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That 6 is now 14 and that 4 is still a 4, that’s good right?

Don’t forget that the system requires stupid 16 year old me to know exactly what I want to do for the rest of my life including where I will need to live and work for my career. ive had a job since I was 13 years old I went to school and got a useless graphic design degree. At 16 I thought that’s what I wanted to do. Has nothing to do with laziness. In fact we were actually told by the school system that the trades were an option for those of us who had bad grades and couldn’t cut it in school. So everytime I hear about “getting a real job” and the hard workers...most trades guys I know that entered into them right out of school got the job cause of nepotism where their family member bailed their flunking butts out by giving them a job making good money because they were going to be stuck working at McDonald’s for minimum wage as a career. the guys that worked their asses off in highschool all went to university and got degrees because that’s what the system told them to do. And sure enough the absolutely cream of the crop make more money at 30 years old than any foreman or journeyman tradesman will ever make especially union ones that have caps on their wage.

90% of guys that “fish” fish 3 long weekends a year and that’s it

Lol anything that puts the dreadfully screwed toilet seats at the top of any hockey list right now is basically worth throwing immediately into the trash. Montreal doesn’t even have a chance to try and start a rebuild until 2026! Lol they may be relevant again next decade. And we haven’t even started the actual next decade yet lol!

Lol they should show playoff appearances over the past 5 years too be fair as well right? Winnipeg and Toronto are going to be the only Canadian teams to make it once again this year

This is relatable in so many ways. Funny enough I do both and for the most part one of the main reasons I come home to the gta from the lake is so that I don’t miss my hockey games lol I think the only difference is that people perceive hockey to be exercise while they perceive ice fishing as sitting in a shack drinking beer. Which in a lot of people’s cases that’s exactly what ice fishing is. That’s the thing there’s a total misunderstanding about fishing in general. People think that during bass season that I sit in a tinner with a worm on a hook under a float waiting for something to bite 10 hours a day too. People ask me all of the time when I tell them I fish a lot “with worms?” that’s why we catch flack, people don’t understand the sport at all. They think it’s taking one rod and a reel and a worm and sitting and waiting. That’s the average persons perspective on fishing.

I’ve literally already decided that will be my next truck when my dodge inevitably prematurely explodes

