Things that make you go WTF? MkII

[Rockula]

Quebec's cannabis board, the SQDC, want to ensure that cannabis edibles are unattractive to young people, so they're introducing THC-infused beets and cauliflower.

Story first published in 2018.

[von Corax]

Quebec's cannabis board, the SQDC, want to ensure that cannabis edibles are unattractive to young people, so they're introducing THC-infused beets and cauliflower.

Story first published in 2018.

[citation needed]

[mizzarrogh]

It take a bit of time, but the cauliflower heads are great stuff once they are lit properly.

It remember me of my childhood when the birds seeds did still contain hemp seeds...
I am not sure mine and my friends parents really bought the story of that it was just some bird that dropped a few seeds last winter... But it is hopefully prescribed now since many years. 

[von Corax]

Quebec's cannabis board, the SQDC, want to ensure that cannabis edibles are unattractive to young people, so they're introducing THC-infused beets and cauliflower.

Just a reminder that The Onion is a satire website, not a news page. Even the Quebecois aren't *that* mental.

https://www.sqdc.ca/en-CA/edibles

https://stratcann.com/news/sqdc-launches-three-new-edibles-cannabis-infused-oven-baked-beets-dehydrated-cauliflower-and-dried-figs/

You haven't lived next door to the Quebecois for 57 years... 

[LukeHogbin]

Quebec's cannabis board, the SQDC, want to ensure that cannabis edibles are unattractive to young people, so they're introducing THC-infused beets and cauliflower.

Just a reminder that The Onion is a satire website, not a news page. Even the Quebecois aren't *that* mental.

That's not from The Onion, that's from the CBC.

I wasn't aware there was a difference. 

[von Corax]

Quebec's cannabis board, the SQDC, want to ensure that cannabis edibles are unattractive to young people, so they're introducing THC-infused beets and cauliflower.

Just a reminder that The Onion is a satire website, not a news page. Even the Quebecois aren't *that* mental.

That's not from The Onion, that's from the CBC.

I wasn't aware there was a difference. 

Don't you be makin' fun of the Holy Mother Corporation!

[mizzarrogh]

We did spoke about the war in the other tread, it really feels to me as a dark shadow, at least i hope what little i could gather and send will do something to help the children there.
I am not going into politics, but Sweden realy does not feel safe anymore since the early 90s, my, and many, many more peoples feeling of despair and sadness only grow stronger for each year whan i red the news. If this continues, which it most likely will, i see no other solution than leaving the country, it's already out of question to move to the south here.

[LukeHogbin]

Quebec's cannabis board, the SQDC, want to ensure that cannabis edibles are unattractive to young people, so they're introducing THC-infused beets and cauliflower.

Just a reminder that The Onion is a satire website, not a news page. Even the Quebecois aren't *that* mental.

That's not from The Onion, that's from the CBC.

I wasn't aware there was a difference. 

Don't you be makin' fun of the Holy Mother Corporation!

Watch me!

[morozow]

We did spoke about the war in the other tread, it really feels to me as a dark shadow, at least i hope what little i could gather and send will do something to help the children there.
I am not going into politics, but Sweden realy does not feel safe anymore since the early 90s, my, and many, many more peoples feeling of despair and sadness only grow stronger for each year whan i red the news. If this continues, which it most likely will, i see no other solution than leaving the country, it's already out of question to move to the south here.

Don't panic. This is not the first war in this century, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria.

After all, people in Donbas have been living under artillery shelling for 8 years. And somehow they live.

But I understand you, and I've been thinking for a long time that it would be nice to live somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in New Zealand.

[mizzarrogh]

I know my brother.
Honestly i held no grudge against Russian soldiers, i just hope for You all, regardless of side, to come home well and alive.
It just feels right to help the civilian people more directly than just donate to the regular charity organizations, that's why i am doing it and joined the blacksmiths charity union here.
One of my old classmates from whan i was a student came home from from foreign duty some years ago and he does not seem to do well, and he messed things up even more by engaging in MC gangs and things like that after that, it just fells bad to follow that down spiraling of a young man full of life and always a good sense of childish humor into the mess of today he seem to struggle every day to keep floating in. And my best friend still struggle to get him self floating after a life fringed with drugs and criminality in the past, but he taught me to look forward and not getting mentally stuck in the backward, i think he is right, we all have our old demons from the past but it comes to no good to not proceed forward, and i feel a bit privileged to hawe spent most of my previous life just doing everyday work on my fathers farmhouse, maybe that's why i hawe a hard time to just disconnect whan people who where close to me are not doing well in life i think, on the rural side in the north we left no one behind, that's just a matter of collective survival in what now feels like a past time mentality.


