Some girl offered Badhobz her tacos.

For Spoon, I may have an explanation for your hotel woes. We ran into a similar problem in Shanghai, it was Nov and the hotel room was just cooking hot. We tried to adjust it and turn up the fan to no avail, it just kept getting hotter and hotter and hotter.

We asked the front desk and they sent some one up and they couldn't figure it out. They finally got a hold of the engineer and the explanation was it was winter and the the AC is not on. When we turn on the fan it just blows more hot air in as it's central. The room we were in was cheap and did not have a window so we couldn't even just let cold air in.

They ended up switching us to another room, we opened the windows and turned off the fan so the room would drop to a temperature we were comfortable with.

Lots of cheap whores in miami, OOOOHHG SIIIII PAAPPIII SIIIIIE

Theres new boat fulls of illegals every day, 50$ is 50$

Speaking of miami, i want to go again, except for art basel in december.
I keep flip flopping between a week in mexico or a few days in miami / some shitty 3-5 day cruise.

Anyone hear about the clowns blocking the lions gate bridge yesterday?

Saw a clip. I wanted to throw all their bikes over the railing.

EDIT: add link to clip (didn't mean to create new reply)
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...s_gate_bridge/

I didn’t even need to pay this Latina. If I was a real bad Hobz I would have eaten the shit out of her taco…. She was pretty fine. 20 something, working as my lean coordinator …. Mmmmmm mmmm mmmm. Tasty

https://i.postimg.cc/C51mpGbC/IMG-5846.jpg

That’s a great stealthy food pic

She invited me over to her place in Lynwood. I’m like fuck that. That’s basically Compton. I don’t want your cholo brothers taking me out for walking around inappropriately

EDIT: add link to clip (didn't mean to create new reply)
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/c...s_gate_bridge/

Bang on they dont speak Canto. My wife and I both do very well for CBCs but of course we had the benefit of being 1st generation so our parents only spoke Canto at home + tvb on non stop + for me anyway I went to Churchill and Hamber so plenty of Honger friends meaning i got to use my Canto throughout my entire life. With my eldest we focused more on Canto first because we knew English would come. We weren't hard-core about it but did speak it more and up until he was 5 his Canto was better than his English. Once school started game overs. Could/should we have tried and spoke it more? Yes but ah wells lol he's 11 now and while we could still force it who are we kidding. With my youngest we didn't even try. Yea they both get a little from grandparents and they understand more than they can speak but that ship has sort of sailed for us haha.

I'd say it's not too late. Really, if they are motivated to learn Canto, they will. I've told the story many times but when I moved here from Calgary (age 12) I didn't know jack shit. Over the years I've become fluent because it has been extremely useful at work and in my personal life. Had I stayed in Alberta, I'm sure I would still know next to nothing about my own language.

its a crying shame when you look chinese but cant speak a lick... highly suggest you toys keep your little ones ingrained in our culture before they turn into some of a generic white guy with a chinese skin suit.

bare minimum you gotta teach them the basics

lei lo mo laaaa pook guy

diu lei gor chow hai ar?

you know, basics :lol

Just don’t agree to poker

Pork (?)
Mashed Potatoes
Roast Veg
2 cups of milk

:teach:

What the fuck???? I remember the day there was a fire at Walmart in Metrotown last week or so. The second floor was closed off. Now the first floor is closed. Will open on the 3rd, according to the security guard stationed by the escalators.

The Grandview Hwy location was closed for at least a month. Fucking arsonists. Now I have to shop at the Grandview Hwy location.

So I took a walk through Strathcona for the first time in like....ever. Checked out Union Market, Wider Snail, the new Finch's. Tons of hidden historical homes and churches. It's actually pretty nice with kids playing in the McClean Park. I'm talking the area between Prior and Keefer streets I could have been in like Riley Park area or some other family oriented neighbourhood. But then reality hits north of that and you're smack dab in the middle of homeless apocalypse, but otherwise you could have fooled me.

Was it always like this?

It's become nicer over the past decade due to gentrification, kinda like what Mount Pleasant used to be before it blew up as a yuppie neighborhood IMO.

Also didn't know Union Market reopened under new ownership - I thought the place closed and that was it for that spot when the previous owners retired. Used to buy a lot of bacalhau and egg tarts back in the day.

We used to go to Powell Street Festival, and before COVID, I swear that even in the area between Oppenheimer Park to Hastings, things just look a bit run down, but the atmosphere never made me uncomfortable.

But then in 2022 or 2023 when we went again, we parked on Keefer Street right at MacLean Park, and walked to Oppenheimer Park for the festival. Along Keefer, everything was still comfortable and nice, if a bit old. As we walked past Pender along Jackson, it was as if things suddenly took an apocalyptic turn. The smell and sightings of urine and feces (esp urine) were hitting us pretty frequently, and there were quite a number of homeless people scattered along different places as well. At Oppenheimer Park where the festival was taking place, it was also obvious the homeless crisis was hitting the festival grounds hard. It was really heart-wrenching to see -- both for the festival itself, as well as for the homeless people that were there.

We didn't go back the following year (or maybe following 2 years -- I dun remember too well) bcos the neighbourhood had left us with such a strong and negative impression, and I really didn't want to bring my child there, and have him experience all that (again). I am also honestly sorry and sad to see something we enjoyed taking a turn that way as well. Then this year, we were busy during the festival period, so we didn't go.

I'm glad to hear that MacLean Park is able to retain its peace and quiet. But it sounds like as soon as you start approaching Hastings' direction, things are still taking a turn for the worst. :(

I was down at the Woodward's building yesterday for dinner and other than the smell of piss things were largely fine down there. We gave our 6 year old a little chat about how we'd see some people who weren't well down there but we didn't get stabbed with needles or get mugged or threatened by anyone. Are things good down there? Nah but it's not as some people may describe it.

It was actually interesting to see that area of the city from up high (21st floor) - there were two daycares with playgrounds across the street from us on the top floor of their respective buildings and a lot of pretty rooftops with people enjoying themselves outside (and a few pretty beat up ones). From up high it kinda seemed just a bit vibrant?

Yes.

We're in the exact same boat! :)

My older one understands basic Canto, but that's all.

My younger one gets annoyed if we start talking to him in Canto. :lol The funny thing is that he's been taking Mandarin for a couple of years at Langara (2.5 hrs per week) and he's good at picking up languages. When we were in Taiwan/HK this March, he preferred Taiwan because he understood what people were saying. His pronunciation is excellent and I bet he could have a basic conversation in Mandarin. Meanwhile, I've given up on Mandarin myself because my tones are heavily influenced by my Cantonese upbringing...

beat him in the face until his cantonese improves. If my shanghainese ass can speak it, he has no excuse.

Dont lose what makes HK and Guangdong province special. Shanghainese is already a lost language, even the retards who speak it nowadays, speak it strangely vs how we spoke it when i was growing up... dont let cantonese become the next shanghainese.

you can yarrr yarr yarr ni haoooo marrr later when we win WW3.

Other than work and dating, things like Stephen Chow movies motivated me to learn. Cantonese is funny AF once you get it.

When I was in HK visiting the in-law's extended family a number of years ago, I met some of their elementary school-aged children. Neither of them spoke Cantonese (WTF????) but were proficient in Mandarin. They were telling us about their love for China (not HK!) and their loyalty to the motherland. Needless to say, I was a bit taken back (??????) but also not surprised because of the Mainland influence there. :inoutugh:

Be prepared to accept the fact that some of your kids will become Chinese Communists one day. :D