How come it seems every Canadian I know has or had a drinking problem?
Is that a huge issue over there, like worse than the US?
How come it seems every Canadian I know has or had a drinking problem?
Is that a huge issue over there, like worse than the US?
I'd imagine where I come from the rates of alcoholism would be hard to beat. Tons of good old boy red necks with money to spend. Drinking is deeply rooted in the Alberta culture. I noticed when I'd head out west to Vancouver everyone was much more moderate with their alcoholic consumption.
Last edited by peter mcneil; 12-28-2017 at 09:50 PM.
Is the theory that there's nothing to do but drink? Probably makes sense. There are other places like Australia where drinking is still a huge part of the culture.
It just seems like a good ol' boys club here. A lot of wealthy red necks guys who do business at the bar. I have a few friends who are in O&G sales, they get huge expense accounts and when dealing with Texans it's all about showing them a good time. A lot of hookers, booze, drugs and gambling.
If any of you play live poker you'll never find an easier game than the ones that run 24/7 during stampede week here. The casino is right on the stampede grounds attached to the cities most popular bar. The games are fill all week and everyone is fucking hammered.
That and it warms you up. Australians drink because they're all former convicts.
What limits run and what's the rake?If any of you play live poker you'll never find an easier game than the ones that run 24/7 during stampede week here. The casino is right on the stampede grounds attached to the cities most popular bar. The games are fill all week and everyone is fucking hammered.
I'm unsure of the rake, my guess is that it's pretty typical to what you'd see in most Vegas card rooms. I played a ton live over the years there and nobody ever complained or talked about it.
When it's not stampede week you can always find a 1/2 and 2/5 game running. Buy in for the 1/2 caps at $300 and $1000 for the 2/5.
During the evening and always on weekends you can find a 2/5 PLO game, it plays big and gets deep.
During stampede week the room is full (13 tables) and you can find action at 1/2, 2/5, 5/10 and occasionally 10/25. I've seen the rare game at 25/50. The higher stakes are usually PLO games. During stampede week at all stakes the games play big and get deep. I can't exaggerate how much action there is and how many drunk fish are playing.
I really hate the way the word troll has exploded into the common lexicon in such a way that it's not only lost its original meaning but it's become a complete joke how liberally its thrown around.
That said Milo is a real troll. The best kind of troll too. One who can truly get his targets goat. Who can draw out every ounce of hypocrisy by shaking the house of cards built of false moralism and cherry picked facts. He's a Gay Catholic conservative trump supporter. A glitch in the progressive narrative. He pissed them off so thoroughly that their true colors shown through. When threatened these so called progressives did everything in their power from lying to violence to silence him.
Is he real? I am not sure. My theory is he designed his persona to get attention and to take shots at the increasingly leftist cultural zeitgeist which is born of a generation reaching adulthood in and around the bush era. A generation which strictly rejects the globalist paranoid corporate political machine which hid behind the flag and the war on terror to push its agenda. Then it was conservatism in power. To question the president or Americas actions was not just unamerican but anti-American. Christains ultra nationalism ruled in the wake of 9/11.
Now the zeitgeist shifts left. Instead of local anti war groups being bugged by NSA we have legions of Twitter warriors harassing and haranguing people until they not only lose their jobs but afraid to go out. Instead of peaceful anti war protests we have angry mobs calling for the summary executions of police officers or beating people in the streets for attending events with conservative speakers.
Now that the liberals have the power they are behaving just as authoritarian as the right did when they ruled. Except it's scarier now I think. There's more politically motivated violence and the ubiquitousness of the Internet has allowed them to chase people to their very doorsteps and in one sick moment, which plane, and when they stepped off it.
Racist attacks against whites are being codified by the media. Looters and rioters are praised by columnists at major media outlets. Speaking events and planned rally's are being attacked and shut down for having the wrong politics with barely s whimper of protection by the authorities and next to no condemnation by a media who've come to despise the very rights which protect them because it also protects those they do not agree with.
Milo dedicated himself to trolling these people. People who control the media, major tech companies, and public office. In being a provocateur and a bit narcissist he got progressives chomping at the bit and foaming at the mouth.
