Little British Fairy Tale Children: Get lost in the woods
Me, a Canadian: “okay but can’t you walk to the other side of the country in like 45 minutes”
This is the size of the entire United Kingdom next to the area of my home town with a population of about a thousand people (the site adjusts map size for Mercator projection distortion). It’s almost as wide as Scotland.
Sometimes people drive this far and back because they feel like getting burgers at McDonalds.
This is even wilder if you’re aware that that’s a poorly maintained single-lane gravel road that people frequently roll their cars on, and has been voted “worst road in Manitoba” in the past.
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Honestly one of the things I’m happiest about is they can stop that “patriotic education reform” and we don’t have to deal with the global fallout of the GOP spending the next four years teaching everyone’s kids to be a bunch of little Hitler Youths
I’m honestly floored by how much American education ALREADY glosses over. Like, I hear so many adults talk about not learning about residential schools until they were in their 20’s-30’s, they were covering that as far back as 5th grade social studies at my school in Manitoba.
Granted, I don’t know if the rest of Canada goes into Native history as much as Frontier Schools in Manitoba, it’s not a subject you can really sweep under the rug when most of your students have family members who experienced it.
I wish I could just go to Winnipeg and buy overpriced coffee at the Forks and I dunno, look at the warming shelters or something, are those out yet?
I want tony donuts but only the tiny donuts at the Forks. Everyone else’s tiny donuts are virtually identical but they’re only good if you eat them at the Forks.
The last time I was at the Forks I saw Al Simmons (the beloved Canadian children’s entertainer, not Spawn) ice skating with his grandkids.
I think if you look at the way the Prairie voters in Canada are split between right wing parties and NDP with barely any mention of the Liberals, it really highlights why centre-right dems who refuse to stand behind actual helpful socialist policy fail to win over rural areas
When people say rural voters go against their own self interests voting for republicans, I think they need to consider how little half-assed centre-right Pelosi-democrat policy accomplishes for them, it feels like paying taxes for the idea of social programs you never see
It's kind of like that whole "poor people can't afford cheap things" saying, and lower taxes with the promise of nothing feels more beneficial to immediate survival than higher taxes with promised benefits that never seem to pan out or are difficult to access.
You mean to tell me all this time there was a comedy crime drama about Eric Schweig running a casino in Southern Manitoba and I was completely unaware?
Various horror things I have watched that aren't "all about jumpscares" in no particular order, just scrolling back through my browsing history;
let's get some of the big obvious prestigious ones you probably already know about out of the way first:
Lovecraft Country:
Has it's issues but you know, they're trying and listening to feedback and learning. it's about what you expect in a luxuriously budgeted elritch HBO series
The Twilight Zone:
True to the spirit of the original, great variety and a diverse A-list cast of recognizable talent
If you want a great example of how references don’t really help unless you break them down to understand what you’re looking at and why things look the way they do, consider that the infamous Rob Liefeld Cap was pretty clearly directly reffed from pumping-iron-era Schwarzenegger
If you only care about making a literal reproduction of what you see instead of considering why it looks that way, you don’t understand why putting a front 3/4 view chest and side profile arms on the same body looks weird
This cover is also a great example of the importance of silhouette, bodybuilders like that pose because it emphasizes chest-to-waist ratio, if you cover the waist the viewer has a harder time extrapolating the body underneath and it turns into a confusing nugget of torso