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11-16-2023, 01:29 PM
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#28876 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Someone on the Canada finance reddit described it perfectly -- I'm totally paraphrasing here but essentially saying how in Europe they still follow the conservative approach to building/land ownership monopolies where renters are treated as assets to the upper class, and the government directs rent top ups for the below market rent they provide to those very renters. The working poor receive subsidized rent while the unproductive land owners receive their equivalent top up.
This keeps both the "poor" housed, and the rich landowners happy, a dual welfare approach.
Where as we've taken the worse of both "It's like Canada's right took the most destabilizing elements of British conservatism and American individualism and forged them into some kind of national assisted suicide." 
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Originally Posted by westopher LOOK AT ME IM MIKE AND I HAVE A BIG HOG AND I DRINK TEQULA AND WORK OUT AND LISTEN TO CHARLI XCX ON THE BEACH IN BERMUDA
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11-16-2023, 03:40 PM
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#28877 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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The less you spend on housing the more you can spend on what really matters, living! Same paradox we've discussed for over 300+ pages. If your housing in Sweden / Austria / Some EU countries are flat across the board around $1-2K monthly for a rental that can support a 3-4 person household. That $8K vs $12K lifestyle will be insanely different.
Household making $12K Net with a $3K rent in a 1BR would have to shell out $6K/month for a duplex/house. Netting about $6K/month on disposable income.
Compared to a household that Nets $8K with $2K all-in costs for a duplex+. They can make 50% less, but due to housing timing they have the same quality of life as someone that makes 50% more. Furthermore, they're owning compared to renting.
It's concerning in the long-run because all the younger high earners are incentivized to fuck off somewhere where the cost of housing is lower or earning is higher to justify rent costs. Low income earners have to move to lower cost of living cities or countries to survive. Leaving a lack of top level talent + retail/service workers.
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11-16-2023, 03:45 PM
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#28878 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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yes i cant find anyone decent to be my slave. Lousy children, something about working for a tyrant just doesn't appeal to their modern sensibilities
the last one went running for the hills when i made him work on xmas eve.  | |
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11-16-2023, 04:49 PM
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#28879 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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^Relax, we have Tejinder and Parm who can do all that pleb shit and sleep 6-8 to a 1-bedroom condo.
Win win.
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Originally Posted by westopher LOOK AT ME IM MIKE AND I HAVE A BIG HOG AND I DRINK TEQULA AND WORK OUT AND LISTEN TO CHARLI XCX ON THE BEACH IN BERMUDA
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11-16-2023, 05:48 PM
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#28880 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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They don’t work so well….
Going back to that church’s chicken I was just at this week.
Me: Can I get that 3 piece special please ?
Mr brown : spicy or regular
Me : 2x spicy one regular.
Mr brown : spicy ?
Me : yeah Two of them spicy. ONE of them regular
Mr brown : spicy ?
Me: …. Sigh… yes spicy
Mr brown : cash or credit ?
Me: Amex ?
Mr brown : cash ?
Me: sigh…. Yes cash
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11-16-2023, 09:25 PM
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#28881 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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At least your got your food, Everytime I go to Wendy's the buddy girls short my food. Last week they didn't give me strawberry lemonade and their were having their girl chit chat in the back, I had to wait till they were done to get my drink.
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11-16-2023, 10:16 PM
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#28882 | | I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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Incidentally, I've had similar experience at both KFC and Timmy's. From a purely factual perspective, the incidents all happened when the order-taking person resembled an Indo-Pakistani person. Quote:
Originally Posted by Badhobz They don’t work so well….
Going back to that church’s chicken I was just at this week.
Me: Can I get that 3 piece special please ?
Mr brown : spicy or regular
Me : 2x spicy one regular.
Mr brown : spicy ?
Me : yeah Two of them spicy. ONE of them regular
Mr brown : spicy ?
Me: …. Sigh… yes spicy
Mr brown : cash or credit ?
Me: Amex ?
Mr brown : cash ?
Me: sigh…. Yes cash | | 
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11-16-2023, 11:01 PM
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#28883 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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Sounds like a good case for food robots
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11-16-2023, 11:19 PM
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#28884 | | RS Veteran
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At least Badhobz didn't get into a fight and bloody his seats haha
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ too early, too soon for reason and logic. | | |
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11-17-2023, 01:12 AM
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#28885 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by mikemhg ^Relax, we have Tejinder and Parm who can do all that pleb shit and sleep 6-8 to a 1-bedroom condo.
Win win. | I was thinking about the next 7 years. Without our boyz Parm and Tej, we probably wouldn't have anyone working the jobs we don't want.
@badhobz, if ya go to the churchs chickens with the flips, they do it right.
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11-17-2023, 04:54 AM
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#28886 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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Pinoys are my favourite people on earth. Most of them are all super friendly, family oriented, and just downright good people.
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11-17-2023, 06:21 AM
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#28887 | | I don't get it
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Originally Posted by Gerbs I was thinking about the next 7 years. Without our boyz Parm and Tej, we probably wouldn't have anyone working the jobs we don't want.
