It's not the heat. It's the stupidity.

[David Baxter PhD]

Yes, even in Canada everybody hates Toronto...

Comments on this story at CBC.ca this morning regarding the forecast of temperatures reaching 27 degrees Celsius (80-81 degrees Fahrenheit) in Toronto:

CBC News - Toronto - Heat alert issued for Toronto

HabNot49 wrote: "It's not the heat, it's the stupidity!"

RuleNo1 wrote: Rule Number 1 is "Stop looking for things to worry about".

The Bottom Line wrote: "Why not put out an alert for the rest of the summer?"

Ottawa#1 wrote: "It's 27 right now in Ottawa, we're not panicking and declaring alerts and states of emergency, etc., etc. Get over it. It's called summer. It is an annual environmental occurrence which tends to be HOT."

The R00STER wrote: "Any truth to the rumors the city will call in the Army to evacuate people if the temp goes over 30?"

Mentalist wrote: "Yesterday there was some snow seen where I live in Edmonton. Covering all flowers. Oh well. Guess we had our summer. A nice two days this year."

Fiscal Update wrote: "Toronto is an Ojibwa word for 'wimps', 'crybabies', 'whiners' and 'we want a NHL team!'"

 

[Daniel E.]

Ottawa#1 wrote:

Was that you?

 

[David Baxter PhD]

No. I'm not convinced Ottawa is #1. We may have the world's stupidest municipal government, for one thing, and on top of that we have to put up with federal and provincial politicians.

 

[Daniel E.]

Then Ottawa#1 must be this guy:

YouTube - Canadian Tulip Festival

 

[Andy]

No. I'm not convinced Ottawa is #1. We may have the world's stupidest municipal government, for one thing, and on top of that we have to put up with federal and provincial politicians.

Maybe that's why Ottawa is #1, because you take a hit for the rest of Canada. :2thumbs:

 

[David Baxter PhD]

I never really understood the tulip festival. For Bluesfest, you go listen to bands - similarly for Jazzfest. There used to be a Children's festival where kids could do face painting and stuff. There's Oktoberfest for beer and food. Also the annual Greek festival, and a couple of other ethnic ones.

And then there's the tulip festival. You go to the park. You think, "Oh. Look. Tulips." Maybe you snap a couple of photos. Then you go home. Meh.

 

[Daniel E.]

You go to the park. You think, "Oh. Look. Tulips." Maybe you snap a couple of photos. Then you go home. Meh.

You could bring your own cucumber sandwiches and pretend you are a member of the Royal Family

 

[Andy]

I think that tulip festival has to do with something from long ago when the British came over and they would gift us tulips or something like that-now they do it every year so maybe it's to show appreciation. lol

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Actually, the bulbs were from the Dutch Royal Family for Canada's help in liberating Holland from the Nazis.

I get the commemoration. They might have been a bit more imaginative about it... rows and rows of tulips isn't that exciting. When I lived out in the coiuntry, I had one tulip that used to come up every spring. I got more excrited about that one tulip than I ever did looking at a field full of them.

 

[Andy]

Oh the Dutch Royal Family! I new it was some royal, I actually hadn't even heard of the tulip festival until I was there last year. Yeah, I think flowers can only be so exciting. That one flower was a fighter so you were probably rooting it on. lol They should have sent us rows and rows of firecrackers! Now that would be one cool festival!

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Yeah. We could at least heave the firecrackers at the tulips to reenact the liberation of Holland.

 

[Andy]

LOL Yeah see! Now that's a festival!:2thumbs: