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Cultural Imperial posted:the only way this scene gets better is when you spazz out on some stairs and throw yourself into said ocean to die of drowning It could happen! Everything is hilly and uneven so there's better than normal odds.
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May 19, 2016 19:44
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Cultural Imperial posted:your canpol gravestone reads RIP here lies the greatest mcgill grad ever "Here lies PT6A, a oval office"
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May 19, 2016 19:45
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Cultural Imperial posted:My brother in law bought a 1500 sqft penthouse at Ubc. I sure hope hootsuite IPOs soon for his sake I was there when UBC tore a sizeable strip off the endowment lands to build more ugly condos. The wrong part of the country burned down imo.
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May 19, 2016 20:07
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Nocturtle posted:I was there when UBC tore a sizeable strip off the endowment lands to build more ugly condos. The wrong part of the country burned down imo. 
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May 19, 2016 20:14
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PT6A posted:$180/month on wine is a lot? That's a good bottle of wine every other day even with Sweden's insanely high prices. 
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May 19, 2016 20:37
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Rime posted:If you kill yourself due to the crushing poverty imposed by our society and you don't first try to take out a few politicians who put you there, or at least Jimmy Patterson, you're basically a retard. note that this is how WWI started. Kind of.
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May 19, 2016 21:06
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Xoidanor posted:That's a good bottle of wine every other day even with Sweden's insanely high prices. A good (not great, even) bottle of wine runs significantly more than than $12 in Canada. I'll admit I overestimated my own consumption by a little bit, but that's still not that much. That's about 9 good bottles of wine per month, or 250 mL (2 glasses) per day. That's on the high end of what you should be regularly consuming, but it's still not particularly extravagant. The cellphone bill, for example, seems more out-of-line to me.
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May 19, 2016 21:24
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On decent phones with most telecoms now to pay the least for your phone you have to take a 2 year contract with a minimum monthly bill of $80 before tax. Also most telecoms have really low data caps so there's a lot of folks going over theirs these days. When I go over my data cap my monthly bill comes out to like $101 after tax.
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May 19, 2016 21:27
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Le Saboteur posted:On decent phones with most telecoms now to pay the least for your phone you have to take a 2 year contract with a minimum monthly bill of $80 before tax. Also most telecoms have really low data caps so there's a lot of folks going over theres these days. When I go over my data cap my monthly bill comes out to like $101 after tax. So? You're amortizing the cost of that new phone over the contract period. My cellphone bill is just shy of $100 as well, but it's no mystery why: I picked a huge plan, and I bought a pricey phone at a discount. I can bitch about the cost of cellphone plans in Canada in general, but I can't say that I'm getting ripped off any more than any other Canadian. I could've kept my old plan and stripped back my plan and it'd be half.
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May 19, 2016 21:36
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PT6A posted:So? You're amortizing the cost of that new phone over the contract period. My cellphone bill is just shy of $100 as well, but it's no mystery why: I picked a huge plan, and I bought a pricey phone at a discount. I can bitch about the cost of cellphone plans in Canada in general, but I can't say that I'm getting ripped off any more than any other Canadian. I could've kept my old plan and stripped back my plan and it'd be half. I mean yeah, the girl could have got a cheap rear end flip phone or something but there's not a lot of options out there if you want a modern phone and a cheap plan is all I'm saying.
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May 19, 2016 21:41
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Le Saboteur posted:I mean yeah, the girl could have got a cheap rear end flip phone or something but there's not a lot of options out there if you want a modern phone and a cheap plan is all I'm saying. You could just buy a phone out of contract. There are plenty of very competent smartphones between cheap-rear end flip-phone and iPhone 6s.
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May 19, 2016 21:51
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You can absolutely have a modern smart phone and pay less than $50 a month. I've got some sort of samsung something or other, it was free with my plan which is about $35 a month. As long as you don't get data phones can be really cheap, and free wifi is basically everywhere. \/ If you can't check facebook while driving through a rural area you might as well be living in a cave. Baronjutter fucked around with this message at 22:07 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 19, 2016 21:56
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I bought an iphone 5S for like $250-ish from someone on the forums when the 6 was just released. I pay $5 a month for 250 text messages (I usually use 200 or so) and am on a 1c/min evenings and weekends plan, so my mom knows to only call me after 8. Usually a $100 card from Rogers lasts me about 6 months.
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May 19, 2016 22:06
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HookShot posted:I bought an iphone 5S for like $250-ish from someone on the forums when the 6 was just released. Living the dream brah, yo can you enable a hotspot I'm on data. Ma I said don't call me until after 8 WTF you calling me at 6 thirty
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May 19, 2016 22:13
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I'm not going to bother with a phone once I move back to Canada, poo poo's not worth it. I work in an area where I can't have a phone, most of the remaining time I'll be at home where I'll have a landline, and any old cell that holds a charge can dial 911 for emergences when I'm not at either. e. 
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May 19, 2016 23:21
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jm20 posted:Living the dream brah, yo can you enable a hotspot I'm on data. Ma I said don't call me until after 8 WTF you calling me at 6 thirty Yes talking to my mom an hour and a half earlier when it's less convenient for both of us is definitely worth hundreds of extra dollars a year.
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May 19, 2016 23:46
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Look at all these scrubs that don't know how to get on a Saskatchewan plan from out of province. 
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Cultural Imperial posted:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/glob...rticle30068252/ $17 for a girl's haircut is pretty impressive though. Pretty sure my wife spends closer to $71.
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HookShot posted:Yes talking to my mom an hour and a half earlier when it's less convenient for both of us is definitely worth hundreds of extra dollars a year. that guy always says he makes a lot of money so it's no big deal to him
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McGavin posted:Look at all these scrubs that don't know how to get on a Saskatchewan plan from out of province. Stop ruining my telecom dividends you monster.
