I could do without Ford putting the absolute shittiest fucking tires on their cars. God damn car is a year old, couldn't get up a fucking hill with less than an inch of snow yesterday. '86 Bonnevilles and 91 Caravans making me look bad out here, Ford, with your shitty Continentals with one of the worst ratings on Tirerack.
Anything to do with any type of weather less than 75 degrees and sunny. Fuck snow, fuck rain, fuck ice, fuck layers of clothing, fuck wind, fuck boots, fuck gloves & dexterity loss, fuck wearing jackets while driving, fuck windshield wiper fluid, fuck gas bills, fuck blankets. I hate it all!!
And I'll go opposite. I would love to live without weather that is above maybe 13C (55F). I HATE HATE HATE warm/hot weather.
you live in the perfect place in the world then!
No way, summers are still a living hell for me. It's usually 22 - 30C in the summer, even hotter in a real heat wave. It makes me want to die, lol.
ok, I guess I was comparing it to anywhere else in canada. you don't have to fuck around with winter, and it's relatively cool in the summer, AND YOU HAVE NO MOSQUITOES.
The moistness of the air in winnipeg in mid summer is disgusting. everything and everyone is wet as fuck.
"what, only 22 today?" "look at the humidex" "35??? WTF????"
We have plenty of mosquitoes actually. The Okanagan doesn't have them because it's a desert-like region, but most of the rest of BC gets loads of them - more and more the farther north you go (yes, reaching Winnipeg levels, and worse), but the Vancouver area has plenty too, although some years are way better than others. We've got all those forests and woods and lakes and ponds - prime breeding conditions. Not to say that Winnipeg isn't awful in the summers - from those who have told me and from the news, I know that area is like hell on Earth in the summer, lol, and that the mosquitoes are fucking crazy. Definitely way, way worse than Vancouver from what I'm told. Still, mosquitoes are the bane of my existence in the summer. I hate them.
weird, everyone I know from vancouver comes to visit Winnipeg and they turn into one giant mosquito bite because they don't experience it in van. and no one there uses screens on their windows because it's not a problem. I've been there in the summer a number of times and don't recall getting bitten once.
maybe you live near a bog? LOL
No, lol. The mosquitoes are real here. They just aren't comparable to Winnipeg until you get farther north. But yes, you will find way more in damper places, but the difference isn't a matter of this city vs another. The difference is one block vs another. And i guess there are very few in downtown Vancouver outside of Stanley Park, since there are no other breeding grounds downtown. So yeah, you could get lucky and not get bitten, but you could just as likely have 10 bites at the same time, depending on where you happened to go and when. Luck of the draw.
Your friends are a bit full of it, haha. Tons of people in Metro Vancouver have window screens to keep mosquitoes out. But many also don't. It more seems like an older person thing now that I think about it. I don't... and I get mosquitoes in my apartment - it really just depends on the weather that week. I have never gone a summer without at least a few bites, and in other summers I've had 20 bites at one time. Just depends on where you happen to go and when. Anyway, all of our stores are well-stocked with Off! mosquito repellent, so that pretty much tells the story I guess, lol. But again, yeah, it's nothing like Winnipeg. Compared to there I'm sure it does kind of feel like there aren't any here (and ours are usually tiny too), but that's just relative perception speaking I think. However, people have been commenting for the last few years about the surprisingly low number of mosquitoes compared to years past. Climate change, most think.
well I wasn't just going by what friends say, as I often think vancouver people tend to exaggerate the awesomeness of van vs peg (one peg expat friend of mine insisted he wore shorts to school on valentine's day, and that this was a regular ocurrence), it's by what I've seen/experienced. I stayed for a week in mid-summer in kits and nary a mosquito to be found. walked around stanley park for hours and nothing. outdoor patios outside of downtown, right near the ocean and forest, etc. I've been there several times in downtown and in suburbs in summer and never got a bite. But I haven't been anywhere outside of Vancouver in BC in 30 years.
maybe I just didn't notice them as in winnipeg they seem to be the size and viciousness of hawks. LOL.
montreal was the same for us. no screens anywhere, all restaurants everywhere had windows open, etc. it was paradise to a prairie dweller.
Maybe you have bitter blood? I dunno man! I don't recall being bothered at any beaches either (the sand fleas are sometimes a nuisance at those though), but I know I've been eaten alive in Stanley Park and most other forested places unless it's been unusually dry. But yeah, my version of a lot of mozzies and yours are probably different, lol. Although I did paddle the Bowron Lakes before, just south of Prince George, and that is where I learned what a LOT of mosquitoes really means. We had to wear netting..
Unfollowing Facebook pages just for Trump trolls polluting Facebook. I've been banned a handful of times this year just for hurting alt Reich Nazi "feewings." They talk about how they shouldn't be censored yet report when they can't handle insults towards them.
I could do without people who rent out their houses full well knowing that their houses emit the disgusting smell of death...
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Driving a few hours south to get to see a friend. Why can't I just twitch my nose and be right there? (Highway driving and it ain't pretty.)
Stay safe out there! (I've always been terrified of driving in snow or ice, so I worry).
Thank you! Drove down to hang out with Derby Dave. Went on the Columbus vinyl tour and had a great dinner. The roads weren't too bad on the way back up. Salt trucks out everywhere.
I could do without people who rent out their houses full well knowing that their houses emit the disgusting smell of death...
Wait.. what?!?! Eww that would be a huge issue.
some friends rented a house for the holiday weekend, as soon as we walked in, we gagged because of the smell. opened all of the windows and turned the heat up to 80*. That smell never went away...I even sprayed odor neutralizer on the heater filter. I've worked in a vet clinic...you *know* "that smell". it was so disgusting.
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
I could do without people who rent out their houses full well knowing that their houses emit the disgusting smell of death...
Wait.. what?!?! Eww that would be a huge issue.
some friends rented a house for the holiday weekend, as soon as we walked in, we gagged because of the smell. opened all of the windows and turned the heat up to 80*. That smell never went away...I even sprayed odor neutralizer on the heater filter. I've worked in a vet clinic...you *know* "that smell". it was so disgusting.
Yeah! Ewww ewwww eeeeeeewww! Sorry you had to survive that!
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