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 Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
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Posted - 05/18/2006 : 11:10 PM
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I've never been to Calgary....
I can't say Toronto's was much better, except on the subway. Buses running every half an hour, and not at all on Sundays...you couldn't even get off the bus to pick up anything on your way home, unless you wanted to pay an additional fare. And it was not worth it to get a pass even if you were commuting twice a day, 5 days a week.
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Maple syrup lovin', tree huggin', face paintin' relocated Québécoise who is VERY serious about having fun
Vancouver
Canada
2637 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2006 : 11:19 PM
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Originally posted by northernalberta
ALL OF YOU need to ride the Calgary train system for a week, then go back to Vancouver. You'll never complain about a crappy transit system again.
The transit system was so crappy where I grew up that they shut down the whole darn thing. So if you want to go to Quebec city you need a car. Now that's what I call crappy! |
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Surrey, BC
Canada
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Posted - 05/18/2006 : 11:23 PM
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| People who say "thank you", presumably to the bus driver when exiting the rear doors. Please, people, you sound like you have bi-polar and you sound like retards. It's not like the driver did you a favour by picking and dropping you off at your designated stop anyway. It's his friggin job! If you're going to say thank you, then do it if you're exiting from the front close to his face. Also, people who look like they want to kill themselves and look so miserable when they go hiking. Would it kill you to squeak out one quick hello. You'll only see a few people on the whole trail, just be nice. |
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Maple syrup lovin', tree huggin', face paintin' relocated Québécoise who is VERY serious about having fun
Vancouver
Canada
2637 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2006 : 11:37 PM
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Originally posted by fillup
People who say "thank you", presumably to the bus driver when exiting the rear doors. Please, people, you sound like you have bi-polar and you sound like retards. It's not like the driver did you a favour by picking and dropping you off at your designated stop anyway. It's his friggin job!
I see nothing wrong with saying thank you. Even if you're thanking someone who's "just" doing their job, I think saying thank you is nice to hear once in a while.
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5470 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2006 : 12:09 AM
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| I figure they take so much abuse from the general public that a "thank you" once in a while doesn't hurt. |
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Alberta-based choss climbin', flame throwin', rappel lovin', ass talkin' hater who doesn't like "Gumby" for a descriptor
6302 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2006 : 08:27 AM
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Originally posted by fillup
People who say "thank you", presumably to the bus driver when exiting the rear doors. Please, people, you sound like you have bi-polar and you sound like retards.
You know what sounds even more "retarded"? Some one complaining about people thanking other people. |
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ass wigglin, cheese lovin, 4x4 drivin, apostrophe hatin, hiking chick who loves camping on snow
spaceship..
Canada
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Posted - 05/19/2006 : 09:43 AM
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Originally posted by fillup
People who say "thank you", presumably to the bus driver when exiting the rear doors. Please, people, you sound like you have bi-polar and you sound like retards. It's not like the driver did you a favour by picking and dropping you off at your designated stop anyway. It's his friggin job! If you're going to say thank you, then do it if you're exiting from the front close to his face. Also, people who look like they want to kill themselves and look so miserable when they go hiking. Would it kill you to squeak out one quick hello. You'll only see a few people on the whole trail, just be nice.
ooohhh I see a double standard here!!!
"Just be nice"... yet you have difficulty with the person thanking the bus driver, probably in most cases out of courtesy to "Just be nice"
If you can't stand the look on someone's face while hiking then just pass them by, without judgement and "Just be nice"!! |
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Penhold, Alberta
Canada
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Posted - 05/19/2006 : 10:51 AM
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| One of the smartest things I ever heard from a fellow backpacker is "Leave your attitudes and opinions at home when in the backcountry". Just because someone doesn't acknowledge you with some form of grunt or greeting doesn't mean they are being rude. |
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Mountain Grammar Police
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Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
Canada
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Posted - 05/25/2006 : 4:00 PM
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People who put random words in bold text or italics in their posts. Would you do this if you were writing something by hand?
This includes people who do this to the names of people who they reply to. I can figure it out fine without the formatting, thanks! 
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Mysterious, pop can stove stashin', gps totin', overnighter virgin, wannabe tentmaker and foul weather wuss who rides a thumper to the trailhead with wonderdog Max to hike the Chilliwack Valley
Chwk
Canada
4921 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2006 : 11:09 PM
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After spending a week in a Provincial Park, another pet peeve of mine reared its ugly head:
Inconsiderate people.
Not the usual, inconsiderate-types, mind you, I'm talking the OLYMPIC QUALITY morons...the ones who hold a degree!
I'm talking about the kind that own little yappy "dogs" and think it is so cute when they "bark"...or should I say chirp, because they sound more like birds than dogs!
Chirp...Chirp...Squeak...Squeak!
"Isn't he cute?....You get him Lucy/Brandy/Sophie/Peppy/Pedro...!"
Chirp...Chirp...Squeak...Squeak!
SHUT the F### UP!!!!!
While we're on the topic of "inconsiderate"...why on earth do you think I would care to hear about why your wife left you...at 1:00am, right outside my window?
Take it indoors or better yet...SHUT the F### UP!!!!! and cry about it in the morning! She obviously left you because you're a whining, clingy little twerp with a mommy-complex!
Rant over! 
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5470 Posts |
Posted - 07/30/2006 : 11:49 PM
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While we're on the topic of "inconsiderate"...why on earth do you think I would care to hear about why your wife left you...at 1:00am, right outside my window?
Take it indoors or better yet...SHUT the F### UP!!!!! and cry about it in the morning! She obviously left you because you're a whining, clingy little twerp with a mommy-complex!
