Those of you who aren’t regular readers of the comments here may not be aware of A Voice for Pierre, the hilarious new webcomic by regular Man Boobz commenter Katz, inspired by Man Boobz trolls and dopey Boobz more generally. Here’s the first strip, about a poor paranoid MRA afraid to take his sons to Canada lest they be attacked and possibly killed by wild feminists. Naturally, it’s based on a TRUE STORY.
You can find more Pierre at the A Voice for Pierre website.
>>>We’ll have some poutine in Quebec and then you’ll see
Let me know when. Best poutine is in Montreal btw, so ya’ll need to come over here. 😉
poutine is yummy, if you ask me.
And the cheese is (for, “classic” poutine) cheddar curds (also sold as, “squeakers”), though there are a lot of poutine variants (The Palo Alto Creamery probably still makes the one with parmesan and truffle salt).
You can get squeakers at TJ’s. They are like cheddar, but a little moister,and not as dense.
Quick foray to cheese making.
When the acidulant/rennet is added, the cheese clumps. Those are the “curds”. For different cheeses these are often quite different.
In cheddar the curds are large (between 1/2 and 1 1/2 inches). They taste like cheddar but are a bit less dense. This is because one of the steps in making “firm” cheeses is, “cheddaring” done to all sorts of non-cheddar cheese)., which breaks up the curds, and makes them a lot smaller,so they will compress into a uniform block, rather than a lot of lumps which a loose association.
Things like “marbled” cheddar are made by washing the curds in a liquid (say wine/Guinness) and then compressing them, without “cheddering”.
So, to sum up, if you like cheddar, the cheese ought not put you off poutine.
Worst case, go to a place that makes it, and invite someone along who like poutine, try theirs,and see what you think.
@BlackBloc: Yeah, I definitely wasn’t going to invite everybody down to Cowtown, Alberta for some poutine. Anything we have here is a poor imitation of yours, at best.
Poutine party at BlackBloc’s!
I’m fond of the Poutine I’ve had in Ottawa.
I’ve heard Ontario poutine can be pretty good! never tried any, myself. Of course, Ottawa’s about… 2600-ish km closer to Montreal than Calgary is, though*, so it’s no surprise that the quality would be higher.
*I think? Man I’m terrible at geography.
What with Quebec being right across the river, I suspect that has a lot to do with it.
That Beck letter was… wow.
I wish I could leave well enough alone and just be quiet…
…but I’ve had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am
I can see where that might be terrifying for him.
@nah:
How wonderful to see you, too.
Pierre’s a guy because the whole concept grew out of a script in which an average guy encounters full-blown MRA conspiracy logic.
MRAs affect men, too. There are plenty of women in the commentariat here, but plenty of men, too (and plenty of neither/both/what-have-you).
I’m no scholar of Islam, but how do we know this? How do you know this? I’m not automatically doubting you, but I’d like to see a source.
I’m almost 100% certain it didn’t happen like that. The Church burned women because they threatened the sugar trade? And only stopped because of impending extinction? Gonna need a source on that, too.
I know it is way back now, but I have to stick up for jargon in specific contexts. (Like postmodern English articles). Really brilliant articles don’t take twenty words to say what could be said in one jargony word.
Also, I reading “But She Said,” the feminist theology book that coined kyriarchy and it is jargony to the hilt, but beautiful. (And I’m not sure if it should fall under jargon or something else, but that woman loves her some hyphenated ideas and they are really clear, but also…um…jargon.)
“I’m almost 100% certain it didn’t happen like that.”
I’m entirely sure it didn’t happen like that, but let’s see our newest n00b explain it away.
I’m reading. (Grumble grumble)
It’s cute when they pretend to be feminists.
Another n00b who doesn’t even bother looking at numbers. Modern scholars estimate the number of executions for witchcraft in Europe between 1450 and 1750 at between 35 000 and 50 000. 75 to 80% of the victims were women. Hardly a threat to breeding numbers, even with Europe’s population numbers substantially lower in 1500 than 1300 (thanks to the Black Death, mostly).
@Argenti: I was allowing for my privilege to have blinded me to some nuance or something.
I’m guessing sugar was Big Money, back in the day, but I’m not sure the Pope would have ordered people burned because some countries weren’t maximizing their profits.
And the Salem witch trials were fairly clearly about land and exercising political power. IIRC, the judge in a trial at the time was awarded the convicted’s real property, if not personalty.
Bad idea.
It is annoying that the Pierre concept must needs be basically all white dudes (hence why I made Diogenes Asian), but aside from it being based on a single stand-alone script that featured a male Pierre, the comedy value would largely be lost if I switched to the distaff counterpart.
Many of the scripts would be altogether unworkable, because they hinge on MRAs taking a conspiratorial tone towards Pierre and assuming he’s an ally, which doesn’t work if he’s a woman (eg, Paul Elam would never interview a woman for an editor under any circumstances). The rest would lose most of their humor because, if Pierre were a woman, all the aggression would be directed at her, rather than obliquely, and the bemused responses that are the funny part would no longer make sense.
“@Argenti: I was allowing for my privilege to have blinded me to some nuance or something.”
Nawh, I was just snarking at the n00b — no point saying you’re nearly 100% sure when 2 seconds on google would confirm that your right (that’s still not coming out right, sorry, I’m running on lots of caffeine).
Hey Pecunium / better than salt money — was sugar ever treated similar to salt? I don’t recall that being the case, but my brain has about 1,000 years of history that sums to “and there was the plague”.
If it helps, katz, Pierre reads as part First Nations to me due to his coloration. But yeah, he does have to be a dude.
Ooh, I will have to make that canonical. I guess he is French/Native American, then?
French/Scottish/Native American with a surname like that ….
Decided to have a little fun. Should I?
The picture’s Katz’ icon-sized Pierre.
lowquacks, the browser tabs really made the whole thing.
Oh, you know, just the things I had open at the time. Pretty usual stuff for me.
Love it! Pierre is so very blatantly misandrist.
Laughage! So much laughage!