Over the holidays, we all seem to get lazy. In fact, so lazy that we have officially stopped looking for anything good on the news.
So, this will be our last story for 2007, unless someone else on the website decides to post something, but I highly doubt that. Joey and Chelsea are spending a nice, romantic evening together and David Couchman is actually going to party. As for me, I'll be too lazy, and I'll be home tonight... so good day!
Anyway, the big news for tonight is that in less than seven hours, the GST will officially be reduced ot 5% from 6%.
So... I wish you the best in 2008... and now I bid you farewell.
This story sucks for everyone in the world except for one man, Cash Warren. Congratulations, Cash. You got Jessica Alba pregnant and now get to spend the rest of your life with her.
"I can confirm that they are engaged," said Alba's publicist, Brad Cafarelli.
Wal-Mart, one of the world's crappiest stores in existence, once offered digital downloads of televisions shows and movies on their American website.
Well, it appears that they are shutting the service down... and the official reason is that the company that was providing the service, HP, decided to shut down the service from their side.
But the stupid thing was, the movies couldn't have been burned onto DVD or be played on iPods... so what's the fucking point?
What is the only thing that could make spending your Christmas stuck in the Antarctic's most remote research facility?
Why, a drunken brawl, of course!
Yes, two awesome men, one with a possible broken jaw, were airlifted from the Antarctic's most remote research facility after an incident described as a "drunken Christmas punch-up" on a US-operated Amundsen-Scott South Pole science station.
The bummer though is that many of the staff were expecting a day off for the holiday but had to work to deal with the emergency medical evacuation. I think someone is getting some pee-pee in their cider at the New Year’s Eve party! In fact, I think Huy Dang might just go down there and piss in the cider himself.
The family of a 10-year-old Cookeville, Tennessee girl who received an MP3 video player for Christmas was flabbergasted when it found the player was loaded with explicit songs and pornographic movie clips.
And in flabbergasted Cookeville they don't even know what "flabbergasted" means!
Cookeville resident Daryl Hill says his daughter stumbled on XXX-rated video clips sex on the player he bought at a Wal-Mart store in Sparta, Tennessee. It turns out one of the MP3 players had been returned to the store from a previous owner who loaded sex clips, graphic war scenes and lyrics about using drugs.
Killer.
"Within 10 minutes, my daughter was crying," Hill told a Nashville, Tennessee TV station." I wish I could take the thoughts and images out of her head."
Of course, the Hills want to know why the hell Wal-Mart would sell used merchandise as new in the first place, which is in violation of its own policies. As Huy Dang once said, don't buy your electronics at Wal-Mart. I now see what he means. I told you Wal-Mart sucked.
Dustin Olfert and Tony Reber, both 25, were first in line at Visions Electronics for Boxing Day. Why would they go there? Because they're weirdos. And out of all of the places you could go, why go there? Visions is gay... but I guess they got their 50" and 42" plasma TVs so they're happy.
Well, they aren't the only losers who camped out in the middle of the night. Eleven-year-old Angela Luther and her mommy decided to wait in their car beginning at 11:00 PM on Tuesday night just to get a pair of pants that were supposedly on sale at the Lululemon Athletica store in the Mall at Lawson Heights.
And of course, Mitch Salahub and his daddy skipped Christmas dinner.
However... at Future Shop... there were two losers that started waiting outside the store at 6:30 PM on Tuesday evening. Well, this is where those guys are stupid... a 20-year-old waiting outside a store that sells stuff online? See... why couldn't he be smart and buy the stuff online (even though that fucked me over... read my blog for details, soon) to avoid the time wasted waiting for a store to open? The only difference is... you need to be patient to get your merchandise when ordering online.
And I believe Trent Kulbida went to the store... he might be in the picture I used. Meanwhile, Nathan Dutnall believes Mr. John Wright was in the picture as well.
Ah yes... I love the Saskatoon Police Service... they're supposedly racist, which kicks some ass, I guess. But during the last seven days, they've been involved in two shootings, with the second one happening today.
See... this is what happens when a police force doens't have Tasers!
We need Tasers!
Fast!