There are many reasons conservatism still has serious political control and clout but few of them are democratic and some are a function of our constitution, but in the cultures sphere they are a joke. Even evil to some. Milo behaved in such a way to get a rise out of them. To show how they are behaving no differently than conservative authoritarians of the past.
If progressives continue to expand in influence and power we are going to need more people like Milo to reign in their worst excesses. I thought I'd be happy to watch the Republican Party burn instead I am terrified of the worst excesses of the left which are anti-free speech, anti-freedom, pro censorship, anti white, anti male, and anti merit.
Dumping billions into the military industrial complex won't be any better than funding gender studies researchers.
Maybe one day we will have a pro-science, secular humanist party that actually live in the real world. Until then we're stuck with ultra nationalistic religious nut cases and social justice warriors combating imaginary wrongs from their iPhones. Kinda funny that they both believe in phantom patriarchal figured eh? And I guess until then we also need people like Milo on the left and the right to lampoon the whole goddamn thing.
"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."
George Steinbrenner
also
milo likes to fuck children?
Milo: “This is a controversial point of view I accept. We get hung up on this kind of child abuse stuff to the point where we’re heavily policing even relationships between consenting adults, you know grad students and professors at universities.”
The men in the joint video interview then discuss Milo’s experience at age 14.
Another man says: “The whole consent thing for me. It’s not this black and white thing that people try to paint it. Are there some 13-year-olds out there capable of giving informed consent to have sex with an adult, probably…”
The man says, “The reason these age of consent laws exist is because we have to set some kind of a barometer here, we’ve got to pick some kind of an age…”
Milo: “The law is probably about right, that’s probably roughly the right age. I think it’s probably about okay, but there are certainly people who are capable of giving consent at a younger age, I certainly consider myself to be one of them, people who are sexually active younger. I think it particularly happens in the gay world by the way. In many cases actually those relationships with older men…This is one reason I hate the left. This stupid one size fits all policing of culture. (People speak over each other). This sort of arbitrary and oppressive idea of consent, which totally destroys you know understanding that many of us have. The complexities and subtleties and complicated nature of many relationships. You know, people are messy and complex. In the homosexual world particularly. Some of those relationships between younger boys and older men, the sort of coming of age relationships, the relationships in which those older men help those young boys to discover who they are, and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable and sort of a rock where they can’t speak to their parents. Some of those relationships are the most -”
It sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me, another man says, interrupting Milo.
Milo: “And you know what, I’m grateful for Father Michael. I wouldn’t give nearly such good head if it wasn’t for him.”
Other people talk. Oh my God, I can’t handle it, one man says. The next thing in line is going to be pedophilia…says another man.
Milo: “You’re misunderstanding what pedophilia means. Pedophilia is not a sexual attraction to somebody 13-years-old who is sexually mature. Pedophilia is attraction to children who have not reached puberty. Pedophilia is attraction to people who don’t have functioning sex organs yet. Who have not gone through puberty. Who are too young to be able (unclear and cut off by others)…That’s not what we are talking about. You don’t understand what pedophilia is if you are saying I’m defending it because I’m certainly not.”
Another man said, “You are advocating for cross generational relationships here, can we be honest about that?”
Milo: “Yeah, I don’t mind admitting that. I think particularly in the gay world and outside the Catholic church, if that’s where some of you want to go with this, I think in the gay world, some of the most important, enriching and incredibly life affirming, important shaping relationships very often between younger boys and older men, they can be hugely positive experiences for those young boys. They can even save those young boys, from desolation, from suicide (people talk over each other)… providing they’re consensual.”
"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."
George Steinbrenner
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
coming from some loser who probably only sees the light of day when he cleans the numerous Monster cans from his basement window, i think being emotionally broken junkie dwarf is pretty good.
oh yeah, Bitcoin is skyrocketing right now by the way. I bet you didn't think that would happen.
"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next."
George Steinbrenner
It's to bad this is one of the best parodies on the web. At least he doesn't sit there and pretend Jews don't run the banks and media, respect.
"Mitchell Ivers, the liberal gay editor Simon & Schuster put in charge of neutering its edgier conservative authors, hates Republicans and thinks they are all virulent homophobes. He told me so himself," Mr Yiannopoulos claimed in a statement on social media.
"Ivers said one thing in manuscript edits, but quite another when he was giggling and flirting with me .... I look forward to prevailing in court."
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
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