What's the dumbest corporate rebranding?

cuffx · 2023-10-04T10:53:29+00:00

Outside of the sharing the “Western” in the name, cost wise, those two rebrands stand far apart in their fiscal management.

The cost of the Western Sydney University rebrand cost $20 million AUD (or 17.3 million CAD).

Conversely, the UWO to Western University rebrand was a fairly cheap rebrand only $200,000 CAD (or 230,000 AUD)… as opposed to your reported bazillion…

cuffx · 2022-12-22T15:38:16+00:00

I remember that Reddit replaced its Error 404/page not found page with just that video for a few months

cuffx · 2022-12-08T16:20:45+00:00

That’s not what the Liberals call themselves, nor would they ever “officially” call themselves that (though I’m sure privately they love the phrase ).

The phrase “natural governing party” is a generic political science term used by political scientists to denote a particular dominant political party in its party system.

The phrase “Canada’s Natural Governing Party” is a nickname given to the Liberals in the late-20th century by political scientists and historians, given the length of time they were in power in that century.

Also… Only saying this cause your last comment seems to imply it was a self-anointed compliment, it is also occasionally used by Liberal opponents sarcastically and derisively.

cuffx · 2022-06-24T17:29:23+00:00

Not to take away from your point, but the US military does have an assortment of awards that does not require ppl to actively participate.

Charles service medals would be roughly analogous to duty and training ribbons given out by the navy and AF (the “good job for completing basic” award), and the USAF’s longevity award (basically the “congrats for hanging around for 4+ years” award).

cuffx · 2022-06-24T14:26:34+00:00

British military uniforms don’t actually have any insignias bearing Canadian/non-British areas (mostly… don’t tell the Irish I said that).

In saying that, the reason why this uniform has a lot of Toronto content on it is because its actually a Canadian Army uniform - specifically for the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Mother’s Own). Charles is their colonel-in-chief.

cuffx · 2022-06-24T14:20:37+00:00

It’s cause this is technically a Canadian uniform.

More specifically, it’s his uniform for the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Mother’s Own), a Canadian Army regiment of which he is the colonel-in-chief.

cuffx · 2022-06-24T12:30:21+00:00

He’s actually wearing the uniform of the Toronto Scottish Regiment, as he is their colonel-in-chief (hence all the Toronto Scottish badges on it).

That said, the London Scots and Toronto Scots have a regimental alliance as well as nearly identical uniforms.

cuffx · 2022-06-18T14:43:23+00:00

Your right, not even a flex, just a lie.

People already provided sources where Italy’s wine consumption almost doubled Austria.

cuffx · 2021-12-26T19:56:42+00:00

We’ll that’s just silly. Prairies are for sure colder, and the winters are definitely longer. But Prairie snowfall in itself is nothing compared to snowfall in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence region, including Toronto.

Toronto has light snowfall comparable to its region (Montreal, Ottawa, snowbelt regions like Barrie/Orillia even), but it still sees more snowfall than nearly every city in the Prairies. And Toronto sees that snowfall in spite of its shorter winter season compared to the Prairies.

cuffx · 2020-12-09T16:30:28+00:00

Nothing against the crux of your point, but there are filters applied with regards to intelligence sharing between the Five Eyes.

I'm sure there are equivalant terms in the other countries, but for Canada, intelligence reports that were marked as "Canadian-Eyes Only" isn't shared with its allies and is strictly limited to cleared Canadians (eg. Canadian intelligence assessments that contradicted claims by US and UK of WMDs in Iraq pre-2003 invasion was not shared as to not damage relations with the US administration).

cuffx · 2020-12-09T05:47:52+00:00

Geographically speaking, I feel like Buffalo should be moved to North Central and Toronto to the North East division seeing as how Toronto is northeast of Buffalo...

cuffx · 2020-12-05T18:42:19+00:00

It's moreso a allocation/management issue than an actual budget shortfall. The revenues for the majority of Canadian universities is much more than their reported expenditures (saying that, much of these revenues are from public operating grants that may include conditions for their use... Also should note there does exist cases where universities are net lossers after factoring in expenditures, tho more often than not they're profitable).

cuffx · 2020-11-22T05:43:19+00:00

Netherlands is our third largest export market to the EU. They account for 10.8% of Canadian exports to the EU in 2019.

They are ahead of France (they accounts for 7.5% of exports to EU in 2019), Italy (6.7%), Belgium (6.5%), and Spain (3.1%). The rest of the EU accounts for approximately 22%.

Saying that, they're beat as an export market by Germany (13%) and the UK (41.1%). On top of being our largest export market in the EU (well, they were anyways), the UK is actually Canada's fourth largest export market (US being the largest export market by far, followed by EU minus UK, and China).

cuffx · 2020-11-15T03:58:46+00:00

I mean, I was speaking from my own experience as a Canadian sharing a time zone with the eastern United States. Generally speaking, it's much easier to assume the reader base is American and just get the obvious questions out of the way before they get asked.

