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24H VANCOUVER >FRIDAY MAR 26 - SUNDAY MAR 28 2010<br />
VANCOUVER.24HRS.CA<br />
TWITTER<br />
CHATTER<br />
@earthhour<br />
Earth Hour a rare opportunity<br />
to do some urban<br />
astronomy without the<br />
usual light pollution:<br />
@westbrant1 Its earth<br />
day this saturday ....<br />
everyones suppose to<br />
shut there lights out for a<br />
hour but im afraid of the<br />
dark....<br />
@MarkHorseman Earth<br />
Hour is to Environmentalism<br />
as Lent is to<br />
Catholicism<br />
@mark_lawler For Earth<br />
Hour 2010: I’m turning<br />
on all of my lights &<br />
cranking stereo to full<br />
volume to Kansas’ “Point<br />
of No Return”<br />
@adekumala Only a year<br />
later #EarthHour had<br />
become a global sustainability<br />
movement with<br />
more than 50 million<br />
people across 35 countries<br />
participating.<br />
@coffeelovechaos Like<br />
most good ideas,<br />
#earthhour was born in a<br />
pub in Sydney<br />
@skjreilly ... We know<br />
your all trying to burn<br />
your budgets before the<br />
end of April but how<br />
about not burning your<br />
lightbulbs for #Earth-<br />
Hour Sat 8.30pm<br />
@WillScheilling Don’t<br />
forget to turn your lights<br />
off for #earthhour on<br />
Saturday 8.30. Suppose I<br />
should really turn the<br />
telly of as well in the<br />
spirit of it.<br />
@DCPlod Gee, let’s all<br />
clap ourselves on the<br />
back for surviving without<br />
electricity for a<br />
WHOLE FREAKING<br />
Feedback<br />
» E-mail: van24feedback@sunmedia.ca<br />
RE: ALEXANDRA Peppitts’<br />
article (24 hours, Mar. 24)<br />
on the perils of waitressing.<br />
I sympathize. I<br />
apologize for lecherous<br />
males who can’t seem to<br />
digest nor drink if there is<br />
no waitress around, whose<br />
dress isn’t at least one size<br />
too small. I can’t explain<br />
this phenomenon without<br />
making it a “chicken or<br />
egg” dilemma since either<br />
sex would claim unflattering<br />
sexual profiling.<br />
- Norman M Ostonal<br />
A QUESTION TO smokers:<br />
Would you throw a gum<br />
wrapper on the ground if<br />
there was no bin? If you<br />
answer “yes”, you are<br />
trailer trash. If you answer<br />
“no”, why then do virtually<br />
all smokers throw butts<br />
out car windows or on<br />
sidewalks? Cigarette butts<br />
are the most polluted item<br />
on our planet. Stop it!<br />
- Jay Schwingenschloegl<br />
IN RESPONSE to Roslyn<br />
Cassells (24 hours, March<br />
25) you might not agree<br />
with Ann Coulter, but to<br />
gloat that she was a secu-<br />
rity threat prevented from<br />
speaking at Ottawa University<br />
only means you<br />
approve of the very same<br />
methods the Nazis used<br />
against their opponents. It<br />
shows your respect for<br />
democracy.<br />
- Frank Cvancara<br />
I SEE COUNSELLING is now<br />
being offered to VANOC<br />
staff saddened that they<br />
now faced unemployment.<br />
Did these characters not<br />
know one day their job<br />
would end? Get your<br />
resume together people,<br />
get out and start knocking<br />
on doors and quit feeling<br />
sorry for yourself. The<br />
party is over.<br />
- Bill Dobie<br />
IT SEEMS ROBERT Pickton<br />
can still feed his pigs even<br />
from behind bars. I’m talking<br />
about his lawyers. I<br />
find it appalling Pickton’s<br />
defense team is trying to<br />
get his convictions overturned<br />
on a technicality,<br />
with no chance of getting<br />
him off. They’ll just make<br />
the families suffer again.<br />
- Peter Murray<br />
YOUR PHOTO OF THE DAY FLICKR ID: DIFEI LI<br />
