Pfft. That's a daily afternoon thunderstorm around here.

Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

It's like a bidet for your car.

Home of the "courtesy, comma"?

And just in time for the F1 race there. Again.

Today's poutine: extra soggy.

"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."

Oh hydrodynamics, how I love thee so.

THX 1138: Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

Natures way of cleaning out the hippy stench.

THX 1138 : Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

Nope, no footage... They were still out marching last evening. Two days ago it was 250,000, I think yesterday was only 100,000 or so due to the storms.

And you might want to look up the difference between the words RIOTING and DEMONSTRATING.

How the some of the article sounded to me.

THX 1138: Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

Or footage of the floodwaters sweeping away the chaffeur-driven limousine of some university employee?

Cest inondation, mon frere.

jakomo002: THX 1138 : Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

Nope, no footage... They were still out marching last evening. Two days ago it was 250,000, I think yesterday was only 100,000 or so due to the storms.

And you might want to look up the difference between the words RIOTING and DEMONSTRATING.


Tomato - Tamata.
Cage them all G20 style!!

I want to drive up there and offer help to the ones who ask nicely in English.

jakomo002: THX 1138 : Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

Nope, no footage... They were still out marching last evening. Two days ago it was 250,000, I think yesterday was only 100,000 or so due to the storms.

And you might want to look up the difference between the words RIOTING and DEMONSTRATING.

Because throwing rocks while masked is the definition of peaceful demonstration.

oldfarthenry: Cage them all G20 style!!

Unless the Feds call in the Canadian Army, there's no way. In the last few days there's been hundreds of thousands of people protesting (Law 78) and the cops have been nowhere to be seen.

These riot-police pepper-spray crackdowns just made people very mad around here and probably influenced tens of thousands of extra people to get out on the streets every night.

/it'll be an interesting Festival season
//and F1 weekend

Hopefully the rain put out this fire:



/maybe they could use the smoke to make Montreal Smoked Meat
//damn, now I'm hungry for something I can't buy in the States

Somebody needs to build an ark & take 2 of each variety of poutine.

Oh, this is Montreal, don't forget the strippers. Take them, too.

With poutine & strippers, you can begin to rebuild civilization..

beta_plus: jakomo002: THX 1138 : Any footage of rioting students getting hit by that flood?

Nope, no footage... They were still out marching last evening. Two days ago it was 250,000, I think yesterday was only 100,000 or so due to the storms.

And you might want to look up the difference between the words RIOTING and DEMONSTRATING.

Because throwing rocks while masked is the definition of peaceful demonstration.

It depends on the shoe they're wearing.

le douche

How I hate to see a fellow Farker's stuff get flooded in their mom's basement....

beta_plus: Because throwing rocks while masked is the definition of peaceful demonstration.

Right, because since that happened once over the past 90 days of protest, it means it's ALWAYS happening EVERYWHERE.

If you have aggressive riot-police beating the shiat out of citizens, sometimes some citizens get pissed off and lash out at the jackbooted thugs beating their heads in with batons.

Personally, I wouldn't cry many tears if a riot cop got hit with a rock on his helmeted head while he's busy beating defenseless people.

beta_plus: Hopefully the rain put out this fire:

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/maybe they could use the smoke to make Montreal Smoked Meat
//damn, now I'm hungry for something I can't buy in the States

Dang, forgot about the smoked meat!

OK, with smoked meat, poutine & strippers, you can begin to rebuild civilization. Quite nicely.

cleveoh: OK, with smoked meat, poutine & strippers, you can begin to rebuild civilization. Quite nicely.

Wait you forgot bacon.

Hot newscaster is hot...

Wish we had a few like her down here.

jakomo002: beta_plus: Because throwing rocks while masked is the definition of peaceful demonstration.

Right, because since that happened once over the past 90 days of protest, it means it's ALWAYS happening EVERYWHERE.

If you have aggressive riot-police beating the shiat out of citizens, sometimes some citizens get pissed off and lash out at the jackbooted thugs beating their heads in with batons.

Personally, I wouldn't cry many tears if a riot cop got hit with a rock on his helmeted head while he's busy beating defenseless people.

