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

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Mug Shotz salt and pepper with the fried peppers and onions is the staple, but their sour cream and onion with bacon is pretty great. I haven't been there in a while. Tequila lime is also surprisingly great.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

I’m okay with cheap wings no longer being a thing. You shouldn’t be able to consume an acre of chicken parts for less than $5.

Then the terrorists have truly won...

[Sliver]

Am I misremembering, or did Brewster's used to have $0.05 wings in the mid-nineties? Even poor me could afford to go hog wild on those.

Beer was still served warm, though, so that was fataing sick.

[Macman]

I’ve been getting wings from the buffet at my local Safeway and they’re not bad. They’re sold by the 100g.

[guzzy]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Mug Shotz is really that good. It’s worth the drive from wherever you live.

The beer selection is laughable though.

They added 4 craft taps a few months ago.

[cam_wmh]

What is the gross smell in Montgomery? The husky RV dump station?

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

What is the gross smell in Montgomery? The husky RV dump station?

They don't know.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9011200/c...calgary-smell/

[PaperBagger'14]

There is a garbage smell near the garbage dump. In sports news Edmonton is No Good.

[Hemi-Cuda]

After returning from a week long trip to the Okanagan I have a bevy of ground gears

1. How is it that an $100,000 Mercedes SUV doesn't come standard with cruise control? At least that's the only reason I can come up with for having to pass the same GLS a dozen times between Canmore and Calgary. My cruise was set at 125, and he seemed to bounce between 110-140 at random intervals

2. Why is it that some drivers are unwilling to drive faster than 110 in the left lane until I end up passing them on the right, and then suddenly they're riding my ass at 125? Are they incapable of speeding unless someone shows them how? Or are they just so insecure in their manhood that the thought of someone actually passing them sends them over the edge?

3. It's madding how all it takes is one timid driver towing a trailer to completely ruin an otherwise nice drive for dozens of people by refusing to drive faster than 70 km/h through the mountains. That is of course until they hit a passing lane and gun it to 100. I just can't comprehend the lack of self awareness to not be bothered by the mile long line of traffic behind you

Lastly, why is BC so much better at setting speed limits than Alberta? The Coquihalla is a winding highway with lots of elevation changes and a 120 km/h upper limit, while the QE2 is completely flat and straight for 90% of it's run but it's locked at 110. And HWY 1 through Banff has extra wide medians with millions of dollars worth of wildlife mitigation, yet is stuck at 90 km/h. A few hours down the road though in BC the same road is single lane with no wildlife fences or crossings, yet the speed is 100 km/h around Revelstoke. It seems to me that BC highways are designed for optimal traffic flow while Alberta is more concerned with creating honeypots for cops

[GGG]

National parks you have Noise and scenery. Apparently car noise is a significant issue for animals. Then you have the people who are just pulling off randomly or veer out of lanes because they are looking at the mountains.

I don’t think 90 is reasonable but the stretch from Canmore to Lake Louise should be lower than the rest of the highway as risks are different.

BC had a policy to set roads based on design speeds and 80th percentile speeds and adjusted a bunch of speed limits. They also found a significant increase in deaths.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4857985

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

After returning from a week long trip to the Okanagan I have a bevy of ground gears

1. How is it that an $100,000 Mercedes SUV doesn't come standard with cruise control? At least that's the only reason I can come up with for having to pass the same GLS a dozen times between Canmore and Calgary. My cruise was set at 125, and he seemed to bounce between 110-140 at random intervals

2. Why is it that some drivers are unwilling to drive faster than 110 in the left lane until I end up passing them on the right, and then suddenly they're riding my ass at 125? Are they incapable of speeding unless someone shows them how? Or are they just so insecure in their manhood that the thought of someone actually passing them sends them over the edge?

3. It's madding how all it takes is one timid driver towing a trailer to completely ruin an otherwise nice drive for dozens of people by refusing to drive faster than 70 km/h through the mountains. That is of course until they hit a passing lane and gun it to 100. I just can't comprehend the lack of self awareness to not be bothered by the mile long line of traffic behind you

Lastly, why is BC so much better at setting speed limits than Alberta? The Coquihalla is a winding highway with lots of elevation changes and a 120 km/h upper limit, while the QE2 is completely flat and straight for 90% of it's run but it's locked at 110. And HWY 1 through Banff has extra wide medians with millions of dollars worth of wildlife mitigation, yet is stuck at 90 km/h. A few hours down the road though in BC the same road is single lane with no wildlife fences or crossings, yet the speed is 100 km/h around Revelstoke. It seems to me that BC highways are designed for optimal traffic flow while Alberta is more concerned with creating honeypots for cops

I honestly wonder if its about people not paying attention until someone passes them and snaps them out of it.

Its like when I'm driving in the City and you see someone dawdling and you work to get around them and then they start driving like scared rabbits.

"Oh! I better floor it!!"

Their level is either 'senseless dawdling' or 'frantic insanity.'

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Locke

I honestly wonder if its about people not paying attention until someone passes them and snaps them out of it.

Its like when I'm driving in the City and you see someone dawdling and you work to get around them and then they start driving like scared rabbits.

"Oh! I better floor it!!"

Their level is either 'senseless dawdling' or 'frantic insanity.'

I have an ex friend who likes to be a dick while driving the speed limit in the left lane of the Deerfoot. I once give him #### for doing that and he just laughed. Now you know why he's an ex friend.

[White Out 403]

on deerfoot yesterday this utter D bag was weaving in and out of traffic going 130, no signaling

[Dion]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

on deerfoot yesterday this utter D bag was weaving in and out of traffic going 130, no signaling

I see it all the time when I make a rare trip into Calgary. Drivers not driving in the proper lane with others doing well under the speed limit in other lanes. Frankly i'm surprised there not more accidents than there are on the Deerfoot.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Dion

I see it all the time when I make a rare trip into Calgary. Drivers not driving in the proper lane with others doing well under the speed limit in other lanes. Frankly i'm surprised there not more accidents than there are on the Deerfoot.

There are.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

There are.

The less the better in my case

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by Dion

I see it all the time when I make a rare trip into Calgary. Drivers not driving in the proper lane with others doing well under the speed limit in other lanes. Frankly i'm surprised there not more accidents than there are on the Deerfoot.

This one drives me utterly bonkers. It feels like "20 under" has become the new "10 over".

It's bad on roads like Deerfoot...it's outright brutal on some of the 50-60 roads.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

This one drives me utterly bonkers. It feels like "20 under" has become the new "10 over".

It's bad on roads like Deerfoot...it's outright brutal on some of the 50-60 roads.

Lol! I bitch about this all the time. Especially in residential neighbourhoods.

I call them the '40ers.'

The limit is 50 or 60? They do 40.

Playground Zone? You better believe they're doing 40.

"This is my speed. This is The Way."

Crawling through normal roads and burning through Playground Zones.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

This one drives me utterly bonkers. It feels like "20 under" has become the new "10 over".

It's bad on roads like Deerfoot...[B/]it's outright brutal on some of the 50-60 roads.[/B]

It's the opposite of where I live, where everyone drives above the limit on my street. Years ago a neighbour got a speed gun to record the speeds of drivers with many doing 10 to 20 above the limit. Old timers reliving their youth.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

I get it that a gear grinder is the guy doing the speed limit in the left lane. He should definitely pull into the right. On the long weekend though, I saw a Cadillac pull up to a guy, passed him on the right and then back over to the left with what looked like inches to spare. Is it cool to endanger everyone to prove a point? Such a dick move, I was speechless.