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Mar

07

Is College Free in Canada for Canadians?

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So my guilty pleasure is watching Degrassi. Degrassi is a show based on the lives of high school and college students and every week there’s some taboo subject that they touch upon (a character kills themself, od’s, gets pregnant, has an abortion, blah blah blah). Anyhow, it’s based in Canada.

So I was talking to one of the few people that I openly admit my obsession of this to (until now), and he said that he thought college was free in Canada, and I was all “OMG LYKE NO”. So here I am.

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Mar

06

How do you pick the right puppy from a litter?

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For the past 5 years, I’ve been telling myself (and everyone else) that I’d be getting a Bulldog, as soon as the time was right. The time being right = when I have a pet friendly apartment and when my cat is fat and lazy enough not to care anymore.

Anyhow, I was thinking.. how can you tell if you’re getting the right dog or not? I guess most people go on instinct, after all that’s how I chose my cat, and despite my previous post on her super snobby ways, she’s still better trained than any other cat I’ve met.

But alas, there is apparently a few ways to tell which dog will fit your own mannerisms that I found on a Bulldog information website, but it applied cross-breed.

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Mar

05

What is the most expensive cheese in the world?

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The most expensive cheese in the world is made from moose milk in Sweden. That’s right, moose cheese. It costs $500 bucks a pound – or a month’s rent in a bad apartment.

The cheese is so expensive because milking a moose is a pain in the ass.

“The moose only produce milk between May and September, the time from when they calve to when they are in heat again…It takes up to two hours to milk a moose and they each produce up to a gallon of milk a day,” according to the AP article.

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Mar

04

Why Do Onions Make You Cry?

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I’m such an onion and garlic fiend that I think I’m immune to the tears caused by onions (though probably not the bad breath). But I mean aside from the possibility of getting squirted in the eye with onion juice, how is it that a normal person can be feet away from an onion that is being cut, and still feel the emo effect?

As it turns out, it’s a serious chain reaction on both you and the onions part:

  • You cut the onion
  • You break open onion cells
  • The onion cells’ enzymes decompose amino acid sulfoxides, form sulfenic acids from the onion
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Mar

03

Why Do Beans Give Gas?

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Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart!

Beans contain sugars that we humans cannot digest. The most offensive sugars, known as “flatulence factors” to scientists who research farts, are raffinose, stachiose, and verbascose. When these sugars reach our intestines, the bacteria go wild, have a big feast, and make lots of gas! [source]

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Mar

02

Are Fire-Safe Cigarettes Worse for you than Regular Cigarettes?

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Yeah, yeah, I know the saying..

“Cigarette, n.: A fire at one end, a fool at the other and a bit of tobacco in between”.

I’m all for fire safety, with the hundreds of americans that die every year in smoking-related fires. My question is just whether or not these FSC (slang for fire safe cigarettes in “the scene”), have any kinds of side-effects. I mean, the tobacco industry has been against fire-safe cigarettes because they thought users would taste the difference, it’d cost more, etc. etc. I’m probably delisional to think that maybe they’re nervous that there’s some sort of health safety hazard going on too? Probably not though, these are tobacco companies we’re talking about.

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Mar

01

How do people get onto game shows?

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So I was paying my bills yesterday, looking into my loads of debt from college, my car, and my credit cards, and I thought, what is the fastest way I could pay all of these off?

A few options came to mind:

1. Robbery – This option poses a few problems. First of all, I don’t like stealing from regular people. If I was going to live with myself afterward, my target would have to be a major corporation, or a bank. That means when if I’m caught I’ll be up against some serious attorney who’ll be hell bent on using his huge salary to put me behind bars until 2030.

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Feb

29

How much will my tax rebate be?

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Alright ladies and gents, the time has come. Uncle Sam, the old gangster, is a little scared. The “protection” money he’s been demanding has turned out to be a little too much. So much, in fact, that he’s giving some back to pay our debts to the town loan sharks so they don’t hang him out to dry. Don’t worry, though, the boss gave the go-ahead today and signed it into law.

So, who’s getting paid? The short answer is anyone making between $3,000 and $87,000 ($174,000 for two) who files a tax return. I think that means most of us.

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Feb

28

Screw fondue – How to make an Asian Hot Pot??

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So a few weeks ago I went to The Melting Pot. It was beyond tasty, and a fully satisfying dining experience. It was even worth the $95 bucks dropped for only two people. However, just watching them prepare the stuff (because they do it right infront of you), you know that you can do this at home.

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Feb

27

What are some Bally Total Fitness reviews?

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Consensus: Bally Total Fitness is a BUST

I was afraid this entry might look like an ad for Bally, but I’m kind of appalled at how far from it, this turned out to be.

So I’ve been looking around at gyms, but the only ones close to me are Curves and Bally. My mom went to Curves for a few months and lost some weight, but it was after she left Curves and started taking classes as a gym near her house that she dropped like 100lbs.

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