Never have I agreed more with the granola eating tree hugger crowd than at Christmas time. It's like the twenty minutes you wait to get to a register and buy the latest hunk of plastic crap with your dwindling bank funds is designed to make a man want to run off into the woods Thoreau style. —Stop making new iPhones

You're going to be out in Toronto for work for a while, so maybe you should start making new friends. You claim that all the friends you need are back here in NS, but you're literally out there by yourself and spend your weekends alone, and blowing up mine and your friends' phones, complaining about being so bored. You're clearly miserable being in a giant city with no social life. We can't be there to hang with you, so maybe go volunteer and meet new people?? And way to blow a perfectly great opportunity to make new friends by not attending your office Christmas party! Over 50 people in the company, meaning over 50 potential friends, and you decided to stay home. Your excuse? You have no interest in your co-workers because apparently, according to you, an office work environment comes second to a hair salon for two-faced gossiping assholes! Oh, yes, I'm sure every damn person employed in that company is a two-faced asshole. Maybe you should start giving people a chance! Not every new person who comes into your life is an ogre who will stab you in the back! —Sis from back home

I can't help but notice along wit everyone that has a pulse the amount of coverage "bullying" is getting. I feel so absolutley terrible for the victims as well as the parents that have to watch what their go through. Sadly though these kids are learning how to be a bully from us, the adults. Politicians attack each other non stop. News publications and broadcasters only focus on the negativity in the world. Co-workers and bosses snicker, chit chat and gossip about others. Are you all adults or teenage trolls? Its amazing how just about everyone justifies bullying in teir own lives but when you read about it or hear about then its all "we need change, this isn't right". Theirs just so many hypocrites out there. —Seriously?!?!?!?

I look forward to reading the coast, including SL, but this week, not only is it not posted... the title is for the week befores article. Get it together over there, will ya! —Who's reviewing the Updates?

To the crazy guy who was punching the glass at the highfield bus terminal and saying he was going to punch the bus driver in the head. I wish I could have said something. You scared me, and the three elderly people who were there and I dont think you needed to worry about being late for "Training", you should be going to anger management classes. Thanks for making me cry and for missing my own damn bus. I hope karma comes and kicks your a$$. —Karma's Mistress

ATTN everyone who gets absolutely enraged when the person ahead of them goes into full panic stop mode - usually flashing their lights manically in a GO AHEAD I'M NOT CRAZY kind of morse code - and holds up an entire column of traffic at best or causing multiple accidents at worst. I have an idea for us all! IF the aforementioned crazy misguided idiot stops for you while you're turning left, just don't turn! Let the whole street grind to a halt. Let the beeping begin, then grow angrier and more insistent. It's a perfect plan for two reasons: it's the ONLY action which obeys the law - no matter how many times they beep or flash their brights, you're not allowed to proceed across lanes unless it is safe and there is no oncoming traffic - and best of all, it negatively conditions every driver in sight that you just shouldn't randomly yield your right-of-way to oncoming traffic because if you do, you may just slow absolutely everything to a standstill instead of only half the traffic. Also, if you are the person who stops at full speed to let people in, stop doing that, it's idiotic. You are the person who feeds bears out of your car window in Yellowstone. The entire sytstem willl not grind to a halft if you maintain your right-of-way and the other guy has to sit there passively for thirteen seconds. You are not a nice person. You are a bad person who is acting selfishly. —Traffic Activist

Why do so many houses in Halifax paint/re-side the front of their home and not the sides?? I just don't understand! Do you think no one will notice? Aren't you aware of the tacky-factor? I need an explanation. —Flimsy Facades

I and others who were waiting for the 52 bus going downtown give a thumbs down!! Didn't you see people waiting, I even waved when I thought you seemed to be going too fast for a stop.THANKS for my missed appointment!!! —A thumbs down to the driver of the 52 bus at 10:58 on Thursday December 4, who went by a stop on Mumford without stopping even though I waved at you.Thanks to you I missed an important appointment, maybe you should slow down enough to see passengers!!!

That's not stupid. It's not like the environment is already on its last legs. Theres a proud tradition of coal mining in cape breton after all. A great career where no one gets hurt and safety conditions are always superb. —I'd prefer fracking

An elderly, wheelchair-bound woman had to wait 15 minutes to be able to get out of her car because you were too lazy to walk a few feet. You were parked illegally and then you fucking laughed at her when she confronted you. I hope you slip, crack an ankle and have to spend Christmas in a cast. Maybe then you will understand what mobility problems are like. Eat shit. —Dollarama Bystander