Tis the time of year to capture amazing light!<br />
SEND YOUR PHOTOS TO WWW.VANCOUVER.24HRS.CA/FLICKR<br />
After a<br />
disappointing<br />
break-up,<br />
it’s perfectly<br />
normal –<br />
even healthy<br />
– to take some time out to<br />
lick your wounds.<br />
For many of us, this simply<br />
means staying at home a<br />
few weekends in a row, so<br />
we can stuff our feelings<br />
with comfort food and bad<br />
TV.<br />
Of course, no two<br />
breakups are alike, so you<br />
can’t really put a cap on the<br />
recuperation period.<br />
After all, giving yourself<br />
sufficient time to regroup is<br />
all part of the healing<br />
process.<br />
But sometimes, we can<br />
lose track of how long we’ve<br />
been keeping ourselves in<br />
solitary confinement.<br />
We just get so accustomed<br />
to spending our<br />
evenings at home alone, we<br />
don’t realize we are no<br />
longer licking our wounds –<br />
but rather, letting our dating<br />
life pass us by.<br />
<strong>Here</strong>, then, are five signs<br />
it’s time to pack in your pity<br />
party and get back on the<br />
horse again.<br />
STUBBLE TROUBLE<br />
Has it been a while since<br />
you dealt with those unsightly<br />
sideburns?<br />
And I’m not just referring<br />
to the male readers<br />
here. Ladies, if you’ve got a<br />
national forest overtaking<br />
certain areas of your body, it<br />
might be time to lift your<br />
moratorium on mating and<br />
resume your pre-breakup<br />
shaving regime (not necessarily<br />
in that order either).<br />
>Breaking News<br />
Stuck in dating purgatory<br />
Dating Chronicles, Sarah Rowland<br />
Too much time with Sully Bear.<br />
FURRY FRIENDS<br />
There’s nothing wrong<br />
with loving your pet.<br />
But if you’re torturing<br />
friends and family by constantly<br />
e-mailing updates on<br />
all the cute stuff Fluffy and<br />
Spot do throughout the day,<br />
it’s probably time to leave<br />
the house and start hanging<br />
out with your own species<br />
again.<br />
In the meantime, check<br />
out this this photo I took of<br />
my Sully Bear the other day.<br />
I’m thinking about photoshopping<br />
a cartoon bubble<br />
above his head that says, “Yo<br />
biatch, make yourself useful<br />
and pass me the remote.”<br />
Of course, my baby<br />
shnookums would never say<br />
that to me – he’s my furry<br />
little love bug. Yes he is, yes<br />
he is.<br />
REPEAT OFFENDER<br />
Are you watching so<br />
much TV that you find yourself<br />
flicking through the<br />
channels only to stop on<br />
Bravo? At which point, you<br />
say to yourself excitedly,<br />
“Right on, I’ve only seen this<br />
Law and Order twice be-<br />
fore!” Then you need to pry<br />
your butt off the couch<br />
ASAP and reintroduce yourself<br />
to the outside world.<br />
TAKE-OUT OVERDOSE<br />
When you order Chinese<br />
food, do you just ask for the<br />
“usual” and they know what<br />
you’re talking about?<br />
How about the pizza<br />
guy? Are you two on a firstname<br />
basis? Then you’ve<br />
probably served enough<br />
time under heartbreak<br />
house arrest.<br />
LEISURE LOSER<br />
When you get home from<br />
work do you make a beeline<br />
for your PJs because you<br />
know that if a friend calls<br />
you up and tries to drag you<br />
out, you can always say, “Oh,<br />
I’d love to, but I just got into<br />
my PJs – another time?”<br />
Well, then you’ve got<br />
loungewear lizard syndrome<br />
and it’s definitely<br />
time to get back out there<br />
and start socializing.<br />
E-mail Sarah at van24feedback@sunmedia.ca
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