[underscore]

Nothing better when you let a Chinese driver merge into your lane, or merge in front in general, and they proceed to not give you a single look of acknowledgement or thank you, then proceed to drive 20KMs below speed limit now in front of you.

The one that happens to me a lot is where I'm driving along and there's nobody in sight behind me, someone will punch it to pull out in front and cut me off, then proceed to drive below the limit. If they're not in a rush then just wait the 3 second to pull out behind me.

[mikemhg]

I hate this obsession with being the 1st person in their given lane when approaching a light, even when they plan to drive fucking slow up front anyways.

I notice people doing a lot more now in specifically in Vancouver. People doing the above, but while they're at a complete stop in their lane, meanwhile vehicles are still approaching the stop in the lane beside them, and they attempt to make a lane change to get that "first spot" from a complete standstill.

That shit is becoming fucking stressful, I always feel on edge when I'm approaching a red light with no one in front of me, expecting some asshole who decides in their own infinite wisdom to suddenly change lanes while fully stopped in their lane just to nab that front light spot in the adjacent, while I'm approaching.

It's such a stupid maneuver for literally no gain or benefit.

[underscore]

Sounds like you just don't have the mindset of a true winner. Second is the first of the losers. You've got to win, to win.

https://servicetrade.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/be-first.jpeg

[MarkyMark]

I hate this obsession with being the 1st person in their given lane when approaching a light, even when they plan to drive fucking slow up front anyways.

I notice people doing a lot more now in specifically in Vancouver. People doing the above, but while they're at a complete stop in their lane, meanwhile vehicles are still approaching the stop in the lane beside them, and they attempt to make a lane change to get that "first spot" from a complete standstill.

That shit is becoming fucking stressful, I always feel on edge when I'm approaching a red light with no one in front of me, expecting some asshole who decides in their own infinite wisdom to suddenly change lanes while fully stopped in their lane just to nab that front light spot in the adjacent, while I'm approaching.

It's such a stupid maneuver for literally no gain or benefit.

I've been driving so long now I can sometimes tell just based on a couple of minutes of seeing someone's driving behavior on what kind of stupid shit they are going to do. I swear I see it coming before they even know they are going to do it lol but asshole tendencies are easy to see coming.

[EvoFire]

I've been driving so long now I can sometimes tell just based on a couple of minutes of seeing someone's driving behavior on what kind of stupid shit they are going to do. I swear I see it coming before they even know they are going to do it lol but asshole tendencies are easy to see coming.

There's preactions that happen and you can tell from the language of the car, the car model helps the prediction too.

Wife's gotten onboard with calling the Teslas and Camrollas out for bad drivers, also all the uber stickers.

[SkinnyPupp]

I hate this obsession with being the 1st person in their given lane when approaching a light, even when they plan to drive fucking slow up front anyways.

I notice people doing a lot more now in specifically in Vancouver. People doing the above, but while they're at a complete stop in their lane, meanwhile vehicles are still approaching the stop in the lane beside them, and they attempt to make a lane change to get that "first spot" from a complete standstill.

That shit is becoming fucking stressful, I always feel on edge when I'm approaching a red light with no one in front of me, expecting some asshole who decides in their own infinite wisdom to suddenly change lanes while fully stopped in their lane just to nab that front light spot in the adjacent, while I'm approaching.

It's such a stupid maneuver for literally no gain or benefit.
omg I haven't driven in Vancouver in like 20 years, but this just brought all those memories right back to the front of my mind. So fucking annoying man

[Mikoyan]

The latest thing triggering me while I'm driving are the folks that leave +2 car lengths in front of them at a light. I'm not talking about 2nd car hanging back to trigger the advance green, but stopping going straight.
I think it lines up with ICBC supposedly finding someone in the middle of a chain rear-end crash liable for not leaving enough room to the car in front when someone was going +80 and hit them. So now they stop all the time expecting Speed Racer to hit them.
In my view, it's exacerbating the traffic gridlock with all the vehicles on the road now.
Is just leaving enough room to see the rear tires of the car in front of you not a thing anymore?

[EvoFire]

^ Honk. Some one said Vancouver honks a lot, yeah cause it's full of retards. The idiots need to know when they are doing something stupid.

[westopher]

The problem with that is if they are that fucking stupid they will never put it together that they are doing something stupid. Flash your brights, honk, yell, usually the only reaction is to stare straight ahead and have no idea what's happening, or they start road raging.

[RabidRat]

While we're on a roll: it grinds my gears when it's dark out, I'm at an intersection, and I'm face to face with someone who's obliviously left their high beams on. I flash my high beams, no response. I turn on and leave on my high beams, no response. Then I sit there epilepsically jamming on my brights, and still no response: they notice nothing.

Why would anyone even want to be first at an intersection and risk coming face to face with bozos like this?

[radeonboy]

While we're on a roll: it grinds my gears when it's dark out, I'm at an intersection, and I'm face to face with someone who's obliviously left their high beams on. I flash my high beams, no response. I turn on and leave on my high beams, no response. Then I sit there epilepsically jamming on my brights, and still no response: they notice nothing.

Why would anyone even want to be first at an tersection and risk coming face to face with bozos like this?

They don't, so we end up with things like this:
https://static.cargurus.com/images/article/2021/06/21/15/32/sptpicture-pic-7219172740472445285-1600x1200.jpeg

[Qmx323]

While we're on a roll: it grinds my gears when it's dark out, I'm at an intersection, and I'm face to face with someone who's obliviously left their high beams on. I flash my high beams, no response. I turn on and leave on my high beams, no response. Then I sit there epilepsically jamming on my brights, and still no response: they notice nothing.

Why would anyone even want to be first at an intersection and risk coming face to face with bozos like this?

"The blue lamp isn't telling me my headlights are on???"

[Mikoyan]

^ Honk. Some one said Vancouver honks a lot, yeah cause it's full of retards. The idiots need to know when they are doing something stupid.

I do. A couple times when I'm in the lane beside them I've pulled into the dead space. I'm usually in my Odyssey so I'm about the size of a Tahoe. That should tell you how much space they've transferred from between their ears to the road.

While we're on a roll: it grinds my gears when it's dark out, I'm at an intersection, and I'm face to face with someone who's obliviously left their high beams on. I flash my high beams, no response. I turn on and leave on my high beams, no response. Then I sit there epilepsically jamming on my brights, and still no response: they notice nothing.

Why would anyone even want to be first at an intersection and risk coming face to face with bozos like this?

I've said this before in other threads, some of the blame goes to the auto manufacturers for Auto Everything Controls and the lack of indicators to know when things are on.

My '23 Odyssey has auto High Beams, that I've turned off, but you know what turns the feature back on? USING THE HIGH BEAMS to flash at the guy across the intersection that has their high beams on. So now i have to try to remember how to flash my high beams to turn off the auto beams. I'll wait till I'm in my driveway to do it. but there's been a few times late at night when it'll kick in because there's no oncoming traffic for a couple hundred metres.

[unit]

The latest thing triggering me while I'm driving are the folks that leave +2 car lengths in front of them at a light. I'm not talking about 2nd car hanging back to trigger the advance green, but stopping going straight.
I think it lines up with ICBC supposedly finding someone in the middle of a chain rear-end crash liable for not leaving enough room to the car in front when someone was going +80 and hit them. So now they stop all the time expecting Speed Racer to hit them.
In my view, it's exacerbating the traffic gridlock with all the vehicles on the road now.
Is just leaving enough room to see the rear tires of the car in front of you not a thing anymore?

not exactly the same but one time the guy at the front was so far off the sensor that a guy came out of his house to yell at him lol.

i was about 7th in line and was kinda zoned out listening to the radio so it took me a while to realize that we hadn't moved in like 3 minutes. i looked behind me and i saw an endless line of cars had formed and i started to realize something was wrong. i waited for another minute or so and then i see a guy come out of his house who lived at the corner of the intersection walk with an incredulous look on his face as he hit the crosswalk button. he looks at the guy in the front and goes "are you fucking retarded?? do you not know how a sensor works? MOVE UP". the driver was like 2 full car lengths behind the stop line. i can't remember all the things he said to him but he went off on the guy for a bit lol. well deserved.

[68style]

While we're on a roll: it grinds my gears when it's dark out, I'm at an intersection, and I'm face to face with someone who's obliviously left their high beams on. I flash my high beams, no response. I turn on and leave on my high beams, no response. Then I sit there epilepsically jamming on my brights, and still no response: they notice nothing.

Why would anyone even want to be first at an intersection and risk coming face to face with bozos like this?

9/10 times for some reason with high beams, it's a Civic... they must be super easy to activate or something. It's crazy how many times it's a Civic.

Also Teslas have fucking brutal light patterns for oncoming traffic, they constantly look like their brights are on from a distance.

[Badhobz]

i had the same problem with the previous generation corolla. It always looked like it had high beams on.

https://cars.usnews.com/pics/size/390x290/images/Auto/izmo/i2344997/2017_toyota_corolla_angularfront.jpg

Weirdly i dont see much of those on the road anymore.

[bcrdukes]

at least you guys have high beams.

One of my headlight bulbs failed last night. I expect the other to also fail soon. Time to buy a Toyota Crown :troll:

[underscore]

While we're on a roll: it grinds my gears when it's dark out, I'm at an intersection, and I'm face to face with someone who's obliviously left their high beams on. I flash my high beams, no response. I turn on and leave on my high beams, no response. Then I sit there epilepsically jamming on my brights, and still no response: they notice nothing.

Why would anyone even want to be first at an intersection and risk coming face to face with bozos like this?

That's the one time I'll flip on my roof lights too. If they're going to ignore my high beam blipping then fuck you, here's a collapsed sun too.

[Gerbs]

^ Honk. Some one said Vancouver honks a lot, yeah cause it's full of retards. The idiots need to know when they are doing something stupid.

Just got back from Hawaii, heard maybe 1-2 honks and it was a courtesy honk. Didn't realize how much people honk in NA.

[68style]

You don't honk in the USA because everyone's got a fuckin gun man lol... unless it's New York City downtown, then it's just weird if you don't honk

[unit]

go to india, honking is just the background sound effect in life there.

[punkwax]

9/10 times for some reason with high beams, it's a Civic... they must be super easy to activate or something. It's crazy how many times it's a Civic.

People flash their high beams at me in the accord all of the time when mine aren’t on so perhaps it is a Honda thing that they just appear to be on? Always a bit of fun to high beam them back and make them feel silly.

[underscore]

then you probably need to align your headlights

[Razor Ramon HG]

I think it's his blinker fluid

[Hakkaboy]

LOL people honk too much here?

Say you haven't been to China without saying you haven't been to China

[AstulzerRZD]

You don't honk in the USA because everyone's got a fuckin gun man lol... unless it's New York City downtown, then it's just weird if you don't honk

Yeee - driving something REALLY fast is key in the States. Both getting away from danger and being about to get 'around' traffic without using your horn.

[SkinnyPupp]

^ Honk. Some one said Vancouver honks a lot, yeah cause it's full of retards. The idiots need to know when they are doing something stupid.
I stopped honking after one time, I was behind a guy turning left on green (non arrow) and he wouldn't go, despite a completely empty oncoming lane. So I gave a quick tap honk, in case he wasn't paying attention.

Dude opens the passenger window, slides over to that seat, and starts yelling at me, shaking his fist out the window. As he's doing this, his car is rolling into the oncoming lane, and now there's traffic coming. Oh BTW he has 2 kids in the back seat. He quickly jumped back into the driver seat and sped off, barely avoiding getting hit.

In America you don't honk because you might get shot. In Vancouver you don't do it because the person will lose their mind and maybe get themselves or their children killed.

[MarkyMark]

Most of the time honking at someone just puts them in super butthurt mode because how dare you try and shame me for doing something wrong! It's not worth some random psycho trying to kill you over it.

I just save my horn for special occasions now where someone almost causes an accident or a little courtesy tap when someone isn't paying attention at a green light.

[Hondaracer]

Everyone I honk at doesn’t even seem to know what a horn is.

[Badhobz]

I just save my horn for special occasions...

stop honking at skanks MARK! :suspicious:

[whitev70r]

Does it rub anyone else the wrong way when you go to a restaurant as a group, some as small as 6, most others, 8 ... they automatically put a 20% tips or surcharge? We're talking not particularly fancy, like an avg sushi/Japanese place.

What is the thinking behind this ... that you will usually stay a bit longer to chat and therefore, waiter/waitress will have less opportunity to make more tips on tables that turn over more quickly? Or, is it because once 6 or 8 people start drinking, they have a higher potential to act like losers and a-holes? Honestly, my crowd of 6 or 8 doesn't act any differently than 2 tables of 3 or 2 tables of 4.

[Badhobz]

I think it’s for all the running around they gotta do for 6-8 people drink orders. In Asia don’t they usually designate a waiter for a group that big ?

Same concept I guess

[EvoFire]

I'm honestly a little torn about the whole tipping thing. On one hand I have parents who both worked in the service industry so tipping well is the norm, on top of that a lot of ppl in the service industry is having a hard time with inflation and restaurants not doing well.

On the other hand, I'm just as broke as fuck as everyone else and sometimes going out is already a splurge and a treat. A 20% defacto tip is just brutal. 20% tip used to be for a job well done and this feels like the ol' 'everyone's a winner' attitude but I'm losing.

[Mikoyan]

I stopped honking after one time, I was behind a guy turning left on green (non arrow) and he wouldn't go, despite a completely empty oncoming lane. So I gave a quick tap honk, in case he wasn't paying attention.

Dude opens the passenger window, slides over to that seat, and starts yelling at me, shaking his fist out the window. As he's doing this, his car is rolling into the oncoming lane, and now there's traffic coming. Oh BTW he has 2 kids in the back seat. He quickly jumped back into the driver seat and sped off, barely avoiding getting hit.

In America you don't honk because you might get shot. In Vancouver you don't do it because the person will lose their mind and maybe get themselves or their children killed.

My favourite honking gone wrong incident still has to be the time I watched the car in front of me honk an unmarked Crown Vic outside the Brighton Costco for not immediately moving the instant the light turned green.

It was winter and all three cars were waiting on the hill to uphill to Lougheed. The light changes and the Vic doesn't move for 0.5 seconds. It's winter and the road was icy and slick so the smart thing to do would be to not jump on the gas. The 2nd car just lays on the horn because the Vic didn't get on the gas the second the light changed.

This was a old school Crown Vic, with steel rims and the strobes visible in the rear windows. You knew it was a cop car a mile away.

Watching the driver get his ass chewed out by a cop, with 2 other cops covering and staring them down with their hands on the butt of their pistols was priceless.

[westopher]

Does it rub anyone else the wrong way when you go to a restaurant as a group, some as small as 6, most others, 8 ... they automatically put a 20% tips or surcharge? We're talking not particularly fancy, like an avg sushi/Japanese place.

What is the thinking behind this ... that you will usually stay a bit longer to chat and therefore, waiter/waitress will have less opportunity to make more tips on tables that turn over more quickly? Or, is it because once 6 or 8 people start drinking, they have a higher potential to act like losers and a-holes? Honestly, my crowd of 6 or 8 doesn't act any differently than 2 tables of 3 or 2 tables of 4.
The mentality on this is you would not fucking believe how many people in large groups decide "everyone else tipped so I'm not going to, and back when splitting bills wasn't overly common because people still paid cash, someone would just decide not to pay because everyone else's tip covered their meal.
That said I still wish we'd just be able to pay more money to staff, charge more money on the menu, and get rid of tipping BUT because the average person isn't able to do math, that sticker shock of seeing the price on the menu instead of the non tip inclusive price, people decide you are too expensive before considering what they are actually spending at the other place. It all makes sense but it's hard to implement.
FYI though, if you have a legitimate concern about service, no good restaurant will say you have to pay that autograt. That said, we can tell if it's legitimate or not.

[whitev70r]

The mentality on this is you would not fucking believe how many people in large groups decide "everyone else tipped so I'm not going to, and back when splitting bills wasn't overly common because people still paid cash, someone would just decide not to pay because everyone else's tip covered their meal.


This makes hella total sense, I've been out for group meals with some of these mathematically challenged folks. They are embarassing and I end up putting more in after they do their imbecile math.

Back 20 yrs ago, 10, 12, 15 % was the range for tipping. 10% is typical and 15% was good. 20% is exceptional. Since tipping culture is a percentage of the final bill (and meal prices have already experienced inflation) I feel like the increase to 15, 20, 30% of the final bill (I've seen suggested on machines) is like excessive. 15% is now the floor. And I'm expected to tip on the total bill which conveniently includes GST! I wonder if in ON, people tip based on the meal+HST (13%) total? Tips and taxes can end up being like 30-40% of the bill! No wonder reports are out that restaurants are not doing well, it's gotten so expensive all around.

[punkwax]

Back in the 1900’s I had a buddy who would always order a $15 plate with a $5 beer and throw in a $20 like taxes and tips didn’t exist. Until I finally called him out. He was not thrilled about that.

[westopher]

Yeah I think the new baselines are getting ridiculous, BUT people still have the choice to hit custom amount, and they tend to act like they don't, but I do see the idea of being offended when your first option is a 20% expectation.
18-20 is my usual, but the whole tips at the liquor store kind of thing are crazy to me. Like, you just stood at the till and didn't even say hi to me, why would I give you 15-25% of the product I picked, carried, walked with, then carried to my car? You didn't even touch it or acknowledge I'm a person?
To change tipping culture there will have to be some sort of rules involved or it's not gonna happen, because like I said, math is too hard for 90% of people out there and the place that offers "cheaper" prices will benefit. It's all mind games at this point.
I totally believe there should be servers making 6 figures, and they should be the best ones at the best restaurants, and earn that job through skills and experience that show value to an employer just like everywhere else, but we are kinda stuck, and I'm not willing to be the canary in the coal mine to make it work when my mortgage payment hinges on the outcome.

[68style]

My favourite tip machine is the one at Bourbon Chicken in Richmond Centre food court... those old asian ladies know what's up... they make it so you have to fight through their menu system to find the custom amount to make it no tip, but the press enter and speed through to pay option is 5% so it's like under $1 and literally everyone just pushes enter to accept it and get through because the amount is so small. They're probably raking it in on a days transactions lol

[quasi]

I stopped honking after one time, I was behind a guy turning left on green (non arrow) and he wouldn't go, despite a completely empty oncoming lane. So I gave a quick tap honk, in case he wasn't paying attention.

Dude opens the passenger window, slides over to that seat, and starts yelling at me, shaking his fist out the window. As he's doing this, his car is rolling into the oncoming lane, and now there's traffic coming. Oh BTW he has 2 kids in the back seat. He quickly jumped back into the driver seat and sped off, barely avoiding getting hit.

In America you don't honk because you might get shot. In Vancouver you don't do it because the person will lose their mind and maybe get themselves or their children killed.

I really don't honk very often, maybe once every 4 or 5 years. I had a situation a month ago, I'm in a parking lot driving behind a very slow moving car like idling speed so I'm like this is weird but OK. Eventually he stops in front of me, I can't get by I'm like wtf is happening? Then I see someone walking up to the vehicle, I realize it's Uber. Ok I wait for dude to get in he does. Now the guy is just sitting there for another 30 seconds, I can't get by and now I'm pissed.

I'll admit I didn't give it a little honk I held that horn down for a good 5 seconds. Then I get the middle finger from the driver and the newly acquired passenger. What I don't understand is how can anyone be that obtuse? I'm so aware if I'm stopping in a lane, if someone is behind me I'm going to pull into a parking spot or if I'm trying to figure out what I'm going I'm going to make sure I'm not in someones way but there are so many people who DGAF.

[Badhobz]

Bourbon chicken ?!?!? Stylez there’s no bourbon anywhere near that fucking place. If you’re gonna eat garbage Chinese food plz at least go eat garbage Chinese food at Richmond public market (upstairs at wonder wok). The food is actually decent, you don’t taste the contempt as much

[68style]

I like their blackened chicken tho

[Badhobz]

Fine! But next time you see that old lady there, tell her she brings shame to her family with that lousy fried rice they serve.

[68style]

She loves me because I always ask for the steamed rice whenever I go there and she smiles and says "Good boy so healthy boy"

[EvoFire]

I really don't honk very often, maybe once every 4 or 5 years. I had a situation a month ago, I'm in a parking lot driving behind a very slow moving car like idling speed so I'm like this is weird but OK. Eventually he stops in front of me, I can't get by I'm like wtf is happening? Then I see someone walking up to the vehicle, I realize it's Uber. Ok I wait for dude to get in he does. Now the guy is just sitting there for another 30 seconds, I can't get by and now I'm pissed.

I'll admit I didn't give it a little honk I held that horn down for a good 5 seconds. Then I get the middle finger from the driver and the newly acquired passenger. What I don't understand is how can anyone be that obtuse? I'm so aware if I'm stopping in a lane, if someone is behind me I'm going to pull into a parking spot or if I'm trying to figure out what I'm going I'm going to make sure I'm not in someones way but there are so many people who DGAF.

Like I've complained, Uber drivers are the worst. Zero ettiquette, can't make up their minds, can't drive, don't know where they are going, stops and u turns without a care in the world. Worse than taxi drivers

[68style]

Professhional duhriver

[underscore]

Like, you just stood at the till and didn't even say hi to me, why would I give you 15-25% of the product I picked, carried, walked with, then carried to my car? You didn't even touch it or acknowledge I'm a person?

I always wonder if they even get those tips or if the company just keeps it. In the US a lady once told me not to bother because she doesn't get it. I'm more likely to tip at a one-off place but the big chains really need to just pay their employees. And when I see a place that doesn't even have a tip prompt I'm more likely to keep going there just because it's less b/s, even if the food isn't anything special.

[mikemhg]

Man, I like Bourbon Street, that bourbon chicken, and the sesame chicken? Shiny sweet deliciousness.

Never understood why the hell it was even named Bourbon Street in the first place though, there's nothing Cajun about the place outside of that joke of a jambalaya rice dish they have. I suppose it's to attract the whites, but they might as well just rename themselves to "Ming's Wok" or something.

[68style]

haha yah I mean I'm white as rice and it ain't fooling me either... but I just chuckle and roll my eyes... they can call it whatever they want just gimme sum when I'm in the moooood

[BIC_BAWS]

Yeee - driving something REALLY fast is key in the States. Both getting away from danger and being about to get 'around' traffic without using your horn.

This is also how you get around Richmond drivers. It's not that bad... just avoid them LOL

[roastpuff]

Yeee - driving something REALLY fast is key in the States. Both getting away from danger and being about to get 'around' traffic without using your horn.

My bro got a CR-V Hybrid as he moved to Seattle from NYC and now needs a car. That 204hp combined system power is barely adequate for merging on the USA interstate for 2 guys in it... can't imagine when it's fully loaded. USA interstates are no joke lol.

[Razor Ramon HG]

When I'm driving on the i5 down to Bellingham, I swear a lot of cars are zooming past me at like 150KM/h.

[BIC_BAWS]

My bro got a CR-V Hybrid as he moved to Seattle from NYC and now needs a car. That 204hp combined system power is barely adequate for merging on the USA interstate for 2 guys in it... can't imagine when it's fully loaded. USA interstates are no joke lol.I went to Portland one year in the car pictured in my avatar, packing a whole 140hp. I had already bought my 330ci but the civic felt like the safer choice. Man I should have taken the 330ci. That said, I remember even on the way to ridge, that thing barely had enough horsepower (225hp) to get around US Interstates. I was constantly getting blocked by prius's. Anyway, I digress.

In the 140hp civic, I got merged into by a old Landcruiser. I honked and flipped him off (through the sunroof). I was 18 and very dumb. Anyway, the guy begins to chase me and this 140hp econobox couldn't outrun a old Landcruiser. My friend's in their s2ks and ITRs had to zoom up as "backup" to get the guy to piss off.

Now all of my friends have FK8s, 35i/M3s or FD2s. We don't worry about that kind of stuff anymore. I think the minimum HP required is around 240whp - a FD2 with FBO. I had a blast driving that back from Ridge and there was definitely no concern for a lack of power to merge or overtake. Hell I even almost caught a speeding ticket in the FK8, but the cop pulled over my other buddy in his FK8 lol.

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[Euro7r]

States driving, gotta drive it like you stole it.

[EvoFire]

I went to Portland one year in the car pictured in my avatar, packing a whole 140hp. I had already bought my 330ci but the civic felt like the safer choice. Man I should have taken the 330ci. That said, I remember even on the way to ridge, that thing barely had enough horsepower (225hp) to get around US Interstates. I was constantly getting blocked by prius's. Anyway, I digress.

In the 140hp civic, I got merged into by a old Landcruiser. I honked and flipped him off (through the sunroof). I was 18 and very dumb. Anyway, the guy begins to chase me and this 140hp econobox couldn't outrun a old Landcruiser. My friend's in their s2ks and ITRs had to zoom up as "backup" to get the guy to piss off.

Now all of my friends have FK8s, 35i/M3s or FD2s. We don't worry about that kind of stuff anymore. I think the minimum HP required is around 240whp - a FD2 with FBO. I had a blast driving that back from Ridge and there was definitely no concern for a lack of power to merge or overtake. Hell I even almost caught a speeding ticket in the FK8, but the cop pulled over my other buddy in his FK8 lol.

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I drove a Highlander V6 1st gen regularly to the states back a decade ago and never had a problem. That thing had like 210hp :pokerface:

[68style]

TORQUE!

[Badhobz]

i found the reverse. Most people just hang out in the slow lane (better lane discipline than canada for sure) going 65-70mph.

I just set my cruise to 70mph and zone out. I hate the i5. its sooooo boring and everything about it sucks till you reach oregon. Even then it still sucks till you reach ashland where it gets twisty into Norcal.

[AstulzerRZD]

I think the minimum HP required is around 240whp

New Prius felt quick enough up to 145kmh or so ... the 110-140 passing power seems pretty good. I think it has 190hp or so?
It wouldn't make cars disappear in the rearview like the Mustang/Charger do but I felt confident.

The road design and drivers are just chaotic - need something fast AND responsive
W211 E63 in my bio has a really sleepy transmission that makes me unconfident in NYC.

[inv4zn]

When I'm driving on the i5 down to Bellingham, I swear a lot of cars are zooming past me at like 150KM/h.

Everyone zooming are almost always BC plates.

I also notice in the US there are a lot more 'shitty cars'; I get wage disparity and that Vancouver is a bit of an outlier, but the number of 20+ year old Altimas with broken taillights is quite high on the I5.

[CivicBlues]

It's because in the US, especially in suburbia and rural areas you NEED to have a car. Whereas poor people in Vancouver get by on transit, if you want to live you need to drive in most of the states.

[roastpuff]

Everyone zooming are almost always BC plates.

I also notice in the US there are a lot more 'shitty cars'; I get wage disparity and that Vancouver is a bit of an outlier, but the number of 20+ year old Altimas with broken taillights is quite high on the I5.

Nah, it's mostly WA + OR plates recently. Not a lot of BC plates, too expensive to go down now. :pokerface:

There's a lot more shitty cars in the USA because 1. Nissan finances anyone with a pulse, and these guys don't take care of their cars 2. You NEED a car, no matter how shitty.

[mikemhg]

Everyone zooming are almost always BC plates.

I also notice in the US there are a lot more 'shitty cars'; I get wage disparity and that Vancouver is a bit of an outlier, but the number of 20+ year old Altimas with broken taillights is quite high on the I5.

The 3 things I notice most when driving the I-5 in Washington or Oregon.

1. Subarus - Like WTF? The minute you cross the border to Washington these things are fucking everywhere, from Crosstreks to Foresters and all the in-between. It's bizarre.
2. Hoopty Cars - It's rare to actually see a beater in Vancouver, you see a ton once you cross over. From shitty beaten old 90's/2000s cars, to vehicles with lots of bodywork issues requiring repairs, you'll see them down there.
3. The lack of Teslas - Sure, you see em', but not to the absurd level you see them in Vancouver.

Goes back to what I was saying, you notice how Vancouver is such a weird fishbowl of wealth once you leave the damn place.

[westopher]

The amount of like $400 cars that are all riced out with tintz and no functioning lights on the I5 is fuckin wild.

[Hondaracer]

The 3 things I notice most when driving the I-5 in Washington or Oregon.

1. Subarus - Like WTF? The minute you cross the border to Washington these things are fucking everywhere, from Crosstreks to Foresters and all the in-between. It's bizarre.
2. Hoopty Cars - It's rare to actually see a beater in Vancouver, you see a ton once you cross over. From shitty beaten old 90's/2000s cars, to vehicles with lots of bodywork issues requiring repairs, you'll see them down there.
3. The lack of Teslas - Sure, you see em', but not to the absurd level you see them in Vancouver.

Goes back to what I was saying, you notice how Vancouver is such a weird fishbowl of wealth once you leave the damn place.

There are cars on the i5 in a condition I haven’t seen a vehicle on the road in BC in 20 years lol like they don’t exist/the campers people are living in beside Home Depot etc. here are in better shape than cars driving there

[CivicBlues]

'Murica: the land of freedom to drive around in an unmaintained shitbox without insurance.

FUck YEAH!

[EvoFire]

The amount of like $400 cars that are all riced out with tintz and no functioning lights on the I5 is fuckin wild.

We were in Portland with my M3 back in 2019. If we lived there I would not have bought a M3 the roads were brutal and the F80's suspension isn't even that stiff.

That said, we saw a SLAMMED, and I mean almost dragging frame low, Ford Fusion while I was there. They mod everything and anything down there. If it's got 4 wheels and it moves it'll get slammed.

[GS8]

I sold a car to a guy in Toronto

I'm guessing I fill out the ICBC Transfer / Tax form and then mail that with the signed and torn off registration paper to the seller?

I keep the bottom half?

Then cancel my plates?

[supafamous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00y-I2iXdM8

Anyone know where I'll be able to see The Goldfinger when it comes out Dec 30th? It's got Tony Leung and Andy Lau in it. Cineplex doesn't have it listed yet.

[Badhobz]

Why isn’t this in Cantonese. Lame

[snowball]

I'm pretty sure it's a mandarin dub in that trailer, makes no sense to have a movie take place in 80s Hong Kong and not be cantonese.

[Razor Ramon HG]

It'll be in Cantonese for sure. I'm in Taiwan right now and will be watching it here in Cantonese.

[snowball]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJuE8_C1zU

cantonese trailer

[Badhobz]

Ah that’s more like it. Wouldn’t make any sense if this shit is in mandarin but from that original trailer it looks like they were speaking mandarin

[RabidRat]

The road design and drivers are just chaotic - need something fast AND responsive
W211 E63 in my bio has a really sleepy transmission that makes me unconfident in NYC.

I thought I'd witnessed the best drivers in the world on the German Autobahn, but for me, it has actually turned out to be the brazen fucks behind the wheel of random old momentum-cars on the highways of LA.

Every time I'm down there I am in incredulous awe as I'm just driving along minding my own business and these nondescript nothing-special beat up sedans hurl themselves across 6 lanes of traffic in swift, decisive motions. It seems analogous to watching clearly advanced skiers cut around the learners on the bunny hill: it's totally wrong, but they're going fast enough and with enough skill to just slalom through, and nobody gets hurt lol.

I find myself actually driving as if I were on a bike, drawing on motorcycle training classes from back at PRS: planning my moves several steps in advance, visualizing everyone's blindspots, thinking about my escape routes, watching other cars for their tells, picking my lane positioning and trying to be ultra-predictable. Changing lanes by doing quick blasts into fleeting gaps, rather than attempting to signal and waiting for kindness to come (LOL). It's a whole other level down there!

I just save my horn for special occasions now where someone almost causes an accident or a little courtesy tap when someone isn't paying attention at a green light.

They should really start doing a dedicated courtesy tap button, or at least standardize how horn buttons work.

Seems like every model of car has a different implementation of the horn button. Sometimes a progressive series of whacks of the steering wheel gets the desired effect. But sometimes, it'll be either nothing at all, or a very long loud blast of "ohhh fuck now I'm gonna get shot, help me jebus."

[dark0821]

The 3 things I notice most when driving the I-5 in Washington or Oregon.

1. Subarus - Like WTF? The minute you cross the border to Washington these things are fucking everywhere, from Crosstreks to Foresters and all the in-between. It's bizarre.
2. Hoopty Cars - It's rare to actually see a beater in Vancouver, you see a ton once you cross over. From shitty beaten old 90's/2000s cars, to vehicles with lots of bodywork issues requiring repairs, you'll see them down there.
3. The lack of Teslas - Sure, you see em', but not to the absurd level you see them in Vancouver.

Goes back to what I was saying, you notice how Vancouver is such a weird fishbowl of wealth once you leave the damn place.


1. Lol Subarus, actually cant say for anything, maybe they are cheaper comparatively?

2. Yea, transit is even more of a joke in the states if you are not in the larger cities, so if you have to... you just have a running car... that's it

3. Tesla is considered entry luxury in Vancouver, due to cheaper gasoline + more expensive electricity + cheaper gasoline cars in general. The same math in Vancouver where it is cheaper to run a base model 3 VS mid level Camry/Accord doesnt work in the USA. You are buying a Tesla cuz you are buying a Tesla, not because you are figuring its cheaper to run compared to a Honda Accord

[supafamous]

Anyone own a vertical pellet smoker? Thinking of getting one to make my smoking life easier and more frequent. Any recs?

[roastpuff]

What are you using now? I have a pellet grill and it's been pretty easy to use, especially with wifi probes and app control of the grill.

[supafamous]

What are you using now? I have a pellet grill and it's been pretty easy to use, especially with wifi probes and app control of the grill.

I'm using a Weber Kettle right now and I smoke ribs and turkeys on it - it's a fair bit of work to keep it around the right temp. My turkey this Xmas was a big hit and I love smoking stuff so I wanna get something that's easier to manage and which lets me do bigger cooks.

