May 30, 2008
Shit Planet!!! Profane, vulgar, outrageous, occasionally NSFW, and one of the most entertaining personal blogs I have ever seen. Apparently run by the guy who owns
I call dodgy link. With half-arsed copy and paste promo attempt.
My brother is cooking dinner but I'm not sure just what. I may post about it here after....
Seconded, and half-assed at that. A quick google confirmed your suspicions, gomi.
Blatant self-link, made more annoying because the guy even commented over at the blog when his account wasn't activated quickly enough. KER-BANNO!! *inserts explodey sounds*
And look, it really was half-assed/arsed in two languages.
Yeah I noticed that on your blog. The bloody cheek of it!
Now post something else, you short workweek-loving American bums!
*says nothing about Queens Birthday this Monday*
Strictly no links run by the guy who owns, OK?
*says nothing about Queens Birthday this Monday*
Why is your Queens Birthday on another day as our Queens Birthday in Canada? 't Is the same queen isn't it?
Pleg raises a good point: do we really want to piss of a guy who owns? I sure as hell don't!
</i>'tIs the same queen isn't it?</i>
Not really - in Canada you basically celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday, just with a nod to QE2.
The Queen's real birthday is in April, but the UK, NZ and Australia celebrate the official birthday on slightly different days in June.
Not really - in Canada you basically celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday, just with a nod to QE2.
True. But this year, it seems that Victoria Day (or May 2-4, in common parlance) was quite far from the actual May 2-4. And weather-wise, we were screwed by that -- the long weekend was lousy, but the weekend it 'should' have been was just beautiful.
And Victoria Day is now obsolete in Quebec, of course, having been changed to the Journée des Patriotes.
My other Queen's birthday isn't right either. But it's nicer weather (insofar as winter and spring actually differ there).
FRESH scone and coffee from the bakery across the street from the bus stop. I got to the stop, realized how hungry I was, and then said, "Dammit, I'm just gonna take the next bus and be late. I need a scone."
Er, but Pleggers, the Queen has an official birthday (the one that we colonials 'celebrate') and her real birthday - and it's the same in Britain - the birthday you celebrate for the Queen is the official date, not the real one. This is the same for every monarch, it's not a hold over from Queen Victoria, as such.
IIRC
I dunno about Canada, but in Oz, the Queen's birthday is *this* Queen's birthday, the official one, not Queen Victoria's. Unless you're saying that all subsequent monarchs use Victoria's birthday as the official one, or some-such, which would be pants.
Mind you, I'm not even sure if we get a day off for it over here, I hardly pay attention.
Anyway, sod it.
From Wikipedia:
Since 1901, the date of May 24 was known throughout the British Empire as Empire Day; however, an amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 moved the holiday to the Monday before May 25. Over the decades the official date of the reigning sovereign's birthday changed through various royal proclamations: for Edward VII it continued on May 24, but was June 3 for George V, June 23 for Edward VIII (their actual birthdays), and various days between May 20 and June 14 through George VI's reign as King of Canada. From 1953, Empire Day was made the date of Queen Elizabeth II's official birthday in Canada by annual vice-regal proclamation, the link being made permanent in 1957. In 1958 Empire Day was renamed Commonwealth Day, which was moved in 1977 to the second Monday in March, though Canadians continued to celebrate Victoria Day in May.
So, basically, as long as I get a day off I don't care whose birthday I'm celebrating.
Y'know, George Bush's birthday is coming up in July. I've never burned anyone in effigy before, but I'm tempted to start this year. I could make his flaming effigy into a cake topper.
Have fun exploring the CIA's "black sites", TUM.
if you want an excellent blog that is not (very) shit-related, try Gomi's www.wombquake.com ...
or for entirely shit-free blogs, try my dinner blog at www.whatihadfordinnertonight.com or Neddy's tea blog at http://www.leavesofjade.com/index.php/tea_blog/
oh, and for brekkies i had my usual coffee with soymilk, but today had a special extry side of pmdboi and Suomynona...
"The Twenty-fourth of May Is the Queen's birthday ... If you don't give us a holiday We'll all run away!"
Bog standard breakfast - Cheerios, orange juice, toast (pb on one slice, j on t'other) and a big cuppa coffee.
A mango. An apricot. Tangerine juice.
I'll try to forget that chinese restaurant's images during upcoming lunch. Aw.
1/2 cup granola with yoghurt, coffee.
Quid save the Queen!
Did you fry your pmdbois extra crispy EEQ?
Steamed, with a side of MP3s.
But this year ... Victoria Day ... weather-wise, we were screwed by that -- the long weekend was lousy
Yes, well, Capt, I think you'll find a screwing in ON is not necessarily a screwing in the ROC. It was lovely here, and indubitably in Victoria as well. Who's this "we", kemo sabe? Nevertheless, congrats!
And I was even nice to this guy over on Bashi's blog! Gah!
I've eaten enormous amounts of pickled herring this weekend. It was yummy.
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