I solved Rapid Transit

While I realize that not everything in Winnipeg is going to be sunshine, sparkles and unicorn farts, I'm enchanted with so many great things that the city has to offer.
It is overflowing with culture, a thriving arts community, great cuisine, history every way you turn and friendly people. Vancouver might be a pretty city with a decent climate, but the people are a$$holes, the culture is nil, it's boring if you're not rich, and it doesn't cherish history at all. I'm looking forward to being a cheerleader for Winnipeg, not a detractor. If more of the home-grown folks were, the reputation would be a little bit more positive.

That said, I know a good many arts/t.v/journalism people here in BC that are starting to migrate to Winnipeg because the secret is out: Winnipeg fosters incredible talent, has a decent cost of living, and is a very scalable place. There are three other families that I'm knit in with out here that are considering making the mecca in the next year or so.

Oh oh. The word got out. Our diabolical plan to tell the world we suck is not working.

I don't know what happened to us Winnipeggers that gave us such an inferiority complex. The peeps that want to hold us back just wear you down I guess.

I wrote about it in my blog. http://winnipeg-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-winnipeg-soulless.html

You and your friends are very welcome here in Winnipeg. I look forward to meeting you soon...

Maybe we need to start an international bitching contest?

Call it international so that people from all over will come to try to take us out. Award prizes...make sure they are cheap ones though so the contestants b1tch.

CitizenSourpuss wrote:That's all they cough up. Winnipegers, however come up with the most self defeating, brow beating, horrible reasons why Winnipeg sucks.

umm...duh...there are giant mosquitoes!!!

Hmmm, large migration to Winnipeg from BC, time to get into the sunscreen business.

nah.. just start growing organic pork....

...or....

Deank wrote:nah.. just start growing organic po_...

Them chocolate covered giant mosquitoes are just sooooooooo delicious!
Get New Flyer to create a new LRT project exclusively for Winnipeg, using perhaps federal funds for R & D. Have them use a route, like the one I mentioned before, in East Kildonan. Get the thing up and running, and perhaps, it could open up a new North American market for this new LRT built especially for cities like Winnipeg.

there exists agreements at the Fed and prov levels

We wont do Rail.. they wont do buses.

JTF wrote:...or....

Deank wrote:nah.. just start growing organic po_...

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.
Just call it Winterpig Wheelchair Weed or something, and they shall flock.

Also? Coffee so expensive you need to take out an equity loan to afford it. That is the shizzle that BC people go for.

grumpy old man wrote:Oh oh. The word got out. Our diabolical plan to tell the world we suck is not working.

I don't know what happened to us Winnipeggers that gave us such an inferiority complex. The peeps that want to hold us back just wear you down I guess.

I wrote about it in my blog. http://winnipeg-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-winnipeg-soulless.html

You and your friends are very welcome here in Winnipeg. I look forward to meeting you soon...

Perhaps the trickle of fresh blood lacking pre-concieved notions of how Winnipeg used to be etc. will hasten some change.
I look forward to meeting you soon too!

just so you know.. GOM is a stalker. This morning at breakfast he showed me pictures of how much renovations are being done to your Winnipeg house.

I happen to like the purple you chose for the bathroom, he thinks it is garish

..no..no...he said it was garnish....

wait a minute... how do you know... unless you are stalking GOM????

Or..... he was stalking YOU!

look up....look waaaaay up.

Hey wait! How come I never get invited for breakfast? It it 'cause I post too much on the darkside? Or did I make such a bad impression at Oscar's?

St Norberter wrote:Hey wait! How come I never get invited for breakfast? It it 'cause I post too much on the darkside? Or did I make such a bad impression at Oscar's?

'cause, by the time you make it to Sal's, it's lunchtime.

St Norberter wrote:Hey wait! How come I never get invited for breakfast? It it 'cause I post too much on the darkside? Or did I make such a bad impression at Oscar's?

LOL.. no no.. this was a private meeting.


Wanna do breakie in two weeks?

When and Where?

you drive or bus?

Deank wrote:just so you know.. GOM is a stalker. This morning at breakfast he showed me pictures of how much renovations are being done to your Winnipeg house.

I happen to like the purple you chose for the bathroom, he thinks it is garish

Sigh. I told my husband that the purple was fugly, but did he listen? Noooo.

How do you know I'm not the stalker here? Maybe I'm planning to lie in the bushes outside GOM's house and watch him eat roast beef.

CitizenSourpuss wrote:Maybe I'm planning to lie in the bushes outside GOM's house and watch him eat roast beef.

Or witness other unspoken acts that cannot be mentionned on such civilized forums!

Who said this was a civilized forum?

Honestly? I just like to lie in the shrubbery and watch people eat. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Not at all.

most times when I am in teh shrubbery its me doing the eating