Quote from: Lokmar on October 21, 2024, 11:51:19 AMFuk an abo woman? GROSS! They should have fucked a hole in the dirt instead! Better looking for sure!

But dont forget that cher Ancestors partied hardy on the Wild West frontier too...Lokmeer!


Back then the prostitutes threw a blanket on the streets & did in broad daylight...Bud!

Anyway I knew someone who grew up during the Great Depression who told me she had a 'job' as a live in maid.

So I asked her how much she made what her salary was. She told me "Nothing." I suppose all she got was room and board.

But then she said "I was one of the lucky ones. At least I had a job & many other girls didn't."

Those were bleak times indeed.

Perhaps it was the equivalent of being a peasant in Maoist China @Shen Li Shen

Quote from: Shen Li on October 15, 2024, 11:11:06 PMOne of the worst atrocities in Canadian history is not well known or taught and is rarely discussed.

For 80 years, between 1869 and 1948, 100,000 children were brought into Canada from the British Isles. Many of these children were taken away from their parents against their parents' will, put into large institutions or work houses in Britain and then sold and shipped to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

They were part of an immigration scheme under the promoted illusion that they were all orphans going to a better life.

Prejudice at the time by the governments of both Britain and Canada perpetrated the myth that the children were dirty, diseased and little more than garbage.

Several agencies, including Barnardo's and Maria Rye, were selling the children as indentured labourers to farmers and households across Canada. Bernardo's alone brought in 35,000 children, mostly to Ontario.

Many children died and were buried in unmarked graves. Many others committed suicide. If a child ran away from a farm, the police would catch them and send them back.

Households in Canada paid $3 per child. It was a big money-making scheme. It was human trafficking.

Money went to agencies and governments. Then the trafficked children were forced to pay for their passage to Canada when they reached adulthood. Many weren't paid for their work but if they were, it was one cent a day.

Despite all the hardship, a good many of the children grew up and were accomplished. More than 25,000 Home Children fought in the First and Second World Wars. Some survivors were decorated soldiers.

Descendants of Home Children include Ontario Premier Doug Ford and hockey media legend Don Cherry. Both their grandfathers were Home Children.

There is an estimated four million Canadian descendants of Home Children living in Canada. Many people don't know that they are among them.

Britain and Australia have issued apologies, but Canada has not.

There are only two surviving Home Children in Canada, one is 109 years old and living in Vancouver and the other is 101 and living in Ontario.

Actually I had an uncle now deceased like that @Shen Li Shen

He was not a 'home child' tho.

But He was abandoned as a child when his mother went crazy and tried to drown him in a river  during the Great Depression. So I suppose they hauled her off to the mental institution.

Anyway he got 'adopted' by another family who worked him like a mule & used him as slave labor on a farm. He had a difficult childhood and a hard life. I'm not even sure if he got to attend school because they had him working all the time

It was a sad episode & perhaps reflected the difficult times he grew up in.

Quote from: Shen Li on October 19, 2024, 11:13:16 PMI don't give two fucks about the outcome of some provincial election in Canada. However, this stat I read is worth posting again. The NDP government of BC has that province on track to be Canada's most indebted province by 2029/2030 at $36,909/person.

Actually, it might reflect what might happen in the US election @Shen Li Shen

Deep polarization, a close election, etc etc

Quote from: Shen Li on October 18, 2024, 11:53:09 PMI can't believe he's still in the job. In almost any other developed nation he would be gone and possibly in jail.

Like Biden it's a case of a person who loves power soo much they just don't wanna let it go.

They need a term limits statute in Canada for the greater good of the country & an incumbent's party like they have in the US

Every day he continues to stay hes decimating his own party.

The clincher was when he separated from his wife. There's no way he even stands for feminism & the women won't support him anymore

So hes lost his base.

Quote from: Shen Li on October 18, 2024, 11:03:52 PMIf Jordan Peterson does sue True Dope and he's successful, it will be just another one of True Dope's fuck-ups Canadian taxpayers are forced against their will to pay.

As a traditionally liberal voter, I wish Trudeau would step down asap @Shen Li Shen.

Actually his own party wants him to leave.

Does he not get the message?!

...which may help explain the willingness of US politicians to assist the Ukraine in their  war against Russia

Quote from: Lokmar on October 17, 2024, 10:35:43 PMOh yea? It that why you kept telling me buying silver @$22/oz was risky back in February?

PWN3D! 

I was buying around @ $26 & bought some more at $28,29, 30, 31 & 32.

I dont go all in on silver as much as gold cuz I've found silver is very volatile

Ifya buy too much at once it can be like getting shocked by an electric fence later on.

The mistake that's easy to make about silver is to buy too much at once.

Silver has promise but I go slow on the White metal..

But I bought some antique Canadian silver coins the other day...Lokmeer! Real beauties really nice condition

Given their condition & relatively low mintages if they were American coins theyd be worth 10x as much.

I'd buy more American antique coins and find them interesting but the deterrent is the price.

Nice American antique coins tend to be very expensive in nice condition.

But I'd still like to get hold of their odd ball issues like $2.50 3 cent large cent stuff if I could find a good price eh?

I own only 2 American coins and they cost me $500 each.

And those were the common ones.

At least the Canadian coins are more affordable and just as rare

Latest polls from Battleground States (Oct 17 2024) from Forbes Magazine, a conservative Business publication:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/10/17/election-2024-swing-state-polls-trump-leads-in-arizona-and-georgia-harris-up-in-north-carolina-update/

Trump up in some polls, Harris in others.

Seems state where Trump was already leading he's adding to that lead.

And where Harris leads it remains neck n neck with Trump.

So according to that data it's still a toss up. Anybody's election

Quote from: Lokmar on October 17, 2024, 10:12:09 PMI sold all my silver I bought @ $23-$27/oz. for $32/oz. I made out quite well. Too bad you missed out, josephine.

I bought some of my silver lower than that Lokmeer.

Maybe $17 or 18 per ounce 5 years ago?

But I'm a lifer man!

In it fer the long haul Lokmeer!

You may regret selling now cuz silver might take off and surpass $35 an ounce in the near future and hit $40 in 2026.

Just my hunch but I remain bullish on Gold AND Silver...Lokmeer!

They're both Good.

Even platinum

But I tend to spread out my holdings across all 3 metals eh?


I'm tellin' you...copper may really shine in a few.

You oughta invest in copper mines n stocks Lokmeer

Often when these mining companies prospect for silver and gold they find copper in the mix. Even platinum.

So it's not a one size fits all.

They're all interrelated from a mining standpoint

Silver still cheap but Gold has just passed $2700 Lokmeer

Now it just surpassed $2700

An all time record