When you dig a trench across a busy boulevard like Lakelands Blvd, between St. Margarets Bay Rd. and Chain Lake Dr., would you mind filling it back in and paving over it so that it doesn’t have a 3 inch drop, like the one just past the coffee joint named after a deceased NHL player? It would be so much more pleasant for people who drive over the trench afterwards, who wouldn’t have to experience that sudden jolt to the spine. Thanks in advance !!! Hugs and kisses….. —Big D
This article appears in Dec 26, 2013 – Jan 1, 2014.
Not to mention the nice clean clothes and cars that get a nice heaping splash of java from said place. Fix the pavement….we’re suppose to drink java, not wear it.
They also chose one of the busiest times of the year to start laying the pipe, no, no not THAT type of pipe, reducing traffic to one lane just before Christmas.
Also, NSP should’ve been forced to work with the tossers and put some power lines in the same hole?
What grinds my grits is that the city paved a shitload of streets months BEFORE the gas company tore up these same roads to install their evil pipedom. Gah! Prunes!
If that isn’t back asswards, I don’t know what is.
Well, I’d slow down before the pave ends and slowly ride over it so that I don’t experience much by way of the 3-inch drop.
I”d agree with you Meaty, but I never take a second glance at 3-inches
THE THREE INCH DROP
“… would you mind filling it back in and paving over it so that it doesn’t have a three inch drop, like the one just past the coffee joint named after a deceased NHL player?” Big D
Maybe they’ve buried another NHL player on the Boulevard between St. Margarets Bay Road and Chain Lake Drive. It takes time for the earth to settle before you pave, you know.
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Who goes to Bayer’s Lake if they don’t have to?
Bayer’s Lake has one of Halifax’s free petting zoos, Walmart.
The fun part comes ten years down the road when city workers, Imo and Monty Blanc drill into the pipe because the dullards who laid it couldn’t be bothered to mark it’s postion accurately on a map.
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: Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/09, 6:37AM)
Hands! All those who got Ivan’s reference to “Imo and Monty Blanc” raise your right hand!
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MontrealMan (01/09, 9.24AM)
It goes to show that us old guys are more than just pretty faces to the younger generation.
I thought I’d update this bitch. I drive that way to get into BLIP to pick up the wife and I got caught off guard at that dip (it annoys me how these guys get carte blanche to rip up roads and pave it into a shitty mess). Yesterday it was filled with cold patch (I’m sure the city payed for this), so no more dip until the next snow fall when the plow will no doubt remove the patch…
It’s all supposed to be in the contract. If its not specified for whichever contractor to come back at a certain point to do routine maintenance on the soft patch/gravel at a certain point, it won’t get done.
The fine print becomes even more important when going with the lowest bidder.
you guy’s know one of the best things about full sized 4 wheel drive trucks OB (and others)
You don’t even notice a 3 inch bump or hole in the road, unless you are going so slow you actually can say “oh I think that was a bump/dip .”
Also by the time potholes get big enough for them to be a possible danger, there’s usually a small car in the hole & we just travel right on over it …. ~:D
… and how much does it cost you to fill up your gas-guzzing ‘4 wheel drive truck,’ more-on?
There’s no need for such holes in the road. Period. And the company putting the gas line in knows this. It’s easy as shit to put some gravel in and maintain that until a more permanent fix can go in.
One weekend night, one winter, there was a huge crater in the driveway up to the grocery store in Bayers Lake. Customers complained about their cars being damaged, so the grocery store (who wasn’t responsible for the driveway) had some staff responsible for the carts take buckets of kitty litter and fill it in until the property management could arrange for a fix on Monday. It worked really well because kitty litter (unclumping) is essentially gravel.
In any event, I haven’t been around this area, but is there signage? There should at LEAST be signage. If there isn’t, I’d be calling my MLA/councillor and complaining about this.
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: Klyde (01/09, 9:49AM)
: “… more than just pretty faces to the to the younger generation.”
What other part of the anatomy did you have in mind?
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P.S. What did you think of the avatar? Did you learn something from it? How would you rate it on a scale from 1 to 10? What are the criteria upon which your scale is based? Can you defend your criteria coherently? Do they criteria possess a philosophical foundation or are they simple eclectic and random? Write back soon.