You know... if these guys wanted to have some fun, they should have shot her in the face.
Not that we would know firsthand or anything, but adult movies have been available on HD-DVD since, basically, the launch of the format. Blu-Ray has had a more spotty history with the blue movie industry, but it looks like that's going to change.
Adult film-makers Digital Playground has plans to release Pirates, arguably the most well-kinown adult movie of recent years, on Blu-Ray to join the already-released HD-DVD version.
The dream is over, you fat little fuckers. It turns out playing with your Wii is no substitute for riding your bike once in a while.
A UK study entitled "Energy expenditure in adolescents playing new generation computer games" reveals that Wii Sports isn't as much of a workout as, say, a workout. While it expends more energy than "idle" gaming, the difference is negligible.
So sorry, fat-asses... time to fire up the treadmill and hit some hills.
For a more detailed and less mean analysis, check out the link provided.
Despite Paramount’s attempt to sway things in their favour by going exclusively HD DVD, a research firm has reported that the Blu-ray disc format is dominating the market this holiday season, bolstering numbers from the 2007 year and last holiday season.
Toshiba’s loss leading $100 HD player may just end up being a loss loss when the dust settles.
Ah, format wars, you make things cheap for everyone, but eventually screw over half the consumers. You are a blessing and a curse. You are a mini-disc wrapped in a beta cassette trying to be played in a TurboGrafx 16.
Britney Spears, that woman who recently lost custody to both of her sons has a sister. Holy shit, right? Yeah... she's that little smart-ass on that show Zoey 101!
Well... what's the big news today? She is pregnant... at the age of 16.
And you know what? She met the "father" at church... yeah, a little suspicious isn't it, punk?!
And you know what's even better? Zoey 101 tapes its final season this past September!
Oh yeah, this is our 1,000th post... so our contest is over.
GM, one of the worst automobile makers in the world right up there with Honda, Acura and Volvo, is set to raise most of its prices on 2008 model cars beginning today.
Why? They claim it's because or "rising steel and commodity" costs.
A bank in North Dakota has been giving its employees $1,000 and $500 each. Now... that's nice, right? Well, this isn't what it seems to be. First off... you'd think they were Christmas bonuses or something, right?
Wrong. That money was given to the employees to be spent for charities, or any other people in need.
And... they are to document that with a video camera. Suckers. If I were given $1,000 to donate to charity, I'd donate it to the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency.
In case you didn't know, today is the release date of The Simpsons Movie on DVD. And to celebrate that, 20th Century Fox is kicking off today's release with all sorts of events and celebrations across the country.
You know... this movie came just in time for Christmas. Damn the studios for releasing the good movies so close to Christmas.
If there were a world for geeks when it comes to automobiles, it would have to be Toyota, which is one of the most kick-ass car companies in the world. In fact, it IS the world's most kick-ass automaker.
Well, Prof. Ryuta Kawashima, who helped create the "Brain Age" games for the Nintendo DS is teaming up with Toyota to develop a vehicle that will back up those stupid old people who don't know how to drive.
Some examples include slowing down a vehicle if the vehicle senses that the gas is being applied for no apparent reason.
Does anyone actually run that piece-of-shit operating system Windows Vista?
Prepare for an onslaught of angry Microsoft fan-boys and fan-bitches, because PC World Magazine just named Windows Vista as the number one technological disappointment of 2007. Now to be fair, PC World admits that Vista isn't an awful OS; in fact, they list a few things they really like about the program. But after almost a decade in the making, we got an operating system that runs slower than it's predecessor, has quite the list of hardware requirements, and runs better on an Apple Macbook Pro than on any PC in the market. If that doesn't scream "Epic Fail," then we don't know what does.
And now, let the bloodbath ensue. Play nice, boys. And of course, if Huy's friend Esther Neabel finds out about this, she's going on and on about how "stupid" and "pathetic" people can be. What a douche.
Damn those dorks at the Saskatchewan Party. The party recently announced that the Government of Saskatchewan will not be dropping its "wheat sheaf" logo after all.
God damn it... you can't just say you get rid of something then cave when a bunch of loser douchebags decide, "Oh, that's a stupid idea."
