Re: The Weather
Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:32 pm
It's a balmy 16 degrees here. But back up to 50 for the weekend.
It's the sixth version of The Swamp. What could possibly go wrong?
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Scottie wrote:It's snowing here. Which means that there is not a fucking chance in hell that I'm talking a vehicle near the streets. The drivers here can't handle dry August weather. Snow? Completely out of the question.degenerasian wrote:It's a balmy -12ºC today. Feels great after the -35 we got all last week.
Of course it's warm enough to snow again so the streets are white.
I have a friend who just moved to Calgary and it's been fun looking at her pics of the snow. She's assimilated pretty well for being a nearly lifelong Houstonian.degenerasian wrote:Scottie wrote:It's snowing here. Which means that there is not a fucking chance in hell that I'm talking a vehicle near the streets. The drivers here can't handle dry August weather. Snow? Completely out of the question.degenerasian wrote:It's a balmy -12ºC today. Feels great after the -35 we got all last week.
Of course it's warm enough to snow again so the streets are white.
yeah I heard YVR got down to -10 last night.. what a disaster.
Giff wrote:I have a friend who just moved to Calgary and it's been fun looking at her pics of the snow. She's assimilated pretty well for being a nearly lifelong Houstonian.degenerasian wrote:Scottie wrote:
It's snowing here. Which means that there is not a fucking chance in hell that I'm talking a vehicle near the streets. The drivers here can't handle dry August weather. Snow? Completely out of the question.
yeah I heard YVR got down to -10 last night.. what a disaster.
Even worse here today. Heavy thick snow that is staying. I do have to drive this evening (curling) dammit. The combination of clueless drivers and icy roads is nightmarish; Surrey and Richmond must be flat out harrowing. I had Finnegan and Casey out running around in the backyard, they love playing in the snow, and the whole twenty-some-odd minutes we were out there I could hear distant sirens constantly. And I mean constantly.degenerasian wrote:she will also know there have been a million accidents. The city has done a horrible job with snow removal (meaning there isn't any). The highways should never be white.
its going to be bad tomorrow morning. heck, i have a delayed opening tomorrow. the second one of the week. and an early dismissal today. this has been a weird week weatherwise.The Sybian wrote:Only got about 3 inches or so this morning, but that was some of the worst driving I've ever experienced. Growing up in the NY State snow belt than college in Buffalo, I've seen and done a lot of snow driving, but this was horrendous. Had to go down a somewhat steep hill to get to the highway, every car left about a 10 car length gap between the car in front of them, then attempted a controlled slide down the hill. Much more difficult with cars stuck on both sides of the street and cars coming up the hill. Basically had to slowly ease off the breaks without fully letting go, slide 10 feet, attempt to stop. Horrendous. My wife got stuck for about 10 minutes until she finally got enough traction. Several roads in my neighborhood were gridlocked or closed due to accidents. Supposed to be a bad, snow filled winter this year.
cerrano wrote:its going to be bad tomorrow morning. heck, i have a delayed opening tomorrow. the second one of the week. and an early dismissal today. this has been a weird week weatherwise.The Sybian wrote:Only got about 3 inches or so this morning, but that was some of the worst driving I've ever experienced. Growing up in the NY State snow belt than college in Buffalo, I've seen and done a lot of snow driving, but this was horrendous. Had to go down a somewhat steep hill to get to the highway, every car left about a 10 car length gap between the car in front of them, then attempted a controlled slide down the hill. Much more difficult with cars stuck on both sides of the street and cars coming up the hill. Basically had to slowly ease off the breaks without fully letting go, slide 10 feet, attempt to stop. Horrendous. My wife got stuck for about 10 minutes until she finally got enough traction. Several roads in my neighborhood were gridlocked or closed due to accidents. Supposed to be a bad, snow filled winter this year.
i think we might have been one of five schools in the state to have a delayed opening.The Sybian wrote:cerrano wrote:its going to be bad tomorrow morning. heck, i have a delayed opening tomorrow. the second one of the week. and an early dismissal today. this has been a weird week weatherwise.The Sybian wrote:Only got about 3 inches or so this morning, but that was some of the worst driving I've ever experienced. Growing up in the NY State snow belt than college in Buffalo, I've seen and done a lot of snow driving, but this was horrendous. Had to go down a somewhat steep hill to get to the highway, every car left about a 10 car length gap between the car in front of them, then attempted a controlled slide down the hill. Much more difficult with cars stuck on both sides of the street and cars coming up the hill. Basically had to slowly ease off the breaks without fully letting go, slide 10 feet, attempt to stop. Horrendous. My wife got stuck for about 10 minutes until she finally got enough traction. Several roads in my neighborhood were gridlocked or closed due to accidents. Supposed to be a bad, snow filled winter this year.
Drove the same roads this morning, absolutely no problem at all. My street looked icy, but it was fine.
BSF21 wrote:Let me ask the parents in the audience a question.
