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[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Ketchup or no ketchup on KD?

I’m a ketchup guy. Love it. Also salt and pepper is required.

No ketchup, but yes to Bread & Butter pickles.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by GreatWhiteEbola

I always love it when the assumption is great parking when most of the time the designated parking is terrible and poorly designed

I've often wondered about that- for example at the grocery store. Wouldn't it make sense to have a handicap space right beside the carts? By making them all be the "closest to the store" I think that actually adds more walking for people.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Ketchup or no ketchup on KD?

I’m a ketchup guy. Love it. Also salt and pepper is required.

Ketchup as a kid, but upgraded to Salsa as an adult. Tablespoon of cream cheese too, nice and creamy

And the directions on the box are wrong. I NEVER add milk. It just waters it down

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Sliver

That change didn't do nearly as much as dropping the butter/marg by 1/3. Probably did it just to have lower calories per serving or something, but it did make it way worse. Try bumping it back up and you'll taste the KD of your youth.

I feel like the change wasn't a decade ago. I feel like it was in the last 5 years.

I noticed the butter/marg/milk modification as well, but I swear the cheese sauce is straight up sweeter than before. It doesn't taste as salty other orange cheese powders on like a Chicago popcorn mix or something like that. That salt level tastes like what I recall KD is supposed to taste like, but I have a hell of a time replicating it when making KD.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

I feel like the change wasn't a decade ago. I feel like it was in the last 5 years.

I noticed the butter/marg/milk modification as well, but I swear the cheese sauce is straight up sweeter than before. It doesn't taste as salty other orange cheese powders on like a Chicago popcorn mix or something like that. That salt level tastes like what I recall KD is supposed to taste like, but I have a hell of a time replicating it when making KD.

You could be right on that...I'm not certain.

Stoned Wheat Thins definitely suck compared to the original recipe, too.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

Originally Posted by ken0042

I've often wondered about that- for example at the grocery store. Wouldn't it make sense to have a handicap space right beside the carts? By making them all be the "closest to the store" I think that actually adds more walking for people.

Good point, in this instance, I advocate for the maximum required designated accessible stalls within 30m of the designated accessible entrance, then I ask for limited mobility stalls to be designated at or near the cart corrals. There is much more to it, but basically, that's what my thoughts are on the parking locations.

Just an FYI for everyone; handicap stalls/parking, and disabled stalls/parking is incorrect. The preference is accessible stalls/parking, do with that what you will. TIA

I should add that I don't care where I park (as long as there isn't 2 feet of snow) I just need the room to get my chair out of my truck, which requires the doors to open fully. Costco parking is done right.

[WhiteTiger]

This whole '10 under' thing that seemed to pop up during the last couple years now seems to have gone to '20 under'.

If you can't even drive at or near the speed limit on dry roads and clear skies, then you shouldn't be driving.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

This whole '10 under' thing that seemed to pop up during the last couple years now seems to have gone to '20 under'.

If you can't even drive at or near the speed limit on dry roads and clear skies, then you shouldn't be driving.

Oh we've got bigger problems with our level of driver education...

https://twitter.com/user/status/1646891578945069056

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by bigtime

oh we've got bigger problems with our level of driver education...

Fixed

https://twitter.com/user/status/1646891578945069056

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Fixed

https://twitter.com/user/status/1646891578945069056

My brain was stuck in youtube mode for some reason, wrong tags!

[Fuzz]

Presumably flashing red lights were on the second GDL test that no one took...

[Bigtime]

I counted only two full stops in that entire video, one of which was a Calgary Transit bus.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Oh we've got bigger problems with our level of driver education...

Taking a defensive driving course when I was just starting out made me assume that every other driver was a ####ing useless moron and a sack of ####.

The assumption has served me well driving all these years (and in life ).

[Table 5]

Maybe just a coincidence, but I've noticed a rise in the disregarded for road rules lately. Like some people seem to think that if they don't agree with a rule, they don't absolutely have to follow it.

The bridge that goes from the Zoo to Bridgeland has been under construction for the last year or so, and thus there is a no-turning sign onto Memorial. For most of the project, everyone followed along...but lately it seems like people have just decided that rule is too annoying, so no longer applies. I pass that bridge every day, and there is now a 50/50 chance that the person in front of me will turn illegally. I agree it's a bit of stupid rule there, but it's still against the law.

Same thing coming down the Edmonton Trail hill in the mornings, I see people making illegal turns into Bridgeland, despite it disrupting traffic and being potentially dangerous.

[Wormius]

It is so off-putting looking at files and someone or some application sets the file extension in uppercase.

randomcrap.PDF

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Maybe just a coincidence, but I've noticed a rise in the disregarded for road rules lately. Like some people seem to think that if they don't agree with a rule, they don't absolutely have to follow it.

The bridge that goes from the Zoo to Bridgeland has been under construction for the last year or so, and thus there is a no-turning sign onto Bow Trail. For most of the project, everyone followed along...but lately it seems like people have just decided that rule is too annoying, so no longer applies. I pass that bridge every day, and there is now a 50/50 chance that the person in front of me will turn illegally. I agree it's a bit of stupid rule there, but it's still against the law.

Same thing coming down the Edmonton Trail hill in the mornings, I see people making illegal turns into Bridgeland, despite it disrupting traffic and being potentially dangerous.

I was with you until you mentioned that specific turn. The rule makes sense, actually, as you don’t want someone stopping waiting for an opportunity to turn there while it’s a single lane situation. But if nobody is coming? I’m absolutely turning there instead of trucking ahead and doing a U-turn to get onto Memorial west.

Same thing with the video above. “Full stop” is kind of… pointless. The issue with that video of flashing reds is the people who blazed right through and the people who thought it was a red light. There are significant worse things than rolling stops.

[btimbit]

I like this vid from this morning on reddit. Civic stops for light, Bimmer says "Screw that" and passes using the turn bay

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calgary/com...ne_to_pass_on/

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I was with you until you mentioned that specific turn. The rule makes sense, actually, as you don’t want someone stopping waiting for an opportunity to turn there while it’s a single lane situation. But if nobody is coming? I’m absolutely turning there instead of trucking ahead and doing a U-turn to get onto Memorial west.

Same thing with the video above. “Full stop” is kind of… pointless. The issue with that video of flashing reds is the people who blazed right through and the people who thought it was a red light. There are significant worse things than rolling stops.

Noted so that all drivers don't complain about us rolling stop on bikes going forward (which we are in a much more superior position to do with our amazing visibility and situational awareness versus a vehicle).

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Noted so that all drivers don't complain about us rolling stop on bikes going forward (which we are in a much more superior position to do with our amazing visibility and situational awareness versus a vehicle).

I really stopped caring with bikes just because when I actually stopped to think about it, it takes so long for them to get going again that it really does make more sense for them to just slow down and treat it like a yield

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

The rule makes sense, actually, as you don’t want someone stopping waiting for an opportunity to turn there while it’s a single lane situation. But if nobody is coming? I’m absolutely turning there instead of trucking ahead and doing a U-turn to get onto Memorial west.

You've demonstrated exactly what I was talking about...people following the rules if/when they deem them worthy. I can see the argument for or against that sign (personally I think enough people turn there that it warrants waiting if need be), but it is still a No Left Turns sign, not a No-left-turns-unless-Pepsi-deems-it-cool sign.