Speak it Out

[Jmac]

Sucks to lose anything important to you, inanimate or not. RIP

[BaoTurbo]

God damn cyclists think they own the road in Vancouver

[MSREE]

I gotta stop buying bags. I’m on a purse rampage.

NOTE TO SELF: you don’t go anywhere bitch you don’t need anymore BAGS

[CorneringArtist]

Anyone else ever deal with being friendly with coworkers on a professional level, having hobby-related conversations, etc., but when it comes to doing anything outside of work, it's like you don't exist, or your coworkers don't want anything to do with you?

I'm being crushed by my own loneliness, even before the lockdown.

[BIC_BAWS]

Currently feeling underappreciated/taken for granted. I know when I feel this way it means that I'm emotionally unhealthy and need to take a step back and distance myself from people. I often make myself too available to foster a connection, definitely need to work on that this year.

[bcrdukes]

Originally Posted by BaoTurbo

God damn cyclists think they own the road in Vancouver

[instantneedles]

I find that the times when I'm most dissatisfied with my work are usually when I'm around people I don't get along with. That usually ends up with me leaving.

Right now, I have a job where I get along with my coworkers somewhat. Mostly because it's remote and we don't see each other too often lol.

[AstulzerRZD]

Originally Posted by MSREE

I gotta stop buying bags. I’m on a purse rampage.

NOTE TO SELF: you don’t go anywhere bitch you don’t need anymore BAGS

I've been on a snack rampage
"are you really hungry, or are you just bored?"

[MSREE]

Originally Posted by AstulzerRZD

I've been on a snack rampage
"are you really hungry, or are you just bored?"

Impulse crew checking in!

Lol. Man same. Whenever I go grocery shopping, I always have to make sure we have enough snacks. If only I could export all this energy of buying things into being productive...........

[Akinari]

FINALLY pushed all of my reasons and excuses and whatever crap that's been holding me back all these years aside, and revived my media brand that I started back in high school that's been dead for the last five years, in addition to starting my automotive lifestyle brand/vlog channel on YouTube.

Also, you know she's a keeper when she vlogs with you, effectively making one of your channels a couple vlog channel.

I'm gonna pull an Albo and write all my goals/aspirations/wants on a whiteboard once I move to the new condo, and put it up on a wall somewhere, so I can look at it my goals every single day and work towards them.

[BIC_BAWS]

Is it immature to think that maturity levels will match on all aspects of lives? Had a conversation with someone who I thought was pretty mature, but in this conversation I found that they had a very immature (and dumb) view of this specific thing.

[Euro7r]

^I think as long as the person from a general overall life perspective acts/behaves mature, that's good enough. Even for myself, I dick (joke) around when around buddies on certain topics but serious mode when it comes to all other aspects of life.

Reminds me of my sister in her early 30's, she thinks in order for people to be working at certain positions of jobs, they need to have "qualifications (aka) education". Maybe get your head out of your ass and see the world??! I disagree with that because there are so many people that are ahead financially without education and we would disagree on topics like this. It's immature for her to think that way as she's stuck up in a traditional thinking mentally and would feel those that work at jobs without qualification (education) should not be in those positions. Haters will hate but people are in those positions for a specific reason, they aren't in them for no reason. Or if you don't have business experience/education, you shouldn't be running a business. Shit like this irritates me.

[BIC_BAWS]

LMFAO your sister in her early 30's reminds me of my ex's mom. Shits infuriating.

I get that there's joking around, even I joke around but in this case it seemed like a very immature perspective of things.

[MSREE]

BIC, sometimes the person may just not know about the topic and just needs to learn about it
If they try to educate themselves and still stick to their dumb view then that’s another problem.

[MSREE]

Who’s keeping poisonous dart frogs in Vancouver man

[BIC_BAWS]

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[BIC_BAWS]

Just like the first time, more upset about our situation than the car.

[Akinari]

The "I need to actually start adulting and save up for a detached house with a garage" switch has finally been flipped on in my head.

