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    Brandon got a reaction from Goalie in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    It's in bad taste but far from RAGE inducing.  Anyone who gets to a point of being RAGED by this should probably self reflect on why they get angry over the smallest things in life.   
     
  2. Haha
    Brandon got a reaction from BigBlueFanatic in 2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)   
    Looks good with the exception of a name missing at the FB position  😭
  3. Haha
    Brandon got a reaction from rebusrankin in 2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)   
    Looks good with the exception of a name missing at the FB position  😭
  4. Agree
    Brandon got a reaction from Mike in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    It's in bad taste but far from RAGE inducing.  Anyone who gets to a point of being RAGED by this should probably self reflect on why they get angry over the smallest things in life.   
     
  5. Agree
    Brandon reacted to GCn20 in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    It's a little cringy...but yea...a joke.  Pretty hairbrained of a professional organization to mass email though. If my buddy quipped this over a few beers, I'd laugh but not if it was said to a woman. If my wife heard him she would probably have some choice words and he wouldn't get my protection.
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    Brandon reacted to 17to85 in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    Tee Martin was done in by inept team management and coaching and Kamau Incompleterson. 
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    Brandon got a reaction from bluto in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    Are you trying to tell us that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"  and that in happens in real life....  Noooooooooooooo waaay!  
     
     
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    Brandon got a reaction from CodyT in Restaurant/food thread   
    No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 
  10. Haha
    Brandon reacted to WinnipegGordo in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    Or @Noeller's favorite:
     
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    Brandon got a reaction from WinnipegGordo in Restaurant/food thread   
    No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 
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    Brandon got a reaction from Sard in Restaurant/food thread   
    No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 
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    Brandon got a reaction from bigg jay in Restaurant/food thread   
    No thanks,  I'd rather not drive out of my way to a Wendys only to find out that the prices are hiked up because they are busier.     I'm pretty sure during the quiet periods that Wendys won't be knocking down the prices of the food items by a large %. 
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    Brandon got a reaction from bearpants in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    This is my point,  we can't call the guy a scumbag criminal when so little of the facts is known.   Same goes with the club.      Unless he has admitted  guilt.   
     
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    Brandon got a reaction from Goldkobra in Winnipeg, Urban Decay, and Other Cities   
    Significantly worse and this is why the City/Province is trying to force people to come back to work downtown.   I can only speak looking in from an IT perspective,  but with everything moving to the cloud and without the need of having IT equipment on site and the ability to staff your positions across the country (or world).  The need for a physical building decreases every day.  
    On one project that I was involved with they moved 100 staff out of a floor in a building downtown to work from home and the cost savings was approximately 5 million per year.   It is so much cheaper for a company to buy desk/chair and pay for everyones internet then for them to maintain a building and the infrastructure.  
    It needs a radical change,  they need to make downtown an area that people want to hang out or preferably live in.    They attempted to revive downtown in the 80's with Portage Place failed and retail now is even further dead so retail is out of the question.  
    My radical idea to revitalize downtown is the following: 
    1 - Zero tolerance on public intoxication/drugs and pan handling harassment.  It's absolutely critical that they crack down on this before anything else.   Ideally the Federal Gov't/Provincial Gov't would update the justice system so rather then sending people to jail they would be forced to get clean at a rehab facility.   Build a rehab facility out of town (NIMBY naturally) where people can get clean and healthy.   I just came back from Mexico and when we went to the downtown for tourists I saw plenty of security and was approached by zero drunk/methed up people.  I felt significantly more safe despite seeing a guy with an AK-47 protecting the jewelry store.  
    2 - Close down motor traffic on Broadway from Donald to Osborne from May - September or maybe even year round.  Make this our version of Sparks St in Ottawa.   Have street festivals and restaurants with extended patios in the summer.   The city has loads of parking nearby and make this a place that people to visit and walk up and down the strip.  
    3 - All 3 levels of the Gov't work with buying Portage Place and making this a University of Winnipeg International students destination.  From what I understand Portage place was designed so that condos/appartments can be build on top of each end.   The U of M have a large amount of international students coming in with huge money behind them crowding into houses and attending schools.   Get these students to come downtown with their big money and live in the housing that will be build atop Portage Place.  It would be in close proximity to the current U of W and the injection of cash from  young 18 - 30 year olds living downtown would be a huge boom that would help fill out all those empty buildings along Portage.  
    4 - Launch a new "touch the universe" / science museum / childrens / agriculture Manitoba museum.    The current childrens museum we have is absolutely garbage.  Over the last five years we visited a number of other  childrens museums in the States that were heavily packed full of tourists and families.   It wasn't like they were doing anything insanely expensive but had really fun interactive activities and educational.   5 or so years ago I was fortunate to attend the Opaskwayak Indigenous days and they had really neat little activities such as learning how to bead ,  cook,  hunt, dance ,  etc...    It's a huge miss opportunity to do something similar in town with fun interactive stations.  They could have a section on farming with large interactive exhibits which many other childrens museum already have.    Etc...    A place to bring families to Winnipeg or into downtown for the local citizens. 
    But alas all of that cost money and Winnipeg is broke and is extremely poor so it would require the Feds to pump in huge dollars.   
    Instead the city will be to scared to fight the homeless/drunk/panhandling epidemic and will suggest cheap stupid ideas such as opening Portage and Main and will continue to stall on making any drastic changes and downtown will continue to rot.  
     
    For fun I include a few pics of Sparks street to show what it is like: 


     

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    Brandon reacted to Noeller in Free Agency Day - Bombers Moves   
    My goodness we have a new winner....
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    Brandon got a reaction from bigg jay in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    Very true!    
    PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.  
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    Brandon got a reaction from rebusrankin in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    Very true!    
    PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.  
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    Brandon got a reaction from wbbfan in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    Very true!    
    PTSD is a very real thing and it's not like men are immune to it.  
  20. Haha
    Brandon got a reaction from wbbfan in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    How does Toronto go from MBT to an even crazier guy?  
  21. Agree
    Brandon got a reaction from Noeller in 2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News   
    How does Toronto go from MBT to an even crazier guy?  
  22. Haha
    Brandon reacted to IC Khari in Free Agency Day - Bombers Moves   
    For the Bombers, signing some of these guys was a very Bighill to climb 😉
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    Brandon got a reaction from wbbfan in 2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)   
    Terrible news
    I would of thought that retired NFL players had some kind of enhanced medical coverage?  If not then they should.  
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    Brandon got a reaction from IC Khari in 2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)   
    Terrible news
    I would of thought that retired NFL players had some kind of enhanced medical coverage?  If not then they should.  
  25. Eye Roll
    Brandon got a reaction from Noeller in Winnipeg, Urban Decay, and Other Cities   
    Wow so students make less % then the amount of comped tickets that are given out.  That's a bad thing.  Wait until you find out that the Gov't also pays for a large amount of the tickets in which they give away which are not counted in the "comped tickets".   
    Older article -  https://winnipegsun.com/2015/06/06/human-rights-museum-attendance-dwarfed-by-zoo-other-museums 
    Pre Covid -  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-museum-human-rights-senior-staff-1.5469043
    Those poor attendances also don't factor in the novelty of visiting a new building... the initial rush of interested people.  
    Post Pandemic the attendance has further dropped.   I'm not even going to get into the corruption and other issues the place has,  but it has been  a huge miss on bringing in tourists.    
    So once again... I stand by what I say because I know I am right.  Numbers do not lie.    
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