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

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

If it makes you feel better I think you're an insufferable prick

That is some consolation. Thank you.

[curves2000]

What grinds my gears is how people defend this social decay like it's a nothing burger to them. I am still shocked by the comments I have read today. Perhaps some peoples brains are fried from years of their own drug abuse and they can't comprehend what is happening, or why if something happened to them, it really wouldn't matter to anybody on here, that is for sure.

When you go kiss your children to bed tonight, know how lucky they are to have you, until when someone like this kills you and then you just know the sad truth, your just garbage in the eyes of the general public. 2 little children lost their dad to this person in the last few days. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ents-1.7296180

I am also speaking as someone who doesn't have children.

Or know that if your sister or brother was dropping off their children at school and they were murdered at the school, in front of the children, your family member is well, worthless. No argument, let us just defend criminals, drug abuse and social decay. Let us minimize the impact that drugs is happening in society.

Maybe I will start a follow up to the gear grinder thread. "Ohh well" Posters can discuss assaults, robberies, sexual exploitations of their children, their parents being accosted, their sister murdered and their business and life's work going down the toilet.

We can collectively do a CP "Ohh wellllllllllllllllll" We can just brush it off.

Anyways I am out on this topic

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Okay, as many of you know I am a licensed chiropractor. However, I haven’t practiced in years and would rather refer to myself as a professor. Unfortunately, because it helps my credibility as a teacher, I continue to maintain a license. That requires continuing education credits.

Right now I am attending a conference to fulfill the requirements, and if I’m being fair, most speakers are science oriented and research based, so it’s mostly good information.

And then, of course, because they can’t help themselves, they invite one of these fringe speakers who is anti vaccine and ranted to everyone for an hour about the “plandemic”. People were lining up to get his book afterwards. Jesus ####ing tapdancing Christ. Why can’t this profession grow up?

I’m done. Don’t ever refer to me as a chiropractor again. I’m a bio med teacher.

et tu brute? I'm over here fighting the good fight for the ones still practicing and you throw your lot in with the rabble rousers over one fringe representative? And all of those that want the book? And all of those that the ones in attendance represent across the profession? It is disheartening and I agree the profession needs to do a MUCH better job gatekeeping and enforcing standards of practice. If its any consolation it does seem to moving in this direction in Canada but there is still the fringe that are wackos, like most professions and jobs. Ah well. It is funny how much more this bothers me than it does my wife. We discussed this and she said she gets the positive reinforcement everyday from most of her clients, is busier than she can handle and knows she runs her practice the right way. Ah well. I hope your research and teaching can help to spread some light to counter the 'dark side' so the profession can grow, even if you don't self identify as a member.

Go Panthers?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by curves2000

What grinds my gears is how people defend this social decay like it's a nothing burger to them. I am still shocked by the comments I have read today. Perhaps some peoples brains are fried from years of their own drug abuse and they can't comprehend what is happening, or why if something happened to them, it really wouldn't matter to anybody on here, that is for sure.

When you go kiss your children to bed tonight, know how lucky they are to have you, until when someone like this kills you and then you just know the sad truth, your just garbage in the eyes of the general public. 2 little children lost their dad to this person in the last few days. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ents-1.7296180

I am also speaking as someone who doesn't have children.

Or know that if your sister or brother was dropping off their children at school and they were murdered at the school, in front of the children, your family member is well, worthless. No argument, let us just defend criminals, drug abuse and social decay. Let us minimize the impact that drugs is happening in society.

Maybe I will start a follow up to the gear grinder thread. "Ohh well" Posters can discuss assaults, robberies, sexual exploitations of their children, their parents being accosted, their sister murdered and their business and life's work going down the toilet.

We can collectively do a CP "Ohh wellllllllllllllllll" We can just brush it off.

Anyways I am out on this topic

There is actually a thread where we talked about a lot of this stuff. You could always bump that.

You're not wrong to be frustrated by the problems associated with these drugs and the toll it takes on normies, but your understanding and analysis just seems a bit...curves2000ish is all.

https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=191254

[81MC]

####ing email dummies.

Email chain lands in inbox, clear that someone put a distribution list by mistake. Dozens of ‘please remove me from this’ reply alls, followed by a ‘please delete’ followed by a dozen more ‘ok’ replies followed by reply alls telling people to stop replying all.

