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Time for some fun

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......:D

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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Mcgyver said:
Before unbridled, policy fuelled, standard of living destroying population growth, you used to able to get anywhere in GTA in a 30 minutes. Now you have stop and go traffic on the highways on the weekends!

If you live here, every other change in the last 40 years pales in significance.
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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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I remember riding on one of these in 1970.

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It was replaced by a bridge at Kitwanga a few years later. This one is a 20 minute drive from my home.
 
slow-poke said:
present system seems more like a Ponzi scheme.
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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.
 
I remember in my Parent's store, we had a water filled Coke machine, that you had to move the hanging bottles along a maze to get to the release point. Pop was a nickle, and the deposit was 2 cents. Oh the howls when Coke went to 5 cents!

Being at a gas station, and hearing my parents complain about paying 25.9 cents a gallon, up from 23.9. Telling my parents that it would be 1$ a gallon one day (I was a little precocious). Them telling me that I was such a silly little boy...

Going to school in a 3 story building without fire escapes. Instead, they installed a circular slide. To use it, you got on a flour sack, and they pushed you into what looked like a laundry chute, and a teacher caught you at the bottom. (I wanted to go again)
 
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I wish they'd install more slides in places. Would you rather take stairs/escalator down, or a slide? All this talk about energy conservation a slide seems like the "green" choice to me......:D
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Being a little bit younger than most of us, you are about to learn that you are on the top rung of the ladder right now. From here on in it's a slippery slope (slide) and one tends to accelerate the further along you slide..... It levels off a little bit right at the end just before it deposits you in the dirt......:rolleyes:
 
A few days ago I was walking in my neighborhood, as you move to the lower areas, the sump pumps tend to run a bit more and create a small flow through the culverts at each house, there was two girls in the ditch at one house, as I came upon them I found they were playing in the ditch near the culvert, they were both tramping through the water, and muck using boards and mud to dam and adjust the flow of water, having a great time, no electronics just laughing and splashing around, I had a great laugh with them, they didn't care that their shoes and socks were soaked and that they might be in for a lecture later they were just having fun.
It reminded me of the springs at my parents farm where I would do the same as there was a part of our yard that was a bit lower and needed me to get my rubber boots on and a shovel and and maybe a hoe if I could find it and reestablish the paths that would guide the water to the dugout. Countless hours out there monitoring and adjusting damming, breaking the dam, rerouting the flow and just having fun. A wonderful memory revisited.
 
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