I'm more concerned about obesity. Air-go, we need free cheesecake depots.

Another spelling error let through? Dangit Fark!

It's VO-DAK

"It would be members only"

How about fark you?

How about we supply unlimited rubbing alcohol instead and you can end your sorry excuse for a life alot quicker?

I wonder if this is being funded by any Alcoholic Beverage Companies.

The actual article is pretty depressing.

I only use the top-shelf mouthwash, which is about as expensive as cheap vodka anyway.

Looks like I have to move back to BC

Salmon: Looks like I have to move back to BC

From AD??

Screw mouthwash and rubbing alcohol.

I saw a documentary done by CBC years ago. They asked gutter bums where they got their hooch on the weekend given the blue laws in Ontario and Quebec. The answer? Lysol spray. 78% ethanol and easily available on Sunday mornings. Mix it with grape soda and voi la ! Thunderbird.

Freshens the breath too.

I don't think the state has the same compelling interest here as it does with the needle users. With the heroin addicts there is the real is risk to the rest of of society with the spread of disease. The needle programs and safe injection sites mitigate the danger to public health. With the alcoholics, such a program only potentially limits the risk to the individuals own health.

"the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." J.S. Mill

I consider it a violation of that principle to take my tax money to spend it on the impulses of an alcoholic merely for that alcoholic's own personal benefit.

I wish I lived in BC. I would buy a case of 99% rubbing alcohol and accidentally have it drop off the back of a truck in the these assholes live.

"It would be members-only because once word gets out it is free alcohol everyone that just wants a free drink would show up," he told the newspaper.



What a free booze program for members only might look like.

Thorndyke Barnhard: I don't think the state has the same compelling interest here as it does with the needle users. With the heroin addicts there is the real is risk to the rest of of society with the spread of disease. The needle programs and safe injection sites mitigate the danger to public health. With the alcoholics, such a program only potentially limits the risk to the individuals own health.

"the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others." J.S. Mill

I consider it a violation of that principle to take my tax money to spend it on the impulses of an alcoholic merely for that alcoholic's own personal benefit.

I agree with you philosophically and in principle.

On the other hand, knowing that I'd be a doctor's note (saying I'm an alcoholic) away from free booze sort of makes me want to move to Canada. I guess it also sort of proves I'm an alcoholic.

the_sidewinder: Bob_Laublaw: I'm more concerned about obesity. Air-go, we need free cheesecake depots.

Air-go? Really?

/ergo

For all intensive purposes, I'm right.

A wide screen tv and a snack machine would make it a Sports Bar

Bob_Laublaw: the_sidewinder: Bob_Laublaw: I'm more concerned about obesity. Air-go, we need free cheesecake depots.

Air-go? Really?

/ergo

For all intensive purposes, I'm right.

I could care less if you think you're right.

Odds that this proposal for government-funded members-only sherry clubs was intended as a satire of social programs designed to keep needle-drug addicts from giving everybody AIDS?

Odds that the satire was so clumsily attempted that nobody is picking up on it at all?

SavaThePriest: Bob_Laublaw: the_sidewinder: Bob_Laublaw: I'm more concerned about obesity. Air-go, we need free cheesecake depots.

Air-go? Really?

/ergo

For all intensive purposes, I'm right.

I could care less if you think you're right.

FARK can be such a doggie-dog world sometimes.

Bob_Laublaw: SavaThePriest: Bob_Laublaw: the_sidewinder: Bob_Laublaw: I'm more concerned about obesity. Air-go, we need free cheesecake depots.

Air-go? Really?

/ergo

For all intensive purposes, I'm right.

I could care less if you think you're right.

FARK can be such a doggie-dog world sometimes.

Irregardless of your concern or the environment around you, you're still wrong.

brantgoose: Sir John A. McDonald had a glass pitcher of vodka on his desk in the House of Commons when he was Prime Minister, for just such a contingency. Also, he was a notorious drunkard.

Canadians don't care much what the PM is or does as long as he gets the job done.

It makes the South Park episodes where Saddam Hussein is PM of Canada all the funnier for Canadians, although it doesn't totally make up for the stupid accent. I've reached the linguistic conclusion that the stupid accent isn't a case of Canadians talking funny. It's a case of Americans HEARING funny.

I've never heard a Canadian say "aboot" yet, although some Scots may.

Try Manitoba, Saskatchewan residents for "aboot," followed by some western Ontario or eastern Albertans.

