Go Back   Alberta Outdoorsmen Forum > Main Category > General Discussion
Reload this Page You know you are a lucky person when...
Register FAQ Sponsor Forums Calendar

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 02-21-2018, 12:50 PM
Sundancefisher's Avatar
Sundancefisher Sundancefisher is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Calgary Perchdance
Posts: 18,894
Default You know you are a lucky person when...
You see some people not only live beside dumps but sometimes those dumps collapse and swallows shanty homes and kill the residents.

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_au...east-17-people

Puts living in Canada in perspective.
__________________
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Charles Darwin
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 02-21-2018, 12:54 PM
CaberTosser's Avatar
CaberTosser CaberTosser is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 19,420
Default
We did win a lottery of sorts to be born here or to be allowed to move here. Of all the complaining we do, a lot of it falls into the 'First World Problems' department. "OMG, There wasn't enough salted caramel in my macchiato!!"

Those poor souls were dealt a pretty bad hand....
__________________
"The trouble with people idiot-proofing things, is the resulting evolution of the idiot." Me
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 02-21-2018, 01:02 PM
Sundancefisher's Avatar
Sundancefisher Sundancefisher is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Calgary Perchdance
Posts: 18,894
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaberTosser View Post
We did win a lottery of sorts to be born here or to be allowed to move here. Of all the complaining we do, a lot of it falls into the 'First World Problems' department. "OMG, There wasn't enough salted caramel in my macchiato!!"

Those poor souls were dealt a pretty bad hand....
Feel bad for me. My Scapa is running low and I may have to order dinner out tonight.

Yup.

Travelling the world can really make to appreciate Canada just the way it is.
__________________
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Charles Darwin
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 02-21-2018, 01:17 PM
CaberTosser's Avatar
CaberTosser CaberTosser is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 19,420
Default
Some shanties I saw in the non-tourist zone in Mazatlán really shocked me but the worst tragedy I saw there was observing an apparently drunk pre-pubescent girl wandering the beach in the same non-tourist area before it was even noon.....
__________________
"The trouble with people idiot-proofing things, is the resulting evolution of the idiot." Me
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 02-21-2018, 01:48 PM
ChickakooKookoo ChickakooKookoo is offline
 
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 294
Default
I don't know how true it is but I once heard that if you make more than $60k a year you're making more than 95% of the people on the planet. In AB that's almost minimum wage!

Blessed we are to live in this great country and province.
__________________
I am unique! Just like everybody else.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 02-21-2018, 02:03 PM
Twisted Canuck's Avatar
Twisted Canuck Twisted Canuck is offline
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: GP AB
Posts: 16,246
Default
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sundancefisher View Post
Feel bad for me. My Scapa is running low and I may have to order dinner out tonight.

Yup.

Travelling the world can really make to appreciate Canada just the way it is.

Running out of Scapa IS serious, as you can't get the 16 anymore. I have two inches left...

But yeah, perspective. The first year I was married the wife and I worked at an orphanage in the Baja south of Ensenada. I spent Christmas morning 1992 building a two foot long coffin for a baby that died of malnutrition and exposure. We have it pretty damn good.
__________________
'Once the monkeys learn they can vote themselves a banana, they'll never climb another tree.'. Robert Heinlein

'You can accomplish a lot more with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.' Al Capone
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 02-21-2018, 02:11 PM
Selkirk's Avatar
Selkirk Selkirk is offline
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: In the shadow of the Valhalla Mountains, BC .
Posts: 9,175
Unhappy
We don't have to go to the Third World to see it bad. Some of the US inner city ghettos and parts of their dirt-poor Appalachia and rural south can be quite shocking for the unaware. I know ... I've seen it first-hand.

Most Canadians have no idea.

Selkirk
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 02-21-2018, 02:41 PM
Fish along's Avatar
Fish along Fish along is offline
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
Default
My wife has a saying that I've always liked..not everyone has the same chances in life,,,Having been born and raised in Canada,I never was even close to having to live this way,I was born in a fishing town in NFLD,and though we weren't rich by any stretch of the imagination,there was always a roof over our heads and plenty of grub.
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
Reply With Quote
Reply

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 04:52 PM.

Contact Us - Alberta Outdoorsmen Forum - Archive - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.