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[Bingo]

"New Pole Vault Record-
20 million zlotys stolen from Bank of Poland..."

(Mad Magazine ca. 1961)

 

Best post today....so far.    

[AllseeingEye]

The propensity for certain people or interest groups in this city to (a) b!tch ceaselessly about seemingly anything and (b) in the same breath exaggerate beyond all credibility really is truly something to behold. Witness this gem in today's Letters section:

 

http://www.timescolo...toria-1.2331651

 

So the regional population is going to double in the next 20 years - from the current ~ 375,000 to what......750,000 people? Really??

 

Funny, but every projection I've read in recent years, from creditable government sources that actually pay attention to this stuff, puts the CRD population by that time at *maybe* 430,000 in ~ 20 years.

 

Even if we go out on a limb and say, due to increasing boomer retirees and inflow from 'rich' mainlanders cashing in on their newfound real estate wealth, that we reach 450K, that's still hundreds of thousands less than this person is apparently losing sleep over. But hey, lets just toss out any old number to stir up unnecessary 'fear and loathing'....sigh.

[aastra]

 

What is to be gained for your typical resident from showcasing Victoria?

 

I don't know, maybe it would inspire a tourist somewhere to schedule a trip?

 

Some people like to think the size of a place is directly related to how many people know about it. Mexico City is gigantic because many people know about it. Pisa is small because very few people know about it. That sort of thing. Victoria is smaller than Vancouver because Victoria is a well-kept secret. Don't tell anybody. And Tofino is so small because Tofino is ultra top secret. Or maybe not.

 

Anyway, maybe the writer isn't aware that so-called royals have visited Victoria several times before. No big population boom followed in the wake of any of those previous visits.

[VicHockeyFan]

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[lanforod]

^ why do you keep posting in blue highligher??

[Bingo]

^ why do you keep posting in blue highligher??

I never seen that with VHF's posts before. It must be the new mood filter that lets others know how you're feeling.

[Mike K.]

That's pretty good. I've never seen that before.

[todd]

I never seen that with VHF's posts before. It must be the new mood filter that lets others know how you're feeling.

Surprisingly relaxed:

Or is that sarcasm?

Edited by todd, 22 September 2016 - 10:12 PM.

[AllseeingEye]

T-C really does need an editor. Or two. Someone needs to check their facts because a lot of this very basic elemental 'research' stuff occurs far too frequently. Witness the apparently revised year of Princess Diana's passing: http://www.timescolo...otégé-1.2354177

[LJ]

In today's print edition there was a headline about a Ponzi schemer who defrauded people out of $200 million. Then when you read the story it was 200 people who lost $100 million. The online edition has been corrected.

[Bingo]

Jack Knox in todays TC

 

News item: A new Insights West poll says 89 per cent of British Columbians believe a Donald Trump presidency would be bad for Canada.

One-third of Canadians want Ottawa to seriously consider severing ties with the U.S. if Trump wins.

Wrong.

Nobody has as much respect for Canadians as me, Donald Trump.

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.DLHs3qfY.dpuf

 

 

[Bingo]

If you can't see Jack's column on line, go out and buy a paper as this is history in the making and is sure to gather traction with the voters in Washington.....State.

[VicHockeyFan]

Friends and family are mourning a 17-year-old Victoria girl who died four days before Christmas from a suspected fentanyl overdose.

Related

• Teenage girl dies from suspected drug overdose in Victoria: coroner

Family members could not be reached Monday, but Beth Klimek was identified on social media as the girl who died.

 

- See more at: http://www.timescolo...h.DdKYh3is.dpuf

 

“In the early hours of the winter solstice, Kami’s baby, Beth Klimek, slipped away at the age of 17,” Shane Walters wrote in a Facebook post.

 

 

“I didn’t know Beth very well but I did know that she could play some musical instruments and was an honour student before she got led astray these past 6 months or so. I knew she was sweet, loved blowing bubbles, swimming, and laughing. She was named for the nurse who helped deliver her in 1999,” the post said.

 

The family learned of Klimek’s death from a police officer who knocked on her grandmother’s door at 4 a.m.

 

“We strode arcades of anguish all day yesterday as the radio played lunatic commercial songs of Christmas cheer,” Walters wrote. “I think about all that I have seen, done, felt, and realized between when I was 17 and now, at 53. Beth will never have those years.”

 

“If your child or someone close to you is using, find the courage to confront them. Ask them to read this grieving grandmother’s letter to a child taken from her and those who loved her,” Barnard wrote, before posting a text that included the following, attributed to Diane Larose Klimek:

 

“She will never come back, I will never see her smile again, she will never hug me again, I will never hear, ‘I love you gramma’ or ‘I hate you gramma’ … I’m thinking about all the times we spent at rock festivals, haunting thrift stores looking for treasures, talked about everything that was going on and fought about the negative things like the drugs she was taking and how I still thought I could somehow convince her to get help for,” the post said.

 

“I’d give anything to have her hating me just so she’d still be here and that would give me another chance to try and get her off all the drugs she was doing. … Whatever she thought she was taking, it was laced with Death.”

 

 

That's interesting.   That's an article written almost exclusively with information from Facebook.

[spanky123]

^ Also in today's TC is an article sympathetic to a herion dealer when was sentenced to 6 months in jail.

 

I wonder if the writer's opinion would change if it turned out that he supplied the fentanyl laced drugs to Ms. Klimek.

 

I get that it is the holidays season and heartwarming stories are good for donations to the TC fund and advertiser sales but it is starting to get a little pathetic.

[VicHockeyFan]

TC taking lots of heat on FB for the article on OD girl.

[Nparker]

TC taking lots of heat on FB for the article on OD girl.

Examples?

[VicHockeyFan]

Just go to the comments on the article. Some by family members.

[Rob Randall]

I can't find any comments.

[VicHockeyFan]

I can't find any comments.

https://m.facebook.c...&id=50465429712

[Rob Randall]

OK, thanks.

I don't know; was the TC off base in using those comments? I feel it is a significant story that shouldn't be swept under the rug, even if telling it fairly causes the family distress. Tough call, but we are in the midst of a crisis that is killing good people.