One racist at a conservative event means all conservatives are racist.
One thousand throwers of rocks at the police who defy explicit police orders to disperse after said rock throwers and their allies have deliberately and knowingly violated laws passed by a democratic legislature in order to intentionally overwhelm the ability of the police to keep the peace at a NDerPer protest in no way reflects on the NDerP.

This is what the NDerP actually believes.

jakomo002: cleveoh: OK, with smoked meat, poutine & strippers, you can begin to rebuild civilization. Quite nicely.

Wait you forgot bacon.

And Montréal bagels.

I was there this weekend and left yesterday morning. Just in time, I guess. Between that and the dismembered dumpster body that may be the source of the foot mailed to the Conservatives, yesterday may not have been the city's finest hour. I also left town right before the 1997 ice storm. I seem to have a good sense of when to get out of my beloved hometown.

What "rioting" Montréalers may look like.

beta_plus: One thousand throwers of rocks at the police who defy explicit police orders to disperse after said rock throwers and their allies have deliberately and knowingly violated laws passed by a democratic legislature in order to intentionally overwhelm the ability of the police to keep the peace at a NDerPer protest in no way reflects on the NDerP.

What, there were a THOUSAND rock throwers? Wow, and only 4 police officers "mildly injured". What were those then, Nerf rocks?

Secondly, you have the RIGHT to violate laws that are undemocratic and illegal in themselves. Most people are protesting Law 87, which makes it ILLEGAL to gather more than 50 people together unless you tell the police 8 hours in advance what your route is, and you must stay on that route.

The DAY AFTER they enacted the law, up to 300,000 people defied it by protesting, and have been doing so every single day since it became law.

Not a single arrest yet made by Montreal police have been about Law 87.

So it's essentially the provincial government saying "OK this is the new law" and the public saying "Oh yeah, fark you, arrest me then". Personally, I'm proud to see it, and proud to join, and proud to live in a city where people have balls.

angrycrank: What "rioting" Montréalers may look like.

:)

I posted that yesterday and it never got green-lighted.

I've been to the downtown protests about a dozen or so times in the last month, and I've seen 100 times more exposed breasts than I have seen anybody doing anything violent.

The Skaven are NOT happy.....

cleveoh: Somebody needs to build an ark & take 2 of each variety of poutine.

One of Montreal's best Poutine restaurant is called "La banquise" (the ice floe). We don't need to build an Ark, we already have it.

/Subby.
//Yes, I accidentally the headline. Désolé.

jakomo002: Most people are protesting Law 87

78.

Flab: 78.

Oops, thanks.

What 250k+ violent, rock-throwing rioters look like

Left work downtown at exactly 5 p.m. yesterday. I work on René-Lévesque. Hopped on the 435 going north on Parc when the bulk of the storm hit. It was like being in a car wash. Saw folks without umbrellas scramble everywhere like bees were chasing them. Good times.

/glad to live on the second floor of my building
//also glad to see that protestors still went out that evening
///fark you, Charest

Savage Bacon: fark you, Charest

The Charest government has to be shiatting itself. Their biggest fear (hell, ANY governments' biggest fear) isn't the actual protests, it's the fact that many, many people within the protests (or watching) might actually start to feel solidarity with their neighbours and actually start talking about things to do to actually change things.

It's not organizing a protest that concerns them, it's ORGANIZING.

/I give Charest till the end of the summer

That was quite the impressive geyser. I thought it was going to tip the car over a couple of times. The sewer system in Montreal really ought to be able to handle a couple of inches of rain in half an hour--maybe not four, but a couple makes sense. There's several tunnels that turn into the Grand Cloacca when they flood. Montreal has a hidious tangle of overpasses and tunnels. Where's the grand planning and beauty one expects from the French?

I guess that despite the authoritarian tendancies of some past mayors and provincial "Premier ministers", there's never been a dictator strong enough to knock half the city down the way they did in Paris under Napoléon III.