The Camp Chef XXL looks really promising: https://www.campchef.com/cc-vertical-pellet-grills-xxl-pro/xxl-pro-vertical-smoker/CC-PGSBXXL.html?utm_source=Ran&utm_medium=affiliates&utm_campaign=Smoked+BBQ+Source&utm_content=1&ranMID=44242&ranEAID=1ONGcqPK*aA&ranSiteID=1ONGcqPK.aA-Cv17P1uI6axrvCwoQNLXvA

It's $1199 at Bass Pro (more than I prefer to spend) and takes up less space than a grill (I already got 3 other BBQs).

[roastpuff]

I'd wait for the Costco Traeger roadshow in the spring. Wait NVM you said vertical. I'm not sure about verticals but look for ones that have probe inputs and wifi/app control for max easy lol

[N.V.M.]

I need a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro. I need it on a USB . why the hell is it so expensive. does anybody know where I can get a cheap version?

[bcrdukes]

Are you able to download and then transfer it onto USB? You can use the official Media Creation Tool to download the files onto USB. Would that work? If so, you can get it for $39.99 (I think USD?) from StackSocial.

[EvoFire]

I need a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro. I need it on a USB . why the hell is it so expensive. does anybody know where I can get a cheap version?

Are you able to download and then transfer it onto USB? You can use the official Media Creation Tool to download the files onto USB. Would that work? If so, you can get it for $39.99 (I think USD?) from StackSocial.

What dukes said, you can download the files and create it yourself. I've been doing that with Win10

[supafamous]

I'd wait for the Costco Traeger roadshow in the spring. Wait NVM you said vertical. I'm not sure about verticals but look for ones that have probe inputs and wifi/app control for max easy lol

Thanks for the tip on the Costco/Traeger roadshow. I'd prefer a vertical smoker since they take up less space, I don't need the grilling function, and they have better performance but for the right price I'll sign up for a horizontal one.

[N.V.M.]

Are you able to download and then transfer it onto USB? You can use the official Media Creation Tool to download the files onto USB. Would that work? If so, you can get it for $39.99 (I think USD?) from StackSocial.

if it creates a bootable iso file, it should work? I'm not upgrading from 10 to 11, I need to boot into a clean system. I'll check it out,thanks.

edit: just checked it out. you have to be running Windows 10 to upgrade to 11. this won't work for me.

[Badhobz]

yeah so just do a clean install of windows 10, then upgrade it for free to windows 11. Windows 10 you can grab very cheaply off ebay or that stacksocial stuff

[bcrdukes]

if it creates a bootable iso file, it should work? I'm not upgrading from 10 to 11, I need to boot into a clean system. I'll check it out,thanks.

edit: just checked it out. you have to be running Windows 10 to upgrade to 11. this won't work for me.

The Windows 11 Pro download is not an upgrade, it is a standalone download which you can create into a bootable ISO file on USB.

[Traum]

Are you able to download and then transfer it onto USB? You can use the official Media Creation Tool to download the files onto USB. Would that work? If so, you can get it for $39.99 (I think USD?) from StackSocial.
I bought a copy of Win11 for Cdn $39.99 from the PC World Shop when I built a new PC last year:

https://shop.pcworld.com/

It's a legitimate store.

[bcrdukes]

It's the same store as StackExchange. :)

[underscore]

yeah so just do a clean install of windows 10, then upgrade it for free to windows 11. Windows 10 you can grab very cheaply off ebay or that stacksocial stuff

And I believe you can still install W10 for free with an old W7 key, if you have one kicking around.

[mikemhg]

Thought you guys would get a laugh outta this one, my dad sent me this pic over the holidays.

We've been doing this car obsession for a long time now :lol

He totaled this 240SX racing the damn thing on the highway heading to Tofino.

RIP to that beauty.

https://scontent.fcxh2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/415327202_18423809647025811_7440701753510635212_n. jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=3635dc&_nc_ohc=8Cu17cVxYpQAX-zfAXg&_nc_ht=scontent.fcxh2-1.fna&oh=00_AfBEGaCOiRu6rVvASxSVdNabYObpC-X_9P7pGhG-XUQdgg&oe=659361A4

[Badhobz]

Dawwww that smile warms my heart. You can totally tell you’re in love with the car

I wish my parents had money growing up. I was in love with a Nissan Sentra XE, Hoping it was an SE and dreaming it would turn into a 240sx

[punkwax]

My bro had one of those. I used to love it when he let me rip it around town. I felt so cool in it compared to my little accord hatchback lol

[supafamous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJuE8_C1zU

cantonese trailer

So this is now on at 3 theatres: Tinseltown, Riverport, and Marine Gateway - multiple showings a day.

[whitev70r]

What are your NYE's plans? What is available in 'Fun Vancouver'? A train ride in Stanley Park? Free ride on transit ? .... :lol

Any family friendly events?

[MG1]

We should revive Operation Revnose.

Now that I have a dashcam, I can so prove to you guys that cute blonde chicks in tight shiny blue skirts prancing across streets exist. Man, I still see it in my mind like it happened yesterday. Smiled and waved at me, she did.

El Bastardo can be dispatcher, again.

Then breakfast at IKEA after it’s all done.

[Badhobz]

What are your NYE's plans? What is available in 'Fun Vancouver'? A train ride in Stanley Park? Free ride on transit ? .... :lol

Any family friendly events?

https://i.postimg.cc/NGn5Pyzk/5c71c8c6-e23c-446b-ac39-4fa370f9a64a.jpg

I bought a mahjong set from yohan today.
I’ve officially became an old Chinese man. The mahjong makes it official.

[TOS'd]

no automatic table? :inoutugh:

[N.V.M.]

new motherboards are so sexy. waiting for my beast of a video card.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53432280154_a06d005094_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2ppCpky)20231230_155929 (https://flic.kr/p/2ppCpky) by N.V.M. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/61891343@N05/), on Flickr

[Badhobz]

yo check the case. it looks a bit tight.

Is that a mini ATX? if you have a big beefy GPU like a 4080 it'll have air flow problems in a tight case.

The top looks like a radiator for watercooling. Thats nice! (looks like cosairs?)

[N.V.M.]

yo check the case. it looks a bit tight.

Is that a mini ATX? if you have a big beefy GPU like a 4080 it'll have air flow problems in a tight case.

The top looks like a radiator for watercooling. Thats nice! (looks like cosairs?)


the case is fairly roomy? it's a Hyte Y60.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53432507680_93b24a7a6a_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2ppDyYq)20231226_151117 (https://flic.kr/p/2ppDyYq) by N.V.M. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/61891343@N05/), on Flickr

[underscore]

That looks dope, at first glance it kinda looks like a terrarium.

[Badhobz]

the case is fairly roomy? it's a Hyte Y60.


ohhh nice, it looks legit. FeelsGoodMan

[EvoFire]

That's a cool case, but damn it means you'll need to vacuum it once a month.

[N.V.M.]

Are you able to download and then transfer it onto USB? You can use the official Media Creation Tool to download the files onto USB. Would that work? If so, you can get it for $39.99 (I think USD?) from StackSocial.

thank you. i went with this. creating an ISO onto a thumb drive is too easy too, MS is getting soft in its old age.

[Badhobz]

You guys remember the old windows 95 and windows 98 days ? When you had to install audio drivers separately and all your own chipset drivers. God those were the days.

Blue screen of death. MSDOS. Chkdsk and all the fun shit associated with bootdisks etc

Lousy kids nowadays are bitching about an IOS update

[Hondaracer]

You guys remember the old windows 95 and windows 98 days ? When you had to install audio drivers separately and all your own chipset drivers. God those were the days.

Blue screen of death. MSDOS. Chkdsk and all the fun shit associated with bootdisks etc

Lousy kids nowadays are bitching about an IOS update

Yea kids nowadays are kinda spoiled when they complain about buggy released games lol.. I remember so many times I’d buy games and have to spend hours on some just to get them to run period lol

[N.V.M.]

You guys remember the old windows 95 and windows 98 days ? When you had to install audio drivers separately and all your own chipset drivers. God those were the days.

Blue screen of death. MSDOS. Chkdsk and all the fun shit associated with bootdisks etc

Lousy kids nowadays are bitching about an IOS update


if you didn't have your ethernet adapter drivers on a floppy before you wiped out your hard drive, you were screwed.

[Badhobz]

Yea kids nowadays are kinda spoiled when they complain about buggy released games lol.. I remember so many times I’d buy games and have to spend hours on some just to get them to run period lol

Yes !!!! Soundblaster 2.0. Sound blaster 16. Some other fucking audio drivers that I don’t even remember anymore. Just to get simcity on dos to run.

I remember you needdd VESA drivers. I was like wtf is that garbage. ?!?!

Even building computers were more challenging back then. None of this color coded shit. You screwed crap in and then you look for your jumpers on a jumper map. j2 j12 etc etc.

Good luck trying to fucking find the jumpers for your god damn case lights / fans. It was like trying to find Waldo

[sonick]

You guys remember the old windows 95 and windows 98 days ? When you had to install audio drivers separately and all your own chipset drivers. God those were the days.

Blue screen of death. MSDOS. Chkdsk and all the fun shit associated with bootdisks etc

Lousy kids nowadays are bitching about an IOS update

Yea kids nowadays are kinda spoiled when they complain about buggy released games lol.. I remember so many times I’d buy games and have to spend hours on some just to get them to run period lol

Haha 100% yes.

Tbh I attribute a lot of my resourcefulness and problem solving ability at work, with all the time I spent as a kid trying to figure out driver compatibility, researching random forums online for some weird issue, tweaking INF files and regedit to get shit to work.

No wonder so many young ppl we hire can't figure shit out on their own or just give up and complain to management that they didn't have the proper training or guidance.

[underscore]

That reminds me of the time a friend of mine was reinstalling his OS off of the good old stack of floppy disks, he got to something like disk 44 only to find it was missing and he was stuck.

[Badhobz]

Hahahaha yes ! Yes !!!! Windows 3.1 used to come in floppy disks. So did os2 warp

That’s why those software boxes were so heavy. All those damn disks

[spoon.ek9]

One time I was talking to a coworker (female) about assembling your own PC. She said she's done it before and it wasn't hard. I was like, what? really? From start to finish you've built your own PC? She said yes.

What she actually meant was, she plugged in the power cords for the PC/monitor and plugged in the monitor to the PC :facepalm:

side note: it bothers me so much when people refer to their computer as CPU. That's the central processing unit, not the whole damn computer...

[EvoFire]

Windows works out of the box for most things now, the generic drivers are pretty damn good.

If you guys want a challenge, try building an old box to play old games that won't run on the new stuff. It's oddly challenging finding bits that still work, and then trying to make those bits work together, then finding the drivers

[Badhobz]

Why bother. Dos box it

Old shit is annoying for a reason. That’s why dos box just works

[mikemhg]

You guys remember the old windows 95 and windows 98 days ? When you had to install audio drivers separately and all your own chipset drivers. God those were the days.

Blue screen of death. MSDOS. Chkdsk and all the fun shit associated with bootdisks etc

Lousy kids nowadays are bitching about an IOS update

Ah the days of having to go through the Control Panel and Device Manager to install that one finicky driver for the random card board component that wouldn't read based on the driver's executable install.

Kids won't know about spending a whole afternoon fucking with random drivers just so your damn system can finally recognize the stupid component sitting with a "!" in your Device Manager.

