[westopher]

Keep in mind China isn’t nearly as interconnected with social media as the western world. They are a communist country and quite comfortably and easily bury the truth of their wrongdoing in a lot of instances.

[68style]

Bic 6 months ago listing things he can't possibly give up: "Racing, my car"

Bic now: "I'm moving to HK cuz it's safer"

:fulloffuck:

[Traum]

I'd be sorry to see BicBaws leave for HK, but if he really plans on doing that, he should know that track weekend packages to Guangdong International Circuit (GIC) and Zhuhai International Circuit (ZIC) are available and somewhat common among the car scene circles in Hong Kong too.

Some people take their own car up to track, and some people just rent cars there.

Back in the day -- say 10+ years ago? -- a typical trip would often include hitting the night life scene the evening before (Friday?), followed by 2 days of tracking. While the night life scene has definitely changed tremendously, and to a certain extent, the motorsports scene has changed as well, I'm sure similar tours are still being organized.

[westopher]

Bic isn’t gonna leave he’s probably just having a ragey day. We all get them.

[Badhobz]

I had an opportunity to work for Hutchison port in HK. But I turned it down because it would require me to actually work…. Not just goof off and go to Costco.

I’d get fired in an instant.

Would be an interesting life…. Me in Hong Kong. Yelling at everyone in my garbage Cantonese and whisper diu everywhere I go. Big perk would be that I can finally buy the Lexus LM

[supafamous]

Bic isn’t gonna leave he’s probably just having a ragey day. We all get them.

Is Bic signing up for the role Honda has vacated? What's the interview process?

[bcrdukes]

BIC_BAWS is moving to HK? :confused:

[Gerbs]

I'm not saying it's not true. First time hearing about it!

[bcrdukes]

Good bye, BIC_BAWS.

[whitev70r]

BIC, I like to introduce you to Skinnypup ....:spamarama:

Skinny is a good guy! Prob won't put up much with the 'new' Bic but keep it about cars and HK and it should be fine. :lol

[BIC_BAWS]

Keep in mind China isn’t nearly as interconnected with social media as the western world. They are a communist country and quite comfortably and easily bury the truth of their wrongdoing in a lot of instances.

Funny thing is on my trip I saw first hand what political silencing looked like - being on the outside of things. Funny what being tired of a revolving door of crime will do to ya.. Hello HondaRacer? I'd give up my cars for a crime free/less-crime society / a public transportation system that actually works

Bic 6 months ago listing things he can't possibly give up: "Racing, my car"

Bic now: "I'm moving to HK cuz it's safer"

:fulloffuck:

Funny about what traveling does to you. All those hocus pocus travel morons were right. WTF.

Or maybe its the lack of nicotine suppressing my feelings. Clean for 30 days!! Turns out its too fucking hot to smoke in Asia.

[yray]

bicbaws got the MK pussy

[68style]

I remember the days that every time I went to a new country I would obsess over how much better it was than Van and start investigating how to move there.

I still get it a little bit, and it's not like Van is the best place in the world... I moved after all... but I think a lot of those feelings are rooted in general unhappiness with position in life/life itself/relationships and thinking that somewhere new is a way to start fresh and everything will be better. I suppose it can be, but if the root issues are not resolved they will just fester and return in the new location.

The notion that Canada is crime infested and unsafe is ridiculous man.

[BIC_BAWS]

The notion that Canada is crime infested and unsafe is ridiculous man.

Let me know your thoughts when you get robbed, the entire street gets robbed, the cops can't do anything about it, and now you got a broken door.

(This was last year when everyone was gone for a few hours in the day around Christmas and then later reconsulted on when someone else down the street got robbed lol.)

bicbaws got the MK pussy

too loose, felt nothing, taking a girl out in HK is cheaper than taking a girl out in Van tho = win?

[68style]

The ENTIRE STREET hey? Which street was this pray tell? Every house and person? Or just you and 1 other that you confirmed later? Otherwise that must have been on the news for sure!

Dude get off the crazy pills. One thing happens to you in your whole life and the world ends?

[Mikoyan]

Let me know your thoughts when you get robbed, the entire street gets robbed, the cops can't do anything about it, and now you got a broken door.

(This was last year when everyone was gone for a few hours in the day around Christmas and then later reconsulted on when someone else down the street got robbed lol.)