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: Klyde (01/09, 9:49AM)
: “… more than just pretty faces to the younger generation.”
What other parts of the anatomy did you have in mind?
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P.S. What did you think of the new avatar? How would you rate it on a scale from 1 to 10? What are the criteria upon which your rating scale is based? Are such criteria merely eclectic and randomized or do they have a coherent philosophical foundation? The reference to “pretty” suggests an aesthetic philosophical foundation, one which appeals to a comprehensible concept of beauty. Could you articulate the contents of your aesthetic philosophy? What would it look like? Write back soon.
Uh-oh! Someone’s gotten into the sugar again!
Who cares what it costs Petty K …Its a tax deduction that all companies use to offset profit.
I own a Corporate company 100%. That company ownes my truck, business property, building, equipment its debt etc etc etc etc etc. ….I write off the expenses of said company, expenses that come off my bottom line aka what I am taxed on.
Sorry you with your University education are too uneducated to realize you’ll never make real money working for a living & paying exorbitant taxes on said salary/wages.
Before you pay even more taxes when you use what little is left to buy your basics & other wants & needs.
Uneducated dumb fucks like me, & my friends looked at how Sobey’s, Irving & the other biggies got to keep so much of what they make & how they get to write off every thing they spend & so pay little or no taxes ….& learned to play the same game ~:D
Gas prices who fuckin’ cares & I burn supreme baby, my truck works better ~:p
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Montrealman (01/09, 2.57, 3.06PM)
The meaning of us old guys being more than pretty faces meant that we are more than just pretty faces because we are also thinkers, rational or irrational as well as the ability to learn and store information. Saint Meaty might be interested in other parts, minus labia. You and I can take care of those.
I can’t speak for your pretty face, but in the case of mine, it is not rugged giving my age. I’d like to say that my pretty face is aging gracefully with minimum wrinkles and smothered by long locks of semi golden blondish hair…sprinkled with some greys to give that look of maturity and wisdom.
Now for your new avatar, which by the way I enjoy all of them. You seem to change them as fast as I change my shirts. In the case of the 1959 $5 dollar bill, I rate this as a 9 and my reasoning behind that assessment is the fact that in that time period in Canadian history it was filled with turmoil as Canada wanted to become a unified nation, apart from America, still hold allegiance with Britain but without the distinction of being Upper and lower Canada. The BNA act around 1840 started to unify Canada. A couple decades later in 1967 Sir John A. Macdonald ushered in a unified Canada with the confederation at Charlottetown.
Without references I am reaching into the cockles of my memories with this, which as you know, fades away with the passage of time, in my case over 45 years ago. I believe it is Col. Ivan’s forte for history, as far as a philosophic element to this history lesson, I’m not sure, in any case, you will enlighten me.
Please report back on my grade for this history lesson, if I fail, I will bow gracefully from your history class.
My bad ….1859 $5 dollar bill.
My bad again….1867 Confederation….not enough Timmies.lol
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: Klyde (01/10, 10:20AM)
An excellent reply, Klyde. Sorry for the double post. I would explain but it’s too boring. Like you I am remarkable youthful and good looking but modesty prevents me from elaborating.
Also, your rating of the $5 note from The Colonial of Canada was spot on. One rarely finds such depth of reflection on this site.
I must add, however, that a full account of history, particularly its teaching, requires a strong philosophical dimension, one which I find somewhat lacking in Ivan who focuses, in my view, too much on the armaments involved. Of course, there is the “Philosophy of History,” a course which I have taken while pursuing my Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education and which, in my view, adds an essential dimension to history in the absence of which it might easily turn into a dull chronicle of dusty facts.
On the basis of the absence of this philosophical dimension in your otherwise excellent answer I feel that I can, with confidence, award you a grade of A-.
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Montrealman (01/10, 11.18AM)
Thanks for your grading of my post, I look forward to your philosophical dimension as it would further make one, such as me, understand better. I’m of the mindset that a person is never too old to learn.
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: Klyde (01/10, 10:15AM)
You’re very welcome, Klyde.
