#Canada is weird

[ironunderstands]

I went to Toronto over the summer and as someone whose mom grew up in NYC and has been to NYC several times, Toronto is a fucking surreal experience. Now I don’t know if it was the part of Toronto we were in or the fact that we only visited a few days, but something just felt off???

Like where’s the garbage? the smell of cigarettes? The rats? Copius amounts of jaywalking? Uncomfortably crowded spaces??? Noise???? Hell there barely any homeless people which made me so happy, but it still felt weird to not be reminded of how bad your country is at taking care of people

In fact, it was perfect to the point at which it did a full 180 and we lowkey thought we were being pranked or something and the real Toronto was gonna show up and surprise us

and it’s not like I haven’t been to other foreign big cities either, but they are all like New York in the messiness capacity but Toronto had none of that and it was unsettling, like is it hiding something?

all this to say, people who live/have lived there, is it really that perfect?

[neptun-thetransplanet]

I saw bagged milk for the first time, currently having a mental breakdown

[acoraxia]

you'll notice this comic does little to actually explain lore and that's because narinder refuses to elaborate

[hellonerf]

i actually had multiple sketches but i prioritized finishing these

[roszabell]

hima my only tiny note is that matt only wears sweaters that are way too big for him

[godbirdart]

Bill 29: The Fairness and Safety in Sport Act

Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party are being creepy weird about children again and since this also directly targets people like me [trans people] I have opted to skip the niceties cut scene and get right down to choosing violence.

Seriously, I cannot be the only person weirded out over how creepily obsessed Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party are over trans people. They talk more about trans people than anything else. Just in October they pushed out three anti-trans bills - the above included. For what? There's MAYBE 2000 trans kids out of the 800,000 students in the whole province. It's pretty damn insane they're trying to legalize gender checks on children at all.

Ofc, some people are waving it off saying "No! It's just for the trans kids!! >:C". Nah mate. If your kid is a slight bit too effeminate or masculine or just plainly doesn't fit the Gender Roles, you bet their ass is getting reported by faculty members acting in bad faith. Hope you aren't aiming for sport scholarships in college / university👍

Some people are also whining about trans people having "athletic advantages" again so lemme say here: I have cis friends who played girl's rugby in high school. They were VERY capable of decimating the boys. If your cis kid can't measure up against a trans kid, that's just a straight up skill issue. get good maybe? lmao

This ain't the time to take the moral high road. If Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party want to throw the tiny 0.3% of Albertans under the bus in the name of snatching authority over kids' bodily autonomy, then yeah I Will stoop to their level and be a dick about it because that shit is unhinged freak behavior. They keep saying trans people are out to get their kids but girl... the call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE

[allthecanadianpolitics]

To quote the article, "Alberta intends to opt out, and instead intends to obtain a full per capita share of the funding," and the health minister's office said that Albertans already have access to pharmacare through health insurance plans with their employers or the government. As if everyone has a job with benefits or can afford Blue Cross... 🙄

[brain--rott]

century manor insane asylum

[stariisv]

etho and that one little song from seinfeld

[suburbanscrimshaw]

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

48 thousand seats, bleats and roars for my memories of you

now that i'm fully clean, the matador is no more and is dragged from view

[willyhoos]

bro has been in the timeloop for so long he has begun to view his friends deaths as obstacles instead of tragedies😭😭😭💀

[soup-mother]

what is it with captchas asking you to identify things but specifically with US terms for everything? i know u can get it to give you a different one if you can't do it but it's sorta funny.

[muppetjohntavares]

The usual Tavarisms™ (😐 face, lip lick, eyebrow wiggle and nose sniffles), now with twice the fidgeting (it's the european air)

(Postgame interview, CAN v AUT, IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship, 14.05.2024)

[hetalian-veteran]

Hetalia Characters as Things my Family Members have said

The Netherlands: "Give me a sec, I gotta scrub the nicotine off the bathroom ceiling."

Germany: "Hey mom, can you please pick us up? Your son is serenading people against their will with his anti-Valentine's Day song at the nacho bar in the middle of church."

Romano: "Please bless that the potluck committee will be better prepared next time." (My brother said this while blessing the food at a church potluck, where the committee was, of course, in attendance).

America: "Get the fried chicken out of your underwear!!!!!"

Sealand: "Stop finding everything I sneak!"

Italy: "Hey everyone! They're giving out free lobster bibs in the men's room!"

Canada: "Sides?? SIDES?!? The tree is round, there are no sides!!!!!!!!"

Prussia: "Go make me a sandwich." (My brother said this to my sister and proceeded to have a laundry basket thrown at him).

Tag yourself. I'm The Netherlands, because that's something I literally found myself having to say today. (And was also the inspiration for making this post. Let me know if you wanna see more. I've got loads of stuff and my family is weird).

[marzipanandminutiae]

wait so

Toronto dates back to 1834

and you all just tore down all the old buildings and replaced them with skyscrapers??? your requisite "great fire" was in 1904 so that doesn't excuse it because it's still within the Pretty Architecture Era?

as a Bostonian, I have to offer serious condolences and thank the Preservation Gods that we only did two big Mass Teardown Projects(TM) in the mid-20th century