I won't say that isn't a valid interpretation, but I've always thought the joke was simply "paranoid conspiracist thinks everyone is out to get him except the guy fucking his wife".
I think it also highlights Dale's sweet side; despite his tendency towards conspiracy, he refuses to see the obvious when Nancy is cheating on him because he is 100% in love and trusting of her. He literally can't imagine her betraying his trust like that. He will believe that Joseph is half-alien before doubting Nancy of wrongdoing.
Insane that you're getting downvoted for this. I feel like alcohol abuse is so normalised in a lot of places. This really shouldn't be a controversial comment.
I find it interesting to hear 5% ABV beer being described as "premium". Here (Canada) it's basically the standard for every macrobrew lager, or around 4% for their light varieties. More high-end, craft beers will vary between 3% and 10% depending on the type of beer.
Characterizing Peterson as a "talented and charismatic academic"?? I don't know, maybe he was before anyone knew of him, but he certainly hasn't been that in the public eye.
Jordan Peterson became a well-known figure after publishing a series of Youtube videos about his opposition to Bill C-16, where he argued that respecting people's pronouns is an affront to his free speech. He's been a hack, a grifter, and an asshole since day one.
Most studies that considered sidewalk-riding suggested that it is particularly hazardous for cyclists, with estimates of 1.8 to 16 times the risk of cycling on-road [29,66-68,71]. However one study found that the risk of traveling on the sidewalk was the same or lower than riding on residential streets [64]. Another considered the direction of travel and found that the elevated risk when sidewalk cyclists entered intersections was almost exclusively related to cycling against the flow of adjacent on-road traffic
It can seem counter-intuitive that riding where the cars are is safer, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Cars don't expect fast-moving vehicles on the sidewalk (they often barely expect pedestrians...), the constant curbs impacts your flow while riding, people more often ride against traffic on the sidewalk than on the road, and honestly people riding on sidewalks probably tend towards more inexperienced than people who feel comfortable riding on the road.
I was in theatre school for a while. We touched on everything related to a theatre production, including sound. Our tech would always test his setup with Paul Simon's Getting Ready For Christmas Day.
I've heard that song used to calibrate audio setups so often that it's become easy to identify any issues when I hear it.
New Brunswick here, it's much the same with the speeding and the huge pickups, but I've found drivers give me a lot more space when passing on a rural road than a busy city street. Like usually half a lane away from me at a minimum, if not an actual proper pass.
I'm assuming it helps that I don't really "look like a cyclist", at least in the eyes of motorists. I feel people might be more aggressive towards someone wearing lycra on a road bike, whereas my goofy ass riding a hybrid-cruiser-city bike and wearing a high-vis vest is novel enough on a rural road for them to take notice of me.
Stop signs should really be a yield for cyclists (and lights, especially at intersections with sensors that aren't triggered by bikes, should be treated as stop signs).
I don't disagree (I'd be in favour of bike lanes anywhere with a road or street) but I feel a lot more comfortable cycling in the lane on a low-traffic rural road than on a busy stroad in the city.
I mean, he's not wrong that many of Halifax's residents don't care for bike lanes; it's an inevitability of how Halifax is made up.
The Halifax Regional municipality is huge, clocking in at 5475.57 km^2. That's almost 10% of the entire province of Nova Scotia by area. Here's a street view picture of a random spot I picked in Halifax, this is what most of Halifax looks like:
(Of course, most of the population lives in the urban core. Density drops from around 1500 inhabitants per km^2 to just 64 when looking at the whole municipality)
This is just one of the many reasons urban amalgamations are a scam, one often proposed by conservatives to (among other reasons, like subsidizing suburbia) drown out progressive voices in cities that support things like bike lanes. Toronto is a great case study in this, where the surrounding suburbs have been choking the city proper and slowing progress since 1998.
It's frankly ridiculous to entertain the notion that someone living in Tangier (location of the above street view) should have a say in how streets and neighbourhoods are organised in downtown Halifax. Let them decide what happens on the road in Tangier, and let the people who actually live in the neighbourhoods of downtown organise them to their wants and needs.
In conclusion, Tim Houston is an absolute fuckwit. And his coffee and doughnuts suck.
I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we'd call it "pot" or perhaps "herbe", both of which don't translate to "bad grass".
Unless overseas "herbe" translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with "gazon" (which just means grass)
Yeah because making clearly false claims and refusing to back them up is totally in good faith and the peak of civility. I don't tend to be civil with people who'd gladly take away my rights.
I know what you're selling too, and don't consider not having to talk to you to be a loss :)
There is a difference between "calling everyone a nazi, racist, and transphobe" and calling out Nazis, racists, and transphobes, and a lot of people fail to grasp that nuance. From what I've seen so far in your comments, you're giving off the vibe of someone who either doesn't understand that nuance, or willfully avoids it.
Again, would love some examples if this isn't the case.
Here's the original video on CyclingMikey's YouTube channel!
I love his calm and simple approach to calling out dangerous behaviour from motorists.