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Vancouver-Age |OT| 125 Years
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The Last Emperor
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Yea I'm hype for Cucinelli but it's soooo much cheaper to buy his stuff online lol
TurtleSnatcher
Member
From an American:
Where can I buy a poppy pin to help support Remembersnce Day. Feels like everyone does it here and IT IS AMAZING. I love that.
Where can I buy a poppy pin to help support Remembersnce Day. Feels like everyone does it here and IT IS AMAZING. I love that.
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Most malls have a few cadets out front selling them during the day.
they sell them everywhere. If you can't see anyone on the street, check out e.g. london drugs or similar stores.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Thanks! London Drugs on Robson is on my way into work so will check there. Need to get a bigger umbrella anyways.
get an umbrella from the umbrella store on... uh... hastings and richards? somewhere around there. they cost a bit more (~50 bucks?) but they have a lifetime warranty on the material and offer free repairs if anything breaks.
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Whhaaaaat. Ok. Will do
I grabbed one at Tim Hortons in Harbour Centre today. Pretty much every mall has 'em too.
Oh wow. Though my umbrellas are 50/50 on breaking/losing...
H&M's Balmain collection.
ohhhhhhhh
I mean it'd be hypocritical of me to sit here and throw shade at them considering some of the midnight launches I've attended the last few years
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Just walked by that 15 minutes ago and was perplexed as well.. haha
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Just googled it and that explains why that line had completely different style choices from myself 
It's so damn cold though. I remember lining up for a Wii but thankfully I did it inside Metrotown and starting at 8AM
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
I thought that place closed a year or two ago along with The Keg when they started renovating that building for high-end shops.
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
Hey! Alberni is great for avoiding foot traffic on Robson! (Haro too for that matter, except at night, because skunks =S )
I used to live on Alberni, it's a rad little street for avoiding the high traffic of Robson/West Georgia. It's got a huge BC Liquor too
If you don't mind the occasional shooting at the restaurants.
Thierry is great
beat
Member
But it's a luxury bullets only situation, right?
TurtleSnatcher
Member
So is that road like a no go to walking down? Just curious as I will want to get some Korean BBQ and I believe it's all up there.
It's fine. Just the fancier restaurants are there. And yes Thierry is sooooo good. I should go.
Nah it's fine. I just mean I usually ignore it as it's pricier boutiques in the Alberni & Burrard area. I usually just walk up to Robson and walk down Robson 'til I hit the Korean section.
The best spot for Korean BBQ is the Coquitlam area somewhat near Lougheed but it's a tad far
Robson is a decent alternative for accessibility. I actually like walking down Robson even if it can be busy. Gives me a nice vibe walking it at night.
All the korean restaurants downtown are actually on Robson&Cardero, a bit further than Alberni&Thurlow
but yeah they're just being funny, it's perfectly safe. Alberni is good for spending a lot of money, looking at fancy parked cars and Thierry.The Last Emperor
Member
Smiley, I'll let the new defense minister know that your not a threat to national security.
Fuck Harper
Fuck Harper
Playing for BC Children's Hospital donation here as part of the Extra Life campaign...
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=192390
http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=192390
Silver Arrows
Banned
vancouver.mp4
Tip for not stabbing yourself with the poppy:
Find one of those miniature little Canadian flag pins (the ones that punch through an article of clothing with a short little pin and have a safety clip on the back), ditch the default pin in your poppy and replace it with the flag pin. It puts a little Canadian flag in the middle of your poppy, but I've never seen anyone complain, it mostly scores a bonus point for added patriotism.
If you've got a USA pin and want to show off some USA veterans pride, I imagine that's okay too.
Also, you can go to a craft store (I found mine at a dollar store) and they have those little pins & safety clips so you can glue them onto things and make DIY pins, and you can just color the head of one black with a sharpie so it's an almost-invisible pin upgrade on your standard poppy.
shhh don't tell him it's part of becoming Canadian
Put the tree ON TOP OF THE BUILDING. Problem solved!