Remember when I made an update about a man who sold his son's copy of Guitar Hero III on eBay as a punishment because the little douche was caught smoking weed at the house?
Work sucks sometimes, especially those employees of your competitors. In fact, when I worked at the Real Canadian Superstore, I knew a guy who worked at Sobeys, who kept insisting that our store "blows." Well, for his information, the Real Canadian Superstore has this: Prices you can trust. Always. Yeah... who sucks now, bitch?
Well, the article I'm about to feature has the most kick-ass work stories, ever. Well, kind of. They'll never beat mine.
Well, have a read. They are all pretty funny. My personal favourite is the one where a McDonald's employee went to prison because of too much salt on a burger.
Well... I love Saskatoon. I love Saskatoon because of many reasons, including the fact that we have the highest bus fares in the country, and the fact that we are home of Canada's dangerous neighbourhood, along with a lot more cool stuff. Well, I'm not the only one who loves Saskatoon.
A recent survey shows the vast majority of Saskatoon residents, about 92% rate the quality of life in the city as either "good" to "very good."
According to financial experts, Nintendo is not doing themselves any favours by not having enough Wii consoles to satisfy a surging holiday market. As a matter of fact, based on sales figures from November, Nintendo is losing out on roughly $1.3 billion as a result of the shortage.
Even more interesting is that the demand for the Wii console hasn't diminished over the year since its release. There have been shortages all along, and there are still more people wanting to buy it. Serious gamers might argue, but it's clear that the casual gaming fan prefers Nintendo these days.
Mount Blackstrap won't be open to skiers this winter because the Saskatchewan Party government says it would require too much money from the province.
That is good, mother-fucker. Now, those douchebags that love winter so much won't have a place to ski, or snowboard. I like this. I like this A LOT.
Now take a look at this:
In February, the then-NDP government announced it had put in close to $863,000 to get the ski hill open. That included $373,000 for the operating agreement, $435,000 to purchase two lifts and a snow groomer and $55,000 for building and equipment rentals and other operating expenses.
Imagine yourself being young, and still believing in that fat man that goes around giving presents to all of the kids around the world. Well, let's just say you write him a letter and he writes back, giving you that ultimate feeling of being loved by Santa. But, let's just say his letter ends with something like this: PS-I'm going to bust a cap in your ass you little son-of-a-bitch.
Well, that actually happened in Ottawa with at least ten letters, and there could be more.
Well, Rosalyn Da Costa was 'thrilled' when she came home to find two letters from Santa for her two children Maya (2) and Colton (10). Now, why in the world would a ten-year-old still believe in Santa? Maybe it's time Da Costa give her 10-year-son of a taste of reality: Santa doesn't exist... and if he did, he'd have a whole lot of forseeable heart attacks.
Anyway, Santa's letters are pretty lame... they are all a standard message with a PS. And the PS part is filled out by volunteers. However, the funny thing is, Da Costa's children receive two insanely-awesome endings.
One of them said, "This letter is too long, you dumb shit." The second one said, "Your mom sucks dicks and your Dad is gay."
This is the best thing I've read all day... and it should be the same for you as well, you dumb shit.
In fact, in 1999, a seven-year-old received a letter from Santa telling him he was a greedy little boy.
Two men attacked an 80-year-old in India after they believed that his leg had magical powers.
Yanadi Kondaiah, who claimed that people who touched his leg would be cured of illness or have their wishes come true was hospitalized after Tuesday's attack is currently in serious condition.
This is hilarious stuff. However, I hope that man doesn't die.
This should be no surprise to you... but here's the news anyway.
A report by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says that people in Calgary are yaping more to rent a two-bedroom apartment than anyone else in a major canadian city.
This is the first time Calgary has surpassed cities like Toronto and Vancouver when it comes to the average rental price.
Now, what is the average rental price in Calgary? Well, the report states that is $1,089.
A douchebag from Grande Prairie is "gearing for a fight" with Bell after receiving an $85,000 bill from them.
The Company has since cut the bill down to $4,000 but the douche, Piotr Staniaszek, still refuses to pay the nice company.
