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Had to sit out of pitball for a bit because it got super, super loud. My friend stayed by me till it got quieter [and till I calmed down] though, so that was nice.
I also chugged a hole can of grape Fanta and ate half Aero bar. So.
#RCAC#rcac#royal canadian army cadets#canadian cadet#army cadets#rcac sports night#sports night#anxitey#noise#loud noises
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this is why we design uniforms right
#doodl#space cadets tag#i was gonna tag dylan but his full namw is the name of a canadian hockey player#who already has an established tag#kinda FUNNY
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just said i hate the army in class and felt the air get sucked out of the room. honestly i forget the average person isn’t like violently anti war
#context theres this freak whos a army cadet and never shuts up#but it wasnt even him who was mad it was like. everyone.#like woah hey sorry for uhh not rockin with death#and imperialism and colonialism and so on and so forth#in reference to the canadian army specifically but like. well i dont rock with any military and war#where are my hippie freaks. where are my folkies
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Broke Horror Fan presents PG: Psycho Goreman on limited edition, fully functional VHS! Our latest tape is on sale now at Witter Entertainment.
The horror-comedy returns to VHS with a new book box edition featuring cover art by Blitz Cadet and interior art by Brock Hofer with a purple tape (limited to 100).
The standard clamshell version with Cadet's art has also been restocked, and a very small quantity of leftover clamshell variants and big box editions from the first pressing are available while supplies last.
Each tape includes a letter from writer-director Steven Kostanski. Stay tuned after the movie for special features: Interview with Steven Kostanski, Inside the Creature Shop featurette, and Miniature Magic featurette.
For optimal VHS viewing, the film has been cropped from its original aspect ratio to 4:3 full frame. It is officially licensed from RLJE Films and has been approved by Kostanski.
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn’t long before PG’s reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos and a rogues’ gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town suburbia to battle for the fate of the galaxy.
#psycho goreman#pg psycho goreman#horror#vhs#steven kostanski#astron 6#dvd#gift#broke horror fan#blitz cadet#brock hofer#matthew ninaber#horror comedy#canadian horror#canadian film
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“CLASS OF SISSY BOYS WOULD BE PRODUCED,” Weekly British Whig (Kingston). May 10, 1922. Page 17.
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If We Wipe Out Militia Training, Says Gen. A. E. Ross, Kingston.
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Ottawa, May 11 - In discussing the militia estimates in the Commons, Brig.-General A. E. Ross, (Cons., Kingston) said it was rather interesting to see that estimates which were whittled down to the lowest figure could be still further reduced. He asked who the people- were who objected to militia training. There were those who had an aversion to what they called "brass hats." Then there were the uplifters. who said we should treat all men as brothers, forgetting that brothers. sometimes quarelled. Others took the ground that there were signs of lasting peace, and cited the disarmament conference in support of this contention.
General Ross emphasized the value of training. As a Canadian example of the value of training, he said that a week's winter training in Canada, with its experience of operations under low temperatures, had provided a method by which it had been possible to wipe out the malady known as trench feet.
"If we wipe out militia training and cadet training and all kinds of training," remarked. General Ross, in conclusion, "we shall produce a class of sissy boys, fanatics in dancing, and not the good old class of boys who made the British Empire what it is."
#kingston ontario#canadian veterans#militia myth#military cadets#sissy boys#history of masculinities#canada in the british empire#reactionary politics#military discipline#effeminate men#disciplining youth#house of commons#member of parliament#parliament of canada
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Boot shining!
I know they're not very impressive, but it's my first time!