Or formatting and then having that very specific ethernet card driver that you had to obtain off the manufacturing website because the older driver on your disk no longer worked. Then you're going to someone else's house with a floppy to use their internet to get the damn driver.

Or you downloaded the x32 drivers when you needed the x64 version, so start again dumb fuck.

Those were the days.

[EvoFire]

The days of having to point Windows to the driver file because it won't automatically pick it up.

Then the stupidity of having to show all files because Windows defaults to only showing you a different format.

Being a highschool kid and having to trial and error. And because you got it working now you have to go figure it out for all your friends.

Also if the driver fits on your floppy. If it does fit then you are fucked.

[whitev70r]

^ what about 14.4 dial up modem? And the redial because it was busy or lines full?

Heaven was when you could afford a 28.8 ... or 36K modem ... woo ahh.

[Badhobz]

so im trying to eat less meat for 2024. Today i went full on vegetarian and got some indian food. Shashee paneer, garlic naan, vegetarian pakoras, etc. Indian food is the only food thats edible for vegetarians because they fry/sauce everything so delicious that you cant even tell the difference.

Is there any other vegetarian place that's good? If i steam some bak choy and eat it, i think ill die. Chinese vegetarian is terrible. Maybe ill make a mah po tofu tomorrow w/ a lot of garlic and chilis and some vegan/imitation meat.

Ill still eat fish, because fuck fish. They have no feelings and they arent cute.

[SkinnyPupp]

so im trying to eat less meat for 2024. Today i went full on vegetarian and got some indian food. Shashee paneer, garlic naan, vegetarian pakoras, etc. Indian food is the only food thats edible for vegetarians because they fry/sauce everything so delicious that you cant even tell the difference.

Is there any other vegetarian place that's good? If i steam some bak choy and eat it, i think ill die. Chinese vegetarian is terrible. Maybe ill make a mah po tofu tomorrow w/ a lot of garlic and chilis and some vegan/imitation meat.

Ill still eat fish, because fuck fish. They have no feelings and they arent cute.
Why not just keep eating meat?

[whitev70r]

For Vegetarian, Heirloom on Granville and 12th is the bomb or to me, the benchmark. Mid to higher level price.

There are a few casual level ones on Main: Meet on Main, Chickpea, or Arbor/Acorn (same owner apparently but one is more casual, one a bit more high end)

Do Chay Vietnamese on Kingsway or Chau Express (Granville Island and Victoria Street).

Try some of these and give us your review. I've been to all of the above and they are all worth a visit. I was pleasantly surprised how tasty vegetarian meals can be !!

[CivicBlues]

so im trying to eat less meat for 2024. Today i went full on vegetarian and got some indian food. Shashee paneer, garlic naan, vegetarian pakoras, etc. Indian food is the only food thats edible for vegetarians because they fry/sauce everything so delicious that you cant even tell the difference.

Is there any other vegetarian place that's good? If i steam some bak choy and eat it, i think ill die. Chinese vegetarian is terrible. Maybe ill make a mah po tofu tomorrow w/ a lot of garlic and chilis and some vegan/imitation meat.

Ill still eat fish, because fuck fish. They have no feelings and they arent cute.

Try Lebanese and Ethiopian. Plenty of restaurants in Van.

I agree, lily-white people and Chinese can't do vegetarian food unless you're paying out the wazoo for some high-end chef to come up with something. And even then, mixed results. Nothing beats centuries of cultural practice due to religious prohibition and/or crushing poverty.

[supafamous]

+1 to Chau Express on Victoria and to Do Chay (bit pricey for what it is though).

Are you trying to eat less meat for health reasons? I just got my annual blood test results back and have my call with the doc tomorrow - my cholesterol is a bit high but not so high that if I would just exercise regularly that it'd be a non-problem. I also know people who have dropped a lot of carbs and increased their red meat consumption and it has helped their cholesterol numbers.

[SkinnyPupp]

If it's for health just know that eating the same food but with no meat isn't going to change anything ... Deep fried junk food with greasy sauce dumped all over it is the same with or without some chunks of beef or lamb in it!

If it's for flavor reasons, there's some yummy veggie food out there, like civicblues said. You just have to get food from the cultures that were forced to eat that way for one reason or another.

[68style]

Just eat more celery if you want to make bigger couch splotches Hobz

[Badhobz]

im just trying to not kill animals for a bit. they are so tasty though.....

[CivicBlues]

There's also Chi on 4th Avenue (not to be confused with Ahn and Chi on Main). They do Vietnamese Veggie and it's pretty good too.

[Badhobz]

Thanks guys, i got a good list of places to try. Last time i think i made it almost 2 months without eating animals so trying to break that this year.

[bcrdukes]

Would you eat meat again if LA Chicken lady asked you out?

[Badhobz]

Of course ! I’d eat anything from her greasy trap :concentrate:

[spoon.ek9]

is that chicken grease between her legs or is she just happy to see you?

[headhunt3r]

You can add some pastas to your rotation? There are plenty of tasty vegetarian sauces to maintain variety.

[punkwax]

so im trying to eat less meat for 2024. Today i went full on vegetarian and got some indian food. Shashee paneer, garlic naan, vegetarian pakoras, etc. Indian food is the only food thats edible for vegetarians because they fry/sauce everything so delicious that you cant even tell the difference.

Is there any other vegetarian place that's good? If i steam some bak choy and eat it, i think ill die. Chinese vegetarian is terrible. Maybe ill make a mah po tofu tomorrow w/ a lot of garlic and chilis and some vegan/imitation meat.

Ill still eat fish, because fuck fish. They have no feelings and they arent cute.

Pan fry the bok choy. Add garlic, onion, sriracha and peanut butter. Bam. Not lame.

[unit]

were veg. some of our fav places are do chay on kingsway/knight, meet on main, chau veggie on victoria (kinda salty tho), sun bo kong on kingsway, shizen-ya on broadway, and some others. we mostly cook at home though.

we also cook mapo tofu somewhat regularly in our rotation, we don't use fake meat in it, we just dice up a lot of shitake mushrooms and pan fry them first, set them aside, then re-add them later. tastes pretty good.

[Razor Ramon HG]

Sometimes I just cut tofu up into cubes, pan fry it with oil, add soy sauce and sesame oil for flavour and it's hella good.

Steaming Chinese veggies suck ass. Pan fry with oil and a shit ton of garlic. It's the easiest and most delicious IMO.

[mikemhg]

Try Lebanese and Ethiopian. Plenty of restaurants in Van.

I agree, lily-white people and Chinese can't do vegetarian food unless you're paying out the wazoo for some high-end chef to come up with something. And even then, mixed results. Nothing beats centuries of cultural practice due to religious prohibition and/or crushing poverty.

Completely agree. Indians as well IMHO make the best vegetarian dishes if you're looking for something hearty.

Those lily whites at Row Fourteen in Keremeos make the best vegetarian dishes I've ever had though.

[Hondaracer]

That’s also the best veg meal I’ve ever had. Their zucchini bread of all things blew my mind. Lebanese stuff is great but typically not too much variation or large swings in quality though.

[Badhobz]

sooo vegetarian = can use meat based by products? like dairy, etc

Vegan = no milk cheese or anything animal based right?

Cuz now all the girls at work are chirping on about how i should just go vegan and im like shut the hell up i still kill fish. Apparently these vegan girls also dont think fish have feelings so its open game.

[underscore]

Correct. If you're vegetarian + fish technically that's pescatarian.

I find vegetarian food pretty good, but a good chunk of my family is vegetarian so I'm fairly used to it. Vegan doesn't sound that different but it ends up being a lot more restrictive on your diet. We had to eliminate dairy and eggs for a bit and it was hell. Vegan "cheese" is borderline inedible.

[68style]

My GF can't have gluten, nuts or egg... it's a fuckin nightmare finding things to eat.

I mean I'm no foodie by any stretch of the imagination but I almost walked on the relationship in the beginning when I realized the extent of it... eating out literally anywhere requires painful amounts of patience. Travelling is insanely difficult too... we were in Hawaii and it was extremely frustrating, but I'm finding ways around things more and more as time goes on haha

The only really safe cuisine for her is Mexican.

[Badhobz]

the biggest challenge is for the chihuahuahuahuahau's. I always give them a bit of what i eat (as a topper for ziwipeak dog food) and they enjoy a good steak/roast chicken.

I gave them some veggy pakora yesterday and they spat it out. Not a big fan of the paneer either.

[unit]

technically ya vegetarian means dairy is still fine, and vegan means nothing animal based whatsoever.

i consider myself veg but i still eat fish to some extent, like i will eat kimchi without caring that theres fish sauce or shrimp in it, and sometimes on vacation if i dont have many options i'll eat some fish, but at home i never do. i find that its easier when you don't make the rules so rigid for yourself. nobodys gonna do an annual check of your diet and take your vegetarian certificate away if you don't stick to the definition of it.

my gf is vegan but she consumes honey a lot, so even she doesn't really care about being totally by the book.

i saw a stand up comedian on tiktok that was like, 'im vegetarian because although i dont like eating animals, i dont mind if they have a job'. lol

[unit]

the biggest challenge is for the chihuahuahuahuahau's. I always give them a bit of what i eat (as a topper for ziwipeak dog food) and they enjoy a good steak/roast chicken.

I gave them some veggy pakora yesterday and they spat it out. Not a big fan of the paneer either.

we have 3 cats, one of which my gf brought into the relationship. she started feeding her a vegan diet for the first year that i disapproved of, and eventually she came around and fed the cat a carnivore diet. i think its important to make sure your diet decisions only affect yourself and not others, especially other species that literally need meat to survive.

[68style]

Yah I can't eat fish, but I make and feed my doggy salmon amongst other stuff in a special recipe I customized for her... she needs the omega3's and stuff, don't let my allergy prevent her from having it.

[Hondaracer]

My GF can't have gluten, nuts or egg... it's a fuckin nightmare finding things to eat.

I mean I'm no foodie by any stretch of the imagination but I almost walked on the relationship in the beginning when I realized the extent of it... eating out literally anywhere requires painful amounts of patience. Travelling is insanely difficult too... we were in Hawaii and it was extremely frustrating, but I'm finding ways around things more and more as time goes on haha

The only really safe cuisine for her is Mexican.

Is she a celiac?

We have a friend who is and yea, it’s a total nightmare but for her she’s very proactive and contacts places ahead of time to ensure that can accommodate her etc. as a result the husband is also obviously observing it as well due to how severe hers is. She spent a decade trying to figure it out

Hers is so bad though like you can’t use oven mits that baked a loaf of bread type thing.

[Badhobz]

jesus... thats a tough life. Being so restrictive must be exhausting to both you and her.

[bcrdukes]

Your pets eat better than humans do. No wonder you guys are so rich!

[bcrdukes]

Okay, question for your electrical geniuses.

I live in a townhouse / row house here in the GTA. There's about 5 of us connected to I think the same electrical feed or whatever it's called.

Once in a while, the whole house loses power and trips the main breaker. None of the other breakers trip. This will happen randomly throughout the year.

We called in our friendly electrician and he's come over to help us troubleshoot using all his fancy tools and with us loading up the outlets and appliances etc and it doesn't come close to tripping the main breaker or any appliances. There are some random times throughout the year where power will go out for a split second and recover immediately, but these are rare.

We suspected it was the dryer but we replaced it a number of years ago but it's still happening. About a month ago, it happened while we were just watching TV and then poof, the entire house lost power.

Before we call the hydro company, anything else we can try or troubleshoot ourselves?

