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Old Sep 20th 2010, 7:02 am
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by Steve_P
Bullshit.

Edmonton has just as many roundabouts if not more now than they had in the sixties and seventies.
Really i have only found two?

i wouldnt miss this inane obession with cheese and putting the stuff on everything and anything.

yeah 4 way stop..whats the point?!?

Appaling driving why do they have to wait ten minutes when the lights change to green before they move off???..or stop 20 yards short of the junction?

Bad hair and bad clothes they do make jeans that actually fit you know and trainers that come in other colours than white and aren't running shoes.
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Old Sep 20th 2010, 7:06 am
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Originally Posted by cheeky_monkey
trainers that come in other colours than white and aren't running shoes.
Chris Hughton?
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Old Sep 20th 2010, 7:32 am
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by cheeky_monkey
Really i have only found two?
107th Ave/142nd St.
Groat Rd./118th Ave.
Groat Rd./87th Ave.
90th Ave/Connors Rd.
98th Ave 85th St.
and one in Sherwood Park.

All there last time I was up in Edmonton last year. Could be more. They're the ones that spring to mind.
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Old Sep 20th 2010, 7:34 am
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Moaning immigrants.
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Moaning immigrants.
And one more thing. When I'm turning left, why do people behind me have to get on their f**king horns because I haven't turned on the nano-second the f**king light changes. Don't these twats realize that I haven't moved because there are pedestrians in the way, not because I like sitting at a f**king junction for no f**king reason whatsoever. C***s.
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by Alan2005
And one more thing. When I'm turning left, why do people behind me have to get on their f**king horns because I haven't turned on the nano-second the f**king light changes. Don't these twats realize that I haven't moved because there are pedestrians in the way, not because I like sitting at a f**king junction for no f**king reason whatsoever. C***s.
Move to Ontario then you can sit at the lights all day. maybe wind down the window and have a chat with your friend who is coming from the opposite direction and has stopped right by your window just to talk to you.
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Old Sep 20th 2010, 9:39 am
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by fledermaus
Move to Ontario then you can sit at the lights all day. maybe wind down the window and have a chat with your friend who is coming from the opposite direction and has stopped right by your window just to talk to you.
^rural

Do that in Toronto and the guy behind will shoot you. Only fair.
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^rural

Do that in Toronto and the guy behind will shoot you. Only fair.
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Originally Posted by Alan2005
And one more thing. When I'm turning left, why do people behind me have to get on their f**king horns because I haven't turned on the nano-second the f**king light changes. Don't these twats realize that I haven't moved because there are pedestrians in the way, not because I like sitting at a f**king junction for no f**king reason whatsoever. C***s.
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by Alan2005
And one more thing. When I'm turning left, why do people behind me have to get on their f**king horns because I haven't turned on the nano-second the f**king light changes. Don't these twats realize that I haven't moved because there are pedestrians in the way, not because I like sitting at a f**king junction for no f**king reason whatsoever. C***s.
Bad day at the office?
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by Auld Yin
My o My, but aren't you a short-fused puppy?
My tolerance of idiots is low. Thus driving in this country sometimes makes me angry...

Originally Posted by AmyDavid
Bad day at the office?
... but fortunately I work from home
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Old Sep 20th 2010, 1:19 pm
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by Alan2005
My tolerance of idiots is low. Thus driving in this country sometimes makes me angry...


... but fortunately I work from home
And yet you have 6500+ posts on here.

I'm just glad this is all satire.
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Cinnamon in everything that has an apple.
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Cinnamon in everything that has an apple.
That cinnamon whisky is not bad. Fireball I think its called.
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Default Re: Is there anything you wouldn't miss if you left Canada?

Originally Posted by Alan2005
And one more thing. When I'm turning left, why do people behind me have to get on their f**king horns because I haven't turned on the nano-second the f**king light changes. Don't these twats realize that I haven't moved because there are pedestrians in the way, not because I like sitting at a f**king junction for no f**king reason whatsoever. C***s.
I actually find it the opposite. Everybody drives like a lunatic on the highway, but on the B roads everybody is out for a relaxing Sunday drive with no sense of urgecy whatsoever.
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