Recent content by evandyk

I rely on the 504 to get to work every day, but unfortunately for the last several months, it's been a bus that ends its route at Parliament, so you have to get out and wait for a streetcar to get downtown from there. Pretty inconvenient, especially in the winter. So then I have two not very...

Cristiano Ronaldo gets a salary of $225M to putter around in the Saudi league.

That makes him the fourth (? maybe? Hard to evaluate vs some of the contracts with huge deferred payments) highest paid player ever (on an annual basis), which was obviously too much to pay. I liked Bo, but not at 20% more than Vlad's price...

He thinks Greenland is basically as big as all of Africa, when in reality it's 1/13 the size.

For at least the last few decades, Denmark has taken the view that Greenland can have as much independence as it likes. But Greenland has a population of 50,000 people, and will always want to be affiliated with some bigger country. By default at this point, that's Denmark. It could be the US if...

Haddock is better than halibut anyways, and it's only $21. Rodney's has a $16 fish and chips lunch special. Probably the best fish and chips deal downtown. Ask for skinny fries instead of the big fat ones.

LOL at the thought that defending your small mountainous country against Germany or France is the same as defending your vast, mostly empty, country against the United States. I think we should strengthen our defences against the real threats we face. The US is not a real threat, and if it ever...

LOL. Biden the "radical leftist".

Canada could never defend itself from an attack by the US and there is no point trying to prepare for that eventuality (which will not happen in any of our lifetimes). Which isn't to say that Canada shouldn't spend on more defence capabilities - we should, but mostly in the north and off our...

Yeah. I'm not sure Canada actually owns any air defense batteries. We have a few old fighter jets, but that's about it. That and the geese.

As for Salt and Vinegar, the Miss Vickies ones are definitely the top of the heap, followed by the Ruffles ones (which you can't always get), then the Old Dutch ones. Lays normal salt and vinegar are good, but not nearly as good as the others I mentioned.

But Ruffles All Dressed are miles better than Miss Vickies All Dressed Up. Lays has been selling a non-ruffled All Dressed, and it's a shadow of the real thing.

Ruffles All Dressed are probably my favourite "every day" chip flavour. The Lays ones just don't have enough flavouring powder on them to compete.

They just tasted kind of vaguely "meaty" with a mostly sweet flavour on top of that for the Brazil one, and not much else for the Texas one. I got them from a convenience store on Bloor between Dufferin and Dovercourt. I think right across from the big church.

Holidays have kept me busy. I don't think I've been off work for so long since I took parental leave a few years ago! I haven't really been posting in any of the threads for a few weeks now. But I did try both of these. Neither are anything worth writing home about. I have a bag of the Miss...