I think it was a combination of, finally running out of patience with stratas and all their associated garbage, and constantly moving from one brand new condo to the next (renting, same landlord), hoping for better quality and only to be continuously let down and severely disappointed. I've lost all hope in Vancouver's condo market, all the trades I've spoken to say they're not built for humans to live in, they're only built to code, whatever that code is. Friend of mine who's dad is a lifelong build inspector said the same, and that the majority of these new builds shouldn't have even passed inspection and are not really even up to code.

Time to suck it up to Vancouver's unreal housing prices.

Also, moving during a pandemic? 0/10 would not not recommend. Worst experience ever, further made worse by all furniture stores having insane ETAs for in-stock dates. It's been 2 months and I'm still waiting on my dining table. Sold most of the furniture prior to moving out from the last place cause we upsized and needed stuff that fit better.

[BIC_BAWS]

Originally Posted by Akinari

The "I need to actually start adulting and save up for a detached house with a garage" switch has finally been flipped on in my head

In a similar situation, but adulting to me means that I need to quit cars and get a house with a garage. Sigh


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[Traum]

Originally Posted by Akinari

all the trades I've spoken to say they're not built for humans to live in, they're only built to code, whatever that code is. Friend of mine who's dad is a lifelong build inspector said the same, and that the majority of these new builds shouldn't have even passed inspection and are not really even up to code.

I am really curious about this comment from the trades people. I don't at all question the build quality of some (many?) of the newer buildings, but to claim that the new builds are not built for humans to live in... that's a pretty drastic claim. What particular aspects of the build makes it unsuitable for humans to live in?

Also, don't forget that getting into a detached means you will be constantly be doing maintenance and upkeep work on the house. It never ends.

Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS

In a similar situation, but adulting to me means that I need to quit cars and get a house with a garage. Sigh
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I'm in a similar boat right now, and the only thing that keeps me going is -- I keep telling myself that when the right one comes along again, I am going to do everything I can to make it happen. And that next one is going to be so much better than the last one.

But honestly, that is a really tall order. Having spent so much time together with her in the past -- 12+ years! -- we were already completely in sync in every regard. So how do you top a career high when you know it too so much blood, sweat, and effort to get there the first time?

[320icar]

Traum, go live in a house built in 1968 then move into one built in 2007. You’ll know *exactly* what he means. It’s hard to explain, but very simple things like small bedrooms, virtually no closet space, no place for storage, everything is sort of ‘open concept’ to the demise of useful spaces etc. And the use of quality building materials. Modern houses (that aren’t built to your spec) are disgustingly cheap feeling

Maybe I’m alone on this, but I’m not.

[Jmac]

They’re built to maximize profit.

[jing]

In all fairness, when things are built to a non-existent spec and the lowest bidder almost always wins, you get the cheapest product possible.

[Traum]

Originally Posted by 320icar

Traum, go live in a house built in 1968 then move into one built in 2007. You’ll know *exactly* what he means. It’s hard to explain, but very simple things like small bedrooms, virtually no closet space, no place for storage, everything is sort of ‘open concept’ to the demise of useful spaces etc. And the use of quality building materials. Modern houses (that aren’t built to your spec) are disgustingly cheap feeling

Maybe I’m alone on this, but I’m not.

Oh that's what you mean.

Yeah, I totally agree that the layouts of the new houses are utterly stupid LOL~

[Akinari]

Originally Posted by 320icar

Traum, go live in a house built in 1968 then move into one built in 2007. You’ll know *exactly* what he means. It’s hard to explain, but very simple things like small bedrooms, virtually no closet space, no place for storage, everything is sort of ‘open concept’ to the demise of useful spaces etc. And the use of quality building materials. Modern houses (that aren’t built to your spec) are disgustingly cheap feeling

Maybe I’m alone on this, but I’m not.

100% this.

My "den" is more like a sauna, no ventilation and is the warmest room in the unit by a significant margin. The developer calls it a den, but one of the trades who came to adjust some settings on my heat pump said it's just a storage room, as the city specifies how much storage space units need to have, so they put in this tiny ass space that's not really a storage room, but definitely not a den, yet labelled as a den.

Modern floorplans are just fucked.

What I'm curious about is, why almost every single new condo has their walls and ceilings crack within the first year, whereas condos built even as recent as 10-15 years ago, this was not a thing? When did "drywall cracks and ceiling cracks are a normal occurrence within the first year", become a normal occurrence?