I hate to say it but I wasn’t entirely impressed with this years fireworks celebration for Canada’s 142nd Birthday.
It was short, and the pyrotechnics were really lame. The ones people bought from the corner stores and shot them off on the other side of the river were almost better.
There was one point where they shot off a bunch of white candlestick ones that lasted for about a minute and a half. I was sitting there, jaw dropped open, wondering, “what the hell is this shit?”
There were some nice ones, but the crappy ones outweighed the good ones. Most of them were just tiny explosions of sparkling colors. I like the ones that go way up and explode lighting up the entire area. There were maybe 4 or 5 of those ones.
I left feeling ripped off. I wish I didn’t waste my time walking all the way there for that boring show.
You would figure they would spend some good money on the Nations Birthday. I mean C’mon!
I took some pictures but, like last year, I used the fireworks setting on my camera and as you can see it doesn’t do a great job. Next time I’m going to use the night settings and stay away from the fireworks settings. You would figure a fireworks setting for taking pictures of fireworks would work huh? LOL
Posted by macbros | Under My Opinion, Work | 351 views
Wednesday Dec 31, 2008
OK, before I start, I just want to make it clear that I have nothing against Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Russian, Lebanese, or any other nationality in the world. Well except for the Gunartiarians from planet Gogomungaplata in the Zargozpacity sector 9 star system. They fart to much and always drink all your beer, eat all of your cat’s food, and steal one sock from each pair of socks in your dresser.
So if this post offends you anyway, then go visit this post and then if you feel like coming back, then you may do so.
I just wanted to point out something that I have noticed while working at my current job so far. That is that at least 90% of the callers are Asian. Very seldom do I ever get a call from a Canadian person that can speak clear English. It’s like I move to a different country every time I go into work. I spend about 80% of each call asking the caller to repeat themselves because I can’t understand a fucking word they are saying. What makes that even worse is that there is an actual line for Chinese, Korean, and pretty much every Asian language for them to call, but they still waste my time trying to tell me shit that I don’t understand. I mean WTF?? Really now?
When I ask for a valid drivers license or Social Insurance Number for credit checks, I’m not surprised when they say they don’t have one, but they have a Passport to use. Yet, we adapted to accept that too.
I haven’t use a bank machine in a long time since I usually use interact at the checkout at stores, but the other day I needed to take some cash out of the Bank Machine and nearly shit when I saw not only French and English language options, but there was even Chinese (With Chinese Characters) there too.
My question is, “Why do Canadians have to adapt to immigrants?” Shouldn’t that be the other way around?
I’ve always been under the impression that if I wanted to live in a different country, I would have to learn the language and laws, so I wouldn’t be fucked when it came time to actually live there.
The reason I am surprised at this is that while living on the east side of Canada here in the Maritimes, I haven’t really noticed a lot of Asian people, but from what I’m learning now, from Ontario to Victoria, BC, the ratio changes drastically from Canadian to Asian.
It’s great to be able to say The Land of the Free, but shouldn’t there be a line drawn someplace? That’s just my opinion, and you’re entitled to it.
Posted by macbros | Under Weather | 356 views
Tuesday Oct 28, 2008
Holy shit we’re getting a lot of rain here in Fredericton NB, Canada! So much that the police are closing down roads here in the city because of flooding.
When I was at work today, I was actually surprised at how high the river was, and that was earlier in the afternoon. It’s still pissing like crazy out there right now and it’s later in the evening. I can expect that a lot of low lying areas will get some pretty bad flooding if this afternoons river height was any indication.
The extended outlook for the weather isn’t any better, as it seems tat we will continue to see rain until Wednesday. It looks like we might get some snow on Thursday though. Ugh! I would rather see the rain than that shitty white stuff that turns gray after it lays on the ground for awhile.
Lucky for the Trick r’ Treaters on Friday too. Looks like it may be a nice day for them to go door to door begging for food. OK, begging for candies. Heh heh, Thank you whoever invented the security door. Little buggers won’t be getting in here and knocking on my door.
Well, anyway, it seems like I might need a canoe to get to work and back if this rain keeps up like it is. It gets pretty heavy at times too and very loud. There no way one can ignore it either because it is so loud.
This morning the east side of the city was in darkness because the power went out. I can see across the city out my work window, and it looked really weird the way it was all black where it is usually lit up with lights. There were a couple of lights here and there, but not enough to make any difference.
