I'm sure Art remembers Izal which was the most useless toilet paper even conceived. 

Certainly do, it was teflon coated so shit couldn't stick to it. They talk about some people having a yellow streak up their back, we all had brown ones.

It won't be the oldest burial, there are female skeletons from much earlier, Roman for instance. What I suspect it is is the oldest high-ranking female burial they can date accurately.  

This makes a good case for a bidet in every home.

Give me a break girl. Once a woman has tried one you can never get her out of the bathroom. They seem to want to sit on it all day and you can't wipe the smile of their faces for love or money.

This makes a good case for a bidet in every home.

Give me a break girl. Once a woman has tried one you can never get her out of the bathroom. They seem to want to sit on it all day and you can't wipe the smile of their faces for love or money.

Have another little story about one. My best friend in the service and his wife discovered one in the bathroom of the military apartment they were issued in Lahr Germany and these building had been owned and used by the French forces before the Canadians took them over. The friend and his wife are down on their knees examining one and trying to figure out what it is. The friend says I think it's for washing your feet in and as they are both bending down looking into the bowel he turns the water on. Well the water shots up and now their hair, faces and tops are soaking wet and this just happens as my wife and I are knock on their front door. We go in and we ask why are you both soaking wet. The friend says to us we turned on the foot bath and the water shot up and soaked us both. My wife and I looked at each other and said foot bath and then we both started laughing. My wife pipes up and says it's not for washing your feet in Wayne. In all respect to my Friend and his wife they were from Nova Scotia and were still using out door outhouses in many of the houses in the area they were from. Most new homes built in Canada now come standard with them. It's not so much that Canadians want them because most have never seen one but it's the foreigners that have used them before in their countries the the builders are catering to.

Never used one nor want to. Seems most unhygienic.

Never used one nor want to. Seems most unhygienic.

The rest of the world think using toilet paper is unhygienic. Actually it is very hygienic.

Yes Tommy. There we were with numbers high like a 100 to 1. She was toughest little buggy we ever run into.

I think the tank spent an inordinate amount of time in the shop. 

In the shop? What do you thing we did if we broke down, pulled into the nearest Fast Lube and asked them to check the oil. No such thing as a shop. We fixed it where it stopped. I was in Canadian tank units, not an  American one.

It was a Centurion. We didn't have to break down at the beer hall because it was delivered to our tank usually with the fuel truck and we ordered it along with fuel and rations on what they in military radio terms is an  adrep request. We would ask for 24 Charlie Burgers or more which meant 24 Carlsberg beer. We use to carry up to four 24's on the tank and we use to drink it instead of water. Main reason for that was the beer came in a sealed can and the water came in a jerry can or from a water trailer. No plastic water bottles in those days. We didn't drink the water unless we had boiled it first before putting it in our personal canteen bottles. The last think you would ever want in the field is problems with bad water. We did carry a small bottle of purification tables in the canteen case just encase we got stuck and had to drink water we weren't sure of. Someone also would bring a bottle of a high test liquor for cool nights. No one ever got drunk because the beer wasn't drank to get drunk only to take in some liquid to replace body fluid.

The Republicans seem to be running for re-election on the fear of inflation but I have been keeping an eye on it and see your gas fuel prices have come down so much that ever one is back driving distance again with their cars to visit friends and relatives and the flight travel today was the highest since 2019. A reporter was at a gas station and pointed at the price on the sign and it said $3.34 a gallon. The Republicans say they want to fight inflation but are directing all their cuts to stop it at the people at the bottom end of the scale. It's surprising how many people rely on food stamps but yet the want to stop them. They want to cut Medicare back which again will hurt the bottom enders the most. We mentioned the other day the price of food still and how even the price of pasta had jumped through the roof in Italy and the States.

I did some grocery shopping today and purchase a package of spaghetti noodles. There is enough noodles in the package to feed a family of 4 at lease 3 if not 4 times. The price was only $1.19 Cdn. I also had to purchase sugar and it comes in a 2 kilogram (4.4 lbs) bag and cost $2.29, it usually go on sale for $1.99. We go through a lot of Half and Half cream for our coffee and the Walmart brand is only $1.99 a litre.

So if an American bought the same 3 items here they would have paid less that a dollar for the pasta, just over a dollar for the sugar and just over a dollar for the 10% cream.

My question is where is this inflation that everyone is going on about. 

Our economy is performing badly, inflation at 8.7% with food inflation even higher, it's only come down since fuel and energy prices dropped. 

