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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#484926: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:34:50 PM

fun fact: america has no actual national language

i could go around speaking in frisian if i really wanted

no one would understand me but i could

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484927: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:38:38 PM

There is no federal official language.

However there are plenty of state level official languages.

Which aren't national but they are still official languages.

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#484928: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:57:55 PM

In two minutes Fate will be reborn.

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ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#484929: Mar 15th 2016 at 4:58:58 PM

what

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484930: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:04:46 PM

[1]

i think you mean grand duke

it was the grand duchy of lithuania and the kingdom of poland, which formed the polish-lithuanian commonwealth

Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#484931: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:05:13 PM

New Fate game. Its happening.

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484932: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:05:59 PM

also: canada

it's still the best

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484933: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:07:17 PM

America has a bigger dick than Canada.

In fact Canada doesn't even have a dick.

Whereas we have Florida.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484934: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:07:57 PM

universal healthcare

Lilqueendaisy A chill feller from Not Earth Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
A chill feller
#484935: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:08:12 PM

florida has too many dicks and it became one

LOVE IS STORED IN THE AXOLOTL!
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484936: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:10:43 PM

Yeah, well.

You had a prime minister who engaged in occult practices and communed with his dead dogs.

And FDR.

So there.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484937: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:11:41 PM

he also communed with his dead mother

and loved mystic numbers

and thought hitler was: "filled with love for his fellow man"

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484938: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:12:48 PM

Filthy Liberal.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484939: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:15:48 PM

william lyon mackenzie king, "wobbly willy"

canada's longest serving prime minister, known for:

refusing to intervene in the economy during the depression

refusing to help bail provincial governments out because they hosted conservative governments

having his immigration minister comment on jewish asylum seekers, saying "none is too many"

and various other things

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484940: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:17:42 PM

Kinda funny.

He presided over very important times and did lots of important things.

But no one remembers him at all.

Not even his own party.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484941: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:19:51 PM

yeah

and then there's

rb bennett

who as a prime minister could have been great

but he was not suited for the depression

but as a person was

honestly a good human being

who, when people wrote letters begging him for help, would send them generous sums in response with his own letter

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484942: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:24:59 PM

Well, to be fair.

Pretty much no one responded to the Depression in a decent way when it first hit.

At least the countries that were hit the hardest, anyway.

But who cares, he kinda reminds me of Horace Greeley and that vaguely amuses me.

edited 15th Mar '16 5:27:14 PM by ramuf

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484943: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:28:51 PM

he served one term

during the worst years

people began calling newspapers bennett blankets, abandoned shacks "bennett barnyards", etc, etc

he tried opening work camps for the unemployed, where conditions were dreadful, pay was shit, and communism caught on enough to spook the shit out of him

and resulted in a big protest and trek to ottawa that was put down in regina in the "regina riot"

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#484944: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:30:38 PM

marco's out

dead devotion
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484945: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:31:51 PM

I have to admit.

Bennett barnyards is a better sounding name than Hoovervilles.

I wonder which one came first.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484946: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:34:24 PM

cars that were being pulled by horses because of gas prices were called "bennett buggies"

Lilqueendaisy A chill feller from Not Earth Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
A chill feller
#484947: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:37:35 PM

canada is weird

LOVE IS STORED IN THE AXOLOTL!
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484948: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:39:35 PM

And while you were driving around town in your Bennett buggies.

We waved our Hoover flags.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#484949: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:43:49 PM

bennett and hoover were apparently very similar

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#484950: Mar 15th 2016 at 5:45:19 PM

They both had Depression-related shit named after them.

They both tried to do shit to help mitigate the Depression but generally kind of failed.

They were both spectacularly unpopular.

They were probably the same guy.


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