Mr. Canucklehead
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Man, the Alien: Romulus trailer looks promising. Loved Fede Alvarez’ Evil Dead and excited to see his take on the Alien franchise. Hope this is a good one.
OT: The OT Thread | The Thread of Destiny
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It’s the 80th anniversary of D-Day tomorrow. Only a handful of veterans are still alive from that momentous event which continues to echo through today's troubled times. Let us take a moment to reflect on their sacrifices. Let us renounce the intolerance, demagoguery, and violence that threaten to undermine the freedoms they fought to preserve.
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Chairman Maouth
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100 percent agree.
I was a latecomer to my family. Let's be honest. I was a mistake. I have two older sisters and the youngest is 15 years older than I am.
My Uncle Phil, my mother's brother, was killed over the skies of England 25 years before I was even born. I only know him from the below photo and from my mother who spoke very little about her brother. I think it was just too painful for her. I wish I had known the man I was so closely related to but never had the chance to meet. World War II got in the way. The term hero has been diluted and has lost all meaning. A hero is not a guy who can score 60 goals or bat at .375 percent. A hero is someone who died defending their country and who died defending people he or she never even met.
His grave marker: "Into thine hand I commit my spirit. Thou hast redeemed me, O Lord."
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Chairman Maouth
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Evil shit.
That stuff you need to drink before a colonoscopy. Pure f***ing evil.
A while back I had a little lump removed from my left cheekbone that looked like Merkel cell carcinoma — a rare form of skin cancer. I spent a lot of years on the ocean out in the Sun so I'm probably a prime candidate for skin cancer.
The dermatologist said the cells were abnormal and I was actually taken aback by how forthright he was. He said it looked like cancer. He removed the lesion and sent it for a biopsy which came back negative. Cool. Happy about that of course. He told my doctor that it might be worthwhile if I took a home colon cancer screening test simply because the lesion on my face did contain abnormal-looking cells. He actually seemed a little confused about what he saw when he used that little thing that looked like a jeweller's loupe.
So I took the advice and goddam if the home colon cancer test didn't come back positive. Another abnormal result. So now tomorrow I go for the definitive test and we'll see what's going on. Right now I'm about one hour into drinking this evil shit called Peglite and I've never drunk anything so disgusting in my life, and I have to drink two litres in 90 minutes. Then another two litres at 2:30 tomorrow morning. Honestly, it feels like two gallons, not two litres.
Anyways, I'm just sitting around drinking this evil shit and waiting for the inevitable, unavoidable aftermath.
Cheers!
That stuff you need to drink before a colonoscopy. Pure f***ing evil.
A while back I had a little lump removed from my left cheekbone that looked like Merkel cell carcinoma — a rare form of skin cancer. I spent a lot of years on the ocean out in the Sun so I'm probably a prime candidate for skin cancer.
The dermatologist said the cells were abnormal and I was actually taken aback by how forthright he was. He said it looked like cancer. He removed the lesion and sent it for a biopsy which came back negative. Cool. Happy about that of course. He told my doctor that it might be worthwhile if I took a home colon cancer screening test simply because the lesion on my face did contain abnormal-looking cells. He actually seemed a little confused about what he saw when he used that little thing that looked like a jeweller's loupe.
So I took the advice and goddam if the home colon cancer test didn't come back positive. Another abnormal result. So now tomorrow I go for the definitive test and we'll see what's going on. Right now I'm about one hour into drinking this evil shit called Peglite and I've never drunk anything so disgusting in my life, and I have to drink two litres in 90 minutes. Then another two litres at 2:30 tomorrow morning. Honestly, it feels like two gallons, not two litres.
Anyways, I'm just sitting around drinking this evil shit and waiting for the inevitable, unavoidable aftermath.
Cheers!
The Peglyte is better if you have a chaser. I drank a mouthful of apple juice for every 250mL of the crap. Be close to the crapper for the next five hours.