If it is cold outside, say 5 degrees this morning, is it acceptable to bitch ALL over Facebook because your poor kid had to stand outside with a coat and hat on for 10 minutes for the bus to arrive? Can you believe there was no delay??? If they delayed school 2 hours, the temperature would have easily gotten up to a balmy 9 degrees and your kids wouldn't have had to suffer right?
Maybe it's because I'm not a parent, but cut it the fuck out people. It's absurd. Breeding a culture of entitled little fucks that never have to experience the slightest inconvenience. Can't wait to see little Kay all grown up at 19 and wondering why no one has handed her a 75k per year job. After all, she stayed until 5:20 TWICE last month.
BSF21 wrote:Let me ask the parents in the audience a question.
If it is cold outside, say 5 degrees this morning, is it acceptable to bitch ALL over Facebook because your poor kid had to stand outside with a coat and hat on for 10 minutes for the bus to arrive? Can you believe there was no delay??? If they delayed school 2 hours, the temperature would have easily gotten up to a balmy 9 degrees and your kids wouldn't have had to suffer right?
Maybe it's because I'm not a parent, but cut it the fuck out people. It's absurd. Breeding a culture of entitled little fucks that never have to experience the slightest inconvenience. Can't wait to see little Kay all grown up at 19 and wondering why no one has handed her a 75k per year job. After all, she stayed until 5:20 TWICE last month.
The real shame is that there are young folks out there, like myself (27 soon. 8 year swamp veteran?) who grew up with parents that made them work for the things they have. Made them understand how long it takes to earn enough money to go out to eat on a Friday night. We are out here. I run a business. I own a house. I'm responsible and hard-working. But damn do other 20-somethings make us look bad. Maybe its generational. Maybe everyone felt this way at my age. But If I've gotta hear one more motherfucker complain about her 2 kids driving her up a wall in between her 4th "selfie" of the day I'm gonna put a gun in my mouth. It's infuriating.degenerasian wrote:BSF21 wrote:Let me ask the parents in the audience a question.
If it is cold outside, say 5 degrees this morning, is it acceptable to bitch ALL over Facebook because your poor kid had to stand outside with a coat and hat on for 10 minutes for the bus to arrive? Can you believe there was no delay??? If they delayed school 2 hours, the temperature would have easily gotten up to a balmy 9 degrees and your kids wouldn't have had to suffer right?
Maybe it's because I'm not a parent, but cut it the fuck out people. It's absurd. Breeding a culture of entitled little fucks that never have to experience the slightest inconvenience. Can't wait to see little Kay all grown up at 19 and wondering why no one has handed her a 75k per year job. After all, she stayed until 5:20 TWICE last month.
I'll address the 2nd part. The last 2 years, anyone we have hired that is under 25 has been useless and entitled. It's only going to get worse.
Options:BSF21 wrote:Let me ask the parents in the audience a question.
If it is cold outside, say 5 degrees this morning, is it acceptable to bitch ALL over Facebook because your poor kid had to stand outside with a coat and hat on for 10 minutes for the bus to arrive? Can you believe there was no delay??? If they delayed school 2 hours, the temperature would have easily gotten up to a balmy 9 degrees and your kids wouldn't have had to suffer right?
Maybe it's because I'm not a parent, but cut it the fuck out people. It's absurd. Breeding a culture of entitled little fucks that never have to experience the slightest inconvenience. Can't wait to see little Kay all grown up at 19 and wondering why no one has handed her a 75k per year job. After all, she stayed until 5:20 TWICE last month.
And they must be prevented from making any physical contact. And there has to be an equal number of boys, girls, Asians, East Indians, Blacks, Aboriginals and kids in wheelchairs so they don't feel left out and potentially lesbian bisexual gay transvestite hermy kids and kids with Downs. And they all have to move the exact same amount of snow, to the flake, for the exact same amount of time. And they all have to be the exact same age because the 5-year olds can't shovel snow with the 7-year olds because they aren't at the same level of snow shovelling and one of the little fuckers might get hurt.degenerasian wrote:It actually would be dangerous for kids around the neighbourhood to team up and shovel everyone's driveway.
I'm mean it's not organized or anything. It's totally unstructured unless somewhere were to have registration for an after-school snow-shoveling league where nobody keeps score.
Read about that yesterday. In Texas, no less. So much for the stereotype of Texas justice. Probation? That was 100% Canadian style justice, right there. Fuck the victim. There is absolutely no way money didn't change hands in that case. A judge accepting the defense's "expert" claiming "affluenza"? Affluenza? Fuck off. That's the most appalling thing I've heard since the OJ trial. Probation for killing four people and fucking up the lives of how many families. Amazing. That judge has to have a cool million or two in a Barbados bank.Johnnie wrote:And see, I blame the baby boomer parents who decided to have children but never actually raise them. And the established baby boomers who make the laws and rules and seem to be way too pussified to do anything of consequence -- except to those of color. Have money? Pay us. We'll set you free. Have you been wronged because you've been butthurt? Well sue those motherfuckers. We'll try them in court...and win.
