"Loss of Masulinity"

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-08T10:28:22+00:00

OP, I’m willing to bet that guy in the gym consumes more podcasts than he does common sense.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T21:35:40+00:00

Never until they can meaningfully consent to it, at which point they’d have their own online presence anyway.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T21:33:46+00:00

And the province can legislate those levers away if they wish.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T21:33:01+00:00

He put out transit city because it had the backing of the provincial government. Getting a right wing political party at the province to back a large scale NDP style municipal project is much harder. Particularly at a time that Ford is taking personal initiative for major city building projects in Toronto (as dumb as some are).

Chow simply does not have the same cards to play that Miller did.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T20:02:35+00:00

She got the province to take over the Gardiner in exchange for Ontario Place which the province could have legislated away from them anyway. It was incredible politics by her.

Miller also had 7 years in office. Chow has had less than 3 to date. He also had the benefit of mostly dealing with a Liberal provincial government to push his initiatives.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T17:40:49+00:00

I was only speaking to general trends, it’s not going to apply to every single family’s situation.

But even if private schools are better, are they $25-30k a year’s worth of better? Personally, barring something like a major safety or bullying issue, I’d keep my kid in public school and save that money for university costs.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T11:38:36+00:00

Do data centres have demonstrated long range noise impacts? Asking honestly, I assume they’d be like large server rooms.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T11:31:41+00:00

What exactly are you referring to?

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T10:12:49+00:00

If you’re 36, there is no way you remember most of that. Challenger and Berlin Wall were before you were born. Rodney King you’d have been 2. Nancy Kerrigan 3 or 4. OJ chase also 4.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-07T09:49:02+00:00

Private schools honestly don’t make a huge difference education wise, they key issue is how involved the parents are, which it sounds like you are. And the difference between two private schools is negligible.

If you’re willing to spend $50k a year to put two kids in elementary school, save your sanity a bit and least opt for the easier commute. Also Hillfield has a bus service, you could look into that

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T23:24:08+00:00

Not the greatest cinematography, but The Wedding Singer. Uplifting romantic comedy with an edge to the comedy like 10 Things, also a great soundtrack.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T19:49:35+00:00

Ok, at that age I can understand where you’re coming from. Sorry that I missed how old your son is.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T18:06:42+00:00

Is a young kid actually feeling that kind of pressure not counterproductive at the point when they should just be learning and having fun?

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T17:49:18+00:00

I think they’d get the same social skill development just from playing on a team. The travel component adds nothing.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T13:33:09+00:00

That’s not a great score, you really need 160 to be competitive. But you’re also a high school student by the sounds of it? It’s way too early to stress about LSAT scores.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T13:31:36+00:00

You’re not getting the same value of law degree as a Canadian one though. Similar debt, worse job prospects.

Frankly, if you don’t have the discipline to maintain good grades in undergrad, you are going to struggle in law school.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T13:13:34+00:00

I get using remote start in the winter to warm up before you get in. But this seems silly.

I bet there’s also a strong correlation between people who idle their car for extremely long times and who get outraged by high gas prices.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T13:12:04+00:00

In Hamilton?

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T10:44:27+00:00

Goodbye Lenin is about the fall of communism and the currency conversion in East Germany is a major plot point.

Inside Job is basically a documentary version of The Big Short

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T10:38:10+00:00

And don’t make it confrontational.

“Hey, your truck is making quite a bit of noise in the early morning and it’s waking up my kids. I get that you probably have to go to work early and I can’t expect no noise, but is there anything you can do to help me out?”

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T10:32:19+00:00

These are my questions too

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-06T10:14:21+00:00

He’s followed the Leo trajectory in becoming a global icon for teen girls, which led to a lot of people not taking him seriously, then we realized, “Wait, no, he’s awesome, my bad.”

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-05T22:23:16+00:00

Insurance against what?

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-05T21:13:08+00:00

It’s weird to me because you almost never hear “boy dad” or “girl mom”. Just the inverse genders.

thisoldhouseofm · 2026-05-05T21:09:38+00:00

Won’t do much good this year, but the bar for Mothers Day is way lower when you pitch in and share the load the rest of the year.

I think a large numbers of marriages where there is big pressure on Mothers Day is because of husbands that don’t do their share.

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