Everyday Adventures

[Barrister]

On the plus side, after the game there's probably a decent chance our team goes out to grab drinks at one of the many restaurants/bars attached to the mall.  As long as they don't mind us bringing our stinky hockey gear with us.

Mall bars.

We did not in fact go out to a mall bar afterwards.  Game was over at 10pm on a Monday, people just went home.

Playing at the mall was interesting.  It was incredibly warm out on the ice (since the mall is at room temperature).  It was interesting that people would just stop by and watch for awhile.  What I found funny is how I'm out on the ice yelling at my teammates - ordinarily you'd get asked to leave if you were yelling in a mall like that, but it is quite expected in playing hockey.

[The Brain]

Today I was at a conference and there was a guy there who looked like Fred Armisen.

[Josquius]

I have a rec league hockey game tonight.  I have a game every week, so not much of an adventure really.

But what's different is tonight game is at West Edmonton Mall.  Reportedly the biggest mall in North America.

Malls being repurposed (or is this an original build that holds over?) for leisure activities pleases me.

[Barrister]

I have a rec league hockey game tonight.  I have a game every week, so not much of an adventure really.

But what's different is tonight game is at West Edmonton Mall.  Reportedly the biggest mall in North America.

Malls being repurposed (or is this an original build that holds over?) for leisure activities pleases me.

West Edmonton Mall is definitely the largest mall in Canada, depending on how you measure it might be the largest mall in north america, and is sadly one of the things Edmonton is best known for.

But anyways it has long had a number of attractions besides being just a mall.  It (obviously) has a skating rink, but it has a water park, an amusement park, a pirate ship, and sea animal attractions.  It used to have submarine rides but they took those out years ago - too expensive to maintain.

[Josquius]

I see.
Locally we have what was once the largest mall in Europe. It used to have an indoor theme park (again biggest in Europe I think) which was awesome but back in the 2000s as part of a big renovation they ripped this out and built a tonne more retail space instead....
Yet now the trend is very much back the other way with retail on the decline and malls wanting to be leisure destinations.
I find the whole thing quite fascinating. A sort of side-issue to the development of cities overall with some of the same rules and some completely different.

[garbon]

Yeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

[HVC]

Yeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

If it's not inconvenient Josq doesn't like it. Whether it's transportation, shopping, or housing

[Jacob]

Yeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

If it's not inconvenient Josq doesn't like it. Whether it's transportation, shopping, or housing

Arguing with people on languish is pretty convenient, and Josq seems to like that....

[HVC]

Yeah terrible that there were physical locations where people found it convenient to shop.

If it's not inconvenient Josq doesn't like it. Whether it's transportation, shopping, or housing

Arguing with people on languish is pretty convenient, and Josq seems to like that....

Every rule needs an exception to prove it

[Josquius]

I'm confused at this reply chain.
Where did I say I don't like convenience?
That malls are generally dying is nothing to do with my likes or dislikes. That they're not convenient is a big part of why this is happening.

[garbon]

I'm confused at this reply chain.
Where did I say I don't like convenience?
That malls are generally dying is nothing to do with my likes or dislikes. That they're not convenient is a big part of why this is happening.

Think a little about some of your stances that would result in less convenience for people.

Malls were once very convenient for people though I'd agree with the age of online shopping, they are less and less relevant.

[Josquius]

I'm confused at this reply chain.
Where did I say I don't like convenience?
That malls are generally dying is nothing to do with my likes or dislikes. That they're not convenient is a big part of why this is happening.

Think a little about some of your stances that would result in less convenience for people.

None come to mind. Wanting things to be more convenient for people is kind of my thing.


edit- ah, wanting to see an elimination of domestic air travel and general reduction in flights would have this effect. As is my anti fast fashion/pro repair outlook. Odd place to suddenly bring it up though.

[Tamas]

Also your anti-car outlook :p

[Josquius]

Also your anti-car outlook :p

Improving convenience is the key feature of this
Both on a short term more convenient day to day lives level and a bigger "The ice caps melting and mass die offs would be pretty damn inconvenient"

[Jacob]

Yeah, of all the things to hold against Josq "anti-convenience" is a bit of a stretch.

It was sort of funny though.