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Seven-year-old attempts world record for temporary tattoos
Kevin King
Published:
April 8, 2019
Updated:
April 8, 2019 7:43 PM EDT
It’s a world record attempt that has a chance to stick.
Dyson Labossiere, 7, took a run at the online standard for most temporary tattoos on Saturday morning. With help from his father and his favourite hockey team, his body was adorned with 436 Winnipeg Jets tatts.
“He still has about half of them on. Some of them came off almost right away, especially the ones on his feet,” his father, Andrew, said Monday. “I took few ones off his back that were bugging him and the rest he wanted to keep. I’ll tell you, his bath water on Saturday night was sure blue.”
Dyson often enjoys having the tattoos applied, and has been talking for months about shooting for the record after once having about 200 of the temporary tattoos applied. Thinking that would get it done, they learned through a website called recordsetter.com that the record was set at 420 in 2014 by someone in Buchanan, Ga.
A desire to have them all be Jets tattoos sent Andrew scrambling from the family home in Haywood, about 75 minutes southwest of Winnipeg between St. Claude and Elm Creek, to a pair of Party Stuff stores in the city where he dropped $70 for 42 sheets holding 12 tattoos apiece.
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“He originally wanted to go for 500, but after he beat the record then he was willing to stop. Three-and-a-half hours is a long time for a 7-year-old to do anything,” Andrew said.
The attempt was videotaped and the family is hoping to have the record confirmed by Guinness World Records, if possible, but they’ve yet to receive a response.
Dyson came by his love for the Jets from his father but has since passed him in dedication, Andrew said.
“He wants to go to the Whiteout parties this year. He thinks the Jets are going to win the whole thing. The Jets, the Jets, the Jets, the Jets. They’re going to beat Tampa Bay in the finals and everything. That’s his prediction,” Dad said.
While his work schedule keeps him from attending games with his son, Andrew said they attend the skills competition “religiously.” Dyson was sad when his favourite player, Dustin Byfuglien, wasn’t involved this year because of injury, but getting to high-five goaltender Connor Hellebuyck helped make up for his absence.
“His favourite player is Byfuglien. If Byfuglien is not playing, he doesn’t really want to watch. He will if Hellebuyck is in net, that’s his saving grace. He wants to be a goalie like Hellebuyck, but Byfuglien by far is his favourite player. He just loves the intensity that Byfuglien puts on the ice. You notice number 33. How could you not? He even named one of our kittens Byfuglien.”
http://torontosun.com/news/weird/seven-year-old-attempts-world-record-for-temporary-tattoos
Kevin King
Published:
April 8, 2019
Updated:
April 8, 2019 7:43 PM EDT
It’s a world record attempt that has a chance to stick.
Dyson Labossiere, 7, took a run at the online standard for most temporary tattoos on Saturday morning. With help from his father and his favourite hockey team, his body was adorned with 436 Winnipeg Jets tatts.
“He still has about half of them on. Some of them came off almost right away, especially the ones on his feet,” his father, Andrew, said Monday. “I took few ones off his back that were bugging him and the rest he wanted to keep. I’ll tell you, his bath water on Saturday night was sure blue.”
Dyson often enjoys having the tattoos applied, and has been talking for months about shooting for the record after once having about 200 of the temporary tattoos applied. Thinking that would get it done, they learned through a website called recordsetter.com that the record was set at 420 in 2014 by someone in Buchanan, Ga.
A desire to have them all be Jets tattoos sent Andrew scrambling from the family home in Haywood, about 75 minutes southwest of Winnipeg between St. Claude and Elm Creek, to a pair of Party Stuff stores in the city where he dropped $70 for 42 sheets holding 12 tattoos apiece.
Story continues below
“He originally wanted to go for 500, but after he beat the record then he was willing to stop. Three-and-a-half hours is a long time for a 7-year-old to do anything,” Andrew said.
The attempt was videotaped and the family is hoping to have the record confirmed by Guinness World Records, if possible, but they’ve yet to receive a response.
Dyson came by his love for the Jets from his father but has since passed him in dedication, Andrew said.
“He wants to go to the Whiteout parties this year. He thinks the Jets are going to win the whole thing. The Jets, the Jets, the Jets, the Jets. They’re going to beat Tampa Bay in the finals and everything. That’s his prediction,” Dad said.
