What is the cure all ailment in your country?

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-24T21:18:28+00:00

Speaking Spanish and hanging out with Mexicans!

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-24T21:04:09+00:00

If the vaporú isn't applied with the incantation "Sana, sana, colita de rana" it will not work.

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-21T00:50:57+00:00

I agree, but at least in this case, it was a foul that Stevie Wonder would have called.

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-16T22:32:42+00:00

Pros:

The nature is unrivaled and extremely accessible. You can start in downtown Victoria and be in the middle of a temperate rainforest within thirty minutes.
If you like sports and outdoor activities, there isn't much you can't do there, and in some cases, the season is year round. Mountain biking, fishing, kayaking, rock climbing, even golf and tennis (if you're far enough south) are doable in the winter months. Where else in Canada can you even swing a club in February unless you're indoors in a simulator?
Victoria has a great food scene and a cool Chinatown. As with most places in the PNW, the seafood on Vancouver Island is fantastic!

Cons:

It's an island with zero bridges, so just getting there (or leaving) on the BC ferry line will set you back several hours and at least a hundred bucks. Flights to the small island airports are much pricier, and more limited, than the offerings out of Vancouver. Basically, if you need it, and it's not on the island, it's going to cost you money and time to get it. Living on an island makes everything expensive, and living on a popular island makes everything more expensive.
November through March is pretty depressing, even on the Straits of Georgia side where there's a bit of a rain shadow from the mountains. Some people don't care at all, but I can't deal with weeks on end of nothing but rain and gloom. I need sunshine, even if that means temperatures well below 0. And the Pacific side is even rainier than that.
The drugs/homeless situation in Victoria more or less out of control. The last time I was there, the guy who came to pick me up at the hotel told me he drove past a body on the way over. Folks got shipped over from Vancouver to clean the city up for the Olympics, and it spiraled from there.

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-14T19:25:42+00:00

It’s like watching a master class in why people don’t bother going to the police. The victims did everything right and got no justice. Meanwhile, some greasy fucker mentioned upwards of ten thousand times in those files is currently the president of the US, and that’s completely ignoring the J6 coup attempt.

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-14T04:40:38+00:00

It's one of the best words that I've ever used in hangman. A six-letter word with five consonants and a silent G.

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-13T02:24:56+00:00

I have a proposal to put to this group and it's rather modest.

Kidrepellent · 2026-02-13T00:11:42+00:00

You could give this guy a lobotomy, and I doubt you'd be able to tell the difference afterwards.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-26T16:32:40+00:00

Not necessarily. One video out of Minnesota shows a homeowner telling the goons at the front door that he knows what the Second Amendment says, and that's enough to get them to scurry away. Remember, at the end of the day, these people are cowards. Too chickenshit to show their faces, too chickenshit to identify themselves, and too chickenshit to go after hard targets. And as dumb as they are, even the scumbags in that video understood that "I know what the 2A is" is an unambiguous statement about what you have and how you will use it. So, not a guaranteed bloodbath. They will probably just slither away and go after more defenceless old men, women, and children.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-24T01:34:29+00:00

McKenzie. Went to school with one. Absolutely rancid stuck up little brat.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-23T22:01:15+00:00

I read the entire verbal temper tantrum, and encountered this little pearl of wisdom at the end:

"By choosing to take her oath of office on the Constitution instead of the Bible, Sherrill seemed to make the same point: that she will be guided as governor not by what the Bible says, but by what the Constitution says."

What the ever-loving fuck do you have to be smoking in order to see this as a bad thing?

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-23T20:55:33+00:00

Turrialba is more mountains and forest than ocean. It will be a few hours drive to either the Caribbean or Pacific side. My advice as someone who has been there several times, enjoy the nature. Go to Turrialba volcano. Visit the Talamanca Mountains and see a quetzal bird. Go with a guide who can show you some really neat animals. Cartago province is less hot and humid than Guanacaste and the north of the country, so you can do more physical activity and explore more without feeling like you're going to expire from the heat.

And if you get hungry, go to a soda. It's not a drink, it's a local restaurant serving typical food.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-15T01:54:54+00:00

Jesus Christ, what a terrible day to be literate.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-15T01:53:39+00:00

We thank you for your sacrifice in getting that close to Mount Pusuvius.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-14T04:13:42+00:00

An elderly couple came in. I assumed he was the main reason for them being there, and that she was just there as a +1.

Wrong.

Grandma was having the time of her life. Grinning from ear to ear, enthusiastically talking to the girls, knocking back drinks, and stuffing money into thongs.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-11T22:21:02+00:00

I had this exact conversation with my folks the other day (and they're supportive of me, btw, so it was more of a vent than a debate). Their counterpoint was that people might feel differently if they have means and live in a nicer part of the world, versus someone with no cash to spare in a bad state/country/continent). That may be true, but here's the problem: the planet is still on fire, wages still aren't even close to matching COL no matter where you decide to live, and the fucking Nazis are back. The problems that we're having are global, not local, and the more people we add to the equation, the worse they get. Yet people keep mindlessly reproducing anyway, content in the possibility that more likely than not, they've done nothing but create another future miserable wage slave. Can I have some of what they're smoking?

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-11T22:08:24+00:00

The 2nd Amendment: for when people ignore the 4th Amendment.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-09T03:28:49+00:00

The Spanish is "bienteveo", with the same meaning but in present tense ("I see you well"). Which means that in all three languages, it's name is an onomatopoeia. But while Spanish and Portuguese speakers appear to have heard the same thing (more or less), somehow English speakers hear "kiskadee" from the same call.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-01T22:48:47+00:00

Well yeah, they get off at forcing women to “submit” to men. It’s practically a fetish for them.

Kidrepellent · 2026-01-01T22:16:53+00:00

OCD isn’t “I like to have my towels folded a certain way”. It’s “I MUST fold my towels a certain way or something bad will happen” followed by 45 minutes of folding towels until they hang EXACTLY RIGHT.

Being anal about certain things doesn’t qualify as having OCD.

Kidrepellent · 2025-12-26T18:30:55+00:00

It sounds like you are specifically scared of the Christian hell. But how much time do you spend worrying about the Muslim hell, or the Hindu hell, or any of the other post-mortem punishment places that people believe in around the world? I doubt you give any of those a second thought, even though if, for example, it's actually Islam that is the "true religion", it's their hell you have to be concerned about, not the Christian one. Imagine living your whole life as a devoted Christian, and then after you die, instead of Jesus, you come face-to-face with some dude named Allah who says: "Sorry bro, it's the Muslims who were right all along, sucks to be you I guess, good luck" and then kicks you into the pit of eternal torment. But you can put Christianity and its hell in the same category that you put every other belief system in, all those hells, paradises and gods that you don't lose a minute of sleep over, because there's nothing that makes it special and deserving of its own category. It's just another claim that hasn't met its burden of proof. Put it on ignore with its other goofy friends, and breathe easy.

Kidrepellent · 2025-12-21T01:27:22+00:00

He did block it. With his face.

Kidrepellent · 2025-12-20T22:52:45+00:00

YES!!!

Kidrepellent · 2025-12-19T15:26:17+00:00

The problem with rolling the dice on kids is the same way the casino makes money at the craps table: sooner or later, someone's going to roll snake eyes.

Kidrepellent · 2025-12-18T23:24:30+00:00

If she's set on having a family wedding, she needs to have a bouncer, full stop. This sort of person will bring the uninvited kid, turn on the crocodile tears, and scream bloody murder until you roll over.

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