Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "CBC News" channel.

  1. When I was a little boy in the 70s I was astonished to find, on a car trip with my parents, on a 400-series highway for the first time, a speed limit of 75mph, or 120km/h.
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  2. The host didn't know that tall buildings sway in the wind. But I bet he has solid knowledge of the video games released on various platforms since his early boyhood.
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  3. But how do you know? YouTube allows posters to delete individual comments. The CBC does it all the time on their own website, so you don't suppose they could resist doing the same here, do you?
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  4.  @cechristine2376  None of that makes sense. I think you read my comment carelessly. Give it another go.
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  5.  @cechristine2376  Ok, kiddo.
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  6. I have no criticism of China's handling of this since their slow start. But then, I have only heard the Chinese government's account of things, which is apt to be self-serving. I noticed also that the doctor suggested Canada emulate the COVID-19 response of China's neighbours, not China. Anyway, even if you were right that Canada is good for nothing and China worthy of emulation, it must still be remembered that Canada has been the destination for several tens of thousands of Chinese emigrants each year for decades now, while zero or near zero Canadians emigrate to China. It's pretty much only you and a handful of Republican-voting Fox-News-worshipping men in the States who thinks this country is a hellhole.
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  7. Don't be tempted by breaded pork cutlets. Stores take pork that's gone rancid, slice it thin, and label it "breaded pork schnitzel" or something similar. Instead, make or buy some crumb mix and put it on fresh unadorned pork yourself at home.
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  8. There's a strong likelihood that bias will work effectively in her favour. There will be a psychiatric assessment followed by a hearing concluding that she's a harmless woman, she'll be held for a few months or perhaps a year in a gently supportive setting, then she'll be released.
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  9.  @hominid3528  Yes, interesting blunder, but don't give them pointers.
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  10. The US is now the only country that can stand up to China on its own. Canada could only do it with the strong support of all its NATO allies, and doesn't have that strong support now. Let's face it, NATO needs extensive rebuilding. What she said actually counts as fairly courageous given our situation.
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  11. Not only are we newly aware of the health security and other risks we've exposed ourselves to, there's another reason this is a great time to break our dependence on Chinese manufacturing. Much higher prices for Chinese imports owing to the rising price of Chinese labour are looming anyway. Sorry, China, the illusion many have bought that you're a cute, cuddly panda bear has taken an irreversible hit.
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  12. Many do, I suppose. Not much argument there. But then, lack of self-awareness is spread around the globe pretty freely. You and I might have some ourselves.
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  13. Luxxotica must have benefitted from inferior competition---under-talented, under-capitalized, poorly managed. The only other way to make out like bandits in that fashion is to use violence and intimidation. Competition ordinarily works wonders, but sometimes capitalism lays an egg. That aside, this report is eight years old. Something tells me east Asian if not domestic businesses must have made inroads by underpricing them in the time since.
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  14.  Jon Tron  Wow, there's a lot of those videos stretching back years. I thought it was a lot harder to get a drink there than that!
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  15. ​ @maxweinbach3996  I can't make out your meaning. Just thought I'd help you out by telling you. :)
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  16.  @maxweinbach3996  Already spent too much time on it, thanks.
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  17.  @maxweinbach3996  You got me there. I admit my real point is don't annoy people with careless incoherence. Cheers.
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  18. "People are disgusting" Speak for yourself.
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  19. I'm slightly sympathetic, but then others are waiting for organ transplants, hip replacements, or operations on cancerous tumours, owing to the very same pandemic-related reasons. These people can simply bide their time in perfect security until their citizenship applications are processed. Landed immigrant status does not expire. As it is nothing more than a trifling and symbolic inconvenience, they can suck it up like the rest of us. I urge them to stuff their protest signs and think about the plight of the people they wish to share citizenship with, not just themselves. What nerve.
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  20.  @boxwoodgreen  And half a million Hong Kongers. I'm extremely sympathetic to their problems with the Chinese government and I would certainly want them to be able to exercise their right to settle here if they like, but they couldn't give a crap about Canada. If they did, they wouldn't have obtained their passports and gone back to live in HK for the past 25 years. Many of them didn't actually stay the minimum period in the first place. I learned that from watching The Fifth Estate here on CBC! It has the flavour of gaming the system to obtain something the rest of us care deeply about.
