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    bb.king reacted to voodoochylde in Covid-19   
    There's always been a vaccine mandate for healthcare professionals.
    Yes, I acknowledge there is a dearth of qualified, compassionate healthcare workers in Canada.  As one of those million people who doesn't have a family doctor, it's concerning to me.  It's equally concerning that I might have someone I care about under the care of a "professional" who is so selfish and self-absorbed that they can't bothered do the bare minimum to keep them safe.  As far as I'm concerned, if you aren't willing to do the smallest of things to keep those under your care free from harm then you have no business being in the business you are in.
     
     
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    bb.king reacted to Noeller in Covid-19   
    imagine considering yourself a medical professional and refusing to get vaccinated.... you should have your qualifications removed. An incredible number of people sick with respiratory virus infections this fall/winter, and people are like "what pandemic??" No vaccine, no mask..... you get what you deserve. 
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    bb.king reacted to JCon in Upcoming Movies   
    "lost billions" 
    Stock is double what it was ten years ago and have their highest earnings ever. 
     
    Just like when Nike went broke. And, Budweiser. And, Keurig. And whatever else underperforming white men "boycott" 
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    bb.king reacted to Goalie in Upcoming Movies   
    Big legend of Zelda fan. Can't wait till they ruin it for me next year as rumors are a movie is happening 
    Why? The 2nd one was ok and made tons of money and my daughter loved it so... 
    Little girls love Elsa and Anna and as a dad to a girl, you know what, it's a good movie. I'll gladly take my daughter to go see frozen 3 over Spanish snow white or woke bs 
  5. Haha
    bb.king reacted to 17to85 in Dear Bluto   
    You got a huge mountain of **** to eat. 
     
