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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Maybe you should be mad at your mom and stop blaming the Stampede for all your problems. 
I don't like the Stampede either and I gotta wonder what tourists who come here for it think of it all. My guess is that more than a few of them every year find themselves in the middle of Stampede Park and they say "we came all the way here for this? We coulda gone anywhere!"
It's better for the locals than it is for the tourists. If you come in from out of town, it's basically a regular city with a second-rate amusement park in the middle of it, and a rodeo. But for the people who live here, it's a week of slacking off at work, heavy drinking, pancake breakfasts, so it's good.
Oh yeah, and all this "attracts a million visitors", it's like Stampede Propaganda and we've heard it repeated so many times some people seem to believe it. If the turnstiles turn a million times at the park, it doesn't mean a million people came to Calgary. The vast majority of the people that go to the Stampede live in Calgary, and a lot of them go more than once. |
Uh a lot of people out here on the coast make the trip every year...in fact the stampede is pretty favorite trip for alot of lower mainland kids...Of course they are here for the bands/bars and atmosphere...then the rodeo..but the stampede is a pretty big deal for some people outside of Calgary...
There really is no bigger party in Western Canda...