Oh my goodness, you poor employed people that have had it so good for so long. Getting paid for sitting on your asses is no longer going to happen. You entitled brats. How about pulling your heads out of your asses and appreciate the fabulous jobs you have or I can easily find those who will. People would love to have your jobs and be paid for doing twice as much as you lazy assholes are capable of doing. Forget about your fucking social lives and get serious, or go to the job centre and find someone who gives a shit. —Tired of Ingrates

I was lucky enough to snag a hotel for the upcoming U2 concert in Moncton but am really pissed off about the gouging going on. I had to commit to a three night stay minimum in a flea bag hotel for almost $900. Unreal. If I check out early I still have to pay the $900. So if I choose to keep this hotel I will be paying well over $1,000 to see this concert. May as well go to the Montreal or TO concert. —Never Again

Guitarists - Grow some ears and make sure you have a good tone. Calm it down with the distortion, you sound like garbage. Stop being so self-serving and play with some taste.

Bass Players - They're called quarter notes, learn how to use them. And in case you didn't know, you need to keep the time too.

Drummers - Where do I begin? Please play in time. PLEASE. When you're dropping beats or rushing rhythms everybody hurts. PLEASE listen to some soul/funk/jazz/anything with some heart and swagger and learn how to play TASTEFUL, RHYTHMIC, CREATIVE, AND STRONG music. If you look past your snare you'll find a beautiful thing called a ride cymbal. USE IT. Remember - you're making music, be musical.

Singers - If you can't sing. Don't sing. —Sore Ears

I saw your advertisement for improved living space saying this and that is better...The funny thing is I have lived here for the past year, so I am thinking, "Are these guys on crack?" I wait for the elevator for 15 minutes! Your clothes are still wet after three attempts in the dryer but it'll still increase to $2 for each attempt in September! I don't know if anyone else will notice the amount of fireworks shot sideways out of an apartment building but I sure as fuck did... every fucking weekend. Oh and not to mention the rancid smell from the first three levels like a waste disposal/landfill. So, about this new and improved shit, I would love for you to jack my rent in September, and hey, fuck, why not? We're students, we can afford it. —Sublet Available

The U.S. Pentagon's top acquisition official, Undersecretary Ashton Carter, has warned that the F-35 cost-per-aircraft will be almost DOUBLE what we've previously been told and the budget overruns are continuing to mount. The critics, foreign and domestic, were correct on that score.

Even Republican U.S. Senator John McCain has criticized the program saying "No program should expect to be continued with that kind of track record, especially in our current FISCAL climate. It seems to me we have to start at least considering alternatives."

Meanwhile, back here in Canada, deep thinkers in Harper's government are still claiming that the program will still be delivered "on budget". I'd like a couple of kilos of whatever it is that they're smoking.

Prior to the last election, Canadian voters, at least the ones who were paying attention, were warned by military analysts, both in the U.S. and Canada, that the F-35 program was going to be a LOT more expensive than the Conservatives were claiming.

In fact, it was the Harper government's refusal to reveal accurate costing of proposed budget items (like the F-35 fighter acquisition program) to the Parliament of Canada which led to the unprecedented Contempt of Parliament ruling and the non-confidence vote on March 25, 2011 which triggered the recent election.

The entirely predictable result of all this will be a significant increase in the Canadian public debt. The government will then frame our fiscal situation as a "choice" between cutting program spending and raising taxes. It is part of a premeditated strategy that will be cynically employed to manipulate citizens into supporting the Conservative plan of cutting program spending that they are ideologically opposed to (never mind the billions that they will spend on things they like) and to further the mythology that the Conservatives are the party of fiscal responsibility.

They learned it from U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who presided over the largest increase in the U.S. public debt in the country's history, a record which stood until surpassed by the simultaneous tax cutting and bloated military spending of President George W. Bush. Reagan was known as the "Teflon President" because the responsibility for his many policy failures, including the ballooning U.S. debt, was never attached to him personally. Maybe Harper will be Canada's first "Teflon Prime Minister". The triumph of ideology over fiscal responsibility writ large. —I'm Laughing But it Ain't that Funny

Dearest north street deli counter worker: How close do veggie and chicken sound? Not very fucking close now DO THEY. When I say veggie samosa I most certainly do not mean chicken. My veggie belly and heart are in shambles and YOU are to blame! Not trying to be a veg-head prude... just pay more attention next time PLEASE! —Sad Vegan

I still hate you. I'm still watching. I'm still making a list of all the ways that you are a disappointment, and it's ever-growing. Please don't destroy my country beyond repair. Better yet, just resign. I'll bake you a thank you cake or something. Just GTFO ASAP. Srsly. —Socialism is the Only Way

Take a hint from Bob Dylan, and don't stand in the exit doorway of the bus, blocking the path for seniors, shoppers and parents trying to get off the bus at their stop. I've seen you doing this time and time again, even though there are plenty of seats available. I could understand it if the bus were chock-a-block full, or if you were getting off at the next stop, but to assume that this is YOUR place and nobody else needs to pass by you is just arrogant and rude. —Please Heed the Call

To the McMoms who sat in the corner at the Quinpool fast food restaurant and chatted while your kids ran wild around the place, screaming and annoying other patrons: They're your kids, look after them! Their racket and disruptive behaviour went unnoticed by you until one of them fell off of a chair and split his lip, at which point there was a chorus of "What happened?" If you had been paying attention, you would have KNOWN what happened, or even stopped the kids from spinning each other around on the chairs while they shrieked at the top of their lungs. —Deafened Leppard

Why do people think when they are sitting in their car they are invisible to the world outside? Here are just a few things I have seen when you think no one is watching: The most common is the nose picking (sometimes eating the booger as well); another popular activity is scratching your crotch or masturbating (hard to tell which is happening sometimes); pissing in a bottle in a mall parking lot has never made sense to me (just go in the store to use the bathroom); kids seem to like writing swear words on fogged up windows (the smart ones write backwards so you can read it outside the car). Anyway, the point (if I'm really making one) is a box of many windows makes for a lousy hiding place. —I Can See You