I honestly can't say that I'm upset or mad. This bitch is more of an observation only.

I'm at the afternoon matinee with my short attention span child and here is what we saw after the previews:

- intro for RealD 3D
- 20th century fox intro
- Reliance Entertainment Intro
- IM Global intro
- BBC Earth title screen
- Evergreen Films title screen
then the actual title screen that rhymes with 'Stalking twit RhinoWhores"

Where is Any Rooney when you need him? He could have a hay day with this one —not amused

Why is it that when you buy a Leggo set for your kids that has several separate vehicles, they have several different bags but each bag is not for each individual vehicle? So you still have to open up every fucking bag, have the kids going through all the pieces and losing them and there sits dad or helpful other scratching his head at the fucking mess on the floor minus pieces that are now fuck knows where in the house. why not bag each vehicles parts in their individual bags? —Lost in Leggo Land

A cool-looking, heavy-set woman gets off the #52 in Halifax on a Friday evening and then the comments start. Two women - strangers - bonding over their shared projection of self-hatred onto a woman who clearly doesn’t base her self-image on misogynist beauty standards. I’m shocked by the violence in their language and saddened to know how deep this self-loathing goes in some women. This is hate speech but I’m left wondering what to say that might have a positive impact. Later, I share this story (bad language omitted) with my 4-year-old son. His first question is, “why?”; why would these people say such horrible things about someone? His advice: “you should tell them to stop that.” Ladies: when you learn to accept yourselves, you will no longer feel compelled to judge others. In the meantime, keep that shit to yourselves. I will say so in real time, next time. —What sisterhood?

Shelter me from this demographic and their passive aggressive, opinionated, self-righteous entirely useless/unwanted advice. At the park, church, swimming pool, grocery store check out line line or restaurant: when in doubt, keep it to yourself. Who knew estrogen was the verbal filter that all women require? —Still serving a purpose

You're not Santa so what are you doing showing up on Christmas Eve during our family gathering? Seriously, who does that? You come over, uninvited and without calling first, and show up at dinner time with your husband and kids. I've never been a fan of people "dropping by" but this takes the cake. —At least Santa was invited

Why do I long for the dystopian society's portrayed in popular movies and literature? Could it be because of the inevitable revolution that they all experience? Could it be the common goals, and enemies, shared by everyone in a dystopian society?

There's something beautifully harmonious about a cataclysmic revolution; the toppling of a corrupt government, the freeing of slaves, the liberty of a population. Our world is just another dystopia - Instead of hunger games keeping people distracted and fearful, our media does the job of keeping us pleasantly distracted and substantially afraid. —Remember who the real enemy is

You people who play the lottery have to be the dumbest people out there. How much money do you figure you waste on all those tickets? The vast majority of you (and I do mean vast) spend far more than you win. It seems like every time I go out to buy something anywhere that sells lottery tickets I am stuck in line behind some knob who has to check twenty fucking stubs and then collect their 8 bucks so they can buy more lottery tickets. Everybody in line behind you hates you. Now don't get me wrong, I know we all have to stand in line ups from time to time and sometimes people take longer than others (the old lady who treats every interaction she has with a debit device as a new and wonderful surprise, the guy who waits to look at the giant menu behind the baristas to decided what he wants until he's ready to place his order, the kid who is paying for everything in change and has calculated his purchase down to the nickel before reaching the cash machine only to learn that his math skills are lacking). BUT there is a special place of hatred in my already calloused and withered heart for you lotto players. If you really must piss your money away, why not go play poker at the casino? At least then you will be able to use skill/logic to help you win some cash, rather than blind luck. Oh, and those little machines right by the cash register that say "scan your tickets here" ... guess what they do! —Pseudonym Steve

the howse last met on Dec12,2013, and no sckedual is released for Janyou-ary 2014.

Dahm long Kristmass vacaeteon, hue approved this wanton waist of tax payher monknee? —sufferin from a NS edewcaishon. Cheep basturds!

Finally, with the assistance of e-cigarettes, smokers can reduce the harm to their health as they get control over an addiction they didn't understand or ask for when they started smoking cigarettes. No harm from second-hand smoke, no cancer risk, no combustibles, no smell. These products are 100% legal in Canada, sold as a consumer product to consenting adults 19+. Quit misinforming people with your public disapproval.

