Sayanara, Old Man Winter! - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

4X4 · 03-10-2009, 06:39 PM

Many of you will think I'm crazy. That I'm testing fate? That I'm inviting this a-hole to stay for ANOTHER 6 weeks? I scoff at you non-believers. I think that the almighty CP oracle can combine our efforts to shuuuuun this pr1ck into hibernation until halloween. Sure, he'll have his obligatory swan song with a mid-April dump. And it'll inevitably snow on MayLong. And maybe even a HALEstorm in August. BUT THAT'S IT!

I demand an end to minus 100. This isn't funny anymore. I'm the biggest winter-lover I know and even I'm sick of this crap. Of course, much more specifically, I'm sick of lazy people that don't brush the snow off their cars and then drive like morons because they cant see. But I digress.

From now on there'll be less winter around here and more spring. You're no longer welcome in our city you cold hearted old man! The chinook rolls in on Thursday. You've worn out your welcome! Beat it!

Cowboy89 · 03-10-2009, 06:42 PM

Does this thread coincide with a bunch of encounters with 'strugglers' out on the roads since the last snow storm?

GreatWhiteEbola · 03-10-2009, 07:38 PM

I drive QEII to Red Deer, Monday mornings. This time was epic! The roads were terrible, I contest though, if you can't drive in these conditions please pull off the road. Please don't drive in the fast lane at 50 km/h and have even the slowest of cautionary tractor trailers passing you in the slow lane. In this case it was a female driving a white sporttrac adreneline while talking on her cell phone. FREAKING UNREAL!! The 20" wheels with sport tires! C'mon!! On a cell too!!! Most likely getting coaching from an equally ignorant driver.
/rant

Please be gone winter, I want to be happy Monday mornings. Thank you.

Daradon · 03-10-2009, 07:59 PM

I hate March for this exact reason. You get a nice week or 2-12 and you think winter is gone and then BAM, -25.

At least in January that feels normal. March you never know what's going to happen.

But I hate to tell ya, this is pretty typical of March in Calgary. And generally we even get one last huge snowfall in April too, so we're not done quite yet.

4X4 · 03-10-2009, 08:04 PM

Bad drivers, jackets, girls NOT wearing skirts... There are lots of reasons to be good and tired of winter.

Berger_4_ · 03-10-2009, 08:14 PM

I'm in the same boat as you 4X4. I usually love winter, but this crap is getting ridiculous...time to break out the ol' fishing boat and head up to Pigeon or Buck for a little bit of pickerel fishing and beers. Dammit I can't wait for that.

Stranger · 03-10-2009, 08:20 PM

Damn you Smarch weather.....

Dion · 03-10-2009, 08:34 PM

Love your rants 4x4!

Last year at this time we had little or no snow on the ground. Yet i hear on the news that Deadmonton set a record low last night at a bone chilling - 42.

evilcougar · 03-10-2009, 08:52 PM

this is the worst winter in a long time. i peronally despise it. i'm not sure why i continue to live here....but, i do know it needs to end. i want to kick mother nature in the face with super energy legs for teasing us with a few gorgeous days and then dipping the temperatures down a good 30 degrees in one freakin day. see attached link in regards to kicking mother nature in the face with super engergy legs..LOLOL

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/517...rom-picnicface

SteveToms · 03-10-2009, 08:55 PM

I agree with 4X4, I want the snow gone, my car likes to be shiny, in winter it's not shiny. It's not happy and neither am I.

Dion · 03-10-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveToms

I agree with 4X4, I want the snow gone, my car likes to be shiny, in winter it's not shiny. It's not happy and neither am I.

Mine's nice and shiny. I make sure to wash it just before a cold snap sets in

Hack&Lube · 03-10-2009, 09:07 PM

As I've said time and time again. This is mother nature having her revenge on Al Gore and all the global warming hipsters pretending to know what their's talking about and that we puny humans can have an effect on global temperatures and that it's some kind of utterly irrefutable and totally scientifically agreed on done and finished phenonmenon.. She's showing him who's boss.

4X4 · 03-10-2009, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

As I've said time and time again. This is mother nature having her revenge on Al Gore and all the global warming hipsters pretending to know what their's talking about and that we puny humans can have an effect on global temperatures and that it's some kind of utterly irrefutable and totally scientifically agreed on done and finished phenonmenon.. She's showing him who's boss.

Yeah, well I think that Old Man Winter gave Mother Nature a Strawberry Shortcake. And us too.

jammies · 03-10-2009, 09:22 PM

I saw a girl outside in a short skirt today. Clearly I'm not ready for spring because it distracted me into almost running over this dude jaywalking with his cell phone in his ear.

Which brings us to an interesting legal question: would I be at fault for being mesmerized, or would he be at fault for walking out in front of the car just as the light turned green for me, or would she be at fault for being unseasonably sexy?

4X4 · 03-10-2009, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by jammies

I saw a girl outside in a short skirt today. Clearly I'm not ready for spring because it distracted me into almost running over this dude jaywalking with his cell phone in his ear.

Which brings us to an interesting legal question: would I be at fault for being mesmerized, or would he be at fault for walking out in front of the car just as the light turned green for me, or would she be at fault for being unseasonably sexy?

The girl is never at fault. Even though it's clearly her fault, if you punish girls for wearing things that make men crash, they might stop wearing them as often. That would suck.
Cell phone guy deserves to be hit just because he's a moron for yapping on a phone AND jaywalking. But legally, you'd still be at fault. Unless you ran. Fast. Pin it, bro!

Dion · 03-10-2009, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by 4X4

Yeah, well I think that Old Man Winter gave Mother Nature a Strawberry Shortcake. And us too.

With a few rasberries thrown in

troutman · 03-10-2009, 09:58 PM

What about sno-pitch?

Finny61 · 03-10-2009, 10:01 PM

The only entertainment today in this frigid hellhole was watching out my office window at cars sliding through the intersections. Lots of little bumps and knocks, mixed in with silent arguing and fist waving.

ken0042 · 03-10-2009, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Dion

Yet i hear on the news that Deadmonton set a record low last night at a bone chilling - 42.

Not even close. Environment Canada says it only got down to -31.

This is why I hate wind chill being expressed as a temperature. People always mix the two up, and -42 temperature is very different than -42 wind chill.

Dion · 03-10-2009, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ken0042

Not even close. Environment Canada says it only got down to -31.

This is why I hate wind chill being expressed as a temperature. People always mix the two up, and -42 temperature is very different than -42 wind chill.

I wasn't aware that wind chill was factored in. Good point!