Reddit, what would be your hell?

Kamige · 14 days

A laundromat.

Shudder I despise the overwhelming, pervasive non-smell and the different shades of beige. Also, the perpetual thrumming is torture.

J4K3TH3R1PP3R · 15 days

Canada: we may be cold, boring and polite, but our geese are not to be fucked with.

Every time I see one of these videos of a Canada goose being super aggressive and crazy, I feel a little twinge of patriotism.

McD419 · 17 days

That was WAY more serious than the cute animation prepared me for.

hungrytrex · 25 days

Yes, but what do you really mean when you say that?

hungrytrex · 25 days

I'm a bit confused by the title here. Strictly speaking, this rant didn't shut Mike Wallace up, (I mean, he kept asking questions, right?) At the same time, it's not a journalist's job to put forward an opinion. He or she is just supposed to ask questions, and then they're supposed to sit quietly and listen to the answers.

Admittedly, it was a charged, provocative question coming from the interviewer, but that's only because Wallace was trying to provoke a reaction. When they do the cutaway shot at around 1:02, you see how Wallace is sort of almost smiling? In his head he was thinking "Tee hee hee, I made him get angry. This is totally going to draw in a big audience tonight."

TL;DR OP, your title doesn't make sense. Sincerely, A Journalist

gleepii · 1 month

It's a really good sandwich. Like, really good.

It's not an everyday brown-bag lunch at the office kind of sandwich, but then, steak isn't an everyday meal for most people either.

I'm a big fan of a properly grilled steak too, but I don't think that means that using a good cut of meat in another context would necessarily "ruin" it.

I made up two of 'em for a lunch with my D&D group a while back. It was great, and it would've been completely impractical and inappropriate to be eating steak with a fork/knife in that setting. Similarly, I've been thinking about whipping up one of these bad boys for a hike with a few friends. It'd be the sort of thing that would pack well, and then you could cut it up and eat it on the trail.

TL;DR It's a good sandwich, but context is important.

silentjay85 · 1 month

Yeah, I quietly had a bit of a rage fit when I got that far.

Axic11 · 1 month

From what I can tell, shopping online is U.S. only. As a Canadian, I'm feeling politely frustrated.

the_swish · 1 month

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy the movie, but comparing the book to the movie is like comparing wine to chocolate covered raisins. (Basically the same source material, but that's about it.)

I don't know if you've read anything else by Heinlein, but he has a penchant to use his characters as a mouthpiece to go into lengthy philosophical rants. Often it takes the form of a debate between characters; in Starship Troopers it's often in the context of a classroom lesson, and the back-and-forth between the teacher and students.

It's kind of difficult to describe, but it can be remarkably engaging to read. Moreover, it can be incredibly persuasive.

Stranger in a Strange Land uses a lot of this technique to explore ideas of what is "normal" in society, what is healthy and unhealthy about religion, and what it means to be a human being. Starship Troopers gets into what it means to be a civilian versus what it means to be a soldier, what citizenship means, and the role of the military in a society.

Both of these are excellent books, but neither one is my absolute favourite Heinlein novel. If you get a chance, pick up a copy of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. It's excellent science fiction -- cool concept, well executed with a good story. The ideas that Heinlein tosses around in it are really compelling too.

TL:DR Sorry, but I can't really sum that up in a sentence or two. I apologize for hitting you with a big ol' wall of text, though.

the_swish · 1 month

I work for the largest daily newspaper in a small-ish province in Canada. Circulation is between 25,000 and 30,000.

I studied journalism at Ryerson university in Toronto — a four-year university degree program with a strong focus on the practical aspects of the trade.

I got my job by way of a six-week internship with the newspaper I'm currently working for; I did that internship through school, so in my case it was pretty essential. I also think generally there's a lot of value in going to j-school. Once upon a time it wasn't necessary, but those times have changed.