You weren't drunk and fell asleep watching Home Alone right?

Did the thieves leave the taps on as their signatures too?

[BIC_BAWS]

The ENTIRE STREET hey? Which street was this pray tell? Every house and person? Or just you and 1 other that you confirmed later? Otherwise that must have been on the news for sure!

Here you go. https://www.deltapolice.ca/media/residential-break-ins-north-delta

I posted this last year too cause I needed help ID'ing the car because the cops were too incompetent to do it themselves.

Dude get off the crazy pills. One thing happens to you in your whole life and the world ends?

Let me remind you of the kid in the Mustang that crashed into my parked E46 M3, who's visibly drunk + his friends ratted him out, and the cops still did nothing about it. Which I had other people look into (lawyers/other subject matter experts) and stated that the paperwork was sus and incompetent.

Please tell me more about these crazy pills or are we just blissfully ignorant here because we've put up with so much for so long, so whats one more thing to go wrong.

[68style]

6 break-ins over 3 months is not an entire street getting robbed on the same day. You're talking in complete hyperbole.

So one crackhead got fixated on a neighbourhood and broke into a few houses. Tell me again how Canada is crime infested?

Be honest what's your X feed look like these days?

[Mikoyan]

Seriously though, it's always just one or two offenders for a neighborhood spree.

[BIC_BAWS]

Don't have an X account, and I'm just being a fucking contrarian here, but I find it hilarious that everyone here is blissfully ignorant and very willing to jump on the anti-Hondaracer/IS350/Hehe bandwagon when they do have some good points.

Canada today is not the Canada I grew up with. Give me back that Canada where property crime and crime in general wasn't a revolving door. Hell I'm sure you even know cops who are tired of this same revolving door / lax judges who won't do anything because "mental health" lol

[68style]

I don't believe you, your talking points are copy and paste from right wing anti-Liberal Party Canadian media feeds.

Blissfully ignorant? Lots of people agree with many things hondaracer says... but he goes full pearl clutch and that's where people argue with him. Hehe just thinks everyone is a libtard and calls people names, so why wouldn't you argue with him? IS350 had some basic points about problems he encountered but hyperbolized even worse than you were. You're only reading the parts you want to read to support your view.

You just have a different interface with Canada than you did as a kid, you weren't reading the news and social media and talking to a large social network. Go look at the stats, rates have not change significantly year to year to support your viewpoint.

I agree the legal system needs adjustments for when to let people likely to reoffend out, that's always been the case and takes a long time to reign in because a prosecution and judge can only base things on previous case law, so they need to claw it back inch by inch otherwise people will get off completely as the sentences would not follow precedent set by previous cases.

[Badhobz]

youre not wrong. This country has changed and probably not for the better. but what can you do. i tried to vote in that peepee fuck, but nope.... more liberals.

[68style]

PeePee is a fucking loser who's never done a single thing in his career worth talking about... couldn't even keep his seat and had to cherrypick a riding to get back to being official bitchtalker.

Liberals might not be any good, but that moron would have been way worse. We need a new option.

[Badhobz]

You run for office white man ! I vote for you… id run for office but I call everyone a cunt and racist names… so probably won’t have mass appeal

[68style]

You got a better chance DEI hire :lol :lol :lol

[westopher]

My house got robbed twice in back in 1995. I haven’t been robbed since then. Canada must be worlds better than 1995 now. Shit happens to you, then it doesn’t, then it does.
Canada is a relatively safe country, and the data lines up with that.
When speaking about public safety Canada is 14th in the world according to the global peace index, tied with Denmark. You can refute that data if you want, but someone who is much better than you or I at creating the formula did that, so you’ll have to bring it up with them and probably quickly do a PHD in data sciences.
China is 98th
USA is 128th
Russia is dead last.

[Badhobz]

What did they take ? I’m always curious as to what these crack heads would grab when they break in

[AstulzerRZD]

I'd give up my cars for a crime free/less-crime society / a public transportation system that actually works


Couldn't you live along Canada Line / SkyTrain ... and even keep the car?
Would moving to an apartment cut down on the property crime... especially if there's a concierge?

I'm not sure how it's changed since 2020-2022 but back then, I never had my S2k, Charger, etc get broken into despite parking by the SRO at Granville x Davie or Hastings x Gore 3 days a week for 12 hours.