    Worst 16-2 team ever.
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    bb.king reacted to GCJenks in The RIP 2023 Thread   
    You can always choose not to read or comment either... 
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    bb.king got a reaction from MOBomberFan in Random question of the week   
    I'll play
    Best sandwich: clubhouse (although Montreal smoked meat is good too)
    Scariest animal: Deer/Moose, because of the fear of hitting one while driving at 100 km/hr (been there, done that, don’t recommend)
    Dogs or cats: Dogs, never cats
    Window or aisle: Window for domestic; aisle for long-haul since I don’t sleep on planes and like to be able to stand up every couple hours to stretch my legs as much as I can.
    Clear or sparkling: Clear
    Apples or oranges: Apples
    Favourite action movie: To pick only one, The Terminator (original)
    Favourite smell: Campfire
    Least favourite smell: Cooked rhubarb
    One song to listen to: Tecumseh Valley – Townes van Zandt. I chose this because it’s the one song I never get tired of playing on guitar.
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    bb.king got a reaction from TrueBlue4ever in Random question of the week   
    I'll play
    Best sandwich: clubhouse (although Montreal smoked meat is good too)
    Scariest animal: Deer/Moose, because of the fear of hitting one while driving at 100 km/hr (been there, done that, don’t recommend)
    Dogs or cats: Dogs, never cats
    Window or aisle: Window for domestic; aisle for long-haul since I don’t sleep on planes and like to be able to stand up every couple hours to stretch my legs as much as I can.
    Clear or sparkling: Clear
    Apples or oranges: Apples
    Favourite action movie: To pick only one, The Terminator (original)
    Favourite smell: Campfire
    Least favourite smell: Cooked rhubarb
    One song to listen to: Tecumseh Valley – Townes van Zandt. I chose this because it’s the one song I never get tired of playing on guitar.
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    bb.king got a reaction from HardCoreBlue in Random question of the week   
    I’ll go with what I think was the best gift I have ever given, and it also ended up giving back to me. A bit of a backstory first. My mom would tell me that when I was little, I would take my blocks over to where she did her sewing and sit on the floor by her. She said I told her I was building a castle for her and that someday I would buy her a castle (my mom always loved castles).
    Fast-forward to the mid-90’s and I was in Calgary for a conference just before Mother’s Day. I went into a store (I think it was called History Makers) and was looking around. They had some miniature castles on display, the kind of thing you would put on a display shelf in your living room. My mom had a shelf like that with a glass door because she liked to collect stuff like that. I saw the castles and thought it would make a great Mother’s Day gift because it would be kind of amusing since I could say that I kept my promise. I left the store and started walking down the street and then thought “yes, stupid, that would make a great gift”. Went back and bought Edinburgh Castle and my mom loved it.
    Fast-forward to 2014 and my mom was dying. I was able to make it back to Winnipeg a few days before she died and see her while she was still conscious and semi-lucid. After she died, we were at my parent’s house and my sister took the castle from the shelf and gave it to me saying “you should have this”. To this day it sits proudly on display in my home. I’ve told my daughter that she’s free to pick it up and look at it, but she won’t touch it because she knows how special it is to me and she’s afraid she’ll break it.
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    bb.king got a reaction from SpeedFlex27 in Random question of the week   
    I’ll go with what I think was the best gift I have ever given, and it also ended up giving back to me. A bit of a backstory first. My mom would tell me that when I was little, I would take my blocks over to where she did her sewing and sit on the floor by her. She said I told her I was building a castle for her and that someday I would buy her a castle (my mom always loved castles).
    Fast-forward to the mid-90’s and I was in Calgary for a conference just before Mother’s Day. I went into a store (I think it was called History Makers) and was looking around. They had some miniature castles on display, the kind of thing you would put on a display shelf in your living room. My mom had a shelf like that with a glass door because she liked to collect stuff like that. I saw the castles and thought it would make a great Mother’s Day gift because it would be kind of amusing since I could say that I kept my promise. I left the store and started walking down the street and then thought “yes, stupid, that would make a great gift”. Went back and bought Edinburgh Castle and my mom loved it.
    Fast-forward to 2014 and my mom was dying. I was able to make it back to Winnipeg a few days before she died and see her while she was still conscious and semi-lucid. After she died, we were at my parent’s house and my sister took the castle from the shelf and gave it to me saying “you should have this”. To this day it sits proudly on display in my home. I’ve told my daughter that she’s free to pick it up and look at it, but she won’t touch it because she knows how special it is to me and she’s afraid she’ll break it.
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    bb.king got a reaction from TrueBlue4ever in Random question of the week   
    I’ll go with what I think was the best gift I have ever given, and it also ended up giving back to me. A bit of a backstory first. My mom would tell me that when I was little, I would take my blocks over to where she did her sewing and sit on the floor by her. She said I told her I was building a castle for her and that someday I would buy her a castle (my mom always loved castles).
    Fast-forward to the mid-90’s and I was in Calgary for a conference just before Mother’s Day. I went into a store (I think it was called History Makers) and was looking around. They had some miniature castles on display, the kind of thing you would put on a display shelf in your living room. My mom had a shelf like that with a glass door because she liked to collect stuff like that. I saw the castles and thought it would make a great Mother’s Day gift because it would be kind of amusing since I could say that I kept my promise. I left the store and started walking down the street and then thought “yes, stupid, that would make a great gift”. Went back and bought Edinburgh Castle and my mom loved it.
    Fast-forward to 2014 and my mom was dying. I was able to make it back to Winnipeg a few days before she died and see her while she was still conscious and semi-lucid. After she died, we were at my parent’s house and my sister took the castle from the shelf and gave it to me saying “you should have this”. To this day it sits proudly on display in my home. I’ve told my daughter that she’s free to pick it up and look at it, but she won’t touch it because she knows how special it is to me and she’s afraid she’ll break it.
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    bb.king got a reaction from bigg jay in Random question of the week   
    I’ll go with what I think was the best gift I have ever given, and it also ended up giving back to me. A bit of a backstory first. My mom would tell me that when I was little, I would take my blocks over to where she did her sewing and sit on the floor by her. She said I told her I was building a castle for her and that someday I would buy her a castle (my mom always loved castles).
    Fast-forward to the mid-90’s and I was in Calgary for a conference just before Mother’s Day. I went into a store (I think it was called History Makers) and was looking around. They had some miniature castles on display, the kind of thing you would put on a display shelf in your living room. My mom had a shelf like that with a glass door because she liked to collect stuff like that. I saw the castles and thought it would make a great Mother’s Day gift because it would be kind of amusing since I could say that I kept my promise. I left the store and started walking down the street and then thought “yes, stupid, that would make a great gift”. Went back and bought Edinburgh Castle and my mom loved it.
    Fast-forward to 2014 and my mom was dying. I was able to make it back to Winnipeg a few days before she died and see her while she was still conscious and semi-lucid. After she died, we were at my parent’s house and my sister took the castle from the shelf and gave it to me saying “you should have this”. To this day it sits proudly on display in my home. I’ve told my daughter that she’s free to pick it up and look at it, but she won’t touch it because she knows how special it is to me and she’s afraid she’ll break it.
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    bb.king reacted to Wanna-B-Fanboy in Covid-19   
    Why would you have more faith in this "report" than the other thousands? 
    I mean everything you have posted above has been disproven and explained away. 
     
