You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Yes we are.. but he figured he'd get Social 30 out of the way for Grade 12 next year.

He also worked his 1st job at the Stampede this year... So my wife made me drive him to and from work everyday. Lok

I had to ride my bike home from Chi-Chis at 3:00 am. No rides from ma and pa.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Hey, my best friends were asian growing up. They know how to parent, so I have culturally appropriated the style for myself and kids. Much to their chagrin.

Do you beat them with the handle of a feather duster? hahaha

We are so soft now. The worst punishment I could give my son was make him sit in a dark basement for 2 hours after he opened up 20 booster packs of the original Pokemon booster packs that i had for 25 years. I wanted to beat him....


Ugh Just looked it up. They are around $900us a pack now

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by fotze2

Why not 4.2?

Mine definitely not 4.0.

Max at U of C is still 4.0 despite the fact that they now give out A+s. If you transfer to a different school some will consider them as 4.3.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Do you beat them with the handle of a feather duster? hahaha

We are so soft now. The worst punishment I could give my son was make him sit in a dark basement for 2 hours after he opened up 20 booster packs of the original Pokemon booster packs that i had for 25 years. I wanted to beat him....


Ugh Just looked it up. They are around $900us a pack now

"I guess you weren't hit enough and your ass is itchy."

vs

"Your Pokemon cards and stuffed animals will go time out if you don't listen! AGH!"

Pros and cons.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Do you beat them with the handle of a feather duster? hahaha

We are so soft now. The worst punishment I could give my son was make him sit in a dark basement for 2 hours after he opened up 20 booster packs of the original Pokemon booster packs that i had for 25 years. I wanted to beat him....


Ugh Just looked it up. They are around $900us a pack now

No, he was Filipino and his mom would would regularly lose her mind and scream at him for who knows what, he'd tell her to F off because she couldn't speak English but those 3 am menudo and adobo feasts were well worth it.

For some reason she had a trans am she'd never drive but we would sneak out and rip around the city drinking Canada cooler rockaberry and Molson goldens and sniffing each others fingers with whoever took a liking to us.

He ended up killing himself because his girlfriend dumped him for that doosh guy whos parents own Osteria de Medici. Terrigno. Hate that place.

[puffnstuff]

That post just went everywhere all at once...

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

That post just went everywhere all at once...

That's how I roll, try sleeping with this brain, smartass.

[Minnie]

I had to drive in the city today. Jeebus McGillicutty Christos. That is all.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Minnie

I had to drive in the city today. Jeebus McGillicutty Christos. That is all.

Wednesday and Thursday are the days that absolutely everyone goes into work and the traffic gets insane.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Wednesday and Thursday are the days that absolutely everyone goes into work and the traffic gets insane.

Especially considering that half the roads in the City are torn apart, so everyone tries and finds back-roads and workarounds so the whole City is just nuts.

[topfiverecords]

Speaking of roads and traffic. So today I'm heading west on Memorial near the Centre St. bridge and I couldn't believe my eyes. About 30 cars ahead properly completed a precise zipper merge at the end of the lane. And just as I'm about 8 cars back this one dolt beside me proves he only wears clothes with buttons, stops and throws his blinker on trying to get ahead of me while the 7 cars ahead of him had already long moved to the front and gotten in.

I didn't let him in.

[Minnie]

I appreciate a finely done zipper merge. Today was not that day, lol, because no one did it.

I normally don't mind driving in the city all that much. Especially on a beautiful summer day - windows down, tunes going, just cruising along. But my God, I needed a dumbrella today, because there was a large amount of stupid out there. So many near misses, people just not paying attention. I only had one moment where I had a close call but I anticipated this woman's move & she absolutely did what I thought she was going to do, but I still had to lay on the horn because she didn't look, at all. But, I sure watched a lot of lucky misses, some of which I still can't quite figure out how they didn't actually turn into accidents. It was wild out there today, just an utter gong show from 1130 this morning until now. I jumped off Stoney even, & took dirt roads out of the city because I couldn't deal with the crazy anymore.

[SportsJunky]

Originally Posted by troutman

I had to ride my bike home from Chi-Chis at 3:00 am. No rides from ma and pa.

Yep yep. I walked home in the dead of the night from busboy jobs at Chi Chis and Longhorns. Those were cold winter walks to Southwood.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Minnie

I had to drive in the city today. Jeebus McGillicutty Christos. That is all.

Metro Calgary is expected to reach 2 million people in 5 years.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by troutman

Metro Calgary is expected to reach 2 million people in 5 years.

Make it stop.

Calgary was perfect when it was 750k.

Its simply not built to support 2M. At least not on roads within the ring.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Minnie

I had to drive in the city today. Jeebus McGillicutty Christos. That is all.

I try to avoid any trip into Calgary unless it's necessary. If I have to, I try to avoid the Deerfoot 500 and all the idiot drivers on it. The population has grown so much that the road infrastructure can't handle the volume of traffic on the roads.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by troutman

I had to ride my bike home from Chi-Chis at 3:00 am. No rides from ma and pa.

I had to walk home from McDonalds on McLeod Trail to my home in Maple Ridge late at night.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Dion

I had to walk home from McDonalds on McLeod Trail to my home in Maple Ridge late at night.

Did they plant a lot of Maples in Maple Ridge, or is the name a marketing lie?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Make it stop.

Calgary was perfect when it was 750k.

Its simply not built to support 2M. At least not on roads within the ring.

Its not even just that, you also have to account for all of the parasite communities that commute in every day. Thats a huge chunk of traffic too.

[lazypucker]

Originally Posted by troutman

Metro Calgary is expected to reach 2 million people in 5 years.

Does Metro Calgary include surrounding towns like Cochrane and Airdrie (which is only 10 minutes from downtown Calgary)?