Pity. Half of it could use knocking down. Downtown isn't too bad, there's some French style in the Latin Quarter and Outremont and Westmount are nice enough, but even the Parisian poor live in nice regular, elegant looking slums in the older arrondissements. They may not be nice inside (especially the upper floors), but the facades are up to the standards of the the piano nobile and bourgeois-occupied first and second floors.

The French and cars just do not mix, especially in the city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_no bile

Heavy Rain?

JASON! JAAAAAASON! JASOOOOOOON! JAASSSSSSSOOOOOOONNNNNNN!

Lived in Montréal when a similar storm hit (one of two storms that ran through city exactly one year apart). In a second-storey public washroom, I witnessed water shooting 5 feet into the air from a drain in the floor. Some poor sap also drowned when he ignored warnings and drove his car into a flooded underpass.
And, fark Charest.

knumbersix: Lived in Montréal when a similar storm hit (one of two storms that ran through city exactly one year apart). In a second-storey public washroom, I witnessed water shooting 5 feet into the air from a drain in the floor. Some poor sap also drowned when he ignored warnings and drove his car into a flooded underpass.
And, fark Charest.


July 14, 1987. Never forget!

Flab: knumbersix: Lived in Montréal when a similar storm hit (one of two storms that ran through city exactly one year apart). In a second-storey public washroom, I witnessed water shooting 5 feet into the air from a drain in the floor. Some poor sap also drowned when he ignored warnings and drove his car into a flooded underpass.
And, fark Charest.


July 14, 1987. Never forget!

Ah yes, I remember it well.
Thanks, Flab.

beta_plus: Hopefully the rain put out this fire:

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/maybe they could use the smoke to make Montreal Smoked Meat
//damn, now I'm hungry for something I can't buy in the States

Is that a starbucks drink in his hand?!

/that pic is so fail I don't know where to start

cgraves67: It's like a bidet for your car.

Sol Invicti: Hot newscaster is hot...

Wish we had a few like her down here.

"It was short, but it was intense!" She sounded like my ex. I also liked the guy who lives in mom's basement.

Helloooo, Nurse Catherine Sherriffs...

First words: "It was short, but it was intense." Going on to say "dumping over 50mm"...

Hmm; I would have thought I'd remember our time together.

jakomo002: beta_plus: One thousand throwers of rocks at the police who defy explicit police orders to disperse after said rock throwers and their allies have deliberately and knowingly violated laws passed by a democratic legislature in order to intentionally overwhelm the ability of the police to keep the peace at a NDerPer protest in no way reflects on the NDerP.

What, there were a THOUSAND rock throwers? Wow, and only 4 police officers "mildly injured". What were those then, Nerf rocks?

Secondly, you have the RIGHT to violate laws that are undemocratic and illegal in themselves. Most people are protesting Law 87, which makes it ILLEGAL to gather more than 50 people together unless you tell the police 8 hours in advance what your route is, and you must stay on that route.

The DAY AFTER they enacted the law, up to 300,000 people defied it by protesting, and have been doing so every single day since it became law.

Not a single arrest yet made by Montreal police have been about Law 87.

So it's essentially the provincial government saying "OK this is the new law" and the public saying "Oh yeah, fark you, arrest me then". Personally, I'm proud to see it, and proud to join, and proud to live in a city where people have balls.

Well, have fun being even more poor and broke than you are now and Toronto and Calgary getting even more of your business.

Flab: knumbersix: Lived in Montréal when a similar storm hit (one of two storms that ran through city exactly one year apart). In a second-storey public washroom, I witnessed water shooting 5 feet into the air from a drain in the floor. Some poor sap also drowned when he ignored warnings and drove his car into a flooded underpass.
And, fark Charest.

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July 14, 1987. Never forget!

My mom and I were driving to the movies to see Benji that day. Then, OMFG WALL OF RAIN OUTTA FARKIN' NOWHERE!!!

/that dog is so dead right now

beta_plus: Hopefully the rain put out this fire:

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That's so last week. Get with the program. Link

knumbersix: And, fark Charest.

Seconded. Loi 78 has been decried by most major organizations in Quebec, including the Quebec Bar Association and even one of Charest's own MNA (my home riding). Sorry folks, link is in French

French people problems.