Take a look at this:
"There is no way I can afford it as a 22-year-old living in Grande Prairie, working in the oil industry that's going slow. I am not even working right now," said Staniaszek in a cellphone interview using the same Motorola KRZR that's brought him the debt grief.
So, a phone gets him into debt and he still uses it ANYWAY? What the fuck is wrong with this douche? Someone should shoot him in at least two different places: first, his balls then his face (preferably in the eye).
The douche said that Bell never made the rates clear and should have at least alerted him when his bill started climbing into the stratosphere. He was using his cellphone as an Internet modem for his computer, believing it was part of his mobile web-browsing package. Well, for one thing... he's a douche... it's all in that agreement he signed. He should have read that. In fact, one time, my former history teacher at Mount Royal Collegiate bought a microwave and read that ENTIRE purchase agreement before signing it!
Consumers' Association of Canada president Bruce Cran said Staniaszek has the right to refuse to pay. Well, Bruce Cran can fall down some stairs and die... piece of shit.
The little douche's father, who happens to have the same name is encouraging his son to fight it, saying that they are "bloodsuckers." Well, the kid's father is a physicist. He's the bloodsucker... thinking he's too good for everyone because he appears to be smarter than a bunch of "normal" people.
If you've live in Saskatchewan as long as I have, you are probably used to the logo to the right. It's the logo that the Government of Saskatchewan uses for a lot of its services.
Well, after the new year, our new government is going to get rid of it as it is considered outdated. Now, as cool as I thought it was, it is kind of outdated.
Maybe change isn't good. Maybe change IS good. Who knows? Make comments? I think you should.
Wal-Mart Canada, which had about 80 of its locations across Canada open for 24 hours effective Saturday, December 1, 2007 has added a whole lot of other locations to that list of stores open 24/7, which include ALL of Saskatoon's stores.
So, James Neabel's local Wal-Mart store is now open 24/7.
About four days ago, Loblaw Companies Limited announced that select Real Canadian Superstore and Atlantic Superstore locations across Canada will be open 24 hours a day.
However, there are restrictions.
As for the territory our website covers, please take note:
In Calgary, two locations will be open 24/7, which include: Sunridge (3575 20 Ave NE) Shawnessy (100-15915 Macleod Tr. SE)
Now, out of all the stores that they could open, why didn't they open up Westwinds and Country Village, or even Deerfoot Meadows? The Sunridge location kind of sucks, and I've never been to the Shawnessy store.
Then of course, here in Saskatoon, the following stores will be open 24/7, with the exception of Sundays, where it will change to normal hours, which are 8am-11pm: 8th Street (2901 8th Street East)
Wherever you go these days, there's always those damn kids (including me) that are sending text messages in class. In your class (if you're still in school), you may see kids sending text messages while trying to pretend they're paying attention to their teacher, or kids sending messages to someone in the same room (Lyndsay Popoff did this to me before).
Well, here in Canada, it seems like text-messaging hasn't existed for a very long time. It just took off about five years ago.
However, whether you want to believe it or not, text-messaging is nwo 15 years old.
If anyone knows me well enough, they'd know that I'm a huge fan of the Backstreet Boys. Well, not as huge as some people, but I love their music and I am interested in their music enough to care that Howie Dorough finally got married.
Damn those kids and their pot-smoking habits these days...
This is hilarious shit because this guy in Toronto decided to buy Guitar Hero III for the Wii for his ugly son. But then he came home one day, and caught his ugly son and his ugly friends smoking weed on his property.
So, he decided to sell the bundle on eBay as a way to punish him.
And now, with numerous updates, he is offering FREE SHIPPING!
Dude, so you know how, like, you made that hilarious movie on your cell of me laughing until milk came out of my nose. Remember? And we, like, totally thought it was, like, award-winning comedy goldness? Well, now we can actually win a fucking award for that shit, in Japan!
Yes, kids, The Pocket Films Festival opened today in Yokohama, Japan and features 48 movies shot on camera-equipped cell phones. This first of its kind, entries were selected from more than 400 submissions in the international contest. Many of the flicks were edited as digital files on a personal computer..
