A lesson in contrasts

(Even with this post, honeygarlic will only have a total of seven for the month of June 2009, breaking the record held jointly by September 2007 and June 2008. HIP HIP HOORAY!)

Make no mistake, it's fun to rile up the passionate.

Consider winding up an environmentalist by describing in great detail how you idled your jeep for half an hour while your buddy ran into the pollution shop to buy some pollution. Or annoying a human rights supporter by suggesting that human rights are a tool of Western domination and do not adequately reflect the views of all cultures.

(Okay, so there's a vast discrepancy in the sophistication of those examples. Bear with me.)

Perhaps the easiest - and most fun - to pester are the vegetarians and vegans of the world. Their passion is evident to outsiders every day of their life - and making it worse, meat is inherently funny.

Back in April, I drew your attention to passiveaggressivenotes, a website that contains exactly what it says on the tin.

I've been checking it ever since, following along with the more-or-less daily updates. Once in a while I manage a chuckle (although few have come close to the "Daves need to stick together" one that was at the top when I first discovered it), but one from last week was too good not to share:



The best part is how clearly obvious the backstory is - a meat-eater saw the first note, decided to parody it, whipped something up in Publisher, and tacked it onto the board for the laughs. It worked far better than he could have ever imagined.

Sometimes, however, the shoe is on the other foot. While there are many things I love about my new job and my new employer, the unfortunate truth is that Chapters/Indigo has put a number of small, independently-run bookstores out of business - and most of those that still survive are barely hanging on. The people who care about this would generally fit into at least some of the mocked categories above.

For once, these people have something to celebrate - the Coles store in Kitchener's Fairview Park Mall won't be lasting too much longer; they're moving out at the end of August.

Score one for the little guy.

I think that makes the score six thousand two hundred seventeen to one.

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Now I want some Pringles.

--Ryan