[bcrdukes]

BIC_BAWS = Jason00S2000

[Mikoyan]

What did they take ? I’m always curious as to what these crack heads would grab when they break in

When my place was broken into in 2014, crackhead left my tenant's camera and laptop. What he did take was her passport and costume jewelry.

ID theft, and stuff without serial numbers. I would have thought he'd take the camera and laptop.

Cops caught the guy 15 mins after we called 911, as wife was coming home and dashcam footage caught the guy walking out of our driveway. For home break ins, if you come home hours after you've been robbed, there's no trail for the cops to follow. In our case, it was so recent, a patrol car caught the guy 3 blocks over, even before the dog tracked the trail down.

Guy had a couple of LV purses from someone else's house too.

Because we had video footage of him walking off our property, it was a slam dunk for the charges. He ended up trying to fight the charges till the day of trail when I assume his public defender told him to take a deal. And contrary to those who think he was just let back out after the cops arrested him, he was remanded in custody till the trial date due to his record.

[Traum]

It's funny how I was just talking to a friend in Hong Kong about safety and crime in Vancouver last night. He used to live/study/work here, and he was spooked by the recent stabbing incident outside the Metropolis Apple Store:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPRoRiEiRxJ/

Official VPD report (https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/violent-crime-in-vancouver-reaches-20-year-low-according-to-vpd-report/) says violent crime is at a 20-year all time low. Toronto and several GTA cities are also claiming crime rates have gone down significantly as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvQRznAWwJw

IMO COVID really sent crime rates into a massive tail spin as people lost jobs, homeless numbers went up, city revenues and services were reduced, and our cities in general look significantly worse. As we gradually move away from that COVID malaise era, the serious problems are improving.

That said, the perception of public safety does not seem to have measurably improved. We continue to be plagued by serious homelessness / drug addiction / mental health / encampment issues, and these definitely give us a pretty negative impression of public safety. The random mental health unprovoked attacks are obviously not helping either.

Now add the brazen and recurring jewlery store robberies (esp in Toronto), as well as the Indian gang wars / cocersion, they all just make people on edge and feel unsafe.

I also agree with 68style's assessment here:
You just have a different interface with Canada than you did as a kid, you weren't reading the news and social media and talking to a large social network. Go look at the stats, rates have not change significantly year to year to support your viewpoint.

in that the much wider exposure to news and social media is skewing our perception of reality. News reporting -- be they mainstream or social media -- are just so prevalent and easily accessible now, and we are being presented with live feeds or videos of the incidents as they happen, and there are follow up stories to them as well. Our preceptions are just hit differently when we see it in real-time visual form (ie. video) versus back then when we only read about it in the news. The visual presentation really magnifies the impact these news create on us. (Whereas we probably wouldn't feel much if we just read about it in printed form as words, or listened to it in audio form through the radio.

[bcrdukes]

Thank you, Traum. I feel so much more safter in the GTA from reading taht.

My mind will change the moment I get onto the 403, 401, and QEW though. :D

[AstulzerRZD]

I think hard thing is.. property crime and violence associated it will go up.

For the first time in 2-3 decades we don’t have shit driving the economy.
Oil prices, housing market, education ‘market’ all fucked.

Sure some ppl might bring money from the US but I think day to day, the fed gov and the politics u see online don’t really affect life.

[68style]

When we’re all unemployed, can you swing by Home Depot in your Lightning so we can jump in the back and you can take us to cash jobs you’ve lined up for us for the day?

[mikemhg]

This Canada is unsafe commentary is making me chuckle.

What, Chilliwack is considered the most "dangerous" city in Canada, I wouldn't for a second be afraid of walking around anywhere in that city at nighttime. Many parts within the US would be a completely different story.

[westopher]

Not painting Bic with this brush, but I find very often the people who are spouting off the most about Canada being dangerous are the same people saying
A) they should be able to have a gun (like they are gonna be able to shoot straight when they are afraid of chilliwack DT)
B) talk about how anyone who isn’t constantly crying about various right wing complaints is a “cuck” or “beta”

I just can’t figure out if I’m supposed to be scared of all the dangerous immigrants and gays or scared of being beat up by the manly men who are afraid of immigrants and gays.
Plz help.

[Badhobz]

You be afraid of my chihuahua ! She’ll destroy you with her cuteness !!! (And she has a gun)

[BIC_BAWS]

BIC_BAWS = Jason00S2000

the vaccine did this, not me

[6793026]

My house got robbed twice in back in 1995. I haven’t been robbed since then. Canada must be worlds better than 1995 now. Shit happens to you, then it doesn’t, then it does.
Canada is a relatively safe country, and the data lines up with that.
When speaking about public safety Canada is 14th in the world according to the global peace index, tied with Denmark. You can refute that data if you want, but someone who is much better than you or I at creating the formula did that, so you’ll have to bring it up with them and probably quickly do a PHD in data sciences.
China is 98th
USA is 128th
Russia is dead last.

i also got robbed (house i mean) in richmond twice.

they honestly had a lot of time both times.

they took all my watches at both houses.
THey took some crappy fake jewelry. We didn't have any laptops, didn't have tablets but they did take few hundred bucks and left the passports.

[westopher]

Yeah the shittiest thing for us is they took my mom’s ring which was given to her by my great grandma. Not worth a ton but irreplaceable. A lot of my hockey cards were stolen as well as my PS1 and games. The second time it happened the guy was still in the house when me and my mom got home so she booked me out of there and had to wait it out at the neighbour for cops to come.
Don’t worry though they only took about 2 hours to get there though. Super helpful. At least I didn’t have a dog for them to shoot.

[BIC_BAWS]

damn 2 hr response time in 1995.. no wonder the stats haven't changed drastically.. public service has always been shit LUL

[bcrdukes]

At least they've been consistent? :badpokerface:

[spoon.ek9]

Back in the 90's my house was broken into. Very likely by my sister's shit friends. They stole our VCR and my NES. Jokes on them though, I got the SNES afterwards. HA!

[SSM_DC5]

But did SNES have duck hunt?

[spoon.ek9]

I wanted to shoot that laughing dog so much in that game

[Badhobz]

https://media.tenor.com/0IThTbqWBi4AAAAM/duckhunt-reaction.gif

you fucking suck spoooon!!!! say mei !!!!

[underscore]

Yeah the shittiest thing for us is they took my mom’s ring which was given to her by my great grandma. Not worth a ton but irreplaceable. A lot of my hockey cards were stolen as well as my PS1 and games. The second time it happened the guy was still in the house when me and my mom got home so she booked me out of there and had to wait it out at the neighbour for cops to come.
Don’t worry though they only took about 2 hours to get there though. Super helpful. At least I didn’t have a dog for them to shoot.

The same thing happened to us when I was a kid, they were clearly there as we were coming in the garage because they missed things like the Playstation and didn't take anything from my room but broke open my brothers piggy bank. The shitty part was they dumped out my moms jewelry and I guess grabbed a handful when they ran because they left some single earrings and parts of sets. At least with money you're just losing the value of it, sentimental stuff is extra frustrating because the value it has to you is so much more than the amount they'll get for it.

[BIC_BAWS]

damn 2 hr response time in 1995.. no wonder the stats haven't changed drastically.. public service has always been shit LULDamn Officer Ty from Peel Regional Police responded to this post - took them a whole day to respond to this burglary.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPWrd7EgL8V/?igsh=ZGZwajNjaGtuNGtyhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20251003/bbb1c951706f199f98046fd7f0638ee5.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20251003/87b4e5b33d2b32eb8581d7f6653ed195.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20251003/b5a0bafc706fd5f3366de887a352eaa5.jpg

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[unit]

is it just me or are break ins way less common now?
i don't know anyone who has had their house/apartment broken into in the last 20 years..
when i was younger it seemed like a fairly common thing to be afraid of, like quicksand, the bermuda triangle, or eating before swimming..

[bcrdukes]

Time to move to HK. :derp:

[68style]

I thought you weren't on X lol

[bcrdukes]

I thought you weren't on X lol

owned

[CivicBlues]

is it just me or are break ins way less common now?
i don't know anyone who has had their house/apartment broken into in the last 20 years..
when i was younger it seemed like a fairly common thing to be afraid of, like quicksand, the bermuda triangle, or eating before swimming..

Better home security, no one carries cash anymore let alone leaving large amounts at home. Valuable jewelry is not as fashionable, personal electronics have anti-theft devices and are password locked to users.

On the other hand what's the rate of shoplifting and theft from retail stores compared to 20 years ago?

[supafamous]

is it just me or are break ins way less common now?
i don't know anyone who has had their house/apartment broken into in the last 20 years..
when i was younger it seemed like a fairly common thing to be afraid of, like quicksand, the bermuda triangle, or eating before swimming..

People just steal the Amazon parcels now instead of going inside.

Break-ins are super rare anyways - my family's home was broken into in the 80s but I've otherwise never heard anyone in my circle have their home broken into. There's so many other ways to steal from people that's easier - shoplifting, running an eBay scam, stealing parcels etc.

[BIC_BAWS]

I thought you weren't on X lol

This is Instagram.. come on, I know you have this!!

[mikemhg]

Speaking of break-ins, more information came out about that story of the Ontario man charged with attacking an intruder:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/crown-reviewing-charges-lindsay-incident-1.7643339

I figured there was more to this story, of course the stupid online rage-baiters used this as some kind of political issue. The two guys knew each other and had a physical altercation with one another days prior, the intruder was essentially the guy's neighbor.

Either way, what a gangster, the intruder had a crossbow and still got fucked up by the residence's knife. I can't imagine clearing that distance on a guy with a crossbow using a damn knife, wild stuff.

[westopher]

Anyone with a fuckin brain knew there was more to that, which is exactly why PP took the angle he did.

[BIC_BAWS]

"Breen, the alleged intruder who was on probation and wanted by police at the time, was charged with four counts in connection with the incident."

LOL

[sdubfid]

I don’t even remove my faceplate anymore

[whitev70r]

how did this thread venture down this wild tangent?

Let's see if I can bring it back. It has been AWFULLY silent about the Tyler Robinson guy ... like zero updates, zero new statements. Smells a bit fishy. I do love how even the far right are coming up with wild conspiracy theories like Israel wanted Kirk killed cuz he was starting to make anti-Israel statements.

[EvoFire]

If there's one thing that Charlie Kirk was successful in, was leaving a lasting impression. You fucks are still talking about him. IIRC none of the other "person has died" threads have lasted this long.

[unit]

the guy was sniped in the throat, didn't just die from cancer or something.
the right made him their martyr

[Traum]

Let's see if I can bring it back. It has been AWFULLY silent about the Tyler Robinson guy ... like zero updates, zero new statements. Smells a bit fishy. I do love how even the far right are coming up with wild conspiracy theories like Israel wanted Kirk killed cuz he was starting to make anti-Israel statements.
The legal process takes time. Since the assassination was so high profile, I'm sure we'll all hear about it again as soon as the trail takes place.

[68style]

His wife so grief, cheering on college football and asking Chicago wuzzup in between bible verses:lol

[CivicBlues]

These rich Christian Bimbos are so cringe. All family values and Love Jesus but you know they all be fantasizing about being run a train on by Tyrone and his homies.

[mikemhg]

Tyler Thompson's politics ended up not being the "gotcha" the right wanted, so they've moved on. These idiots didn't give a shit about Kirk, they've jumped onto the next rage-bait, Bad Bunny being the half-time performance at the next Super Bowl :)

Also, another MAGA shooting at a church, this time in Michigan.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/29/mormon-church-shooting-trump-sign

Always the ones you never suspect :lol

[whitev70r]

If there's one thing that Charlie Kirk was successful in, was leaving a lasting impression. You fucks are still talking about him. IIRC none of the other "person has died" threads have lasted this long.

Actually, the rage after the assassination was HUGE but I'm shocked how it dropped off like a steep cliff in such a short time. As I alluded to, I was more surprised by the silence than the 'talk' or lingering buzz about him, honestly, in my algorithms, I am not seeing anything ... but then I don't move in that circle so maybe the Christian right is still raging on his martyrdom.

[westopher]

People have a short memory, but especially Americans. No one actually gave a fuck about this guy before he was shot other than rage baited left wingers and incel losers on the right. He was used as rage bait one last time as a proper send off, then when it was realized that it wasn’t going to create the buzz in the way they’d hoped after people started questioning what actually happened on both sides, trump and his lackeys gave their media bum buddies the direction to cool the coverage.