Films in the running are such illustrious titles as Yuka Kojima's five-minute Thumb Girl, presumably about a girl with a thumb (a few pictured above), and the nine-minute Walkers whose main character is a pair of sneakers that ride on a train.
"The cell phone is something you always carry around and so you can roll the camera on a whim," said Masaki Fujihata, film professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and one of the festival's judges. "There's such an intimacy between the work and its creator. It's spontaneous."
Fujihata enjoyed Walkers, for instance, while Yukio Anagawa, an employee at a telecommunications company, who came to check out the festival, was confused by it.
"It's not that entertaining," said the 28-year-old. "It's sure different from regular movies."
You know what I've always thought was funny? The fact that Taylor Kiryakos often used to "jack," as in jacking a car, or even a pen. Well, what I'm about to talk about reflects that quite a bit.
Cops say a man tried to jack a snowplow from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, along with a truck.
It all started when the operator of the snowplow saw a man on the highway and stopped to see if he needed help. The man then tried to steal the snowplow, but was pushed away and the snowplow drove away. Then, later, a man in a pick-up truck decided to stop for the same man, whom he subsequently tried to beat up and take his truck. He didn't... and the driver of the truck drove away, with him hanging on to the driver's jacket. He hung on for about 20 yards.
Kids these days... if they're not torching buildings or robbing stores for its junk food, they're building things.
Ten-year-old Ian Culhane of Olympia, Washington won $10,000 for designing a seven-foot-tall roller coaster, which was on display at the world's largest toy store (Toys "R" Us in Times Square).
Now, he is not allowed to spend any of that money, yet, so he's pissed. But, his daddy did give him $100 to spend at a toy store... and of course, he plans to buy MORE plastic building parts. Bastard.
Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti of the City of Toronto earlier this week decided to mention that he thinks that the army should be involved when it comes to stamping out those gun-toting gang members. Now, that's a little extreme, is it not? I believe it is.
Well, that's the job that belongs to cops... and cops are awesome, especially when they're featured on that kick-ass television program COPS.
Well, cops are insulted by the idea. Big surprise? I think not.
The Calgary Police Service is ready to move ahead with "speed on green" cameras at the city's intersections, and could have them up and running soon, just within weeks of the province finalizing its legislation.
So, the next time you cut a red light... at least do it without speeding. That way, you'll only get one ticket. Sheesh.
The Clean Air Strategic Alliance is recommending that the province of Alberta install cameras to identify ther worst vehicles in Alberta and then force the owners to either replace them, repair them or get them off the road altogether.
According to the report, only 5% of all vehicles contribute to 50% of emissions from vehicles.
As kick-ass as this would be, it's still kind of impossible, Alberta.
Saskatoon will be playing host to the 2009 Bank of Montreal Canadian Figure Skating Championships. That's the third time Saskatoon will be hosting the finals. It had done so in 1991 and 2003.
Sweet? I think not, but it does mention Saskatoon so I'm happy about THAT.
Saskatoon will soon be home to another big-box home improvement store, as the city approved the third phase of Preston Crossing on Monday night. I doubt that is true, as it has been rumoured that RONA on Venture Crescent has been wanting to relocate for years, so it's more of just a replacement store.
However, what I'm excited about is the report, which stated that there would be a Chili's Restaurant in the works in the third phase.
Early yesterday morning, two restaurants in downtown Saskatoon. One of them were my favourite buffet restaursnts, Chau's Commodore, even though the owner's son made a shitty website for it, which has since disappeared.
The only question is, what's the cause of the fire?
Who knows?
I'd rather not know. The only downside is: it's gone, after so many years of business.
After a month of seeing those damn hippie workers along College Drive, with all of those Saskatoon Transit limos (buses) parked along College Drive every so often with the fear of the buses being late, the support workers at the University of Saskatchewan are returning to work as of this morning.
After two days of conciliation talks in Regina, the union and employers (the University of Regina as well) agreed on Saturday afternoon to send their unresolved differences to a binding arbitration process, which makes for about 2,400 striking support staff to resume their regular jobs.
That was probably the best option after Brad Wall and his government threatened to be involved. Good old Brad Wall. He's a good guy!