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[bomberjet]

Totally agree on the double standard. Just following what the policy is right now. I don't see clearing windrows in back lanes as feasible. So maybe Joe suburbs should clear their driveways. Trust me, I have a back lane and know the struggle. I came home after Christmas holidays to a two foot high ice ridge at 10pm on a Sunday night. Not fun. At the same time I grew up with a front drive and knew the joys of the loader clearing it for me!

[drew]

^ same deal.

Grew up with the front loaders clearing our driveway and everyone else on the street.

Then moved to Wolseley and was not pleasantly surprised with the backlane snow clearing practices.

[Cyro]

It's been a difficult winter here in many respects, especially in the snow clearing area. We can also discuss ruts, more than the usual amount of pot holes, due to the freeze/thaw cycle, freezing water lines, record cold temps, high snow fall amounts....... and so on..

I here it's going to be a great summer.

[cllew]

At times I think its the way the city does it that causes the problems.

I have been in the same house for 50 years (inherited my parents house) and remember the city of East Kildonan doing the back lanes with a V-Plow on their Cat Loader.

The V-plow as I remember did not leave the pile as high as doing it the current way with a bucket.

It seemed to push a more distributed lower snow covering onto the back pad behind the garage making it easier to move.

I was lucky this year that my neighbor brought his bobcat home from the shop a few times and cleaned up our section of the lane after the city came down. I have an 8 foot pile of snow in my back yard fence at the lane from that. Other people that hired a loader and don't have yard space had them put it down on Roch by Miles Mac.

[Riverman]

It seems to me that the City is doing a pretty good job in keeping up with the potholes this year.

[cllew]

Does anybody know if the city has brought in snow dragon snowmelters (or equivalent brand) in recent memory to test out?

I am aware that larger cities like Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago and New York city use portable melters instead of trucking to snow dumps

[Cyro]

Reg: Posters comment response # 1596 Retail Thread:

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_complex

[Riverman]

Good job hiding that over here. Coward.

[Cyro]

Originally Posted by Riverman

Good job hiding that over here. Coward.

[vid]

Not all opinions are of equal merit. They can't be. If that was so, we could just as easily receive valid medical advice from insane homeless people.

"It hurts when I pee! "
"I blame the Lizard People!!! Have you tried rubbing bleach on it?!?!"

Just, no.

[1ajs]

Yo river man stop it seriously UR getting annoying 1 more and I will give u a time out.....

[Riverman]

Always picking on me Adrian, not the ones actually causing the trouble. What's wrong with you?

[1ajs]

Aww right...

[vid]

I have a coworker who acts like that. He comes into the back room bragging about how another co-worker fucked up and how he never fucks up. I caught him make a mistake while he was bragging about that and instantly freaks out and acts like everything bad is his fault and I'm victimizing him. (He called me a bully; he's the one who always gets in my face and calls me a 🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵🞵 if I call him out on something.) He said I kicked him while he was down, by running a routine efficiency test on him which he failed while bragging about how great he was at his job. And this happens, like, every day.

He's a right-wing Christian, btw. I told him I don't believe in God and he acted like I just told him I fucked his mother. I had to get management involved in that dispute as well. The verdict? I'm not allowed to talk about politics, religion, economics, the state of policing in the world, hiring policies of the company, or any personnel scheduling around him. This is after overhauling personnel scheduling and lot coding to meet his personal whims. At this point I've pretty much stopped talking to him, which is difficult because I am him supervisor.

Anyway, I bring this up because he has a nasty habit of accusing me of "always picking on him, not the ones actually causing the trouble."

[vid]

I do pick on him a little bit though. Today he was reading about how to remain calm at work (a result of his daily hour-long calm-the-🞵🞵🞵🞵-down talks with the boss) and after explaining to me the parts of the brain responsible for controlling mood and temper, I suggested that he work use meditation to "align his shaka-khans". He didn't notice that I said the wrong word, just instantly refuted it with something about the hypothalamus.

[alittle1]

Originally Posted by vid

I do pick on him a little bit though. Today he was reading about how to remain calm at work (a result of his daily hour-long calm-the-🞵🞵🞵🞵-down talks with the boss) and after explaining to me the parts of the brain responsible for controlling mood and temper, I suggested that he work use meditation to "align his shaka-khans". He didn't notice that I said the wrong word, just instantly refuted it with something about the hypothalamus.

Perhaps he should move here:

[vid]

He needs a little bit more than just traffic calming.

[1ajs]

[Cyro]

River Heights on Cambridge St has one of the green traffic calming signs posted earlier, just before Academy Rd.
You have the sign 1st than apprx: 20 meters later a slow to yellow 30km sign with a good sized speed bump accompanying it.

This I assume meaning a traffic calmed neighborhood.

[Stormer]

Remember the days when if you crossed the Hell's Angels they would break your knees or burn down your business. I guess now they just sue you for "emotional distress, insomnia, anxiety and depression". What is the world coming to?

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Hells+Angels+former+mining+boss/9722352/story.html