The thing about philosophy is that is applicable to a wide range of subjects, history included. Since history does not deal directly with historical events – they have passed into the past never to be retrieved – its concern is the interpretation of those events – their causes, significance, and so on – and so history is primarily an interpretive study. One compares the interpretations of various historians who wrote about the event – seeing where they are “coming from” and all that – and, by means of a further act of interpretation, one comes to a deeper understanding of the context in terms of which the historical event drives its meaning. And, of course, the purpose of history, like that of philosophy, is understanding itself. History provides the temporal context in terms of which we have a greater understanding of who we are in social terms while philosophy provides a greater understanding of who we are in terms of our first principles.
That will be $5 please.
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Montrealman (01/10,3.46PM)
I’m sorry but I can’t provide or pay you with the same 1859 $5 dollar bill that was your avatar, would a nice new shiny polymer $5 dollar bill suffice? We can meet at my favorite coffee shop so I can pay you for services rendered.
Another aspect of that 1859 $5 dollar bill that I gathered from the pictures on it was that it showed men and women working for the betterment of our nation. Prior to the BNA act, around late 1700 and into 1800 Canadian soldiers under General Brock knew that in order to keep our country free from invaders had to form alliances with the native Indians led by Tecumseh, along with the French, who through many bloody encounters and skirmishes resisted the Americans and forced them back. Had they failed Canada could very well have been an annex to America. The Americans knew the importance of the Great Lakes for trading and shipping and wanted full control to that resource, as well they knew that Canada held vast natural resources.
And to refute Montrealman’s cheap slander that I fail to apply a proper philosophical dimension to the study of history, here’s 10 hours of anime schoolgirls singing “Katyusha”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5IFJqjXiQ
No, Montrealman, the little blonde girl is not wearing a toaster on her head, but rather a Soviet Army padded tanker’s helmet. Eminently practical when crossing rough terrain in a T-34/85 which, as you may not be aware, was constructed with the American designed “Christie” type suspension.
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Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/11, 8.47AM)
I really hope I got this right, as I can picture you when you were a kid, that you dreamed of being like this kid some day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaUtizFSal
Addendum to my post. I can’t open the video, so go to http://www.youtube.com and put in Stanfield’s.. Ship To Shore (official video) and enjoy.
Hoo boy – I could write a thesis on the technical inaccuracies in that video >; )
But it’s a kickass tune. I can easily see our guys in Kandahar belting it out in their downtime.(perhaps lubricated with a little Captain Morgan mailed in shampoo bottles from loved ones back home. nudge nudge)
35 years of reading history and bios have taught me one thing – soldiers have perhaps the best developed sense of irony and black humour of any demographic on this planet.
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Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/11, 9.33AM)
Every time I watch that video, I can picture you as that kid, lol. It is indeed a kick-ass song.
Ha ha – not too far off the mark.
In uni I used to do this routine – knew it off by heart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1sG9Nmz3w
Even wore a green beret with a Schooner beer cap as regimental badge.
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: Klyde (01/11, 8:19AM)
Absolutely Klyde, I will accept the polymer $5 although The Colonial Bank of Canada $5 note is worth more than twenty times that amount at current rates. However, I didn’t interpret the figures on the note as patriotically as “working for the betterment of the nation” as you seem to have done but rather as a simple pastoral scene, particularly the guy getting a buzz from his glass of whisky. However, your interpretation, while rather Stalinist in my view, does have its merits and is not to be dismissed out of hand. Your reference to General Brock and Tecumseh, of course, refers to the War of 1812 which, for many, was Canada’s war of independence from the barbarous American yoke. In addition to the battle of Queenston Heights, Chateauguay and Crysler’s Farm, there is an outstanding memorial in Saint Paul’s Cemetery in Halifax to the victory of the HMS Shannon over the American Chesapeake. I trust you will pay a visit and report back.
: Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (8:4&AM)
Well no Ivan, while you’re quite right about my not being aware of the fact that the Russian T34/85 tank was designed with the Christie type suspension, it does appear to support my claim that your approach to history lacks a certain, shall we say, philosophical dimension. However, as with Klyde’s rather Stalinist view of the figures on the $5 Colonial Bank of Canada note, your artifactual/technicist approach is not to be dismissed out of hand. Indeed, you might be interested in my new avatar which has a decidedly military/artifactual (but not technicist) flavour. I must admit that I am particularly worried about whether my description of the canons at either end of the Guards’ firing line as 9-pounders was correct.
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