#air cadets#Air Cadet#AC#Cadets#Cadet League Canada#military#youth group#Canada#planes#aviation#boots#boot polish#boot shining#alberta#canada#canadian#Minor
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#at least i can actually recognise that that's what that is now#context: canadian jrotc (royal canadian sea/army/air cadets)
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I think you’re gonna need to be a bit more specific with your missed connection details there m’dude
i’ll be honest, i wasn’t expecting anyone to even see that post let alone respond to it, m’dude
but if you really wanna know, m’dude
so i lived in Canada near Vancouver for a few years when i was a teenager, and in 2008/9 (dunno if it’s still a thing) the BC Lions used to have air, army and sea cadets take this giant ass canadian flag out onto the field for some of their games, which was cool for us cadets ‘cause we got to be part of something fun, see a canadian football game for free and hang out with cadets from the other elements (ha, it’s like atla, we just needed fire cadets and then we’d have the full set)
anyway, this sea cadet and i had a pretty good camaraderie and got on well - i’m annoyed that i have such bad memory problems because i remember what he was like but i can’t remember his name or rank… petty officer Poole maybe??? who knows
i remember him asking all us air cadets why we chose air and not sea or army, and every single one gave the same answer, so he comes to me and says “please, Mills, don’t give me the same answer”, so just to tease him i did exactly that and revelled in his groaning
i’m pretty sure i remember him telling me that he wanted me to take over what he was doing at the flag marching thing when he left, but i moved away pretty soon after and never saw him again - if i’d known i was gonna move away i would’ve asked for a way to keep in touch because ever since i’ve felt like i’ve missed out on having a pretty cool friend
so there you go, that’s my missed connection
m’dude
#h answers asks#h rambles#nonny#just gonna tag everything i can think of just in case 🤷🏻#missed connections#bc lions#bc lions flag#???#uhhh#canadian cadets#idfk#hlep#actually gonna pin this#just ‘cause#m’dude
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From being a #Royal #Canadian #military #cadet to studying at #SFU my first visit to beautiful #Scotland to hear those #bagpipes brought a tear to *me eye. (at Glasgow, Scotland) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChxYGYNslEprr3t3dr6iIBx1vmAN-Mzhia9FOQ0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Little Details For Writers To Make Winters Seem More Real ❄
In the past I did the post “Writing Realistic Winter Scenes,” but it did not quite cover everything, so I thought I would add some more tips! I hope they help for making your stories more realistic.
Stomping Feet.
Only rude people don’t stomp snow off their boots before coming inside. Where I live, you will often also see people giving their boots a good stomp before entering a store.
Once inside a home, take off your boots and (if they have one) put it on a boot tray to stop puddling. If you are entering a store, many locations have rugs by the door. Once inside, wipe your feet a few times.
Holding a drink with both hands and no metal mugs/plates.
Tim Horton drinks are called “Canadian hand warmers” for a reason, so you will often see people waiting for a bus or city train with a drink in both their hands.
As for the metal mugs and plates, I learned my lesson for this one very quickly. When I was an Air Cadet (teens) we would go on weekend survival trips, and most the kids idolized military kits. So, many kids(myself included) would purchase military mess kits. Now, I am not saying they are not handy; plates, bowls, and even a tiny frying pan, all fold up together neatly and flat in your bag, so what is not to love?
Well, when you are camping in places below -25c, and you take off your glove for a moment, you may find your skin sticking to the metal of your plate(thanks to the cold, and steam from your meal). Now, this might seem funny, but if you are not careful, you could actually remove skin.
So, metal is great for cooking and great for the summer, but I suggest being careful if you plan on using them to eat with in the winter.
Bringing Your Animals In
In medieval times, farm animals were often brought into the house. Some houses kept them on the bottom floor while living on the top floor, others not so much. This is to keep the animals from freezing to death, but also to add some extra warmth in the house.
It was not just in the past, either. My past co-worker grew up on a goat farm, and said if it was too cold out, they would bring the baby goats in to run wild in the basement. She remembers it fondly, but it must have been incredibly chaotic for her parents haha.
New Water Source:
Creeks, lakes, and wells will likely freeze over, but luckily you may have another option: snow! Just look for a clean patch, scoop it up, and heat it. It is not a perfect system (during my wilderness survival training days, there were times of picking pine needles out of the water) but it was better than wasting energy to go cut into the ice every several times a day(the holes will re-freeze over).
If it is cold without snow, cutting the ice is exactly what you’ll have to do.
Tree Wells:
Evergreens — like pine trees — are built to shed snow off their triangle-shaped form, so often have little pockets around the trunk with less or no snow. This might not sound like a problem, but occasionally people on skis and other equipment die in them. People are on the move, fall headfirst into them, and their skis are pinned above in the snow out of reach.
Alternatively, these wells can be an emergency shelter from a storm or hunting hiding spot. Do note that you (for the obvious reason of wood everywhere) can not light a fire in these shelters.
Easy Tracking:
It’s not easy to hide prints in the winter, and they are more obvious. This could be good if your character is tracking something, but bad if they are trying to get away.
Some shows have the characters sweeping the ground behind them, but if the snow is over a foot deep, that wont really work.
Realistic Ice:
If you are on a lake, do not expect it to be quiet. It is always flexing and cracking, and sometimes this sounds like a pop, and other times it can sound like the lake is singing.
