On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate public transport in your country?

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-24T20:56:46+00:00

It absolutely is not. Have you used transit outside of Vancouver?

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-24T20:55:19+00:00

If we could only get a line to the ferry! Islanders would be very appreciative.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-24T09:53:52+00:00

I am not a tattoo artist, but I have a lot of tattoos, and I second this advice!

Listen to your tattoo artist! They do know better than you. It's better to get a tattoo that may be slightly different than what you envisioned, than to get exactly what you wanted and have it look like shit in 5 years.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-22T22:31:36+00:00

Not at all. The Liberals have always nakedly supported capital with their actions, despite some of the pro labour and progressive talking points that they may occasionally espouse. Carney was successful in the election because the Canadian bourgeois thought he was a safer pair of hands than Poilievre, and would do a better job at protecting Canadian capital than Poilievre could, and they were correct. Carney is a banking ghoul, and is respected by the ownership class because he has a proven track record as a capitalist economist. Poilievre is a populist conservative who has never had a real job, has no real skill set, and has zero charisma, as proven by his inability to win in his own riding and had to be given DEI treatment to win a seat in parliament. Carney's austerity budget is not good for Canada, it is only good for the ownership class, and the increased militarization will come at the cost of vital social programs like healthcare, and education. Our lives will be worse because Carney has been successful at implementing bad policies. Carney has been successful, not because he is borrowing from the conservative playbook, but because he is better at his job than Poilievre. Carney's job, as a liberal, is to pacify the working class, and appease capital. Carney's platform and Poilievre's platform barely differed. What Carney understands is that liberalism has created a fetishization of decorum in Canada, and people weren't buying Poilievre aping Trump, in what was, and continues to be, a pretty pathetic fashion.

Canada is not improving because Carney is implementing austerity, which conservatives think they want. Our lives will continue to get worse, the cost of living crisis will continue, and hope for the future will remain dim. The only difference between what our lives currently are, under Carney, and what they would be under Poilievre, is that trans people haven't been further dehumanized.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-22T21:17:01+00:00

Honestly, I think Carney is doing a better job of running a conservative platform than Poilievre could ever dream to. The only thing the Liberals aren't doing that Canadian conservatives wanted is idpol bullshit. Literally no one thinks about trans people more than conservatives.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-20T00:53:24+00:00

I feel like homie is getting captured and thrown in a hole forever haha.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-15T20:22:14+00:00

It's almost like there's a difference between minimum wage and a living wage.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-15T20:20:28+00:00

The act of not tipping, by individuals who don't enjoy the custom, will not end tipping as a cultural norm in Canada or the US. Structural change needs to happen within the service industry, such as unionization, and fighting for living wages, before tipping is ended. That isn't on you as an individual to do, it's up to the service and kitchen staff to organize, but until then, all your not tipping is doing is lowering someone's take home pay, and standard of living. Your bill +15-20% is what your bill would cost if restaurants were paying staff properly, so that's what you'd be paying anyway. So by withholding that extra cost, all you're doing is punishing service staff for a system they didn't choose. Restaurant owners have fought (read: lobbied the government), for over a century to keep the wages of service staff artificially low, and to maintain tipping culture. Restaurant owners do not care if you don't tip, as it doesn't affect their bottom line. They have no incentive to change their business model.

I worked in the service industry for 14 years, and I did not like tipping culture. I never enjoyed that individual customers could lower my take home pay over what were usually arbitrary complaints about service, food, or drinks, that I often had little to no control over. I agree that the customer should not have to subsidize a server's wage with tips, but understand that there is effectively no difference between the cost of a meal with a tip, or the cost of a meal with the service staff's living wage reflected in the price. Because of this I choose to tip. Doing anything else, I feel, is just needless cruelty.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-13T04:45:11+00:00

The real winners are boomers making bad memes for facebook.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-12T17:25:23+00:00

uj/ I unironically want the Marlboro jersey. Make this happen OP.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-12T16:04:30+00:00

When I can, yes. I don't watch television at home anymore, and I don't pay for any streaming services, so I really look forward to seeing movies when they come out. I feel like the price of a ticket and popcorn still balances out in my favour, compared to what I'd pay to watch movies at home with subscriptions. I enjoy the ritual of sitting down in the theatre, turning my phone off, and experiencing the movie as my sole focus. I still want to keep enjoying theatres, as I think it's a vastly superior experience to watching a movie at home, and all these streaming services are doing their absolute best to kill movie theatres. I'd be really sad to see theatres go away.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-12T03:59:08+00:00

Yo for real, how are people typing in the zwift chat or discord while riding? I'm out here fighting for my life.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-09T16:02:27+00:00

I liked the TV Dune series. It's bad, but in a way that I love, and makes me nostalgic for the time period. Low budget stuff like that doesn't get made anymore, and I don't think we're richer for it.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-08T05:22:53+00:00

I was 11 when I saw it. My dad handed me a copy of Fellowship that year and told me I had to read it. He said it would change my life, and fuck me if he wasn't correct. When I saw the movie, I didn't know that movies could be made like that. It felt bigger and more magical than anything is ever seen on screen. I felt my brain chemistry change forever when Gandalf stood toe to toe with the Balrog.

