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  • And to had to that, soccer comes from the term Association Football (hence A.F.C. -> Association Football Club) but since it was too long, the British shortened it to Soccer and it was the prefered term going back as far as the late 19th century. Refering to it as football regained popularity in the UK during the 1960s. As for Gridiron Football, the first part of the name was dropped long ago as at the time all football sports were simply called “football” in North America (this includes Rugby).

    And yes this joke is sooo tired, my first reaction was “oh we’re going back to making those lame repeated memes that made me quit 9gag 10 years ago”



  • Honnestly I was a little bit disapointed cause when I went to see it to the movie theater, I was in the mood for a scary movie. Like typical horror stuff. There is some “scary” passages, but it’s no It. So don’t expect to be full on frightened or to have big jump scares.

    However I think it is a movie worth checking out. The acting is on point, the images are vibrant, overall greatly directed. Obviously the movie is a big metaphor, but I went to see it completely blind and I understood pretty easily what it was all about. I’m kind of surprised by the score on IMDB because it has a 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and I just heard nice things about this movie beforehand. It brought a tear to my eye even though I am not in the same situation as the protagonist.




  • Really interesting concept you brought up, did not know that law and yes it makes perfect sense.

    And I totally get your point, but it is still an issue to me considering that she wanted to keep the audience hooked as they aged. As someone put it in another comment, in the first book, Harry is eleven, it appeals to kids ~11 y.o, and so on. But, and I speak personnaly, by the fifth book it was already too disjointed for 15 y.o. me. Her books are like a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure book/episode, but without all the corny humor and the self-awarness that makes it fun.


  • You brought up a really good example of a fantasy world with boundaries by mentionning Tolkien. It is heavily insinuated in the LOTR books that “magic” is not “endless posibilities magic”, it has more to do with special aptitudes and/or knowledge depending on the race (like elves or wizards). It’s not like Gandalf can just snap a finger and transform someone into a chicken. I know it limits what you can do with your world but in the case of HP it opens the door to endless plot holes and contradictions.





  • Félicitations pour ton admission !

    Je ne suis malheureusement plus à la Poly (gradué en 2017), mais je peux te dire que ça a été l’une des expériences les plus enrichissantes de toute ma vie. Pour répondre à ta question, je ne te cacherai pas que la marche est très haute entre le cegep et l’université, particulièrement pour la Poly 😅. (Pour te donner une idée, j’ai toujours été un étudiant très “sur la moyenne”). C’est beaucoup plus une question de rester motivé plus que d’être “une bolle”.

    Ce que j’ai vraiment aimé par contre est que malgré la difficulté des cours, il y a vrainent un esprit de collaboration et d’entraide. Dans mon cas (j’étais en elec), on s’est rapidement bâti un petit groupe où on faisait souvent nos travaux et nos études ensemble. Honnêtement ça a grandement aidé à me motiver et me dépasser. Ça vaut vraiment la peine de tisser des liens avec les gens de son génie et ceux des autres aussi.

    Je te suggère aussi de t’impliquer dans la vie étudiante. Sans nécessairement donner du temps à un comité, ne serait-ce que d’aller aux Pubs, aux 5@7, aux partys, etc. Dans mon cas ça m’a permis d’encore plus m’attacher à l’école et à me pousser à y rester malgré les moments plus durs. J’ai fait deux ans à l’UdeM avant et je peux te dire que j’ai senti un sentiment de communauté tellement plus fort à la Poly, ça motive énormément.

    Bonne chance pour la rentrée, j’espère que tu aimeras ton expérience ! ;)


  • From what I know, jam is what you described as the heterogenous fruit preserve. It’a basically fruits roughly choped, sugar and pectine.

    Jelly is kinda the same thing, but instead of using whole fruits, you use juice (with sugar and pectine).

    Jell-o is generally artificially flavored gelatine (which comes from animal bones).

    If I’m not mistaken, in Canada there are laws specifying what can be labeled as jam and jelly, like sugar concentration and stuff like that.