General Chat

C


In 4 years time, we'll have another election.

Blues will probbay be out, out, out.

NDP will revert back to their usual level of votes, as those who voted for them as an alternative vote, will revert back to the Liberals



and we'll effectively be back to a 2 party system again.


Unfortunately, I do not see the NDP maintaining this high level of voter support .................... it would be so good to have an effective 3 party system




Alternatively, of course, we might well have had a country-wide vote on Alternative Voting, it will have passed ........ and who knows what effect that will have?!




Hi Mike ...... from the West Coast!




sylvia

My goodness, JC! That many posts? How on Earth do you find the time (and topics?)...
Politics? A bit of a downer for me. But I (we) survived Mulroney - barely - and in Ontario, Mike Harris as well... Barely. Bah!
My local LCBO (the alcohol outlet for all ye who don't know) has some delightful beers. One, called Curmudgeon Ale, might become my house brand. It makes politicians of any stripe almost tolerable.
As for the weather: what can you expect in Canada? We, near Lake Ontario are pretty lucky - and then, visiting daughter in Victoria, BC... maybe not so!

Michael

Yes, the map is blue, and not from the cold. Unfortunately.

I'm just dropping by to exploit this thread to test out my new researching line ... let's see how that goes ...


... There we go!

Okay.....JC dropping again and it worked it seems =0)

Oh to be in JC's shadow.......

So Persephone....marketing job would love one...know anyone looking for someone ?!
GRMarilyn....nosey...isn't everyone on here why else would we be reading the threads on general?
Pamela.....please..cold in Canada....it's been above freezing for at least a week now and all the snow has gone. If you found it cold in Vancouver you'd never survive the rest of the country =0) My kids have to go out and play unless it gets to minus 22 or colder............and then they only go out for a shorter time during recess...that's what coats are for!!!
Fiona aka Ruby......strangely enough the UK local elections map looks almost the same as Canada's now...LIberals lost Labour and Tories gained...is this the end of the world as we know it ? =0)

Oh dear, the Canadian map does look rather blue at the moment :-(

Hello to the Aussies and a great big hi to the Canadians.

I'm Pam. An Aussie from far North Queensland. Love Canada. Only been there 8 times. Too cold for me to live there though. One fond memory.

On a bus in North Vancouver. Going to the Kodak factory to get film processed (pre digital days, obviously). I was freezing. Only 11c outside the bus. Girl was sunbathing in a park --- in a bikini, yet!! I was quite convinced that Canadians were crazy people.

But I love 'em

Well I viewed and popped in ....LOL

Because I'm rather nosey....... ;-)

I am not into curtain twitching - I open the curtains and the window and let you know.... course with my luck it is likely to be an old sash window and the sash breaks and the window comes down on my head.

I ran a secondhand book shop for nine years so know all about what sells Got to know my customers and their tastes, put books in their hands by similar authors and 8/10 would be a sale.

Oh and my commiserations over the elections.... :-(

Persie ;-)

That was my figuring, Persephone. ;) How could one resist a thread about JC being upset??

Reminds me of someone once telling me about how to write a bestseller.

Call it "Golf for Dogs" and put a swastika on the cover, and you'll hit all the book-buying demographics! (I hasten to add that they meant WWII afficionados, and not Nazis.)

You know the only other post count I have actually checked was Sylvia's, and I found it comfortingly close to mine. ;)

They taught me how to touchtype when I was eleven. Little did they know ...

I think one can't resist a small peek to see what upset Janey. You wont always get a view from me Janey, but Janey and upset in the same sentence was way too enticing. LOL

Great advertising on C's part - put that person in Marketing...

Persie :-)

lol!



Hi Persie

I did look but didn't really touch.
P

lol!

Mmmm.....

Sue

Hi Sue


well, we both do help people a lot, in the middle of the night :)

some nights, I think we both could have done 40 or 50 posts

and I, for one, have been doing that since 2004

19,825 posts!!! JaneyC you need to get out more ;-)

Sylvia - I've just noticed you're pretty close to Janey's score :D

Sue <3

Okay sorry I wasn't on the chat board yesterday.
So JC I'm guessing my name as author is not dragging them all in as you quite rightly pointed out it was very low numbers to start with...it has to be you =0)
The question should be IF that many people are viewing it why aren't more replying, and it's not just my thread it's others too before you say it's me being boring. Maybe they're lucky and they have no idea who Harper is.......okay he is so exciting he is giving a set of hiking gear to William and Catherine for their wedding......says it all.

yep


I noticed that there is a strange correlation between thread views and posts


Look at Ginny's thread .............. views in 4 figures, posts in 5 figures



sylvia

Heh heh. Interesting stats from the new system.

Proof that my name in the first line of a post will get views!

Only 6 posts in it when I first looked ... but 124 thread views. Best ratio on the board, I think!


Oh, all right, maybe it's the word "Canadians" in the subject line ... or C's name as author ...

Or maybe it was the time of night and there was nothing else to read. ;)

Only momentarily suicidal. The moment hasn't quite passed yet ...

Good one, C.

Big weirdness here, for sure. I'm not quite ready to talk about it. ;)