Holy hell.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by Titan2

et tu brute? I'm over here fighting the good fight for the ones still practicing and you throw your lot in with the rabble rousers over one fringe representative? And all of those that want the book? And all of those that the ones in attendance represent across the profession? It is disheartening and I agree the profession needs to do a MUCH better job gatekeeping and enforcing standards of practice. If its any consolation it does seem to moving in this direction in Canada but there is still the fringe that are wackos, like most professions and jobs. Ah well. It is funny how much more this bothers me than it does my wife. We discussed this and she said she gets the positive reinforcement everyday from most of her clients, is busier than she can handle and knows she runs her practice the right way. Ah well. I hope your research and teaching can help to spread some light to counter the 'dark side' so the profession can grow, even if you don't self identify as a member.

Go Panthers?

I'll never admonish anyone who understands how to deal in science and data, so you and I are probably square (although I am assuming a lot about your position), but I've been on the fence for a long time, really since I graduated. I had hope because throughout the last few years I heard very little anti vaccine rhetoric from chiros, hoping that perhaps many had learned a valuable lesson about infectious diseases. But nope, the last few days made me realize that this is an anti-intellectual cult, and I want no part of it anymore.

It sucks, because there are a lot of good things in chiropractic such as advocating for nutrition, exercise, healthy lifestyle, and even some cutting edge science. But that all is for naught if you continue to demonize what is perhaps the greatest public health measure of all time, and especially continue to ignore mounds and mounds of data. It's stupid, and I'm done with it.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

I actually experienced this first-hand for the first time Tuesday evening. It has many elements of former recent gear grinders, as it features downtown bike lanes, rollerblading, and pit bulls with trashy irresponsible owners:

I was rollerblading in the bike lane downtown approaching an intersection, where this trashy looking downtown couple was jaywalking across with a pit bull, towards me. Could tell it was timing out that we were going to get to the end of the intersection at the same time, but I figured they'd yield for me since I had the green (and moving fast on blades) and they didn't. Of course they didn't do this, however, and walked right in front of me.

If you've ever rollerbladed or skateboarded before (wheels are similar), you'll know the sound seems to spook some dogs. They'll freak out, start barking at you and try to come after you. Usually it's mostly just little dogs as they're jumpy and filled with Napoleon Syndrome, bigger dogs usually don't care (though there's been occasions). Usually I just roll my eyes as it's a shih-tzu or terrier or something. This time, the pit bull did it.

He lost it, and charged right at me (on a leash thank jebus). Between the dude's lackadaisical hold on the leash, and me on blades not able to stop on a dime, it got very close: probably within a couple feet of me. Seeing that demonic look in it's eyes that pit bulls get while it charged straight at me and clearly going for my leg was so freaky, I had that shaky feeling afterwards you get after a close call. When I chirped them after, he was just like "he doesn't like rollerblades"

Freaking pit bulls, and the trashy "Crooks & Castles" types that are drawn to owning them, I hate it.

So I have a newer, worse experience with this from yesterday evening: tried out a new route (Scarboro), went by a park and an off leash pit bull (owner was playing fetch with it) came flying at me full speed, losing it on me. I had to go as fast as I could, it chased me for a couple blocks. I put it in another gear and had no choice but to go full speed to cross the larger crossroad. Thankfully no cars were coming, that could've been bad (and the psycho pit bull drew the line at that road and stopped).

I was convinced he was going to catch me and sink his teeth in, thank god I'm fast on my blades. What if it was a little kid?? Would've had a tragic end I'm sure. 2 pit bull encounters in under a month, I'm so sick of this ####. I'm considering bringing a tool like a Swiss Army knife (I use the cork screw to pick rocks out of them already) on my excursions with me now to protect myself in case I come across another one, it's freaking ridiculous. I wanted to go back and scream at the owner, but I knew his dog would just come after me again.

Usually it's just little dogs that freak out at that sound, big dogs are chill. Except for pit bulls: big killing machines with little dog, Napoleon complex mentality. That freaking breed and the trashy types attracted to owning one, man...the owner looked like a total dirtbag / casual drug dealer of course, shocker..

[Ozy_Flame]

There's a single dude down the street from me who is very much that "Crooks & Castles" type, and guess what - he also has two pitbulls. Even worse, he refuses to put up a fence, and his dogs are always out there - most of the time not on a leash.

One time his dogs charged and jumped up on my pregnant wife (at the time) and my two smaller dogs (who are of an anxious breed). Thankfully they were just excited, but dogs were losing it and my wife froze, so the dogs just kept jumping up and getting even more fired up. I was trying to control my dogs while getting my scared spouse to move forward. It was a tense moment. The dude finally ran out of his house and said to my wife, "What's wrong with you? Get moving", and I lost it on him. Told him he's not allowed pitbulls in our town, put them on a leash, and build a damn fence. He just scoffed and pulled his dogs inside.