@badhobz, if ya go to the churchs chickens with the flips, they do it right. | Pay people enough to work there and they will. Temp foreign worker policy shouldn't be used to supply workers for fast food restaurants or Walmart. Same thing with this garbage immigration policy /rant.
Just go to Joilibee where you get what you pay for. 9$ for a fried chicken sando and the patty is bigger than my hand.
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11-17-2023, 10:17 AM
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#28888 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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Originally Posted by Gerbs I was thinking about the next 7 years. Without our boyz Parm and Tej, we probably wouldn't have anyone working the jobs we don't want.
@badhobz, if ya go to the churchs chickens with the flips, they do it right. | I need to know which ones lol. Slocan/33rd isn't.
My wife is Chinese but has been mistaken as flip quite a few times. When ordering at Churches, she's been hooked up for an extra piece or 2 about 50% of the time.
She thought they were just being nice, but I told her it's because they think she's 'their people.'
Didn't fully believe me until she got mistaken for our kid's nanny at a temple in Hong Kong.
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11-17-2023, 11:24 AM
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#28889 | | RS Veteran
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Holy, that post number (#28888)
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Originally Posted by Badhobz I used to date this crazy cbc bitch in college.
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Originally Posted by whitev70r ^ too early, too soon for reason and logic. | | |
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11-17-2023, 11:26 AM
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#28890 | | HELP ME PLS!!!
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Real estate is an essential need, and it's really the few topics to go around in Vancouver other than weather | |
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11-17-2023, 11:39 AM
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#28891 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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RE, weather, shit you do outside, and shit you do when its raining.
Four horsemen of Vancouver conversation topics.
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11-17-2023, 12:49 PM
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#28892 | | Willing to sell a family member for a few minutes on RS
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That’s easy
Re: can’t afford it
Weather: it’s shit
Shit to do outside: depends on weather and money
Shit to do inside: a whole lot of fucking and a whole lot of nothing
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11-17-2023, 01:27 PM
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#28893 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Badhobz Pinoys are my favourite people on earth. Most of them are all super friendly, family oriented, and just downright good people. | Speaking to Church's it's wild how quickly some of these locations changed their staff from Pinoys to FULL brown staff, literally out of no where.
The location on Lougheed and Madison for years was fully staffed by Titas and Pinoys, then out of no where the staff all changed to Indos.
I've noticed this happening at a ton of places that used to be run by Pinoys, I'm dumbfounded how things can change like that so quickly, and the whole staff?
The quality and service seems to drop precipitously when this happens as well. The Titas would hook you up with free sauces, maybe some extra chicken, meanwhile Manpreet won't even give you a free paper bag
There was a post about this on reddit Van speaking to this very topic and the mods had to shut the comments down because so many people were chiming in with the same complaints.
Truly, what is going on in this country, frankly it's been driving me nuts lately.
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Originally Posted by westopher LOOK AT ME IM MIKE AND I HAVE A BIG HOG AND I DRINK TEQULA AND WORK OUT AND LISTEN TO CHARLI XCX ON THE BEACH IN BERMUDA
Grow up fuckin Peter Pan and get a good nights rest. | | |
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11-17-2023, 01:36 PM
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#28894 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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LOL mcdonalds is the same... heck lardco too
don't know whats better, grumpy white guys vs clueless kids who probably don't even own a car
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11-17-2023, 01:48 PM
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#28895 | | Lomac owned my ass at least once
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You know why? Cuz buddy guys buys their job. They own the store, new buddy guys pays the immigration company and gets referred to buddy guy owners to work there, both businesses gets a cut. So why would you not hire employees that pays you, all you have to do is sign off on their paper work to work here and get free labour. Then you churn a new batch of buddy guys.
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11-17-2023, 02:26 PM
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#28896 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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I noticed there's 90% less highschoolers working retail / fast food. All indians nowadays. Perks of old money finally paying off for the youngins!
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11-17-2023, 02:52 PM
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#28897 | | linguistic ninja
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Great job White Supremacists with your COVID-era Asian bashing. You scared off all the poor Pinoys and Chinamen back to their home countries. No one wants to be spat on and called a plague rat for minimum wage. This is what you get now, are you happy now?  | |
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11-17-2023, 03:26 PM
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#28898 | | Need to Seek Professional Help
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I wonder if this coincides with the change last year to remove the 20-hour-per-week cap for international students.
Either that, or there are a lot of backdoor kickbacks at these corporations to hire Indian international students/immigrants for their workforce.
It can't be a coincidence that almost all retail/service positions are now staffed by Indians, from manager down.
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11-17-2023, 03:34 PM
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#28899 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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A&W needs workers
A&W contracts manpreet staffing services
Manpreeet staffing services provides labour
Manpreets labour are on TFW visas
Manpreet immigration services handles Manpreeet staffing service workers perm residence application at the cost of a portion of labour forces wages
Rinse and repeat
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11-17-2023, 04:04 PM
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#28900 | | Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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Does the churches chicken taste any different when it is cooked by pinoys vs Indians?
I haven't gone to churches in a long time, last time I bought with my own $ it was $6.25 for a 3 piece and fries when ordered with a coupon, those were the good days
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