I’m super against mandatory helmet laws, but I will say if you’re hitting speeds of 80km/h you probably should be wearing a helmet!

King of the Hill. I love the characters so much, especially the dynamic between Hank and Bobby.

Some of my ancestors suffered through the Expulsion of the Acadians and that’s widely referred to as a deportation, despite most Acadians not being “sent back where they came from”.

I’m not sure your definition of deportation is widely accepted. None of the dictionaries I consulted mention any implications of deportations specifically referring to sending people to their country of origin.

I just noticed that the Beatles modified an animal’s name to add a musical term (beat) whereas the Monkees did the opposite, removing “key” from monkey.

If anyone wants an example of Québecois swearing, I recommend checking out Lorembarnak. It’s lorem ipsum but tabarnak-ified.

If you’re in need of some inspiration; Tom Scott on YouTube made a video of himself learning how to ride a bike. Seeing someone else learn something can be useful, and there’s a lot of little things in the video one can pick up on to avoid common mistakes.

You can definitely get a good daily-driver for less than that if you buy used and aren’t scared of learning a bit of bike maintenance.

Alternatively, people should look into cycling co-ops. There’s one in my town that refurbishes old bikes and sells them for around $100 (Canadian)

I’m not an Apple user but I’ve heard good things about the Alfred launcher on MacOS.

That’s a lot of nuts!

looks like their product is intended to feel as close to Microsoft as possible

Maybe that’s why they picked a name really easy to mistake for another office software suite, to mimic Microsoft’s atrocious naming schemes :P

blind brothers and sisters

No gender-neutral language for our non-binary siblings? For shame, comrade.

This comment reminded me, I have met some people who played in a French/German improv league (LIBER). They’re based in Berlin and perform in both French and German. I’m not sure how they incorporate both languages, but I believe it’s just a free-for-all, speak what you want, answer in whatever type situation.

but eyeing OnlyOffice because of their cloud service.

ONLYOFFICE ≠ OpenOffice

Je ne m’attendais pas de voir un thread au sujet de l’impro sur Lemmy!

The improv match format you’re referring to is pretty much exclusively mostly a thing in the Francophone scene. L’impro-match, or l’improvisation gravelienne, or l’impro style LNI started in the 70s’ in Québec out of the experimental theatre scene in Montréal, before spreading to other French-speaking countries.

The closest I’ve found on the Anglo side of things is stuff like theatresports or the Canadian Improv Games. There are similarities but the hockey theming is absent and the formats vary in multiple ways.

EDIT: I found this improv league in Spanish in Argentina who follow the same format with a direct link to the OG Ligue Nationale d’Improvisation. Like I mentioned in a reply to another comment here, there’s also LIBER in Berlin, who play in both French and German. When the referee reads the theme card, they specify if the improv will be in French, German, or a mix of both.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I’ve had schedules where I didn’t get two sequential days off in a week I’d tire out waay fast.

In your situation, I’d probably pick Sunday+Monday as my weekend. You get the extra for working on Sunday, and you get to avoid the stressed people on Mondays. It is nice to have one conventional weekend day off, the other commenters aren’t lying when they say working weekends limits social opportunities.

I thought they drove on the left in Wales?

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.

People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gethard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.

Oops, I didn’t see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet :P

Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don’t really grow rice in Canada. There are some examples, but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I’ve never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.