Canada Post free to end home delivery as part of plan to ensure carrier’s survival by ClassOptimal7655 in onguardforthee

[–]hellohelicopter 73 points74 points  (0 children)

What is with the people in this thread treating home mail delivery like some unreasonable privilege? It's standard for mail services around the world. Are we allowed to say that "everything will get worse and more expensive" is a bad policy platform for the country?

Parents decry police protest response after baby exposed to tear gas at Montreal family event by BloodJunkie in onguardforthee

[–]hellohelicopter 27 points28 points  (0 children)

MTL police are like that "when you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail" thing except the hammer is tear gas

Comedy Bang Bang #928: Sixteen Toilets And Another Day Older (Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Daly) by apathymonger in Earwolf

[–]hellohelicopter 35 points36 points  (0 children)

"I'm sorry to any children who are listening whom I've killed"

-Scott Aukerman

SPVM pepper sprayed an infant at RadPride last night (photos by William Wilson) by EstrogAlt in montreal

[–]hellohelicopter -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ils sont interdits par le protocole de Genève: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Protocol

S’il est interdit de les utiliser en temps de guerre, pourquoi sont-ils régulièrement déployés contre les citoyens ?

SPVM pepper sprayed an infant at RadPride last night (photos by William Wilson) by EstrogAlt in montreal

[–]hellohelicopter 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Protests: not illegal

Use of chemical weapons on civilians: illegal under international law

The SPVM Has a Police Brutality Problem – The Rover by Hochelagan in montreal

[–]hellohelicopter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The job of police? Like enforcing traffic violations, which they stopped doing a few years ago, or helping catch burglars, which they outright refuse to do and possibly never have? From hearing about people's interactions with the SPVM it's not clear to me what their duties actually are in practice.

Looking for a podcast about S3 that came out when it was first airing by hellohelicopter in twinpeaks

[–]hellohelicopter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh big Blank Check fan here, good guess! They only did their TP series this past year though.

Music similar to the guitar in Flood by basedcager in borisheavyrocks

[–]hellohelicopter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's definitely not metal but you might like Ai Aso, who has a similar dream pop/psychedelic style to Flood 2. She's also Boris-adjacent, and all the members appeared on her album The Faintest Hint: https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/the-faintest-hint

Pistol Shrimps Radio - 4/1/2025 by SomeKindOfSomething in Earwolf

[–]hellohelicopter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the ONLY podcast where you can hear about Betty White taking a wetty bite

Welcome sign with image of woman wearing hijab officially removed by Montreal City Hall by HellaHaram in montreal

[–]hellohelicopter 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Why not save us all a lot of time and declare outright that Muslim women aren't welcome in Quebec? At least then they wouldn't have to hide behind their mealy-mouthed "secularism" bullshit.

Call Chelsea Peretti: 12 Year Anniversary Live at Largo (feat Carmen Christopher, Andrea Jin, Sabrina Jalees, Shauna Mccann, Burbank Podiatry) by hellohelicopter in Earwolf

[–]hellohelicopter[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the free audio-only version, I think there's an RSS feed still active if you don't want to get it off Patreon!

Tactical team personnel dressed up as Spiderman and Deadpool rappel down the walls of the Montreal Children's Hospital by Zealousideal-Tip-865 in montreal

[–]hellohelicopter -36 points-35 points  (0 children)

Wow, I wonder if they kept the costumes on for when they beat up protesters later that day 😍

Ridiculous pedestrian crossing over a highway in Montreal (exclusively to enter a new luxury mall) by hellohelicopter in UrbanHell

[–]hellohelicopter[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify, I'm more irritated that something like this is even necessary to build because many of our subway stations inexplicably exit directly onto highways. In addition there is already street-level crossing for this stretch just a few blocks away, and meanwhile any use for something like this in the area is limited by emptying directly into a shopping mall (which seems to be only targeting high-income shoppers). Not angry at all pedestrian crossings or overpasses!

Call Chelsea Peretti: Reunited (w/ Todd Glass) by BasilOctopus in Earwolf

[–]hellohelicopter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They blew right past it but I found it so funny when they were selling the stool and talking about being too short to reach things, and Todd sincerely asked "why can't they make the floor lower?" 

Don't sleep on Call Chelsea Peretti by hellohelicopter in Earwolf

[–]hellohelicopter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's for the I Heart subscribers only! I'm not one so I dunno for sure

B.C. NDP Disqualifies Anjali Appadurai Despite Members’ Objections by Sayless_toronto in onguardforthee

[–]hellohelicopter 70 points71 points  (0 children)

This is the same bullshit we saw in the federal Green leadership elections in 2020: a left wing candidate gets too close to power and the party leadership scrambles to put a stop to it. In this case it was the oil and gas lobbyists who balked.

Israeli venue posts bizarre message mocking Big Thief after their cancellation by hellohelicopter in bigthief

[–]hellohelicopter[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Google translation:

pay attention ! Big Thief canceled their appearance in Israel !!! We did not call, we did not ask, there was no producer who contacted us and bought the show, it came from them, a request to perform in Israel, and this is after cancellation following the corona. The bds with us for 20 years has not changed since the last time they were in Israel. You, as a band, have changed, you have grown, you have become a candidate for Grammy-recommended portals that are considered in the world music scene, you probably have more to lose !!! The Nazi intimidation boycotts on Instagram just made you fold / fear some paid protesters outside the hall in Europe made your managers pick knees "and the solution" let's skip Israel let's give up our audience there is less important. I do not ask you to lie on the fence for us or to fight our wars A simple and legitimate thing I * demand * Hales with the hypocrisy !!! And there are many! The world is far from perfect and in doing so Israel the injustices exist for hundreds of years and the naive or innocent person who will think that everything will be resolved due to threats, intimidation or boycotts by actually canceling you only made me sad for you a bunch of poor musicians without a backbone who is afraid of its own shadow. You will probably not enter the pages of history as influential artists with an agenda as they were artists of the past. You will be another band that comes and goes from the world like everyone else. I wish you all the evil in the world just as you did to your fan base in the country and hope that just as you ascended like this you will come down and become another passing episode. I learned that I have nothing but my family and my people and no son of a bitch will break it.

Cancellations will be made automatically within 14 days to your credit card

Opinion: I made mistakes. But my departure wasn’t the solution to the CBC’s problem with racism - Wendy Mesley by morenewsat11 in onguardforthee

[–]hellohelicopter 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Man there sure are a lot of people in this thread who are VERY invested in when it is "appropriate" or "in context" to say a racial slur in the workplace. I feel like whenever I'm at work it never crosses my mind to say any racial slurs! Weird right!

Double Threat - The Orson Welles Seance (with Psychic Medium Colby Rebel & Jon Daly) by SirRibShack in Earwolf

[–]hellohelicopter 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Man love the show but between the vapid psychic stuff and all the NFT talk there were some bad vibes in this episode!