• Scam Alert. Members are reminded to NOT send money to buy anything. Don't buy things remote and have it shipped - go get it yourself, pay in person, and take your equipment with you. Scammers have burned people on this forum. Urgency, secrecy, excuses, selling for friend, newish members, FUD, are RED FLAGS. A video conference call is not adequate assurance. Face to face interactions are required. Please report suspicions to the forum admins. Stay Safe - anyone can get scammed.
  • The 2026 Calgary Area Meetup is set for Saturday May 30th at 10am. The signup thread is here! Robinhood has graciously offered to host the meetup again this year. Please note that you MUST RSVP to the notice linked above if you wish to come.

Really ?

Math: a decent income in Canada is $120k per year. At 50 weeks of 40 hours, that’s $60 per hour. Or $1 per minute. So the 10 seconds you saved by running the stop sign is equivalent to about 16 cents. So if I give you a quarter, will you wait your turn?
 
Last edited:
whydontu said:
Math: a decent income in Canada is $120k per year. At 50 weeks of 40 hours, that’s $60 per hour. Or $1 per minute. So the 10 seconds you saved by running the stop sign is equivalent to about 16 cents. So if I you a quarter, will you wait your turn?
Click to expand...
You can give them their quarter when you pull up alongside at the red light a block or so down.
 
Total
JustaDB said:
While I agree w/ you, the 90km/hr speed limit is the issue. It's just plain stupid, national park or not.
Click to expand...
Totally disagree. The park roads are not regular highways, they are narrow, steep, blind corners, can have lots of traffic, many distractions for drivers, hikers and bicycles on roadside, RV traffic of every sort that requires longer stopping distances and slower speeds. On top of all that animals on the road thay want to protect.
 
In Europe, nothing surprises me that you might see on the road. In Greece not uncommon to see 3 wheel farm trucks with 8 ft high side boards loaded to the nuts with oranges or melons headed to the morning open markets in town and I once saw a D8 Cat with parallelogram ripper & 14 ft U-blade mounted on it ( prob around 100,000 lbs) being carried on a single axle trailer and a single axle truck pulling it ....authorities would lock you up for doing that in this country.
 
Elektrishun said:
Meanwhile I read that billionaires are building bunkers that can house themselves and up to 800 of their closest servants friends.
Click to expand...
When i was building sub-divisions in west Calgary we tore down an extremely large house that had such a bunker under it. Bunker would have held 50 people with storage room for a lot of groceries with a water cistern that would have held several thousand gallons. Bunker walls were full 3 ft thick concrete.
It was built in the late 60's early 70's during cold war era.
 
140mower said:
SUE-EEEE, SUE-EEEEE 😳
Click to expand...

historicalarms said:
When i was building sub-divisions in west Calgary we tore down an extremely large house that had such a bunker under it. Bunker would have held 50 people with storage room for a lot of groceries with a water cistern that would have held several thousand gallons. Bunker walls were full 3 ft thick concrete.
It was built in the late 60's early 70's during cold war era.
Click to expand...
Supposedly there is at least one house not far from me with a similar era bunker.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top