I don't really freelance. I'm too busy with regular work. My beat is provincial politics, so a lot of my stories come directly from showing up at the legislature and writing about the proceedings. When the legislature isn't sitting, I cover government press conferences, and then come up with story ideas on my own. I'd say it's about a 50-50 split between stories that are assigned to me by my editor versus ones that I come up with myself.

the_swish · 1 month

I'm a politics reporter for a daily newspaper. Feel free to ask me any questions you think I could answer.

the_swish · 1 month

Have at it, but I doubt it's worth your while. I promise, I'm not really that interesting.

the_swish · 1 month

The book isn't about dissent at all, really. But up until that point in my life I'd never read anything that felt so ... subversive.

The notion of a lengthy, intellectual defence of corporal punishment of why violence does solve problems was a completely foreign concept to me.

As an affluent North American white kid, my upbringing was pretty safe, inoffensive and sanitized of controversy. Heinlein's ideas were an unapologetic repudiation of a lot of things that I'd never imagined it was even possible to argue against. (The withering argument against "violence doesn't solve anything" is a pretty good example.)

I don't agree with everything Heinlein argued for by any stretch of the imagination. I just loved that he was an original thinker, and he refused to genuflect to authority or conventional wisdom.

The book was about dissent for me only in that it helped me understand what challenging authority was all about.

the_swish · 1 month

Yup. Someone usually already has SimonJester. JesterSimon is my go-to Internet username.

AaronSheffield is also a old standby for me when I have to sign up for anything on the Internet.

the_swish · 1 month

For me it was Starship Troopers, also by Heinlein, which I read in junior high.

That book definitely was a pretty conservative right-wing book, but it really opened up to me the idea of dissent, and boldly and eloquently putting forward an unpopular point of view. Before that, I'd never really seen or read anything of the kind.

After Starship Troopers, I read Stranger in a Strange Land and just about everything else by Heinlein. He was a huge influence on me.

Today, I'm a journalist.

Newfiecowboy · 2 months

It's nice to see the icebergs close to St. John's again (I feel like it's been a few years) but I definitely wouldn't call that "massive."

I'm still waiting for one of these bad boys off the coast.

rogueuk · 2 months

Holy crap!

A $25 blazer? At that price, it's hard to go wrong.

Watawkichaw · 2 months

But ... grumble ... well ... grumble ...

Get the hell off my lawn!

Watawkichaw · 2 months

All I could think about was the potential hazards.

For starters, leaining out the side of a balloon basket to catch your plane seems risky. There'll always be the urge to lean too far of you miscalculate the approach.

For another thing, what happens if the plane flies into the balloon itself? Or rams into the flame thing underneath?

-Sincerely Jestersimon, who is apparently a boring old worrywart.

SherlockBrolmes · 2 months

Uganda isn't going to be impressed when they hear about this...

kwizzle14 · 2 months

Hit it!

Hit it in the head with a stick!

-Sincerely, a dude who owns a sealskin bowtie, and think's it's awesome.

Blurr · 2 months

Because that person isn't attracted to you. (Sorry.)

Blurr · 2 months

Easy. See the guy in the red with two hands on his ass? Him. He suggested it.

(Either that, or maybe the guy in white who's getting two handfuls of ass.)

Any other questions?

_Garbage_ · 3 months

I have on a fairly low setting. Basic addition, subtraction multiplication and division.

It still makes me stop and think, "Do I really want to send this right now."

At least 1/3 of the time (even if I'm not drunk) I end up saying, "Aw, fuck it. 57 minus 29 is too much work. I'll take another look at this tomorrow morning."

noisyturtle · 3 months

Thank you for articulating this. I've never thought of it in this way, exactly but, I find this incredibly frustrating in art sometimes.

Too often, I think an artist is seeking carve out a new bit of real estate on this continuum, just by tweaking/re-imagining/rehashing the work of other artists that came before them. That's fine and all, but if you're not creating something beautiful or moving or engaging, then it's just derivative crap.

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