OT: 2024 Weather Thread

[rboomercat90]

This is all you need to know about the COE to know they have a spending problem.

3 pages to list their leadership team. Most publicly traded Fortune 500 companies can do it in fewer pages.

They should rename their wards again. That will save some money…

https://www.edmonton.ca/sites/default/files/public-files/assets/PDF/COELeadershipList.pdf?cb=1732475585

What a brain dead idea it was to rename the wards. Nobody knows what ward they live in now let alone which one is which. Was pretty simple before, lol. All done for the sole purpose of empty virtue signalling.

 

[Stoneman89]

What a brain dead idea it was to rename the wards. Nobody knows what ward they live in now let alone which one is which. Was pretty simple before, lol. All done for the sole purpose of empty virtue signalling.

Just wait until the fall's election night and the poor broadcasters have to constantly refer to them through the evening. Absolute madness. And then we have the re-naming of Oilver and the hundreds of thousands of public dollars going into that, not to mention all of the private businesses that will need to reconsider a name change. And according to the city, this is just the tip of the iceberg for renaming things for the self cleansing of public virtue.

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

The natives may have felt the same way when their areas were renamed to what we use today. We'll get used to it. They had to.

 

[Jumptheshark]

I know.

I used to ride bus bumpers in the snow and loved it until I was caught

 

[BIeucheeseWithWings]

I used to ride bus bumpers in the snow and loved it until I was caught

We called it "bumper shining." Except we would lay on our stomachs. The last time I did it was in the early 2000s. What a different time.

 

[Jumptheshark]

We called it "bumper shining." Except we would lay on our stomachs. The last time I did it was in the early 2000s. What a different time.

I would either be on my knees or where wearing wellies that glided nicely while I stooped down like you do when you are waterskiing

 

[timekeep]

I was a geograpy nerd as a youth. Point Peely National Park isn't it. or wildlife refuge.

Yes it's a national park.

 

[Fourier]

Peely Point. Is that the area that is actually “south” of Detroit? I don’t know geography well for that area but I was led to believe that Detroit has an area that is north of Canadian territory. Odd.

Windsor is actually south of Detroit. The two cities are separated by a river and Windsor is on the south bank.

 

[Fourier]

What kind of fish? I should get out that way sometime. Closest we were is Toronto region.

Erie at one point was almost dead, but it has really come back. They have a thriving commercial walleye (pickerel) fishery, with lots of yellow perch. But the lake also has steelhead, brown and lake trout as well as small mouth bass and even salmon.

 

[Fourier]

I see you look at Ketchup bottles and tomato cans as well. Leamington Ontario. Never been there but first association I have with the place. heh I never smoked so I didn't know tobacco is grown there. Proud to say I've never bought a pack of cigarettes or a can of tobacco in my life. Can't stand the stuff.

Leamington had a huge Heinz plant for over 100 years. After Warren Buffet's company Kraft Foods bought it they determined it was not profitable and shut it down in 2014 moving the operation to the US. That was a massive blow to the town and the area around it. French's stepped in and started an operation there saving many jobs. There was a big campaign nationally to switch to French's. It was a big deal out here. My wife bought in and since then we have never bought Heinz again. Frankly, I now prefer French's ketchup which I never thought I'd say.