[westopher]

http://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTz9dOWK01IyAHhhj_WhfklMrLCR8rEr c0pjsAkkRsgodSaBNKc5Pg2tOZa&s=10
Already forgotten and it hasn’t even been a month. Rest in piss I guess.

[SkinnyPupp]

It was very inconvenient for the MAGAs that the shooter was a far right freakazoid and not the libtard social justice warrior they could have used. Same as the alleged Trump shooters and the recent church shooter. Those guys will all be forgotten since they are inconvenient.

[bcrdukes]

I was just chatting with my cousins in Los Angeles. I asked them what's going on down there with Charlie Kirk. They responded seriously with, "Who is that?" :pokerface:

My only conclusions:
1. They are ignorant / Not aware of what's going on (unlikely because they do watch the news)
2. The media is not really blasting the coverage of Charlie Kirk and / or following a similar trend of searches waning like what westopher shared.

[CivicBlues]

Like I said since the start of all this, when all is said and done he'll just be the guy who was famous for getting shot. Nothing else.
Google search interest before he was shot that proves just as much

[Gerbs]

life moves on!

[Hehe]

You're Taiwanese. get the fuck out of my city you separatist bastard!

Shanghai you go for the shopping, food, and thats about it... not the most scenic city.

but this sort of shit is cool

Shanghai Zhujiajiao Ancient Town Tourist Zone <-- instead of going to suzhou, you can just do this fake ass version.. suzhou is still better, go there instead)
Former French Concession Zone <-- best of colonialism, my parents' ancestral home is in this district.
Xintiandi District <--- shopping
Tianzifang <-- arts and crafts and trash
Donghai Bridge <-- rent a car and drive this bridge, itts pretty awesome. its insanely long, and connects a few islands to the mainland.

Ok, back from Shanghai.

First of all, fuck you hobz for recommending XTD. Wife asked me to go there to check out to see if there's anything interesting as her eyes turned bright when I said it's a shopping area ppl recommended. The XTD building itself had some younger brands and there wasn't anything interesting other than a cat shop in there which had insanely priced for kittens, but incredibly cute. Overall, geared toward the younger crowd.

"What kind of hobo does your internet friend think we are?" - Wife

Just as I was leaving thinking wallet was safe since it was all younger brand. Wife noticed from Baidu Map that the building across the street (K11) had many major brands. So she asked me to go check it out.

Long story short, I'm a few grand poorer as wife saw a jacket from Yohji Yamamoto online and it just so happen to have a store there. Worse yet, they didn't even have it in stock. But wife ordered it anyway as it's sold out everywhere else.

Then I went to Former French Concession Zone (法租界）this was really nice as the older buildings gave kinda an art deco kinda vibe. Definitely recommended for even just walking around.

Donhai Bridge was ok but I was in the area since I visited the former largest indoor snowdome and the bridge was right there. Once you crossed, there wasn't much interesting stuff. But I guess just to cruise along the bridge was nice if you happen to be in the area. If one has to drive out from Shanghai, which was nearly 2hrs, I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble.

[Badhobz]

theres a hermes and a chanel in XTD, you gotta walk around a bit, but its within 2 blocks of the hipster mall you probably went to. arrgh you should have just PM'd me.

Either way, i hope you had fun. its a decent place to visit, but i woudlnt wanna live there. Did you like the food? its pretty similar to tawainese food since so many ex shanghainese fled to taiwain to escape crazy old mao.

i dont find my home town all that enjoyable... too snobby and rich for my taste. cant walk around anywhere without running into these social media cunts taking selifes and vlogs. drives me nuts. And worst of all, i cant do anything anti social like swear at people (love doing this in HK), try to trip old ladies, or basically just push idiots out of the way because of the constant surveillance and the social score, which im sure im in the negatives.

[Hehe]

theres a hermes and a chanel in XTD, you gotta walk around a bit, but its within 2 blocks of the hipster mall you probably went to. arrgh you should have just PM'd me.

Either way, i hope you had fun. its a decent place to visit, but i woudlnt wanna live there. Did you like the food? its pretty similar to tawainese food since so many ex shanghainese fled to taiwain to escape crazy old mao.

i dont find my home town all that enjoyable... too snobby and rich for my taste. cant walk around anywhere without running into these social media cunts taking selifes and vlogs. drives me nuts. And worst of all, i cant do anything anti social like swear at people (love doing this in HK), try to trip old ladies, or basically just push idiots out of the way because of the constant surveillance and the social score, which im sure im in the negatives.

