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Fred Thomas pictured in his Assumption College basketball uniform Windsor, ON December 26, 1923 – May 20, 1981 Was called “the greatest Canadian athlete you've never heard of” by TVO

1. Here's a little thread on one of Canada's greatest athletes who was largely forgotten by most of his home country: the three-sport phenom "Fabulous" Fred Thomas.

Here is Brady Tkachuk saying "that's for the people who say I can't read, go F yourself" after attempting to do some elementary school math and getting the wrong answer

The Tkachuks just narrowly missed out on this gig after it was learned that reading SNL cue cards requires being able to read

Showing my jar of Holy Duck Chili oil which is Chinese spicy red chili oil with Canadian duck fat in it

The resulting load showing a perfect beautiful spiral inside. All credit to my wife for this one

IMPORTANT:

Sourdough bread loaf with duck fat chili oil, scallions and cheddar

In recent years, Bilbao has quietly built a cycling network shaped by lessons from the Netherlands: calmed where it can be, protected where it must be, and always comfortable and connected.

The result? You can now pedal across the city on infrastructure made for everyone—not just the fit and brave.

Also why Kalshi and its even more deregulated/deranged cousin Polymarket keep getting press for insane bets like "will Jesus return in 2026". And you'll get like, 99% odds of No. "Wow! Free money!" Well, no. After fees you'd be better off with your money in a 0.5% interest savings account

"But if the money is self contained where the losers pay the winners, how does Kalshi make any money?"

By charging a transaction fee every time you bet.

That means they don't really have to give a shit about the actual outcomes of any given bet as long as people keep betting.

(Also some people are confused about how Kalshi works: Kalshi doesn't benefit from not paying out the "Ayatollah will die by March 1" bets. It's not a traditional bookie. If "Yes" wins a bet, the payout comes from the "No" bettors. It's not like Kalshi is just keeping someone's money they were owed)

Honestly probably only the 2nd most embarrassing Kalshi insider trading story this week: a few days ago, one of MrBeast's video editors was caught betting $4000 on MrBeast-related Kalshi bets like "what will MrBeast say in his next video", which is, bafflingly, a thing adults could gamble money on

"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.