As a Paramedic who was once picked up by my coworkers, I can confirm the joking never ends.

In my case I had a kidney stone and my wife was away and was in too much pain to drive.

Of the "Off the rack" standard beers and overall preferences, Canadian brews are stronger. I'm comparing Lagers to Lagers, as that is the most popular of the beer varieties for general consumption.

There are lots of craft beers up here too that are fortified, ice beers, etc...

The comment is primarily satirical, however, since pedantry has entered the chat, the 3 most popular beers in the USA have on average .6%ABV less than the top 3 selling Canadian brands.

Stronger is also in reference to taste profile, as Canadian lagers are characterised as having a stronger taste, with an overall hoppier profile than their southern counterparts.

Our dollar may be weaker but our beer is stronger. Different cultures, different priorities.

"Unions will make everything cost more and corporations won't make record profits that don't actually stay in the province but we pretend that this money actually benefits the people who it is actually screwing"

I'm part of a large union in Alberta and the government pressure to try to break it has been intense.

Lots of lift force, but for some reason you always end up in Buffalo.

Back in the early days of my career as a paramedic, I worked for an ambulance service in a small town. It was owned by the same guy who owned the funeral home. Our ambulance bay was shared with a couple of hearses, and our crew room was behind the cooler.

Sometimes if things were busy on the other side, we would do some body transport, preparation, etc.... Definitely one of the more interesting times in my career.

Mine doesn't wait. He actively tries, just hasn't quite figured out the how....yet.

Glad it ended well, would hate to see his credit score tank.

We need to stop amazonian fish poaching....

Cool your water before you dump it.

I've always found dry chem to be a better pairing with goose. I save my CO2 for beef and lamb.

There's a fairly long list of things that can be absorbed through the skin. LSD and THC can both be absorbed, however there is limited systemic intake, so you need a lot, or the right conditions. This is the same for many things.

This is why as a former HazMat Medic, I would always rinse people with cold water. Close the pores, decrease circulation (not because I'm a sadist).

Warm conditions, certain carriers (as mentioned above) as well as general skin condition and thickness of epidermal layer also play a big role.

I was always taught that if you don't know if you should be wearing gloves/suit/respirator....the answer should default to yes.

Firefighters do have a union, and it isn't a small one. IAFF would represent them as they are paid firefighters.

Here I'd thought education would be to an advanced degree......

I fax documents 4-5 times a day in my job. I get faxes....and it drives me nuts.

Healthcare is the last real holdout for fax machines.

This really applies to any prefinished building material. I have an extra box of each type of flooring in my house, just in case. I also have pictures of the mix ratios for all the paint in the place too (with brand).

As a furniture maker, I also provide my clients with the "recipe" for the finish I use. Usually written somewhere inconspicuous under a tabletop or on the bottom of a drawer. This way if it comes back to me for repair, I know what I used, or if they take it to another shop or do it themselves, they can get as close of a match as possible. A good maker will have no problem sharing this, because they know that their product should outlast them, and if it looks good for a long time, it's a good reflection of their craftsmanship.

The world of "Fast Fashion" has crossed over hard into home improvement, so products are constantly changing and being discontinued, so a few spare up front is way cheaper than a premature redo later on.

I come from many generations of cabinetmakers and furniture makers. The most useful advice I've been given from my late grandfather was "hang it and bang it". Be it off square walls, uneven floors or even maker error, sometimes you just need to put it up and make adjustments on the fly to make the most appealing result.

The hinges will certainly buy you some flexibility, and if they're good hinges, you will be able to make some adjustments. It may not be perfectly level or square, but in finishing, visual trumps objective measurements for most things.

It's hard to give more advice than that without pictures of what the installation looks like (may be options for fill strips, trim pieces, etc).

The fifty cent piece was expensive to produce, large and not considered to be a core part of Canadian coinage, so to save money, they haven't been minted in circulating quantities in quite some time. Still legal tender and in proof and collector sets, but it was decided that the cost wasn't worth the return for wide circulation.

Some of this actually had to do with the advent of the Vending Machine. Because Canadian and US coinage is so similar and basically interchangeable in the old mechanical machines, up until the loonie, you could make one mechanism that worked for 2 major markets. Big win. Add in parking meters and the likes, and the day to day things that relied on change now don't take a 50c coin, so it also became more obsolete through the way society uses coins.

Fast forward a few decades, and now the mint is penniless....

It all comes down to the where.

You can get necrotizing fasciitis from strep throat, however, the bacteria need to make their way into the muscle fascia in sufficient numbers to colonize and reproduce.

Most bacteria are easily killed off by the immune system if they enter the bloodstream, as the blood is one of two primary pathways for white blood cells to travel and do their thing. First the body works to keep the infection contained, then wipes it out. Easy to do when it is an isolated area like tonsils and throat tissues. They keep the infection contained and then as they build in numbers and other immune responses occur, they kill off the bacteria (in a person with a healthy immune system).

It is quite uncommon for an individual to have enough pathogenic bacteria in their bloodstream to cause infections elsewhere (a notable organism that does this, however is MRSA, and it can cause "eruptions" in soft tissues). Group A strep usually requires a direct entry point into the right environment to grow and consume rapidly enough to be dangerous, such as deep cuts or punctures.

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapid, destructive infection of the muscle fascia, something group A strep loves (especially streptococcus pyrogenes), but this is also tissue that does not have great circulation, meaning the natural immune system has a hard time getting enough resources to the area to contain it. It is also this lack of circulation that makes it very hard for it to migrate through the bloodstream.

I treat a lot of infections in my practice, and frequently in populations with compromised immune systems. The incidence of blood based infection, even in this population, is quite rare, and usually requires a very significant bacterial load to overwhelm the immune system. GAS is also readily treated by antibiotics, so if caught early, it is relatively straightforward to treat. Most people seek care when they experience signs of systemic infection, and this is also another limiting factor.