How Is Your Life Different Now Than When You Joined SSP? - Page 4

MolsonExport · #61 Posted **Nov 24, 2022, 11:00 PM**

I don't think SSP changed me much (well, I certainly learned a few things from some of our more informed contributors), but I sure as hell spent a fair bit of time on these pages. As time goes on, it seems that fewer and fewer contributors have a connection to the remit of this site, and more are just here to sling their political/social views.

O-tacular · #62 Posted **Nov 24, 2022, 11:27 PM**

I don't know if SSP changed me per se, but I've been on it for so long that I have naturally evolved over time into a different person.

Luisito · #63 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 12:01 AM**

SSP It's certainly making me have less sympathy for people on the left.

Architype · #64 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 12:10 AM**

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SSP It's certainly making me have less sympathy for people on the left.

A veritable pernicious lair of dirty commies and Russian trolls I tell ya.

Gresto · #65 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 1:58 AM**

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SSP It's certainly making me have less sympathy for people on the left.

Don't worry, the feeling is mutual.

Luisito · #66 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 2:18 AM**

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A veritable pernicious lair of dirty commies and Russian trolls I tell ya.

No. Actual commies are cool. I'm talking about the privileged Candian left. The virtue signaling ones that insult people they don't agree with

Architype · #67 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 2:27 AM**

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No. Actual commies are cool. I'm talking about the privileged Candian left. The virtue signaling ones that insult people they don't agree with

Where are the cool commies, Cuba, China? You forgot about the privileged Canadian right, at best it's potentially treacherous in every political direction.

Luisito · #68 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 2:57 AM**

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d Canadian right, at best it's potentially treacherous in every political direction.

I am not a fan of the privileged right either, though i don't see them insulting anyone on here.

O-tacular · #69 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 4:06 AM**

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I am not a fan of the privileged right either, though i don't see them insulting anyone on here.

Really? Your first post in this thread was a dig at Molson.

Luisito · #70 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 3:03 PM**

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Really? Your first post in this thread was a dig at Molson.

It was a joke. The vomit bag? I have nothing against Molson. LOL

O-tacular · #71 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 3:07 PM**

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It was a joke. The vomit bag? I have nothing against Molson. LOL

I wasn’t sure. Speaking of vomit bags is that from Trains Planes and Automobiles? Just watched that on TV the other day and Steve Martin’s line about “Didn’t you notice I was reading the vomit bag while you were talking?” Made me chuckle.

kool maudit · #72 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 3:08 PM**

John Candy was a great Canadian.

Luisito · #73 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 3:12 PM**

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I wasn’t sure. Speaking of vomit bags is that from Trains Planes and Automobiles? Just watched that on TV the other day and Steve Martin’s line about “Didn’t you notice I was reading the vomit bag while you were speaking?” Made me chuckle.

LOL Could be. I haven't seen that since around the time it came out.

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John Candy was a great Canadian.

Yes indeed. RIP

MolsonExport · #74 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 3:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I wasn’t sure. Speaking of vomit bags is that from Trains Planes and Automobiles? Just watched that on TV the other day and Steve Martin’s line about “Didn’t you notice I was reading the vomit bag while you were speaking?” Made me chuckle.

This is precisely where I got it from. I laughed so much when I heard that.

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I mean, didn't you notice on the plane when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag?

hear it here: https://movie-sounds.org/comedy-movi...-the-vomit-bag

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Didn't that give you some sort of clue like, hey, maybe this guy's not enjoying it?

O-tacular · #75 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 4:33 PM**

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This is precisely where I got it from. I laughed so much when I heard that.

hear it here: https://movie-sounds.org/comedy-movi...-the-vomit-bag

So many great quotes from that movie. Too many to count. Similar to the vomit bag I loved this line:

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- I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days, I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face.

- They'd say: How can you stand it? And I'd say: Cause I've been with Del Griffith.

And of course this:

WhipperSnapper · #76 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 4:39 PM**

Well, it's a John Hughes movie . Died far too soon like Candy.

LightingGuy · #77 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 5:05 PM**

Left, Right - doesn't matter we need multiple perspectives. Open respectful disagreement is a good thing. I find that especially nowadays where I work from home, I'm not as surrounded by others perspectives on a daily basis, so I'm either in my head (100% agreement), or with my wife (90% agreement), or with my friends/relatives (70-80% agreement). Like most people, I tend to naturally avoid people who I always disagree with, and now I'm in environment where I basically only have people who I agree with on almost everything.

So I'd say that's the biggest value I get from this forum - multiple perspectives from across the country - as long as it's respectful commentary that makes an attempt to contribute/correct.

O-tacular · #78 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 5:13 PM**

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Well, it's a John Hughes movie . Died far too soon like Candy.

He should have gotten a credit for the Saw movies where Kevin McCallister grows up to become a serial killer.

One of my all time favourites is still Uncle Buck:

I have an uncle who fashioned himself after that character. Humiliated me one day in Elementary school when he drove me in a broke down handy bus and insisted on dropping me off at the front door in front of all the other kids. I think the tailpipe may have even backfired.

GeneralLeeTPHLS · #79 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 5:45 PM**

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John Candy was a great Canadian.

God bless him. His work as a comedian, actor and genuinely humble, honest person will never be forgotten.

I think SSP shaped my understanding of the development industry a lot. Then again, of course it would, I was a 14 year old when I first started lurking here, some quiet punk trying to get through AutoCAD class.
Of course, I see how absurd that sounds when I think I could've started making diagrams and that would've been somewhat related to those classes. Hell, i actually made a diagram of a building for math class in grade 9. It wasn't to scale, but it was still faithful to the buildigns design.

But seeing Canada coast to coast (in verious threads of course), and understanding how different cities work and their layout has been such a nice part of being on this site. I really find myself enjoying the nitty-gritty of how cities are layed out and their various quirks.

HomeInMyShoes · #80 Posted **Nov 25, 2022, 5:54 PM**

In 2005, I wasn't married, didn't have three kids, had stopped playing guitar for a while.

Things are different now.