Ice can also look different. Some (like Abraham Lake in Alberta) is known for it’s frozen bubbles, while others flex so much while freezing that the ice breaches the surface into what look like frozen waves.
While we are on the topic of ice, crampons/ice cleats. Crampons are spikes that attach to your boots, and people here use smaller ones just for walking the dogs. They bite into the ice, making you less likely to slip. They are not a new invention, either. They have found archeological evidence of them that are thousands of years old in different places around the world.
Sounds:
If it is very cold out, sounds are louder. This is one part because there are no leaves on the trees, but also because noise travels through cold air easier. Both these are why any sound (such as the crunching of snow) can seem so loud in the winter.
Alternatively, the snow can muffle sounds (it is an insulator) but only to a certain temperature. This insulation can make the world around you seem almost unnaturally quiet as it muffles any surrounding sounds.
So basically, mildly cold with snow means muffled sounds, while very cold means traveling sounds.
Multiple Socks:
If you are hiking in the winter, it is recommended that you carry at least three pairs of socks to change into at some time. The reason? Your feet will still sweat even if it’s cold, and that sweat can freeze. As a general rule, if your feet start getting cold, consider changing socks.
Boots Near The Fire:
In movies, characters always put their hands near the fire, and that does happen. It is not just the hands, though. People often sit with their boots near the fire and they may start to steam as the ice and snow melt.
This can be so tempting, that there is normally that one person in the group who accidentally melts the rubber of a boot by putting it too close to the fire, or by resting their boot on the metal rings that some campsites have. While we were sleeping in lean-to’s, one kid even scooted too close to his fire in his sleep, and woke to his whole boot melting. It melted so bad, his boot had to be duct-taped together or else they would send him home.
Since people in the past would not have rubber/plastic on their boots, they would react differently to the fires, but you can bet people in the past did the same.
Pack Sled:
If the snow is deep, you may see people (especially skiers and snowshoers) with a sled that has their pack in it. This is to help take some of the weight off you, which stops you from sinking as far in the snow.
Little Modern Details:
Shoveling the Walks
It’s a silly detail, I know, but it is never in books or movies. Here, you have to shovel your walks by law, but there are two other reasons as well. You need to keep the snow from piling up over your boots, and also to keep your vehicle from getting stuck. For this, people either own a shovel or a snow-blower, then put salt or gravel over the icy spots.
Our homes here are built with a roof overhang to keep snow and such from piling at the door, but homes that are not so lucky (such as places that don’t normally get snow) or homes that face towards the wind, might end up being snowed in if they don’t keep up with shoveling.
Prep your vehicle.
In movies and books in cold places with a storm, the hero jumps into the car and rushes away. In real life, they wouldn’t be able to see out the windows. The real process: Start your vehicle about 10min before leaving. While you wait for it to warm, brush off the snow and scrape ice from the windows.
If your character is in that much of a rush, they can put the window down (if it is not frozen) and stick their head out the window while they drive(100% not recommended lol. You can’t even use a seatbelt if you do this).
Fighting for the Register:
If you are a kid and you come in with wet boots, the fight for the spot over the heat register is on! Those with the lucky spot will have far drier and warm boots or mittens for next use.
Dead Batteries:
If it is really cold out and you have something like a phone with you, you had better keep it in your inside pocket(most winter jackets have them) closest to your body. If not, even a full battery can completely die out in record time. Batteries simply are not made to handle extreme cold. They sometimes turn on again if you warm them up, but other times you will have to plug them in and charge them.
#writeblr#writing#writers of tumblr#writingfantasy#writers on tumblr#fantasywriter#fantasy world#fantasy#Worldbuilding#writing tip#writing help#writing tips#writing advice#fantasy writer#writing fantasy#write#writer#how to write#WritingForests#WorldbuildingNature
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Court Circular | 4th May 2024
St James’s Palace
The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, today carried out engagements in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Her Royal Highness, Commodore-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Navy (Pacific Fleet), this morning toured HMCS Max Bernays at sea.
The Princess Royal, Commodore-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Navy (Pacific Fleet), later visited Esquimalt Military Family Resource Centre, Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.
Her Royal Highness, President, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, this afternoon visited God’s Acre Cemetery, Colville Road, and laid a wreath at the Memorial.
The Princess Royal later visited the Maritime Museum of British Columbia Archive, 4000 Seymour Place.
Her Royal Highness afterwards visited Fed Urban Agriculture Society Urban Farm, 395 Harbour Road.