Salmon: Looks like I have to move back to BC

Try and get a Gold Card.
/The downside is it"s in Downtown Eastside.

Brothel coupons for sex addicts?

As a Canadian born in Southern Manitoba, educated in Winnipeg, and who has lived in Calgary for the last dozen years, I can say that people in these places do not say "aboot."

Depending on the part of Manitoba you are in, you might bet a french, german, or aboriginal accented "about." but no "boot" in it. Calgary is pretty much a city of newcomers, so chances are you got someone who grew up on the far east coast. The only Canadians that say "aboot" that I have ever heard are Newfies. Newfoundlander talk can barely be recognized as english sometimes, especially when they get excited or angry, or if there is screech or fish in the immediate vicinity.

I work for a drug store, and have to stop people from stealing the store brand mouthwash regularly. It is almost always the original yellow version, not one of the minty ones.

Booze is so easy to make, I don't understand drinking mouthwash, hand sanitizer, lysol etc.

Newfie speak exhibit A (new window)

poot_rootbeer: Odds that this proposal for government-funded members-only sherry clubs was intended as a satire of social programs designed to keep needle-drug addicts from giving everybody AIDS?

Odds that the satire was so clumsily attempted that nobody is picking up on it at all?

odds are ZERO. This has been ongoing for several months

BohemianGraham: Mouthwash and rubbing alcohol? What ever happened to Vanilla extract, both authentic and artificial?

/mom told me vanilla coke was something an alcoholic would enjoy because of the flavour, as where she grew up, South Shore of Nova Scotia, that's what the drunks would buy when they couldn't afford real stuff

You know how much real Vanilla extract costs?

vice_magnet: brantgoose: Sir John A. McDonald had a glass pitcher of vodka on his desk in the House of Commons when he was Prime Minister, for just such a contingency. Also, he was a notorious drunkard.

Canadians don't care much what the PM is or does as long as he gets the job done.

It makes the South Park episodes where Saddam Hussein is PM of Canada all the funnier for Canadians, although it doesn't totally make up for the stupid accent. I've reached the linguistic conclusion that the stupid accent isn't a case of Canadians talking funny. It's a case of Americans HEARING funny.

I've never heard a Canadian say "aboot" yet, although some Scots may.

Try Manitoba, Saskatchewan residents for "aboot," followed by some western Ontario or eastern Albertans.

umm.. every single one of those peeps is from the East coast and moved for a job.

Kwai Lo: I work for a drug store, and have to stop people from stealing the store brand mouthwash regularly. It is almost always the original yellow version, not one of the minty ones.

Booze is so easy to make, I don't understand drinking mouthwash, hand sanitizer, lysol etc.

so tell me mr boozemaker.. you dont have a house.. where ya gonna make this booze?

Farktastic: The only Canadians that say "aboot" that I have ever heard are Newfies. Newfoundlander talk can barely be recognized as english sometimes, especially when they get excited or angry, or if there is screech or fish in the immediate vicinity.

No. Despite their rich accent, Newfoundlanders don't say it either. Nor do any Atlantic Canadians or Québecois I've ever encountered. Our folks from the Sout' Shoah of Nova Scotia come closest (as do some coastal Mainers), but they say "aboat". Never aboot.

subsetzero: Screw mouthwash and rubbing alcohol.

I saw a documentary done by CBC years ago. They asked gutter bums where they got their hooch on the weekend given the blue laws in Ontario and Quebec. The answer? Lysol spray. 78% ethanol and easily available on Sunday mornings. Mix it with grape soda and voi la ! Thunderbird.

Freshens the breath too.

Seriously?

I would have guessed Listerine?

James Harrison will taste Manflesh: Bob_Laublaw: SavaThePriest: Bob_Laublaw: the_sidewinder: Bob_Laublaw: I'm more concerned about obesity. Air-go, we need free cheesecake depots.

Air-go? Really?

/ergo

For all intensive purposes, I'm right.

I could care less if you think you're right.

FARK can be such a doggie-dog world sometimes.

Irregardless of your concern or the environment around you, you're still wrong.

omg stop

Rev.K: /lived in Calgary for 32 years
//no one says "aboot" here

Well, of course not.

In Calgary they say "aboat".

Link (new window)

This is a canadian discussing his accent and proving that he does not pronounce anything weird, but everytime he says an ou sound like out or about, it sounds like oo to me. I must be hearin' funny.