Sweden just feels like a giant black hole that rapidly consume it self from the inside while people try to made up blue clouds before their eyes in order to coop with the situation, the future of reality truly feels darker than any SciFi movie i ever watched in my entire life.


I often think i sort of refugee into my own miniature fantasy worlds in order to get some sort of vacation for all dark things that constantly going on in the world around us.

[morozow]

I know my brother.
Honestly i held no grudge against Russian soldiers, i just hope for You all, regardless of side, to come home well and alive.
It just feels right to help the civilian people more directly than just donate to the regular charity organizations, that's why i am doing it and joined the blacksmiths charity union here.
One of my old classmates from whan i was a student came home from from foreign duty some years ago and he does not seem to do well, and he messed things up even more by engaging in MC gangs and things like that after that, it just fells bad to follow that down spiraling of a young man full of life and always a good sense of childish humor into the mess of today he seem to struggle every day to keep floating in. And my best friend still struggle to get him self floating after a life fringed with drugs and criminality in the past, but he taught me to look forward and not getting mentally stuck in the backward, i think he is right, we all have our old demons from the past but it comes to no good to not proceed forward, and i feel a bit privileged to hawe spent most of my previous life just doing everyday work on my fathers farmhouse, maybe that's why i hawe a hard time to just disconnect whan people who where close to me are not doing well in life i think, on the rural side in the north we left no one behind, that's just a matter of collective survival in what now feels like a past time mentality.


Sweden just feels like a giant black hole that rapidly consume it self from the inside while people try to made up blue clouds before their eyes in order to coop with the situation, the future of reality truly feels darker than any SciFi movie i ever watched in my entire life.


I often think i sort of refugee into my own miniature fantasy worlds in order to get some sort of vacation for all dark things that constantly going on in the world around us.

yes. I understand you. My desire to move away from the "centers of civilization" arose a long time ago. It's been a long time feeling that the world has gone crazy. So I want to go into conspiracy theories and believe in reptilians.

You have told me well about the farm, I have a dacha, unfortunately, it cannot be moved somehow to Altai and make a small tereport.

[mizzarrogh]

I really wish such teleport did exist, to, like my own universe inside my head... 
Probably the winter darkness amplify my anxiety and depression i guess, coffee does not help much either, i think i drank more than a liter of strong coffee today, but i did still fell asleep for like 4 hours in the evening this day felt like pending in a mist somewhere between reality and unconsciousness, just how it is i guess.

[morozow]

I really wish such teleport did exist, to, like my own universe inside my head... 
Probably the winter darkness amplify my anxiety and depression i guess, coffee does not help much either, i think i drank more than a liter of strong coffee today, but i did still fell asleep for like 4 hours in the evening this day felt like pending in a mist somewhere between reality and unconsciousness, just how it is i guess.

This spring I brewed and drank mint and chamomile. It's calming. And sleep from stress is a good reaction of the nervous system.

[von Corax]

I really wish such teleport did exist, to, like my own universe inside my head... 
Probably the winter darkness amplify my anxiety and depression i guess, coffee does not help much either, i think i drank more than a liter of strong coffee today, but i did still fell asleep for like 4 hours in the evening this day felt like pending in a mist somewhere between reality and unconsciousness, just how it is i guess.

This spring I brewed and drank mint and chamomile. It's calming. And sleep from stress is a good reaction of the nervous system.

Sleep from stress is good. Sleep from depression is not. You should consult your family doctor if you have one.

[mizzarrogh]

You are probably right, i have just been repressed it since i really don't want to take that type of medicines, but i guess i hawe too anyway...
It helps a little bit walking in the nature and the forest. Beside that i have some strange feverish headache the doctor failed to recognize what it caused by, probably some type of Hortons my guess since my aunt have a similar type of migrain, but it really sits for days sometime, it feels like i got a serious flue and white hot railroad spikes hammered thru my eyes right into the brain...
Well, i guess there are other people who hawe it a lot worse and living under far worse conditions than i do, so i should not complain too much after all.