While his work schedule keeps him from attending games with his son, Andrew said they attend the skills competition “religiously.” Dyson was sad when his favourite player, Dustin Byfuglien, wasn’t involved this year because of injury, but getting to high-five goaltender Connor Hellebuyck helped make up for his absence.
“His favourite player is Byfuglien. If Byfuglien is not playing, he doesn’t really want to watch. He will if Hellebuyck is in net, that’s his saving grace. He wants to be a goalie like Hellebuyck, but Byfuglien by far is his favourite player. He just loves the intensity that Byfuglien puts on the ice. You notice number 33. How could you not? He even named one of our kittens Byfuglien.”
http://torontosun.com/news/weird/seven-year-old-attempts-world-record-for-temporary-tattoos
Winnipeg Jets' Whiteout street parties need name change, says black organization
The Whiteout started back in 1987 as Jets' fans response to the Calgary Flames' Sea of Red during the playoffs.Photo by: John Woods/Canadian Press
Winnipeg's Whiteout street parties are attracting thousands of Jets fans downtown to celebrate their team, but for some people the image of throngs dressed head-to-toe in all white can be threatening.
Among them is Alexa Potashnik, the founder of Black Space Winnipeg, a non-profit organization that lobbies for safe spaces for Winnipeg's black community.
She posted a message on the group's Facebook page on Wednesday morning, ahead of the Jets' first game of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs, suggesting the name of the playoff party be changed.
Along with it, she posted an image and the caption: "Have a look at these photos from past Jets pandemonium/fan appreciation. The four men wearing all white Jets outfits with pointed hoodies … remind you of anything?"
The Whiteout started back in 1987as Jets fans' response to the Calgary Flames' Sea of Red during the playoffs. That was at a time when the Jets home colours were white, not blue as they now are, but the tradition has stuck.
"I get the colour context 100 per cent, but it's the culture that we're talking about. It's the wording we're critiquing," Potashnik told CBC's Up to Speed host Ismaila Alfa on Thursday, citing a headline that called for turning Winnipeg's downtown white again as playoffs returned.
"It's triggering for some people. For marginalized communities — whether that's black communities, Indigenous people of colour, folks with disabilities, queer communities, it impacts us all."
She says the group is not advising anyone to boycott the parties, which take place on blocked-off streets around Bell MTS Place during home playoff games.
"We're just saying, how can we make these parties so that everyone feels safe? That's the biggest thing."
Potashnik lives downtown and has been to the parties, which she says can be fun, but she has also heard racial slurs and racist humour while walking through the crowds.
"It's quite real," she said.
While there has been an emphasis on security and ensuring people feel physically safe, she suggested more consideration should be given to emotional safety — and that means changing the culture and tone around the marketing of the event.
"People have a very narrow definition of what safe is," Potashnik said, adding that her Facebook post "hit a nerve."
It had more than 500 comments and nearly 230 shares as of Thursday evening.
Potashnik expected some backlash but not to the extent she has received, with a lot of angry vitriol and many commenters suggesting she's hypocritical since her organization has the word "black" in it.
Others called the post ridiculous, stupid, a publicity stunt, a pathetic attempt at outrage, and a joke. At least one commenter said the post was creating the very thing Potashnik said she is trying to prevent — a rift in society.
"Please please don't over reach … the struggle is real but this is not one of them. Black Space, I am out," wrote someone who identified themselves as a black Jamaican Canadian and proud Winnipegger.
Tucked among the horde of angry responses are some supporters. Few, but some.
"Thank you for speaking up, can never hurt to try to be a bit more sensitive at least about wording and how we carry and present ourselves, good luck in your campaign," wrote one person.
Another pointed out that the hatefulness displayed in most of the comments justifies Potashnik's argument.
"The folks who are anti what we're doing and very defensive are people, I think, who are scared of change," Potashnik said.
"We just want to have a conversation. I don't think there's anything wrong with that."
She's pleased the issue has become such a firestorm because "hopefully, this will get people to think in a new way."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/whiteout-black-space-winnipeg-1.5094772
My 'new way of thinking' is that it sure takes some people along time to get triggered. Never-the-less it appears that after 32 years of the Whiteout tradition, some folks indeed are finding themselves traumatized by the display of crowds dressed in white clothing. Some compromise obviously must be found to appease those so troubled by sports fans celebrating their team. So how about anyone who thinks the Whiteout tradition should change start a fund raising campaign the proceeds of which will go to the purchase of Blue Jets apparel for every single fan now wearing white. They can then start a new Blueout tradition - unless of course someone somewhere somehow might be offended by that color.