That sucks that you wound up with the morning appointment. Last of the day at 2:30p lets you swig the crap starting at 8:15. Had a colonoscopy two weeks ago.
They gave me fentanyl as the anaesthesia for the scope and it f***ed me up. I was still off the next day. I was bringing in the groceries and I smoked my head on the trunk of the car, concussing myself. Got over a seven year concussion just last year, pretty disappointed in getting another one. Seems like it's a minor one though. Mostly just headaches that linger at this point, and my usually excellent memory is shite. That's the way she blows I guess.
Chairman Maouth
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I don't always get notifications here anymore when I'm quoted. I didn't get one for you and that sucks. If someone quotes me I want to know about it so I can at least give them the courtesy of reading their post and replying if I think I should.
I have a bottle of clear Gatorade and a bottle of lime Gatorade beside me. So you think I should be drinking the Gatorade at the same time?
Yeah, that definitely makes sense about the appointment time. My appointment is at 8:30 tomorrow morning - meaning I'm up at 2:30 tomorrow morning drinking that vile shit for an hour and a half and then riding the toilet for another two hours after that.
Ouch! Dude!
I hope for the best for you and that it's minor as you said. I've been pretty lucky and that 2x4 I was hit across the face with told me I have a pretty hard head. It turned my face numb, but not my brain. I guess that's a little arguable with some people around here though.
bandwagonesque
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I don't always get notifications here anymore when I'm quoted. I didn't get one for you and that sucks. If someone quotes me I want to know about it so I can at least give them the courtesy of reading their post and replying if I think I should.
I have a bottle of clear Gatorade and a bottle of lime Gatorade beside me. So you think I should be drinking the Gatorade at the same time?
Yeah, that definitely makes sense about the appointment time. My appointment is at 8:30 tomorrow morning - meaning I'm up at 2:30 tomorrow morning drinking that vile shit for an hour and a half and then riding the toilet for another two hours after that.
Ouch! Dude!
I hope for the best for you and that it's minor as you said. I've been pretty lucky and that 2x4 I was hit across the face with told me I have a pretty hard head. It turned my face numb, but not my brain. I guess that's a little arguable with some people around here though.
Had one 2 years ago. 3 polyps removed - thankfully, benign. The Peglite I drank was pineapple flavoured which helped.
The prep is the worst part, the procedure is a breeze. Wishing you well.
Reverend Mayhem
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So Neuls isn't your last name then, huh? Interesting read, thanks for sharing Chairman. I wonder if that was shortened for a different longer more foreign last name. Seems Germanic.
Luckily, both my grandparents were not drafted overseas. I think they both worked as mechanics for the Air Force, though. My mum's dad passed in 1985 so I never met him. My dad's dad died when I was 8 (my grandparents were fairly old when my dad was born, probably a mistake too, he figures at least). So I grew up mostly with no grandfather. My wife's parents were really young so her grandfather is still kicking and in great shape! I hadn't realized the amount of unresolved sadness of growing mostly without one. I thought that was the normal time for grandparents to die, when you're like under 10.
I agree wholeheartedly. We are so lucky to live where we do, to not ever have bad actors abroad bring war to our country and land. I think we have become desensitized and thus not unappreciative, but, blasé perhaps, to the sense of true heroism and the sacrifice that comes with it. Dying for your country is one, but I think of my parents who always had food on the table, a roof over our heads, and to boot instilling me with the ethics that drive who I am today.
Heroism comes in many forms, and I don't think we as a society celebrate that as much as we should. Mostly just lip service. And for the record, I supported Don Cherry's sentiments when he was fired. But, I don't think the issue is race I think it's just the passage of time dulling the understanding of what happened for those 6 years.
The calamity of WWII makes me think... most of the neighborhood I live in came about post-war, as vets settled back down to new suburbs and later, their kids streamed into Baby Boom adulthood to fill the cul-the-sacs. CMHC behind their backs for home ownership, new sweeping social programs and broad prosperity from being an intact country after much of the world suffered horribly. There were countless lives lost preceding all that.