However, i will absolutely see if there are some camomile left in a state it can be used for tea, i remember i saw some in the summer on the old acre side!
I did actually found an old Russian Samovar on a charity market a few weeks ago, but i did not yet dare to plug it in until i figure out some clever way to properly ground the metal canister... But really i do look forward to hawe it fully functioning on my kitchen table! 

[SeVeNeVeS]

This has to be a WTF.

In the last week I have assisted my boss estimate windows in 2 properties.......

One was in a house where I lost my virgnity at 15, the room, the other was a pub now turned into a private residence 10 miles away, that I used to frequent as an 18 year old hanging around with a biker group.......rough as anything, I witnessed a biker chick beat a man halve to death with a pool cue there, constant punch ups, now a posh dinig room.

40 years or so on......... spooky!

[J. Wilhelm]

Austin City Limits is an open air live music festival that takes place during two adjacent weekends in October, and today, Saturday, is the center of second weekend. The path to my job takes me by Zilker Park just on the South side of the river.

It took me two hours to walk out on foot from the area, as buses were unavailable and hordes of people were walking to the park over a couple of bridges on the north side.

In other news, judging by the many people walking to the park, it's now perfectly acceptable for women to dress in a thong bodysuit under a long transparent mesh skirt... Not complaining, though.

[Cora Courcelle]

Whereas here it seems to be acceptable to go shopping in pyjamas and dressing gown!
(Sniffs disapprovingly)
And don't even let me get started on the subject of 'onesies' ......

[Synistor 303]

Whereas here it seems to be acceptable to go shopping in pyjamas and dressing gown!
(Sniffs disapprovingly)
And don't even let me get started on the subject of 'onesies' ......

Oh yeah - I have seen that here - bogans going to the supermarket wearing questionable track pants and ugh slippers and not even pretending they have a sore foot. Haven't seen any onesies though. (Also a little horrified that 'onesies' doesn't come up as a spelling mistake...)

[mizzarrogh]

I am not asking questions, at least as long they at least wear mens underpants in the grocery shop here... 
Honestly this is a bit to far off side to actually care about female breasts or manly men jewelry as long as it is in reasonably natural situation, it's not really an exciting view anyway since most "natural" dressed people here are 60+ anyway... However i would have mad respect if anyone did that now in the cold autumn afternoons, but my aunt said she still take baths in the sea outdoor, an my old mother do sometime (My father usually don't he is more like me and turns up the sauna to like 110 degree Celsius and pouring on 15 liter of hot water on the sauna stove in the winter nights, i can almost swear a pot of water would start to boil if it was left there for a while... ha ha ). 

[morozow]

I am not asking questions, at least as long they at least wear mens underpants in the grocery shop here... 
Honestly this is a bit to far off side to actually care about female breasts or manly men jewelry as long as it is in reasonably natural situation, it's not really an exciting view anyway since most "natural" dressed people here are 60+ anyway... However i would have mad respect if anyone did that now in the cold autumn afternoons, but my aunt said she still take baths in the sea outdoor, an my old mother do sometime (My father usually don't he is more like me and turns up the sauna to like 110 degree Celsius and pouring on 15 liter of hot water on the sauna stove in the winter nights, i can almost swear a pot of water would start to boil if it was left there for a while... ha ha ). 

yes. now is a wonderful time for a bath. When it's cold and chilly outside to sit in the heat. And then still jump out into the yard and cool the body in the cold night.

[Synistor 303]

I am not asking questions, at least as long they at least wear mens underpants in the grocery shop here... 
Honestly this is a bit to far off side to actually care about female breasts or manly men jewelry as long as it is in reasonably natural situation, it's not really an exciting view anyway since most "natural" dressed people here are 60+ anyway... However i would have mad respect if anyone did that now in the cold autumn afternoons, but my aunt said she still take baths in the sea outdoor, an my old mother do sometime (My father usually don't he is more like me and turns up the sauna to like 110 degree Celsius and pouring on 15 liter of hot water on the sauna stove in the winter nights, i can almost swear a pot of water would start to boil if it was left there for a while... ha ha ). 

yes. now is a wonderful time for a bath. When it's cold and chilly outside to sit in the heat. And then still jump out into the yard and cool the body in the cold night.

My other half complains that I want the heat turned up to 30 Celsius in winter and down to 12 Celsius in summer. He exaggerates... a bit. Our climate is very moderate - not too cold in winter and usually not too hot in summer. I wouldn't like to be in the sauna OR the chilly sea!

