December 14, 2005

Campaign 2006: Beer? Or Kids? In this, the dullest Canadian Election yet (a title which is ironically a more interesting contest than this snoozefest), there's only been one bit of excitement -- an offhand quote about kiddie-care allowances being used to buy 'beer and popcorn'. Well, the inevitable e-petitions have arrived: those in favour of kids, and those in favour of beer.

As Joey Smallwood used to say, "Vote early, and vote often." Go beer.

posted by Capt. Renault 18 years ago
  • Hell, it's seven weeks. Everyone needs something to pass the time.
  • You kids quiet down!! Papa's blowin' the froth off a couple.
  • Thank you Rick Mercer, for illustrating the stupidity behind the Conservatives' overreaction to Scott Reid's truthful comment. I proudly signed his beernotkids petition and predict it will dwarf the chuckleheads' kidsnotbeer one by about 10:1. Now I'm off for a Fin du Monde...
  • Why are your politics so much more fun than ours? Why?? WHY??? *downloads the "Marketing Jobs in and aboot Vancouver, eh?" pdf fact-booklet*
  • What's a Fin du Monde, rocket? Is that like a Mickey Fin du Monde?
  • La Fin du Monde Note the 9% strength...likely to knock a yankee on his ass.
  • As a good Canadian, I believe there is a middle ground, a third way, if you will, between being pro-beer and pro-child: Kinderbrau.
  • How do you get the children to hold still long enough to ferment?
  • Most commentators seem to think that the fireworks will start after new year's. I'll be in Montreal, and the combination of McAuslan's Oatmeal Stout and the aforementioned Fin du Monde will undoubtedly lead to my missing them!
  • I can't quite tell if the kids, not beer one is real or not. I mean, there's this: No parent, not a single one, in this country would spend money designated for child care, and given to them for that reason, on beer or popcorn. It is disgraceful to suggest otherwise. I guess they've never met any alcoholic parents? Or drug-addicted parents? Or gambling addict parents? Or parents who just don't really give a shit about their kids? For crying out loud. Mercer's post was quite brilliant though, especially for the idea that without beer...many people wouldn't have kids. Hee!
  • I have trained my 9-yr-old to help me bottle the beer I brew. He is the filler and I am the capper. The next step will be to train him to make the brew itself, but that requires the ability to lift a five gallon carboy of beer - without spilling a drop. If I got money from the gubmint to raise this child, I would see that he got the strength and experience to brew me a batch from beginning to end. If his next science fair project is on beer brewing, do you think that they will take him away?
  • I'll tell you what. The 9% on La Fin du Monde isn't the problem, its the triple fermentation and all the hangover it implies. Congeners...
  • Kinderbrau? Like Beer for Kids
  • Thanks, Pallas Athena, I was trying to drink my beer, not spit all over my keys and monitor. Oh, well, that's why they come in six-packs.
  • Current signature tally: kidsnotbeer: 3465 beernotkids: 3446 A nation is divided.
  • The world asks: How can 3465 people be so stupid?
  • Sorry, Olive... here, have one of mine. (Beer that is, not kids, though I'm sure you'd be welcome to one of those too if I had any. I'm told they can be quite useful for cleaning beer off monitors and other household drugery)
  • other household drugery It's bad enough you're fermenting them, you want to extract drugs from them now? o_O /not as a good a joke as Pallas Athena's
  • Have those damn kids been drinking again? I see there's bottles all over the lawn again. Or was that you Petebest? -_- **squints suspiciously**