Then I look out my window and notice that more half the original homes in my cul-de-sac are gone. They were Vancouver Special or postwar bungalow style, most were very well taken care of. In their place are enormous but blocky mansions, trying to squeeze every last drop of finished square footage from the lot. They look like apartment buildings from afar but no, it's all just for one family and I don't know of one that has more than 5 people. There was a bungalow on the corner lot that sold for $1.5 million and made way to one of these mansions. Another one was demolished, and in its place is another mansion on sale for $3 million dollars. We're living in a housing crisis, opioid crisis, cost of living crisis, climate crisis... but I suppose some people are coming out on top and they're making sure they can't be touched.
I don't imagine this is the kind of future that was envisioned after the war. Sorry for being ranty.
Then I look out my window and notice that more half the original homes in my cul-de-sac are gone. They were Vancouver Special or postwar bungalow style, most were very well taken care of. In their place are enormous but blocky mansions, trying to squeeze every last drop of finished square footage from the lot. They look like apartment buildings from afar but no, it's all just for one family and I don't know of one that has more than 5 people. There was a bungalow on the corner lot that sold for $1.5 million and made way to one of these mansions. Another one was demolished, and in its place is another mansion on sale for $3 million dollars. We're living in a housing crisis, opioid crisis, cost of living crisis, climate crisis... but I suppose some people are coming out on top and they're making sure they can't be touched.
I don't imagine this is the kind of future that was envisioned after the war. Sorry for being ranty.
MarkusNaslund19
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Wishing you luck buddy.
Hearing the C word under any context is jarring. My dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017 and I believe had to do the same process you're talking about.
I feel incredibly blessed and fortunate to say that he has been given a positive prognosis several times and has been told that prostate cancer is something he will die with not from.
But in his case, he calls it 'the gift of cancer' as he had somewhat checked out of life and it felt like he was running out the clock.
Cancer was a wakeup call for him and in his recovery he met a woman whom he is marrying a couple of weekends from now as a man in his 70's.
So maintain the hope, sometimes wonderful things come from that which at first appears to be terrible.
Mr. Canucklehead
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Good luck, CM - hope you get the best news possible, and don't have to drink that awful shite anymore.
Reverend Mayhem
Tell me all your thoughts on God
I missed that bit of news, I am sorry to hear that Chairman. I know you'll fight it well. Kick it in the ass for us.
Chairman Maouth
Retired Staff
I swear - last night I could've shit through the eye of a needle. What a miserable ordeal prepping for that is.
Mixed results with the colonoscopy. They removed a few polyps and one was 2 cm. Apparantly, polyps 2 cm or larger carry a 50% chance of being malignant.
What's next is we wait for the biopsy results. If it comes back positive for cancer we deal with that accordingly. If it comes negative it means another colonoscopy in three months to see if things are changing for the worse.
The glass-half-full version is colon cancer runs through the males in my family but it has not killed anyone. All of them were treated successfully and survived and eventually died from other causes, including my father. One uncle had colon cancer in his 50s but it was COVID that killed him 35 years later at the age of 89.
So, onward, stay positive, and don't take life for granted.
Chairman Maouth
Retired Staff
I didn't know there were different flavours. If I need another I'll remember that. Thanks.
Mr. Canucklehead
Kitimat Canuck
Fingers crossed that you get good news, man.
Chairman Maouth
Retired Staff
Great post. We have more in common than I imagined.
I supported Cherry's sentiments too, but his xenophobia caught up with him. I will always be grateful for Cherry mentioning one of my uncles in one of his books where he called my uncle one of the toughest sons of bitches he ever played against.
Neuls is my mother's maiden name. I don't know much about her ancestry but my understanding is that yes, the name is of German origin. I remember she had a very old bible that was written in German.
All of my grandparents but one were dead by the time I was born. My father served in the Canadian Navy here on the coast, guarding against the Japanese.
