Hello from the flatlands of Canada

Hi everyone,

First off, props to the first person outside something as massive and global as youtube to beat me to the username Jinkist, that I use pretty much everywhere online. It started as some stupid inside joke from high school and I kept using it because it's usually always available without having to add numbers.

Anyways, I'm 22, from the Canadian prairies, of which I have a love-hate relationship with. My city, Saskatoon, is awesome, often described as a cultural oasis, but the province is terrible. Being run by conservatives and having winters as cold as -50C with the windchill doesn't make for an ideal place. If you think that weather's bad, it has been colder =P, in January 2004 it dropped to -56 with the windchill, I only remember this because there was a warning on the radio for exposed wounds freezing up, and I was going to get my bridge pierced for the first time.

I decided to join here because the community seems fairly large and has forums for a few things I like to discuss, body mods being one. Currently I have 9 piercings (pierced a total of 18 times though) and one tattoo. Anyways I'm at school and my laptop battery is about to die.. unlike other things that just stop working, it's dying...

 

Hi and welcome to hip!

Hold on, spring is coming.

 

Early this year too! Last year we had snow here in May followed by rain/overcast for 90% of the summer. This week should be the last of the cold then it will warm up and start melting by the end of next week.

Don't see this very often, but the weather condition is "smoke". I've only seen it say that once before when the Kootenays were burning last year.

 

running back to saskatoon....huge welcome to my fellow canadian...come by the stoners lounge and say hello

 

I drove across Canada once. Talk about endless! It was 1970 and the Vietnam mess was going full blast. The Canadian people were very welcoming and it was one of the nicest trips I have taken. There were thousands of hippies hitchiking and we (5 of us from Hawaii) picked some up when we could. Never made it to Saskatoon.

 

Nasty cops, unpleasant locals, billboard-strewn highways, and small towns that load their coffiers with the vacation money of students and young people. It is rumored that Canadian troopers sometimes draft hitchhickers to fight forest fires in the western provinces, however, I have not met anyone so conscripted. The Middle Western Provinces of Canada are vast and thinly populated. Hitching is pretty good here, as in the rest of Canada, in the summer and virtually impossible in the winter.

 

Hello my friend,welcome to hipforums

 

I know what you mean,OB. There was a big fire in British Columbia in 1970 and we were camping there somewhere(?) and someone from the government came around and told us we might be needed to help fight the fire. He said they paid the same to conscripted volunteers as they made at their jobs. Never happened ,but we would have been very willing to have done so.