[westopher]

I'm not smart from an electrical point of view, BUT I do know we've had issues at the restaurant when multiple fridge compressors just happen to go on at the same time when one was dying.

[Hondaracer]

Okay, question for your electrical geniuses.

I live in a townhouse / row house here in the GTA. There's about 5 of us connected to I think the same electrical feed or whatever it's called.

Once in a while, the whole house loses power and trips the main breaker. None of the other breakers trip. This will happen randomly throughout the year.

We called in our friendly electrician and he's come over to help us troubleshoot using all his fancy tools and with us loading up the outlets and appliances etc and it doesn't come close to tripping the main breaker or any appliances. There are some random times throughout the year where power will go out for a split second and recover immediately, but these are rare.

We suspected it was the dryer but we replaced it a number of years ago but it's still happening. About a month ago, it happened while we were just watching TV and then poof, the entire house lost power.

Before we call the hydro company, anything else we can try or troubleshoot ourselves?

Tripping your main sounds like it’s current coming IN tripping it, not anything within your house. Like does this happen when a bunch of shit is on or has it happened when there hasn’t been much of a load going on within your home?

Does this happen to your neighbours?

[underscore]

I'm not an electrician but for a given amount of power drawn (watts) if your voltage decreases the current will increase. So say you're running 1200W worth of stuff, at 120V that's pulling 10A. If the power drops to 100V it'll pull 12A. If you're getting lots of brown outs the increase in current draw might be tripping the breaker, but that seems weird unless maybe the breaker itself is defective?

[68style]

Is she a celiac?

We have a friend who is and yea, it’s a total nightmare but for her she’s very proactive and contacts places ahead of time to ensure that can accommodate her etc. as a result the husband is also obviously observing it as well due to how severe hers is. She spent a decade trying to figure it out

Hers is so bad though like you can’t use oven mits that baked a loaf of bread type thing.

Getting tested and confirmed for it is a very egregious process... you basically have to make yourself sick wheat products for while doing various tests... she just moved here from the USA just over a year ago so she hasn't yet...

Hers isn't tooooo terrible she just seems to get insanely tired and can't keep her eyes open if she eats any wheat products and if she eats a bunch at once somehow she has pretty bad intestinal issues.

She seems to be ok with trace amounts though... ie: possible cross contamination

[whitev70r]

Those lily whites at Row Fourteen in Keremeos make the best vegetarian dishes I've ever had though.

This !

Got the tip to try Row Fourteen from RS and never regretted it ... and I wanted to post on pg 777 for luck.

[Great68]

Breakers can and do go bad, there's nothing special about a main breaker over a individual circuit breaker other than the higher current rating.
Also check the main feeder wires to the panel that they're properly secured and torqued down on the lugs.

Sorry Honda, there's no such thing as a "current coming in" problem.
The house loads will draw the current they want to draw.
The utility can't "push more current" down the line without cranking the supply voltage up to levels that would kill every electrical device in a house far before the main breaker ever tripped.

[bcrdukes]

Tripping your main sounds like it’s current coming IN tripping it, not anything within your house. Like does this happen when a bunch of shit is on or has it happened when there hasn’t been much of a load going on within your home?

Does this happen to your neighbours?

So this is where it gets weird - it happens when nothing is drawing major current (i.e. only laptop/modem/lights are running) or when the dryer is running and we are cooking something using the stove or oven. It's very random.

Does this happen to our neighbours - We're not sure. We've never had a chance to ask them because it happens so infrequently and we forget about it a few days later when we see them. I'll have to be vigilant to ask them about it next time. The last time it happened, it happened three times in a row when nothing major was drawing any power.

I'm not an electrician but for a given amount of power drawn (watts) if your voltage decreases the current will increase. So say you're running 1200W worth of stuff, at 120V that's pulling 10A. If the power drops to 100V it'll pull 12A. If you're getting lots of brown outs the increase in current draw might be tripping the breaker, but that seems weird unless maybe the breaker itself is defective?
We're unsure of the breaker itself is original (20 years) or if its been replaced. We didn't replace it, but we might do that as a next step.

Edit 1: Didn't see Great68's reply. Thanks for that. Will look into replacing the main breaker as good measure soon.
Edit 2: Didn't see westopher's reply earlier. We were running two vacuum cleaners in parallel and that tripped the main breaker after about 20 minutes of operation.

[Hondaracer]

Depending on the meter base fault currents from a transformer no?

[supafamous]

Watching the news of the 7.4 earthquake in Japan and got to wondering how well prepared folks are for an earthquake here. My preparedness varies from time to time as I don't often think about what supplies to keep handy but generally it's pretty bad. At least I'm reasonably handy as is my wife unlike some of my friends who can't even change a flat tire or do basic repairs around the house.

How about you guys? Anyone got an underground bunker and a year's worth of canned food?

[Badhobz]

^fuckkkkk noo. If the big one hits im hosed. I got a box of watches to grab and then good luck trying to get all her handbags and jewelry out.

Sigh… I had this idea of preparing an inflatable in case of tsunami but I think that’s just idiotic and likely will kill us faster.

I’m in Richmond anyways so if the big one hits just come loot around my fat corpse for watches. P.s if you see a white seal looking chihuahua, that’s moochi. She’s just really fat and you should save her. I’ll be eternally grateful

[Hondaracer]

I’ve got a bunch of flats of water, easily a few weeks of food, always have 2 full propane cylinders etc.

I recommend everyone put a set vice grips on your gas meter shut off and just leave them there locked on, also put some WD40 of some sort of Lubricant on the shut off and make sure you can move it. That and your water main are probably the biggest concerns

[snowball]

P.s if you see a white seal looking chihuahua, that’s moochi. She’s just really fat and you should save her. I’ll be eternally grateful

fat? naw i think you mean tender.

[snowball]

Watching the news of the 7.4 earthquake in Japan and got to wondering how well prepared folks are for an earthquake here. My preparedness varies from time to time as I don't often think about what supplies to keep handy but generally it's pretty bad. At least I'm reasonably handy as is my wife unlike some of my friends who can't even change a flat tire or do basic repairs around the house.

How about you guys? Anyone got an underground bunker and a year's worth of canned food?

I used to stay hella stocked but realized it was unrealistic, expensive, and wasteful.

Now I just make sure I have a healthy rotation of canned goods and instant noodles I would eventually eat anyway and make sure I rotate my stock often.

The only thing that I keep around that I don't use regularly is a flat of water. I rotate out the water once a year in the summer when I do more summer sports.

[Great68]

The best thing about a travel trailer is that it's also the emergency shelter

[snowball]

Okay, question for your electrical geniuses.

I live in a townhouse / row house here in the GTA. There's about 5 of us connected to I think the same electrical feed or whatever it's called.

Once in a while, the whole house loses power and trips the main breaker. None of the other breakers trip. This will happen randomly throughout the year.

We called in our friendly electrician and he's come over to help us troubleshoot using all his fancy tools and with us loading up the outlets and appliances etc and it doesn't come close to tripping the main breaker or any appliances. There are some random times throughout the year where power will go out for a split second and recover immediately, but these are rare.

We suspected it was the dryer but we replaced it a number of years ago but it's still happening. About a month ago, it happened while we were just watching TV and then poof, the entire house lost power.

Before we call the hydro company, anything else we can try or troubleshoot ourselves?

Any flickering of lights under no load? If possible you should get some voltage readings around the house at different outlets.

[bcrdukes]

^fuckkkkk noo. If the big one hits im hosed. I got a box of watches to grab and then good luck trying to get all her handbags and jewelry out.

Sigh… I had this idea of preparing an inflatable in case of tsunami but I think that’s just idiotic and likely will kill us faster.

I’m in Richmond anyways so if the big one hits just come loot around my fat corpse for watches. P.s if you see a white seal looking chihuahua, that’s moochi. She’s just really fat and you should save her. I’ll be eternally grateful

I am going to eat your dog.

[Badhobz]

Fuck you fish !!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bxsuvWNtQ44

[donk.]

Okay, question for your electrical geniuses.

Before we call the hydro company, anything else we can try or troubleshoot ourselves?

The real question is, are all 5 houses effected by this, or just yours?

[bcrdukes]

The real question is, are all 5 houses effected by this, or just yours?

This is the million dollar question. I'll have to find out and that would mean catching my neighbours at the right time.

The cold is coming soon to the GTA this weekend so likely I will find out in the spring, assuming I ever get to see them. :fuckthatshit:

[EvoFire]

So this is where it gets weird - it happens when nothing is drawing major current (i.e. only laptop/modem/lights are running) or when the dryer is running and we are cooking something using the stove or oven. It's very random.

Does this happen to our neighbours - We're not sure. We've never had a chance to ask them because it happens so infrequently and we forget about it a few days later when we see them. I'll have to be vigilant to ask them about it next time. The last time it happened, it happened three times in a row when nothing major was drawing any power.


We're unsure of the breaker itself is original (20 years) or if its been replaced. We didn't replace it, but we might do that as a next step.

Edit 1: Didn't see Great68's reply. Thanks for that. Will look into replacing the main breaker as good measure soon.
Edit 2: Didn't see westopher's reply earlier. We were running two vacuum cleaners in parallel and that tripped the main breaker after about 20 minutes of operation.

Things aren't always steady state. Once things have been running for awhile, it can warm up and draw more current. I had my power washer hooked up to an extension that was rated at 10A without really thinking about. It tripped it a few times before I doubled checked that the garage has a 15A plug and grabbed a higher rated extension. It would trip the 10A cord after it's warmed up from extended use and always after I've held the trigger for awhile and never right when I squeeze the trigger and the washer starts up, you'd think it draws more at start up but it didn't.

[MG1]

Was in the area, so went into Hard Rock Casino. Turns out it isn't a Hard Rock anymore. Gone are the neat memorabilia. It's now just Great Canadian Casino. I haven't stepped in the place for nearly two years. Entrance to parking lot has changed, so I had to go in via the street we used to street race on.

Speaking of street racing days, I drove down (literally) memory lane a few weeks ago. My daughter asked me if I could pick up some items from https://vfdfood.com on the way back from the US. I'll have you guys know I was the guy who found that street racing location. Port Kells was getting too stupid back in the day when all them high schoolers started coming out. Anyway, Glouchester Industrial Estates. Such great memories.

https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/-aAiUsn6nmTUOJfGOfONftnxOzQ6xd3vdwBDyNAjWCE/document.pdf


Also found the road by the Fraser River near Fort Langley. River Road, LOL.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/River+Rd,+Langley+Twp,+BC/@49.1659934,-122.558868,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x5485d296da35ccaf:0x327d9 d9609fadb2e!8m2!3d49.1659934!4d-122.558868!16s%2Fg%2F11bymxk1my?entry=ttu

[Hondaracer]

That road down by the river saw some crazyyyy races back in the day, NOS mustang purging out the hood with drag radials fuck some crazy pulls there

Was definitely one of these memes like my parents thought I was asleep at a friends house but we were at the races :lol

Fuck one night as were leaving, swear on my life a guy walked out of the tall reeds between the road and the river in tatters holding somthing in a towel wearing surgical gloves, he asked us if he could get a lift my buddy asked where he was going he said anywhere was like fuckkkkk no basically did a launch with buddy hanging onto the window to get the fuck out of there

[GLOW]

Once things have been running for awhile, it can warm up and draw more current.
...
It would trip the 10A cord after it's warmed up from extended use

very good point. breakers tripping often we look at the load being exceeded, but another way to look at it is an increase in temperature (for whatever reason) as a reason to trip and protect the system.

