BenVimes

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[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My wife is from an Eastern European country, and whenever we visit her folks I have a similar experience. Every single restaurant reeks of smoke, and there is apparently no political appetite to change that.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Stone Angel.

It's a miserable story about a dying old woman regretting all her life choices. It's also required reading in Canadian high schools because the author is Canadian.

And then, on top of all that, my teacher absolutely insisted that its only major theme was "hope" and docked marks for having any other interpretation.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They also had to cram sensationalist words like "scorching" in there, because apparently the Venn diagram of the WWE and American politics is nearly a circle.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Protip: jump back in the water after you raise the level for the first time.

If that doesn't make sense right now, it will in a few hours.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

I'm 188cm (6'2") and grew up in a fairly insular community of Dutch people and their descendants. I thought I was average height until I left that bubble went to university.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

This is my read of it as well.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Canada's military is small enough that there is typically only one officer with the rank of General (or Admiral if they are from the navy), and their position is the Chief of Defence Staff. I think a second General is appointed if Canada gets a seat on the UN Security Council, to act as the senior military advisor for the delegation.

There are more Lieutenant Generals (and Vice Admirals), and the CDS is appointed from their ranks when a new one is needed.

EDIT: To clarify further, there are multiple ranks with the word "general" in them. In order of increasing seniority, they are (with equivalent navy ranks in parentheses):

  1. Brigadier General (Commodore)
  2. Major General (Rear Admiral)
  3. Lieutenant General (Vice Admiral)
  4. General (Admiral)
[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've been a Star Wars fan for almost three decades and I think almost all Disney Star Wars is "fine" at worst. Even most of the things I didn't like had some sort of redeeming qualities, or I could recognize that I wasn't the target audience. The only thing I truly hated was Rise of the Skywalker, which is quite possibly my least favourite Star Wars thing ever.

I realize this puts me in the very small minority among Star Wars fans, and it's the reason I tend to avoid fan discussions these days - the relentless negativity is exhausting and leaves little room for discussing the things about Disney Star Wars I find good and/or interesting.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They do seem to have half-assed it. Maybe they searched something like, "who built the ark in the Bible," and ended up on the page for the Ark of the Covenant by mistake.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

I played a lot of the second game. I borrowed it from the library on a whim and it captured my imagination like very few other things did. I remember always checking the CD-ROMS in every visit after that to see if it was available again, and snatching it to every time it was.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It might have been 22 Minutes instead of Air Farce, and it might have been Stockwell Day instead of Preston Manning. I couldn't find a video clip using any combination of show and politician.

As I said, it's deep memory from long ago. I mostly remember it for personal reasons and not the actual joke. But, you've reassured me that it wasn't just a hallucination on my part.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's the Christian Heritage Party. I've known several people who have voted for them at one time or another.

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