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Powershift posted:I wish the calgary locations would get it together, i'm going to have to go scout out both yards some time this week. Heh you think anything in Calgary would "get it together". Also Hello Alberta AI I am an Alberta but I've never owned a truck before does this make me a real Alberta? 
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Slung Blade posted:Depends, what is your proximity to Caroline? Not loving far enough. Tommychu posted:(just drive like an rear end in a top hat and you'll be fine) I drive a 3-Series BMW (the 3 being the total contents of my peasant wallet to >5-Series drivers), do you really need to ask?
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Jul 15, 2014 06:26
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TrueChaos posted:Can us Onterrible people play too? Only if you say the Alberta Oath of Allegiance: I do solemnly swear to uphold the vision of our Venerable and Wise Eternal Premier, Ralph Klein (Peace Be Upon Him), and to uphold the values and creed of the Glorious Conservative Revolution Of Thought (May It Last For Time Eternal) for this day and for all days to come, so help me God. I hereby renounce all claim of Citizenship and Influence to all other entities, Foreign and Domestic, and formally denounce the Socialism/Statist Compact of the deviant Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
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Jul 15, 2014 21:00
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Powershift posted:You say that, but as soon as i get in my bmw, i start driving like an rear end in a top hat. Oh yeah. I'm a reasonably personable and nice person (I'm not A Nice GuyTM though), but when I get behind the wheel I've been known to become a bit of a shithead. I chalk it up to the fumes from our Superior German Adhesives.
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Jul 16, 2014 01:00
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What does bread have to do with anything?
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Jul 16, 2014 04:20
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I take it you guys have never driven around Montreal if you think Alberta potholes are bad.
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Jul 17, 2014 03:26
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Apparently Airdrie is getting baby potato sized hail at the moment. Hopefully that cries itself out before it reaches the heat island and makes my premiums jerk up again. That big storm that just went through Airdrie is blowing itself out now; the cold downdraft is killing the storms developing behind it, so we're OK for the next couple hours or so. E: I do wonder about that hook-shaped radar return approaching Three Hills though.
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Jul 17, 2014 23:12
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We have the worst loving radio stations here in Alberta. If it isn't Cuntry music, you're listening to THE EAGLEBADGERBEAR PLAYING THE SAME FIVE JOURNEY SONGS EVERY HOUR DUDE or some insufferable pre-canned Top 40 station. Unless we're talking about CKUA; they're alright I guess.
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Jul 19, 2014 00:39
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You YEG fuckers, with your proud ways and real race tracks...
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Jul 24, 2014 03:18
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Who cares about horsepower when you have rich, Corinthian leather?
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Jul 25, 2014 05:03
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Oh man my brother and I were out getting a new alternator for his 9-2X when we saw the most incredible things on the road. First, a Pontiac Grand Prix complete with an enormous stick-on hood scoop, portholes and more Jeff Gordon decals than if it had crashed into Hendrick Motorsports. While my brother was shooting video of that car, he caught a Mk4 Jetta spewing a smokescreen that was so enormous that it obscured both the northbound and southbound lanes of Macleod Trail. Best parts run ever. E: On the return back to my place, we spotted an Audi A4 cabriolet (badly) done up in an attempt to look like an R8. Calgary roads, the gift that keeps on giving! 
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Jul 29, 2014 01:54
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Slung Blade posted:Man, it's gonna be hot this week. Eh, I love the heat...I would take this over -30 every loving time. Also I am not hauling animals up and back to the oilsands this weekend, so I am free on Sunday. You guys aren't gonna eat me or anything, right?
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Jul 29, 2014 21:26
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Timmy Cruise posted:Just got back from a trip to Fernie then Calgary. The 2 did well but struggled with the 50 km/h headwind through pincher creek. I got 8.3 l/100km that tank as opposed to 6.3 coming back on hwy 22. 1A between Canmore and
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Aug 2, 2014 18:46
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So apparently there was a minor earthquake out by Rocky Mountain House today - might come as a surprise to people that there are areas of the province that have more than a minimal earthquake risk.