Just a friendly reminder that auston lazy matthews is on pace for 53 goals

Someone somewhere asked about my own problems with my ram and now I can’t find it to reply so here it is 1. Brand new 2 months old <1,000km on it it got cold one October morning and I went to put my window down and the frost had caused the window to stick a bit. I didn’t know this until later but attempting to put the windows down when it’s a little frozen up causes the clips to break every single time. Here’s the catch. When you press “up” again it seems to go back to its original position but it doesn’t. So what happens is that if it that’s during the day, once the ice lets go your window falls down to its position on the broken clip. This literally happens to me regularly. My favourite places this has happened is a go train parking lot and downtown Toronto. I park my car and come back to find the windows wide open. It became a tradition for me to get the clips fixed every single time I was bringing my truck in for other warranty crap. 1.A) my cab fills with exhaust if I’m idling and the heat is on. So when I auto start my truck my entire cab is full of exhaust I have to open the doors to let it vent. When I drive not on the highway in the winter I also have to drive with my windows down and turn my heat off everytime I’m not driving fast enough for the wind to blow the exhaust away from the fan intake. I know I have an exhaust leak somewhere near the fan intake. I took the truck into dodge 3 seperate times under warranty and every single time they told me that “they fixed it” they didn’t do anything at all, I live with it to this day. 2. 20,000k I’m sitting at a stop light and go to take off and the truck makes a horrible noise and it turned out my turbos couplings had flown off. 3. 30,000km electronic shift control fails 4. 35,000 k wouldn’t you know it, the turbo’s couplings fly off again 5. 40,000k mad check engine lights go off, my EGR is totally plugged and needs replacement and the EGR cooler is dumping coolant through my entire exhaust system causing soot to pile up everywhere. Including my intake manifold which also needs replacement. I’m told that I should also do an entire not covered by warranty de-soot of my entire engine that costs $700 I tell them where to shove it and that they can have fun replacing my engine if it blows up. 5. I pull off of the dealership lot hop on the highway and the turbo couplings fly off again but downsview dodge is now closed and I am supposed to be in Georgetown for an event. I limp it to dodge in Georgetown and they say they won’t touch it because another dealership just fixed it. So I call dodge and tell them they have a dead truck sitting at their dealership in Georgetown. They then proceed to tell me to use road side assistance to get it towed back to the dealership at downsview. So I oblige and this is one of my favourite moments of owning this truck. I’m on the phone with road side assistance asking them to tow my truck back to downsview for service because Georgetown won’t work on my under warranty truck. Road side says a) their policy is to only tow to the nearest dealership but after explaining the situation b) roadside will not tow my truck from a parking lot due to the chance of them damaging other cars. I legitimately said on the phone “no problem I’m about to put my truck into neutral and push it out into the middle of highway 7 and leave it there for you to pick up” they decided that wasn’t a great idea and got in touch with downsview who I guess somehow arranged for a tow truck. But they also fail at that because the tow comes and says that they didn’t realize the truck was 4x4 and they said they couldn’t tow it. I told them to feel free to break my truck and that downsview dodge would fix it. I think they sorted it amongst themselves. 6. 95,000km An injection system sensor fails they replace it and attempt to tell me to spend $800 doing a fuel filter replacement and oil change. The fuel filter I had just replaced <10,000km before but they didn’t know that. I tell them to replace the sensor and that I will do the half an hour Labour and buy the $120 worth of parts myself. 7. A “service electronic shift control” warning randomly appears every few months and puts my truck into limp mode. But then randomly if I get home and let the truck sit and then turn it on again it’s mysteriously gone every single time. 8. From new my 4x4 doesn’t disengage. When I put it in 4x4 and then shut it off it basically randomly decides when the 4 wheel lock will release. Sometimes it’s Instantly, sometimes it’s a couple of minutes later sometimes it takes me putting the truck into park and turning on 4x4 over and over in neutral until it releases. 9. From new, When it’s really hot outside my rear window over the box will open but it won’t close until it’s cooled off. Luckily I don’t worry much about security with this one cause If you can crawl through that little hatch window more power to you lol. 10. The eco diesel law suit. Turns out my truck doesn’t get the advertised mileage that it claims, it also required a total reflash of the Ecu to meet admissions standards because they also made a cheating system like VW. Since the reflash my truck now gets worse mileage and has less tourque. (It was gutless to begin with but I knew that buying a small diesel) the Americans settled the law suit and got paid 3,000us plus had their warranty’s extended out to 120,000k as part of the class action settlement. This doesn’t apply in canada so what dodge did was use the reflash from the states and sneak it through the canadian system via a “recall” here’s the kicker the GM then tried to push through that if you had the “recall” completed (they never asked me to do it they just did it when they were fixing one of my other problems) that you were no longer a valid member of the class action suit because your truck had been “fixed” the lawyers responsible for the class action quickly had the courts toss that out. So here was GM who had just lost a class action suit in the states trying to screw every eco diesel owner in canada through the courts as well! 11. since new my truck has been eating coolant slowly. I have told the dealership in Brampton Georgetown and Toronto multiple times and had them check it under warranty every time and they couldn’t seem to find the problem. It’s still a problem but no one ever could figure out why. 12. from 2 years old rust is forming underneath both back doors as well as on the hood. The paint just cracked?? I regularly wash my truck thoroughly by hand any time it gets salt on it 13. 100,000km Two exhaust bolts broke off and I lost the gasket on the highway somewhere. Had to have a new gasket and exhaust bolts installed. there might be more problems with this piece of junk joke of a truck/ but I can’t think of all of the annoyances from new that this truck has brought me. All I will say is never ever ever again. It’s a total bloody joke that in 2016 a truck company could honestly put out such a piece of trash and think that they could get away with it.

This is a funny thread stolen from the bass boat central forums. There’s some great ones from the guys that owned cars in the 70’s and 80’s 90’s fords also seem to be legendary. My family had a 96 explorer that my brother dubbed the 96 exploder Bunch of guys talking about gremlins (I mean what do you expect) my personal one as you all already know is my current 2016 ram eco diesel. What’s yours?

I quit after 3...I had been out ice fishing and came in to watch, and went right back outside lol the fishing was crap too but still better than that game

I second the comment about the boots. I wore sorrels with double socks and wool and everything and my feet always ended up getting cold by the end of the day. I switched to some Baffin Eiger boots which are rated as some of the warmest boots on the market and sure enough my feet aren’t cold anymore. And my feet are almost always cold even when inside!

Not a fan of the captain being disrespectful during the anthem. That’s bushleague

Jesus look at that handle. Glad you aren’t like my friends that buy high end gear but then keep it hidden in their basement while they fish with canadian tire gear its insulting to not keep that blank bent

I hope so! Lol

Honest take, I don’t think the Canadians make the medal round. swedes and USA Look lethal

Lmao exactly my point. You literally just said you’d rather have a 20 something goal scorer 40 something point winger that can hit and is a pest over the best goalie in the NHL right now and a 40+ goal scorer. That’s on pace for 90 points this season. Let me guess cause he’s (lazy) or a 47 goal scoring bonafide career point per game centre? leave the rat tactics to the third line chabot is good, I’m not sure where I said Morgan rielly was a super star though? Chabot isn’t either. thats the delusion of mediocrity that I was talking about. There’s not a single point per game player on the team. Hence continuously drafting mid first round picks is going to have to take some kind of miracle to find one.

