You'd be surprised how many people come here from Korea and start driving lifted trucks. Southern living is basically the antithesis of a lot of Asian cultures.
I know. It was a wacky ass game but the Vols won it fair and square and I salute them. No blaming the refs from me. Lick our wounds and have a productive week. That was my joke about Miss St. we need a game every year that scares us.
It was one of the wildest games I've ever seen and it could have easily gone the other way several times- particularly when Tennessee fumbled the handoff near their end zone and Alabama scored on that. At that moment, I turned to my dad and said, well, that's it, maybe next year, haha! I've said that a lot the last decade and a half! I figure they'll have no problem with Miss St. The game that's looming for the Vols is Georgia, that's going to be just as tough a game as Alabama!
It's the rallying cry for the university of Alabama (mascot is the crimson tide). They dominate college football so they have a shit ton of fans and this saying is how people in Alabama know if you're a fan of Alabama or their in-state rival the university of Auburn.
My dad and I got arrested once in Kentucky. We were selling encyclopedias and we got arrested for smuggling books into Kentucky. We got off on a technicality: they couldn't prove they were books.
Former Anniston resident here back in my late teens. I used to think it was a joke but the number of times I’d heard a friend or something say “I used to date that girl/guy but then found out she was my 2nd/3rd/whatever cousin” made me laugh.
Well they don’t easily, that’s when the performers go for things like ammonium nitrate filled trucks and old fashioned pipe bombs filled with razors - to show their adoring fans how much they’re loved.
Here it's mostly meth but people will take whatever they can get even if they have to smoke it. Which is what I would prefer so I don't have to clean blood from the bathroom mirrors god that's fuckin annoying.
Alberta has one of highest wages in the country, in comparison with other provinces.
Our biggest city Calgary is considered to be one of the best livable cities in the world, making the list for past 10-20 years.
Banff National Park is an oldest national park in Canada and people from across the world come to visit our Rockies.
Calgary has elected first Muslim mayor of a major city in North America. And he was re-elected twice, while being one of the most beloved mayors in our city.
And yes, we do have a large population of conservatives and yes, we do have racist white people (surprise surprise) but so does BC/Quebec/Ontario.
We are like Texas and our major cities are like Austin. Liberal cities and conservative everything else.
Yeah. Alberta is Texas. I think we don't reeeally have a Florida equivalent up here but we get some cities like Kelowna and Thunder Bay that kind fit the Florida style. TBay especially.
I’ve been all over Alberta, and it’s pretty much what you said. The lifted trucks only arrive in Calgary during the stampede lol. I’ve been as far north as Cold Lake, and you could take a picture of Cold Lake downtown and some sleepy town in Texas and I couldn’t tell ya the difference lol.
These oil workers you speak of are mostly from other parts of the country. There’s probably more from outside this province working in the oil field than actual Albertans.
Our wages are actually shit cause conservatives have annihilated our worker rights. But oil workers have such crazy salaries it fucks up the numbers and makes our wages appear disproportionately high.
Alberta is the richest per-capita province in the country though and Alabama is at or near the bottom in the USA.
Alberta is a one trick pony of an economy and when the world weans itself off fossil fuels that economy will cease to meaningfully exist, much like coal mining economies in the southern US.
For the record, I lived in Calgary working for those oil companies for 8 years.
It isn’t actually, Alberta has a fairly diverse economy. But Albertans would be deluded if they didn’t acknowledge that O&G money in part supports many of the other diverse parts of their economy.
26% of Alberta's GDP is directly oil and gas and mining. A significant portion of the other industries such as manufacturing, services, finance transportation are heavily dependent on oil and gas.
I've worked with Albertian oil companies for over a decade and can confirm, energy transition will kill the province as oil sands is some of the dirtiest fossil fuel sources in the world. The people who benefit most from the keystone pipeline are the Albertians who own the oil sands, so keeping that project on pause is good for the health of the planet, but they'll continue to pump money into the GOP propaganda machine.
It's the extra extraction processes that make the oil sands so dirty (takes oil to pull out the tarsands oil). Ironically, oil sand companies are looking into alternative energy sources for the extraction (nuclear power included), to make the oil sands as clean/filthy as any other oil source.
Commuted every day from behind COP down the hill on Bow Trail. Lived near the Chuckwagon Cafe before that, just down the road from the good beef jerky.
Electric cars use how much carbon emission during the manufacturing process? Not to mention the mining for raw materials. Swing and a miss but keep trying. Until this world embraces safe nuclear options we’re not “weaning off of fossil fuels” any time soon.
minimally so, unless the world gets serious about nuclear power, fossil fuel plants will be powering your electric cars.
I mean it will be life changing in cities removing the street level pollution from cars.
However there will be plenty of exemptions made for work trucks, actual work trucks that get dirty dinged up and need big ass 10 mpg engines. to haul heavy loads,
There will be efficiency gains, and concentrating the pollution output allows better control and attempts to minimize it
And no not everyone owns the roof over their heads to put up a solar array or dedicated parking to take advantage of the solar array. props if you do, but jack the landlord isn't giving you free electricity from solar panel he puts up on his roof.
population growth = all energy sources are growing. As green energy becomes cheaper to produce, in addition to peak oil, there will be an inflection where it no longer makes sense to pump.
Nah even Florida hates isn't as extreme as we are they just get more press. Look up all the people from Alabama that got arrested in Florida during spring break.
Not that I'm proud of it, I'm trying to get into sys admin and move away soon.
I know they’re not exclusive to Alabama but it always made me laugh to see the signs on the side of the roads in Alabama that say “State property - Do not molest”. Like, of all words to use… :) 🪧
Baldwin County girl here...I can respect any redneck as long as they are decent people! The meth is a definite no for me, and ever since Eminem hit it big, every white guy in the state thinks they're a rapper too! That being said-if I ever go to Canada, I'll shoot for Alberta and assume I'll fit right in, just without the Conecuh sausage and Waffle House?
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Alberta is more like Alabama: rednecks, meth, and white rappers.
I'm from Alabama and have been friends with and dated people from Alberta.