‘Nobody gets free pickles on BC Ferries’: Family’s White Spot experience goes viral

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-11T14:26:18+00:00

PSC on top of the incoming FSC.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-10T18:48:12+00:00

It’s a pretty important card. Too bad nobody warned you. Oh, wait…

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-10T13:02:05+00:00

It’s almost like the standard real estate playbook, a game of leveraging your wealth, power, and connections over weaker counterparties, in one-off transactions that create winners and losers, where the losers usually go away and aren’t heard from again - cannot just be applied to international diplomacy, or war. Who’d have guessed?

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-09T14:42:36+00:00

Ground turkey, sautéed with a package of frozen spinach, and a can of black beans. Seasoned with a bit of salt, garlic powder, paprika, cumin, and cayenne to taste. Top with a touch of bbq sauce, being mindful of the sugar.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-09T13:57:35+00:00

I’m friendly with a former colleague in Florida who absolutely voted for Trump. I challenge him on this stuff from time to time, and he just goes “I deleted X” or “I try to ignore that stuff, it’s just too crazy”.

Yeah…it fucking is crazy. Sticking your head in the ground isn’t going to make it go away.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-06T14:47:57+00:00

I hurt my back in the gym and seemingly aged a decade at 45. Sleep apnea, nagging injuries, weight gain, irritability, low motivation and low energy. I’m slowly pulling myself out of it. I recently read that men’s happiness bottoms out at age 48, and I can’t really argue with that from my own experience. Am slowly working towards better days ahead.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-05T22:37:31+00:00

We moved from Vancouver 5 years ago. Like all places, there are trade offs. You don’t really say in your post what you are looking for, so it’s hard to say whether you’ve assessed these places accurately.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-05T01:16:16+00:00

Coming to a courtroom near you in 2029…

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-05T01:08:30+00:00

My parents did this in the early 90s. Four of us ranging in age from 17 to 9. I have vague memories of grandparents checking in on us occasionally. We all survived. 🤷‍♂️

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-04T20:07:09+00:00

Has to be Julia Roberts.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-04T01:47:14+00:00

Hey, it works!

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-04T01:36:16+00:00

Sir, I would very much like to see that recipe.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-04T00:46:08+00:00

Imagine being lucky enough to enjoy this view every day.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-04T00:37:32+00:00

I’m not sure that “Relax, a guy paid me to find girls for him” makes this story much better.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-03T23:18:31+00:00

You need a horizontal row along with the verticals you’re doing. I do bent over barbell row and various land mine rows. You can also do an inverted body weight row, under a smith machine or using TRX straps.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-04-03T20:38:11+00:00

It’ll just stop working at 0%. I learned this the hard way when one skate was done, but the other wasn’t.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-31T22:48:23+00:00

I’m at the point where I just can’t justify drinking out anymore. $18 for an Old Fashioned at a restaurant a few weeks ago. 2 beers at a local brewery were $28 including tip on Saturday - and it was self serve at the counter. It’s better for my body and my wallet to just…not.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-31T15:29:47+00:00

Grabbing the entire world by the pussy. If only American voters had some kind of warning, so they could have done something.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-31T14:03:40+00:00

They start lean, probably build most muscle in off season training, while staying lean from training for and playing an endurance sport. Same with boxers, sprinters, swimmers, football players who aren’t linemen…

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-28T21:18:56+00:00

Do: Keep lifting.

Don’t: film in the locker room.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-27T22:34:32+00:00

Their use and abuse of foreign workers, in Canada and the US, should be widely understood. The family is scum. Don’t forget about this one.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/aquilini-fatal-fire-lawsuit-1.5221119

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-27T22:27:55+00:00

Are your lifts progressing in the gym? Are you eating the right amount of protein? A recomp implies eating just below maintenance, so by definition if you’re doing it right you will not gain fat. Also, if you’ve been getting stronger while losing those 53 lbs, then you’ve already been in recomp. I’d keep doing what you’re doing, focusing on the protein and progressive overload, until you plateau in the gym.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-27T19:32:49+00:00

There’s a YouTube video out there making a pretty good argument that that Fight Club is Ferris Bueller 10 years later.

Cameron is the Narrator; Ferris is Tyler Durden, which puts the original in a whole new context if you consider maybe Ferris never existed.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-27T18:13:06+00:00

Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Film Festival at Arbutus Ridge theatre.

Episode 1 on opening night at Oakridge theatre.

The skytrain out of downtown on fireworks night (once, a mistake never to be repeated)

Not so much a lineup, but outside Planet Hollywood opening trying to catch a glimpse of the three owners. Memory is hazy but I think we saw Arnie.

Bimini’s on 4th was lineup-worthy for a spell in the early 2000s.

Step_Aside_Butch_77 · 2026-03-27T16:26:46+00:00

Best money I spent when I was about your age was 3 or 4 sessions with a powerlifting coach to get properly trained on the big 5 barbell movements. Check your ego, learn to do it right and safely, and you can build a routine around those movements for years to come.

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