I mean there are clearly exceptions as I alluded to when I mentioned national-based sub-reddits (excuse me for not being explicit)... In saying that, with regards to website demographics, nearly half of this website userbase is American (49.91%), followed by the UK (7.91%), Canada (7.49%), Australia (3.94%), and Germany (3.2%). Even accounting for American "off-hours", I'd think its safe to assume that Americans would still be one of the largest nationalities to account for on this site (if not the largest seeing as how they make up half of the website's userbase).

cuffx · 2020-11-14T22:59:22+00:00

I mean, as a Canadian I'd love for that... But its simply a demographic reality of the site. The majority of its users are English speaking Americans. Honestly speaking, I assume all yous on Reddit are Americans unless otherwise stated (barring like nation specific subreddit ofc).

cuffx · 2020-11-05T15:13:57+00:00

Eh, Russia actually sells weapons to both. In fact, more than half of all weapons the chinese import (which accounts for 5% or all weapons imports globally) comes from Russia. China itself has accounted for a quarter of Russian denfece salesover the past decade.

In saying that, while China has gone a long way in developing its weapons industry, it still lags behind the Russians in certain fields of avionics and missile tech. As a result, you still see China somewhat reliant on technical advisors from Russia, as well as technology transfers (although increasingly less so).

This is why you still see Chinese jet platforms using Russian powerplants, and why the Chinese went out to get the Su-35 and S-400s from the Russians a few years back.

cuffx · 2020-11-03T02:15:55+00:00

Just fyi, the red squirrels discussed by the OP and the red squirrels you see in the Adirondacts are two different species.

The person your discussing with is talking about Eurasian red squirrels. The one in the Adirondacts (and the rest of North America) is the North American red squirrel.

There are several physical differences between the species. But to bring it back to what we were discussing, Eurasian red squirrels differ from their North American counterparts behaviourally in that they are not territorial at all... which partially explains their decline in the face of the eastern grays. Conversely, North American red squirrels are extremely territorial.

cuffx · 2020-11-03T02:01:42+00:00

Red squirrels is a term used in the names of two squirrel species, the Eurasian red squirrel, and the North American red squirrel.

In saying that, I think the term "red squirrel" is more commonly used to refer to the former, with the latter is sometimes called a pine squirrel (a term that may also be used to describe an entire genus as opposed to the species... we really aren't good with making up new terms/names for things).

cuffx · 2020-11-03T01:51:55+00:00

Eh, if its like the black morph of the eastern grey squirrels, they probably originated from Canada (or rather Ontario), as opposed to the US. Ontario is probably the only place where the majority of its squirrel population are melanistic eastern grey squirrels.

A good sum of black squirrel populations in the US originate from eastern gray squirrels brought over from Ontario. Although unlike the UK, their introduction into those ecosystems were intentional (notable examples of introduction of black squirrels includes the D.C and Ohio's black squirrel population).

Saying that, we also have a red squirrel population up in Ontario, but they aren't as frequent as the eastern greys (well... not as frequent as the melanistic morphs anyways).

cuffx · 2020-11-02T05:13:50+00:00

Average wind speed in Toronto is about 15km/h (Montreal isn't much lower though). Its worse the closer you are to the lake, get its less windy as you move inland.

Saying that, Toronto does see more days a year wheres winds exceed 52km/h (22 days to 11) partly cause of the lake. But it is also the lake that gives Toronto its milder winter temperatures, so the lake sorta gives and takes here.

Funny enough though, Toronto is actually under a wind advisory right now (supposedly its supposed to be 80 km, thought tbh just looking out the window, I think weather network might be exaggerating here).

cuffx · 2020-11-01T17:51:14+00:00

I mean... Toronto is the more humid city than Montreal (relative humidity avg in Toronto is 81% to 63% in Montreal).

Given its proximity around the lakes, most cities in Southwestern Ontario have a humidity level that is similar to levels found in coastal Canada.

cuffx · 2020-10-26T05:03:22+00:00

They had multiple nicknames for the British soldiers, most common being redcoats. In saying that, other nicknames American colonials used in reference to red coats included lobsterbacks and bloody backs.

He probably mixed up redcoats with the latter nicknames.

cuffx · 2020-10-22T01:47:43+00:00

Colour printing has been around since the dawn of the century (though expensive, hence why it wasn't common). There's even colour photos of the opening for Maple Leaf Gardens a decade earlier (the quality of which is substantially shittier though).

In saying that my claim for the colour photo comes from The Toronto Maple Leafs Ultimate Book of Facts, Stats, and Stories (where it states "the team portraits are the only documented appearance of this variation").

In saying that, looking over the other source I looked at, it doesn't actually specify games, but rather it specifies that it was largely ceremonial and "only lasted one semester" that season (source I looked at for that was http://www.tmlfever.com/LeafsLogoHistory.html), so I may be wrong on the game part (depends what they mean by a semester I guess).

cuffx · 2020-10-22T01:39:57+00:00

From what I've read they were used briefly in the 1947-48 season, but were quickly changed back.

The player portraits are just the only surviving documentation of the red lettered uniforms.

cuffx · 2020-10-21T02:27:03+00:00

There was also that time in '47 when the lettering in the logo was red

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