You're expanding your repertroire of Asia is soooooooooooo much better than Canada angles :toot:

I fly AC for the Aeroplan and Star Alliance perks. Makes it pretty easy

AC for Asia, Lufthansa for Europe, United for USA.

Usually the prices are close to the discount lines so its not worth switching over. Plus majority of my travel is for work anyways, so i just bill them the most expensive fare for ha ha's

The food thing is a YVR issue, most airlines flying out of YVR has shit food.

I think JetStar is Oceanic but yeah. Explain to me how a budget airline is somehow more comfortable than Air Canada which is supposed to be a Tier 1.

How bad is WestJet? The WestJet card seems pretty cool with the annual companion pass.

Jetstar is terrible. I don't know how you found it good but the seats were so fucking close together I couldn't even sit straight and I'm not even that big, are you like 5' tall?

So for anyone looking for phones/phone plans, the deals this year don't seem as good as the last few years as I was looking for a Pixel 10 Pro for my wife.

Rogers is doing $10/m lease on a $45/m plan, which in itself is not bad, but my currently plan is $32 so that means I need to tack on another $13 to my perceived cost, and the buyout is $360 at the end of term. Purely on the phone itself, it's a $600 for a $1100 dollar phone, which is actually decent.

She uses android ?!!!? Oh hellllllz nah. I thought all those Asian girls are iPhone only.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DHYM29VH?...oDp&th=1&psc=1

Picked up some bumper plates off Amazon today, it's 27% off for the 160lb set and 20% off for the 230lb set which works out to just over $1/lb which is cheaper than even the sketchiest guys on FB are offering.

Was looking at picking up a squat rack/cable machine from Bells of Steel too and it's about 20% off but I'm still okay going to the gym once a week to fit in the stuff I can't do at home.

If anyone has a line on a 6' rackable barbell that I can get locally that'd be great otherwise I'm looking at $300-500 for one online.

Just do it first one you see, you’ll never miss that $300 but you’ll love the gainzzzzzz

What are you benching now Supa? I’m at that point where I’m stuck a bit trying to go up weight but less reps I think I’m sitting at just under 2 plates 3 sets 5 reps a set. At this point even adding a 2.5 on the ends drops me to 3 reps I just can’t quite get to 2 plates lol frustrating as fuck when you make such fast progress in the beginning and then it’s like inchworm crawling after that.

At 47 going on 48 thought I don’t know how much I can legitimately gain without chemical assistance which I refuse to do hahaha

I found that there's a crazy ass Amazon hack for the Pixel 10 Pro over a RFD. The premise is that Amazon does a BF bundle deal on Pixel. You get $200 off if you buy it with a watch 3/4, $150 off if you buy with bud 2 pro, and $90 off if you buy with bud 2a.

The discount is then spread across both items, so for example the $200 off for watch 3/4 is spread across $150 on the phone and $50 on the watch. The discounts stack. So you buy 4 items then return the accesories you don't want. You keep the discount on the phone at the end as it's applied already.

That's a great deal! Making me itch for it haha

I feel the same way about supplements for working out. I don't want to do it and I have never done it. My point for working out isn't to get jacked, but to be healthy.

You already got Christine Sinclair big boy, what you need these for.

Random thought... is Black Friday just "Friday" to mike?

:pokerface:

The Pixel 6 I've had for the last 4 years from a BF deal will be my first and last Pixel phone ever. Countless random issues that don't ever occur compare against Samsung. I've been phoneless for the past 2 days because my phone just shut off randomly and won't turn back on. Have tried all the various methods already to get it working again to no avail.

If you think AC is bad, WS is gonna be a shock to you lmao

Used to be good and then Onex took over. Thanks PE!

I find people often love WestJet and only dislike them due to a mishap or a bad experience. Those who do love WestJet are deathly loyal to the brand and their product. I beg to differ, so I may be an outlier.

