Dougie93

I was hedged for this eventuality, so I am sunning myself on my deck in my 12,500 sq ft backyard which is like my own private Idaho But I was going to do that anyways, I bought this property so I could live comfortably to the end of my days with no complaints at all, if there is where I ended up stuck That's the key, if you're going all in on a property, make sure you are happy to die there and that you will never have to sell into a down market.

This is a pandemic, the victory conditions depend on the civilians adopting a military bearing, as elite as JTF2 may be, they are of little utility against a virus

Getting a job was not so easy, none the less, if you just got out there and pounded the pavement, you would get one inevitably. My father accepted no excuses, get your ass out there and don't come home without a job And there was far less luxury, like every kid has an X-box now, when I asked my father for an Atari he said no f*cking way. The mortgage rates were 18%, your parents didn't have any money to spare. If my father gave me a roll of quarters to go play at the arcade, that was gravy.

Getting girls to go on a date was easy, you just had to have the courage to walk up and make your pitch. Girls were still girls, they'd wear your football jacket through the halls of school as a badge of honor, being on the football team was important.

There was no internet so if you shot your mouth off at another dude, you might have to back that up So were no nerds trolling people with impunity, nerds were kept in their place.

We had gun control but it wasn't draconian If you passed the background check for a Restricted Class FAC then you passed and that was that There was control, not prohibition

It's like I have my great grandfather's diary from the First World War, and it's stunning how matter of fact he is about it all He was reacting to having to go over the top like we react when the internet goes down.

Like in 1919 the infant mortality was 150 per 1000, now it's 4.5 These were iron hard people compared to now, they buried their children, often.

But it doesn't take that many killed in this day and age, to cause a panic far in excess of 1919.

Wayne & Mario were in their prime, playing on the same line. Sheer hockey bliss

The Leafs were pretty much like they are now. Instead of Auston Matthews we had Wendel Clark Instead of John Tavares we had Rick Vaive Instead of William Nylander we had Russ Courtnall Instead of Mitch Marner we had Gary Leeman Same as they are now, they scored a lot of goals but they couldn't defend at all Wendel however was worth the price of admission alone

The army was not well equipped, but we were the Best Small Army in the World, nobody could touch us, not even the Yanks.

Hockey was war, my Da's favorite hockey fight, Larry 'Big Bird" Robinson v. Dave 'The Hammer' Schultz

Vancouver before 1986 truly was an Urban Paradise

Glenn Gould's Toronto truly was Toronto the Good.

The greatest celebration I ever attended was Corso Italia 1982

I missed it completely, I was in the field on course with the army, cut off from the outside world, they wouldn't even tell us the score.

Canada was hugely in debt back in the good ol' days, there was a de facto if not de jure fiscal crisis in 1994

People tend to focus too much on 1919, it's not like the Asian and Hong Kong flu pandemics were a nothing burger, they both killed over 100,000 Americans.

After the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, a pandemic was very high up on my list of Black Swan scenarios.

There's already a shortage of blood, so there's something the Home Guard can do ; give blood.

Not that the volatility is anywhere near subsiding, but Washington invoking big stimulus guns a blazing has at least recovered things from the plummeting tailspin, for now.

It's like the troops round here always say "better watch out, if we keep this up, Chuckie is going to shut us down" That's what it's like in battalion, everybody looking over the shoulders to see if the RSM is coming this way.

Charles Anthony is a great Mod because it's never personal, just business, he remains above the fray and sticks to his knitting, that's what you want. Military regimen, like a Sergeant Major.

Wot ? You, complaining about the Mods ? I thought you were Team Mod, Captain Olympics Pants.