To me there are two distinct eras for the modern youth culture — pre and post Jackass. Maiming and deforming one’s self for the sake of a laugh has become de rigueur amongst the UFC loving Christian Audigier set. I suppose before Jackass there was a tamer form of “shoe-to-the-nuts” humour in the form of [...]
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Tipping and the Consumer / Server Disconnect
Image via The Georgia Straight I think there is a massive disconnect between what servers think and what customers think. This is illustrated well by a recent Georgia Straight infographic on pre and post tax tipping. According to the graphic, and my extra cultural perception, the majority of people in Canada are tipping on the [...]
How Much to Tip?
Survey data via Synovate InFact. Click to enlarge. Tipping is a contentious issue as I have discovered through many conversations with my restaurant friends — I’m a closet, okay not so closet, foodie that dines out more often than not. In Canada and the US, tipping is a bit of a minefield of cultural subtlety [...]
Shake Weight Commercial
I want to believe that the producers of this product had some idea of what they were getting themselves into with the Shake Weight. As great as it might be for exercise, there is a very suggestive nature about the movement of the inertia driven dumbbell. I caught the infomercial on TSN while watching a [...]
April Fools’ Day
My patience for April Fools’ Day is so short that I could barely read the Wikipedia entry past the part where I learned that it is actualy Fools’ Day not a singular Fool’s Day. It’s not that I don’t have a sense of humour, but this is the kind of day where things that normally [...]
Cat Toilet Training
We live in an era where it’s possible to train your cat to use the toilet. Is anyone allowed to complain ever again? No. I stumbled on this post which is a memorial to a truly amazing cat that knew how to use the toilet like a human. It’s a pretty incredible feat I must [...]
Christmas and the Smorkin’ Labbit
Money can’t buy happiness. This past Christmas the best gifts my family gave each other were more or less meaningless crap that had no purpose whatsoever. Case in point, I buy my dad a fairly nice watch. He pretends to like it, but honestly I don’t think he really gives a shit. He will probably [...]
Mark McGwire and the Death of Honest Sport
The news about Mark McGwire’s now admitted steroid use is really too bad and another major blow to professional sports. I’m not even really a baseball fan, but this is someone who was and probably still is idolized by everyone from young kids to senior citizens. And this is not just an issue of baseball, [...]
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