[rovingjack]

landlord here refuses to turn the heat on still. inside house temp last night was 10.5c (about 51f) daytime temps inside the house today was a high of 14.5c (about 58f)

summertime this year pretty much from late june until mid september was around 36c (96f) and humidity in the 80% to 90% range, with a few runs of 95-98%. and again the landlord refuses to allow the use of air conditioners.

we are essentially just a slight step above living in a tent in the woods.

[von Corax]

landlord here refuses to turn the heat on still. inside house temp last night was 10.5c (about 51f) daytime temps inside the house today was a high of 14.5c (about 58f)

summertime this year pretty much from late june until mid september was around 36c (96f) and humidity in the 80% to 90% range, with a few runs of 95-98%. and again the landlord refuses to allow the use of air conditioners.

we are essentially just a slight step above living in a tent in the woods.

That would never fly here. Under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, landlords in Ontario are required by law to keep units above 20°C from September 1 to June 15. Unfortunately if the tenant shares living space with the landlord, the Act does not apply to that unit.

[rovingjack]

That would never fly here. Under the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, landlords in Ontario are required by law to keep units above 20°C from September 1 to June 15. Unfortunately if the tenant shares living space with the landlord, the Act does not apply to that unit.

There are similar things here, I believe that rentals have to be kept at 18.5c (65F). But that's sort of a 'what are you gonna do about it kind of rule. Because if you have a problem with it and complain or try to get in trouble for it, then you'll be looking for somewhere else to live by the weekend.

I think this is technically two residences. Their half is majority built into the hill so never gets below 12c. They have to go outside, walk around the building to get to the door to come in up here. The top half is a 1950s 'trailer'/mobile home set on a foundation which was converted to a complete living if smaller home. Essentially a condo, or row house, stacked on top of each other rather than side by side.

only town houses are not usually as flimbsy as a mobile home (essetially a 2x4 wall with beadboard for inside wall and less than 5 inches before thin ply for outside with aluminum siding. No attic space and the floor is held off the ground and cement foundation walls downstairs by steel beams, originally with nothing closing it off from the outside but they packed in a ring of fiberglass insulation. but I can remove floor vents and they could remove a corresponding ceiling tile and we could make eye contact.) when it's foggy outside, it's pretty near foggy inside, even with doors and windows closed, moisture, humidity and such move through the walls like they are hardly there.

Technically I don't think they are even really allowed to rent, but again it's a matter of it only being illegal if you get the legal system involved, and doing that pretty much means you are moving out last month.

there are a lot of little 'what are you gonna do about it' clauses to living here. Last thanksgiving I came out of my bedroom to the landlord using our kitchen because his wife was using their oven for pies. They like to wander in whenever they feel like it. and of the 35 cupboards in the kitchen 30 of them are filled with their stuff they are storing. despite having their own kitchen with a stove, fridge with freezer, microwave and cupboards downstairs, they want half of the freezer up here too and some of our fridge. (there are two of them down there, while they imagine they can rent three bedrooms up here). They store their extra linens in the linen closet up here (using up the whole closet) and the coat closet by the door is filled with their off season oudoor clothes, some they haven't touched in 5 years). Each year she gets some new piece of furnature and the thing they replaced gets dumped in the rooms up here for storage.

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right now there is a weight bench and 4 barbells and 4 dumbells between the couch and one of the 3 recliners. in the corner is a broken wardrobe filled with folding chairs for when the decide to host family for the holidays. about 30 different bibles on a book shelf with a collection of glassware and two glass cases with folded american flags. and the walls are still covered in his mothers decorations and pictures of her family, she passed almost a decade ago.

under the beds in the rental rooms have been underbed storage with old photo albums and sweaters and other god knows what. and the closets in those rooms have christmas decorations and old phones and such on the top shelf.

They seem to really think 3 rooms means $2100 a month that people could be paying them, without realizing that those people will expect that they could live, bathe, store food and sleep here for the money they pay.

the thing is they really cannot afford to live here either. The house is in a trust from his father. He just retired this year, his wife did last year, they bought into some heavy health insurance due to each having health issues, and between the two of them they spend about 800$ a week on food. and their entire day is occupied with watching TV and internet use. They likely use 1000-2000$ a month just in utilities alone. but before inflation that were likely toeing the line if not stepping over on living within their means. Without my rent I don't think they could afford not to go back to work at least part time without some major changes to how they live.