I learned classical Spanish, not the pidgin dialect he seems to have picked up

– Basil Fawlty, referring to Manuel in “A Touch of Class”

I think a banana peel was a polite stand-in for a piece of dogshit, that wouldn’t gross people out too much.

Hmm. Can anyone think of a high-profile person who has been convictedof rape? (Please don’t be pedantic about the legal meaning of rape.) Not to mention literally dozens of other accusations.

My main computer is 13 years old, with a graphics card that is even older. No, I haven’t played a lot of the newer games, but there are more than enough to keep me occupied and happy that can run perfectly well on my hardware.

It might be different if I was into multiplayer games, but I’m not.

It’s more nuanced than that. The current government, which may have been voted out by the time you read this, is conservative and not separatist, but has governed extremely badly. More than $1 billion spent on a website to renew driver’s licenses. Laws that are clearly designed to limit the visibility and public participation of muslims.

The Liberals were the government before that, and even for Quebec they were famously corrupt.

The Parti Quebecois, although they are separatists, has made real differences in the social fabric of the province:

• $5 daycare started almost 30 years ago
• banned corporate and union donations to provincial political parties
• pharmacare program since 1997 covering most prescription medications
• legislation to protect farmland from urban sprawl

So what does that leave us? The Canadian Party of Quebec that is even more right wing than the conservatives? Québec Solidaire, who are also separatist?

They have traditional values in Russia. It’s just that they are Stalin’s traditional values.

Stay tuned, as other countries demand reparations for the Ottoman Caliphate, the Mongol invasion, the Roman empire, and the Phoenician Empire. Then we move on to all the others.

I think that there is a case for wanting reparations if the effects and repercussions are ongoing, but it’s hard to see what Greece is suffering now, from what the Third Reich did 80+ years ago.

Volkswagen is preparing to build a battery plant in Canada that will receive up to $13 billion in subsidies over 10 years.

At the same time, Stellantis is building a battery plant in another part of Ontario that will receive up to $15 billion in subsidies.

And people are worried about Chinese auto makers being subsidized?

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In a nod to the OP, there is also a short course on music theory.

It’s not even the most corrupt country in the world at this moment, let alone in history. No need for hyperbole, the reality is bad enough.

Does no one else notice how odd it is, that someone who was trained to be a soldier and has all the advantages of terrain, weapons, and surprise was taken out by a couple of cops with pistols?

I mean, all credit to Jeff Smith and his partner who responded with courage, skill, and determination, but I hope the rest of the Canadian armed forces are better than this guy. Who knows when we will have to repel an invasion from the south!

…and I can prove it!

Given the government of Quebec’s recent upgrade of their driver’s license website, costing $1.1 billion, with a similar amount expected for their upgraded health services portal, I’m not sure we can define that as the right choice.

Then the CAQ’s skills in this are about as good as they are in running the province, because the PQ look like they are headed for a win.

I’d like to believe that, but I can’t see it happening.

Of course, there is a tractor company in Alberta, Canada that is making old school tractors without all the bells and whistles, and selling them for a fraction of what John Deere charges.

So maybe…

And because Sheeran doesn’t have to lipsync his concerts.

This is it really good description of Quebec french.

Tranna

When I lived in Japan, if I was out with my wife people would always speak to her (she was Japanese). My Japanese was reasonably good, and my wife said that there were no real issues with my grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation, but still people didn’t understand me because I was a foreigner and they knew they couldn’t understand foreigners.