Qantas Never Crashed, But They Did Leave A Guy On Hold For A Day

Somewhere in Australia, there lives a man with much more patience and determination than I. Where I get angry and hang up in frustration when somebody leaves me on hold for 20 or 30 minutes, this guy stuck it out on hold with Qantas for 15 hours, 40 minutes and 1 second! He was placed …

Come Say Hi To Carin At The Teddy Bear Picnic Today!

If you’ve ever wanted to meet Carin, you know, the smart, charming, likeable and good looking half of us, today’s the day! From 1 to 4 this afternoon, she’ll be at the annual Teddy Bear Picnic representing the Guelph Barrier Free Committees. She’ll be Brailling things, reading stories and heaven only knows what else. she’ll …

Diamonds Are Forever A Bad Idea

For a lot of reasons, I have, for as long as I can remember, considered the concept of marriage to be almost entirely unnecessary. I see it as not much more than paperwork, largely meaningless symbolism, a chance for girls to dress up like dolls and princesses for a few hours and for various businesses …

Dance With Us, You Aren’t Free

Here’s a nice little what the huh story to start the day off right. I’ll never be able to watch an episode of the Raccoons the same way again, I’ll telll you that. Police recently arrested Troy Kenneth Campbell in the middle of Charlottetown’s University Avenue dancing with a beer in one hand and a …

Rob Ford Is A Piece Of Garbage

Update: I posted this as a comment, but I want to slap it here as well, just in case. Email I just received: “Just a note. Rob Ford’s response of “probably” was to the police’s comment saying he needed a driver. Diminishes the validity of your article. Darren” As I told him when I wrote …

Sir, If We Let You Sit Here We Won’t Be Able To Call Ourselves Virgin Australia Anymore

I thought this quote from United in a story totally unrelated to the minor misadventure we covered yesterday was pretty hilarious, all things considered. On United Airlines “there is no specific seating policy,” airline spokesman Joe Micucci told CNN. “That said, United has an overlapping security approach designed to ensure the safety and security of …

United Breaks Families

Whenever a bad airline experience ends up posted here, it seems to often have something to do with United. Sure as shit they’re at it again, and this one will be hard if not impossible to top…at least I hope. They didn’t just lose luggage or treat people very poorly this time (although both of …

God Hates Needless Protests

Here’s another one of those good thing bad thing situations. Whenever a government restricts the right of its people to assemble and express themselves I worry, but on the other hand, this should only have an impact on those Westboro Baptist loons, who really have no sensible or constructive message and are just out to …

Via Rail Unmanned Stations: Guess Who Made A Decision Without Having A Plan

I mentioned this last week and then Carin followed up, and now there’s a news article about it. And as I feared, nobody over at Via or the government bothered thinking the unmanned train station plus person requiring help thing all the way through. The government, however, is quick to point out that none of …