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Aug 10, 2014 01:01
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There are evidently more than a few people following this advice, as I saw three accidents between my house and the gym this evening, which amounts to a grand total of 14 km of driving. I had absolutely no problem at all, in fact I couldn't even get the traction control light to come on at all in spite of trying more than a few times, and this is with a set of pretty aggressive summer tires and RWD. Calgary fuckin' drivers, man...
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Sep 9, 2014 04:10
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Power was out at my place for almost six hours today according to Enmax; it just went on half an hour ago.Powershift posted:Not this weekend, but i hope you weren't planning on leaving your house between Heh, "AccuWeather". Also who did you piss off to get that custom title?
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Sep 11, 2014 00:36
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Oh I hadn't read that thread in a while, man things got stupid in there recently.
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Sep 11, 2014 01:49
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Any of you guys going out to Banff tomorrow for the Gullwing convention and car show?
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Sep 12, 2014 22:42
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Albino Squirrel posted:Holy crap, an Alberta thread! I'm in Edmonton, and drive an '07 Mini... which I have to replace because now I have a kid. I've been looking at a few German (and Swedish) smallish sedans, but this leads me to a couple of questions: 1) My E46 started and ran just fine at -36 last year, parked outside and not plugged in or anything. If your car didn't start, my guess is a weak battery. 2) I'll talk to my indie BMW/Euro car shop here in Calgary to see if they have any recommendations up in Edmonton.
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Sep 13, 2014 17:19
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Tommychu posted:Trucks have had plugs like that since Christ was a cowboy, except with a regular male 110 plug behind the flap instead of some proprietary BS. It's usually set onto the panel under the driver's door too, so you're less likely to forget to unplug it and drag your extension cord down the road looking like a moron. But without the proprietary connector, how else are Ze Germans going to sell you their $350 extension cord?
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Sep 16, 2014 20:19
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Southern Alberta laughs at northern Alberta's wind problem. Winds over 90 km/h? That's a day that ends in -y in Lethbridge.
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Sep 19, 2014 22:47
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There's nothing more fun than going out in the snow in a RWD car on snow tires, laughing at all the shitheads in Super Doodies who've fallen off the road because their 26" Nitto Terra Grapplers are worn to the cords and they can't afford to replace them (because they just bought another big screen TV).
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Oct 31, 2014 04:27
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If Saskatchewan is the rear end in a top hat of the world, does that make Alberta the hemorrhoid of the world?
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Nov 20, 2014 21:08
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No Manitoba is the taint because they are between the rear end in a top hat and the dick. You see because Ontario is the dick of the world 
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Nov 20, 2014 22:18
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^^^Same, but for Honda/Fords driving around without their headlights on. Any of you Calgoons planning on autocrossing at Ghost Lake this winter?
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Dec 2, 2014 03:08
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Today I saw some shithead driving his Protege down Stoney, doing 40 or so (when everyone else was safely doing double that) with his 4-way flashers on and a right rear wheel that had clearly lost a battle with a curb. I honked at him as I went by, seeing as his not only was his vehicle totally unroadworthy, but he was endangering everyone else at the same time. Get this though; the fuckhead took exception to that and followed me to the gym! Needless to say, I took his plate and went to the police station and filed a report after that.
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Jan 7, 2015 05:01
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1500quidporsche posted:Stoney trail has already lost the battle with frost heaves. The last thing we need is some shitheel's rim digging up pavement on it. It is truly unbelievable just how bad our roads are. Even though I probably know the answer to this, I wonder just how many shortcuts have been taken in road construction here in Calgary in the last decade or so. I mean, look at any road made in that timeframe; the surface is all cracked and deteriorating and there are frost heaves the size of speed bumps loving everywhere...you don't see that in older roads typically (which are falling apart more due to poor maintenance). I guess this is where the Alberta AdvantageTM pays off, right?
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Jan 7, 2015 06:37
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neckbeard posted:-14 in Edmonton today and we had freezing rain yesterday.... The natives are selling diesel for .979 at the Tsuu Tina station.
