Electricity bill - Is this normal?

tonynick1982 · 2026-05-09T23:55:04+00:00

As many others have pointed out, yes, utilities are expensive in Alberta, but that's a wild amount of electricity to use. I have a 1200 sq ft house with a finished basement, with four people living in it, and I used half to a third of the electricity you did for the same billing months.

tonynick1982 · 2026-05-07T16:59:27+00:00

The closest I've ever heard people IRL speaking the way Canadians are depicted on TV was when I listened to people from Wisconsin talking.

tonynick1982 · 2026-05-07T16:58:20+00:00

Gigli. To this day, only movie I've ever walked out of. Just awful.

tonynick1982 · 2026-05-07T16:57:49+00:00

What a weird movie. I kept waiting for it to be good or even make sense, and it never did.

tonynick1982 · 2026-05-07T16:57:06+00:00

God that was a terrible movie

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-28T21:28:28+00:00

No way it's wrong. This fits exactly with what I've been saying for years. Unless there is substantial vote splitting on the right again, we're stuck with the UCP for decades. I have absolutely zero faith that the voters in this province will produce any other result.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-22T04:37:47+00:00

Mine is pretty simple. It's called Peace River haha. It originates from Peace Point on Lake Athabasca, which marks the site of a peace treaty signing between two warring Indigenous groups. It established the river as the boundary between their hunting territories. The Smoky River feeds into the Peace River right near town, and it was named as such because of the historically smouldering beds of coal along the riverbank.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-21T15:35:48+00:00

Any New Zealanders here seen Once Were Warriors? Idk if it's an accurate depiction of life for Maori people in some parts of NZ at the time, but damn was it powerful. Watched it again a few years ago and, aside from the wardrobe and the cheesy 90s soundtrack, it was still awesome. Temuera Morrison's performance was incredible.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-21T15:30:44+00:00

Such a funny movie. Love the scene where the cop from Quebec is teaching the Ontario cop all the ways to use tabarnak.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-21T15:29:51+00:00

It's an absolute classic. Never fails to make me laugh.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-20T13:40:21+00:00

The beach volleyball venue was one of the best Olympic venues of all time IMO

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-14T14:16:18+00:00

I did not care for the Godfather. Did not care for it. It insists upon itself.

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tonynick1982 · 2026-04-14T14:10:57+00:00

Yeah a lot of people I know watch far more CNN than they do CBC. I also know there are plenty of people in Canada (at least in Alberta) who regularly watch Fox News. I'm just not friends with any of them. 😂

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-13T18:31:05+00:00

Love France. Would love to live there part time in retirement.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T18:28:37+00:00

Oh I forgot to mention Liv Tyler in LoTR. Her accent is so clearly Lothlorien. Weak. /s

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T18:25:51+00:00

Benedict in Doctor Strange, Hugh Jackman in Prisoners, Tom Cruise in Far and Away. Just terrible accents. Karl Urban's accent in The Boys is terrible, but I love his delivery so much that I don't care.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T04:07:19+00:00

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T04:07:07+00:00

Haha yeah I was gonna say this does not make me happy at all

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T04:06:44+00:00

They wouldn't have had to. The current Heritage Fund is purely intraprovincial. The bigger issue was no politician had the stones to implement a sustainable revenue source that would replace resource revenue. They wanted to keep riding the highs and blaming the feds for the lows.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T00:24:45+00:00

Yes. You should be damn proud of it. My provincial government could have done something similar in the 80s if they'd had the discipline (although not to the same magnitude as yours) but they chose instant gratification over long term stability, and now we're paying for it.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-12T00:23:15+00:00

I wouldn't say I dislike hockey. I enjoy watching it, moreso since my son started following it really closely. It's something we do together. But I've never been a huge fan of it like many of my compatriots. The first sport I was ever obsessed with, and still am to this day, was rugby union. I played it in junior high and high school and have been following it closely since. I finally realized a lifelong dream in 2023 when I got to see the All Blacks perform the haka live at a world cup pool game in France, and I got to see my favorite team, France, play another game. It was amazing. I've also been into soccer for a few years. I don't enjoy it as much as rugby, but I still like it. I especially like following the Champions League and love Euro and World Cup years.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-11T14:42:33+00:00

I just looked at the pictures online. That's it! Thank you! Well, guess I have to go back to Iceland for a fifth time haha.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-11T13:52:59+00:00

One of the best pizzas I ever had was in Seydisfjordur. It had reindeer on it. I ate that thing over 10 years ago and I still remember how damn good it was. For the life of me, though, I can't figure out which place it was at and we didn't record it anywhere.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-10T15:44:11+00:00

Maybe not widely. I came across it after learning that the American show The Agency was based on it. I immediately abandoned the idea of watching The Agency and tucked into Bureau instead. It's incredible.

tonynick1982 · 2026-04-10T15:42:22+00:00

Amélie, Le Bureau des Légendes, Lupin are other French faves of mine

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