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May 20, 2016 01:57
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large hands posted:that guy always says he makes a lot of money so it's no big deal to him I probably make more than he does, I like to waste my money on poo poo that I'll actually use.
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May 20, 2016 01:58
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HookShot posted:I probably make more than he does, I like to waste my money on poo poo that I'll actually use. Have you considered a million dollar home in the suburbs yet? This is the Canadian dream.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:$17 for a girl's haircut is pretty impressive though. Pretty sure my wife spends closer to $71. It was per month, so $51 quarterly is what they said
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May 20, 2016 02:45
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jm20 posted:Have you considered a million dollar home in the suburbs yet? This is the Canadian dream.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/the-market/new-mortgage-rules-aimed-at-preventing-market-slowdown-documents-show/article30099264/quote:Ottawa aimed to tread lightly with new mortgage rules, documents show So, there you have it, we have no sub-prime guys, when are government is acknowledging it permits defacto sub prime lending. strongest, most enviable banking system in the world u guys
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Keep lending to sub prime borrowers that are borrowing to qualify to borrow. Where have we seen this before.........................................
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But this is Canada, so the outcome won't be like what happened in America because the banks won't fail. Prices will still go down.
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not from canadar, but it ought to be 
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jm20 posted:Keep lending to sub prime borrowers that are borrowing to qualify to borrow. Where have we seen this before......................................... Plus the whole hilarity how people are loaning money just to make the downpayment requirement.
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May 20, 2016 15:10
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Rennie has been talking about this for years now. From 2014: quote:
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I really loved growing up poor and financially strained, working hard in school while working a job throughout, to get a decent career afterwards to escape my previous poverty style living. Now I am at the top of my peers in financial wealth and stability, because everyone wanted the white picket fence, 2 cars, big suburb house. Meanwhile I still live like I'm in poverty to save my money for a piece of land in the wilderness where I can grow my own food. I will likely buy this piece of land before even considering owning a house in the suburb. The writing is on the wall, we want all those fancy things that our parents/rich people had? Prepare to live in slavery for your entire life, there is no way our generation can afford a comparable lifestyle as our parents, not when everyone in the buying chain of housing(bank, real estate agent, dude who makes the house buying app, etc.) wants a cut of the minute steak that is your salary. Nothing is wrong with wanting nice things, we should even aspire to get everyone up to a decent standard of living. Capitalism is dying, and we are inhaling all of the corpse fumes. This country's entire situation is incredibly depressing when suicide looks like a decent and practical replacement for retirement. Also I stopped my brain meds to save a bit more money 
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Except the things our parents had were lovely to begin with. Why the gently caress would I want a suburban house? I've got to drive everywhere, and I've got to pay some lackwit to mow my lawn or shovel snow when I go away. Why do people pay extra money for more aggravation and responsibility? And my car could probably go get hosed if transit weren't such complete poo poo in Canada. Even our "good" transit systems are an embarrassment. PT6A fucked around with this message at 18:15 on May 20, 2016 |
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May 20, 2016 18:05
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Fried Watermelon posted:. you should probably reconsider that choice
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Fried Watermelon posted:I really loved growing up poor and financially strained, working hard in school while working a job throughout, to get a decent career afterwards to escape my previous poverty style living. It's funny. I met up with an old friend yesterday and we spent about 6 hours talking about the state of the world. He's doing very well, working in finance and influencing policy back east, but even he agrees that we're headed to a very dark place very fast and doesn't see a lot of hope. He independently shared my belief that, never having suffered any form of war or civil strife or natural disaster, Canadians are going to suffer the worst of any western nation in the decades ahead. 
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Rime posted:It's funny. I met up with an old friend yesterday and we spent about 6 hours talking about the state of the world. He's doing very well, working in finance and influencing policy back east, but even he agrees that we're headed to a very dark place very fast and doesn't see a lot of hope. be specific m'lud
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/glob...rticle30102455/quote:Bidding war blues: 'Are you kidding me?' hahahah I hope everyone thinks like this. It's gonna be so loving awesome when the majority of people are owning houses they can't afford.
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quote:It’s like running a marathon, or mixed martial arts. It’s not normal Hrm
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Concrete: The Canadian economy is irreparably headed for the shitter and most people in Ottawa know it. The housing bubble is going to torpedo the west, but they can't do anything to stop it. We have little native industry left, are decades behind other countries when it comes to R&D in any field, and there is no political will to improve the matter because it might risk the status quo. Just to keep extraction industries functioning we are lowering our safety standards to levels that developing nations would balk at. Cynical: The rise of megacorporatism has resulted in the capture of government by monied rather than public interests, resulting in top brass decisions like the sale of Hydro 1 for the benefit of lobbyists, while lower departments roll out plans like Ontario's green energy independence initiative (4+ Billion to improve energy infrastructure and replace 50% of vehicles with electric in 15 years). Burning cash and public wellbeing on both ends. Dark: Climate change has the serious potential to wipe out Canadian food security entirely by rendering our major producing areas useless by about 2030. We will be hit late, so our resources will be stretched thin by pressure from nations already crumbling to these circumstances, such as Syria. Working age Canadians have, on average, never known a greater struggle in their lives than being a bit low on truck equity. Throw decades of low-un employment, rocketing food prices, and crumbling public institutions at them? The country will probably bulkanize and one day it won't be "lol gently caress Alberta", it will be "gently caress Albertans". This is, again, coming from a wealthy and highly educated man with his finger on the pulse of the nation. 
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Rime posted:Concrete: The Canadian economy is irreparably headed for the shitter and most people in Ottawa know it. Give me more detail man
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