Haha. Joking aside, Shanghai is quite expensive. For high-end brands like Chanel and Hermes, it's better to just buy them in HK/JP. I was in JP during transit as I wanted to do ANA's The Room again when picking my flights so I got that covered.

All in all, Shanghai is just like any other major cities. You'd have a blast if you have money to blow.

As far as food is concerned, the true Shanghainese cuisine isn't for me. It's too sweet overall where even a dish as simple as stir-fried veggie is sweet. Coming from a TWes perspective, I usually don't mind my food being a tad sweeter as most of the southern TW street foods tend to be on the sweeter side, but Shanghai is on a whole other level of sweetness.

[Badhobz]

and you cant even get any inventory of decent products. good luck trying to buy anything half decent in hermes shanghai without spending at least 4to1 ... but that's the same in HK. Actually, i was able to buy my wife a quota bag from the Hermes in Orange County recently without any history or pre-spend. I talked to the only dude in there (and he wasnt gay! shocking) and we talked about shipping and he's just offered me a bag in two colour choices. Said I could only buy one though. I guess the tariffs diminished their business a tad, but hermes is still hermes. It ended being 500 dollars more than vs buying it in canada, but once again, you cant get it in Canada without wasting a wish list item.

Japan is just cleaned out right now due to the low yen they cant even keep bag charms in the stores.

Like anything in asia, shanghai is great if youre rich...

[whitev70r]

WTF are you two talking about Hermes, Gucci, Channel in this thread. GTFO and stop diluting the Charlie Kirk thread, you two hobos.

[Badhobz]

oh sorry hes dead. so... designer talk is of more value.

[CivicBlues]

Well nothing's gayer than Charlie K and two guys talking about designer handbags so I guess it kinda tracks...?

[bcrdukes]

Hehe and Badhobz sitting in a tree. K I S S I N G. First came Gucci. Then came Prada. Then comes a Hermes bag in a baby carriage!

[Badhobz]

Hehe's wife does come off as a cunty hoe though.... just saying. That bitch shanghainese too? her and evofire's wife should get a wechat group

[bcrdukes]

This thread suddenly got expensive.

[Gerbs]

baller chat, I'm out

[mikemhg]

I think the proverbial horse has been beaten to death on this Kirk discussion :lol

[BIC_BAWS]

rip to the rage baiter legend. you will be missed. now who will dare rage bait these transmissions. damn the LG TV community.

[bcrdukes]

Interesting article on The Globe and Mail about "youth inspired by Charlie Kirk are mobilizing in red states, while Democrats look for ways to catch up." (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-politics/article-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-youth-republicans-democrats-politics/) (Might be paywalled for you folks but I'm sure you're creative enough to find ways to access it.)

[westopher]

It’s weird how we stopped hearing about the “transsexual leftist” that killed him…..

[VRYALT3R3D]

It’s weird how we stopped hearing about the “transsexual leftist” that killed him…..

He lives in rent free in your head

[westopher]

He lives in rent free in your head

Not really bro. I haven’t thought about any of these losers since everyone else stopped caring the day after.
Hope that helps.

[VRYALT3R3D]

Not really bro. I haven’t thought about any of these losers since everyone else stopped caring the day after.
Hope that helps.

you should hang a photo of charlie in your garage to inspire u while u gap your spark plugs.

https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/33036cf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5510x3673+0+0/resize/880x587!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F11%2F56%2F9000217b4d 7ca9077cb5a4106f64%2Fap25253676809293.jpg

cheers,

[westopher]

I buy spark plugs that are the correct gap.
Don’t post your jerk off material in this thread please.

[mikemhg]

Not really bro. I haven’t thought about any of these losers since everyone else stopped caring the day after.
Hope that helps.

Cheers,

[68style]

lol @ guy who literally cannot stop thinking and posting about Carney calling someone obsessed for making 1 observation about a dead guy’s murderer

Is being a giant hypocrite a requirement of conservative thinking?

