[Alta_redneck]

Thanos Thanos:

It was more a reminder of some jackwagon driving like a shithead down the main drag in McMurray the last time I was there. Massive oversized Dodge Ram idiotmobile with all the windows tinted far past the level of legality but I didn't need to actually see it in person to know that, yes, it's ballcap was being worn backwards. In the rear window was the typical Calvin-pissing sticker as well as a huge sticker of Newfoundland with Cornerbrook highlighted with a star. Just because it had an Alberta license plate didn't mean it was an Albertan being as dumb as possible. The douchebro's known habitation range is far and wide, and encompassed all climates and dialects.

You forgot the, "Jack it up, cause fat girls can't jump" sign on the tailgates.

[Alta_redneck]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Where did you say you were from?

He's just pissed cause he didn't think of it first.

[Jabberwalker]

I thought that "no fixed address" might be behind it.

[Unsound]

fifeboy fifeboy:

[huh] So, let me get this right, anyone who is an idiot in Alberta is from the East? Good thinking! No home grown fools and when they all leave for "Cornerbrook" or where ever, all will be well with Wild Rose Country? Check.

Pretty sure no one said it was every idiot. Just that the imports make up a fair percentage of the douche patrol. Makes sense really. They're more likely to be young and singe as that's the demographic that's most likely to move for work, and most likely to be an embarrassment to their hometown and family.

[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

I'd like to hear from our non-Albertan posters if this is something they hear in real life, or if it's mostly just internet comment boards? Cause the comments section is generally the home of the douchiest of the douchey and shouldn't be taken as indicative of reality.

We talk smack about all of you because we have to start digging out our sandals.

True story, bro!

[Unsound]

Meh, God only gave you guys the nice weather to make it easier on you to be homeless and unemployed. Or old. Old's always a good one to bug islanders about. THe only place on earth where Perry Mason is still the highest rated show on tv is Vancouver Island.

[Thanos]

Unsound Unsound:

fifeboy fifeboy:

[huh] So, let me get this right, anyone who is an idiot in Alberta is from the East? Good thinking! No home grown fools and when they all leave for "Cornerbrook" or where ever, all will be well with Wild Rose Country? Check.

Pretty sure no one said it was every idiot. Just that the imports make up a fair percentage of the douche patrol. Makes sense really. They're more likely to be young and singe as that's the demographic that's most likely to move for work, and most likely to be an embarrassment to their hometown and family.

The first time I went to McHell back in 2005 there was this Newfie kid on the crew. Good worker but covered in trademark idiot tattoos. Got kicked out of the camp a week before the job ended by starting a brawl in the canteen. Basically a wild animal that couldn't go home again because there were too many people back on the Rock, including some cops apparently, who were laying in wait for him to (according to the other crew guys) beat him up badly enough that he'd probably end up in a wheelchair. So the environs of McMurray became his defacto home, drifting from one camp to the other and building up a solid record of idiocy in town to rival his one back in Newfoundland.

So the wild west stereotype, and some of the cretins the lifestyle attracts, is too often completely true. Not every Maritimer or Prairie farmkid that goes north behaves that way of course, but enough do that the myths become partially true. Gives everyone else a black eye by association but there's not much anyone can do about that if that's the way the media and the rumour mill chooses to spin things.

[Thanos]

Unsound Unsound:

Meh, God only gave you guys the nice weather to make it easier on you to be homeless and unemployed. Or old. Old's always a good one to bug islanders about. THe only place on earth where Perry Mason is still the highest rated show on tv is Vancouver Island.

Perry Mason? Pffft. That's ancient history. Today's seniors are much more hip & cool and keeping up with contemporary media.

[JaredMilne]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I don't see it that way. If this had been the first crash we experienced, then I might agree with you.

This is at least the 3rd boom we've pissed away in my lifetime (70's, natural gas bonanza until 2009, and the 2010-2014 jump in oil prices), so I feel we are plenty deserving of scorn and schadenfreude.

Each time a boom comes along, we act like degenerate gamblers, crowing about how much we're winning at the blackjack table. What's worse, many in Alberta laugh and deride everyone else for not doing the same thing. Then we cry in our beer when the streak ends and expect pity from the rest of 'family' when we're reduced to pocket change.

Many Canadians equate us with a bunch of Ralph Klein yahoos who love to act holier than thou and so it shouldn't come as much of surprise when others give us a taste of our own medicine.

I consider it nothing more than karma.

What goes around, comes around...yes, I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but I certainly understand where the schadenfreude comes from.

As I said, we're the architects of our own demise.

