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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 11h

Unsolicited Schick pic

Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 14h

“Be sure to like and subscribe to see more, & for just a few dollars a month*, you can be part of the community we’re building here! Join others in engaging** with like-minded people blah blah…”
* which gets you nothing. More $ gets you almost nothing.
** there is no real engagement on social media.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 19h

But… what do I do for those 15 minutes? Smartphone dependency has obliterated my ability to cope with boredom!

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’ve finally run out of shit to doomscroll through. I have no idea what to do now.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

No, it’s Trudeau’s fault.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

I’m at a roadside Tim Hortons and they’re SOLD OUT OF DONUTS. Who allowed this to happen? We used to be a proper country.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

Hope you feel better soon!

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 2d

Enduro?

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

It is EVERYTHING I expected it to be.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

OH GODDAMMIT!!!

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

Shit, did I just unwittingly bring that into existence with quantum snark mechanics? “Any concept created as a wild exaggeration for comedic effect will already exist unironically”

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me “I’ve got a surprise for you, I’m not gonna tell you what it is, but you must hear this, you won’t believe it!”, I’d have $2.

Sorry but it’s just stupid. Might as well have been a dubstep take on the Teletubbies theme.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

One nice thing about the present is how stupid novelty tunes are mostly confined to social media where they belong.

Compare that with BITD, when people actually paid money for crap like this, or the Sesame Street theme remix, or the jingle cats album, and the stuff would chart and get radio play.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

I live near Berczy park.
Nobody can agree on how to pronounce it. “Burt-see”, “bear-see”, “burr-see”, etc.

And there’s no point in pulling the “well, in the original Polish/Czech/Hungarian it is…” because the guy for whom it was named after made it up so people would think he was more worldly.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 4d

And yet the producer (Jordy’s father, naturally) was also the producer for notable French space-rock group Rockets.

IIRC, the French courts ruled that Jordy was being exploited and put a stop to the whole thing.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 5d

Unsolicited “job” offer scams have definitely been on the rise lately. But “wrong number” text scams have been a thing for a while.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 5d

No, because they aren’t targeting you specifically. They’re messaging every single number on the continent. Everyone gets these.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 7d

Now we just need someone to make a snarky remark about this post, and someone else to like said snark, and we’d have yum on the yuck on the yum on the yuck.

Wait, this is like one of those riddles which demonstrates how logic collapses upon itself, isn’t it? I’m too dumb for this.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 7d

Gotta make the most of unseasonably warm days before the long dreary grey and cold months arrive.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 8d

How does it feel?

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

Years ago, I got the Target edition of 1989, because it was great album, and that version had 3 exclusive songs. Those songs were every bit as good as anything on the proper album.

The re-recording of that album includes even more extra songs, none of which are the slightest bit memorable.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

The inconsistency of gapless playback on my phone takes me back to the early days of the iPod, whose designers evidently had never heard a live album, DJ mix, or Dark Side of the Moon.

No wait, I got it, it’s an homage to the 8-track tape! Just needs more tape hiss and a tendency to self-destruct.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

I was rather surprised by the non-removable soda bottle caps when I visited Germany. Are they a recent development, or was this mandated a long time ago?

We have paper drinking straws here now. They are horrid.

Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 9d

I concede that I can’t come up with much of substance in 300 characters or less.

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Bruce 🇨🇦 @ohchristwhatnow.bsky.social · 10d

That thing where you’re so exhausted from lack of sleep that when you get home from work, you take a quick nap, and… 4 hours later, you’re wide awake but it’s past midnight and you’ll inevitably repeat the process tomorrow, leaving you with nothing to do right now but post banal updates to BlueSky.

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