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Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

goldy_331 said:
He buys them with a "check" and tells his friends about them with his flip phone.:D
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...and enters the check info in his ledger before he leaves the line.

:D
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

Remember what I said about the big storm coming and Denver getting dumped on if enough cold air showed up this weekend?

WELL GUESS FARKING WHAT.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

Twitch Boy said:
Remember what I said about the big storm coming and Denver getting dumped on if enough cold air showed up this weekend?

WELL GUESS FARKING WHAT.
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If you know it's coming, you could just plan for it. Whaaaaa?! :eek:
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

Twitch Boy said:
Or it could just not happen at all. That's cool too. :mad:
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I have to say, I find it very funny that you spent all those years in Houghton, and that the threat of a modest foot or so of snow in Denver has you, the Jeep driver, all worked up. ;)

I sort of get it - underneath the "300 Days of Sunshine" snark, there are a lot of legitimate complaints. There's stiff competition in the housing market; a huge influx of Denver neophytes who come for either the mile high running/biking/skiing, or the "mile HIGH" legal ganja (har har har), and don't have 4WD vehicles or any clue what snow really is. There's smog that, per-capita, approaches LA territory. There's increasingly bad traffic, and the light rail to the NW 'burbs can't be opened/extended fast enough.

It seems you're trapped in 1987-1997 Seattle, with marginally better weather and without the music. Ouch. :p :D
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I have to say, I find it very funny that you spent all those years in Houghton, and that the threat of a modest foot or so of snow in Denver has you, the Jeep driver, all worked up. ;)
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That's exactly the comment I was hoping someone would make. That right there is why I complain about Denver weather - expectations and consistency.

Houghton gets 200 inches of snow a year. Well, of course it does. That's what Houghton does. It's part of Houghton's identity. It's expected. 12 inches of snow overnight is rendered a non-factor by afternoon. To quote my favorite movie, I bought my tickets, I knew what I was getting into. It promises, it delivers, we deal with it. That's fine.

Anchorage - well golly gee, it's at 61 degrees latitude, there MIGHT just be some winter weather happening. (And actually it turns out it's surprisingly mild due to warming currents off the ocean and has some of the most stable weather I've ever seen.)

Denver, meanwhile, runs around bragging how gorgeous the weather is and how beautiful everything is and then rams 20 inches of snow up your ***. It is absolutely and totally unpredictable. They didn't even know if this incoming storm would produce snow or just a ton of rain until about 12 hours ago.

I'm an engineer. I like consistency. I like black and white. I like it when things make sense. I like predictability. I like it when a plan comes together and things work like they're supposed to. This...just presses all my buttons.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

FadeToBlack&Gold said:
I sort of get it - underneath the "300 Days of Sunshine" snark, there are a lot of legitimate complaints. There's stiff competition in the housing market; a huge influx of Denver neophytes who come for either the mile high running/biking/skiing, or the "mile HIGH" legal ganja (har har har), and don't have 4WD vehicles or any clue what snow really is. There's smog that, per-capita, approaches LA territory. There's increasingly bad traffic, and the light rail to the NW 'burbs can't be opened/extended fast enough.

It seems you're trapped in 1987-1997 Seattle, with marginally better weather and without the music. Ouch. :p :D
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And even these aren't really a PROBLEM per se. I can work with them. I know how to finesse traffic and when to stay the heck off the roads, and there's always the bus and the light rail. I got a mortgage locked in on a place that has three times the square footage I had in Anchorage with half the property tax. I know what I'm getting into with these, and they're problems with solutions.

If you laid out all the largish cities I could see myself living in, Denver is #2 on the list. (#1 is MSP.) I want to like it here. I want to like it here so bad.

For the weeaboos in attendance, Denver is tsundere.
 
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