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He’s new in Montreal. So far a few good reviews. Interesting. Canadians and the Dutch have a love affair based on WWII. The.Canadian army liberated Holland. My experience with Dutch people has always been positive. This guy would be 2 generations away tho so might need reminding lol.

How good looking was he? I know there were guys at Campus who could pull in $1000 a night and that was over 20 years ago. Some of these dancers who went to Florida would share a rental to save on rent. I knew another dancer who had a sugar daddy in Montreal who also lived in Florida. This guy rented a nice apartment in South Beach for the winter and kept his girlfriend there and their dog. I once housesat their place for a week taking care of their dog.

The NYTimes published a graphic showing the layout of the bar and it is clear that the front terrace was glassed in and only had a single door. So even when the people got out of the building proper they were confronted with another bottleneck situation. You can see from one video clip the people trying to squeeze through that door with people piled up behind them with flames and smoke at their backs. Just a chaotic situation. The heat was so intense their skin was just dropping off their hands and faces. Horrific. Just horrific.

It’s been a couple of decades since I spent my winters in SFla and frequented the stripper bars and other venues in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. I have followed this forum topic though in the past number of years. At one time including when I was there many of the dancers came down from Montreal in the winter months to make more money and returned to Montreal in the summer for the tourist season when South Florida went dead. Has this changed? I know the border issues now may be playing a role in discouraging travel.

Anyone seen this guy recently. He had great reviews on RM and his pics show a great physique and beautiful face.

Looking at these sanitary violations, I would say they are very serious and can cause food borne illnesses. Better this restaurant is shut down.

I’ve been blocked by a couple of providers that I never sought to hire and only viewed their profiles once. I view hundreds of profiles a month so this small number doesn’t bother me. The three providers who I have met or tried to meet blocked me after the fact, two because of critical comments I made in the 4 star reviews which I accorded them. The third blocked me after I left his hotel when he refused to come down to the lobby after I had arrived at his hotel. I think he thought I was going to give him a bad review but that was not my intention. Anyway I would do not consider trying to hire him again as there are just too many good ones in his market.

I wonder what the numerous violations concerned. If they related to the kitchen, then better it closes before people get sick.

My impression is from the relatively few photos and videos that have been released of the site is that once the lucky few who got up the stairwell intact they were then forced to go through that front porch which was glassed in. The fire and smoke were right behind them and they had to scramble to get through the maze of furniture consisting of chairs and tables. One young man talked of having to try to smash the glass with a table get out. That didn’t work but he managed to get out anyway.

When you read the above ad against the background of the disaster they caused in Switzerland, then you wonder whether action will be taken to ban their use in indoor venues. I guess this would have to be at a local level unless federalc authorities introduced legislation related to public safety.

Yes I haven’t seen any photos yet of the victims but imagine most of them were very fit and attractive young people of both sexes. The type you see at ski resorts all over the world really. On the hills you see all types of families and skiers but in a club like Le Constellation, the crowd would be more homogeneous.

The sparklers cited is really a misnomer, which some reporters have pointed out. They are more commonly referred to as fountain candles, which more accurately conveys the gushing of sparks that they produce. Sparklers are those single metallic rods that produce a sparkle and can be waved about producing a trail of sparkly light. We had them as kids for our May 24th Victoria Day celebrations, a uniquely Canadian event.

Video taken by those in the bar show the fire starting on the ceiling and one young man attempting to smother it by flailing a towel. Unfortunately it looks like his attempts would only have fanned the flames by giving more oxygen to the conflagration. Others are shown standing around and not reacting immediately. Some have reported that when they saw the smoke they immediately ran for the exit. They survived to tell the tale. It shows that in any crowd, some people have the right instincts in an emergency and others are clueless. Tragic but there it is.

There’s a cafe on the canal in Ottawa that does this on a heated crusty bun. Lovely with a glass of chilled white wine on a summer lunch occasion. Served with crisp fries. Yum.

Now that I think about poutine, I worked as a manager of a fast food kiosk at Expo 67 in Montreal and we didn’t serve poutine. 30 years later that would have been a staple. That was a great summer job which I had and got to go to the fair every day. Many friends worked there too that summer and we had all reached legal drinking age. There were bars all over the site and all types of cuisine from around the world. A very unique experience when the world came to Montreal. Each day was a national day to be celebrated and the heads of state of dozens of countries came for their day. Bobby Kennedy came to represent the United States.

In my defence I was given a rat to dissect in biology class in high school.

Also I don’t remember seeing it as a kid growing up in Montreal. I think it only became a big thing after I was a young adult.

Nope. Never had it. It just looks awful to me.

Oops.

Here in Canada we like fries with white vinegar.

The easiest category of flesh that I could kill myself and have done so is fish. I don’t think of them as having much of a brain if any do they? God, my biology classes seem so far away. Anyway they are not vertebrates such as mammals. They do bleed though so killing them is a bit messy.

I always recoil in horror when I read of these tragedies, particularly when so many young people are involved. It seems a cruel fate to have one’s life snuffed out or altered irrevocably by such an event. In this case I can empathize particularly since I know the resort and skied there years ago in my younger days. I lived in Switzerland for 4 years and worked there over several decades and skied many of the hills. I also partied in many clubs like this and danced the night away carefree. Like all these tragedies, wrong place, wrong time for the innocent victims.

In the supermarkets near me in Central Canada and far away from the Atlantic where all Canadian lobsters sold commercially are caught, we have our choice of live, frozen uncooked tails or frozen cooked whole. I have cooked live but do feel for the beasts as I plunge their heads in the boiling water. I assume death is instant but there must be a sliver of a moment when they feel the searing heat. Death is never a nice thing to contemplate but that’s how we arrive at feeding ourselves since we are at the head of the food chain. C’est la vie.

So here’s how Canada looked today at the brunch I attended. Unfortunately no champagne but lots of wine and great food. Nice company too. We all had a good time.

His family friends called him Willy, his close government friends Rex, FDR called him Mackenzie, but his full name was William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest serving prime minister.