Saw this on a stall door at Queen’s:
And, as a response:
In case it’s not clear; here’s the text of the response:
You’re fucking dumb. The only way we have any knowledge of anything is from the societal constructs and political systems we have set up. Without structure, a simple thing like communication would never have been established or passed on through the generations
Most of the time I just see things about people being a “homo” or a dick joke…
Kingston must have a problem with hippos; some sort of a regular hippo hunt must occur, because both at Kelseys and at the bar we went to they had one mounted on the wall:
(The second picture is harder to see it in, since it’s so poorly lit and the camera is rather poor)
That is, the trick is dirty (dishonest); it probably works in clean bars as well as dirty bars:
Bet someone they can’t balance a full beer with only their thumbs. The trick is to have them only place their thumbs on the edge of the bar. Now you take a full beer and balance it on their two thumbs. When they succeed, say “Well, guess you can” and walk away. They will spend a few minutes or more trying to get the beer off their thumbs.
Apparently there’s a book coming out now about Orange Juice’s dirty little secret (hey… our parents had Watergate; we get tell-alls about orange juice! What gives?)
It’s a heavily processed product. It’s heavily engineered as well. In the process of pasteurizing, juice is heated and stripped of oxygen, a process called deaeration, so it doesn’t oxidize. Then it’s put in huge storage tanks where it can be kept for upwards of a year. It gets stripped of flavor-providing chemicals, which are volatile. When it’s ready for packaging, companies such as Tropicana hire flavor companies such as Firmenich to engineer flavor packs to make it taste fresh. People think not-from-concentrate is a fresher product, but it also sits in storage for quite a long time.
If nothing else, it sounds like you can save some solid grocery money by buying from-concentrate frozen stuff. I mean, if I’m going to be getting crazy-modified-unnatural product; I may as well get cheap and convenient crazy-modified-unnatural product, right?
“Jaws” backwards, it’s a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach.
“If you watch Alice in Wonderland backwards, it’s about a girl who lives in a funny surrealistic world but then falls asleep and has a really boring dream”
“If you watch The Matrix backwards, Neo gets tired of using his super powers to fight agents, so he jacks into the ship’s computer and sucks all of the kung-fu knowledge out of his brain, and then plugs into the matrix and begins his new life as Mr. Anderson.”
Some more pretty funny “backwards movie” comments here (though it’s more of a comment thread… they aren’t all gold…)
Well, controversy aside, the front door still doesn’t lock right, one week after I sent the maintainance request.
The much-vaunted security of residence buildings around here appears to be lacking in substance.
This frustrates me to an uncomfortable, and perhaps surprising, degree. Probably because if anything goes missing it will be blamed on us; and because last term we must’ve had a half-dozen meetings about someone wedging a door open. It’s easy to push the dons to give us the stern-talking-to-and-shaming-us approach; it’s hard to actually fix problems.
I guess I’ve just got to work on trying to let my apathy kick in. I’m pretty sure that even a well-intentioned push for change will still be seen as bitching and moaning; or I’ll just be given the run-around since it’s “Somebody Else’s Problem” like everything else I’ve tried to do at Waterloo. I’ll hardly be rewarded for my concern and vigilance.
EDIT: Supposedly they were up to fix it immediately; as soon as they had heard. Maybe I was just there at the wrong place and the wrong time? (twice?) I guess it gets confusing around here too, since the coordinator has his office in the building and he has a habit of unlocking doors so that outside visitors can come in and see him, without him having to go meet them. In which case, the door was FUNCTIONING correctly, it was merely set to mimic an incorrectly functioning door.