[RevYouUp]

Nah I think being a liberal is being a big hypocrite. Just months ago, “buy Canadian”, now I bet they’re all back to regular programming, going to the states for vacations, using USA products and services, buying USA stocks (directly or indirectly)

[whitev70r]

There are hypocrites on both sides ... even those in the middle.

[unit]

Nah I think being a liberal is being a big hypocrite. Just months ago, “buy Canadian”, now I bet they’re all back to regular programming, going to the states for vacations, using USA products and services, buying USA stocks (directly or indirectly)

we've definitely reduced a lot of things even if not completely, at home and in our business.

also 'buy canadian' has nothing to do with liberal or conservative... just go on facebook and see all the boomers filling up the 'buy canadian' groups. like 80-90% of canadians are reducing their business with the states... not sure why you think it's a liberal movement. is it liberal to think trump is harming canada with his policies?

[westopher]

Nah I think being a liberal is being a big hypocrite. Just months ago, “buy Canadian”, now I bet they’re all back to regular programming, going to the states for vacations, using USA products and services, buying USA stocks (directly or indirectly)

Perhaps you should look at the stats when it comes to cross border trips to the US year over year.
Or you know, you could just make things up to suit if you want.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/travel-between-the-us-and-canada-down-statcan/

[EvoFire]

Nah I think being a liberal is being a big hypocrite. Just months ago, “buy Canadian”, now I bet they’re all back to regular programming, going to the states for vacations, using USA products and services, buying USA stocks (directly or indirectly)

Maybe you need to actually go read the news, travel to the states have been down 30% consistently, many groceries stores have seen piling of American products.

There are many sectors where there's no substitute, or for produce, the winter season means we have to buy from our neighbours from the south, but it doesn't mean it isn't still happening.

If a tree falls in a forest but you didn't see it, did it actually happen?

[westopher]

Trees are just a liberal conspiracy to control the weather. THATS GODS JOB LIBRUL

[spoon.ek9]

I'm certainly avoiding US products as much as possible. I absolutely will not spend a dime in their country and this isn't a temporary thing. Hell, just yesterday I was looking up Canadian alternatives for car detailing products lol.

[mikemhg]

I'm being a bit of a traitor, but we might do a 3 month stint in Phoenix starting November or December, that's really to get away from the shit winter weather though.

Outside of that I haven't been taking any trips down to Seattle/Portland like I'd normally do this time of year.

Elbows up baby.

[spoon.ek9]

That reminds me, I still need to exchange my USD for Japanese Yen. I think the rate was pretty good lately.

[BIC_BAWS]

I used Wise to exchange USD for YEN. It works great to hold currency. Tho downside is japanese ATMs require a minimum W/D of 10,000 Yen LOL. Wise works as a cash card as well tho, so combini the shit out of it.

[RevYouUp]

I used Wise to exchange USD for YEN. It works great to hold currency. Tho downside is japanese ATMs require a minimum W/D of 10,000 Yen LOL. Wise works as a cash card as well tho, so combini the shit out of it.

I used my Rogers World Elite MC in Japan and for some reason there was no FX fee on all my transactions. I bought something in USD as well yesterday and there was no fee again. It’s weird, as far as I know there should be a FX fee on the card

[whitev70r]

This thread has the highest number of tangents ...

[bcrdukes]

Perhaps moderators should lock the thread.

How's your DVD-ROM, whitev70r? :lol

[whitev70r]

Perhaps moderators should lock the thread.


But what if Charlie K rises from the dead? :lol

[bcrdukes]

That is true. He's got a lot of young people taking his life's work to the next level.

I'm still genuinely curious about your DVD ROM. :D

[underscore]

This thread has the highest number of tangents ...

I mean it's not like the original topic had a lot of value...

[bcrdukes]

DVD-ROM > Original topic of this thread. :D

[donk.]

But what if Charlie K rises from the dead? :lol

What if he isnt dead, just frozen like walt disney

[Traum]

I used my Rogers World Elite MC in Japan and for some reason there was no FX fee on all my transactions. I bought something in USD as well yesterday and there was no fee again. It’s weird, as far as I know there should be a FX fee on the card
I think that's one of the features of the cards -- no forex fees on foreign currency transactions, plus you get some % of cashback as well.

[SkinnyPupp]

I mean it's not like the original topic had a lot of value...
Imagine how MAD people would have gotten about a comment like this

Now they don't give a shit