Please continue any discussion on random news items here.

Now the people who plunked down deposits will be SOL.

wow. 

 

On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 11:40 AM, SpeedFlex27 said:

They have been talking about this development for years. The longer it went on the chances it would come to fruition became less & less.

It's still possible that it eventually gets built but... I've kind of said all along that I put those chances at less than 50 percent because the group that proposed it has a history of not having the money 

http://dailyhive.com/montreal/eugenie-bouchard-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-2017

9 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

http://dailyhive.com/montreal/eugenie-bouchard-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-edition-2017

Stunning!

If Day 75th Anniversary

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/when-war-came-to-winnipeg-414169033.html

 

I love this stuff

 

54 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

I love this stuff

 

Pretty cool.  It's interesting that they are so close to the star that they may be tidally locked like the moon is to the Earth.... meaning the same side always faces the star.  I think that would kinda throw out any concept of livability as one side would always be hot and the other would always be cold.  But maybe not.  Nice discovery.  I wish I could live long enough that we could send some kind of probe there.

1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:

I love this stuff

 

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

does this mean Popeyes Chicken will finally come to Winnipeg?

 

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Popeyes-Louisiana-Kitchen/108105082555182?source=whrt&position=9&trqid=6390077361835180357

 

but then again even if they do they'll probably be in the tuxedo or Kenaston area

Edited February 22, 20178 yr by iHeart

3 hours ago, iHeart said:

does this mean Popeyes Chicken will finally come to Winnipeg?

 

Chicken Express!

14 hours ago, iHeart said:

does this mean Popeyes Chicken will finally come to Winnipeg?

 

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Popeyes-Louisiana-Kitchen/108105082555182?source=whrt&position=9&trqid=6390077361835180357

 

but then again even if they do they'll probably be in the tuxedo or Kenaston area

The Skyscraper Forums indicate there is a master franchisee locked up for Winnipeg and they've been exploring coming here since last year.  So...yes!

14 hours ago, iHeart said:

does this mean Popeyes Chicken will finally come to Winnipeg?

 

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Popeyes-Louisiana-Kitchen/108105082555182?source=whrt&position=9&trqid=6390077361835180357

 

but then again even if they do they'll probably be in the tuxedo or Kenaston area

Or Transcona... we seems to get a lot of franchises opening their first locations out here (Wild Wing, Famous Dave's, 5 Guys, Mary Browns'). 

Either way, I'm there if they open one!

Did their brand of comedy just not translate to the US?  Speculation of a bidding war between Sportsnet and TSN for their services. 

42 minutes ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Did their brand of comedy just not translate to the US?  Speculation of a bidding war between Sportsnet and TSN for their services. 

FS1 just can't compete with ESPN.

8 hours ago, bigg jay said:

Or Transcona... we seems to get a lot of franchises opening their first locations out here (Wild Wing, Famous Dave's, 5 Guys, Mary Browns'). 

Either way, I'm there if they open one!

well they have torn down the very first mcdonalds in winnipeg that was a Car World for several years, it would make a fine location

6 hours ago, iHeart said:

well they have torn down the very first mcdonalds in winnipeg that was a Car World for several years, it would make a fine location

The one beside the new one?

13 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Did their brand of comedy just not translate to the US?  Speculation of a bidding war between Sportsnet and TSN for their services. 

Here's a quote from the Toronto Star:

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FS1 has moved toward more opinionated hosts debating topics, and Onrait and O’Toole’s humorous take didn’t fit in with that plan.

Everything has to be adversarial to get the ratings it seems.

20 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

Did their brand of comedy just not translate to the US?  Speculation of a bidding war between Sportsnet and TSN for their services. 

I've always been a big fan of Jay and Dan... disappointed when they left... I think a part of the problem with their "comedy" is at TSN it happened very organically and you could tell there was a natural rapport... so trying to translate some of their bits to a new market and new culture just didn't go over well...

but like @Atomic said, ESPN is still beating up FS1... and like @Jacquie said, they apparently need to be controversial or adversarial to get ratings... which is why they hired former ESPN employees like Colin Cowherd, Skip Bayless (no idea how this clown gets ratings), and Jason Whitlock...

 

 

14 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

 

The shirt in question bore the image of a baseball bat and the message “Eeny Meeny Miny Moe” — a reference to a scene from the AMC zombie drama in which Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is deciding who in the protagonist group to kill.

In the scene, Negan continues the phrase with, “Catch a tiger by his toe” — though, historically in the U.K. the rhyme has employed the N-word rather than the word “tiger.”

 

The historical use caused shopper Ian Lucraft to complain after spotting the shirt at a branch of the U.K.’s Primark retail chain.

“We were shocked when we came face to face with a new t-shirt with a racially explicit graphic and text,” Lucraft told the Warwick Courier. “It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing or were aware of its subliminal messages.”

Someone wants their 15 minutes of fame.