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Fandom Superlatives is huge and fun and everyone should go there and vote/nominate their favourite characters for something.

One of the categories is Best Old Person. I voted for Dead!Bob, because, well, he's awesome.

There's also a nomination in the same category for Rupert Giles, which made me want to get out an ear trumpet and yell, "What's that, dearie? I can't hear ye!" before shuffling off to the nursing home with my walker and orthopaedic shoes. WTF, since when is Giles OLD?

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Y'know, I've always thought that the US (Republican and Democrat alike) held the #1 spot in the Partisan and Proud of It contest.

Not anymore. America, you've officially been upstaged by the Conservative Party of Canada.

This video and at least one more like it is being shown at gas pumps in Southern Ontario:

No, really. AT GAS PUMPS.

[ETA] Apparently the Tories aren't going to get all the airplay they'd like--there's only one company that has the plasma screens needed to play the ad, and they've got a no-politics policy. But still. The very idea of it boggles.