Time for some fun
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Dan Dubeau
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Thanks for this thread. I've been sitting through Union onboarding safety training for the past 2 weeks, and being 41, the oldest one in class by a long shot (I was 6-8 years older than the instructors....). Feeling very old, talking about being the last generation to go through school with no internet, and only the encyclopedia britannica to fact check stuff. When we had the internet last years in highschool, but it was basically just the same encyclopedia britannica just online through dial up lol. These younger guys, 19-25, thought I was a dinosaur......Reading through this thread makes feel young again......
I remember being the TV remote, the dial up phones, with only one in the house, and a cord long enough to reach the bedrooms if you wanted privacy. The party line, one long two shorts was the one at my grandparents cottage. The nosey nextdoor neighbor that would pick up on every call.....A few of the others, but that was more a byproduct of growing up poor in a small town with small school) and older parents that were slow to adapt, not an age thing lol. I feel like I rode the last wave of that generation before the video games, and internet raised them.
I remember being the TV remote, the dial up phones, with only one in the house, and a cord long enough to reach the bedrooms if you wanted privacy. The party line, one long two shorts was the one at my grandparents cottage. The nosey nextdoor neighbor that would pick up on every call.....A few of the others, but that was more a byproduct of growing up poor in a small town with small school) and older parents that were slow to adapt, not an age thing lol. I feel like I rode the last wave of that generation before the video games, and internet raised them.
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slow-poke
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I couldn't take it anymore, I moved out. I just don't get this expansion concept, at some point we need to work to a sustainable model, present system seems more like a Ponzi scheme.
100% agree. so frustrating, no plan. when they pave all the way to Lake Simcoe and quality of life for all is crap, will that be enough? it should be GDP per capita that matters not GDP. sigh, Its you and me slow-poke, the rest of them have gone insane and flushed what was a great place to live in the process.
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That's exactly what it is, but it a government run one so that makes it all okay.
They need the revenue from building and development permits to pay for needed infrastructure that they still haven't built for the last batch.
Hell, you want to feel young? take a cruise on a Holland America boat. When we went on one in 2019 I was 61 and was a yougun compared to 90% of the crowd. Even Susq would feel young around them old fogeys