I accept the fact that competing carriers have an outstanding product (i.e. Singapore Airlines etc.) but overall, I quite like AC and the Star Alliance partners. They aren't perfect, but thinking of the entire package, they have served me well. Delta, KLM, and SkyTeam Alliance is alright, but their routes and schedules have never worked in my favour.

If you guys dislike AC, wait until you try an Indian carrier. (Not being racist, just for whitev70r.)

Unfortunately that's been the case with Pixel phones since the first one...

There are quite a few android cellphone deals for BF you can buy outright and not going on contract if you peruse RedFlagDeals. The S25 lineup is heavily discounted, and I picked up a Motorola Edge+ to replace my Pixel 4A since I'm worried it'll crap out at any moment.

https://forums.redflagdeals.com/hot-...dealer_id=7453

Wife's used Pixels since the P2, she got a P5, then a P7, now I just bought the P10Pro. She's not had much issues with it other than weak battery. The weak battery from the early days is a legacy of being an HTC(Google invested into HTC for manufacturing), IIRC it's still being made by HTC and the suppliers they use for the battery is not great.

Neither of us like Samsung, and while Apple makes a good phone, I'm not a fan of being locked into the ecosystem.

I'm personally looking at the Nothing Phone 3 ($200 off), but the reviews just aren't that great. But it fits my want of using a weird phone that no one uses.

I think your view of Westjet is stuck in pre-Covid mode. The old Westjet - where the employees had a stake in the company - was fun, was staffed by people who took genuine pride in the company, and was seen as the scrappy upstart who was fighting against the goliath of Air Canada. I liked flying with them.

Now that they've been bought out by Onex and is basically run like any other large money losing airline, there is little difference between them and Air Canada/United/AA etc. And since they have been in labour disputes with their staff for the past half decade or so, the staff have not been taking pride in the company that they are no longer able to own a part of.

Economy EVA and Cathay, recline was enough to help me sleep, felt similar to luxury busses that aren't sleeper.


Jal's 2 seat economy makes it easier to sit aisle + window with a spouse without deciding who goes middle

I have a squat rack + barbell + weights I may consider off loading.

I've been a long time Google phone fan, and in the last several iterations of the Pixel phones, it has been deemed that their A model line is the better phone over the flagphone Pixel phones. Of course, the A model line has fewer bells and whistles, and a number of them have been afflicted by some battery fire risk issues. But Google has just replaced the battery in my Pixel 6a for free, so I am probably going to squeeze another 3 years' worth of life out of it and I ain't gonna complain about that.

Way back when we had two Nexus 5 phones in the family, both phones have died over the course of their life. The first one had some sort of motherboard / video display issue where the phone still worked, but the screen only displays a few random scan lines on the screen. Google replaced it under warranty so there was no cost to us.

The other Nexus 5 died within a month or two after (the 2 years?) warranty expired, and Google still replaced it out of goodwill for us with a refurb unit.

I blame our Nexus 5 woes on LG for making a crappy phone instead of blaming Google for it.

Racist !

Bench is my worst exercise - my trainer and I mostly ignored it till 6-7 weeks ago so I'm just cracking 2x35lb dumbbells now (10 reps) whereas I do 45lb lbs for my chest supported rows at 12 reps. I'm probably going to stick with dbs for a long while I think - I only use the barbell for squats and RDLs.

I feel you. Recovery can be brutal at our age (especially as I was never very active) - I've only been able to consistently workout 3 days a week in the past 6-7 weeks. I started doing plyometrics with my trainer now and it's embarrassing how bad I was at the beginning. Give me some ozempic and testosterone baby!

I wanna hurt myself at home too.

Half rack? Cable upgradable? I have limited space so I can only fit a half rack/wall mount in my office.

This is what I disliked about WestJet.

They were fun. They took pride. I hate that. I also dislike their planes and seats.

I am an outlier to the general WestJet customer base.

:suspicious:

It's like when people ask me if I want to go get some Chinese food. Do you mean "food"?