    I mean here is the human trials for moderna's shot:
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.22.23293434v1
     
    Like- these people ******* lie, obfuscate, omit and cherry pick to feed this false narrative... I don't see the appeal of their faux convictions about these conspiracy theories. 
     
    I get it, Covid sucks- the response while warranted was extreme and broke a lot of people, communities and so on. But man, if you can't recognize fact from manufactured/misplaced rage, I don't know what to tell you.
     
    It is good to be skeptical and question the science, good data and sound science thrives on that. It harms the scientific process if you can't accept the findings and where the data points to, because it doesn't fit your narrative or preconceived ideas. 
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    bb.king reacted to HardCoreBlue in Covid-19   
    If you think you're being clever here and you're cutting thru all the garbly nonsense with truth and cold hard facts, you're not.
    This is just dumb and dangerous.
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    bb.king reacted to 17to85 in Covid-19   
    There's been a massive clinical global trial, millions and millions (billions probably?) Of shots given and shown to be safe and effective. 
    Covid vaccines show what is capable when There's an urgency to get things done. Conspiracy theorists need to **** off.
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    bb.king got a reaction from JCon in The Winnipeg Thread   
    I remember seeing a lot of great blues acts at the Windsor in the 1980's and 1990's. The Windsor and Times Changes Cafe a block away were the places to go for blues in Winnipeg.
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    bb.king reacted to Noeller in The TV Thread   
    Anyone watching Only Murders In The Building? Martin and Martin really are fabulous and a lot of the guest characters have been wonderful additions. Still can't quite figure out the "Whodunit" of it all, but I've at least got some theories and educated guesses......
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    bb.king reacted to JCon in The Winnipeg Thread   
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    bb.king reacted to FrostyWinnipeg in The Winnipeg Thread   
    Old Windsor Hotel downtown went up in smoke this morning.
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    bb.king reacted to Mr. Perfect in LDC 2023 Early chat   
    Pure, solid, gold.
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    bb.king reacted to Geebrr in LDC 2023 Early chat   
    We need a separate thread for complaining about roster management rather than it being the same thing every week for this 9-2 team with the best offence and defence in the league. 
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    bb.king reacted to rebusrankin in US Politics   
    So you're good with a candidate who has argued that vaccines cause autism, antidepressants lead to school shootings, that chemicals in water sources led to transgendered identity? How about that wifi causes cancer? What about aids not being caused by HIV? 
    https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign
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    bb.king reacted to JCon in Manitoba Politics   
    I'm going to fill my Q Zone.  

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    bb.king reacted to HardCoreBlue in Canadian Politics   
    We've come to the point that certain people from all walks of life are trying to to normalize wrapping half truths, lies, embellishments, completely made up stuff as issues and perspectives and expect this approach to be treated with civility and decorum.
    I say something absurd or unsubstantiated or provide a false equivalency or half true or make stuff up to support my position, I'm appropriately called on it usually with some level of respect, I come back hot with hostility to respond to being called on it, I'm countered again to substantiate my claims this time with less respect and a lot more sarcasm, I then play the victim card that I'm just providing another side and this is nuts you people are all bully's and won't listen to this side so I won't waste my time with you.
    Exhausting. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of consequences from that speech. No one is limiting what you can or can not say but everyone, no matter who you are and what you believe in, need to pay the consequences, good, bad or indifferent, of the words that come out of their mouth. 
    I myself over my lifetime have appropriately experienced that the hard way in the words I have spoken and written.
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    bb.king reacted to JCon in The RIP 2023 Thread   
    Oh, no, this one hurts a lot. I was just listening to The Last Waltz last night. 
    I read Robbie's memoir a couple of years ago and have been a big fan of The Band for ages. 

    Robbie could play, he could write, he could produce, he could arrange. He was a special, special, talent. 
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