Reminds me of an embarrassing moment. A couple of friends and I were car camping in Algonquin, we had a drink or two around the campfire, it got late and dark, we continued to talk in normal voices, and, I admit, we just forgot there were other people around. One friend had been rambling on about something personal for about 20 minutes when suddenly a voice came out of the darkness from the next campsite over, "Will you people please be QUIET?? We're trying to sleep!!" We apologized, were very embarrassed, and shut right up. The friend who had been telling the personal story whispered, "I wish she had said something much earlier!!"
Next morning I woke up very early to the sounds of our neighbors quietly going about their morning routine, and I realized you could hear every whisper.
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Vernon, Okanagan, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/31/2006 : 12:01 AM
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People don't realize how far their voices carry in the outdoors.
Especially lakes.
Oh, and a pet peeve of mine is when you hear people repeatedly screaming "echo" while in a valley or canyon or other echoable area. Yes, it is an echo. Brilliant discovery. After making such a find, don't you have something more intelligable than "echo!" to say for yourself? Either that or be quiet. People are trying to hike/fish/think/playcheckers/etc.
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Coffee swillin', wine lovin', Owl fearin' Andie McDowell stunt double, who sports retro gear
Vancouver, BC
5470 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2006 : 12:10 AM
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Oh but I have a new peeve: signage on roads, or lack thereof.
It's so bad. I tried to get on the Patullo bridge yesterday. I followed the signs for Surrey from New West, and then wondered, "OK, NOW what lane am I supposed to be in? I'm looking for a sign to direct me. I round a corner, and there it is, a TINY sign for Patullo Bridge for the lane I am not in. Posted well AFTER I should have been in that lane. Luckily someone in the line-up for the bridge let me in when she saw me slam on the brakes and signal just before I went sailing on to some distant, wrong suburb.
Gee....ya think MAYBE they could put the sign BEFORE the bend in the road?
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Vernon, Okanagan, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/31/2006 : 12:12 AM
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Originally posted by upndown
Now, if only something could be done about those cashiers, left-lane-slow-drivers, and grammar grinders.
Not to mention the people who pull out hokey little coin wallets and insist on hunting for a minimum of half an hour to find that dime they're sure is in there so that they can give the cashier the exact change. Special mention goes to the ones who finally find it, and then drop it! And insist that the cashier then hunt it down for them! Aaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh!
Suprised I didn't see this post earlier! You have NO idea how annoying that is. I AM a cashier at a safeway where there are tons of old poeple who have those little coin purses. AAAAAH! The worst I've had was when a lady came back from gambling at a casino and had only quarters and had a 40$ purchase!!! @#$%[curses and swears]$%*&. And the worst part is that they [the store managers] track our "ring-time" (avg time it takes for us to ring stuff through). Oh, and Dru, luckily I am not one of those cashiers who pile change onto bills because Safeway has those wonderful little machines at the end that do the change for us!
Oh, and I yes, I know how you Customers love to throw away your card and just use your phone number instead, but c'mon, its like less than an ounce! 50% of the time when the phone number is used, theres some error with the linking of name-with-phone# or I bumped one wrong digit or i could't tell what number you mumbled and then the reciept says the wrong name and when i read the name you look at me like im crazy or just laugh! HEY! It's not my fault! Okay, Okay, i guess the number isn't too bad, but just make sure its up to date! (ie, don't use someone elses number).
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Mountain Grammar Police
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Sardonic sandbagging scoundrel, Cascade Climbers lobotomized spraymeister, space blanket flyer, new millennium vulgarian betaboy and friend to all squids
Climbing, a mountain
Canada
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Posted - 07/31/2006 : 07:40 AM
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I know someone who deliberately used a false name on their card just to hear the cashiers get flustered when they say "Have a Good Day Mr...um... Moetherfeukker?"
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Surrey, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/31/2006 : 09:46 AM
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Alberta-based choss climbin', flame throwin', rappel lovin', ass talkin' hater who doesn't like "Gumby" for a descriptor
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Posted - 07/31/2006 : 09:56 AM
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or I bumped one wrong digit
That would be your fault. |
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Calgary, alberta
Canada
670 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2006 : 10:11 AM
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Originally posted by wilderness_seeker
Oh but I have a new peeve: signage on roads, or lack thereof.
It's so bad. I tried to get on the Patullo bridge yesterday. I followed the signs for Surrey from New West, and then wondered, "OK, NOW what lane am I supposed to be in? I'm looking for a sign to direct me. I round a corner, and there it is, a TINY sign for Patullo Bridge for the lane I am not in. Posted well AFTER I should have been in that lane. Luckily someone in the line-up for the bridge let me in when she saw me slam on the brakes and signal just before I went sailing on to some distant, wrong suburb.
Gee....ya think MAYBE they could put the sign BEFORE the bend in the road?
I noticed that while driving in Vancouver last year, just imagine how us outa towners feel...
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Vernon, Okanagan, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/31/2006 : 10:30 PM
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Originally posted by Dru
I know someone who deliberately used a false name on their card just to hear the cashiers get flustered when they say "Have a Good Day Mr...um... Moetherfeukker?"
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LOL i wish i saw that one! That cashier musta been pretty dumb. I did have someone come in whose name was "Rainbow Hunt"... obviously not his real name. Of course, I did not thank that customer by name.
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Port Coquitlam, BC
Canada
165 Posts |
Posted - 08/02/2006 : 12:24 PM
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| People who drive slow in the left lane.You're not a cop, move over and let me pass safely on the left!!! |
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