You Live in Alberta when...

imactheknife · Jun 6th, 2007, 08:42 AM

Here's what Jeff Foxworthy (American comedian) has to say about
> Albertans:

>
>
> If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you
live
> in Alberta .
>
> If someone
in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't
> work there, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in
Alberta
> .
>
> If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
dialed a
> wrong number, you live in Alberta .
>
> If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Edmonton for the weekend,
> you live in Alberta .
>
> If you measure distance in hours, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you
live
> in Alberta .
>
> If you have switched from "heat" to "air conditioning" and back again
in
> the same day, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard
> without flinching, you live in Alberta
>
> If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave
both
> unlocked, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you carry cable jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use
> them, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,
you
> live in Alberta .
>
> If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with
> snow, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road
> construction, you live in Alberta .
>
> If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in
> Alberta .
>
> If you find 10 degrees Fahrenheit "a little chilly", you live in
Alberta
> .
>
> If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your
> Alberta friends, you live in Alberta.

I could not agree more sometimes...

>

zoziw · Jun 6th, 2007, 08:49 AM

	Quote:
	> If you find 10 degrees Fahrenheit "a little chilly", you live in Alberta

I have no concept of what 10 degrees fahrenheit feels like.

SINC · Jun 6th, 2007, 08:59 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by zoziw
	I have no concept of what 10 degrees fahrenheit feels like.

And likewise I have no concept of what possible benefit to us the government intended when they changed to celsius.

A once warm temperature of plus 10 degrees fahrenheit became the supposedly bone chilling equivalent of minus 12 celsius. It turned winter into a totally negative experience for Canadians.

bryanc · Jun 6th, 2007, 10:32 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by SINC
	And likewise I have no concept of what possible benefit to us the government intended when they changed to celsius.

Perhaps they recognized the value of a system of measurement that was internally consistent, rational, base-10 and widely used in science, engineering, and by the vast majority of citizens across the planet?

Just because you grew up with and got used to an archaic, irrational and idiosyncratic system doesn't mean you should saddle the future with it.

Cheers

HowEver · Jun 6th, 2007, 10:37 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by bryanc
	Perhaps they recognized the value of a system of measurement that was internally consistent, rational, base-10 and widely used in science, engineering, and by the vast majority of citizens across the planet? Just because you grew up with and got used to an archaic, irrational and idiosyncratic system doesn't mean you should saddle the future with it. Cheers

You know you've been to Alberta if you think the use of "saddle" in the above reply has only a tinge of irony.

Dr.G. · Jun 6th, 2007, 10:39 AM

You know you are in Alberta if you have communities with a population of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians second only in size to St.John's, NL. Sad, but all too true.

SINC · Jun 6th, 2007, 10:41 AM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by bryanc
	Perhaps they recognized the value of a system of measurement that was internally consistent, rational, base-10 and widely used in science, engineering, and by the vast majority of citizens across the planet? Just because you grew up with and got used to an archaic, irrational and idiosyncratic system doesn't mean you should saddle the future with it. Cheers

Last I checked the fahrenheit scale was exactly the same as it has been ever since it was established. Is that "consistent" enough for you?

The fact remains that I firmly believe that the negative effect on Canadians minds living under the celsius scale contributes to their growing "winter blues problem".

Like I said when one is told on the radio forecast "it is a balmy plus 10" on arising one morning versus the "bundle up it's -12 out there" gang speaks for itself in terms of mental health. We have far too much negativity in this world without unnecessarily creating more.

Dr.G. · Jun 6th, 2007, 11:48 AM

It took me a few years, but now, after 30 years in Canada, I am able to think in Celsius. Metric length is OK, and weight is a bit of a stretch. Liquid measurements are still a mystery to me, since I still think in ounces, cups, etc.

Andrew Pratt · Jun 6th, 2007, 12:16 PM

Purhapse Sync you'd prefer we switch to the Kelvin scale instead?

SINC · Jun 6th, 2007, 12:35 PM

	Quote:			Originally Posted by Andrew Pratt
	Purhapse Sync you'd prefer we switch to the Kelvin scale instead?

Nope, just back to fahrenheit. And the name is SINC, not Sync.