And that's Canada, a country with all the daring forward-thinking of a defrosting lasagne.
The brainchild of childhood friends Austin Melrose, yes, his real surname is Melrose, and Zach Patterson, friends since the age of ten, Melrose Umbrella Co. is a daring, forward-thinking bar built by actual award-winning bartenders.
Emma Thompson defied this notion and took a "daring" step forward when she wore flats on the red carpet during the 2014 Sag Awards, and this was of course news worthy.
In Lower Manhattan, where the traffic lights still were not working, pedestrians dodged in between cars or crossed with their eyes forward, daring the cars to hit them.
Daring to look forward to England's next assignment, Boycott said: "We'll all be a bit nervous on Monday … the 'Scottish' day.
The mayor is considered a shoo-in for a second term with no opponent daring to step forward, but hapless political aides have botched the ritual task of gathering 2,000 signatures to certify his unchallenged position on the Democratic line in this overwhelmingly Democratic city.
It seems slightly comical that, say, Irvine Welsh's faithful rendering of his characters' speech was seen as such a daring step forward; Greenwood was there six decades before, and just about all the novel's speech is rendered authentically.
Even the ones who seem quite forward and daring often judge the average teen book as suitable for someone "old".
As they had done throughout the series, the Bulls double-teamed Philadelphia's All-Star forward relentlessly, daring his teammates to beat them.
Daring and forward-looking this piece is not, but the six players of Concertante rush avidly into its world of gentle waltz time and hothouse emotiveness, and do well by both.