I'm not worried about losing the poppy, I just don't like stabbing myself. No matter which way I point the needle (inside, outside, up, down, left, right), I always end up bleeding. Until I discovered the safety clasp.
same here
i didnt want to lose mine so i gave it to my brother and am fully expecting to donate tomorrow to get a new one
TurtleSnatcher
Member
Went to London Drugs and they didn't have any. So I walked back home and found one perfect one on the ground. Terrible I know but I grabbed that :X
J
Jotamide
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I'm just returning to town from a 2-week vacation, how's the weather home? I read it snowed in Grouse already? Pls be true, last year's season sucked. I didn't go snowboarding a single time.
It rained suuuuper hard the lasr few days but it's dry again now. But global warming and the resulting strong el nino probably mean bad snow winter again, despite this early snowfall.
Not terrible at all. Wearing a poppy and donating are two different things. Like, if you bought a poppy but then threw it away and never wore it, that would be a bad thing. Wearing a poppy makes a public show of support and encourages other to do the same, mostly by donating a buck to get a poppy.
You saved a perfectly good poppy from getting stepped on and thrown in the trash. And you started the visual side of your support ASAP. Once you pass a donation box, just throw a buck in while wearing your poppy, and say "No thanks, I already have one." All of your karma will be balanced. You prevented some litter, and you made a volunteer think you're slightly more generous than you actually are.
That's bullshit. It's not defacement, it's an upgrade. I remember when I was a kid, I got a poppy which was miscut, so I grabbed some scissors and repaired it. Does that count as "defacing" a sacred symbol?
Although it's nice to read that it goes on the left. I never really know where to put it.
Also, I liked the green-centered ones. They should bring them back occasionally.
"SURREY, B.C. Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a would-be carjacker is in jail after picking the worst-possible vehicle to try and steal.
Police say a man approached a car at a city intersection Monday evening and tried to pull the driver out of his seat with a goal of stealing the vehicle.
But the mans plans went awry the vehicle was an unmarked police car and the two occupants were undercover officers, who identified themselves and then arrested the man.
Surrey RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scotty Schumann says the officers are both big, burly men and dont look like the kind of guys anyone would want to pick a fight with.
Schumann says the suspect got the ride he wanted, but probably not to the location he was planning.
Twenty-five-year-old Kyle Blair, of Penticton, B.C., is in custody and faces possible charges of robbery and breach of probation."
http://globalnews.ca/news/2331447/m.../?hootPostID=2c7cf62d6a4e026473cdc9a7f262458f
A guy from Penticton getting arrested in Surrey from trying to steal a cop car with two cops sitting in it? Yeup, that sounds about right for a story involving those two cities LOL.
Police say a man approached a car at a city intersection Monday evening and tried to pull the driver out of his seat with a goal of stealing the vehicle.
But the mans plans went awry the vehicle was an unmarked police car and the two occupants were undercover officers, who identified themselves and then arrested the man.
Surrey RCMP spokesman Cpl. Scotty Schumann says the officers are both big, burly men and dont look like the kind of guys anyone would want to pick a fight with.
Schumann says the suspect got the ride he wanted, but probably not to the location he was planning.
Twenty-five-year-old Kyle Blair, of Penticton, B.C., is in custody and faces possible charges of robbery and breach of probation."
http://globalnews.ca/news/2331447/m.../?hootPostID=2c7cf62d6a4e026473cdc9a7f262458f
A guy from Penticton getting arrested in Surrey from trying to steal a cop car with two cops sitting in it? Yeup, that sounds about right for a story involving those two cities LOL.
WrenchNinja
Member
Hope everyone is enjoying the rain today
Mr Nash
square pies = communism
I've been thoroughly impressed with some of the lakes forming in streets around town and even more impressed by how many people don't even try to slow down for them. Honestly surprised that no one flooded their engine on a couple of occasions.