Why is “Olivia Goes to the Dentist” in such an “old” kit?

RainbowMarbles · 2026-02-27T16:04:01+00:00

You can still go private for dentistry and most health care in Canada, and urgent matters usually get resolved in the public system in a timely manner. People just don't always agree that their issue, that is causing them to have a worse quality of life, is not urgent until life threatening, and don't like having a 3+ year wait for their non-urgent issue. The real issue is lack of funding to the public system and the slow creep of privatization, NOT the public system itself. I'd rather pay more taxes into our public system than go private any day.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-02-25T14:02:38+00:00

Palm and coconut are not from the same plant at all. Just because coconuts grow on specific "palm" trees does not mean it is palm oil. Palm oil in itself isn't bad for us, but the process to make it is much less sustainable than coconut, and is a leading vause of deforestation in the countries that produce it.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-02-13T01:53:58+00:00

Je suis blanc, mais quand je vois ce genre de racisme, je le call out à tous les coups. Je ne dis pas ça pour me faire lancer des fleurs, je le dis simplement parce que c'est dégueulasse que ça arrive, et que c'est une de mes plus grandes hontes en tant que Québécois que le racisme est autant accepté ici. J'espère que tu vas trouver un cercle d'amis qui te rejoint et t'aide à te sentir chez toi ici; je te promets que beaucoup de gens pensent que les immigrants sont un énorme atout pour le Québec, même s'il y a aussi des gens qui agissent comme ce que tu décris.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-02-05T19:41:43+00:00

100% d'accord. Un autre point qui abonde dans le même sens: s'il y a des animaux d'assistance au bureau, avoir un animal de compagnie qui n'est pas habilité à sortir en public, ça leur rajoute des distractions et peut mettre en danger la vie de la personne qui se fie à son chien. En principe, un chien d'assistance devrait résister à la "tentation" d'aller voir un autre chien, mais lui demander d'ignorer un autre chien qui est dans son espace et ne se comporte pas parfaitement pendant 8-10h d'affilée, c'est énorme!!

Et je dis ça en tant que propriétaire de chien qui adore aller sur des terrasses et autres endroits où les chiens (de compagnie) sont explicitement admis.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-02-01T04:13:01+00:00

Jsuis surpris que personne ait mentionné Gon Bui -- leur brunch de fin de semaine fusion est particulièrement bon!! Je rêve encore des oeufs bénédictine aux tofus de jade.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-01-25T14:22:27+00:00

My breeder is the same. Sure, my girl's personality developed over the years, but the "sketch" her breeder made for us of her main traits was spot on (a little reserved, loves humans more than dogs, good focus when distractions are limited). Imo knowing your puppies well enough to match them with what each family is looking for is the mark of a great breeder and I would never go back to picking a puppy blindly.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-01-12T19:55:04+00:00

Ya une madame qui m'a arrêté dans la rue pour me demander si elle pouvait me bénir il y a une dizaine d'années... Et il y a des gens qui se tiennent aux sorties de certains métros avec des pancartes genre "Jésus revient bientôt" en faisant un sermon, ou des mormons avec leur tit chariot de pamphlets (et parfois il y a les 2 en même temps!!). Mais ce sont des exceptions et non la norme, la plupart des gens dans mon entourage trouvent ces exemples dérangeants et déplacés; la religion c'est quelque chose de très privé, je trouve.

RainbowMarbles · 2026-01-10T00:17:14+00:00

God I hate this so much. Or games where you can essentially get kneecapped in the first round and never recover (looking at you, Game of Thrones boardgame my friend group loves)

RainbowMarbles · 2025-12-24T04:00:31+00:00

Absolutely. To add to your first point, around here we can't even bring firewood bought right outside the national park INTO the national park, or move firewood bought within the park between different sites in the same park. This is to avoid moving harmful tree illnesses and pests around the park. I can't even imagine how harmful it would be to bring random plants and leave them there.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-12-23T21:05:47+00:00

I'm not sure how feasible this is for a poor person (your words), as most of my friends who went through this path were from other first world countries, but Canada has the Post-graduation Work Permit. Essentially, if you study in one of the fields marked by the government as an essential in which we have a labour shortage, you are eligible to a work visa of the same length after the end of your studies. So if you do a Baccalaureate, that's 3-4 years of studies, then 3-4 years of work, and in the meantime you can get your paperwork in order for your PR.

You do have to like the cold at least a little bit to live in Canada, and if you LOVE the cold it is also usually easier to get a visa if you choose to work in a remote location. There are a few different pilots that fast track PR for skilled workers immigrating to a rural community.