So here's a latest example of scumbag: This 16 year motherfucker. Killed 4 people, hospitalized 2 and his sentence is probation because his dad can foot the $450,000 bill per year. Texas minimum states between 2-20 years in jail. He gets 10 years probation in that posh "rehab" center.
So obviously this kid sucks, but look at the environment that seemingly condones this behavior. A broken home from rich parents, being taught that "money fixes everything." and when you do something so horrific the judicial system will take care of you.
Blame my generation all you want, but when we've been enabled to this extent what the hell do you expect?
The real problem is it is very expensive to get all those little shovels of participation to hand out at the end of the season.Scottie wrote:And they must be prevented from making any physical contact. And there has to be an equal number of boys, girls, Asians, East Indians, Blacks, Aboriginals and kids in wheelchairs so they don't feel left out and potentially lesbian bisexual gay transvestite hermy kids and kids with Downs. And they all have to move the exact same amount of snow, to the flake, for the exact same amount of time. And they all have to be the exact same age because the 5-year olds can't shovel snow with the 7-year olds because they aren't at the same level of snow shovelling and one of the little fuckers might get hurt.degenerasian wrote:It actually would be dangerous for kids around the neighbourhood to team up and shovel everyone's driveway.
I'm mean it's not organized or anything. It's totally unstructured unless somewhere were to have registration for an after-school snow-shoveling league where nobody keeps score.
Rush2112 wrote:It's a balmy 16 degrees here. But back up to 50 for the weekend.
Oh, no no, no no. No. No no no. Shovel participation trophies are plentiful. All that money that would have been wasted on sensible human transit solutions for a large-scale urban center with ever-expanding bedroom burb burtings, highway and municipal road construction upkeep and repair, systems to meet a growing population in a limited land space, that was instead brilliantly diverted to creating yet more bicycle lanes that utterly destroyed the downtown core in the most environmentally friendly way possible? All of that served to: optimize participation trophy distribution and to strategize holistic solution partnerships towards benchmarking impactful socially equitable optics. Right? Participation trophies are as ubiquitous as they are mandatory. It's impossible not to win! Well, unless you are a White male, in which case you are the devil incarnate.DSafetyGuy wrote:The real problem is it is very expensive to get all those little shovels of participation to hand out at the end of the season.
Wow. Imagine how bad Egyptians must be driving in snow.Sabo wrote:It snowed in Cairo. It's the first time it's snowed there in 112 years.
Agree all around. The first few years of soccer, my kids loved getting their everyone-gets-a-trophy trophy. That wore off after a couple of seasons because the trophies no longer had any value. My oldest son's team has gone three straight undefeated seasons, but we haven't done trophies and nobody seems to care.The Sybian wrote:I meant to hit on the participation trophies. Horrible idea. Sure, the kids love getting trophies, but it is detrimental in the end. Earning a trophy by winning a league teaches reward for hard work and success. This just breeds a sense of entitlement. I showed up for the test, why didn't I get an A?
The other issue is the overly structured lives of kids. Part of this is due to both parents working. When I was a kid, we ran out of the house in the morning or after school, and our parents had no idea where we were or what we were doing. We organized our own games, implemented our own rules, and resolved our own disputes. If we didn't have enough kids to play a full game, we invented mini-games that actually ended up being great practice drills. Now, kids go from school to after-care and have adult supervision and structure at all times. They don't play pickup games nearly as much, but everything is a structured league with coaches and adults to make rules and officiate. I think a lot of important life skills are sacrificed in this system.
both parents working is an issue but I think more of an issue is that in previous generations, men didn't do shit around the house(and were proud of it). My dad did nothing and my grandfather did less. Kids? that's the wife's responsibility, The house? That's the wife's responsibility. Drive the kid to hockey at 6am? what fuck you. go play outside. The wife obviously can't handle everything so just let the kids go outside.The Sybian wrote:I meant to hit on the participation trophies. Horrible idea. Sure, the kids love getting trophies, but it is detrimental in the end. Earning a trophy by winning a league teaches reward for hard work and success. This just breeds a sense of entitlement. I showed up for the test, why didn't I get an A?
The other issue is the overly structured lives of kids. Part of this is due to both parents working. When I was a kid, we ran out of the house in the morning or after school, and our parents had no idea where we were or what we were doing. We organized our own games, implemented our own rules, and resolved our own disputes. If we didn't have enough kids to play a full game, we invented mini-games that actually ended up being great practice drills. Now, kids go from school to after-care and have adult supervision and structure at all times. They don't play pickup games nearly as much, but everything is a structured league with coaches and adults to make rules and officiate. I think a lot of important life skills are sacrificed in this system.
The Sybian wrote:Wow. Imagine how bad Egyptians must be driving in snow.Sabo wrote:It snowed in Cairo. It's the first time it's snowed there in 112 years.