Sens are doing ok in the rebuild, but let’s get serious, you need a few bonafide stars to really be a contender and the sens have exactly 0 to date. I think the closest thing they might have is Brady tkachuk, but think of teams that win the cup. They all have some super high end players Plus a very good goalie. St. Louis basically has two of the best defenseman in the league plus tarasenko who’s a top 10 forward and binnington came in red hot. if they don’t stop over achieving and actually get some low draft picks instead of picking at 6th overall like they are going to they are going to be caught in continuous mediocrity until the franchise folds. think of actual cup contenders and what their teams look like usually some super stars and a very good/hot at the time goalie washington was self explanatory and I could go on and on. thats the thing about ottawa, they are a lot like the habs, they take mid grade talent that over achieves mainly due to the extra ice time that they acquire playing top line minutes where on any other team they are forced down to the third line and then they build them up into something that they are not. Montreal fans have been most recently quoted saying that nick suzuki is a comparable to Mitch marner! It’s not surprising that a guy that’s a third liner on any other team on a contract year gets a pile of extra ice time and powerplay time that he all of a sudden has a career year. regression is a whine, duclair literally has the highest shooting percentage of the top 102 shooters in the entire NHL. Guess who breaks his streak at 102 in shots on goal with a stupid 20.5% shooting percentage? Pageau Guys get lucky sometimes which makes things hurt really really bad when the luck dries up and the guys all of a sudden take their next 100 shots and only score 3 goals. Or in pageaus case he’s due for a 20+ game goalless drought. Ouch

Keep watching Ohio it’s a fantastic hilarious series. Taro is an absolute gem

Benched again today...matty and Marner = magic 5 In a row the toilet seats can’t catch em now!

Every time I’ve used a sump pump I end up getting shale ice...any ideas? Maybe it’s just too cold when I’ve tried it causing the ice to not freeze nicely? My solution has been the extremely labour intense process of hauling buckets of hot water down to the lake and pre filling in the cracks that form with snow. Then running around with a puck and packing slush into the ruts. It at least patched up the bad areas and cracks but I’ve never had luck straight up flooding the ice? Maybe I need more/less water? any ideal temperature? Tips? I plan on making a rink on Thursday

Can’t say I agree about it being a crap shoot, My immediate family and myself have been burned by each of the domestic manufacturers now. My father was a ford man through and through until the 90’s when he gave up on them. He even gave them another chance and bought a escape for my mom and it’s been stupid as well. Countless recalls and stupid stuff breaking. my truck is a lemon...just straight up...I could make a list of all of the problems I’ve had and the truck has less than 100,000k on it. It’s a joke. my favourite part is that in the winter I have to drive with my windows open because my truck dumps exhaust into the cab. I took it in three times under warranty and it was never fixed. I literally have to turn my heat off at stop lights to avoid being choked out Ford and GM my interactions with their head offices through my work seems to hint at the problems and attitude being systemic in both of them. Go figure the attitude is shared by both companies. ive talked about it at length, from outboards, snowmobiles, quads and cars now, the Japanese manufactures just do the job right. My family isnt even loyal to one particular one! at this moment we have 4 outboards ones a Honda two are Yamahas and ones a suzuki! it can’t just be coincidence that between 4 outboards , two quads, and 4 different vehicles from Honda, Nissan and Mazda we’ve never had an unexpected problem or stupid annoyance with any of them...good riddance to GM. I’m sure their quality is bound to improve even more when they hire more cheap Mexican labour. im sorry to anyone that’s worked for them, they have done you dirty and it’s not surprising. i already know I’m bound to catch flack from the GM or Ford guys on the forum saying “I love my Chevy, dodge, ford, Mercury, BRP” etc etc you bet, like clockwork my rotax 600 blew up with 500km on it. Thank god it was under warranty. brother owned a Chevy cobalt, and a loose bolt went through a cylinder and ended up in his oil pan at 13,000km maybe it’s just bad luck...but It just can’t be coincidence anymore when 10 times in a row the domestics break, and then 10 times in a row the japanese have 0 problems. Fool me once shame on you fool me 10 times shame on me!

Those bailouts came with the assumption that it’d be paid off by keeping Canadians employed and paying taxes...instead they took our money and shipped it off to Mexico.

4-4.5 inches of solid black ice. Not too much snow. You should be good to go walking. Supposed to be a bit warm for a couple of days here so be careful in areas with potential inflow from melt off

You are going to be taken care of me thinks...no cause? No warning...they are gonna hurt for that one