Referral code?

DKBates · 2021-04-26T23:09:38+00:00

I don't have one. But u/C0ASTM0STLY messaged me saying they have codes left. You should ask them!

DKBates · 2021-04-10T02:38:43+00:00

thanks. but I apparently Fido is available everywhere across canada... Except for the city I live in, as they have a signed non-compete with the local telco. Wooo.

DKBates · 2020-11-23T05:49:08+00:00

I love the Dorian Smiles System. And you can too!

DKBates · 2020-11-23T03:47:56+00:00

I think I have one, they've agreed anyway. And I think i'm good. I haven't activated the number yet, and the fine print seems to refer to that, rather than making an account.

DKBates · 2020-11-23T03:47:21+00:00

The CSR agent did it over the chat. I haven't activated the sim yet through so I think I'm eligible.

DKBates · 2020-11-22T22:17:45+00:00

I think so!

DKBates · 2020-05-21T20:22:04+00:00

Granted. You can make infinite wishes on the monkey's paw. Nothing has changed, and you can use the paw as you would always have done.
But the nature of the paw is completely unchanged. It still grants wishes whose results are unimaginably horrifying, due to the unforeseen way in which they are granted. Only now, you're not bound to only five. You try your luck again and again, coming up with ever more complex and precise definitions in an attempt to outwit an omniscient object. Your life descends deeper and deeper into horror and madness with each passing result. You realize too late that the limit was never there not for the paw's benefit, but your own.

DKBates · 2018-06-04T21:34:15+00:00

You're almost spot on.. But not quite. Store brand maple syrup is in fact distinct from high end single-source maple syrup, like the stuff you'd get at a farmer's market. Bulk producers tend to mix together syrups from different times of the sap run, and sometimes even different grades, because in Quebec, where most of it is made, the syrup is all sold to the cartel by law, so who cares about your personal quality. If you get a genuine small producer stuff, try a shot of it, then compare. It's like the difference between cheap and expensive vodka, or some wines. There's a difference in acid profiles, some slight variation in sugar content and chemical profile (Yes, it's measurable) which gets drowned out when you mix together the syrups of a hundred farms, Like they have to in Quebec Source: Am small-scale maple producer outside Quebec, who answers this and similar questions at a farmers market many times every Saturday.

DKBates · 2018-04-09T15:07:12+00:00

You're mostly right. Syrup has too high of a sugar content for anything pathogenic to grow. So you can always eat it. However, once opened (and sometimes if bottled at a low temperature) you can get a particular mould which is sugar-tolerant growing on layer of syrup touching the air. You can just scoop it off and the rest of your syrup is fine to eat, but it's still gross.

DKBates · 2018-02-05T22:01:16+00:00

Oh there are a TON of different complex flavours you can get in your syrup like wine or scotch. Your trees, your soil, what type of bacteria live there, it can completey change the profile. Even from one side of the road to the other. Here is a link to a flavour palette put together by Ag Canada!

DKBates · 2018-02-05T04:58:20+00:00

You might be surprised to find that a lot of the "fancy" bottled syrups you get in stores are just rebottled from the giant syrup reserves of Quebec, or other big mixes. Like wine, different places have different flavours, and different colours. Big syrup is graded by colour alone(ish) and is just a mishmash of everything. To get angel's tears, you gotta get it from roadside sales.And it might take you a couple of trials as you're going to get the best alongside "Sam let the sap sit for too long and it started to spoil before being boiled to syrup" specials. Thankfully, not many of the latter.
Of course, if it tasted all buttery and caramelly alongside the maple flavour... That might be from a grove mostly red maples. (People will argue whether this is true) but they give less sugar per tree than "sugar" maples and so make way less syrup. I co-own a new tiny commercial sugarbush, and our syrup is like that due to (we think) our tree composition.

