Do NOT classify yourself as a 'pet friendly' apartment or house if you don't take a god damn dog. It's so hard to find a nice, reasonably priced apartment or house in this city that doesn't charge out the ass for a fucking dog. My well behaved dog is a problem and you insist on charging another damage deposit, but you'll gladly take a screaming, destructive, snotty nosed brat? Bull Shit. —Pissed Off Pet Owner

Please Halifax, don't be so gullible as to think some hybrid between Jimmy Swaggart and Some pseudo guru, with a bank account the size of God's, actually has something valid to offer. The single most reliable thread that runs through any worthwhile spiritual teaching is humility. If you don't agree, try doing the research for yourself. But for heaven (and your) sake, don't be mislead by self appointed gurus that have diamond studded glasses and do nothing but spout unintelligible mumbo jumbo. You want to pay good money for that, you're going to get what you paid for..... bullshit. —Wealth Is Not Humility

I have to say that (sadly) I have lost all respect for the Coast. A bitch had been posted regarding the spiritual charlatan that was coming to town. I didn't have to say any names, and from the comments it is obvious he is fooling no one. Yet, the post disappeared after being up and commented on. So is part of having the so called truth, mean you get flunkies that browse local media. And anything that isn't kissing your proverbial ass has to be "dealt with"? Real humility, and confidence in your bull shit. And shame on the Coast for removing the post. I will be boycotting your magazine from now on. —Lost All Respect

[Mod Note: This post was deleted because the comments degenerated into off-topic bickering. The bitch will be reposted and open to useful and intelligent commentary and criticism.]

I am NATURALLY skinny and bony. That's just the way my body looks. If you paid attention, you'd know that I eat A LOT. If someone offers me chocolate, or a cookie, or a random plate of spaghetti, I will take it. I adore food. So why do people assume I'm not eating enough because of my body shape? I don't see someone who's chubby and say, "You need to lose weight" so why would you think it's acceptable to tell me I need to gain weight? There is not just one body shape that is THE healthy body shape. We come in all shapes and sizes. Also, telling me I'm skinny is like saying to someone with a mole on their face, "You have a mole on your face." I KNOW. —I Love Me Some Doughnuts

I am hearing news reports these days about the potential death of our national door-to-door postal service, apparently because the volume of snail mail is doing a nosedive. Of course, email and ecommerce and e-everything else have played the biggest part in putting the boots to paper mail. But Canada Post and ultimately, its overseers, are hastening the demise. More and more often, I fail to receive mail from family and friends sending me birthday or Christmas cards (does someone in the delivery stream suspect such cards are likely to contain money?). And trying to speak to someone about such a problem is a problem in itself. Trying to contact real humans on the phone to report or discuss issues can result in an endless game of telephone tag via answering machines. I have lost my trust in the system and have resorted to couriers, expensive as they can be. —Not Going Postal

Seriously?! I drive 10 km/hour, tops, over the speed limit and that gets me a $200 speeding ticket?!! Are you fucking kidding me! How much of an asshole cop are you to bother stopping someone barely going over the limit and slapping a $200 fine on them? I should have got a warning at the most, but nooo, Mr. Policeman wants to feel big and powerful by giving a poor student like me who can barely afford groceries, let alone the gas in my car, overpriced tickets! Clearly, you had nothing else to do besides sipping your tims. Go catch a real crime, prick! —$200 More Poor

You brought your new girlfriend to something that you knew I would likely be participating in. Something you, not only chose not to participate in with me when we were together but bitched at me for going. Imagine my surprise when I walked into my class to find you there with another girl. I had just started getting over you and moving on. Picking up what pieces of myself, my heart, my pride were left. Very few things have I been able to enjoy since our break up. This was one of them. You just had to go and take that from me, didn't you. You had to go rub your new relationship in my face. I know Halifax is small and it was bound to happen, but you made sure it would happen, and you made sure it would hurt. Although extremely tempting to turn around and leave the class after seeing you, I didn't. I held my head high and followed through. It may have been the shittiest I've done ever, but I stayed. I hope your new "muse" sees right through that act. You used her to get to me and that wasn't fair to anyone. You set back my progress this weekend. Im not sure who I hate more for that happening, you for doing it, or myself for letting it hurt so much. —Broken Hearted, But Not Stupid Anymore

So a friend of mine business owner asks about getting some work done. I told him I would do it for 10K. So... he goes and gets a couple of outrageous quotes triple my price and then asks me to if I would do the contract. I say "ok. I will hire a couple of crew and do the job". Then I decided I only need one crew and tell him "I'm going to do the job personally with one crew and make sure the job is done right". He says "OK... since you are not hiring two people and you are going to do the job yourself with one helper; I will give you 6K." WTF is that??? I said "It is still the same job with the same costs." He says "well you are going to make the other persons salary plus your profit." WTF??? Why does that matter!!! It is still the same job. Same work. It is like you figure my time isn't worth the money or something. You think I should get paid less now? I am seriously insulted by this. I told him "No... I am giving you a deal." He says "6K... that's what I will pay." I said "No. Get one of the other contractors you got the quotes from to do it... or better yet... do it yourself." —Pissed Off Contractor/Friend

City Council has been using North Woodside as a free-for-all dumping-ground, for all of society's problems for decades. (See: young offenders, mental patients, single mothers, and low-income housing). The results are now painfully obvious. Our Royal Bank branch is now a Dollar Store. Our Sobeys is now an empty hole. And the neighbourhood is starting to look a lot like Flint, Michigan. —Wake Up!

I know, it has been awhile. Back then we were equals, we took our share, we fed our families. Sure we had our differences, you were tall and lanky, great runners.We were shorter, squatter but muscular and tough.You were decent hunters but you didn't have the chops for the up close and personal. That was our speciality. No namby pamby chucking spears from a distance, we took our long spears and looked the beast, be it eurochs or mammoth, in the eye. Hand to hand combat, we lost a few both prey and ourselves but that was the price to be part of this community and without this community, we don't exist anyway. You did come up with the idea of running the herd off the cliff and collect the big pile of meat at the bottom but that didn't seem right somehow, sort of like cheating. Maybe that was a sign of things to come. When you first arrived from the southern continent, I admit we were a little apprehensive but it seemed like we were equals and respected the community. One thing though, a quirk of your nature if you will, your attitude seemed to be a bit more about you and less about the rest of us. That thing about the cliff again, it was more meat than you needed. How the herd supposed to regenerate itself? Were you afraid of breaking a nail? Not to mention the breeding. How many of you do you need? For jump's sake, everybody has infant mortality but no you have make another child right away. Don't wait for next season just keep breeding for insurance.How are you going feed all these people? Keep running herds of game off those cliffs? What happens when they're all gone? How are all of us going to eat? Didn't think of that did you? Or maybe you don't care. Well all those herds are gone and so am I. What happened to you? There's so many of you and you're so sickly. I guess you kept exporting your philosophy to different regions of the world and kept ending up in the same situation. Nice going "Wise Man"! Listen Earth Day just passed. A special day you've concocted to honor the community we were part of and now you seem to so revile. Think of what we once had and now where you're heading. The community will have it's way in the end. You are going to die despite your best efforts. How about making a better life for less of you rather than a more miserable existence for a lot of you. Radical stuff eh? Before you write me off as some old fuddy duddy from the past keep in mind I existed for 250,000 years . You've been around, as you are now for what? 60,000? I really don't see you hitting 100,000 sorry. Anyway I'll get you go. You know how to reach me and the effort it will take but here's hoping. —Homo Neanderthalis