What about the assholes who all say we're greedy and selfish, don't give a rat's behind about the rest of the country, and that we're somehow un-Canadian because so many of us have voted for the Reform party and its successors? I'm far from the only one who gets pissed off by this-Thanos, for one, also mentioned it in the thread I started last year about why Albertans can get pissed off. I've found that they often overlap with the schadenfreude types.

Like I've said multiple times, it's a vicious circle-our assholes make us look bad to other Canadians, and assholes in other parts of the country retaliate, and make us defensive, and so forth. Fair criticism about things like how we've managed our oil resources, or our being too dependent on one industry, get tangled in with the douchebag insults.

[andyt]

Reading some of the posts, it would seem that Albertans don't understand irony very well. Either that, or they appreciate it too much.

[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

Meh, God only gave you guys the nice weather to make it easier on you to be homeless and unemployed. Or old. Old's always a good one to bug islanders about. THe only place on earth where Perry Mason is still the highest rated show on tv is Vancouver Island.

Would you rather be old on the Island or in Edmonton?

See you soon...

[Unsound]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Unsound Unsound:

Meh, God only gave you guys the nice weather to make it easier on you to be homeless and unemployed. Or old. Old's always a good one to bug islanders about. THe only place on earth where Perry Mason is still the highest rated show on tv is Vancouver Island.

Would you rather be old on the Island or in Edmonton?

See you soon...

By the time I'm old they'll be finished building the dome over the city and I'll have palm trees in my front yard.

[bootlegga]

JaredMilne JaredMilne:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I don't see it that way. If this had been the first crash we experienced, then I might agree with you.

This is at least the 3rd boom we've pissed away in my lifetime (70's, natural gas bonanza until 2009, and the 2010-2014 jump in oil prices), so I feel we are plenty deserving of scorn and schadenfreude.

Each time a boom comes along, we act like degenerate gamblers, crowing about how much we're winning at the blackjack table. What's worse, many in Alberta laugh and deride everyone else for not doing the same thing. Then we cry in our beer when the streak ends and expect pity from the rest of 'family' when we're reduced to pocket change.

Many Canadians equate us with a bunch of Ralph Klein yahoos who love to act holier than thou and so it shouldn't come as much of surprise when others give us a taste of our own medicine.

I consider it nothing more than karma.

What goes around, comes around...yes, I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but I certainly understand where the schadenfreude comes from.

As I said, we're the architects of our own demise.

What about the assholes who all say we're greedy and selfish, don't give a rat's behind about the rest of the country, and that we're somehow un-Canadian because so many of us have voted for the Reform party and its successors? I'm far from the only one who gets pissed off by this-Thanos, for one, also mentioned it in the thread I started last year about why Albertans can get pissed off. I've found that they often overlap with the schadenfreude types.

Like I've said multiple times, it's a vicious circle-our assholes make us look bad to other Canadians, and assholes in other parts of the country retaliate, and make us defensive, and so forth. Fair criticism about things like how we've managed our oil resources, or our being too dependent on one industry, get tangled in with the douchebag insults.

As I said, two wrongs don't make a right, but generalizations get thrown around here by several Alberta CKA members almost every day.

Generalizations like how how awful a Liberal provincial government would be for this reason or that (Thanos especially) - generalizations that are based solely on their opinions of the federal Liberal party and PET/Chretien. Given that it's highly unlikely that anyone on CKA was actually alive when the Alberta Liberals ran this province, those opinions are biased and generally without merit.

I suppose you could argue it's a chicken/egg argument, but as someone who lived in this province for more than 40 years, that's the attitude I've always heard from fellow Albertans.

"The only good thing coming from the East is the road coming West."
-Random Albertan circa 1980

"Dear Lord, give us another boom and we promise not to piss it away."
Bumper sticker popular in Alberta circa 1980s

Here it is 30+ years later and we're reliving the 80s all over again. Who's fault is that? Ours.

As such, this schadenfreude is fully warranted because of the arrogance many Albertans have that our way is the ONLY way to successfully run a province.

[HyperionTheEvil]

Well for years now we've been force fed that somehow Alberta's booming economy wasn't the result of a geological accident but was the product of wise "financial" management. The rest of of Canada's economy was told "be like alberta' and shocker of shocks when oil prices tank , so does their economy.

Alberta got lucky they're not a province of financial geniuses and now for a change they see what bad luck does

[HyperionTheEvil]

Unsound Unsound:

I'd like to hear from our non-Albertan posters if this is something they hear in real life, or if it's mostly just internet comment boards? Cause the comments section is generally the home of the douchiest of the douchey and shouldn't be taken as indicative of reality.

No it's reality. There isnt a lot of sympathy