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  21. I was working with homeless people four to five years ago. They were crushed to learn that although they had been without a place to live for years, people were being ushered into the country and straight into permanent accommodation (which they were told didn't exist). Some of them I still see shuffling along downtown streets. The people in this news story don't seem to understand that Canada has treated them like gold, in some ways better than people born here.
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  22.  @KH-sh4ev  It's all lost on you.
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  23. So how much time is wasted across the world each year by people starting each sentence with the word 'so'?
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  24. " 'When the story of the early architecture of Toronto is told, the CN Tower will be a significant chapter,' says structural engineer Patrick Quinn." Early architecture? Toronto has numerous prominent buildings more than a century older than the CN Tower. It is simply far too young to qualify as belonging to the early period. Eight years after its completion Toronto celebrated the 150th anniversary of its incorporation as a city in 1834. The CBC drips dumbness, even in its choice of interview guests and which of their quotes to highlight.
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  25. I love it when Marketplace interviews these industry association/lobby group types. There's something similar in all their faces, perhaps a lack of restful sleep. Cheers.
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  26. No they don't vary. Click the first link in the description; when you get there click test results.
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  27. 63 cases, about one-fifteenth the rate of Canada.
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  28. You sound serious. I suppose you haven't had many dealings with government bureaucracies this year.
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  29.  @PinoyAbnoy  You wrote: "democracy is just as rotten as dictatorship" Yeah, right. Spoken like a true CPC dupe or paid troll.
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  30. The window behind the guest with a few messy piles of books on its ledge, rather than a huge tidy bookshelf, is a promising sign. Books carelessly strewn all over the place are a better indication of voracious reading than what you usually see, the packed but lonely-looking shelves which I suspect very often amount to props. SNL could devise a good skit with various interview panel members appearing from home in gigantic bookshelf headwear.
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  31. ​ @sammydavis8722  Nice propaganda. Anti-Chinese-government discussion is quite distinct from what you term anti-Chinese hatred. The millions of ethnic Chinese in Canada are quite readily welcomed into Canadian society, workplaces, neighbourhoods, homes, friendships, and families. Stuff your attempt at division.
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  32.  @henrytran1030  You wrote: "CBC fund by Canadian tax payers but works for CCP! Beware!" I'd say it's a mixed bag. I optimistically see the tide turning at last. But your accusation is still useful up to a point as a warning.
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  33. What happened to Canadian education? These comments are a waste land of poor English skills. To think these are generally native speakers —and ones who went through the school system for at least 12 years! Why do so many here think it's the reader's job to mentally add their punctuation for them? And as the use of language largely reflects the ability to think, it appears Canadian minds are being poorly trained. Get ready for plummeting standards of living and the disappearance of what remains of the charm of living in Canadian society. Medieval-grade hickdom, here we come.
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  34. I thought he just knew what he wanted to accomplish in the interview---namely to save lives by influencing people. Being calmly dead-serious about something gravely important is what I took it for, not terror.
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  35. 4:00 The CBC anchor says "incredulous" when he means 'incredible'. (Things are incredible; skeptical or unbelieving people are incredulous.) He wants to seem smart by using what strikes him as a more elevated word, without going to the trouble of actually looking it up. He should look up the meaning of the word 'pretentious' while he's at it.
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  36. Nonsense. The Canadian government can dial up as much money as it likes at any time. It could easily outspend whatever China and South Korea are spending per capita on this crisis. Easily. Hundreds of billions of dollars could be spent if necessary (and it might be, in financial assistance to families and businesses). We still have the world's tenth-largest economy and a AAA credit rating. You don't know what you claim to know.
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  37.  @treplay8846  Thanks for your reply. Yeah, she's frumpy and dowdy all right. But it's okay, clearly-smart people who dress badly seem more trustworthy to me. Compare how Einstein and Oppenheimer looked, e.g.
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  38.  @treplay8846  It's doubling every three days. That's bad.
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  39.  Auran Crash  No, they are selfish. How can you not see that? You've got it so twisted that I take you for selfish yourself.
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  40. They'll say anything, do anything. They live by the Malcolm X dictum "By any means necessary." Defund them now. Defund them yesterday.
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