Now every time I walk by his house I always check to see if they're out there.

I hate Pitbulls with a passion. Just an aggressive, unlikeable breed that is more often an ego pump for dumb idiots than actual responsible dog owners.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by 81MC

####ing email dummies.

Email chain lands in inbox, clear that someone put a distribution list by mistake. Dozens of ‘please remove me from this’ reply alls, followed by a ‘please delete’ followed by a dozen more ‘ok’ replies followed by reply alls telling people to stop replying all.

Holy hell.

I love when this happens. We had one that went for 5 days before the replies stopped. It was magnificent.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

There's a single dude down the street from me who is very much that "Crooks & Castles" type, and guess what - he also has two pitbulls. Even worse, he refuses to put up a fence, and his dogs are always out there - most of the time not on a leash.

One time his dogs charged and jumped up on my pregnant wife (at the time) and my two smaller dogs (who are of an anxious breed). Thankfully they were just excited, but dogs were losing it and my wife froze, so the dogs just kept jumping up and getting even more fired up. I was trying to control my dogs while getting my scared spouse to move forward. It was a tense moment. The dude finally ran out of his house and said to my wife, "What's wrong with you? Get moving", and I lost it on him. Told him he's not allowed pitbulls in our town, put them on a leash, and build a damn fence. He just scoffed and pulled his dogs inside.

Now every time I walk by his house I always check to see if they're out there.

I hate Pitbulls with a passion. Just an aggressive, unlikeable breed that is more often an ego pump for dumb idiots than actual responsible dog owners.

Yeah it's so ridiculous man. I know there's some good owners out there with stories of their sweet, mild-mannered pittys. But for every 1 of those, there's 5 Crooks & Castles types raising them wrong. They're drawn to that breed like flies to light.

One of my best friends and his wife just got a new dog, she picked a pit bull (cross, but it looks totally pit from pictures). She's a great fit for my buddy and super fun to party with, but she's a big, rough around the edges girl from small town Saskatchewan, and with her size and fire, I could see her being a bully to other girls in grade school. Of course she picked a pitty... I'm never going over to their new place lol

[White Out 403]

the only thing worse than the tolerance of junky crack addicts making our cities and towns look like a zombie movie is the gaslighting that its a) overblown (it isnt) or b) its cruel to try and get some of these dangerous junkies off the streets

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

There's a single dude down the street from me who is very much that "Crooks & Castles" type, and guess what - he also has two pitbulls. Even worse, he refuses to put up a fence, and his dogs are always out there - most of the time not on a leash.

One time his dogs charged and jumped up on my pregnant wife (at the time) and my two smaller dogs (who are of an anxious breed). Thankfully they were just excited, but dogs were losing it and my wife froze, so the dogs just kept jumping up and getting even more fired up. I was trying to control my dogs while getting my scared spouse to move forward. It was a tense moment. The dude finally ran out of his house and said to my wife, "What's wrong with you? Get moving", and I lost it on him. Told him he's not allowed pitbulls in our town, put them on a leash, and build a damn fence. He just scoffed and pulled his dogs inside.

Now every time I walk by his house I always check to see if they're out there.

I hate Pitbulls with a passion. Just an aggressive, unlikeable breed that is more often an ego pump for dumb idiots than actual responsible dog owners.

I was at a work party, not an official one but it was all telus people. This lady and her husband come to the house and walk in the living room area where everyone was, and the guy has a crooks and castles shirt on that reads "cocaine and caviar" or some nonsense. To this day I think its the cringiest #### ive ever seen in my life.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

There's a single dude down the street from me who is very much that "Crooks & Castles" type, and guess what - he also has two pitbulls. Even worse, he refuses to put up a fence, and his dogs are always out there - most of the time not on a leash.

One time his dogs charged and jumped up on my pregnant wife (at the time) and my two smaller dogs (who are of an anxious breed). Thankfully they were just excited, but dogs were losing it and my wife froze, so the dogs just kept jumping up and getting even more fired up. I was trying to control my dogs while getting my scared spouse to move forward. It was a tense moment. The dude finally ran out of his house and said to my wife, "What's wrong with you? Get moving", and I lost it on him. Told him he's not allowed pitbulls in our town, put them on a leash, and build a damn fence. He just scoffed and pulled his dogs inside.

