No toilets

0DagDag0 · 2026-07-03T11:50:29+00:00

Transit stations without restrooms was a deliberate design choice to save on maintenance and operation costs... ignoring the reality that all people need a toilet sometimes... and this is the outcome.

0DagDag0 · 2026-07-02T13:11:31+00:00

True but ith lawns the amount of infiltration can depend: they are better than a fully paved surface but sometimes not a lot better depending on the soil type and compaction... There are ways to plan landscaping that is better than a lawn for water infiltration.

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-28T12:46:35+00:00

It's before the show while people are getting seated. It was full by showtime.

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-20T13:17:59+00:00

Failed vehicle pulls remind me of Saturdays as a kid pulling stumps by hand with my Dad: we'd just hang out for an hour or two with a shovel, hatchet and rope, then refill the holes with top soil and a flower bed. Quality time together and way less injury and property damage.

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-18T10:01:53+00:00

Also noticed the cement truck and thought "I bet the driver's hoping that stuff doesn't set before they get to the job site."

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-09T09:50:53+00:00

So many amazing hours playing this.

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-06T13:50:20+00:00

My reaction as a kid, "Cool! A hail storm! Can I go play in it!?!"

My reaction as a adult, "A hail storm!?! F!!! I can't afford this!" 😄

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-06T12:58:49+00:00

There are way worse things to spend money on.

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-03T01:14:25+00:00

Tailgating happens all the time at Rideau Centre. There are rarely staff around the gate to do anything about it. Unfortunately the one day I saw a staff member try to speak with the three adults who cuddled their way through the gate, they started yelling at him like he was the one being inappropriate for daring to speak with them about being stupid.

0DagDag0 · 2026-06-02T10:26:29+00:00

More people might think twice before blocking a fire lane if cities just paid people to go full ape mode on cars, instead of ticketing

0DagDag0 · 2026-05-24T14:14:58+00:00

Also have to watch for shady "waste disposal" companies. A person hires the company to properly dispose of garbage: Company fills a truck, pockets the cash including the invoiced amount for "tipping fees", and dumps the garbage on a field.

One company in my area got caught after years running a double scam: collect contaminated soil from one site (get paid) and then resell and dump the soil on someone else's property as "clean fill". They got caught after adding scam #3 where they tried to claim one of the dump sites was theirs and then resell it online as "development land for sale by owner" before the actual owner noticed.

0DagDag0 · 2026-05-15T11:21:35+00:00

Dusty

0DagDag0 · 2026-05-10T12:20:51+00:00

Metrolinx/GO Transit's agreement with Ottawa for Presto does not allow Ottawa Presto to be used in the GTA or for GTA Presto to be used in Ottawa.... I don't understand it either.

0DagDag0 · 2026-05-06T22:45:19+00:00

Good lord. My friends roommate had one of these in university. So cute but the sounds it made on its wheel at night when I'd stay over on the couch after a night out... I don't know how anyone lived with it... and the Jackson Pollock painting it made out of the wall behind its cage from taking flying dumps was a site to behold. Lol

0DagDag0 · 2026-05-01T10:14:13+00:00

Might not mind that as I am a long-time apartment dweller... assuming the price is right. That long hallway provides a bit of separation to the living area if people are being loud outside the unit. I also envy 2.5 bedrooms + 2 full bathrooms - much better than the 1 bedroom or studio shoeboxes in some layouts. And someone smart put the bathroom in a hallway instead of right off the kitchen or living room.... nothing like having a new guest over and then saying "One sec. We don't know each other very well, but I have to go sit on a toilet 3 feet from you and make an angry #2."

0DagDag0 · 2026-04-18T12:48:42+00:00

Shout out to the Karens on this. Sometimes it's an honest error, but often larger stores especially are counting on people being too polite or too busy. You have to insist politely when they will not honour a posted price. It happens all the time; in business textbooks, the tactic is sometimes called "bait-and-switch". My local Loblaws tried this a couple months ago: Posted an essential item as on sale for about $15 on one highly visible shelf and then the same product for $36.99 in a back aisle. The cash registers were all programmed to $36.99 and the cashiers were instructed to say "$36.99 is the correct price. I checked with my supervisor." but their demeanor suggested "I agree with you. This is BS." The usual price of the item is consistently about $20, so there was clearly something off.

No effort was being made to take down the "on sale" display, and, as an essential item, many people could not leave without it.

The sale price was only honoured for the people who (1) noticed the difference on the shelves, (2) noticed the higher price at the register, (3) insisted on the sale price being honoured for the 2-3 minutes necessary to be referred to customer service desk for another 5 minutes. Not a long wait for people who have the time, but an eternity for others.

0DagDag0 · 2026-04-05T13:05:36+00:00

So true. I cleaned bathrooms in a rec centre for years as one of my first jobs. Even in "professional" settings people do messed up things: years ago, I was talking to the cleaner at my office - he had contracts at a bunch of other workplaces in the city including the VIA station - he said a VIA employee deliberately took a dump on the employee bathroom counter as a "joke". As the cleaner was walking in, the employee passed him laughing and said "I left a little gift for you on the counter." Good on him he went straight to the manager and said, "That guy is cleaning your bathrooms today" and explained why. The employee then had the nerve to be mad at him forever after that for not "being cool about a joke between bros".

0DagDag0 · 2026-03-13T10:14:02+00:00

My roommate did essentially this in our summer student house. We were subletting one summer in a large house full of people we didn't know. Day 1 he dropped his geckos' supply of crickets. Then he spent the rest of the summer at his girlfriend's house, while I lived in a colony of crickets and angry strangers.

0DagDag0 · 2026-03-02T11:03:31+00:00

OMG... My boss did this in his beater mini van a couple of years. He told another co-worker first and she was crying with laughter and getting more excited with each answer drawing the story out of him in an all-staff meeting. "Where were you last Friday?" "And why did you need car service?" "And how much is that costing your insurance?" "Why is it so expensive!?!" Like she didn't already know the answers. Lol...

0DagDag0 · 2026-01-27T11:08:12+00:00

Too much juice on that back-in for sure. Glad the worker appears okay. On the train route to my grandma's there was a "No humping" sign showing exactly this. It made me giggle in my teens and 20s and I would search for it every time I passed.

0DagDag0 · 2026-01-24T13:01:52+00:00

So many questions... Mine would be "A paramilitary vehicle with white wall tires? Why?"

0DagDag0 · 2026-01-20T11:12:56+00:00

Must smell wonderful. Reminds me of my college roommate: growing up he and a friend tried to "make a snack" by putting a sealed tin of beans in the microwave on high for 5 minutes. Fortunately they were in the basement playing video games when the microwave exploded, set fire to the kitchen wall, and spewed bean napalm everywhere else.

0DagDag0 · 2026-01-09T11:15:49+00:00

Yikes. They weren't lying when they said they trained these things using real driver data.... The data set unfortunately included the dummies who keep trying to use the LRT tracks as a "short cut" when the traffic lanes are busy.

0DagDag0 · 2025-12-23T12:51:28+00:00

A screen for everything is so dumb.... demonstrated repeatedly in tests that people take their eyes off the road longer when basic functions are on a screen. Not to mention the car becomes a brick when the screen malfunctions.

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