wounded Hutchins slipping in and out of consciousness as a medical helicopter arrived. Witness interrogations, email threads, text conversations, inventories of ammunition and hundreds of photographs rounded out that collection of evidence.

State workplace safety regulators said that immediate gun-safety concerns were addressed when “Rust” ceased filming, and that a return to filming in New Mexico would be accompanied by new safety inspections.

The family of Hutchins — widower Matthew Hutchins and son Andros — settled a lawsuit against producers under an agreement that aims to restart filming with Matthew Hutchin’s involvement as executive producer.

“Rust” was beset by disputes from the start in early October 2021. Seven crew members walked off the set just hours before the fatal shooting amid discord over working conditions.

Don't see why Alec is going to be prosecuted, his job is to pick up the gun and shoot it. It's not his job to check for real rounds on a MOVIE set

The "weapons expert" + the company handling the weapons, on the other hand messed up. How the hell do you even get live rounds onto a movie set, unless he wanted the cinematographer dead

Yah I don't get why Alec is charged unless there's more to the story we don't know about.

Maybe it's because he's a producer for the movie as well and therefore liable by extension in good ol USA???

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Originally Posted by mikemhg (Post 9088115)

I call those bath showers. You sit in the tub while the shower is going at high heat, if you wanna be spicy throw the plug in the drain and let the tub slowly fill.

Hella relaxing.

this might be weird too but i take my showers in the dark. i just have my night light on that is always in the bathroom so i can sorta see around me. i know where my soap is, i know where my junk is, i don't need to see in great detail when im in the shower. i find its more relaxing. i don't really do it when im taking a 3 minute shower but if im taking a bit of a longer hot shower to relax as well then it's quite nice. try it!

The prosecutors gave their reasonings for the charges in a CNN interview:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/us/sa...ged/index.html

After reading through that, I kind of understand the charges. It factors in his responsibility as a producer to ensure safety procedures on set in general... Especially given that they had multiple previous safety issues on set (including misfires) it seems like some negligence there.

Talk about guys with a plan to kill police officers.

Anti-government bank robbers who wanted to make a statement about gun ownership rights.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/0...oting-updated/

The suspects involved in a brazen day-time bank shooting in Saanich last year had been planning the incident since at least 2019, with the intent of killing as many police officers as possible, investigators say.

The latest details come more than six months after the incident unfolded at the BMO in the Vancouver Island community, leaving locals and many others across the province shaken.

In an update provided Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, investigators say the suspects, who were identified as twin 22-year-old brothers, both held strong views on government and police. They add the evidence is clear the attempted bank robbery was a means to get police to respond in droves, and that Mathew and Isaac Auchterlonie knew they wouldn’t survive.

“Despite previous speculations, there was no evidence found to suggest any third party was involved,” RCMP Corp. Alex BÃ©rub© with the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit said Friday.

It was determined the suspects’ primary objective was to shoot and kill police officers, in what they saw as a stand against government regulations, especially in relation to firearms ownership.”

In total, officials say more than 100 magazines and drums were found in vehicle linked to the suspects, along with over 3,500 rounds of ammunition. Both men held legal firearms licences “for both non-restricted and restricted firearms,” BÃ©rub© adds.

In addition, more than 30 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recovered. Though police say the IEDs were “not sophisticated,” they had the potential to cause death and serious injury. What the suspects planned to do with these devices is not known.

BC RCMP Major Crime Unit Superintendent Sanjaya Wijayakoon says there were 22 innocent people inside the bank when the suspects entered wearing full body armour, armed with semi-automatic SKS rifles.

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Originally Posted by sonick (Post 9087982)

My days of seeking out unique sours and IPAs have passed, these days I am just as happy with an ice cold Lucky Lager. If it's the middle of summer I might even put some ice in it as well, SE asia style.

So if you're not too discerning with your beer and are fine drinking cheap macro light lagers then yeah I'd say Costco Bud Zero is the best all-around drinkable one that doesn't remind you that you're drinking non-alcoholic beer every sip. It was $20 for 24 cans.

Yeah, soda is cheap, but I'd rather subject my body to damage by alcohol than high-fructose corn syrup soda lol. I have a soda stream and drink club soda regularly too, but it gets boring very quickly.

Just got a case from Costco, went up to $23.xx for 24 now, tastes just like a bud, had it at around 8pm when I was getting tired so it felt like I was drinking:lol

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Originally Posted by pastarocket (Post 9088210)

Brilliant way to make an argument for gun rights

Crisis actors for trudeaus war on guns

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Originally Posted by quasi (Post 9088120)

How do you guys feel about this?

https://www.cloverdalereporter.com/e...r-in-shooting/

Didn't look into it, but I imagine it's bcuz Baldwin had producer credits for the movie so he bears some responsibility that way

What's the best/easiest/fastest way to get a passport right now? I have a week off and want to do it before I go back to work again.

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Originally Posted by EvoFire (Post 9088389)

What's the best/easiest/fastest way to get a passport right now? I have a week off and want to do it before I go back to work again.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration...-passport.html

A bit of a reprieve & perspective on Canada's new alcohol consumption guidelines

https://archive.is/0QwXH

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Although reports have suggested that the guidelines are based on nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed studies, strict criteria ruled all but 16 systematic studies out from being used in the mathematical modelling. In other words, the CCSA is basing its recommendations on a relatively narrow understanding of how alcohol functions.

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The CCSA also presents the relative risk, rather than the absolute risk, of developing the various conditions. According to its data, consuming three and a half drinks a day increases your risk of developing larynx cancer by nearly 100 per cent, which sounds shocking, and is presented in a table with scary red shading. But larynx cancer, which is mostly related to smoking, was diagnosed in roughly 0.0197 per cent of Canadians in 2022. Many of the other cancers the CCSA associates with alcohol also have low incidence rates.

Yeah another good article I read picking apart the new "guidelines":

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sab...ical-kill-joys

Seems like lots of cherry picking of data, and fearmongering involved.

IE "100% INCREASE IN LARYNX CANCER RISK*"

*But larynx cancer, which is mostly related to smoking, was diagnosed in roughly 0.0197 per cent of Canadians in 2022.

I think anyone guzzling bottles of straight booze kinda knows that it’s not the greatest, and that straight alcohol has to eventually go somewhere lol