The Princess Royal this evening attended a Reception given by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (the Hon Janet Austin) at Government House, 1401 Rockland Avenue.
Her Royal Highness subsequently attended a Dinner given by the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia at Government House.
Court Circular 5th May 2024
St James’s Palace
The Princess Royal, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, today carried out engagements in British Columbia, Canada.
Her Royal Highness this morning visited Government House Gardens, 1401 Rockland Avenue, Victoria.
The Princess Royal, Commodore-in-Chief, Royal Canadian Navy (Pacific Fleet), later attended the Battle of the Atlantic Memorial Parade at the Parliament Building, 501 Belleville Street, Victoria, and laid a wreath at the Cenotaph before taking the salute at the march past of Canadian Armed Forces Veterans, Serving Personnel and Cadets.
Her Royal Highness this afternoon attended a Royal Victoria Yacht Club Youth Dinghy Regatta at 3475 Ripon Road, Victoria.
The Princess Royal, Patron, Canadian Therapeutic Riding Association, later visited Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association, 6917 Veyaness Road, Saanichton.
Her Royal Highness and Admiral Laurence this evening departed Vancouver International Airport for the United Kingdom.
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It's 3 am and I have cadets tomorrow
I'm drinking a caffeinated drink, and I haven't been sleeping well for the last couple days
I'm gonna start binging the mandolarian
Because
#technically cadets is tonight#so thats even less time#but im not sleeping now and no one can make me#sleeping is for the weak#binging shows at 3 am is for the strong#the mandolarian#cryptidcore#goblincore#crowcore#royal canadian army cadets#rcac
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Wait, aren't you Canadian how are you shooting guns?
Contrary to popular belief, firearms aren't illegal to own in Canada. You do need to be licensed to own firearms and there are different classes of license required to own different types of firearm (e.g. a non-restricted license allows you to own manually operated rifles and shotguns, while a restricted license allows you to own certain kinds of handgun and semi-automatic rifles; to get a restricted license you need to already have had a non-restricted license for a period of time, I think it's a year). Canadian gun laws are in desperate need of reforming though, because they simply don't make any sense and our government has a ridiculous policy of banning firearms by name. This means that there are a weird loopholes when it comes to what is legal to own and what is not. For example, while it's illegal to own an AR-15 in Canada, it's perfectly legal to own an AR-180 which is functionally identical to an AR-15. Yes the former is operated by direct gas impingement and the latter by a short stroke piston, but they're both semi-automatic rifles that fire 5.56mm NATO rounds from detachable box magazines. The specific type of operating mechanism in a gun doesn't really matter if you're on the other end of it. Similarly, an AK-47 is illegal to own in Canada but a Chinese Type-81 which is patterned on the AK-47 and fires the same 7.62x39mm round is perfectly legal.
I know all this because a real good buddy of mine going back to childhood is one of those fabled "responsible gun owners". He does everything right, all of his firearms are completely legal, and he stores them securely in a locked steel gun locker that he has bolted to the basement floor of his home. He went through the necessary police checks, attended the mandatory safety classes and keeps his license up to date. He also belongs to a registered gun club. He's so straight laced when it comes to the rules around firearms that I couldn't even convince him to stop at the Tim Horton's drive through the last time we went shooting. It was straight to the range and then back to his place to lock everything up, no stops. He understands that it's a privilege to own firearms and that he has responsibilities and duties to that privilege. Honestly, if all firearms owners were like him, owning firearms wouldn't even be a political question, but they're not, which is why we have gun laws. And it's why both he and I both support gun control legislation, we'd just like that legislation to make sense.
Anyway, this buddy of mine happens to possess the sort of arsenal more often associated with a survivalist in rural Montana or a Latin American militia than with a social democrat living in suburban Ontario. He's just really into the history of firearms and their mechanical engineering (he works as a machine shop tech). So I've been out shooting with him a bunch of times over the years. I was also in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets as a kid and learned basic firearm safety, upkeep, and use. I was taught how to shoot on a .22lr Lee-Enfield No. 7, a training rifle converted from No. 4 Enfields, and so did my younger brother who was in the Army Cadets. If I were more able-bodied and had the money I wouldn't mind owning a military surplus bolt action for plinking. Sport shooting is a hell of a lot of fun and anyone who doesn't think that it takes skill and practice or that it isn't fun probably hasn't tried it.