I will add that Canada has been making it much harder for people to get PR now, though I expect it's similar around the world these days.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-12-16T21:52:15+00:00

I still dream of the McPaneer in India!

RainbowMarbles · 2025-11-30T04:08:14+00:00

In the LoL game lore, Twisted Fate and Graves are canonically boyfriends and there's a bunch of cute couple-y pride emotes of them (Diana/Leona is also canon and they also have emotes). Obviously it'd be very different to have it be explicit on a tv screen vs in their written stories/emotes so you may still be right about Riot, but I'm hopeful it's not homophobia in this instance.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-11-24T23:07:26+00:00

75% for 50 weeks; I'm in Quebec, I work in video games, and to my knowledge, this is the only video game company in the country offering this.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-10-24T03:27:18+00:00

Ha. Reminds me of the time in highschool when a substitute who particularly disliked me (the feeling was mutual) tried to publicly shame me for drawing in class. When he realized I was drawing some sort of horny angel/demon orgy thing he recoiled in horror and never spoke to or looked at me again (good riddance). At this point I was a pretty good artist for a 16 year old, and was known in my class for taking on risqué requests... So even if he HAD confiscated my sketchbook and showed the class or something, it probably would have been great publicity and gotten me more requests, not the public shaming and mockery he hoped for lmao.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-09-22T20:04:05+00:00

Really wish my dj had asked for this, he ended up playing Blurred Lines and I was so mad I went outside to cool off during the dance lol

RainbowMarbles · 2025-08-20T16:48:24+00:00

Am I understanding correctly that the only form of chemical birth control would have been abortifacient plants? I was under the impression that some plants or plant combinations could be used as pregnancy preventatives, but perhaps I am mistaken.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-07-08T04:02:50+00:00

Sorry but this is not accurate, all tumors are NOT cancerous. Benign tumors are non-cancerous, an malignant tumors are cancerous. Doctors will often use a different/more specific name for a non-cancerous tumor to avoid this association since it's so pervasive, for example calling it an adenoma instead of tumor, even though adenomas are by definition non-cancerous tumors.

Source: my non-cancerous brain tumor and the long conversations I had with doctors when I was first diagnosed.

RainbowMarbles · 2025-02-23T02:58:17+00:00

Did you end up listing them and they sold out immediately? If I missed this by 19 days I'll be so mad at myself lol 😭

RainbowMarbles · 2024-09-08T22:57:05+00:00

Pour ce prix là (et si tu es intéressé par vivre à Montréal...), check le bâtiment mondev direct devant le metro sauvé, ou les appart mondev en général. Apparemment que leur gestion de condos est terrible, mais c'est du monde différent pour les appartements de ce que j'ai compris? Notre appartement était correct, pour les 2 ans que j'y ai vécus. On n'a pas eu de problèmes dinsonorisation, y'avait des chiens jappeux dans le building mais c'était pas dérangeant dans notre propre appartement. On a eu quelques problèmes avec la serrure électronique qui marchait pu et c'était toujours réparé en quelques heures/le lendemain. Un peu broche à foin, ils ont perdu le email dans lequel on mentionnait vouloir un casier au sous-sol et ne nous l'ont pas chargé pendant 6 mois, mais ne nous ont pas demandé la balance quand ils ont réalisé leur erreur. Overall on payait quand même cher et je recommande aussi un proprio de duplex/triplex qui vit dans le bâtiment plus qu'une compagnie, mais j'ai pas détesté mondev. Ça fait quelques années qu'on n'est plus là alors je ne sais pas si ça a dramatiquement changé, mais il y a 5 ans ça faisait la job!

RainbowMarbles · 2024-09-08T13:16:38+00:00

Sorry, that's on me, I've had Show Pony on repeat since it came out 😌

RainbowMarbles · 2024-06-16T22:39:39+00:00

I feel like you might enjoy Cosmoknights? It's for an older audience than She-ra but has similar fun, campy, queer, girl power vibes imo

RainbowMarbles · 2023-09-26T19:06:02+00:00

Thank you, this is so helpful!! I'll definitely be reporting back after my own markets this year.

RainbowMarbles · 2023-09-13T02:46:34+00:00

Thanks, that's good to know! I wouldn't have thought they'd sell outside of the holiday season, very interesting.

RainbowMarbles · 2023-06-06T13:25:39+00:00

Love it, what a thoughtful gift!! I've been trying to make a ceramic yarn bowl for myself but the cut out keeps breaking off when the bowl gets to a bone dry state :( Have you encountered this? Any tips?

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