I’d give my eyeteeth for a comment one-tenth as good as this:
“Trudeau said the State had no business in the bedrooms of the nation. Apparently this doesn’t apply to toboggan hills. First we need to nuke the Amazon rainforest so I don’t have to hear about it anymore. Then we need to train all the endangered species to fight terrorists because clearly, our helmet wearing, peanut-allergic wimpy children won’t be prepared to do so.”
Because – for the curious – the latest fad among Our Canadian Betters is a rising call for mandatory toboggan helmet use. I am not making this up. No, seriously.
Meg ,
Did you see Coynes’ take on this ?
I see the toboggan helmet lobby behind this. Bastards.
This one time, at my in-laws’ house, I could’ve used a helmet for taking a shower.
I don’t know whose idea it was to unsafely hang a stuffed moose head in the shower, but there you are.
Meg –
You are a treasure…
Thanks for the laugh.
McGehee’s a treasure, too, TLD. BTW, like your new determiner.
Aw thanks Meg. But I’d trade it all in for those hawt Mark Steyn dreams you keep havin’…
Yes, Coyne’s column on the tobaggan helmets was great. And I’m not really kidding: we are raising a generation going on two of helmet wearing, peanut allergy, asthmatic dyslexic ADD children in general and boys in particular.
It is all well and good to follow Steyn’s wise advice and have lots of kids (ok, I’m not following it; too old, too selfish, etc) but I don’t see the point in just having the 3+ kids to raise the birthrate and then end up with 3 extra wimps in the country.
For those who haven’t read it, check out The War Againt Boys (Christina Hoff Sommers).
I’ve instructed my son that if one of his teachers makes it impermissable to keep score during, say, a game of kickball, he has my permission to “inadvertantly” rifle a foul ball off his or her ear, then stand over the fallen social engineer and ask, rhetorically, “I bet you know exactly how many times that’s happened, don’t you?”
Steyn, Frum and Wayne&Shuster are all the result of a Canada with no Toboggan Helmet laws.
A Prime Ministerial apology to the victims (not to mention a comprehensive package of Toboggan Legislation) is surely in order.
Actually, a couple of my nieces have grain allergies – but my sister has instructed them that, e. g. at parties, they are not to complain but simply nibble a tiny bit of frosting and push the cake around on the plate, and then she gives them a rice-flour cupcake or suchlike when they get home. And she keeps retesting them every year to see if they’ve outgrown these allergies – one of them was also allergic to dairy but tolerates it now.
The point is, not to whine, bitch, or annoy other people with it!
Of course, the whole family (with five girls ages 8 down to 10 months) goes Ski-Dooing and (gasp!) tobogganing without any helmets, so there you are. But then they are crazy Americans who live in New Mexico.
BTW, we take the Post, I did read Coyne’s column and I liked it. Considering the direction “Canada’s New Government” has been taking of late, I’m wondering if we might not see the Prime Minister introduce a bill on this . . . or (biggest irony of all) maybe he’ll make Minister of Public Safety Day introduce it . . .
In case you non-Canadians would like the follow-up, the column we’re talking about is by one Andrew Coyne, a pre-eminent Canadian columnist, and can be found here:
Panic on the snowbanks
Helmets. For tobaggans. On our hills. In Canada.
(Sorry, that’s a Canada in-joke.)
Actually try andrewcoyne.com , some of his commentors are almost as deranged as Jeffs’ … Hey Jeff is there any page on your site explaining how to use the links ( in regards to the comments ) and such ? The simpler the better .
What browser are you using? In most browsers, you should see above the comments field a toolbar. You’d simply highlight the text you wish to turn into a link and then hit the “htt://” button.
Alternately, you can do it manually by surrounding the text with this tag: <a href=”http://________url here”>text you wish to link here________</a>
andrewcoyne.com , thank you Jeff !
andrewcoyne.com hope this works better .
It’s Alive ! mwahahahaha ….
Like me!
Just curious: when you say allergy to dairy, exactly how? Hives? Lactose intolerance?
The reason I ask is that if it was the latter, the disappearance of the intolerance is simply an indication that the lining of the small intesting healed after the wheat ingestion was stopped and the autoimmune response turned off. Eat wheat and it’ll come back…
Well, I’m sure no one cares, but I am allergic to everything!
This is why I never take my pants off.
We need to ban wheat, right?
Yes.
Naw, but seriously, labeling food items properly is a *big* help. Can’t avoid it if you can’t identify it…
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