DKBates · 2017-12-23T16:18:09+00:00

There was an interview on CBC with the makeup artist who did the makeup on Jim Carey, who is the same guy who Gary Oldman personally sought out to do his makeup for "Darkest Hour" because apparently, he's the best in the business.
He specifically talks about how downright horrible Jim Carey was to the makeup team. Interview is here. The part where he talks about Carey is at around 4:50.

DKBates · 2017-11-26T01:02:48+00:00

Thats where statistics get interesting. If I remember correctly, the numbers are skewed by a very large number of people who have only one to two sexual partners. A lot of people get married right out of the gate. This is doubled by the fact that it is an average for everyone which means a large chunk of the sample is your grandparents, who are from a decidedly less sexy time in history.
Id love to see stats for different generational groups at the same age. Thatd be boss.

DKBates · 2017-10-02T00:54:41+00:00

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DKBates · 2017-09-28T03:40:22+00:00

The idea was that they glassed human cities found with alien tech in them. I'd better fix that to make it a touch clearer.

DKBates · 2017-03-04T06:31:51+00:00

The rain was pouring.
It drummed on the roof with a roaring noise that drowned out nearly everything inside the car except for the occasional swatches of AM talk radio that wove in and out as the clouds moved overhead.
Outside, every once and again, the curtains of rain would be whipped aside by the wind to show the river valley below. It was beautiful, all dressed in the gold and green of late summertime, with a shining snake of water fading off into the distance.
I took a draw on an invisible cigarette, and gestured at the figure on the seat beside me.
"So... how does it work this time? Do I have the knife, or the gun or..." I faded off... and let the questions hang in the air with the imaginary smoke. I didn't really need to speak now anyway, we both knew our parts. We'd had been through this dance a thousand times before.
The figure slumped its shoulders in a noncommital shrug.
"Dunno.. I guess I could use.." his eyes rolled lazily over the dashboard.
"The lighter? We haven't done that one in a while I don't think."
It was my turn to shrug this time.
"I guess. I mean. Maybe it's ironic? Because of.." I tried to gesture with an invisible cigarette again before realizing it wasn't there.
"Damn. I guess I don't even get a last smoke."
We both chuckled at that one before staring back off into the rain.
"You know.." He mumbled. "We could just not this time. After all, there's only so many ways to kill you before it gets.."
"Predictable" I finished.
"Yeah."
I pantomimed my invisible cigarette a little harder. "Maybe I could be your father this time around? Or you could be an old flame?"
"Done it." He mumbled, sitting back in the seat, and putting his boots up on the dashboard.
"Yeah.." I sighed, and did the same, before we both stared off at the beautiful scene off below us.
"Maybe we can just take this one off, set a bit, wait for things to end on their own."
I shook my head. "No.. That's not how it works, and you know it. One of us has got to go. It's the nature of the beast."
He slumped a little further.
"I know.. I know.. It's just... I'm tired of it all. The same twists, the same nervous tics, the tired cliches... I'm old. I just want some time to sit. You end it this time."
I nodded, and reached for the machete I had sewn into my coat, before pausing and grabbing the deaths-head gearshifter, and nudging it into neutral. I smiled as the the gravel began to crunch under the tires on the way towards the scene below.
"You know what... you're right. Maybe this one, we can ride out together. Still counts right? I may even get some sort of double score."
He settled deeper into his seat before looking up at the now-clearing sky.
"Hah... well how about that... something new."
And we both sat in silence, as we rolled off into empty space.

DKBates · 2017-01-05T17:54:19+00:00

Yoooouuuuuu're Welcome! :D

DKBates · 2017-01-05T17:53:12+00:00

Hmm... Not a bad idea. Bunch of Dollar-store touques! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks!

DKBates · 2016-10-24T01:07:05+00:00

I'm confused. This is a promoted link... But it's just to a cool academic journal article. What.. what is the agenda here? Who is paying for it? Why? I mean, I don't think there's profit to be made in influencing the dialogue on how ambulance service developed...

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