@bcrdukes perhaps try to recall and log what was being powered, if there's consistency to it perhaps it'll help trace it.

[bcrdukes]

Update: Confirmed with my wife that she noticed when our power goes out, other homes on our block all have lighting, so it seems restricted to us.

Almost always, it's the dryer that's running and the power goes out. But even when it's running, we may randomly lose power for a second and everything is back and running, or on the random chance, we lose power completely.

[68style]

She's going to find the air compressor you've got on standby filling up that blowup doll one day man

[yray]

heat pump?

neighbors heat pump turns on and the lights dim at my house :(

[bcrdukes]

No, we have a high velocity hydronic furnace powered by a Rinnai unit and the AC is off for the winter.

68style - I think my 20v portable air pump is dead. I need to contact Craftsman for warranty. :pokerface:

[AzNightmare]

I have an old car and I have a bunch of devices hardwired to the fuse box. Like dashcam, backup cam, mini sub, etc. It's pretty cluttered in there with all the fuse taps. I read that using wire (T) taps, you can share multiple devices in one fuse.

Anyone know if this is ok? Like adding power for the devices with a T tap on one of the fuse taps?

[underscore]

I just ran one new wire from the battery and added an aux fuse box.

[SSM_DC5]

You'll probably be fine if you didn't put them all on the same circuit.

[punkwax]

Was in the area, so went into Hard Rock Casino. Turns out it isn't a Hard Rock anymore. Gone are the neat memorabilia. It's now just Great Canadian Casino. I haven't stepped in the place for nearly two years. Entrance to parking lot has changed, so I had to go in via the street we used to street race on.

Speaking of street racing days, I drove down (literally) memory lane a few weeks ago. My daughter asked me if I could pick up some items from https://vfdfood.com on the way back from the US. I'll have you guys know I was the guy who found that street racing location. Port Kells was getting too stupid back in the day when all them high schoolers started coming out. Anyway, Glouchester Industrial Estates. Such great memories.

https://images1.loopnet.com/d2/-aAiUsn6nmTUOJfGOfONftnxOzQ6xd3vdwBDyNAjWCE/document.pdf


Also found the road by the Fraser River near Fort Langley. River Road, LOL.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/River+Rd,+Langley+Twp,+BC/@49.1659934,-122.558868,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x5485d296da35ccaf:0x327d9 d9609fadb2e!8m2!3d49.1659934!4d-122.558868!16s%2Fg%2F11bymxk1my?entry=ttu

I was one of those high schoolers at PK. My apologies.

Us Surrey hoods had “the flats” AKA Colebrook Road for late night shenanigans. Had a quarter mile marked. Good times.

[mikemhg]

How many of you guys run front facing cams on your dash?

Am I an idiot for not bothering all these years?

[roastpuff]

How many of you guys run front facing cams on your dash?

Am I an idiot for not bothering all these years?
Uh, you mean a dashcam? Or are you talking about something else? Why would I run a rear facing cam on my dash, am I running a fake taxi? :D

Living in Vancouver it's a must IMO.

[Badhobz]

Absolute must. It saved my dad 4x now. He got rear ended 4x (just the worst luck) and even with only a front facing dash cam he was absolved of fault.

[Traum]

I agree that it's a must. Even if you don't want to put any effort into doing a good install -- hiding your wires, hooking the power up to the fusebox, etc. it is easy enough to just get a 1-channel something that plugs into the 12V outlet.

For my family, it has helped us 3 or 4 times in dealing with ICBC. Video evidence (of this sort) doesn't lie, so it just makes the claiming process that much more straightforward. I have also used it a number of times to help the random motorist when I witnessed an accident.

[bcrdukes]

Any recommendations on which front and rear dash cams are a good purchase these days?

[roastpuff]

Any recommendations on which front and rear dash cams are a good purchase these days?

Big fan of Thinkware, but the 70mai cams with the Sony 4k sensors are looking like great value.

Viofo A119 also a good pick.

[underscore]

I've been running the Viofo A118 and A119 in multiple vehicles for ages now without a problem, I wouldn't hesitate to buy more of their stuff.

[MG1]

Kind of relieved property assessment only went up by only 3% this time around.

Better than 2022 when it went up by 23%.

Overall increase in Burnaby is at 3%. As long as I'm with everybody else, I'm good.

[murd0c]

One of my buddies houses went down 350k, I swear this property assessment is just a way to tax us for more money.

[68style]

It's based on the market though... not sure what makes you think that?

On that note, they're hilariously low in Vancouver compared to other parts of the country.

[SkinnyPupp]

Girl sends guy flirty DM and pic, his response:

https://i.imgur.com/5M1lzMT.png https://i.imgur.com/8yMdg9x.png

My take: Zoomers are just going to forget how to fuck, and the human species will just cease to exist

[MG1]

Could use Mr. Clean Magic eraser of the digital kind.

I remember an RS user, who shall remain anonymous, posted a blurred out nude pic of his ex. I said, “WTF?” He promptly sent me the original photo through PM.

[AzNightmare]

Any recommendations on which front and rear dash cams are a good purchase these days?

I just picked up the VIOFO A229 Plus Duo. 2K front and back. It uses the newer STARVIS 2 sensors.

I'm not a fan of 70mai. Their hardwire kits don't let you adjust the voltage cutoff and they're set lower than 12V, making it hard to start the car. My MIL's car ran out of juice several times and she drives daily.


How many of you guys run front facing cams on your dash?

Am I an idiot for not bothering all these years?

Absolute must. I have dashcams in both cars in the fam and it saved us from several hit-and-runs while our cars were parked. Made resolving accidents very quick and efficient, including one where someone was using a false witness. And it also helped us even in one incident where someone changed lanes without looking and my wife had to steer into a curb to avoid an accident, only to destroy our own tire. No actual collision and of course the other car was oblivious and long gone, but we were able to make a claim given we caught the plate and we have evidence of the incident. We were able to get a new tire covered.

[MG1]

How many of you guys run front facing cams on your dash?

Am I an idiot for not bothering all these years?

Ever since Operation Revnose all those years ago, I decided I have to get with the times. I wish they had Dashcams back when I went on the 4-1/2 week road trip across North America.

It has saved me and other drivers multiple times. Everything from witnessing other drivers getting hit while parked to dump trucks dropping their entire load of dirt, rocks, and boulders in front of me on Hwy1 going at 110 kph. Driver didn’t secure rear gate. Sent it in to ICBC.

I have two Thinkware dual dashcams with extra mounts so I can easily switch between the cars. I have them hard wired and on an independent switch. I have 256 gb cards (12) of them, that I rotate and reformat after a week or so. A couple of close red light infractions where I have definitive proof that I was in the right or wrong. In case I get a red light camera ticket in the mail.

Combined with my Drone Mobile alarm, I’ve busted thieves attempting to break into my car. Time and date stamps, ftw! Speed indicator, kind of. Another feature I like, but don’t use that often is the Thinkware app where you can see where you are on a map while watching the footage. Oh yeah, the speed and red light camera warnings. Has saved me countless times. My Escort radar detector does all that, but it’s still good to have both working.

Forgot another one. Because the dashcam has built in WiFi, I can change settings on the fly and review footage on my phone to prove to dip shit who hit me, I have proof.

[Badhobz]

Girl sends guy flirty DM and pic, his response:

My take: Zoomers are just going to forget how to fuck, and the human species will just cease to exist

Stupid kids. He sounds like a fucking pussy. Ohhh look at me I’ll be classy. Man shut the hell up and just fuck her in the ass.

Unless you’re married…. Then say something funny like sluttier is all fine and dandy but I don’t have an Epstein island to contain you in.

[68style]

Woowwww... that dude's a future pegboard for sure

[Razor Ramon HG]

I know a few folks at work that talk like that. Smart as hell people, but not all there socially.

[westopher]

Girl sends guy flirty DM and pic, his response:

https://i.imgur.com/5M1lzMT.png https://i.imgur.com/8yMdg9x.png

My take: Zoomers are just going to forget how to fuck, and the human species will just cease to exist
I'm thankful that even when I was terrible with girls, any time I was put in a situation like this I knew to simply hop in my car and drive over there instead of writing a thesis on the origins of the word slut.

[CivicBlues]

Anyone else's computer not rendering that image? I tried restarting and hitting my machine but still I just get a black smudge of an image.

:troll:

[unit]

anyone know a good part time bookkeeper? i can't do this shit anymore.

[Gumby]

Anyone else's computer not rendering that image? I tried restarting and hitting my machine but still I just get a black smudge of an image.

:troll:
You need to upgrade your 14.4k modem!

[CivicBlues]

pssh, my 28.8k modem is more than enough to shitpost on RS!

[radeonboy]

Today's free candy vans are very different than what my parents described when I was a child :okay:
https://twitter.com/vancouverpd/status/1743336410671731004?
https://i.postimg.cc/sDP10nZd/orangporsche-PNG.png

[68style]

WoW how many orange Macans are around... this guy is cooked

[winson604]

Any recommendations on which front and rear dash cams are a good purchase these days?

Can't really go wrong with Thinkware, VIOFO, and Blackvue. Blackboxmycar imo is the best to go to and they also have a shit ton of youtube videos doing in depoth reviews. Start here

https://www.blackboxmycar.ca/pages/best-dash-cams

Personally I run a BlackVue DR900X-2CH Plus Dual-Channel for my car and my wife runs the older model. Thankfully I've never had to use it for myself but I did witness an accident once and sent the video to ICBC which helped someone I'm sure. If and when I have to buy one again though I may go VIOFO though, it's a little bit cheaper and the video quality seems to be a bit better too but we're almost splitting hairs between all the major brands really.

[MG1]

Yeah, Alex (proprietor of Blackboxmycar) is a great guy to deal with. I get extra discount because I’ve been buying from him since he first started the business from his home eons ago. His business has taken off. However, he still has time to spend with customers when he is in town.

[murd0c]

I need to get a dashcam installed in my car dammit, I took the cam out of my 4runner and need to put it in my mazda. It's only been 3 years LOL

[N.V.M.]

I just got out of jury duty. 3 weeks at $20 a day, fuck that.

[winson604]

Yeah, Alex (proprietor of Blackboxmycar) is a great guy to deal with. I get extra discount because I’ve been buying from him since he first started the business from his home eons ago. His business has taken off. However, he still has time to spend with customers when he is in town.

Agreed I got my first dashcam when his operation was still in the early stages and dash cams were not a thing at all. They've always been great to deal with and unless something changes will be a customer for life.

[snowball]

Can't really go wrong with Thinkware, VIOFO, and Blackvue. Blackboxmycar imo is the best to go to and they also have a shit ton of youtube videos doing in depoth reviews. Start here

https://www.blackboxmycar.ca/pages/best-dash-cams

Personally I run a BlackVue DR900X-2CH Plus Dual-Channel for my car and my wife runs the older model. Thankfully I've never had to use it for myself but I did witness an accident once and sent the video to ICBC which helped someone I'm sure. If and when I have to buy one again though I may go VIOFO though, it's a little bit cheaper and the video quality seems to be a bit better too but we're almost splitting hairs between all the major brands really.

I have a love/hate relationship with Blackvue, 4 of them failed on me in last 10 years but its software is way better than Thinkware (I have 2 right now), currently running a 750X with the $400 blackvue battery in my main car, so far so good after 1.5 years.