The Republicans seem to be running for re-election on the fear of inflation but I have been keeping an eye on it and see your gas fuel prices have come down so much that ever one is back driving distance again with their cars to visit friends and relatives and the flight travel today was the highest since 2019. A reporter was at a gas station and pointed at the price on the sign and it said $3.34 a gallon. The Republicans say they want to fight inflation but are directing all their cuts to stop it at the people at the bottom end of the scale. It's surprising how many people rely on food stamps but yet the want to stop them. They want to cut Medicare back which again will hurt the bottom enders the most. We mentioned the other day the price of food still and how even the price of pasta had jumped through the roof in Italy and the States.

I did some grocery shopping today and purchase a package of spaghetti noodles. There is enough noodles in the package to feed a family of 4 at lease 3 if not 4 times. The price was only $1.19 Cdn. I also had to purchase sugar and it comes in a 2 kilogram (4.4 lbs) bag and cost $2.29, it usually go on sale for $1.99. We go through a lot of Half and Half cream for our coffee and the Walmart brand is only $1.99 a litre.

So if an American bought the same 3 items here they would have paid less that a dollar for the pasta, just over a dollar for the sugar and just over a dollar for the 10% cream.

My question is where is this inflation that everyone is going on about. 

Food, gasoline, utilities, living necessities, worldwide Pete. Luckily Canada has escaped all of that, as a matter of fact Canada has escaped most of everything.  The cause of course is American greed. 

The Republicans seem to be running for re-election on the fear of inflation but I have been keeping an eye on it and see your gas fuel prices have come down so much that ever one is back driving distance again with their cars to visit friends and relatives and the flight travel today was the highest since 2019. A reporter was at a gas station and pointed at the price on the sign and it said $3.34 a gallon. The Republicans say they want to fight inflation but are directing all their cuts to stop it at the people at the bottom end of the scale. It's surprising how many people rely on food stamps but yet the want to stop them. They want to cut Medicare back which again will hurt the bottom enders the most. We mentioned the other day the price of food still and how even the price of pasta had jumped through the roof in Italy and the States.

I did some grocery shopping today and purchase a package of spaghetti noodles. There is enough noodles in the package to feed a family of 4 at lease 3 if not 4 times. The price was only $1.19 Cdn. I also had to purchase sugar and it comes in a 2 kilogram (4.4 lbs) bag and cost $2.29, it usually go on sale for $1.99. We go through a lot of Half and Half cream for our coffee and the Walmart brand is only $1.99 a litre.

So if an American bought the same 3 items here they would have paid less that a dollar for the pasta, just over a dollar for the sugar and just over a dollar for the 10% cream.

My question is where is this inflation that everyone is going on about. 

Food, gasoline, utilities, living necessities, worldwide Pete. Luckily Canada has escaped all of that, as a matter of fact Canada has escaped most of everything.  The cause of course is American greed. 

Maybe it's something simple Tommy like a better Government system where the people working it don't have big shares in the profit side of it which will lead to them only voting for things to their advantage like Joe Manchin does from WV.

Our economy is performing badly, inflation at 8.7% with food inflation even higher, it's only come down since fuel and energy prices dropped. 

A question for you Mark. Do you think that you still have the land mass to farm enough food and raise enough meat produces to supply the whole country. I'm not asking to be smart but as more and more land is turned into housing etc. the farm land must be fast disappearing. The same is happening around our major cities. To be able to take a Sunday drive in the country and stop at vegetable or home made jams stands or even farmers selling eggs at the end of their driveways seems to be getting smaller and smaller.

The small town I live once had stands set up for at else a half mile as you were coming into town and the local farmers would set up and sell what they had over produced at fair prices. Now that has all gone and their stuff goes directly to big companies where it gets re-sold for top dollar. We still can get carrots and onions cheap if we go directly to where they grow them.

We ceased to be self sufficient in the basics years ago. More and more farmers are giving up due to high production costs and not getting a fair deal from the big supermarkets. They sell off their land for housing. 

I remember that oaf Boris during covid saying firstly we needed more land to be turned into solar farms to meet our energy needs, then he said we need more land for farming and ended up with urging the building of more houses, all three on the same land, dozy sod.

We say we are and advertise that we are, but I don't know for sure if we are. If you take a drive up the east side of Lake Huron that's all you see is wind turbines from the Bruce Peninsula in the north to Sarnia in the south. Has to be 100's of them. Some how they are all connected in one power grid and collected in different stations. They pick of the prevailing winds that blow out of the west after they across Lake Huron to work.

Each turbine can supply power to 1000 homes.

Grizzly bear attack in Canada's Banff National Park leaves two dead.

I have a true Grizzly story of a friend of mine who camped in Banff National Park 

Won't tell it unless someone asks to hear it.