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Jan 9, 2015 03:42
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slidebite posted:Comedy option: That Iltis I linked to in Craigs Gold. Iltises are fine as long as there aren't any American F-16s around being flown by tweaked up pilots. (actually no they're not...a Volkswagen design hammered together by French Canadians? Yeesh)
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slidebite posted:The beautiful thing about the far south is there are so many old people not that part you regularly see 80s and 90s cars with next to nothing milege come up for sale as part of estate or can no longer drive sales. You can buy decent E36s all day long here for $5k or so. Granted they're nearly 20-year old cars now (and I recall that SSS loving HATES E36s), but they're still decent cars nonetheless. Or you can get lucky like Powershift and buy a beater 5 at an auction for like a grand and be all  about it.
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Jan 17, 2015 02:46
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slidebite posted:I think there is something wrong with me, because the only 90s BMW I have any desire to own in the slightest is an E31. That's because the E31 is baller as all gently caress and if it weren't for the yearly five-figure breakdown, I'd have one in a heartbeat.
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Jan 17, 2015 03:03
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My guess is that there will be a lot of heavily discounted, expensive-ish cars for sale, but the pickings in the sub-$5000 section will be pretty slim. Also so many Harleys and snowmobiles for sale it won't even be funny (actually it still will be). It might be time to start thinking of buying a biek again (but not a Harley, gently caress them). I imagine in a year's time all the salesmen at Blackfoot Motosports will be just a bunch of wild-eyed, gaunt husks of men who've subsisted solely on mud, grasshoppers and the fat guy in the service department. MrChips fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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Well you might not be in the market for a couch on wheels, but our esteemed premier was! He bought himself a '56 Thunderbird over the weekend at Barrett-Jackson, ticking yet another box on the "Are You the Tinpot Dictator of a Third-World Shithole?" questionnaire.
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Jan 20, 2015 22:09
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71 grand. Dictators in these shitholes always have huge car collections, almost with no exception. And yes it's mostly the terrible optics of the situation; he's likely going to ask the entire civil service to take a huge pay cut to try and make ends meet, and he goes out and splurges on a luxury item like this.
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Jan 20, 2015 23:04
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8ender posted:Maybe in the future Canada will learn from this and we'll invest surplus money into a fund that can stabilize the economy if the industry producing that money falters. What, like those damned Socialists in Norway? With their trillion-dollar wealth fund? THAT MONEY COULD HAVE BOUGHT SO MANY PICKUP TRUCKS MISTER
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Jan 21, 2015 08:17
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Slung Blade posted:He can't, they need a few months to figure out what to do about the budget, lmbo. There have been a lot of words written on this subject as to why it has happened, but the consensus seems to be that over the last thirty years or so, the political spectrum in Western society has shifted, to varying degrees, to the right. It's why you see the federal Liberals today occupying largely the same ideological territory as the pre-Mulroney Tories, and for the matter why the NDP are today only ever so slightly left of where Chretien's Liberals were twenty years ago.
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Hey Slung Blade, I was talking with a friend of mine the other day and he was telling me that his tractor (I didn't catch the brand, but it's a small one - 20 horsepower or so) had a pretty major engine failure recently and that he was thinking of an electric conversion. I was wondering if you had any sources of information that might be useful if he pursues this avenue?
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Jan 28, 2015 22:39
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Slung Blade posted:Like a lawn tractor for mowing grass, or a little garden tractor for working a vegetable garden? It's a small garden tractor; he uses it for brush mowing, plowing snow and tending his vegetable garden. He's got a well-equipped garage/metal shop and he's pretty handy with a MIG welder. Also, the guy is a goddamned wizard when it comes to electronics and coding, so it wouldn't surprise me if he might take a shot at making his own controllers for the thing. We're meeting up at the pub tonight for drinks; I'll try to get more info then.
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Jan 31, 2015 17:46
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I've never seen it before...I suspect it's all the blow the rig pigs aren't putting up their noses.
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This shipping info is great guys, thanks. I have two and potentially three big orders of stuff for my E46 that I'm going to need in the next six to nine months; even if all I get is free/discounted shipping to an American address (which Pelican and the other big Euro parts häuser offer), it'll probably be a net savings in the end.
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