Now every time I walk by his house I always check to see if they're out there.

I hate Pitbulls with a passion. Just an aggressive, unlikeable breed that is more often an ego pump for dumb idiots than actual responsible dog owners.

I believe every part of this word for word because, historically, Ozy has never blown anything out of proportion or pretended to be a victim for online sympathy.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

the only thing worse than the tolerance of junky crack addicts making our cities and towns look like a zombie movie is the gaslighting that its a) overblown (it isnt) or b) its cruel to try and get some of these dangerous junkies off the streets

It's really just acknowledging the futility of the situation.

Getting clean is really ####ing hard. Staying clean for a long time is even ####ing harder.

Currently there are not enough resources available to help everyone that WANTS to get clean (nevermind those that don't). Even if the public/political will existed to do whatever it takes and throw unlimited funds at it, it's still really ####ing hard to implement effectively. Compared to say training a whole bunch more nurses and doctors and building hospitals, which is a simple+ turnkey option to improve healthcare across the board...but we don't do that, either.


But let's forget about that for a moment and fantasize a miracle cure to drug addiction. Take this free pill once and your drug cravings are gone for the next six months! Awesome! Now we have thousands of people ready to get back to work and takeup their position in the rat race where things were going totally awesome for them before they fell into drugs.

So they just need to find a job. And sustainable housing. And establish a new social network that doesn't include anyone from the drug days. Or maybe find some new hobbies to give life more meaning with all the disposable income lying around and that housing/transportation situation that totally supports a wide array of hobbies really easily.

Or maybe the reasons for the initial descent into addiction will be even harder to overcome with a gap on the ole résumé and perhaps some physical changes from the addiction days that my super duper realistic miracle drug doesn't magically fix a great career won't fall into their laps.


A bit of a tangent, but I suspect a lot of people on the streets are neurodiverse, and society has simply failed to offer a path to participate in this world in a way that respects their neurobiology. But autistic people suck at small talk so they are weird and lame because deep down neurotypicals LOVE small talk so much (because its so awesome, right!?) that anyone who struggles to babble about the weather isn't worthy of a safe and judgment free existence. Because our social norms are totally awesome and logical. But I could rant forever about this and it's a whole other thing and making the world a safe place for everyone is WOKE so #### that ####, amirite?

[Zary's-Mustache]

My phone screen broke. Again.

I swear phone screen quality is getting worse and worse.

[jayswin]

Ha, just like moon/spurs and his phone screens, busted!

[topfiverecords]

This I don’t understand. Nearly 30 years of owning cell phones and have never broken anything.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by curves2000

What grinds my gears is how people defend this social decay like it's a nothing burger to them. I am still shocked by the comments I have read today. Perhaps some peoples brains are fried from years of their own drug abuse and they can't comprehend what is happening, or why if something happened to them, it really wouldn't matter to anybody on here, that is for sure.

When you go kiss your children to bed tonight, know how lucky they are to have you, until when someone like this kills you and then you just know the sad truth, your just garbage in the eyes of the general public. 2 little children lost their dad to this person in the last few days. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ents-1.7296180

I am also speaking as someone who doesn't have children.

Or know that if your sister or brother was dropping off their children at school and they were murdered at the school, in front of the children, your family member is well, worthless. No argument, let us just defend criminals, drug abuse and social decay. Let us minimize the impact that drugs is happening in society.

Maybe I will start a follow up to the gear grinder thread. "Ohh well" Posters can discuss assaults, robberies, sexual exploitations of their children, their parents being accosted, their sister murdered and their business and life's work going down the toilet.

We can collectively do a CP "Ohh wellllllllllllllllll" We can just brush it off.

Anyways I am out on this topic

Just because people aren't ranting and raving about it like you doesn't mean it's a nothing burger and nobody is taking it seriously. You mentioned uncomfortable truths and decisions that need to be made? Well, what truth is that, and what decisions? Because people way smarter than both of us combined have spent years dealing with these issues and nobody has come up with a solution yet.

Nobody disagrees that it's a problem and we need to do more. But I actually have first-hand experience with this sort of thing, and the reason you're getting pushback is because you come in guns blazing like there's an obvious solution that the world refuses to accept. So come on then, what's the move here?

[powderjunkie]

Push the button that says ‘fix social decay’.

What are you, Stupid?

[powderjunkie]

Don’t worry guys, there’s a totally non-incestuous conservative plan to grift money out of the addiction problems. It’s gonna be great!


https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/08/1...sed-Treatment/