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August 2007. I was on a bus ride, hours deep, rolling from one prairie time-capsule to the next down endless neglected highway. A dozen other cadets. Rest-stops at sunbleached A&Ws with blue-green burger ads, everything stationary since the 80s. Cochrane, Vulcan. You get it.
I was a kid—I must've been, cuz my headrest towered. I tucked my feet beneath me, occupying myself with overheard conversation, battery-powered pokemon. There was a boy in the window seat adjacent mine. Another cadet, but the real mccoy, from a big city core. This brand of boy was exclusive to these weekend camps: taller, blonder, and further into puberty than the ones in my rinky-dink arrangement. Skinny neck with an adams apple so sharp it looked like it might tear. Trendy sweater with a stitched logo I'd never seen (Hollister, turned out). All this observed in short, nervous glances.
Cadet camps were a testing ground for me. At school, everyone knew your business—good luck keeping your crush or lack thereof secret. Do you remember the cut-throat competition over a fifth-grader with a good haircut? Bloodsport unparalleled. But that didn't matter at camp, a level playing field. Your popularity stayed home and the barracks walls kept your secrets. We didn't use first names. I could be anyone, in my flare-legged pants and puma sneakers.
But I was still ten year old, and I could feel my girlness beginning; the impatient tick of it. My mom would knock on my doorframe while I sat on the carpet awash in legos, and I'd plead five more minutes! Maybe you’ve felt this, something like this. Has the day ever gotten away from you? Have you ever looked up from your work and realized, with shock, that the room has grown dark without your noticing?
It was august 2007. My summer had not yet ended. I was a hundred-pound cowboy, capable of anything, blameless, and so I extended across the divider and laid my head on last name's shoulder. I told him I'd forgotten my pillow, so he'd have to do. Miracle, he laughed at that. He smelled like too much Hollister Wave purchased in terror of his own armpits at a landlocked Alberta mall. I thought he must play soccer, a white kid so tan it nearly matched his hair. Sinewy arms. Clean socks. I closed my eyes, trying to laminate the feeling of his soft sweater, his athletes' heartbeat against my cheek.
I found him on facebook last night he's a canadian trump supporter
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Broke Horror Fan presents PG: Psycho Goreman on limited edition, fully functional VHS! Our latest tape goes on sale this Friday, July 28, at 12pm EST/9am PST via Witter Entertainment.
The film returns to VHS with a new book box edition featuring artwork by Blitz Cadet and Brock Hofer with a purple tape (limited to 100) and a restock of our standard clamshell version with Cadet's art. A small quantity of leftover clamshell variants and big box editions from the first pressing will also be available.
Each tape includes a letter from writer-director Steven Kostanski. Stay tuned after the movie for special features: Interview with director Steven Kostanski, Inside the Creature Shop featurette, and Miniature Magic featurette.
For optimal VHS viewing, the film has been cropped from its original aspect ratio to 4:3 full frame. It is officially licensed from RLJE Films and has been approved by Kostanski.
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Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord who was entombed on Earth millions of years ago after a failed attempt to destroy the universe. They nickname the evil creature Psycho Goreman (or PG for short) and use the magical amulet they discovered to force him to obey their childish whims. It isn’t long before PG’s reappearance draws the attention of intergalactic friends and foes from across the cosmos and a rogues’ gallery of alien combatants converges in small-town suburbia to battle for the fate of the galaxy.
#psycho goreman#steven kostanski#horror#vhs#astron 6#pg psycho goreman#broke horror fan#dvd#gift#blitz cadet#brock hofer#matthew ninaber#horror comedy#canadian horror#canadian film
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“'PROPAGANDA', CLAIM OF STUDENT PAPER,” Toronto Star. February 24, 1933. Page 2.
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League Would Like to See Cadets Abolished
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Strong condemnation of any kind of militaristic propaganda in high school textbooks and hearty sympathy with the movement to abolish cadets is expressed in the second issue of "The Student Voice," published by the High School Students' League.
"There are in high school composition textbooks," states that paper, "passages which cannot but instill in the students' minds venomous militaristic propaganda. This sort of propaganda is even more dangerous than cadet training."
In reference to a recent speech made by Hon. W. H. Price, the publication claims that "Mr. Price has a Red complex. Not so long ago he accused Mr. Woodsworth and the C.C.F. of being Reds."
#toronto#military propaganda#textbooks#high school students#high school#history of canadian youth#youth in revolt#cadet training#military indoctrination#anti-communism#fear of a red planet#great depression in canada
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