The Whiteout started back in 1987 as Jets' fans response to the Calgary Flames' Sea of Red during the playoffs.Photo by: John Woods/Canadian Press
Winnipeg's Whiteout street parties are attracting thousands of Jets fans downtown to celebrate their team, but for some people the image of throngs dressed head-to-toe in all white can be threatening.
Among them is Alexa Potashnik, the founder of Black Space Winnipeg, a non-profit organization that lobbies for safe spaces for Winnipeg's black community.
She posted a message on the group's Facebook page on Wednesday morning, ahead of the Jets' first game of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs, suggesting the name of the playoff party be changed.
Along with it, she posted an image and the caption: "Have a look at these photos from past Jets pandemonium/fan appreciation. The four men wearing all white Jets outfits with pointed hoodies … remind you of anything?"
The Whiteout started back in 1987as Jets fans' response to the Calgary Flames' Sea of Red during the playoffs. That was at a time when the Jets home colours were white, not blue as they now are, but the tradition has stuck.
"I get the colour context 100 per cent, but it's the culture that we're talking about. It's the wording we're critiquing," Potashnik told CBC's Up to Speed host Ismaila Alfa on Thursday, citing a headline that called for turning Winnipeg's downtown white again as playoffs returned.
"It's triggering for some people. For marginalized communities — whether that's black communities, Indigenous people of colour, folks with disabilities, queer communities, it impacts us all."
She says the group is not advising anyone to boycott the parties, which take place on blocked-off streets around Bell MTS Place during home playoff games.
"We're just saying, how can we make these parties so that everyone feels safe? That's the biggest thing."
Potashnik lives downtown and has been to the parties, which she says can be fun, but she has also heard racial slurs and racist humour while walking through the crowds.
"It's quite real," she said.
While there has been an emphasis on security and ensuring people feel physically safe, she suggested more consideration should be given to emotional safety — and that means changing the culture and tone around the marketing of the event.
"People have a very narrow definition of what safe is," Potashnik said, adding that her Facebook post "hit a nerve."
It had more than 500 comments and nearly 230 shares as of Thursday evening.
Potashnik expected some backlash but not to the extent she has received, with a lot of angry vitriol and many commenters suggesting she's hypocritical since her organization has the word "black" in it.
Others called the post ridiculous, stupid, a publicity stunt, a pathetic attempt at outrage, and a joke. At least one commenter said the post was creating the very thing Potashnik said she is trying to prevent — a rift in society.
"Please please don't over reach … the struggle is real but this is not one of them. Black Space, I am out," wrote someone who identified themselves as a black Jamaican Canadian and proud Winnipegger.
Tucked among the horde of angry responses are some supporters. Few, but some.
"Thank you for speaking up, can never hurt to try to be a bit more sensitive at least about wording and how we carry and present ourselves, good luck in your campaign," wrote one person.
Another pointed out that the hatefulness displayed in most of the comments justifies Potashnik's argument.
"The folks who are anti what we're doing and very defensive are people, I think, who are scared of change," Potashnik said.
"We just want to have a conversation. I don't think there's anything wrong with that."
She's pleased the issue has become such a firestorm because "hopefully, this will get people to think in a new way."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/whiteout-black-space-winnipeg-1.5094772
My 'new way of thinking' is that it sure takes some people along time to get triggered. Never-the-less it appears that after 32 years of the Whiteout tradition, some folks indeed are finding themselves traumatized by the display of crowds dressed in white clothing. Some compromise obviously must be found to appease those so troubled by sports fans celebrating their team. So how about anyone who thinks the Whiteout tradition should change start a fund raising campaign the proceeds of which will go to the purchase of Blue Jets apparel for every single fan now wearing white. They can then start a new Blueout tradition - unless of course someone somewhere somehow might be offended by that color.
You mean when you have an "of colour out"?so I guess every time the power cuts its racist.
Right idea, wrong country. Mexico, set up the old folks there too. We also need that island on the way to Cuba, tell the snowbyrds Miami was flooded, more money is needed.. Tell everybody else it is the whole Caribbean.
Probably a bad time to point out that Lake Winterpeg is a sinkhole, the land is sinking.