1. Before #peegate fades into memory, a brief history of Canadians urinating in inappropriate places.
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2. Story of conservative candidate (now no longer in race) urinating in stranger's coffee mug has resonance: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jerry-bance-marketplace-1.3217797 …
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3. The main character in Candian Dave Sim's 6,000 page graphic novel roman fleuve "Cerebus the Aardvark" pees in sinks.
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4. Erstwhile Canadian Joe Matt, in his autobiographical comic series Peep Show, mentions habit of peeing in jars in Toronto rooming house.
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5. Former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, among other acts caught on police surveillance, urinated on a school wall. Highly symbolic I think.
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@Dimenhydrinate don't forget the whole "piss jug" motif on Trailer Park Boys3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
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7. Now, Joe Matt is apolitical, but the others all have affinity with a type of rogue right wing masculinity: pee populism, if you will.
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8. Rob Ford's very jaunty discussion of his public urination habits worth revisiting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H3pzjRsct0 …
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9. The stereotype of Canada as a bastion of politeness hides reality of a roughneck, hinterland country: "hoser" culture.
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10. MT @normwilner think it's rooted in libertarian insistence that private behaviour is beyond reproach, even when it's done in public
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@davidfrum one of Canada’s greatest painters, Tom Thomson, very likely died trying to pee over gunwale of a canoe5 replies 3 retweets 10 likes -
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12. A larger social/material history of Canadian public urination would include 1) popularity of beer 2) cold weather 3) sparse population.
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