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"The Jetsons" is canonically set in the year 2062. That means we've only got 36 years left for baby-naming trends in America to change enough that you can name a blond kid Elroy.

it’s gritney bitch

Mandatory 10x voltage if the topic is "Canada" (seen this a lot during the Olympics) and you reply to someone with the default top gif for "Canada" which is the two Barstool guys saying "sorry". Gee great thanks for adding to the thread with this Barstool gif, Evelyn in Canmore

If someone is talking about tacos and you just reply with a gif that you found by searching "taco" on Giphy, do you ever think "nailed it. Absolutely nailed this conversation. Now people on the taco thread will see some choppy 3-frame watermarked gif of a spinning taco."

Guys who reply to posts by pulling up the Gif keyboard, typing whatever topic is at hand, and just sending whatever stupid gif pops up first should receive a mild electric shock from their device. Voltage can increase for each additional gif sent.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

Two thoughts

1. Most modern high-end brooms are made of carbon fiber and are HARD to break, I don't remember ever seeing this, my man was putting some TORQUE on that thing

2. I think you need to be native Quebec French speaker to say tabarnak with that perfect proper tone, a Frenchman could never

A sweeper on Team Quebec snapped his broom in half while sweeping at the Brier, and the skip's response was extremely Québecois

I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened

imagine you're just some random Survivor player and in 12 months Peter Sarsgaard wins an Emmy for playing a character with your exact name and mannerisms on White Lotus whose plotline is that he's a dumb guy who ruins the vibe on the beach and keeps hoggin' all the rice

People have asked "why does Mike White need to do Survivor when he's got White Lotus" money and to that I ask you this: where is a better place on earth to get ideas and inspiration for the concept "what if a tropical paradise was full of vindictive freaks"

Nevertheless, the warmongers have found a fan in Prime Minister Mark Carney. Saturday morning, Carney released a statement announcing that he “supports the United States” in its strikes on Iran. It is a feckless, bewildering, totally unnecessary position. It should call into question the prime minister’s supposed belief in the “prohibition of the use of force, except when consistent with the UN Charter,” as he told the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year. Carney’s statement does not even make a boilerplate call for de-escalation. Instead, it cheerleads America “acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” That is a painfully naive and obsequious statement which blindly accepts an entirely unconvincing casus belli. The United Kingdom, France, and Germany all managed to comment on the situation without endorsing this war. In a terse statement, they stressed that they had no hand in the U.S. strikes — though the U.K. was helping to intercept Iranian attacks — and condemned Iran’s weapons program. But they refrained from praising Trump’s dangerous escalation.

Justin Ling, as always, summing it up pretty well (and bringing the receipts from Carney's famous Davos speech):

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Aerial photo of the Feb 14 Iran protest in North York CBC caption: In a statement to CBC Toronto Saturday evening, Toronto police said the Global Day of Action Rally in Toronto saw crowds estimated at 350,000.

2 weeks ago, a record 350,000 people marched in subzero February weather in the Toronto suburbs to support the ongoing plight of the Iranian people.

Today, Carney gave a thumbs-up for the US to indiscriminately blast missiles at Iranian preschools. Can't imagine this is what the protesters wanted.

people are kinda telling on themselves of how "into Canadian politics" or "into women's hockey" they are when that doesn't look like Mark Carney (he's not even in Ottawa right now) and that doesn't look like a single recognizable player or jersey of anyone on Team USA or Canada

we're burning forests so that we can make Mark Carney PWHL fanfiction to bamboozle grandmothers

this AI slop has 1,200 reposts and nearly 5,000 likes. what the fuck are we doing out here.

No no no, you're not understanding: if WE don't start blasting missiles into a foreign country, there could be a possibility that they develop the capacity to have the opportunity to build a likelihood of a potential for THEM being able to blast missiles into foreign countries

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Omg. I didn’t see everything happening in this pic until I read the alt text. It’s incredible.

Oh my God he's going to premiere by popping out of that crate they've been teasing and the entire only-watches-WWE crowd will be dead silent like "who?" Absolute GobbledyGooker scenes.

11. Although still a local legend in Windsor, it wasn't until much later after his death that his story started getting rediscovered by the rest of Canada.

Fred Thomas is now in the:
Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame (1995)
Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame (2021)
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (2024)

Fred Thomas in his coaching jacket for Valley Park Junior High in East York, Ontario, 1970s

10. After a knee surgery mostly ended his athletic career around 1950 (although he still hit .383 to win Intercounty Baseball League MVP for Kitchener in 1951) Thomas became a phys ed and math teacher in Toronto, until his death from cancer in 1981.

“To this day I don’t know why [Thomas] wasn’t selected for our [Olympic] team because we were really only one player away from winning a medal” Woody Campbell, member of Team Canada 1952 roster and former teammate of Fred Thomas

9. Thomas would play basketball for Harlem Globetrotters-associated all-Black barnstorming teams like the New York Renaissance for a few years.

In 1952 he was let off of Canada's Olympic basketball roster, as Canada opted for an all-white team. Canada would finish 13th.

8. Thomas was sent to Cleveland's affiliate the Wilkes-Barre Barons in 1948, becoming the first Black player to play in an Eastern League game, effectively desegregating the Minors.

Injuries and racial barriers hampered his dreams of making MLB but in the early 50s he was a star in Canada's IBL

Fred Thomas playing for the short-lived Detroit Senators, an independent barnstorming Negro League team of the 1940s

7. And then there was his baseball career.

In 1947 after MLB was desegregated, Cleveland owner Bill Veeck asked Harlem Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein to scout for talented Black athletes to sign. Thomas became the 21st Black ballplayer, and first Black Canadian to sign an MLB contract.

Fred Thomas holding a football in full football uniform, I couldn't find details about the photo but I believe this is during his high school playing days and not as a Toronto Argonaut

6. His play attracted the attention of the Globetrotters, and he was invited to their training camp in Chicago in 1949. Only one problem: Thomas was busy playing football for the Toronto Argonauts as the first Black Canadian in the CFL after the league's desegregation.

5. Led by Fred Thomas, tiny Assumption College defeated the Harlem Globetrotters in Windsor that night in a packed high school gym, 49-45.

The Windsor Star summed it up: "His performance was amazing and the most amazed were the confused Globetrotters".

The Harlem Globetrotters in the 1940s wearing their signature uniforms

4. In 1945, the Harlem Globetrotters came to town to challenge Assumption College (a tiny school of 200 students).

The Globetrotters of the 1940s weren't a sideshow: they were a dominant, legitimate barnstorming team. A few years later they challenged the NBA champion Lakers and beat them twice.