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[majikero]

I have two bags of chocolate I bought so my siblings can eat them. For some reason, they're not touching it so its just sitting here unopened. I expected them to just take it to their rooms or open it up and take some of it but for some reason, they just won't.

They're either waiting for permission to take it or me to open it.

I think I'll see how long it'll last before they just take it.

[flabort]

Didnt know where to post it, and it wasnt today it was sept 7 6:20pm to be exact.
I saw a orange orb move slowly in a lightning bolt like line dont know what it waa but there arnt many chinese in my town and it wasnt a civilian transport vehicle because it didnt have regulation lights, nor could it have been a planned military exercise cause our air military has paper planes and arnt in my area on top of that it was in used airspace because after the 5 mins it was moving around for a plane came in to the nearby airport.
It also got brighter at points in its movement and it just faded away.
Very clear and calm night no clouds. First I have ever seen a light like it and I grew up on a farm where you can see stars for lightyears and I know what meteors and such look like having spent hundreds of hours staring out at space.
I dont know but thats my story.

Ball Lightning. Don't worry, it's not aliens, their ships are more green.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Actually I'm kinda curious why Canada was happy to stay a vassal-colony at the time.  Like maybe their trade with Britain was more favorable somehow?

Spoiler: Probably Completely Wrong, But I Felt the Need to Respond (click to show/hide)

From what I remember, Canada at that time was a mishmash of Loyalists who lost the American Revolution, Americans taking up the offer for free land in Canada that the British government was making, the Quebecois, a bunch of random settlers, and officials who were annoyed at being sent out to such a backwater colony. Plus the population was so small and the development so paltry that collectively Canada wasn't really for or against anything. Individuals might be of course, but at the start of the war people generally just waited to see what would happen and how it would affect them. They weren't invested in the country as a country, just as a place to live and grow their crops.

Then General Brock took a bunch of Redcoats and militia, formed an alliance with the Native Americans, captured Detroit, and got martyr'd fighting the Americans and turned into a nation hero (whereas the British today have no idea who he was due to the fight against Napoleon completely overshadowing the War of 1812).  Plus some tit-for-tat retribution got out of hand and people on both sides started burning villages and fields (and eventually York/Toronto and Washington plus the White House) which helped to galvize the farmers living in Canada into being strongly for the British.

In other words, Canada as a nation was sorta started in the War of 1812. Before that you had a sparse population of random people living together whereas afterwards... You had an equally sparse population, but they were somewhat united by common stories, ideas and heroes and were pro-British in outlook. Which eventually leads to Confederation, the Trans-Canada railway, WWI, etc. and further nation building. _{Heck, Newfoundland didn't join the country until post WWII, and we didn't get a national flag until the 1960s. We certainly took our time.}

Spoiler: Just going off on a wild tangent here (click to show/hide)

And of course I don't remember the War of 1812 being covered in our Canadian History/Studies class. Just a lot of examples of the horrible things we did to Native Americans, Immigrants and Women over the years, along with the disasters we suffered in the Great Depression and World Wars...

[Neonivek]

From what I remember, Canada at that time was a mishmash of Loyalists who lost the American Revolution

Goodness that sounds like an American version of the creation of Canada if I ever heard it. "And then the Americans kindly created Canada and single handedly won both World Wars"

Well... On its own at least.

Also don't forget the Metis and the First Nations. We still consider them to be "Part of what would be Canada"

[USEC_OFFICER]

Goodness that sounds like an American version of the creation of Canada if I ever heard it. "And then the Americans kindly created Canada and single handedly won both World Wars"

Well... On its own at least.

Kinda, yeah. The whole 'We lost the revolution, so we're going to make our own country! With blackjack and hookers!' part certainly fits the bill.

Also don't forget the Metis and the First Nations. We still consider them to be "Part of what would be Canada"

Well this is colonial/pre-20^th century Canada we're talking about here. I can't imagine that the grandfathers of the people that implemented the Residency School System would consider the Metis and First Nations as 'Part of what would be Canada'. Even if they helped fight in the war, they weren't exactly welcomed with open arms after it was over.

You are right though, I just don't remember reading much about them. Beyond being convinced to fight with the British and their failed attempt to form their own nation in Ohio/Michigan(?) of course.

[Aklyon]

You need an iso, Naxza?

[Rubidium]

DeviantART won't let almost EVERYONE publish deviations.
I only see like a few get published.
Normally, there are THOUSANDS of deviations published every minute, but now it's only like one or two.
I think the DeviantART publishing server broke.

[Flying Dice]

It's as if a million pieces of softcore porn suddenly cried out in alarm and were suddenly erased.

[WealthyRadish]

Noticed Urban Giraffe is using on the avatars in my rotation. This clearly cannot stand so I deleted it. Goodbye, frowning soldier.

I also noticed this a while ago (I added it on October 2nd, in case we want to take this to Judge Judy), and was wondering if you would.

I like to think we can share Dynamite Duke^_TM. In fact, I'd rather everyone have him as their avatar, and my only regret is that he only made up 5.6% of my existence. He deserves better than that. But considering my rotation of random crap that isn't even aesthetically similar, I'd rather lose it than you, so I took it out.

[Akura]

Is there any way to get the pre-Windows 7 version of Paint? I hate the new one.

[Frumple]

Looks like MS has the XP version here -- download, stick it in system32, do your own shortcut. S'fairly likely they've got the other versions on their site somewhere, too, but checking the first link google spat out regarding the subject is as much as I can be arsed. No clue if it'll actually work in a win 7 environment, but it might be worth a try.

[Orange Wizard]

That one doesn't work on my machine. Tried compatibility mode, also no luck.

I think I have another executable for Paint sitting around somewhere. Not from a Windows site, afaik.

[MaximumZero]

Is there any way to get the pre-Windows 7 version of Paint? I hate the new one.

I still have the same paint as ever on Win10.

[Akura]

Looks like MS has the XP version here -- download, stick it in system32, do your own shortcut. S'fairly likely they've got the other versions on their site somewhere, too, but checking the first link google spat out regarding the subject is as much as I can be arsed. No clue if it'll actually work in a win 7 environment, but it might be worth a try.

Only works on 32-bit systems. I've got a 64-bit system.

[Shadowlord]

What, is it 16-bit?

Have you tried paint.net?