06-16-2022, 06:36 PM
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#101
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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One of my neighbours is attempting to mow his whole corner lot house lawn with a weed whacker. The lawn looks like it has bed head.
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06-17-2022, 01:49 AM
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#102
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
One of my neighbours is attempting to mow his whole corner lot house lawn with a weed whacker. The lawn looks like it has bed head.
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Pics or it didn’t happen
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06-17-2022, 07:12 AM
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#103
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Near Fish Creek
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
One of my neighbours is attempting to mow his whole corner lot house lawn with a weed whacker. The lawn looks like it has bed head.
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Ahem, this is the random thought thread not the random event thread.
The thread police have been contacted.
Wondering if he put seed on his lawn and does not want to use the mower for fear of sucking up the seed?
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06-17-2022, 07:26 AM
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#104
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Franchise Player
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I have a neighbour that.does the same thing. He also wraps a garbage bag around his legs while he does it.
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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
Looks like you'll need one long before I will. May I suggest deflection king?
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06-17-2022, 07:36 AM
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#105
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15
I have a neighbour that.does the same thing. He also wraps a garbage bag around his legs while he does it.
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He has good reason for that.
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06-17-2022, 08:46 AM
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#106
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Pics or it didn’t happen
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I’ll see what I can do. He is also the guy that shovels and scrapes his - again a large corner lot sidewalk - at midnight during the middle of the week in winter. He is pretty old, looks retired so probably has no concept of time, I imagine.
Random thought- when you retire, does your circadian clock just take over if you have no motivation to follow a routine?
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06-17-2022, 05:01 PM
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#107
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Lifetime Suspension
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Was walking through Watermark Tower yesterday during the lunch hour yesterday and two Sheriff officers and a couple court officials were handing out summons for jurors, it was an utterly bizarre site. They were posted at the escalators at the south of the building and the entrance way to the +15 at the north side of Holt Renfrew: the group I was with came west from that +15. Anyone that got the paper, and after a few questions, were forced to wait until a big enough group was together then shuffled off to the court house.
Doing some digging this afternoon they haven't done that since the early 90s.
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06-17-2022, 06:45 PM
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#108
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
There are some pretty crazy notions that people believe freedom fighters and the convoy protestors have taken over the symbols of Canada like the flag. It is absurd in my opinion but there was a bit of discussion about this after the Ottawa protest either in the freedum thread or the Covid morons thread.
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To be fair, back a few months ago when they were still doing their weekly stupid "Freedom Rally" down 17th Ave every Saturday afternoon, it definitely felt like that. I remember it was during the Olympics, which I always like to support by wearing Canadian Olympic gear, and I recall feeling like I couldn't wear it on weekends when I'm off work because I'd probably get roped in with those clowns by people (I live just off 17th and usually stroll down it on weekends). It was frustrating.
Fortunately, since the City finally shut down the Idiots on Patrol parade, I feel like it's gotten away from that association again, thank god.
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06-17-2022, 07:17 PM
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#109
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CroFlames
I flew a Canada flag off my house during WC qualifying matches (I have an American neighbor; we had fun with it).
But when those convoy idiots blockaded the border, I took it down.
Maybe I'm a coward, but I certainly didn't want my other neighbors thinking I supported those clowns at the border.
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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
It’s an opinion shared by the overwhelming majority of the people I know (in Ontario for context).
Kinda adds to the whole “psy op” angle, aim to use the flag as their symbol with the added bonus knocking Canadians patriotism down a notch.
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…. Shocking: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...-day-1.6492504
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Freedom Convoy protesters set to return to Ottawa for Canada Day, stay through summer
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06-17-2022, 07:20 PM
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#110
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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Stay? In jail through summer?
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06-17-2022, 07:32 PM
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#111
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cam_wmh
Pics or it didn’t happen
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Here it is! The lawn of a guy who apparently chose a weed whacker over a lawn mower.
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06-17-2022, 07:37 PM
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#112
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Royal Oak
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
Here it is! The lawn of a guy who apparently chose a weed whacker over a lawn mower.
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Looks like he's trying to make his yard look like a US Open course.
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06-17-2022, 07:51 PM
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#113
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Park Hyatt Tokyo
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When your mower dies and your neighbour stands in his window watching you instead of coming out to offer borrowing his.
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06-17-2022, 07:54 PM
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#114
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
Here it is! The lawn of a guy who apparently chose a weed whacker over a lawn mower.
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06-18-2022, 12:26 PM
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#115
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Franchise Player
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Speaking of flags, my Canada flag is coming down this weekend to be replaced with my Oil Kings flag for the Memorial Cup this week.
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06-18-2022, 12:28 PM
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#116
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cuz
Looks like he's trying to make his yard look like a US Open course.
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I worked at a golf course for three summers when going to college. I could replicate a mower with a good gas whipper but this is what happens when you aren’t very good or just don’t care.
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06-18-2022, 12:59 PM
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#117
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I worked at a golf course for three summers when going to college. I could replicate a mower with a good gas whipper but this is what happens when you aren’t very good or just don’t care.
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I think there is some level of uncaring right now. Everyone’s home on the block have had their utilities marked in advance of Telus coming to install fibre. We have had the utility marker flags on our lawn for well over a month now and the contractors are still pretty far up the street from us. Some yards look really bad from the construction and people seem to be afraid of lifting the flags out or mowing around them, so there are a lot of places where the grass is about ready to seed.
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06-18-2022, 02:44 PM
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#118
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Uncle Chester
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I'm at my hotel drinking a beer next to Greg Proops.
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06-18-2022, 03:28 PM
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#119
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor
Was walking through Watermark Tower yesterday during the lunch hour yesterday and two Sheriff officers and a couple court officials were handing out summons for jurors, it was an utterly bizarre site. They were posted at the escalators at the south of the building and the entrance way to the +15 at the north side of Holt Renfrew: the group I was with came west from that +15. Anyone that got the paper, and after a few questions, were forced to wait until a big enough group was together then shuffled off to the court house.
Doing some digging this afternoon they haven't done that since the early 90s.
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Looks like a story and twitter video has surfaced
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2022/06/...ons-jury-duty/
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06-18-2022, 04:49 PM
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#120
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Toronto
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor
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Wow. Didn't know this existed!
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