When Health Canada or the BC health minister or any other cabinet-shuffled flunky talks about the dangers of e-cigarettes and cites the reason being that nicotine can be deadly when ingested (like lozenges or gum?) or absorbed by the skin (like nicotine patches?) they're talking about the dangers of a product that you, the government, ALREADY ENDORSES AND TAXES. If nicotine is so goddamned dangerous and deadly, why don't you ban the sale of nicotine products altogether? You'd have to make cigarettes, and nicotine, illegal. Nicotine isn't dangerous enough to do that and you know it.

The danger of cigarettes is NOT in the nicotine - that's just the addictive aspect, on par with caffeine. It's the almost 4000 noxious ingredients that are carcinogenic when combusted. Nicotine does not cause cancer. If the government was so concerned, cigarettes and Nicorette would be illegal, now, wouldn't they? Oh, but the flavours, e-cigarettes must be targeting children, because apparently nobody over the age of 19 likes vanilla ice cream or green apple (Adult Chocolate Milk and marshmallow vodka aside, and orange and mint nicotine gum notwithstanding). This reasoning is akin to banning root beer because it may lead children to alcohol addiction.

And then the stern warning that kids will inevitably switch to real tobacco, because people - especially young ones - always prefer the taste of burnt garbage over honey or chocolate, is nothing but an archaic scare tactic designed to tap into our need to try to protect minors from harm. Minors can't buy e-cigarettes, and grown-ups enjoy different flavours. That's why the nicotine gum comes in different flavours.

E-cigarettes deliver nicotine, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavour and water, and that's pretty much it. E-cigarettes are cheaper than antidepressant smoking medications, cheaper than nicotine inhalers, patches, or gum, cheaper than tobacco cigarettes, and will save millions in health care - and millions in tobacco sales and taxes has been, and will be, lost. If anyone wants to know why there's such a huge push from HC against e-cigarettes, there you go, follow the money, again. You, Big Government, make significantly more money from the sale of cigarettes than tobacco companies do.

HC issued the statement of "non-approval" of e-cigarettes back in 2009. They've had four years to research and test these products. Seems all they've done with their research teams in that time has been to look into profit margins to see the massive losses to Big Tobacco and Big Government as a result of smokers switching to e-cigarettes.

Canadians are being manipulated by the disinformation about this product. The biggest side effect is not nicotine poisoning or addiction (most people using e-cigarettes are already addicted to nicotine, they just don't want to smoke cigarettes anymore). It's quitting tobacco, at a rate estimated to be 50% of cigarette smokers switching over in the next ten years. That's a lot of tax revenue lost. In cigarette taxes alone last year you lost somewhere around 238 million dollars. You know this, and you want that money. So you're leaning on HC to misinform the public. This is clear if people think logically about nicotine already being perfectly legal to purchase and use, in the same delivery method and legal dosage as the e-cigarette (Nicorette inhalers).

E-cigarettes are a safer and smarter way to smoke, and smokers aren't all stupid, irresponsible people. Some of them got hooked when they were young and have a hard time quitting as adults. If they want to use this method of nicotine delivery, and nicotine is already legal, already condoned and already recommended for this purpose and by this method, stop telling people how dangerous nicotine is when you already approve its sale. Or, start putting warnings about addiction on all alcohol, and coffee cups and chocolate bars and energy drinks as well.

E-cigarettes are changing the way people smoke and encouraging smokers to quit tobacco, and everybody should be satisfied by this alternative. Do some research. Stop misinforming people that they're banned, or illegal. This demonizes people who are already considered demonic because they smoke. They want to quit, they want to make a better choice for themselves, their loved ones, and for those who complain about being poisoned in the street by their cigarette pollution. HC should be behind this if they really do care about the health of Canadians. And everyone else should be behind this, especially if they're against cigarettes. —an esteemed citizen

I know. Another Christmas bitch.

But seriously, almost everything is closed on Christmas day, so why the hell aren't I allowed to say "Merry Christmas"? —I don't even celebrate it, but you should have a happy one