[dino_bobba_renno]

Curtman Curtman:

I have to say.. I don't really care.

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Then why did you bring it up?

Curtman Curtman:

Racism seemed to have a much more serious nature to it than it does here as well. People genuinely hate other people it seems, whereas here it's more of a joke. It's disgusting either way though.

I don't really see much in the way of racsism, no more or less than any other city, maybe it was just you.

[bootlegga]

rawmeat rawmeat:

This is what the Calgary Police cowboy hats look like

[rawmeat]

bootlegga bootlegga:

rawmeat rawmeat:

This is what the Calgary Police cowboy hats look like

Interesting, that pic doesn't tickle my funny bone at all. Is this the first time you have encountered a cowboy hat?

[bootlegga]

Sorry, but on police officers?!? It looks totally ridiculous on them. It's fine for someone wearing jeans and bolo tie, but not on a cop. Cowboys hats aren't considered 'dress wear' anywhere except maybe Calgary.

If Calgary is trying to shed its 'redneck' image, this certainly won't help.

[bootlegga]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Naw, I just can't help but think "Park Ranger" when ever I see a hat like those.

They look a helluva lot better than those goofy hats Rawmeat posted.

[rawmeat]

bootlegga bootlegga:

Sorry, but on police officers?!? It looks totally ridiculous on them. It's fine for someone wearing jeans and bolo tie, but not on a cop. Cowboys hats aren't considered 'dress wear' anywhere except maybe Calgary.

If Calgary is trying to shed its 'redneck' image, this certainly won't help.

To be honest I don't understand the article. The Calgary police have been wearing these hats for a long time. As for getting rid of the Redneck image, I couldn't give two shits about that part.

[Curtman]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Then why did you bring it up?

It was a bad joke.. I'm sorry for being a jerk sometimes. It may happen again, but I'll be sorry about those times too.

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

I don't really see much in the way of racsism, no more or less than any other city, maybe it was just you.

Possibly.. But I'm not the only one who notices this. Winnipeg has always had a diverse population, maybe it's just newer to the West. We were the western boom town way before Calgary was. I hope the oil doesn't dry up like the railroad did.

[dino_bobba_renno]

Curtman Curtman:

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

Then why did you bring it up?

It was a bad joke.. I'm sorry for being a jerk sometimes. It may happen again, but I'll be sorry about those times too.

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

I don't really see much in the way of racsism, no more or less than any other city, maybe it was just you.

Possibly.. But I'm not the only one who notices this. Winnipeg has always had a diverse population, maybe it's just newer to the West. We were the western boom town way before Calgary was. I hope the oil doesn't dry up like the railroad did.

How long did you live in Calgary and when?

[Curtman]

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

How long did you live in Calgary and when?

Scroll up. We did that already. I moved there on Sept 11, 2001 in a U-Haul. I found out what happened at the Tim Hortons in Portage La Prairie.

[gigs]

Curtman Curtman:

dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:

How long did you live in Calgary and when?

Scroll up. We did that already. I moved there on Sept 11, 2001 in a U-Haul. I found out what happened at the Tim Hortons in Portage La Prairie.

That was the perfect time to get to Calgary ,things started booming in the years to follow.
Real estate prices were less than half of what they were in 2007, the cost of living was relative to the economy.

[Curtman]

gigs gigs:

That was the perfect time to get to Calgary ,things started booming in the years to follow.
Real estate prices were less than half of what they were in 2007, the cost of living was relative to the economy.

I went from here to Edmonton, then to Calgary. I was in Calgary for 2004/5..

[Alta_redneck]

Curtman Curtman:

If you sense any resentment from me toward Calgary, it's only resentment of what the Alberta Advantage cost me, and an expression of what I consider to be a lonely and painful time of my life.

Curtman Curtman:

It was a bad joke.. I'm sorry for being a jerk sometimes. It may happen again, but I'll be sorry about those times too.

Well that explains a lot why you probably didn't make it in Alberta. And then you want to play the racism card.

Curtman Curtman:

Racism seemed to have a much more serious nature to it than it does here as well. I do see some hypocrisy of the big kerfuffle that happened while I lived there about a Sikh RCMP officer wanting to wear a turban.

Can you find the info on this, I've lived here all my life and the only incident that I can think of, happened in the 80's and it was the Legion in Red Deer. Not an issue that you can you use to brand any city as being racist.

[Curtman]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Well that explains a lot why you probably didn't make it in Alberta. And then you want to play the racism card.

No, I fit right in there. Everyone wants to share their opinion in a sarcastic way.

Curtman Curtman:

Can you find the info on this, I've lived here all my life and the only incident that I can think of, happened in the 80's and it was the Legion in Red Deer. Not an issue that you can you use to brand any city as being racist.

I never heard the term 'raghead' until I moved there. It just seemed everywhere I went it was all around me. Whenever I told people I was from Winnipeg, eventually someone would ask me about "the natives". Its just my opinion. Sorry if it's misguided.

[Choban]

Curtman Curtman:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

Well that explains a lot why you probably didn't make it in Alberta. And then you want to play the racism card.

No, I fit right in there. Everyone wants to share their opinion in a sarcastic way.

Curtman Curtman:

Can you find the info on this, I've lived here all my life and the only incident that I can think of, happened in the 80's and it was the Legion in Red Deer. Not an issue that you can you use to brand any city as being racist.

I never heard the term 'raghead' until I moved there. It just seemed everywhere I went it was all around me. Whenever I told people I was from Winnipeg, eventually someone would ask me about "the natives". Its just my opinion. Sorry if it's misguided.

Hah, raghead and the natives, our natives are almost as bad as winnipegs (yes I'm lumping, don't get me wrong it's not the whole first nations).
I can think of a few race issues that made the news, the Neo-Nazi march downtown, and that kid that beat up that oriental woman, among others, but honestly I don't find it any more or less racist than I did Winnipeg, or Drummondville, or Victoria, or Lahr Germany for that matter.

[raydan]

Choban Choban:

Hah, raghead and the natives, our natives are almost as bad as winnipegs (yes I'm lumping, don't get me wrong it's not the whole first nations).
I can think of a few race issues that made the news, the Neo-Nazi march downtown, and that kid that beat up that oriental woman, among others, but honestly I don't find it any more or less racist than I did Winnipeg, or Drummondville, or Victoria, or Lahr Germany for that matter.

He he, Drummondville gets the butt of the Newfy jokes in Québec.