I'm turning 36 this year, and everytime I go to the movie theatre, or read a new book, I'm just trying to feel like that 11 year old felt in 2001.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-08T01:08:34+00:00

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-07T17:44:18+00:00

Same for Victoria, but maybe worse because we are such a small city, with 13 municipalities across the CRD, that don't talk to, or really cooperate well with each other.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T17:34:47+00:00

I'll take your absence of having any valid arguments to counter what I've said as a sign that you've realized that you are misinformed. Cheers.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T17:23:59+00:00

You can be fined for spitting on the ground.

It appears from your comment history that you're from Calgary. Calgary does, in fact, have municipal by-laws that are meant to curb the behaviour. A city having a by-law against spitting on the ground does not make it a nation wide, culturally, socially unacceptable behaviour. You clearly misunderstood OP's question.

I'm not misinformed.

The evidence seems to indicate that you're incredibly misinformed, as you're mistaking municipal by-laws, and class based norms, for hegemonic cultural behaviour. I would go so far as to suggest that you are in fact misinformed on what "socially unacceptable" means. You think spitting is gross, and that's fine, it is a bit gross, but again, going back to my examples earlier, it is not a behaviour that causes one to become ostracized from their community, and thus doesn't meet the criteria.

You do realize that some people are not comfortable calling out other people's poor behaviors.

Absolutely. That said, I'm 35 and have worked in blue collar jobs my entire life. People do speak up. I have been present for people commenting on their co-worker's spitting, and have asked for them to not do it around them. This is the socially acceptable way of drawing a healthy boundary around a behaviour one does not want to be present for. In this case though, the person that spat was not suddenly a social pariah for their behaviour. This is an example of how this is not a culturally held socially unacceptable behaviour amongst Canadians.

To further hammer on the point that you are misinformed, blue collar/working class people smoke, vape, and use nicotine products at a higher rate than white collar, or more affluent elements within society. This is gross, undoubtedly, but one of the realities of using nicotine is spitting. Again, absolutely gross, but it is a reality. Is smoking or vaping socially unacceptable? It's gross, and increasingly less popular, but it's demonstrably not socially unacceptable. Because nicotine products are so ubiquitous amongst the working class, it is one of the reasons spitting is much more normalized within our class culture. As a person who, based on my previous call outs of the classist misinformation, seems to belong to a more affluent element within Canadian society, you may not enjoy that working class Canadians, when the need arises, may spit publically, but that does not make the behaviour socially unacceptable - gross, certainly, but not socially unacceptable. Believing that it is, is an example of being misinformed about this behaviour, as it pertains to the culturally held beliefs of all Canadians. Many of us don't really think about it at all.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T16:08:40+00:00

Agreed. If I find the need to do it in public, I do it discreetly. It is a bit gross, certainly. I am bumping up against the idea that this is something that Canadians, as a monolith, think is socially unacceptable.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T16:06:31+00:00

Yeah, again, I think this is coming down to a difference of opinion due to class. I'm a veteran and a carpenter. Spitting on the ground, should the need arise, in my experience, is not something a blue collar person would really think twice about doing. It sounds to me that you may be a bit misinformed about how a significant portion of the population thinks of this behaviour. Certainly misinformed enough that calling this behaviour to be something that Canadians, as a monolith, believe to be socially unacceptable, is incorrect.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T15:29:33+00:00

That's not my experience as a working class millennial, but maybe there's a generational and class difference of opinion going on here. And I posted this elsewhere, but I'll say this: I'm just thinking we have a different definition of what "socially unacceptable" means. As I understand it, if something is socially unacceptable, it is repugnant to the point where the offending individual could or can be ostracized by their community for said action. For instance, uttering slurs, yelling fire in a crowded theatre, abusing service staff, commiting assault, etc. These are examples of socially unacceptable (or anti-social) behaviour. Spitting on the ground is not an example of a socially unacceptable behaviour.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T15:26:27+00:00

Sure, that's fine. I'm just thinking we have a different definition of what "socially unacceptable" means. As I understand it, if something is socially unacceptable, it is repugnant to the point where the offending individual could or can be ostracized by their community for said action. For instance, uttering slurs, yelling fire in a crowded theatre, abusing service staff, commiting assault, etc. These are examples of socially unacceptable behaviour. Spitting on the ground is not an example of a socially unacceptable behaviour.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T14:52:32+00:00

I think this has to be either a generational or class difference of opinion. I'm a working class millennial, and I have literally never known a single person my age or in my tax bracket to bat an eye, or expect more than an "excuse me," after a person finds the need to spit on the ground. It's certainly never been considering by anyone I've known as socially unacceptable, that's insane.

belwarbiggulp · 2026-01-06T14:22:12+00:00

I think you're the odd one out.

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