[Mikoyan]

Submitting video to icbc via their online witness form was super simple. Last summer witnessed a left turner getting hit by the oncoming car that ran a solid red. No one was injured at the scene but I couldn't stay as I was on my way to a medical appointment
I got a call from the adjuster, the left turn driver wanted to thank me for the video, as he wasn't at fault for the accident due to the video.
Running thinkware front/rear in the SUV and minivan.

[MG1]

I just got out of jury duty. 3 weeks at $20 a day, fuck that.

I just got out of jury duty...................

Three times, so far. Never even had to go in for interviews. Had plans for that, as well. Be such an asshole (comes naturally) and a racist pig (don't have to work hard at that, either, gulolol). Having said that, I so wanted to be on the jury of the Pickton trial.................

[donk.]

I just got out of jury duty. 3 weeks at $20 a day, fuck that.

Wow, 3 weeks?!?!?

Was it more or less exciting than painting a bedroom?

Also, in your opinion, was the case worth 3 weeks of trial? Or someone should have pointed at law X and called it a day?

[Mikoyan]

I just got out of jury duty. 3 weeks at $20 a day, fuck that.

I've been called up twice. First time didn't get selected, Judge recalled everyone fo the following month that didn't get selected for the one trial that day. Next month, we all show up and a Bailiff goes, "WTF are you guys doing here? Didn't anyone tell you there's no trials today?" What a waste of everyone's time.

In November I got called for a 3 week trial. Got excused due to a family emergency. Just filled the online forms. Not like the old days when you had to show up. My mom had to do that just to say, she didn't understand English well enough to follow a trial.

[Hondaracer]

So where I work you get full pay if you get called, a colleague of mine just did it for 2.5 weeks, sounds like a total fucking shit show

It was an ICBC civil claim that has been going on since before they went to no fault. The fucking trial took 10 days and then deliberation took 3 because 1 person was adamant she couldn’t understand why the rest of the jury wanted to vote one way. My colleague said people were basically ready to start screaming at her to just side with the other 7 people and eventually when they told the judge the scenario the judge said majority is good enough, case closed.

Sounds like a total nightmare to be a part of

[mikemhg]

Camera is going in the new car then, done deal.

[winson604]

I have a love/hate relationship with Blackvue, 4 of them failed on me in last 10 years but its software is way better than Thinkware (I have 2 right now), currently running a 750X with the $400 blackvue battery in my main car, so far so good after 1.5 years.

Having only ever used Blackvue (3 so far) I have nothing to compare to. In my opinion it's just ok but maybe all dashcam software is just ok or shit. I went as a normal person who uses tech and software in my daily life like anyone else and had certain expectations of how the software would work. Everything to how easy it was to connect, speed, usability etc and like I said the user experience is just ok my biggest pain point usually is connecting and staying connected to the camera and then even after that sometimes it's slow. Again maybe they're all kind of like that but I have no idea.

[snowball]

Having only ever used Blackvue (3 so far) I have nothing to compare to. In my opinion it's just ok but maybe all dashcam software is just ok or shit. I went as a normal person who uses tech and software in my daily life like anyone else and had certain expectations of how the software would work. Everything to how easy it was to connect, speed, usability etc and like I said the user experience is just ok my biggest pain point usually is connecting and staying connected to the camera and then even after that sometimes it's slow. Again maybe they're all kind of like that but I have no idea.

The biggest problem with Thinkware is that it doesn't have a "video preview" so if you're looking for a specific clip and your time stamp is wrong you end up spending a while trying to find the right clip. Also, some Thinkware's don't come with built in GPS so that makes it even more annoying for automatic time correction.

[AzNightmare]

I just got out of jury duty. 3 weeks at $20 a day, fuck that.

I've been selected several times, but was able to excuse myself each time. The first time I had to explain my reason for excusal in person. The next couple times, I came up with an email template I use and it has worked each time. lol

[AzNightmare]

I have a love/hate relationship with Blackvue, 4 of them failed on me in last 10 years but its software is way better than Thinkware (I have 2 right now), currently running a 750X with the $400 blackvue battery in my main car, so far so good after 1.5 years.

Blackvue definitely can be buggy. For the premium price tag they seem to have over other dashcams, I probably wouldn't buy them again. My wife and I are both using Blackvue's and so are 2 other friends and we all ran into issues.

For the most part, they do their job and work well, but the one my wife has would sometimes just randomly restart itself mid commute, so we'll be unable to record for about 20-30 seconds as it reboots itself. And mine is starting to produce weird purple/rainbow colours in the footage at random times. Also the time stamps and date always seem to go off after a while.

But I'm also not really a "bells and whistles" kind of guy. I still prefer to just pull out the microSD and plug it in the PC so I can review the footage on a large monitor. So if you don't care about the cloud storage or better app, then it makes it harder to justify the price.

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I would recommend people to youtube the channels that review different dashcams and compare the driving footage comparison during day and night to narrow down which one to choose from. Sometimes the expensive ones don't actually have as good video quality. But they have more features instead, if that's what you prefer.

[GLOW]

WoW how many orange Macans are around... this guy is cooked

i heard on the news the guy knew the kid's name too, wonder if the parents will recognize the car

[tegra7]

Panel fly's off Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 max 9 after takeoff. Plane is only 10 weeks old.

https://youtu.be/cxPf_ikTAOE?si=LoZVxNlTHsByT281

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/alaska-airlines-boeing-01-06-24/index.html

[Manic!]

Time to by Boeing stock?

[Razor Ramon HG]

Currently in HK, tried to pay with a 1999 HSBC 500 HKD bill and the lady at the 7-11 said it's worth more and I should keep it.

She took my 2003 Standard Chartered 500 HKD bill without an issue.

Anyone got any insight? Or is it just too old to check if real, lmao.

[whitev70r]

What would ever compel you to do this? What a shitshow up there!

https://x.com/GraemeMcRanor/status/1743678024044982502

https://x.com/narvi/status/1743669782396985536

[TOS'd]

Currently in HK, tried to pay with a 1999 HSBC 500 HKD bill and the lady at the 7-11 said it's worth more and I should keep it.

She took my 2003 Standard Chartered 500 HKD bill without an issue.

Anyone got any insight? Or is it just too old to check if real, lmao.

Currently Ebay is showing uncirculated ones going for like 1500 HKD (3x value)
Circulated (yours), only saw one that was like 625 HKD (1.25x value)

[unit]

im guessing most of those are seasons pass holders not daytrippers. they already bought passes and now they need to make use of them, busy or not.

[Badhobz]

Guess what’s back ?!?!?

Stupid market 900000 (supermarket 2000) has it in Richmond
https://i.postimg.cc/c4st6F5R/IMG-3484.jpg

[EvoFire]

^ I've been seeing it around, even T&T has it, but apparently the chillis source is different now and it tastes different, even the colour is wrong, it's a lighter oranger colour.

[punkwax]

It’s been back for a while now unless there was another shortage? I bought mine back in October.

[MG1]

I thought you could buy it from Costco...........maybe it was in the US.

Wouldn't it be funny if it was available at Costco here? Of all people.............. Kirkland, forever!!! a la Wakanda.


BTW, has anyone had the Sriracha Ketchup they sell at Costco?

[sonick]

^ I've been seeing it around, even T&T has it, but apparently the chillis source is different now and it tastes different, even the colour is wrong, it's a lighter oranger colour.

Yeah the shortage was caused by Huy Fong trying to strong arm the farm that supplied the Chilis for their sriracha, underwood ranches.

Underwood ranches told them to fuck themselves so Huy Fong needed to find a new source or to farm the Chilis themselves. I think they decided to have their own farms now.

Underwood makes their own sriracha out of the "original" Huy Fong Chilis

https://underwoodranches.com/product/dragon-sriracha/

[Badhobz]

i tried this new batch. it taste about the same but the color is off... not as deep red as the old underwood chilis

[Qmx323]

What would ever compel you to do this? What a shitshow up there!

https://x.com/GraemeMcRanor/status/1743678024044982502

https://x.com/narvi/status/1743669782396985536

Jesus H Christ lol I know a lot of these folks flew in from all over, so they pretty much have to line up or it’s a waste of a trip.

I can’t even imagine bothering with Whistler at this time of the year as a local.

[Manic!]

Huy Fong went to farms in Mexico. The Mexican farms had problems with yields that's why there was a shortage. The sauce now tastes different according to many people. Underwood farms the OG supplier of chilies makes it's own sauce now.

[snowball]

i tried this new batch. it taste about the same but the color is off... not as deep red as the old underwood chilis

I have a bottle from 2017 made from the original chilies if anyone wants it. Good price, $999.99. I'll even take off another 10% if you buy it today.

[Klondike]

Koon Yick Wah Kee > cock sauce

https://i.imgur.com/ZiWumWh.jpg

[Badhobz]

I have a bottle from 2017 made from the original chilies if anyone wants it. Good price, $999.99. I'll even take off another 10% if you buy it today.

That’s expired bro :heckno:

[bcrdukes]

Koon Yick Wah Kee > cock sauce

While I don't disagree that it is a good, quality chili sauce, it is not in essence a sriracha-style chili sauce.

Your Hongerness is not bad. :accepted:

[Klondike]

While I don't disagree that it is a good, quality chili sauce, it is not in essence a sriracha-style chili sauce.

Your Hongerness is not bad. :accepted:

I'll take whatever makes my asshole hurt. Ring sting is my metric for how good it is

[bcrdukes]

:inoutugh:

[SkinnyPupp]

Koon Yick Wah Kee > cock sauce

https://i.imgur.com/ZiWumWh.jpg
Too salty IMO. Tung Chun is where it's at. It'll blast your asshole out don't worry

https://www.tungchun.hk/images/products/chili02.jpg

[winson604]

Koon Yick Wah Kee > cock sauce

https://i.imgur.com/ZiWumWh.jpg

Love this sauce, perhaps the closest one you can buy in stores that is similar to the hot chilli sauce packets you get from takeout. I still have an old bottle of cock sauce but every dish calls for a particular hot sauce to be used.

[headhunt3r]

An old bottle of what??

[Badhobz]

He said COCK SAUCE DAMNIT!, COCK SAUCE!

[Hehe]

He said COCK SAUCE DAMNIT!, COCK SAUCE!

Am I wrong to picture this bottle in a other color than red? :pokerface::ohgodwhy:

[GLOW]

that's why other brand isn't as red anymore :ifyouknow: :badpokerface: Kappa :troll:

[Great68]

I still have little bit of a bottle of the OG Huy Fong from late 2022 that I was able to compare back to back with the new Huy Fong stuff I just picked up.

Yes, the colour of the old stuff is slightly deeper red, a little bit thicker consistency, and tastes ever so slightly "richer". Some of that could also be attributed to the fact that old stuff had some oxidation/aging in the bottle since it is nearly a year old (and I don't store it in the fridge)

But it's totally passable and if I didn't have the back to back test I would never be able to tell it's any different.

[68style]

Badhobz is all about that thick consistency in his sauce, he's gonna notice that tongue feel immediatement

[Traum]

Badhobz is all about that thick consistency in his sauce, he's gonna notice that tongue feel immediatement
I am totally interpreting this in a whole different way, if you know what I mean...
:badpokerface: :ifyouknow:

[Badhobz]

tangy! if i had a mustache i would want some on there. it would really seal in the flavor

[GLOW]

depending how much you get in to the sauce you could create your own mustache :pokerface: