Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt were born in Oakland, California. Frank Edwin Wright III (Tre Cool) was born in West Germany, because his father was a US Army pilot, they relocated to California. The band was formed in the Bay Area. There really isn't anything about the band that's Canadian.
Speaking of Hollywood, it was a Japanese movie that made me realize how ironclad their "shoes off" rule is, compared to ours.
Where I live, it's shoes off, but nobody's going to bat an eye if you forget something inside and keep your shoes on while you go back and get it. Even if your shoes are dirty, as long as you clean up the mess you made when you get back, it's no big deal. So, it's shoes off, but it's not like there's a special zone by the door where you must switch footwear and you must never wear shoes after that point.
So, what I saw when I watched the Japanese horror movie "The Ring" surprised me. It was a movie where people were running in terror, they were out of their minds in fear, but even in that state, when entering a house / apartment, they'd still take off their shoes. For me, as a westerner, it was really distracting to see someone take the time to observe that shoes on / shoes off rule even in a state of utter panic. But, the reason they did it that way is that for a Japanese audience, it would have completely broken their suspension of disbelief if someone entered a house / apartment and didn't remove their shoes.
How can Canada be a shoes off country if Britain and America are shoes-on?
Weather.
In Canada (except near Vancouver) you have to wear winter boots whenever you're outside for many months.
In most of the UK, and part of the US, you never get snow.
People wearing winter boots change them when they get home. If you're just wearing sneakers or something, it's more reasonable to keep wearing them around the house.
I think there are probably a fair number of homes in Canada (especially on the west coast) where people wear shoes around the house. There are probably even places where people switch from winter boots to "house shoes" or something. But, I'd imagine that there are many more "shoes off" houses in Canada just because of winter, and many more "shoes on" houses in say Miami or Phoenix or Los Angeles where it never gets cold.
Similarly, I would be that even though Argentina and Chile are listed as "shoes on" countries, my guess is that in the deep south where it can get wintery, they at a minimum change their footwear after coming inside in the winter.
It's called football because it's played on foot, as opposed to polo or other sports that were popular at the time when the rules for football were first being written down.
There's a site I use where you can download sports videos. Often you can find the "compressed" version of a gridiron football game. An NFL game on TV typically lasts 3 hours from the kickoff to the final whistle. The game clock runs for 4 15-minute quarters, but they stop that clock all the time. Any time there's a point scored, the ball is turned over, or the clock hits a special value (end of quarter, 2 minute warning to the end of a half, etc.) they stop the clock and while things happen there's a commercial break. They also have commercial breaks every time either team calls a timeout. But, what's extra ridiculous is that there are "TV Timeouts" when the network itself calls a timeout so they can show some commercials. Anyhow, that's how a 1 hour game expands to fill a 3 hour slot.
So, these compressed games, you'd think they could shorten it to just 1 hour, right? What's amazing is that they actually manage to compress it to about 30 minutes. Not only do they cut out everything happening while the clock is stopped, they even cut out stuff when the clock is running but nothing much is happening -- the players are getting up to the line, the quarterback is calling out before the snap, etc.
So, gridiron football is about 83% filler, and 17% actual action.
That you only used a noisemaker. This isn't complicated.
I’ll refer you to the many times I mentioned predator defence
I'll refer you to the time when you claimed that without your gun you would have been in trouble, when in fact you admitted you only used it as a noisemaker.
You used them as a noisemaker, so you didn't need a weapon. You sound like you are treating your gun as a security blanket. It makes you feel good to have it, even if you don't actually need it. Maybe you cuddle with it, I don't know.
Yeah. I'm "barefoot shoes" on outside for the minimal amount of time necessary, and off as soon as I can manage it. If it's summer and I'm in a park, I take them off so I can walk on the grass with bare feet. If I'm at someone else's house hanging out outside, you bet my shoes are already off. If it's winter and I'm at a movie, I'm not leaving my feet in winter boots rated to -30C for the whole 2 hours.
Are you going to gamble your life with just a shotgun? The only way to truly be safe from a bear is with a rocket propelled grenade.
Anyhow, the point is you were lying / wrong when you said "if we didn’t have our firearms things could’ve gone ugly", because you didn't actually need your firearms, since you didn't use them, at least not as firearms.
