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[PepsiFree]

Obviously Textcritic. “Lost scrolls”? Come on.

[TheScorpion]

I didn't say "most pointlessly verbose."

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I've taken pride in my lawn my whole adult life. Contrasting diagonal cuts to make a checkerboard, water, Weed Man...that type of stuff. I am done, though. I enjoy cutting it and I think a manicured lawn looks great, but they're hard to justify due to all the waste that goes into them. Time, chemicals, fuel, etc. I have a meeting with a xeroscaper next month. Long term, I think that's the play.

I’m not convinced that a xeroscaped yard has a less environmental impact. I did it to my back yard, and the amount of fuel, and resources involved in the process is quite likely more than the litre of fuel I used mowing it in a year, meaning it would take many years for it to pay off environmentally.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

How about we start talking about something a little more interesting, like preferred methods of Kraft Dinner preparation or perhaps a debate over which Calgarypuck moderator is the biggest nerd. I certainly have strong opinions on both topics!

Went to Costco Friday morning (best place to get massive bags of fertilizer and disposable gas mowers), and the mindless zombies that have no idea what they want still grind my gears. They should have special times or a day each week where shoppers are fitted with a timed shock collar. If your in there for more than 20mins the shocks start at a low setting, increasing every minute until you get into a checkout line.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It’s just one of those predictable opinions expressed online by people who feel they’re superior to muggles. Typically (as it was here) accompanied by sneers about the suburbs, minivans, consumerism, etc. I recognize my younger self in the posturing, so it elicits a chuckle rather than anger.

I love minivans; It's SUVs and trucks as mom taxis that suck.

I'm also sadly in deeply ensnared in consumer culture. I love Costco. And Dollarama. Gimme a deal and I'm in heaven. That's my discount cross to bear.

Suburban sprawl is objectively selfish behaviour. Humans happily live in a fraction of the space we use but I keep hearing about how the tiniest bit of discomfort or annoyance is unavoidable, and a sacrifice that can't be made, regardless of cost.

It's sad. Be better!

[mikephoen]

I've had to deal with two different people this week that don't understand that prices on US websites are in US dollars and that the Canadian dollar is not worth the same as the US dollar. How do people reach adulthood without understanding this?

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by mikephoen

I've had to deal with two different people this week that don't understand that prices on US websites are in US dollars and that the Canadian dollar is not worth the same as the US dollar. How do people reach adulthood without understanding this?

One of my big pet peeves is being asked for Canadian pricing on parts we buy from the States and having to explain why the CAD pricing is different every time they ask. I started a push to just tell them the US pricing, but then they’d insist on CAD.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

I'm also sadly in deeply ensnared in consumer culture. I love Costco. And Dollarama. Gimme a deal and I'm in heaven. That's my discount cross to bear.

DownInFlames had never heard of Aristippus of the Cyrenaics, a lesser-known follower of Socrates who maintained that the avoidance of trouble was the highest attainable good; however, he had lived his uneventful life according to this precept. In all respects except one (an inability to pass up a bargain, and which of us is entirely free from that?), he was a very moderate man. He did not go to extremes. His speech was proper and reserved; he rarely overate; he drank enough to be sociable and no more; he was far from rich and in no wise poor. He liked people and people liked him. Bearing all that in mind, Would you expect to find him in a lowlife pub on the seamier side of London's East End, taking out what is colloquially known as a 'contract' on someone he hardly knew?

[chubeyr1]

Originally Posted by Brendone

Went to Costco Friday morning (best place to get massive bags of fertilizer and disposable gas mowers), and the mindless zombies that have no idea what they want still grind my gears. They should have special times or a day each week where shoppers are fitted with a timed shock collar. If your in there for more than 20mins the shocks start at a low setting, increasing every minute until you get into a checkout line.

I have family visiting soon that will go to shop at Cross Iron Mills mall. They will be there as soon as they open until the moment they close. Then do the same thing for the next 4 days.

I mean they are from Winnipeg so that explains some of it.

I am invited to join them.

I would prefer to have a soccer player kick me in the nuts all day long rather than go shopping with them.

The soccer player will kill me in time. I go shopping all day long I kill myself.

For me neither activity is fun.

My hope is a judge needs to fill a jury and the sheriffs come in and make them all do jury duty. Mall is not that fun then!

[EldrickOnIce]

Nature has a good system. When it rains, grass is green. When it's dry, grass is brown. Not my place to challenge this process

[GGG]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It’s just one of those predictable opinions expressed online by people who feel they’re superior to muggles. Typically (as it was here) accompanied by sneers about the suburbs, minivans, consumerism, etc. I recognize my younger self in the posturing, so it elicits a chuckle rather than anger.

If you have a non-grass lawn you are superior to muggles or at least well ahead of them on the time / cost/ appearance parenteau frontier

[cam_wmh]

“Would of”

[jayswin]

Worse/worst transgressions as well.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce

Nature has a good system. When it rains, grass is green. When it's dry, grass is brown. Not my place to challenge this process

Sounds like someone who isn't able to dominate his or her surroundings. The true goal of turf grasses is to demonstrate ones superiority to nature - if I let it go brown, nature wins......but not on my watch *sound of sprinkler ticks in the background

[topfiverecords]

My neighbour waters his front lawn every day. Every single day. Just for it to be covered in snow for 7 months.

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by chubeyr1

I have family visiting soon that will go to shop at Cross Iron Mills mall. They will be there as soon as they open until the moment they close. Then do the same thing for the next 4 days.

I like shopping but not for 10 hours a day, 5 days in a row.

[Knut]

I have shifted away from a schedule for watering with our irrigation to watering as needed. Basically when my wife says “the grass needs watering” I turn it on from my app. Just enough to keep her happy but I have used a fraction of the water this year as I have in the past.

[soulchoice]

Originally Posted by chubeyr1

I have family visiting soon that will go to shop at Cross Iron Mills mall. They will be there as soon as they open until the moment they close. Then do the same thing for the next 4 days.

I mean they are from Winnipeg so that explains some of it.

I am invited to join them.

I would prefer to have a soccer player kick me in the nuts all day long rather than go shopping with them.

The soccer player will kill me in time. I go shopping all day long I kill myself.

For me neither activity is fun.

My hope is a judge needs to fill a jury and the sheriffs come in and make them all do jury duty. Mall is not that fun then!

They still do that now? I am surprised, as the shopping in Calgary is no different than Winnipeg for all intents and purposes. Maybe when Crossiron first opened up, but since then, Winnipeg also has an outlet mall, with pretty much the same outlets stores as here.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Regarding insane shopping days: Long ago I was in NYC for 3 days with an ex girlfriend, and her day choice was to spend the entire day in Macy’s. ####ing unreal.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by soulchoice

They still do that now? I am surprised, as the shopping in Calgary is no different than Winnipeg for all intents and purposes. Maybe when Crossiron first opened up, but since then, Winnipeg also has an outlet mall, with pretty much the same outlets stores as here.

No Tax I have a Sister in Law who does and insists that this is some how worth it.