The power hasn’t went out here *knocking on wood* at all, yet. I hope it doesn’t though, because it sucks sitting in the dark with no puter to play on, or TV to watch.
Posted by macbros | Under My Opinion | 533 views
Tuesday Sep 30, 2008
When I heard on the radio this morning, that this service was finally available today here in Canada, the first thing I did was log into the National Do Not Call List Website through the CRTC. It’s to bad it took this long to get set up here. Probably a lot of Canadian Red Tape prolonged the whole thing.
It didn’t take mo long after I got home today to submit my Cell Phone number to the list. Although Telemarketers have up to 31 days to update their lists and to make sure they do not call you. You could still receive calls within those first 31 days.But at least I won’t keep getting these annoyances calling me on my cell phone killing my daytime minutes.
Before all this was available, I was Googling the 1-800 numbers that were calling me (I usually never answer them) to see who they were and there would usually be a forum with threads from people asking who the number was from or somebody that found out who they are. When I found out I usually just programmed my cell to never ring when that particular number called. Telemarketers don’t normally leave voice mails.
So I thought that this would be a great post to share with my fellow Canadians, especially my Mom and Dad since I had answered one at their hous last weekend. Some very rude, Derka-Derka accented lady who I couldn’t understand called trying to give away credit cards. The conversation went sorta like this:
Telemarketer: Derka-Derka-Derka Mic Doonawwld! ME: Sorry we’re not interested and please place this number on your Do Not Call list. Telemarketer: Derka-Derka? Derka-daerka-derka! ME: I’m sorry, I can’t understand a single word your trying to say. Telemarketer: Derrrrrrrr-ka, Derrrrrr-ka, derr derrrr deeeeerrrrka! ME: OK, I’m hanging up now… Telemarketer: Der…
*CLICK!*
LOL! The news on the TV is just starting their story about this DNC List.
Well anyway, if you want to put a stop to these annoyances, just go to https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ and submit your phone number.
FYI, the site might be overwhalmed so you may get some error, I just paged backward one and then tried again.
UPDATE: Funny news artilce about people having trouble with getting registered.
Posted by macbros | Under Funny | 221 views
Saturday Aug 9, 2008
A man in the Florida supermarket tries to buy half a head of lettuce. The very young produce assistant tells him that they sell only whole heads of lettuce.
The man persists and asks to see the manager.
The boy says he’ll ask his manager about it. Walking into the back room, the boy said to his manager, ‘Some asshole wants to buy half a head of lettuce.’ As he finished his sentence, he turned to find the man standing right behind him, so he added, ‘And this gentleman has kindly offered to buy the other half.’
The manager approved the deal, and the man went on his way.
Later the manager said to the boy, ‘I was impressed with the way you got yourself out of that situation earlier. We like people who think on their feet here. Where are you from, son?’
‘ Canada , sir,’ the boy replied.
‘Well, why did you leave Canada ?’ the manager asked.
The boy said, ‘Sir, there’s nothing but whores and hockey players up there.’
‘Really?’ said the manager. ‘My wife is from Canada .’
Posted by macbros | Under Announcement | 189 views
Monday Aug 4, 2008
New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of Canada’s three Maritime provinces and is the only constitutionally bilingual province (French and English) in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton. Statistics Canada estimates the provincial population in 2008 to be 751,527; a majority are English-speaking, but there is also a large Francophone minority (32%), chiefly of Acadian origin.
The province’s name comes from the English translation for the city of Braunschweig in north Germany, the ancestral home of the Hanoverian King George III of the United Kingdom.
Not only is it New Brunswick’s Birthday, it is also CFB Gagetown’s 50th Anniversary! They are celibrating at the old government house and will be providing fireworks for the events too. Plus there will be Free Ice Cream and Lemonaid!
Hopefully the weather lets up enough so I can take a walk over and take some video. Maybe get some tanks and stuff on video.
The extended outlook for the weather isn’t any better, as it seems tat we will continue to see rain until Wednesday. It looks like we might get some snow on Thursday though. Ugh! I would rather see the rain than that shitty white stuff that turns gray after it lays on the ground for awhile.
A man in the Florida supermarket tries to buy half a head of lettuce. The very young produce assistant tells him that they sell only whole heads of lettuce.
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