My sisters and I didn't really grow up together because they were both off and married by the time I was 5.
My oldest sister was career navy and she moved from the RCN to CSIS for 11 years, I don't know what she did for CSIS but when she was still with the RCN she was involved in communications so I assume she may have been involved with intelligence gathering for CSIS.
I remember around 1995. I was living in Mission and I got a knock on my door. It was two plainclothes RCMP members who had been assigned to do a background check on me as standard procedure before my sister was granted advanced security clearance.
My brother-in-law rose to the rank of commander in the RCN. He and my sister met in Dartmouth early in their Navy careers.
If I have a major regret in life it's not joining the military. I would have gone with the Navy too.
Chairman Maouth
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That's great news about your dad. Weird where we can find positivity, isn't it?
I posted an update just a post or two above. #239
Chairman Maouth
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Reverend Mayhem
Tell me all your thoughts on God
Well put. Your frustration is well-placed. I have the same occupation my dad did when he bought his first home. Same age, in fact, I'm older than my dad now than he was when I was bornt. My rent is $2500. Coach-house, 2 bed, 1 bath, 600ish maybe square feet.
I have no idea why corporations are allowed to be landlords. They are profiteering off of a basic need, yet these
from BlackRock, Greystar, Zillow are never dragged thru the mud the way Nestle is. There are some truly evil people in the world. I think there's a video on YouTube called "The Housing Crisis is the Everything Crisis", or something. But that in a sentence is a LARGE contributing factor to why shit is so f***ed up in NA right now.Absolutely no one from my generation is getting ahead. Everyone who is, gets tons of help from mom and dad. And these are lawyers, policemen, firefighters, etc. jobs you'd expect to be in the range of reasonable disposable income. Back when I came out of grade school it was kind of embarrassing to be in your 30s living with mom and dad but now I say more power to ya.
Now people are angrier than ever. People my age are wondering when the hard work will pay off (if ever), kids younger than us already know they're f***ed, and people older than me are realizing the football of retirement keeps getting pulled away. Truth is, black, white, old, young, secreter, non-secreter, this is what we are all facing. Except for one group of people. Those who hold the proverbial whips. If you work trades or manual labour, you know what I mean. You get shit on and pushed to the physical limit 5 days a week just to have to use credit to stay above water every 3 months. You get the maximum amount of production squeezed out of you, and are shamed for "not doing your part" if you don't look like you're busting ass. Only to get to the store and see those same people jacked the price up again because Mr. Moneybags needs to buy a 6th senator or some shit.
The only good billionaire is a dead one. And Jim Pattison perhaps.
When you remove the incentive of upward mobility, morale suffers, and production lowers. Crime will rise. And I'm not against capitalism. I'm not for it, but it's the least corrupt system ever put in practice...and that's not saying much. Remember that the world currently has more than enough food so that people don't have to starve to death. They still do though. Make that make sense.
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I finally got a Costco membership and ... it's mostly a bunch of snacks and frozen bullshit, vegetables/meat are cheaper at small Chinese/Persian places in my neighborhood, I like the coffee I buy locally too much to switch, and I don't have the space to store that much toilet paper or paper towels. Maybe if I ever need new tires or a TV it'll come in handy, but for the time being it's a bit of an airball.
Costcos great. Lots of prices are similarly priced but are just better at Costco.
We always get frozen chicken breasts, cheese, Parmesan, pork shoulder, brisket and other meats at Costco.
Yeah, there are a bunch of things you get 30-40% cheaper per g for buying a bit more relative to Walmart or Superstore and it's stuff we'll eat all of eventually.
The premade meals are also great and we usually have one or two hanging around frozen for 'don't feel like cooking' days.
Yes. The premade meals like the lasagna or pasta salad are great. And the premarinated meats are good too.
I think what’s lost on a lot of people just comparing prices is that Costco’s stuff is almost always better than the competitors. So even where it’s more expensive you are almost always just getting a better product too.
