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Propane’s Gonna Get Ya, Air Canada’s Gonna Charge Ya, China’s Gonna Cheat Ya

By Christopher Bird

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The Toronto Star discovered that there are propane sites all over Toronto! There could be one NEAR YOUR HOME! In fact THERE PROBABLY IS ONE! Thanks to the Star, you now know that you could be BLOWN UP AT ANY SECOND!
Liberal MP Robert Thibault said some pretty stupid things recently, and he has apologized for them, albeit mostly in the “well everybody misunderstood me so I’m not really wrong but I’m sorry because I wasn’t clear about what I was saying and maybe people’s feelings got hurt because they weren’t smart enough to figure out what I was talking about” sort of way.
Russia and Georgia agreed to a framework for a truce early today, which would put an end to the nearly week-old war that will, in time, come to be known as “The Great Georgian Ass-Kicking of 2008.”
Air Canada will stop giving out free audio headsets in the near future, because it’s wasteful and expensive. They’re not going to stop flying commuter flights between Ottawa and Montreal, though, even though that’s also wasteful and expensive, because that would be crazy talk.
And in Olympics news, everybody thinks the Chinese are cheating with too-young gymnasts. What? China play fast and loose with regulations designed to keep children safe and healthy? You’re kidding us, right?
Photo by limonada.

Comments

  • Gauldar

    Seriously, all this fear mongering in the news is boring me. You want to get my attention, just put a LOLcat on the cover page. I wish they could give the whole “IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!” thing a rest. Anyways, back to surfing icanhascheezburger.co… I mean, back to work.

  • davedave

    Re: Chinese gymnasts -
    They should have a flash quiz with material a 16 year old should know.

  • abaybas

    Let me know how you feel one day when someone refers to your family’s death as the great ass kicking. I didn’t need to be personally involved in this war to get disturbed by your comment. Goto 4chan if you like desecrating the dead.

  • rek

    Serious News For Adults rears its head again…

  • mister j

    I tend to agree with abaybas here – I know Torontoist tries to be a bit ironic and light, but that’s pretty crass. Imagine what it would be like having bombs falling in your neighbourhood because of something your gov’t did.
    The obvious elephant in the room is the giant oil pipeline that runs through the country.
    But, I’m amazed that none of the media on this conflict talks about Georgia’s history. I did a cursory google search on it, and found the place pretty cool! It’s had a history for centuries longer than most places, and seems like it was the first place for metallurgy and gold making. Early Christianity, but as a border place with influences of Islam and many other cultures, people there drew on all these influences leading to a ton of philosophy and spiritual thought (metaphysics) going on well before the ‘official’ renaissance.

  • Gauldar

    Yeah, kinda disapointing that it takes a bloody war to hear about a country that you never knew existed, no matter how rich a history it may have.

  • David Newland

    It’s amazing that with all the information available to us, our actual knowledge of the world seems to be shrinking like the Aral Sea.

  • katiech

    I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought today’s Toronto Star headline was quite alarmist. I would have expected it from the Sun, but not the Star!

  • Dipsomaniac

    Well, I know that now, when I have to walk by a gas station, I cross the road, or better yet several roads, because they have PROPANE (and possibly propane accessories) and the PROPANE might get me.