08-09-2019, 11:48 PM
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#521
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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Being home tonight after 2 weeks on the road, makes me really happy.
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08-10-2019, 12:32 PM
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#522
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Minnie
Being home tonight after 2 weeks on the road, makes me really happy.
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Haha, mine is:
Leaving for two weeks of fishing in northern Saskatchewan.
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08-10-2019, 02:38 PM
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#523
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Canadianman
Haha, mine is:
Leaving for two weeks of fishing in northern Saskatchewan.
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Nice!!
Leaving on Friday for another weekend of camping up toward Edmonton, then another week in September, in BC, around Radium. But, needed a wee bit of home time. 
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08-16-2019, 11:09 PM
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#524
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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08-17-2019, 07:38 AM
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#525
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Franchise Player
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Leaving on vacation today and seeing nothing but sunshine and low thirties in the forecast. Screw you Calgary summer this year, this makes me happy.
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08-17-2019, 09:33 AM
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#526
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Uncle Chester
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Drank entirely too much last night and yet, no hangover today.
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08-17-2019, 10:20 AM
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#527
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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Originally Posted by Dion
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quite the 'dawg' pile 
i'll see myself out
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08-17-2019, 03:16 PM
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#528
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indiana
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Optimistic Statistics
-Since 1990,global extreme poverty has decreased from 35% to 9%. By 2030, it will be 5%.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
-Since 1950, global life expectancy has increased from 45.8 years to 72 years. That means humans live 0.4 years longer per year, which is crazy.
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
-The world is gaining vegetation, and the number of plants is increasing. Since 2003 plant growth has increased by over 4 billion tonnes (measured in carbon). Nearly every country is reforesting.
https://www.iflscience.com/environme...tting-greener/
-Global literacy has increased from 42% in 1960 to 86% in 2015
https://ourworldindata.org/literacy
-Almost half the world is now middle class, and that number grows by 150 million each year
https://www.brookings.edu/research/t...iddle-class-2/
-In 2002, there were 442,000 homicides on earth. In 2017, there were only 405,000 homicides. This is despite the fact that the global population increased by almost 2 billion people in that time span.
https://ourworldindata.org/homicides
-Global hunger has almost been eradicated. Child labour is now very rare. More hours are spent on leisure time. More money is also spent on leisure.
https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
-Global hunger is quickly being eradicated. Child labour is now very rare. More hours are spent on leisure time. More money is also spent on leisure.
https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/72729...racy-good-news
It's easy to think that the world is going into the dumpster. But really, it has been improving in almost every human metric.
If only the pacific garbage patch and habitat loss could be handled as well as these other issues.
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08-21-2019, 09:49 PM
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#529
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane
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I just discharged myself from the hospital against doctors advice and feel like a total bad ass. It’s the kind of thing I’ve only ever seen action movie heroes do.
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The masses of humanity have always had to surf.
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08-21-2019, 11:07 PM
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#530
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FireGilbert
I just discharged myself from the hospital against doctors advice and feel like a total bad ass. It’s the kind of thing I’ve only ever seen action movie heroes do.
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More info needed
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08-22-2019, 12:08 AM
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#531
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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I served 4 aces in tennis last night. My opponents weren't too happy with me 
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08-22-2019, 05:24 AM
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#532
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Brisbane
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Originally Posted by 8 Ball
More info needed
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It went something like this:
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08-22-2019, 07:22 AM
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#533
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Alberta
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getting back into the Beatles.
the movie Yesterday spurred me to do so after not really listening to their catalogue in about 15 years.
forgot how much I loved their music.
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08-23-2019, 11:37 AM
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#534
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: On your last nerve...:D
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Today, I am very happy that geneticists exist, that after nearly 10 years, we finally have a solid diagnosis after multiple incorrect diagnoses and while there is no cure, there are some supportive treatment options. Also very glad that the geneticist has access to funding to do further gene studies to determine the mutation/variant in order to name the subtype so that treatment can be more specifically tailored.
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08-23-2019, 08:51 PM
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#535
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Minnie
Today, I am very happy that geneticists exist, that after nearly 10 years, we finally have a solid diagnosis after multiple incorrect diagnoses and while there is no cure, there are some supportive treatment options. Also very glad that the geneticist has access to funding to do further gene studies to determine the mutation/variant in order to name the subtype so that treatment can be more specifically tailored.
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My sister went through this with my nephew, he was finally diagnosed with a very rare disorder.
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08-25-2019, 08:54 PM
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#536
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Spartanville
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I sat in a zodiac boat yesterday as a humpback whale did a full breach about 50m away. Was just one of those wow moments.
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08-28-2019, 06:20 PM
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#537
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Small victories?
Even though Costco, Superstore, and Coop still had the locks.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/gas-no...umps-1.4568450
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08-29-2019, 09:26 AM
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#538
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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the rec-hockey league i play in had our captains meeting last night - that makes me happy becuz it means the league starts up again next week!!!!
another great thing is you get to see who some of the new teams are. we have a new team in our div called the fighting dolphins (which is a pretty great name) but the highlight of the night would have been the new team in the div below ours called the 'all canadian meat missiles'. ha! ha! it would be hard to play them becuz i'd be giggling the entire game!
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08-29-2019, 09:42 AM
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#539
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Wormius
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Even though Petro Canada is towards the bottom of my gas station preference list (crap rewards program, prices usually higher than nearby competition), I welcome the reintroduction of the clips. Their absence always puzzled me, especially when other stations had them.
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08-29-2019, 09:46 AM
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#540
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Shell has the locks. It blows in the winter filling up a full size truck at -20C without the locks.
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